If only I have the show where you're role but is the beautifully brooding patents and

really channeling a young moustache at Robert Mitchen who has the tricky task of

steering this two-hander into a full-blown psychological tempest. That is a

review from Justin Chang. He's a beauty. Right through the LA Times, the Lighthouse

one of the films that we're reviewing this time here on Sinofile. Thanks as always

for checking us out. Please do subscribe, rate, and review on Apple podcasts.

That is how we keep things rolling here. Special guests today including James

Andrew Miller, the author of many acclaimed books including the ones about

Saturday Night Live, ESPN, and also CAA. So Jim's going to join us to talk about

some of our meaningful films at least at his lifetime and also get mine as

well. And also I don't know how we got him. But my dad is available as well. He's

going to talk about an excellent new documentary which is available on Netflix.

Let's talk first though about the lighthouse because it is really a movie

that I was highly anticipating. Play the canned film festival. It's shot in

gorgeous black and white and you've got this story which is about as straight

forward as it gets. It's just two guys losing their minds in a lighthouse. Set in

19th century. It's actually shot in Nova Scotia. But I mean the visuals of it, you

feel like you're watching a silent film and clearly owes a lot to German

expressionism and you know films of that era. Even as Chang writes in his review,

the lighthouse may be a little too in love with its own virtuosity but who can

blame it? At a time when American movies are overrun with shop-worn visions,

its madness is a bomb and a beacon. Robert Pattinson plays a guy who shows up

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