For our Valentine's Day 2025 episode, we plunge deep into the nature of relationships by discussing two films whose romantic pairings are arguably not relationships at all: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and his sometime collaborator, Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Isolation, loss, misogyny, male fantasies, hope and despair: we've got all of the Valentine's goodness for you. And it continues with our Fear and Moviegoing discussion of Mike Leigh's Hard Truths (2024).

Time Codes:

0h 00m 25s: HER (2013) [dir. Spike Jonze]

0h 54m 53s: I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020) [dir. Charlie Kaufman]

1h 30m 24s: Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths (2024)

Related content:

· Our immensely long and under-edited discussion of Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Our Town (1940)

· Our second ever podcast: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2003)

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!

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