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Favorite first watches of August

🫧NEW EP🫧 Another Pod Casty For Me Experience: We're talking Soderbergh's astounding 2005 day-and-date/digital/first-time actor experiment with our buddy Evan from Left of the Projector! (Evan) You have to listen because it's my birthday! Link below!

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // We discuss Satoshi Kon's masterful psychological thriller PERFECT BLUE, a film about proprietary relationships with celebrity, the patriarchal structures that undergird mass media, and the artifice of public image. lex briscuso (▰˘◡˘▰) guests. Link below.

NEW HIT FACTORY // We talk Steven Spielberg's visceral, ideologically conflicted war epic SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Is it a work of myopic jingoism, or, as our guest Brendan Hodges argues, a deeply misunderstood treatise on the contradictions of American militarism? Links below.

We’re making this video because we could die at any moment.” “70–80% of our patients are children and pregnant women.” “I delivered a beheaded woman who was nine months pregnant.” “Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” —Australian doctors, speaking from Gaza

R.I.P. DIANE MARTEL who passed Sept. 18th from breast Cancer. She directed our Gang Starr ‘One of the Best Yet’ Out Now video 'MASS APPEAL' (1994). She directed so many classics from Onyx (Throw Ya Gunz), ODB (Brooklyn Zoo), Method Man (Bring The Pain), Clipse (Grindin), Big Shug (Treat U Better), Keith

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NEW HIT FACTORY // We discuss the late Japanese master Shinji Sōmai, his ability to excavate profound emotional nuance from the experiences of youth, and the gorgeous melancholy of his coming-of-age drama MOVING. Links below.

✊ #StopGenocidio 🇵🇸 San Mamés muestra su apoyo a Palestina, representada hoy sobre el césped por Honey Thaljieh, un grupo de palestinos refugiados en Euskal Herria y representantes de UNRWA Euskadi. Animo! Zuekin gaude! لكم كل الدعم، نحن معكم! #AthleticMallorca #AthleticClub

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // We discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's ambitious, unwieldy, and under-loved 1999 film MAGNOLIA and go long on the the director as artist, his proclivities and limitations. Link below.

HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // Travis Woods joins to discuss Brian De Palma's masterful crime saga CARLITO'S WAY which sees the filmmaker at his most formally audacious, contemplative, and breathtakingly intimate. Link below.

This is Zionism.

SF BAY AREA - We're excited to announce that Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's (💽 heather) haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4 Star Theater NEXT SATURDAY 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.

Pretty much the result of a whole industry pushing for something nobody asked. Vague word-salady language that is unable to explain how this will help anybody, because ultimately, they don't even know.

I find what's being unsaid here disturbing: the reason removing em-dashes from ChatGPT responses is a "win" that is worthy of an announcement is that em-dashes are primarily used to sniff out if a published work was written by ChatGPT. What purpose does this serve except to more

BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.

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