A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

Another year, another opportunity to give some films we didn’t particularly like another opportunity. Was it the films? Was it us? Was it just the wrong time to watch these? For this year’s movie revisit, Sam and Matt talk about two musicals that, at a first glance, couldn’t be much more different: Richard Attenborough’s 1985 adaptation of A Chorus Line and Nordic provocateur Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark. What is the result of our return to these musicals? Did we come away with a new appreciation of Michael Douglas’ foray into musicals (and then he doesn’t even get to sing!), and did things finally fall into place when we rewatched the musical melodrama led by Icelandic multitalent Björk?

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #77: Second Chances (2024)

For more episodes on similar topics, check out:

• Podcast #67: Second Chances: Two Androids called David (on AI and Prometheus)
• Podcast #62: Second Chances (2022) (on the David Fincher/Brad Pitt double bill Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
• Podcast #47: Second Chances (2021) (on the very female-centric Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz) and the mucho male-centric Killing Them Softly (dir. Andrew Dominik)
• Podcast #41: The Musical Episode