The Worst Part of My Favorite Movie

By: Jonathan Foster and Tripp von Weeks
  • Summary

  • "Great movies are rarely perfect movies." — Pauline Kael

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Episodes
  • 1985 - After Hours (with Roxana Hadadi)
    Mar 5 2025

    Vulture critic Roxana Hadadi joins the podcast to discuss Martin Scorsese's "After Hours," and helps us trace the film's journey from once being considered a minor effort to now being viewed as one of the most pivotal movies in Scorsese's career. She also names the Scorsese film she'd most like to see added to the Criterion Collection, and offers her theory as to why Scorsese's work is often more fully appreciated a decade after the fact.


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 1984 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (with Bilge Ebiri)
    Jan 22 2025

    New York Magazine and Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri offers wide-ranging insights into the career of Steven Spielberg, helps put American cinema of the 1980s into proper perspective, and discusses why he thinks "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" might be Spielberg's best-directed film. Truly, anything goes!

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • 1983 - Terms of Endearment (with Chris Feil)
    Oct 16 2024

    Film journalist and podcaster Chris Feil (This Had Oscar Buzz) discusses the Best Picture winner of 1983 — James L. Brooks' "Terms of Endearment." Is it a comedy that makes people cry or a drama with some amusing bits? Is emotional manipulation in movies something to be feared? Is the book always better than the movie? Should the fictional Aurora Greenway be an EGOT winner? These are exactly the kinds of questions you want Chris Feil to answer on your podcast!

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    1 hr
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