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Film After 11 Podcast | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Having saddled myself with the arbitrary gimmick of choosing titles for the Film After 11 podcast this year in alphabetical order, I find myself struggling with the “O” this week. Most of the movies I own beginning with that letter are either inappropriate for a 12-year-old or just not something he’d enjoy. I wound up…

The Sin, the Glitter, the Wickedness | Klute (1971) Blu-ray

The movie that won Jane Fonda her first acting Oscar, Klute deserves equal credit for director Alan J. Pakula, master of the 1970s paranoid conspiracy thriller. If not a conspiracy story, per se (though a little bit so), Klute is certainly rife with paranoia, and Pakula subverts the thriller genre in unexpected and remarkably effective…

Film After 11 Podcast | North by Northwest (1959)

I introduce my son Joseph to his first movie by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, with a viewing of the classic North by Northwest in this week’s Film After 11 podcast. One of my goals with this podcast is to instill my children with some appreciation for older movies they wouldn’t seek out on…

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