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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Brittany Runs A Marathon, Brian Raftery, 1999 Films

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film Interviews

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Adnan speaks with Brian Raftery, author of the amazing book "Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen." Brian is on the show to talk about what is considered by many to be the greatest year in film's history - 1999. Adnan also reviews the new film "Brittany Runs A Marathon" and in honor of the 1999 films, Adnan and Joe give their Mt. Rushmore of the best movies of that year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Britney runs a marathon as a film not so much about how others see you but how you view

0:26.9

yourself. It's a movie about body shape and weight and the notions created by people who mostly

0:32.3

judges by how we look. That's from Bob Balloon with Journal and Courier out of Lafayette, Indiana.

0:37.8

One of the films we're reviewing this week, Britney runs a marathon. We'll talk all about it.

0:42.2

Thank you so much for checking out Stina Follett. As always, I appreciate you guys. I've given us some

0:46.6

love. Please do go to Apple and not only subscribe but unsubscribe. Subscribe again. Tell some other people

0:52.1

to subscribe. Spread the word here as much as you can. Please let's get those subscriptions up.

0:56.2

It's now Fall Movie Season. Let's go ahead and do this. Here's a couple of reviews here from Apple

1:01.6

Podcasts. This is from Jay Goods, 27. Absolutely amazing. Missy Old Crew though. It's okay. Riz CT. I don't

1:08.4

even like movies that much but I love Adnan. Five stars. Yeah, go ahead. I ranked my movies by the way

1:13.1

to For My Police but you can rank yours at five stars. Now, here's one from Drake Walker. Can't get

1:17.3

enough. Five stars. Adnan and Jordan absolute, Riot. Their tasteful commentary gives me a reason to

1:22.2

look forward to Wednesday mornings each week. All the men I wrote this to hopefully hear you read it

1:26.1

next week. All right. Blitley obvious. So all I have your attention. Could you please tell me

1:30.2

each of your favorite movies from Andre Tarkovsky and Belatar and why? Hope that's not too much to

1:36.0

ask. Drake going obscure here. Tarkovsky, I will go with the sacrifice just because I think it's a

1:41.2

very humanist fable and remember seeing yours ago and appreciating Tarkovsky's very deliberate

1:47.0

style. Solaris obviously very famously. Cloney remade. So that's one that might more people would

1:51.5

know. I cannot speak to Belatar. I do not know the filmography of Belatar. Joe, do you want to

1:55.8

talk about either Tarkovsky or Belatar? You know, Tarkovsky, I've only seen the movie The Killers

2:01.7

and I saw it in college about 10 years ago. So I will have to make that my number one and then

2:07.5

I'm yeah, the other one I had no I do not have the speaking points for that. We're going to

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