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 true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

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

I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with Scott Tobias and Genevieve Kovic.

Keith is still at the Toronto International Film Festival unless the kidnappers aiming for David Erlich accidentally grabbed Keith instead.

I just love the idea that somebody's out there trying to kidnap David Arlick.

Who's going to pay for, I'll pay for KP.

I spent a surprising amount of time figuring out which film critic to put here.

And in the end, I don't even know if David's a Tiff this year.

Irregardlessly. In our last episode, we discussed Akira Kurosawa's 1963 film High and Low,

in which a rich, principled shoe factory executive in the middle of a risky bid to take over his company,

finds out that his son has been kidnapped and that the kidnapper wants a ruinous, ridiculous sum of money. Paying the ransom will destroy the takeover deal and bankrupt the executive,

but he's willing to do it, until he finds out the kidnapper accidentally grabbed his chauffeur's son instead. Spike Lee's 2025 movie Highest to Lowest doesn't go back to the source material

Corissa was drawing from, Ed McBain's crime novel,

King's Ransom. Instead, Leeds film reimagines the markedly different story that Currasaw was

filmed told, this time with a New York City music executive instead of a shoe manufacturer,

a pair of similar-looking teenage boys instead of small children, and a chauffeur who's also

a close personal friend of the family,

played by Jeffrey Wright.

All these elements change the mechanics and flavor of the movie, and so do the setting,

the trappings in the modern era, and especially Spike Lee's personal interests and narrative style.

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