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

be?

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

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie The Week podcast to put it to a classic film

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here with...

Genevieve Kosky.

Scott Tobias.

And Tasha Robinson.

Here are the next picture show.

We believe 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 consider how it relates to a current movie. This week, we're looking at a pair of love

stories, I think. Tasha, if you don't mind putting down your correspondence for a bit, could you

tell us about the films we'll be discussing? Sure, but first you're going to have to help me come up

with a killer costume idea for this ball I'm invited to. This week's films both

look at complex relationships, troubled by forces both within and without their central couples.

Both explore the unspoken codes and shifting power dynamics of marriage. Both consider the way

outside elements can upset romantic chemistry. Both feature powerful men and women who can look

powerless beside them, at least from a distance.

Finally, both are films that resist easy classification.

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