Tristan Ettleman

On SILVER BLEEDS THE BLACK SUN…, AFI’s new album

The AFI Albums Ranked Punk/hardcore/plain ol’ rock band AFI (not American Film Institute, as my movie-oriented brain thinks, but A Fire Inside) has charted an…

AFI has a pretty surprising new album out called SILVER BLEEDS THE BLACK SUN. The band's still got it! I added my thoughts on it to my piece on the group.

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Here’s an excerpt of my conversation with Andrew Osmond about Isao Takahata’s Chie the Brat for The Complete Catalog: Studio Ghibli. Links in quoted post!

Peanuts turned 75 and I’ll reiterate that I have Charles Schulz art on my body forever, so it may be clear how I feel about that comic strip (and TV specials).

Still from Chie the Brat depicting the title character rolling up her sleeves and brandishing a bat

Studio Ghibli E3 of The Complete Catalog is live! Animation journalist Andrew Osmond joins me to talk Chie the Brat, an underseen yet delightful gem of Isao Takahata's career.

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Here are the five most selected films for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1907!

Thank you to my guests for the season:

@mattpagefilm.bsky.social
@lizclarke100.bsky.social
Sean Guinan
Agata Frymus
Randy Haberkamp

Jane Goodall was an early hero. Those images of her with those chimps, hearing her voice talking about the beauty of nature and other creatures. Big impact when I was quite young. Big impact that she's dead, although of course what a long inspiration life.

1907 E7 - Old Styles Reign Supreme

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www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to see every film submitted for the 1907 season!

An image from The Policemen's Little Run showing a bulldog mix holding a pork chop and wearing a policemen's cap

1907 E7 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! I use the brief season finale to wrap up some of the themes and share the five most-selected films from the guests and listeners. (Already) old-school genres reigned supreme! Links 👇

On DOWNTON ABBEY: A JOURNEY TO THE HIGHLANDS, the best of the series’ specials and movies

The Downton Abbey Specials and Movies Ranked DOWNTON ABBEY (2010–2015) and its characters have my heart in spite of all the show’s conservative instincts (maybe overtone?). The period…

I went and saw the supposed "last" movie in the series, DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE. It got me thinking about the films and then the movie-shaped specials. So I wrote about them all.

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Here is an excerpt of my conversation with Austin Clark for The Complete Catalog. Links in quoted post!

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Studio Ghibli E2 of The Complete Catalog is live! @aesopb3ef.bsky.social and I talk about LUPIN III: THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO. Hayao Miyazaki's feature directorial debut seems the product of immaculate conception, but more than 15 years of TV work led to this fluid 1979 film. Links 👇

Here is an excerpt of my conversation with Randy Haberkamp for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever. Links in quoted post!

1907 E6 - Randy Haberkamp

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www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1907! Be sure to do 9/29 because for the season finale, I'll be consolidating the most selected films.

1907 E6 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! Film historian Randy Haberkamp, recently retired as the Executive Vice President of the Library, Archive and Sci-Tech for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, highlights hard-to-find films as well as more famed titles. Links 👇

On SEASON OF THE PEACH, the Black Lips’ new album

The Black Lips Albums Ranked “Flower punk,” indeed.

The Black Lips have a new album out called SEASON OF THE PEACH. It's pretty good. I updated my piece on the band's discography to reflect these thoughts!

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Here is an excerpt from my conversation with Trevor Bermingham for The Complete Catalog. Links in quoted post!

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Studio Ghibli E1 of The Complete Catalog is live! We start five eps of pre-history from its two director co-founders with The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun, Isao Takahata's directorial debut. Good friend Trevor Bermingham and I find some unexpected pleasures in this 1968 film! Links 👇

Yes, The Complete Catalog launches tomorrow with the first of 30 episodes exploring the films of Studio Ghibli (and some from before its formation)! And J.J. is going to be a great guest (you'll hear him in a few months). Subscribe to the feeds at completecatalogpod.com

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Here is an excerpt of my conversation with Agata Frymus for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever. Links in quoted post!

1907 E5 - Agata Frymus

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1907 E5 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! Monash University Malaysia's Agata Frymus joins me with a selection of mostly comic films, but we also round out the conversation with an (only maybe regrettably) lost historical drama and the first Japanese pick of the whole show. Links 👇

And because I’ve been so bound up with so many other emotions this past week (so much more anger than I’m used to), I haven’t known what to say. I still don’t. Likely no one cares. But he was Robert Redford, man. Think he’s gonna catch on.

I’ve been thinking about Robert Redford all day. His Twilight Zone keeps coming to mind, probably because he was once so young and because he literally plays Death.

Here’s the except of me explaining The Complete Catalog podcast in the first episode (with a supercut of every Ghibli film we’ll be talking about for the first season). First episode out 9/19 and links to the general feeds in the quoted post!