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

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

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

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here again with Scott Tobinus and Genevieve Kosky.

Tasha Robinson cannot be here tonight because she's stranded in the forbidden zone.

On the first half of this episode, we discussed Planet of the Apes, the 1968

science fiction classic that helped make the world safe for movie after movie featuring

intelligent apes and their troubled relations with humans. These most recently include

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Don of the Planet of the Apes, and the New-ish War for the Planet

of the Apes, which trace the assent of apes from lab experiments

to competitors for dominance over the earth. The film is directed by Matt Reeves, who took over

the series from Rupert Wyatt after the first entry. The third film continues a series-long shift

away from humanity and toward the apes, where Ries introduced Caesar, the intelligent

chimp played in each film by Andy Circus,

and the first wave of intelligent apes, and Don more or less gave equal time to humans and

apes, words told almost entirely from the ape's perspectives. After the explosive finale of

Don, the apes have attempted to carve out a place to call their own away from humans. But a relentless

colonel, played by Woody Harrelson, has other plans.

We'll talk about what the film is trying to do,

how this chapter fits into the preceding films,

and its relationship to the 1960 original after this.

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