After Dark: Going to Disneyland, Kids These Days, Kinds of Kindness
Added 2024-09-19 20:26:56 +0000 UTCNOTE: Starting next week, we're going to be shifting the After Dark schedule so episodes release on Fridays/Saturdays instead of Thursdays.
The Filmcast: After Dark is the bonus show where we talk about a variety of random topics that didn't make it into the main podcast - including your questions and what's going on in our lives.
In this episode, David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss what it's like to visit Disneyland and whether kids should know who Keanu Reeves is. Then, starting at about 25:00, they dive into Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness.
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Comments
KoK might seem long 🤷🏻♂️
Roman Schweikert
2024-09-27 10:02:20 +0000 UTCThat’s so interesting. I wonder what kind of cinema DO kids these days even like, especially those that attend film class.
Roman Schweikert
2024-09-27 09:58:27 +0000 UTCI watched Kinds of Kindness in an open air cinema in Berlin and almost half of the people walked out of the movie halfway in. They wanted to see a feel good movie while being outside and got this instead. I loved it.
Roman Schweikert
2024-09-27 09:55:51 +0000 UTCGenuine LOL for calling out that acronym 😆. Didn't even think about it until your comment hahahah
inezco
2024-09-26 18:19:01 +0000 UTC“It’s relentlessly unpleasant. I’m here for it, and of course it’s in my wheelhouse” - David Chen lol
TheGHeebs
2024-09-25 22:55:42 +0000 UTCI am a high School film teacher at the American School of Paris. My school offers a pre-College level film course (International Baccalaureate) where students are learning filmmaking theory, history and production with the intention to apply to top film schools like USC, NYU, Chapman. Every beginning of academic year I ask my students how many films they watch per month. I can tell you that rarely I have more than one student there watch more than two films per month, keep in mind that those students are supposed to be the cinephile ones. In my regular elective semester filmmaking course I always ask them what was the best film they watch during the summer and many times I have like easily 50% of my students simply saying that they haven't watched a single film or TV series throughout their two months of summer vacation. About the Keanu Reeves situation I think what I can site as reason of the not knowing his name is not because they don't know John week or matrix or those films but they simply don't care to know the name of the actors anymore like we did when we were their age. Don't get me started with name of directors. I show pictures key figures like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and I hear crickets in my class when I ask who are they.
Erick Pessoa
2024-09-25 16:22:14 +0000 UTCGreat discussion on the declining cultural relevance of cinema, you wonderful people. Just want to throw in this on Dave’s attempt to find analogies on which place cinema might finally end up in: theaters today
ThreefromTwo
2024-09-25 12:16:00 +0000 UTCI think he meant that The Favourite and Poor Things are more normal compared to his other movies, but it's still a little bit silly
Mountain of Conflict
2024-09-24 08:06:17 +0000 UTCAlso, we need a Substance after dark!
Tyler Appleby
2024-09-23 15:21:07 +0000 UTCQuestion for future mailbag: What are your opinions on traveling to film festivals? Is this something you’d all like to do, or is the chaos of it all unappealing?
Tyler Appleby
2024-09-23 14:52:41 +0000 UTCKinds of Kindness is like the three siblings from Dogtooth each wrote a short film about Trump
Ray Taylor
2024-09-21 21:25:29 +0000 UTCLemonade mouth is pleasure. 🍋👄
David Esposito
2024-09-21 19:37:19 +0000 UTCI count myself very lucky to have kids that enjoy movies. My 12 year old son likes to joke that Keanu and Adam Driver are the same person because of their Haircuts. He is currently on a Sammo Hung kick choosing to watch Close Encounters Of The Spooky Kind from my collection. He's done black and white films and has no issue with subtitles. Just saying this to both show off 😅 and say it's not all lost.
James Atkinson
2024-09-21 07:06:23 +0000 UTC“Poor things” is normie? WHUT
Reynaldo K. Cruz
2024-09-20 16:06:19 +0000 UTCI don’t want to know how your mind works buddy
Mark P
2024-09-20 01:04:56 +0000 UTC😭😭😭😭
Joy o Napping
2024-09-20 00:59:00 +0000 UTCWhy call it KoK? I wouldn’t shorten it to KoK
Jeremy L
2024-09-20 00:23:53 +0000 UTCI saw it in theaters and was mostly entertained (some parts were absolutely hilarious). But yeah, I could easily see watching it at home and instead treating it almost like 3 shorter episodes rather than one long movie, as the three segments are each fully self contained.
Stranger2Reality
2024-09-19 23:00:38 +0000 UTCKoK might seem long but if you break it into 3x55 minute sittings I found it really entertaining.
Mark P
2024-09-19 22:42:34 +0000 UTC
