A JAM Community-Produced Podcast
What makes a movie special to someone? Why do they feel compelled to revisit it time and time again? Is it the technical aspects, the acting, the overall message, a mix of everything? Or is it something that eclipses words? Join Noah Mauchly as he sits down with friends, family, and artists to discuss what “that one movie” is for them and if it’s possible to get to the heart of what makes it so special for them.
Episodes
Episode 10: Paddington 2 coming soon!
Episode 9: Noah and composer Ana Hausmann sing the praises of 2024’s wordless animated wonder, Flow, and how its universal entertainment value delivers layers of deeper mysteries to uncover.
Episode 8: Noah chats with Samantha Davidson Green about 2004’s romantic tragicomedy sci-fi masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and how its journey through memory, consciousness, and pain make for one of the most human stories put to film.
Episode 7: Nick Arvizu and Noah dive the thought-experiment horror film The Mist, and how the monsters are secondary to the real horror of people caught in a closed environment, not to mention one of the bleakest endings ever put to film.
Episode 6: Filmmaker Mike Purvis sits down with Noah to analyze Woody Allen’s 2011 comic fantasy romantic romp Midnight in Paris and what it has to say about the dangers that come with romanticizing the past.
Episode 5: Chico Eastridge educates Noah on the surprising thematic density of the camp musical sensation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the number of interpretations that can be read from it.
Episode 4: Noah and Charlie Laud discuss the unbridled creative, thoughtful, and contagious silliness of 1991’s Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, and what makes it a perfect sequel.
Episode 3: Cedar O’Dowd swindles Noah into watching the ultra low-budget outsider film So Long Suburbia that prompts bittersweet reflections on the highs and lows of 2010s pop culture.
Episode 2: Noah chats with actor Matthew Schofield to dive into the film that inspired this show, Robert Altman’s 1971 anti-western McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and attempt to break down what makes the film so hauntingly beautiful.
Episode 1: Noah sits down with old friend Joshua Rosen to discuss the Coen Brothers’ 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis and how its wintry depiction of artistic struggles resonates now as creatives in a money-driven world.
