Groovy Movies

What better way to conclude the odyssey that has been the official run of Groovy Movies than with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? But where does his most challenging - and already most successful - film to date sit in our Nolan ranking? Plus, as we bring the podcast to a close, we look back at how the film industry has fared over the five years we’ve been recording.
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Part two of our Christopher Nolan recap takes us from Inception - the movie that made his name as an “IP” director - all the way to the present day and our hellish scramble to get IMAX tickets for The Odyssey. If you haven’t got yours yet, what are you waiting for? On our next and final episode, we’ll be concluding our 5-year run of Groovy Movies with a special episode discussing this most major cinematic event. 

References 
The Film Data Scientist (not the film stats guy, as we called him)
The Amazing Digital Circus
Patrick H Williams on How IMAX made Nolan a better director
Atonement Dunkirk scene, directed by Joe Wright
Watch Mussolini: Son of the Century, directed by Joe Wright on Sky or Apple TV

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In anticipation of The Odyssey's release, we’re traversing the course of Christopher Nolan’s career and plotting his signature hallmarks along the way. Plus: the box office-shattering success of Backrooms and Obsession, and the AI movie showing at Tribeca Film Festival. 
References 
Christian Zilko’s IndieWire article
Nolan’s 60 Minutes interview 
The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone

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We take a deep dive into indie cinema’s biggest success story: production company A24. Plus, we discuss its latest hit, the non-rom-com The Drama.
References
That needle drop in The Drama we mentioned: "Inside Out" by Jesse Rae

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This week we’re learning lessons from blockbusters: the latest, Project Hail Mary, and a classic, Jurassic Park. With the help of Hannah McGregor, the author of the brilliant “Clever Girl” and co-host of the podcast, Material Girls (do go and subscribe), we decipher the messages about care, chaos and lady monsters which lay under the wobbly surface (get it? that's a Jurassic Park reference) of these popcorn movies. 

References 
Buy Clever Girl by Hannah McGregor here
Material Girls podcast 
Kodak’s Verita film, used on Euphoria season 3
John Travolta’s novel on Good Reads

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