Imagine a breakfast wrap.

You know the one, because there really is only one.

Sausage, egg, cheese, bacon and a potato rusty all wrapped together.

Yep, there it is.

I think my work here is done.

Served until 11 a.m.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a new release.

I'm Scott Tobias here this week with Tasha Robinson, Rachel Handler, Keith Phipps, and behind the scenes, producer Genevieve Koski.

We're all firm believers in the idea that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and how it relates to a current release. Tasha, tell us about this week's movie pairing. Just a year after winning the best picture Oscar for Birdman, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inuritu is back with

The Revenant, a half-revenge thriller, half-survival adventure set in the frosty American wilderness.

The Revenant was photographed in remote mountain areas in Canada and Argentina using entirely

natural light, and it was, by all accounts, a difficult production. But Inuritu's commitment to

shooting in extreme

conditions is key to the film's visceral punch. It also recalls the work of cinema's most

intrepid adventurer, Werner Herzog, particularly Agira, The Rath of God, his 1972 cult

classic about Spanish conquistadors in South America, searching for El Dorado, the lost city of

gold. Among other things, both the remnant and Agira are about the arrogance of non-natives trying to exploit a foreign land, and both center on men who are pushed to the brink of madness and beyond. Scott, break down this week's discussion for us. Well, Tasha, in the first half, we'll focus on Agira, the wrath of God, and the many elements that carry over into Inuritu's film, from its harsh

natural setting to its native and non-native characters, to the crazed, ambitious men who serve

as its driving force. In the second half, dropping later this week, we'll bring the Revenant

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