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In an abandoned underground city at the Spanish coast, near Malaga, I found a USB stick containing 300 random movies from arthouse to weird, from obscure to notorious. Now, in Lockdown, it is time to watch and discuss them all in an international podcast project. Two Turks and a German, two filmmakers and a mystery man - Welcome to Mysterium Pictorum!
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When we were still in Turkey, we sat down with Doruk, a simple man from the streets, and discussed the Coen Brother's "No Country for Old Men". We were a bunch of ignorants towards the Western genre then and still are today, but we loved this. Listen to us love it. Also, we're eating 1,5 kilos of Turkish pickles over the course of this episode, because Turkish pickles are the best pickles in the world, by far!
Our lost live Episode from the Obsessive Christmas Film Festival in December 2021! We did find it! The sound quality is not perfect, but it's a fun episode! We're talking about F. W. Murnau's expressionist horror masterpiece FAUST and rip it to shreds. We did not appreciate all the misogyny and rape, but we did appreciate the visuals. We also talk about some history (who among the actors were Nazis? Who wasn't?) fail at reading Lotte Eisner (too many big words) and discuss roofies a lot. An episode for the ages, clearly!
We're talking Kieslowski again! We love him! This time, we watched BEZ KONCA / NO END. This brings us to discussions about losing our phones in East Berlin, unions and fatherly badassery, the Leftovers, A Ghost Story and many more lovely topics! Come join us in the Kieslowski love-fest!
We finally did it! We watched Bela Tarr's behemoth of slow cinema - And we LOVED it!
As usual, we're the only arthouse film podcast around that will talk about Gilmore Girls, German trash TV, H. P. Lovecraft and orgies while discussing this certified classic. Your funniest bumbling group of ignorants is at it again! Listen right now - It's a great one!
This time, we discussed Panos Cosmatos' "Beyond the Black Rainbow", as well as German casting shows (in particular "The Next Uri Geller") and xHamsters porn casting show "X Factor".
Seriously, this is a good one!
We've watched some rape-y arthouse anime. Let's talk about it!
We're joined by filmmaker Christian Grundey (host of the German film podcast "Filme zum Dessert") to discuss Lucio Fulci's "ZOMBIE 2", also known as "ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS".
We also discuss zombie films in general, Italian horror films, film censorship in Germany, Voodoo, German amateur splatter - and then a cat farts.
You shouldn't miss this one! Write us an iTunes review! We love you!
This time, we watched and discussed Sergej Parajanov's "Ashik Kerib" - Based on a Turkish fairytale. Along the way, we discussed the very eistence of Turkish fairytales, RomComs, Turkish RomComs and horny architecture, specifically that of religious temples of all kinds. Spoiler: Mosques are the horniest, by far.
We're BACK! After a hiatus that went on for way to long (making films has a way of keeping you from talking about films), it's finally time to resume the weekly schedule! (Hopefully ...)
It's Bela Tarr time again! We love Bela! We're talking about his film DAMNATION, and we also throw around ideas for which properties should be remade in the Bela Tarr style - Mean Girls? Leon the Professional? It's a fun thought!
We've watched "Begotten" this time. Have you heard about this one? If so, you'll be curious to hear us try to sum up its story, talk about similar films, define our film term of the week, praise E. Elias Mehrige's most famous film "Shadow of the Vampire" (while failing to pronounce his name correctly) and debate creation myths in general and the value of "Begotten" more specifically. Listen to it, it's fun!
This week, we're talking about BBC's "Neverwhere", straight from the 90's, written by Neil Gaiman! Sadly, none of us liked it. It's a stillborn masterpiece. But that Gaiman fella does show some potential as a writer.
Listen to the episode for our detailed take, Nisan's early onset dementia and the story about how Neil Gaiman was terribly rude to us!
We absolutely loved "Bacurau", so this episode is a pure love fest! We're also discussing Gilmore Girls, climate change, Noam Chomsky and what our film term of the week, "ethical cinema", might mean in pre-apocalyptic times like ours.
This time, Dave from Cinemallennials is joining us to discuss the silent Norwegian horror classic / early documentary "Häxan". Obviously, we also discuss The Lord of the Rings, our favourite Witch movies, the persecution of "witches" in medieval Europe, folk beliefs, silent film porn and more fun stuff! Give it a listen and get in touch with us if you have anything to add!
F. W. Murnau went to Hollywood to make "Sunrise", written by Carl Meyer, co-author of "Dr. Caligari". The film went on to win the first Oscar for "Best unique and artistic Picture" and his held in high regard by critics and audiences to this day.
Not by us, though. Not at all. Fuck this movie. Fuck the canon. What a repulsive piece of shit.
Listen to us ripping this 1927 classic to shreds!
Dr. Paula Blair is back! The host of the phenomenal "Audiovisual Cultures" Podcast talks to us about the German expressionist classic "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari"! It's a long episode, but filled to the brim with fun, knowledge and insightful discussion! Also, there's dick jokes. Intellectual dick jokes, obviously!
This time, we talked about the 2015 low budget fantasy epic "Arthur & Merlin", which inspired us to discuss adaptation of Arthurian legends and mythology in general, review Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy", pitch some myth adaptations of our own, question the possibilities of low budget hard fantasy in general, praise the Lovecraftian ideas while panning pretty much everything else about the film - For which we do feel very sorry. Term of the week: "Demo reel movie". There's reasons for that.
We really liked Sion Sono's Antiporno! It also got us talking about Japanese cinema, German drama schools, theatre, feminism, leftist boomers, Yasmina Reza and many more fun topics! It's a nice one, give it a listen!
With our guest, dissident journalist Sandra, we're discussing Andy Warhol's (but really Paul Morrissey's) debut feature "Flesh". Sadly, this is, again one of those episodes where we didn't like the film. At all. We're so sorry. Still: It got us talking! About prostitution, drugs, feminism, the validity of the Bechdel test, Boomers again (of course), Disney's A Bug's Life vs. Dreamworks' Antz (obviously) - It's a fun episode full of good vibes and I guarantee you - You need this in your life!
We've watched a tiresome short documentary with nothing to offer on YouTube, so we recommend great docs about artists instead of wasting everyone's time with this garbage.
Among other things, we're talking about why Marlon Brando will forever be cancelled (TW: rape), Christoph Schlingensief and why there's no good documentary about the making of his films, the meanings of our names, skinhead culture, TikTok, Facebook, Ingmar Bergman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (of course), and as little as we can about this week's movie! Leave us a review, beloved audience!
This week, we return to the enigmatic cinema of legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky! We also cancel him for his rampant misogyny, discuss the dreaded "cancel culture" and the pros and cons (mainly the cons, since we don’t see many pros) of judging people in the context of their time and place, we (obviously) talk about Gilmore Girls a lot, about why it is probable that Atatürk decides on who gets into heaven and is hanging out there right now with Stalin, we illustrate the roots of the conflict between boomers and millennials and talk about so many more things - Watching „Nostalgia“, we would never have thought it would spark such a lively discussion, but here we are.
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