Projector Pod
Ebba Wester and Macon Holt talk about movies (new and old) in a super nerdy, fun, critical theory-inflected and engaging way. Sometimes other people talk too.
Episodes
35 episodes
Ep. 28 "Megalopolis"
Legendary director, Francis Ford Coppola, has made a return to our screen with his self-financed, attempt at an audacious masterpiece "Megalopolis". Ebba and Macon dive into this confounding film and search for its redeeming features. And there...
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Episode 28
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Ep. 27 "Network" (1976)
Uninspire by the end of summer spook fests at the cinema, Ebba and Macon dived into the classics. This time they take a look back at the Academy Award-winning, insanely prescient and oddly pretentious, "Network" from 1976. It is the story of ho...
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Episode 26
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Live Ep. 5 "Sexy Beast"
On the final live podcast at Husetsbiograf, Ebba and Macon sizzle in the Iberian sun in Johnathan Glazer's deconstructed London gangster black comedy, "Sexy Beast".If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, y...
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Ep 26. Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos is back with his thoroughly unsettling and painfully absurd triptych anthology film "Kinds of Kindness". So,Ebba and Macon get thoroughly stuck in the question of what sort of kindness he might be talking about.
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Episode 26
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Live Ep. 4 "A Scanner Darkly"
This time at Husets Biograf we watched, Richard Linklater's adaptation of "A Scanner Darkly", a drug paranoia-fueled, rotoscoped exploration of how they might just be out to get you. Come join us for the last of our screening series on Mond...
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Ep. 25 "Challengers" and "Love Lies Bleeding"
Time for some sexy, summer, queer fun with Ebba and Macon on this episode of Projector Pod featuring two long discussions of Luca Guadagnino sweat soaked tennis desire drama, "Challengers" and Rose Glass' blackly comic romantic caper "Love Live...
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Episode 25
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Live Ep. 3 "Morvern Callar"
Macon and Ebba talk about Lynne Ramsay's underseen gem, "Morvern Callar", for the second time, but this time in front a freshly overwhelmed crowd. You can hear what else the Projector Pod team had to say about the film the first time around
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Ep. 24 "Civil War" (and a little bit of "Dune 2")
This time on Projector Pod Ebba and Macon dive into the libidinal economy of violence and the images that animate it while talking about Alex Garland's latest and perhaps last directorial venture "Civil War". And speaking of the aestheticisatio...
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Episode 24
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Ep. 23 CPH DOX 2024 Highlights
Ebba and Macon have been hard at work at the CPH DOX festival soaking as much of it in as they could. Here, they present their picks of the films they found the most engaging presented here in spoiler-free discussions.Including:*"Ba...
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Live Ep 2. "Punch-Drunk Love"
Projector pod presents at Huset Biograf returns with Paul Thomas Anderson's reinvention of the genre of the Adam Sandler romantic comedy, "Punch-Drunk Love". This film is a musical without musical numbers. Rife with the symbolism of fantasy it ...
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Ep. 22 "Dream Scenario" (and a little bit of "All of Us Strangers")
Nicholas Cage becomes Ebba and Macon's uncanny daydream as they discuss Kristoffer Borgli's break out into Hollywood in his latest film, "Dream Scenario". It tells the story of a disappointed college professor who suddenly hears he has been pop...
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Ep. 21 May December (and a little bit of Saltburn)
This time on Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon dive into a brand new, very confusing feeling with Todd Haynes' latest exploration of the monstrous feminine in "May December". A film that sees Natalie Portman and Haynes' long-time collaborator Julia...
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Ep. 20 "Poor Things" (and a little bit on "Zone of Interest")
This time on Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon follow Emma Stone on her adventure with director Yorgos Lanthimos into the steam-punk, sex and science odyssey of Bella Baxter in "Poor Things". And your host take a moment to think about Johnathan Gla...
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Episode 20
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Live Ep. 1 "Brick"
It's Halloween in January!* The first film of Projector Pod's live series at Husets Biograf in Copenhagen was Rian Johnson's debut feature "Brick" (2005), a genre-bending hardboiled detective noir reimagined as a high school teen drama that is ...
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Ep. 19 Priscilla
In this episode of Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon navigate the glamour and the ick of Sofia Coppola's film about the icon and child bride of Elvis, "Priscilla". And don't forget, in 2024, Projector Pod goes live!Projector P...
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Episode 19
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Coming soon, Projector Pod Presents... "Brick" Live @ Husets Biograf Januart 4th
In 2024, Projector Pod goes live!Projector Pod presents... a celebration of rough, risky and bold artistic vision with a series of hand-picked Y2K cult classics which if you don't already know and love, you should... Ebba and Macon of t...
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Ep. 18 Killers of the Flower Moon
Ebba and Macon have made it back to the cinema and the award season releases start to fill the silver screen. This time they talk about Martin Scorsese's latest historical epic, "Killers of the Flower Moon". The film tells the true story of the...
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Ep. 17 Donnie Darko (Classic)
With the beginning of spooky season comes the end of classics season. So, the last movie Ebba and Macon is going to cover before returning to the cinema is a film that does both spooky and classic with angsty grace, gorgeous dissociation and tr...
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Episode 17
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Ep. 16 "Morvern Callar" (Classic)
In the absence of good kino in the cinemas, Ebba and Macon explore another classic, Lynne Ramsay's criminally underseen exploration of grief and freedom, "Morvern Callar" starring Samantha Morton. Track this movie down, watch it and then listen...
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Episode 16
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Ep. 15 Eyes Wide Shut (Classic)
This time on Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon don Venitian masks and cloaks and try to memorise the password, Fidelio, and descend into the beautiful nightmare of the torment of bourgeois desire that is Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece, "Eyes W...
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Episode 15
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Ep. 14. Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part One (Or What is Tom Cruise?)
This time on Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon apply all their critical skills to the latest instalment in Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible" film franchise, "Dead Reckoning, Part One". And in so doing, they discover some deep heritage of cinema em...
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Episode 14
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Friedkin Memorial Pod: Sorcerer (UNRELEASED)
The master of horror and darkness, the director, William Friedkin, has passed away at 87. Back in November, before they had good microphones and thought could they constantly deliver two pods a month to build an audience of patrons, Ebba ...
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Ep. 13 Barbenheimer (Barbie & Oppenheimer)
This time on Projector Pod Ebba and Macon try to figure out what to make of the collision of two cinematic titans, Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer". Two apparently polar opposite films in terms of themes...
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Episode 13
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Ep. 12 "Asteroid City"
This time on Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon discuss Wes Anderson's most recent exploration of pastel colours, symmetry and repressed grief, Asteroid City. And of course, we take the opportunity to explore exactly what might be at ...
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Episode 12
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Episode 11 "Sick of Myself"
In this episode, Ebba and Macon dive into the twisted imagination of Hollywood-bound, Norwegian director, Kristoffer Borgli, with his film "Sick of Myself", a black comedy about a young woman who deliberately overdoses on dangerous meds to make...
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Episode 11
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