Art Failure Podcast - Episode 2 - September 2008

Here it is, people: the second episode of Art Failure Podcast. Okay so it took a while to get Ep 2 out - well you could really call this Episode 2.2 'cause we trashed 2.1.
Anyway, this month we've chopped the show down a bit, made it a sleeker more stylish and sexy podcast.

Yes, that's right, Jody: we sexed it up ..

So for September we looked back a little bit and decided that Martin McDonagh's In Bruges was just such a good movie, and we had so much fun seeing it, that we made it the headliner - well, Dave did at any rate.

Being such massive Coen Brothers fans we decided to kick off with our favourite three Coen movies and Coen movie moments. Then we take a look at Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone Baby, Gone. On DVD we reminisce on our guilty pleasures with the over-the-top Shoot 'Em Up and in the Tele slot we have some fun with those sexy kiwis, Flight of the Conchords, and look back at some of our favourite eps and moments from Seinfeld co-creator Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm.

So, if you want to tell us about a film that is your favourite guilty pleasure for the next episode, or if you have some requests or if you want to tell us anything at all, really, write to us here at artfailurepod@gmail.com - See you next month!

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Art Failure Podcast - Episode 1 - June 2008

Well, here it is, the inaugural episode of ART FAILURE PODCAST- the random musings of a pack of a *ahem* over-the-hill blowhards who think they know something about film and music and ...oh sorry, I'm SUPPOSED to be promoting this thing. Right! What you're about to hear may represent some of the most cutting edge critique you will ever hear from the youngest, hippest, most in-the-loop crew...nah, who's kidding who? Film - Music - Art - Trash - TV ... what it's about ...

In this lavish monthly installment we'll be featuring a host of films direct from the Sydney Film Festival. Firstly Jody will draw us into the world of the wonderful Anvil! The Story of Anvil - a doco that follows the travails of a Toronto-based metal band called Anvil (naturally) and their 30-year 13-album journey from 15 minutes of fame to the long, hard slog of keeping the metal dream alive into their 50's - and a surprisingly comical, tragic, emotional - and in the end, triumphant - ride it is.



Dave's gonna take a look at what turns out to be some comic gems including In Bruges by director Martin McDonagh; the darkly humorous doco A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures; And the moving Iranian film from director Hana Makhmalbaf, Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame. Dave also expounds on the virtues of the new-prog with his intriguing live encounter with one of the current proponents - The Mars Volta!

Al takes a look at the new spine-chiller from Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, El Orfanato (The Orphanage) - a tale of terror and children; a combo that always creeps us out!

And finally we descend into the joy of the free-for-all when Britain's brilliant POV odd-couple, Peep Show, takes the Television discussion to new heights of perversity.

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