Martin is joined by filmmaker and illustrator Patrick Horvath to discuss the 1967 adaptation of Frederick Knott's play Wait Until Dark, starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 37 – Vincent van Gogh on Film

Jun 3rd, 2020 1h 42m

Martin is joined by returning guest, illustrator Tony Stella. The pair discuss cinematic renderings of the artist Vincent van Gogh.

The Star Wars Flixwise Special

May 4th, 2020 2h 2m

Martin is joined by returning guest Amanda for an epic and sprawling conversation about the Star Wars franchise.

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 36 – Female Prisoner Scorpion

2 Mar 24th, 2020 1h 1m

Martin is joined by returning guest Spencer Seams get together to to discuss the Meiko Kaji starring film Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion and its sequels.

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 35 - Satoshi Kon

Nov 24th, 2019 1h 38m

Martin is joined by returning guests Zachary Curl and Amanda to talk about the work of mast animator Satoshi Kon.

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 34 – Fantômas

Oct 26th, 2019 53m 6s

Martin Kessler, Emma Guerard, and Dave Eves get together to discuss Louis Feuillade's classic silent serial Fantômas!

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 33 – The Materiality of Film with Daniel Bird

1 Aug 22nd, 2019 1h 34m

Martin is joined by film maker and expert Daniel Bird to discuss the physical and ephemeral nature of film. Hear all about the nitty-gritty of producing a number of film restoration projects and 'reinventing the DVD extra as conceptual art'.

Pulp Fiction

Aug 14th, 2019 1h 21m

Lady P makes a bid for a late-career resurgence as Flixwise host. She is joined by fellow UW-Madison grad students Megan Boyd and Tim Brayton to discuss the legacy of the 127th film on the Sight and Sound International Critics Poll, Pulp Fictio

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 32 – Khrustalyov, My Car!

Jul 24th, 2019 1h 23m

Martin is joined by Peter Rinaldi of Filmmaker Magazine and Back To One podcast, and filmmaker/actor/teacher Mtume Gant to discuss Aleksei German's Khrustalyov, My Car! They get into their personal experiences with the film and if feeling the f

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 31 - Sex, Okra and Salted Butter / A Screaming Man

1 Apr 24th, 2019 58m

Martin is joined by returning guest Spencer Seams to follow-up their conversation on Daratt. On this episode they discuss two more of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's films; a French comedy Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, and a Chadian tragedy A Screaming M

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 30 – Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (a.k.a. An Actor's Revenge)

Apr 2nd, 2019 1h 17m

Martin is joined by master poster designer and dilm enthusiast Tony Stella to discuss Kon Ichikawa 1963 film, Revenge of a Kabuki Actor. They cover the film's unexpectedly pulp serial roots, talk about unlikely heroes and archetypical villains,

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 29 - Upgrade

Mar 10th, 2019 55m 7s

Marcus Pinn joins Martin in discussing Leigh Whannell's 2018 film Upgrade. They talk about the virtues of small budgets, dweeby villains, and what a potential sequel would entail. They also get into what the film says about our relationship wit

Ep 202: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Mar 8th, 2019 56m 18s

To discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, we've assembled a quartette of liberties: Danica Anna Uskert Quinn, Caleb Quinn, Emma Guerard, and Martin Kessler. They cover the film's enduring notoriety, its source material wr

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 28 – Pom Poko

1 Feb 5th, 2019 55m 8s

Martin is joined by Amanda, to discuss the animated film of Pom Poko. They cover a wide array of cartoon racoon-related subjects including environmentalism, the legacy of Rascal the Raccoon, and Tanuki 'pouches'. They also discuss the late, gre

Best of 2018/Oscars 2019 Special

Jan 29th, 2019 1h 15m

The Academy Award nominees were announced a week ago today, so theoretically we should have had a sufficient amount of time to mull over the various categories. However, this podcast offers something of a collective scratching of the heads at t

The Magnificent Ambersons with Joseph McBride

Jan 15th, 2019 52m 59s

We're kicking off 2019, with a trip back in time! It is a look back to turn-of-the-Century Midwestern America with Orson Welles's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Film historian and author, Professor Joseph McB

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 27 - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

2 Dec 24th, 2018 1h 13m

Martin is joined by returning guests Zachary Curl and Leanne Kubicz to discuss Nagisa Oshima's atypical war film, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. They talk in-depth about the film's four leads: Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Bowie, and Takes

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 26 - A History of Violence & Eastern Promises

Dec 11th, 2018 1h 2m

Martin is joined by returning guest Matthias van der Roest to discuss a pair of David Cronenberg films: A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. They talk about what makes the pair a pair, and where they fit into Cronenberg's filmography as

Flixwise: CANADA Ep. 25 - Broadcast News

Nov 29th, 2018 1h 9m

Martin is joined by returning guest Becky D'Anna to discuss her second favourite film of all time, Broadcast News. Becky explains why the film means so much to her, and they take a deep dive into its themes, characters and performances. Becky