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Alternate Sides

Alternate Sides

By: James Lavino & Sam Neave
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James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder.

But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed.

Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now.

One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2023…

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Episodes
  • 1992: Scent of a Woman

    1992: Scent of a Woman
    Jun 25 2024

    We close out Season Two of the podcast with Martin Brest’s drama Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell.

    Plus: Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, and an encounter with a rude traffic warden.

    LINKS:
    Trailer for Scent of a Woman
    Trailer for The Holdovers
    Trailer for People I Know

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    47 mins
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs

    1991: The Silence of the Lambs
    Jun 25 2024

    This week week we’re taking a bite out of Jonathan Demme’s classic serial-killer thriller The Silence of the Lambs, starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.

    Plus: James comes out of film-scoring retirement.

    LINKS:
    Trailer for The Silence of the Lambs
    "Lotion" by Greenskeepers
    Austin Pendleton as a lawyer in My Cousin Vinny

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    39 mins
  • 1990: An Angel at My Table

    1990: An Angel at My Table
    Jun 25 2024

    This week we discuss the journey of author Janet Frame in Jane Campion’s biographical drama An Angel at My Table, starring Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, and Kerry Fox.

    Plus: Season Two of The Jinx, and the time Stanley Tucci took James to a Yankees game.

    LINKS:
    Trailer for An Angel at My Table
    Trailer for season two of The Jinx
    Dr McCoy treats a patient in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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    40 mins
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