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

and how it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson here with my

absolute bestest friends in the entire world. Scott Tobias. Keith Phipps. And Genevieve Kossi.

God, aren't they so cute. They're totally fash. Every 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 two stories about women in power

challenged by fresh young outsiders who walk into their fiefdoms and are like totally nice to

them to their faces, but act like super frontomies behind their backs. In one case, the future of

England is on the line. In another case,

the stakes are who's sitting next to who in the high school lunchroom in Evanston, Illinois.

But they're still both high-tension social competition movies about underhanded schemes and

social undermining. Genevieve. Yes. I totally love that top. Where did you get it?

It's my boyfriends. I picked it up off the top of the clean laundry pile this morning.

Oh, okay. Okay. Well, it looks just great on you. It's too bad our listeners can't see you right now.

Oh, thank you. God, now if you could stop being so conceited by your clothes for just five minutes,

God, maybe you could tell our listeners what we're doing this week? But you... Fine. Greek director Jorgos Lantamos made two movies in his home country before his

international breakout, 2009's Dogtooth.

And none of his films since then, including the lobster and the killing of a sacred deer,

have looked anything like it.

That also goes for his new movie The Favorite, a historical drama about courtiers competing

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