This week, the crew watches Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides”, based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides. This episode features a bunch of great discussion on the male gaze, book-to-film adaptations, and the oeuvre of Sofia Coppola. Check it out!
Tag: Quest for the Best
Episode 68: The Virgin Suicides
Episode 66: Scream
(Quest for the Best)
This week, The Crew watches the first in the Scream series, as we examine Wes Craven’s Quest for the Best. Find out if this late-90’s slasher flick still holds up, and who Dan thought the killer was!
Episode 64: Pan’s Labyrinth
(Quest for the Best)
Guillermo del Toro brings us a dark, violent, and compelling fairy tale cushioned inside the Spanish Civil War, cushioned inside World War 2. There’s a lot going on, but does it all still work 10 years later?
Episode 62: Blade Runner
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! The crew finds themselves in the very far-off future of 2019, where the line between life and replicant is blurry at best. Part noir, part sci-fi, and part 80s saxophone solos, it’s Ridley Scott’s self-professed most “complete film”—it might also be his strangest. Thanks, Philip K. Dick.
Episode 60: District 9
(Quest for the Best)
Get your moustaches on, and keep that black ink away from your mouth, it’s time to take care of some fookin’ prawns as The Crew watches Neil Blomkamp’s sci-fi refugee story, District 9.
Episode 58: The Sixth Sense
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! The crew continues the Directors Series with M Night Shyamalan and his debut, The Sixth Sense. Tune in to hear about the time before he was a punchline!
Episode 56: Videodrome
(Quest for the Best)
The crew quests for the best this week with David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. We feel icky, in a good way. Is Videodrome controlling us too?!
Episode 54: Good Will Hunting
(Quest for the Best)
Our Director’s Series continues with Gus Van Sant. The crew watched Best Original Screenplay winner Good Will Hunting, but Brad wonders, what’s so “good” about him anyway?
Episode 52: Beetlejuice
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, it’s time to Jump in the Line with Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETLEJUICE!
Episode 50: Almost Famous
(Quest for the Best)
Welcome to Season 2 of Broken Picture Podcast! If you’re brand new, welcome! If you’re a long-time listener, thanks for sticking around. This season, we turn the camera around and hold the Captain of the ship accountable in our all-new Director’s Series. Kicking things off, The Crew hop on a bus with rock legends Stillwater in Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous”.
Episode 48: Waiting for Guffman
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, The Crew takes a trip down to Blaine, Missouri in Amy’s pick for personal best: Waiting For Guffman. Everybody dance!
Episode 46: Samsara
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew takes a trip through Dan’s personal best: Samsara. This visual cinematic experience is completely dialogue free, and features no real plot structure, so how can it be so loved by all 3 of us? Tune in to find out!
Episode 44: Singin’ In The Rain
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew watches Brad’s favourite movie of all time, Singin’ In The Rain. Listen as he becomes so overwhelmed with joy that he forgets the names of nearly everyone!
Episode 42: The Top 20 Retrospective
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! Join the crew as we sit down and talk about all the great films we’ve seen on the IMDb Top 20. Do we still love 12 Angry Men? Does one of us still not like Forrest Gump? Who decides what movies make it into the Top 20? All this and more!
Episode 40: Shawshank Redemption
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! WE DID IT! 40 movies and nearly a year of our lives later, the crew have finally reached the #1 rated movie on IMDb. Without further ado, it’s Shawshank Redemption.
Episode 38: The Godfather Part II
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! Have you ever wondered what Brad and Dan’s awful Al Pacino impressions sound like? Have you ever wanted Amy to give you a great, precise breakdown of the events of The Godfather Part II? Well, this is the episode for you! Join us as the crew digs deep into the Second Greatest Film of All Time* with The Godfather Part II.
*Third greatest according to IMDb.
Episode 36: The Godfather
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew watches The Godfather. Dan and Brad struggle to remember everyone’s name, and Amy has factual, well-rounded ideas about the movie (but also also delivers the funniest line any of us have ever said). It’s a blast!
Episode 34: The Dark Knight
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! Oooooooh it’s here. It’s finally here. The most recent addition to IMDb’s Top 20. We’re talking , of course, about The Dark Knight. Swear to me that you’ll listen to this episode. SWEAR TO MEEEEEE
Episode 32: Pulp Fiction
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! Welcome back! This week, the crew piece together the intricate storylines of Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece, Pulp Fiction. Find out which of us has a secret hidden in a box, which of us knows what Marcellus Wallace looks like, and which one of us is a bad motherfucker.
Episode 30: Schindler’s List
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the best! This week, the crew takes on their most serious film yet. It’s Spielberg’s only appearance on the top 20 with Schindler’s List.
Episode 28: 12 Angry Men
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the best! This week, the crew gets judicial with 12 Angry Men. This 1957 classic remains (unfortunately) very timely. Find out why! And stick around to hear the worst pun you’ve ever heard!
Episode 26: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! AYEAYE AAAAAH. This week, the crew heads out to the Wild West, and checks out The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Get diggin’.
Episode 24: The Return of the King
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew visits Middle Earth for the last time in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
Episode 22: Fight Club
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! The crew watches movie #10, but can’t talk about it. Like, obviously we talk about it, but the joke is that it’s Fight Club, and the first rule is—y’know what just listen to this episode, it’s real good.
Episode 20: The Fellowship of the Ring
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew looks at the very first Lord of the Rings film. Is this the one film to rule them all? Find out!
Episode 18: Star Wars Episode V
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew heads to Hoth as we review Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. And you thought we smelled bad on the outside…
Episode 16: Forrest Gump
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew sits down on our favourite park bench to listen to the ramblings of one Forrest Gump. For some of us, it’s our very first time! Tune in and find out if this classic holds up over 20 years later.
Episode 14: Inception
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew is waiting for a train. Layers and layers. Dreams within dreams. Where does it all end? Mal?! MAAAAAAAL?! BWAAAAAAAAHN
Episode 12: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew checks out One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Spoilers: It’s still good! Most importantly, Brad makes his favourite pun so far.
Episode 10: LOTR The Two Towers
(Quest for the Best)
Quest for the Best! This week, the crew watches Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. While the trilogy appears in its entirety on the list, Two Towers is the first to make an appearance. Boil up some po-tay-toes, and ride into Rohan!
Episode 8: Goodfellas
(Quest for the Best)
Ever since we can remember, we’ve wanted to do a movie podcast. This week, the crew looks at Goodfellas. Turns out, Joe Pesci is in fact funny. Like, ha ha funny.
Episode 6: The Matrix
(Quest for the Best)
This week, on our quest for the best, we look at The Matrix. Dan ponders on the nature of reality, Amy tells us that “Movies don’t matter”, and Brad takes us on a tangent that nobody asked for about Marvel movie sequels. THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Is there free will?
Episode 4: Star Wars Episode IV
(Quest for the Best)
Grab your lightsabers and your most attractive sister, it’s time to watch Star Wars! Find out which of us adamantly defends the prequels, and which one thinks Lucas should quit forever. Weeeeeee!
Episode 2: Seven Samurai
(Quest for the Best)
The Quest for the Best begins! This week, the crew opens up the top 20 films as rated on IMDb. It begins with Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954). Much like Kurosawa, we make mad films. ‘Kay we don’t make films. But if we did, they’d have a samurai.