This is a Bramble Jam Podcast.

Hi, I'm Dan and I love movies, which means I'm also a film critic.

Hi, I'm Alonzo. I'm a film critic, which means I also love movies.

And this is a film...

...and a movie.

And welcome to the first ever edition of a film in a movie I'm super excited to be here. Alonzo, how you doing?

I'm excellent. I really thrilled to see where this thing's going to go.

And you know, I haven't seen all these movies myself.

So we're going to get to a lot of classics that are big gaps in my own film education.

Yeah, and while Alonzo is being quite modest, he is the professional film critic.

And the reality is is what we're trying to do here is kind of bring ourselves to a cross section of modern day movie going and classic cinema.

And we'll do that by watching two movies. They have some sort of connection. One is deemed a classic.

The other is one that you've probably heard of and seen. And maybe it'll inspire you to go and check out that old classic or at least learn some film history along the way.

And each and every week we're going to try to have a guest that's also a film critic.

And this week is no exception. We have from RogerEber.com and The New York Times.

And many other places, Matt Zoller's Heights is with us. And we're super excited to have him. Matt, thanks for joining us.

Thank you very much for having me.

Yeah, I mean, it's a privilege. I'm sure for you to be on the first ever edition of this highly talented podcast.

I'll try not to I'll try not to drool.

Yeah, yeah, do your best. Do your best.

So without any further ado, we've picked two movies that have quite a connection between the two of them.

We have 2016's La La Land directed by Damien Chazelle. And then we have the Umbrella's of Sherbrooke from 1964.

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