Episode 45: 2005 with Alissa Wilkinson
A podcast about the great movies.
Alissa Wilkinson - senior correspondent and critic at Vox - was just out of college in 2005 and, when the year began, she had not yet decided to devote her life to film criticism. But this was the year that she made that decision, so she joins us this week to discuss the movies that opened her eyes as a moviegoer and a critic.
You can read Alissa’s work over at Vox, and you can buy her wonderful book Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women here.
The Proposition is streaming on Peacock, Kanopy, Pluto, Plex, and several other ad-supported streamers. L’Enfant (The Child) is available for digital rental or purchase.
The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu is streaming on Kanopy, Metrograph, and Vudu. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is streaming on Netflix and available for digital rental or purchase. Caché is streaming on Tubi and available for digital rental or purchase.
And for Mike and Jason’s picks: you can watch Lady Vengeance on MUBI, Metrograph, Kanopy, TUBI, Pluto TV, and Plex, while The Matador is streaming on Starz and available for digital rental or purchase.
This week’s episode was sponsored by our friends at the New York Film Festival; here’s the site we direct you to in the ad, if you’d like to grab some tickets to the NYFF (and you should).
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