Filmspotting Podcast

With his latest, THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, now in theaters, here's Adam and Josh's 2023 review of Wes Anderson's previous feature, ASTEROID CITY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s CLUELESS’s 30th anniversary garden party and everyone’s invited, including NPR’s Aisha Harris, who joins Adam for a revisit of Amy Heckerling’s ‘95 comedy and the Top 5 Movie Quotes (In Our Lexicon). 

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Intro (00:00:00-00:03:12)

Review: “Clueless” at 30 (00:03:13-00:46:46)

20th Anniversary Messages (00:46:47-00:51:22)

Next Week / Notes (00:51:23-00:55:42)

Massacre Theatre (00:55:43-01:02:25)

Top 5: Movie Quotes (01:02:26-01:46:56)

Credits / New Releases (01:46:57-01:51:47)

Links:

NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour

https://www.npr.org/people/912788259/aisha-harris

The “Clueless” CD-ROM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4jaKizt5s

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Inspired by their review of  MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, the latest and allegedly last film in the 30-year-old Tom Cruise-led franchise, Adam and guest Michael Phillips share their Top 5 Movie Stunts. Plus, what is the best M:I film anyway?  

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Intro (00:00:00-00:01:54)

Top 5 Movie Stunts (00:01:55-00:34:11)

20th Anniversary Messages (00:34:12-00:39:10)

Review: “M:I - The Final Reckoning” (00:39:11-00:57:26)

Next Week / Notes / Polls (00:57:27-01:14:29)

Top 5 cont. (01:14:30-01:42:26)

Credits / New Releases (01:42:27-01:47:34)

Notes/Links:

-Did Adam forget DIE HARD was in the Pantheon? Absolutely.

-Filmspotting Pantheon

https://letterboxd.com/filmspotting/list/filmspotting-pantheon/detail/

-Michael Phillips' interview with Rolf Saxon

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/27/column-in-the-new-mission-impossible-rolf-saxon-is-the-secret-weapon-a-coffee-guy-no-more/

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Adam and Josh revisit BEFORE SUNSET for its 20th-ish anniversary and share their conversation about BEFORE SUNRISE, which followed a 30th-anniversary screening earlier this year to close Filmspotting Fest. Scott Tobias (The Next Picture Show, The Reveal) and Producer Sam Van Hallgren joined them for that. Plus, the final film in the Andrei Tarkovsky Marathon, 1983’s NOSTALGHIA.    

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Intro (00:00:00-00:01:56)

Pantheon Project: “Before Sunset” (00:01:57-00:37:39)

Filmspotting Family (00:37:40-00:40:02)

Next Week / Notes / Massacre Theatre (00:40:03-00:50:29)

Filmspotting Fest: “Before Sunrise” (00:50:30-01:20:46)

Pantheon Induction (01:20:47-01:23:27)

Tarkovsky #5: “Nostalghia” (01:23:28-01:53:27)

Credits / New Releases (01:53:28-01:56:39)

Links:

-Filmspotting Pantheon

https://letterboxd.com/filmspotting/list/filmspotting-pantheon/detail/

-Filmspotting Fest

https://www.filmspotting.net/filmspotting-fest

-Andrei Tarkovsky Marathon

https://www.filmspotting.net/marathons

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The Best of the Century conversation continues with a draft of the best actors and actresses of the last 25 years, and the Andrei Tarkovsky Marathon brings Adam and Josh into STALKER’s The Zone.

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Intro (00:00:00-00:01:43)

Actors of the Century Draft (00:01:44-00:56:24)

Filmspotting Family (00:56:25-00:59:52)

Next Week / Notes / Poll (00:59:53-01:06:45)

Tarkovsky Marathon #4: “Stalker” (01:06:46-01:47:10)

Credits / New Releases (01:47:11-01:50:58)

Links:

Top 25 Films of the Century

https://www.filmspotting.net/top-5-lists-archive/1013-top-25-century

Andrei Tarkovsky Marathon

https://www.filmspotting.net/marathons

Feedback:

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