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 the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with...

Tasha Robinson. Keith Thubes.

And Genevieve Katsky.

Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context.

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider

how it relates to a current movie. This week, we're putting ourselves through the painstaking

frame-by-frame labor of stop motion film criticism and really hoping listeners will appreciate

the handcrafted charm of our podcast. Tasha, what are we going to do that your standard computer

animated podcast couldn't do

faster and cheaper? I think listeners will find that the next picture show has a warmer quality

than computer animated podcasts. If they look closely, they'll be able to see our fingerprints

all over this week's discussion of Chicken Run and Isle of Dogs, two of the most ambitious

stop motion features to be produced in the current century. The two films also have a lot in common. Ile of Dogs, two of the most ambitious stop-motion features to be produced in the current century.

The two films also have a lot in common.

Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson's second venture into stop-motion after his Road Doll adaptation,

Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2009, pays homage to Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese cultural

bricorac. Chicken Run, the first feature by Ardman animations, draws inspiration

from other films, too, like Stalag 17 and The Great Escape. Both films are also about

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