Jay and Tim keep the Newport Beach Film Festival episodes rolling with the writer/director of Electric Jesus, Chris White, as well as Contemporary Christian Music historian and music advisor for the film, John J. Thompson. We talk about the film, the unique subculture of CCM, &apos;80s Christian rock, the detailed reconstruction of the musical and period setting for the film, and a lot more. Tickets for Electric Jesus at the Newport Beach Film Festival (Sunday, October 28, 7:15 PM)See ELECTRIC JESUS (11/2/21, U.S., Canada, U.K.): https://geni.us/ElectricJesusListen to ELECTRIC JESUS (now!): https://lnk.to/ElectricJesusOfficial Website: www.ElectricJesusFilm.comInsta: www.Instagram.com/ejesusfilmFB: www.Facebook.com/ejesusfilmTwitter: www.Twitter.com/ejesusfilmYouTube (music videos and more!): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVRvi9RexlwqF9NyYTbB6XAGGqnE064K_John J. Thompson on TwitterJohn J. Thompson in Newport Beach the night before the Electric Jesus screeningTrue Tunes websiteRaised by Wolves, John J. Thompson&apos;s book on Christian rockOpening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

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Episode 37 - The Electric Jesus Joy Explosion with Chris White and John J. Thompson (NBFF 2021)

Jay and Tim talk about [REDACTED] with writer/director/actor Ice Mrozek. We get into a little of how [REDACTED] came about, and what it was like to [REDACTED]. We talk about the filmmaking process, the difference between an idea and the finished product, and look forward to the world premiere screening of him & her at the Newport Beach Film Festival on October 24.Anam Cara Films Anam Cara Films on FacebookAnam Cara Films on InstagramTickets to the World Premiere of him & her (with a special surprise!)The Newport Beach Film FestivalOpening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Episode 36 - him & her with Writer/Director Ice Mrozek (NBFF 2021)

Unlike our normal, light-hearted content, we turn slightly darker with both the original and the first two episodes of the remake of Scenes From a Marriage. Tim wrote about one scene in the first episode of the remake here.Some of the movies we mention in this episode: Scenes From a Marriage, A Marriage Story, and, briefly, The Card Counter and The Godfather.Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Episode 35 - Autopsy of a Marriage

Jay and Tim finally get the Saints and Cinema Nicolas Cage episode done. We talk Pig and about 1 % of the rest of his cinematic output. And the return of outtakes.Some of the films we mention in this episode: Pig, Con Air, The Rock, Mandy, Face/Off, Raising Arizona, Bringing Out the Dead, Leaving Las Vegas.Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Episode 34 - All Nic Cage, All the Time

Tim and Jay talk with Dr. Scott Stiegemeyer (ethicist, pastor, professor, and co-host of The Blackest Eyes podcast) about George A. Romero&apos;s newly released 1973 film The Amusement Park. It is an anti-ageist film commissioned by the Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennysylvania, but rarely, if ever, seen until now. Aging, religion, churches, horror, and the surreal sense that we end where we begin--all of that and more in this episode.Some of the movies we mention in this episode: The Amusement Park, Night of the Living Dead, St. Maud, Midsommar.The Blackest Eyes PodcastTim wrote something about The Amusement Park here. Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Episode 33 - Amusement Parks for the Old, Take 2, with Scott Stiegemeyer

On the two-year anniversary of Saints and Cinema, Tim and Jay have a feature-length conversation with friend and filmmaker Thomas Torrey. We talk The Killing of Two Lovers, Thomas&apos;s new podcast, fatherhood, indie filmmaking, and if there&apos;s anything so far worth putting on a best-of-2021 list. Some of the movies we mention in this episode: The Killing of Two Lovers; Fare; Minor Premise; All the Names We Buried; Soul; Take Shelter; Parallel Love; A Quiet Place, Part 2.Thomas TorreyTwo Friends with a PodcastFareMinor PremiseParallel LoveBad Theology PicturesOpening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Episode 32 - The Killing of Two Lovers (with Thomas Torrey)

Jay and Tim talk revenge movies, what appeals to us about them, and quoting Dumb and Dumber.Movies we mention in this episode include: Dumb and Dumber, Taken, Death Wish, I Saw the Devil, Braveheart, In the Bedroom, and Nobody.Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Vengeance Is (Not) Mine

Tim and Jay talk Bill Maher, the Oscars, Promising Young Woman, and mostly mess around and laugh too much. Now, more outtakes than ever!Some movies we discuss in this episode include: Promising Young Woman, Minari, Mank, Taken, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Nomadland, a certain unnamed film from the Berlin International Film Festival.Bill Maher on the 2021 OscarsOpening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Episode 30! The 2021 Oscars

Jay and Tim talk to friend, erstwhile Newport Beach Film Festival programmer, and current Programming Director for NewFilmmakers LA, Bojana Sandic about all sorts of things: what is NFMLA, what she thinks about the Oscars, what she looks for in films to program, what her quarantine watching has been like, and descriptive words to use other than "unique" or "weird." Go check out this weekend&apos;s NFMLA&apos;s program here: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Film Festival - March 19th - 20th, 2021 Some of the films we mention in this episode are: To Live, Nomadland, Sound of Metal, The Painter and the Thief, Blood Brothers, Minari, and The Marksman.NewFilmmakers Los AngelesNFMLA.orgFacebookInstagramTwitterOpening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

"Unique" and "Weird" with Bojana Sandic

Tim and Jay watch some films from the 2021 virtual edition of the Slamdance Film Festival; they talk high school, death, life, family, loss, and indie filmmaking. Slamdance Film FestivalSome of the movies we mention in this episode: Taipei Suicide Story; Teenage Emotions; A Family; Man Under Table; Alps. Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitter

Cutaway 12 - Slamdance 2021

With a suggestion from our friend Kurt, we talk about bad movies, movies we don&apos;t like, the plot line cliches that make us want to turn off or walk out, and why people make bad movies. Thanks to everyone who gave us suggestions!And outtakes are backSome of the movies we mention in this episode: The Cold Light of Day, The Midnight Sky, Rambo: Last Blood, The Martian, Saw, You&apos;ve Got Mail, Cats, Forrest Gump, Bug, Serenity, Napoleon Dynamite, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, Rubber, North, various Batmans, Better Off Dead, Face/Off, The Blair Witch Project,Raising Arizona, Con-Air. And City of Angels is the name of the bad remake of Wings of Desire.Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagram

Cutaway 11 - Tim and Jay and Some No Good, Very Bad Films

Tim and Jay reveal their favorite movies of pandemic-afflicted 2020, along with some honorable mentions. Their lists intersect at one point and one point only! Thanks for listening during 2020, and we&apos;re looking forward to talking more about movies in 2021!Movies we mention in this episode, in no particular order: The Truth, Arkansas, The Outpost, About Him and Her, The Quarry, Mank, Sorry We Missed You, First Cow, Ma Rainey&apos;s Black Bottom, Possessor, Tenet, Corpus Christi, Palm Springs, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Other Lamb, Soul, Lovers&apos; Rock, The Sound of Metal, I&apos;m Thinking of Ending Things, A Sun, Wonder Woman 1984Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagram

Our 2020 Top Five

In a first for Saints and Cinema, we have a crossover episode with Andrew Hackett of The Trace Podcast. We each talk about three movies that disturbed us (in a good way) and made us see the world or film or life differently. Our conversation takes us to a lot of places, covering Lynch, Haneke, Fincher, and more, including to questions about truth itself. The Trace PodcastMovies we mention in this episode, in no particular order: A Clockwork Orange, Memento, Mulholland Drive, Fight Club, Cache, Repo Man, Funny Games, Possession, The Matrix, Who Took Johnny?, I Saw the DevilOpening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagram

Movies to Shake Up Your World, with Andrew Hackett

Tim and Jay talk film noir and Bogart; what noir has in common with Samson and Delilah; the ambiguity of noir's characters; and Tim laugh-cries over an episode of Wings that may or may not have happened. We mention In a Lonely Place, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, and The Maltese Falcon.Here's the book with the essay on noir by Eric S. Christianson.Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagram

Cutaway 10 - Noir, Bogart, and Imagining Uncle Carlton

Jay and Tim rank Meg Ryan&apos;s 1990s rom-coms, discuss the male equivalent of romantic comedies, and make a whole bunch of mistakes and ridiculous comments that end up after the closing music. Once again, the best part of the episode.Opening music: "Let&apos;s Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon GrivotCome find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagram

Cutaway 9 - Movies for Wives: Peak Meg Ryan

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