Cinema of Meaning

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Cinema of Meaning Returns! To kick off season 2, we're discussing one of the biggest movies of 2026: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and also talk about the other half of Homer's myth; the 2004 movie Troy. For our mini-topics, we reflect on our favorite movies of the year so far, what we're looking forward to watching soon. And we talk about the quiet cinema of Kelly Reichardt

0:00 We're back!
3:15 Best of 2026 so far
22:48 What we're still looking forward to
36:46 The cinema of Kelly Reichardt
47:18 The Odyssey
2:12:05 Troy

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Welcome back to our series on Gangster Cinema through the decades, in which we discuss 5 different gangster movies from 5 different decades in order to get a better understanding of the deeper meanings and evolution of the genre; concluding today in the 2010s with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman.

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Welcome back to our series on Gangster Cinema through the decades, in which we discuss 5 different gangster movies from 5 different decades in order to get a better understanding of the deeper meanings and evolution of the genre; continuing today in the 2000s with Ridley Scott's American Gangster.

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Welcome back to our series on Gangster Cinema through the decades, in which we discuss 5 different gangster movies from 5 different decades in order to get a better understanding of the deeper meanings and evolution of the genre; continuing today in the 1990s with Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.

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