This installment of the podcast we’ve got Eurovision-fever! We’re recording the day of the Eurovision finals, and kick the show off by describing the greatest television event of the year to all the non-European listeners we have. To put it simply, it’s the best. But we also talk about some movies. After years of searching Mariam was finally able to track down a copy of a Serge Gainsbourg musical she’s been trying to find for years and Ari went to the movies to see the new Tim Burton film Dark Shadows.

The first piece of homework is Mariam’s pick The Days of Being Wild, which was the first film from director Wong Kar-Wai. The film tells the story of Yuddy a young man and the various different people he interacts with. It’s a film about time, trying and failing to connect to other people.

Ari’s pick this week was unconventional, a film he’s not even sure about liking, the Andrej Zuwalski film Possession. It tells the story of the disitigration of a relationship between Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, set in cold-war West-Berlin. It also has a tentacle monster in it. Seriously, that movie is nuts.

We close things of by choosing next week’s picks. Don’t forget you can send us an email, write to us and like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. If you like the show it would be great if you could review it in iTunes or share it on your social network platforms! Subscribe to it in iTunes or whatever podcatcher you choose to use!

Welcome to the eleventh episode of the Movie Homework Podcast! Both of the week’s homework include disturbing scenes in bathrooms, but before we get to that… good stuff… we discuss what we’ve been up to in the past week. After having not responded very positively to Tommy, Mariam decided to give Ken Russell another shot, by watching his 1969 film Women in Love, starring Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson. She responded far more positively to its more subdued style, than the extravaganza that is Tommy. Meanwhile Ari caught up with Femme Fatale, Brian De Palma’s 2002 thriller starring Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas.

The first piece of homework this week is Michael Haneke’s 2002 film The Piano Teacher, based on the book by Nobel-prize winning author Elfride Jelenik. The film centers on a piano teacher whose life gets upturned when she becomes infatuated with a young pupil. The film deals explicitly with her sado-masochistic tendencies and the disturbing relationship with her mother.

Ari’s pick for Mariam this week is Lawrence Kasdan’s adaptation of the Stephen King book Dreamcatcher. The film tells the story of four friends that share psychic abilities. Together they must fight an alien invasion, and a crazed army colonel played by Morgan Freeman. The film was critically lambasted when it came out in 2003, and although Ari agrees with the fact that the film is terrible, he finds it terrible in a fascinating and hilarious way. Will Mariam agree?

We close things of by choosing next week’s picks. Don’t forget you can send us an email, write to us and like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. If you like the show it would be great if you could review it in iTunes or share it on your social network platforms! Subscribe to it in iTunes or whatever podcatcher you choose to use!

It’s once again time for another installment of The Movie Homework Podcast! This week’s homework is filled with sex, motorcycles, obsession, comedy and Jerry Lewis! But before we can get into all that stuff we discuss some of the other movies we’ve been watching. Mariam recently watched Andrzej Zulawski’s 1975 film L'important c'est d'aimer starring Romy Schneider. The film tells the story of a young model and the various ways in which she is exploited. The film also stars Klaus Kinski, so you know it’s good! Meanwhile Ari watched Mike Mills Oscar winner Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor as a man dealing with the death of his father, who had come out of the closet a few years before his death. Ari found the film to have some annoying and cutesy elements, but will they overpower the story that has the possibility of being quite strong? Well, you have to listen to find out. Also we talk about dogs in movies… And Bart the Bear!

But the first piece of homework for the episode is Mariam’s pick: Jack Cardiff’s 1968 The Girl on a Motorcycle. It tells the story of a young woman, played by Marianne Faithfull, who is torn between her husband and her lover, played by Alain Delon. She also drives around on a motorcycle and we get to hear everything she thinks. But what will Ari make of this film?

Ari’s pick is Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film The King of Comedy. The film tells the story of Rupert Pupkin, played by Robert De Niro, who’s obsessed with getting on the Jerry Langford Show, to perform comedy. Langford is played Jerry Lewis. It is a story of obsession, insanity and deep sadness, which is also really funny. The film was a flop upon its release in 1983, but has gathered a significant cult following. Will Mariam become a member of that cult?

We close things of by choosing next week’s picks. Don’t forget you can send us an email, write to us and like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. If you like the show it would be great if you could review it in iTunes or share it on your social network platforms! Subscribe to it in iTunes or whatever podcatcher you choose to use!

Welcome to yet another installment of The Movie Homework Podcast! In the opening segment Ari discusses seeing the Marvel blockbuster The Avengers, which at this point everyone in the world has seen (apart from Mariam that is.) He liked it, although it’s not without its flaws. Mariam caught-up on the Japanese horror series Tomie about a mysterious egirl who drives men into a murderous frenzy.

But the real reason we’re here is to talk about the homework! The first homework this week is Mariam’s pick for Ari, Frederico Fellini’s classic 8 ½. The film tells the story of a director dealing with a “director’s-block” while working on a new film, but also dealing with various emotional problems stemming from his troubled relationship with women. For some reason Ari had never seen this film, which is generally regarded as one on the greatest achievements in filmmaking, but will he be underwhelmed by a film that carries such baggage?

Although Ari’s pick for Mariam might not be as beloved as 8 ½, it is an iconic film. Scream, the 1996 postmodern horror from director Wes Craven reignited the slasher-film, and spawned not only a fair share of sequels but also a fair share of imitators. But what will Mariam make of it’s now quite passé meta-narrative?

 We close things of by choosing next week’s picks. Don’t forget you can send us an email, write to us and like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. If you like the show it would be great if you could review it in iTunes or share it on your social network platforms! Subscribe to it in iTunes or whatever podcatcher you choose to use!