The Gauntlet

I Was a Male War Bride (1949) / Late Autumn (1960) This week we’ll do anything for love as we crossdress with Howard Hawks and try to arrange a marriage with Yasujirō Ozu

Runaway (1984) / Class of 1999 (1990) This week we’re fighting the future as we chase down busted bots with Michael Crichton and dodge killer teachers with Mark L. Lester

Up in Smoke (1978) / Withnail & I (1986) This week we’re giving the middle finger to polite society as we smoke a giant joint and hit the road with Cheech & Chong and end up on holiday by mistake with Withnail & I

I Am Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) / Queimada aka Burn! (1969) This week villainous schemes go according to plan as we’re shackled to a chain gang by Mervyn Leroy and Gillo Pontecorvo feeds us to the bloody revolution

Requiescant (1967) / Attenberg (2010) This week the directors are on the screen as we wander into a spaghetti western to preach liberation with Pier Paolo Pasolini and get naked and listen to Suicide with Yorgos Lanthimos

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) / To Live (1994) This week we’re capturing a whole life as we tour a time-bending sanatorium with Wojciech Has and try to survive the people’s republic with Zhang Yimou

House of Bamboo (1955) / Tempting Heart (1999) This week we’re center framing cinematographers as we take a trip to Japan with Joe MacDonald and interrogate love through time and space with Mark Lee Ping-Bing

Filibus (1915) / Hudson Hawk (1991) This week we’re stealing with style as we play a game of cat and mouse with Mario Roncoroni’s genderbending sky pirate and try to crack the Da Vinci code with Bruce Willis’ singing burglar

133 - Duvidha (1973) / Anantaram (1987) This week we explore parallel cinema as we are hypnotized by Mani Kaul’s mythopoetic ghost story and deconstruct storytelling with Adoor Gopalkrishnan’s unreliable monologue

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 6 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From The Truth is Out There to Gettin’ Animated Music and Sounds from Episodes 51-60 Thunder Birds (1942) | Come Back, Africa (1959) | Lancelot du Lac (1974) | Ici et Ailleurs (1974) | Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980) | Times Square (1980) | Night Witches in the Sky (1981) | Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) | Der Fan (1982) | Vampires in Havana (1985) | The Hidden (1987) | The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) | Love and Death on Long Island (1997) | The Apple (1998) | The 13th Warrior (1999) | Fat Choi Spirit (2002) | Anatomy of Hell (2004) | Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005) | How I Ended This Summer (2010) | The Grand Bizarre (2018)

Little Buddha (1993) / I Come with the Rain (2009) This week we’re getting outside of our comfort zones as we seek enlightenment in Nepal with Keanu Reeves and try to find a missing person in Hong Kong with Josh Hartnett

131 - Metal Detector Maniac (2021) / Earth Mama (2023) This week it’s out with the old and in with the new as we take a suspicious sabbatical with Matt Farley and fight for our children’s future with Savanah Leaf PLUS! Year-end favorites with special guest Ryland Walker Knight

Tough Guys (1986) / Children of Nature (1991) This week we’re making way for tomorrow as we saunter out of prison and into the 80s with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and break out of the retirement home with Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

La Guerre des Tuques (1984) / Tenement (1985) This week we’re under attack as we defend a Quebecois snow fort with André Melançon’s little soldiers and try to fight off a murderous gang in the South Bronx with Roberta Findlay

Duel of the Titans (1961) / Sebastiane (1976) This week all roads lead to Rome as we fight to found a city with Sergio Corbucci’s beefcakes and lounge in exile with St. Derek Jarman’s shimmering soldiers

Invention for Destruction (1958) / Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) This week we’re getting a Czech stamp in our cinema passports as we sail through the fantastical world of Karel Zeman and stumble through the looking glass with Pavel Juráček

Vai~E~Vem aka Come and Go (2003) / The New World (2006) This week we’re giving thanks as we feast on the mythopoetics of Terrence Malick and stuff ourselves with the perverse philosophies of João César Monteiro

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) / Passing Strangers (1974) This week we’re embracing male relationships as we dance through the ups and downs of friendship with Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen and fly kites in the bay with Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s young lovers

Hell Drivers (1957) / High-Ballin’ (1978) This week we’re joining the great big convoy as we drive dangerously with Cy Endfield’s working class haulers and fight off hijackers with Peter Carter’s easy riders

Eyes of Fire (1983) / Phantom Town (1998) This week we’re facing fear on the frontier as we settle on cursed land with Avery Crounse and get lost in Jeff Burr’s wild west phantasmagoria