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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 to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson here with Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias.

Our producer Genevuevukovsky just doesn't seem to be around. I mean, we haven't seen her in a while, but it's weird. We can still hear her breathing.

It probably doesn't mean anything. Anyway, on our next two episodes, we're discussing the defective

detective, a new Terry Gilliam film that's been 40 years in the making. The script, written by the

author of the Fisher King, dates back to the 1980s when the two men collaborated in a story about

a private eye trying to track

down a girl who seems to have disappeared into a fantasy world. With his film, The Man Who Killed

Don Quixote finally completed, Gilliam turned to another of his lost projects and brought it back

into production, again starring Adam Driver in the lead role...

Well, Tasha, wait, what? We figured this was a good opportunity to pair the film with Gilliam's classic Brazil, which is also about a man who disappears into a fantasy world, although in a different kind of way. Brazil is one of my all-time favorite films. Tasha, Tasha, Tasha, hold up. This isn't the pairing we agreed on doing. What are you talking about? Well, when we were planning this week's pairing, we didn't talk about Gilliam at all. These aren't films we had on this week's docket. Scott, are you feeling okay? You look a little pale. I mean, I remember there being news back around 2011 or so about Gilliam reviving the defective detective, but I haven't heard anything about him completing it. Scott, Scott, these are the films we talked about doing this week. Keith and I came here prepared to talk about them, right, Keith?

Scott, uh, don't you remember? You said you thought Gilliam's Baron Moonschallsen would be a better pairing because of parallels with young girls, his protagonist. No, I didn't. At least I don't think I did. I don't remember any of this. We saw the defective detective together, Scott, at the music box. This isn't ringing a bell.

What happened to doing the Invisible Man?

What happened to doing the Invisible Man? don't remember any of this. We saw the defective detective together, Scott, at the music box. This isn't ringing a bell.

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