DOLLY BACK
A weekly discussion podcast for people who love movies! Whether a casual movie-goer or a self-proclaimed cinephile, DOLLY BACK is for everyone! From the Wachowskis to Kurosawa and so many places in-between, join co-hosts Erich and Krishiv as they build their own canon and talk about each amazing entry along the way!
Episodes
73 episodes
Best of 2023 - DOLLY BACK'S END OF YEAR!
Another year, another list! Dolly Back looks back on one of the most remarkable years in recent film exhibition. In a year marked by rare crossover appeal, audience rejection of tentpole films, important conversations regarding labour, and film...
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Season 2
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Episode 73
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1:51:48
Sounds of Silence - M (1931)
Was the introduction of sound to cinema a crime? If so, Fritz Lang commits in the first-degree in his seminal thriller/drama M! Crossing paths with the radio medium and the crumbling Weimar Republic, M's soundscape is rich with texture and subt...
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Season 2
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Episode 72
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50:20
Age Without Chivalry - UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (2018)
It's been a long, winding journey for Dolly Back to arrive at David Robert Mitchell's Los Angeles, putting their cinematic sleuthing skills to the ultimate test. In a film rife with prospective black boxes, hidden bunkers, secret treasures, you...
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Season 2
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Episode 71
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57:02
The New Standard - BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
At the tail-end of October and beginning of November, Dolly Back could not find a better opportunity to spotlight this middle child of wintery weather. Bob Clark's 1974 slasher is near and dear to the hearts of Torontonian horror lovers, and a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 70
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53:39
Right of the Hungry - THE HOST (2006)
Dolly Back is sick with excitement at presenting its latest episode on Bong Joon-Ho's The Host (2006). Perhaps the most eminently celebrated South Korean director of his generation, Bong is at his pulpiest and most elemental in this mo...
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Season 2
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Episode 69
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55:27
Last Stitch Effort - EVIL DEAD 1 & 2
GROOVY! Dolly Back couldn't be happier to tackle Sam Raimi's love letter to the horror genre, the Evil Dead franchise! The rare film trilogy that can elicit both intense laughter and abject terror within the same scene, is equal...
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Season 2
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Episode 68
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1:04:56
Star-Spangled Sunsets - BADLANDS (1973)
The beginning of Terence Malick's feature filmmaking career begins with neither a bang nor a whimper - but the ambivalent hum of 60s American suburbia. As real-world crime and Hollywood myths of the era coalesce, the filmmaker embarks upon an o...
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Season 2
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Episode 67
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57:28
Between The Future And A Hard Place - SORCEROR (1977)
William Friedkin lays it all on the line in this 1977 thriller, shaking his fist at the sky and the precarious times of an increasingly globalized and tragically nuclear world. Assembling a ragtag group of all nationalities on every level of pr...
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Season 2
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Episode 66
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57:00
A New World Every Day - THE WORLD (2004)
Few filmmakers handle liminal spaces so casually and comfortably as Jia Zhangke... To the point where you could say he has a sort of home court advantage. Join your hosts this week as they explore the muddy digital textures, surreal animation, ...
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Episode 65
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1:01:11
Right for the Jugular - KING OF NEW YORK (1990)
Now it’s his turn - Abel Ferrara blazes onto the streets of New York with this gothic and visceral crime epic! Aiming to offer a more precise look at the cultural fabric of NYC while reflecting upon a post-Reagan America, the film is host to ex...
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Season 2
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Episode 64
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53:57
We Wanna Rob! - THE BLING RING (2013)
In a move of unappreciated genius a decade ago, Sofia Coppola swiftly turned her viewfinder to the beginning of the social media age and the unwitting victims falling into its web. In a period piece 3 years removed from its real-life events, Th...
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Season 2
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Episode 63
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55:34
The Sky Is Not The Same - PERSEPOLIS (2007)
How would you describe home? Your answer can stem anywhere from a simple one-word response to describing an experience beyond words. Marjane Satrapi's imaginative and harrowing Persepolis (2007) runs across this spectrum in one of the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 62
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56:50
Any% 1:48 (No Items) [WR] - 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
In the shadow of Y2K, a new champion has risen - John Singleton's 2 Fast 2 Furious stands as the long-running franchises most streamlined and personal chapters! One of two films not to include Vin Diesel, the Californian native recruits ...
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Season 2
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Episode 61
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52:31
Our Chances at Immortality - IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
Armed with the shadows of post-war America and perhaps its greatest star in Humphrey Bogart, director Nicholas Ray chronicles the unraveling of "movie magic" and romance in his 1950 tour-de-force! It may not join the ranks of the polychromous w...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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52:44
Watching the Watchman - DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)
New York is about to explode! Sidney Lumet's tense filmmaking spills onto the streets as the century's most pivotal confrontations with American authority are still in the rearview mirror. Making the most of its real-life subject material, the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 59
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58:04
Random Access Reveries - PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)
Conjuring synthetic sound and Faustian fury, Brian De Palma's adaptation PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is one of cinema's most striking keystones, both as a cult object as well as an inspirational force of nature. As William Finley's Winslow...
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Season 2
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Episode 58
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56:12
Do As You Like! - SHIN GODZILLA (2016)
Dolly Back learns to live with Godzilla, as they take on Hideaki Anno's striking SHIN GODZILLA, equal parts brilliant political drama and show-stopping kaiju film! An excellent case study in where American and Japanese filmmakers and a...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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57:06
So They Say - THE MEETINGS OF ANNA (1978)
Silence speaks volumes - a principle that Chantal Akerman exercises to the fullest in her profoundly lonely and austere masterclass, LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA! As a filmmaker promotes her film across the European continent, her fleeting c...
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Season 2
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Episode 56
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54:10
The Way It Happens - LOST HIGHWAY (1997)
Call us, listener. Dolly Back feels positively electric about finally visiting the world of David Lynch, in his 1997 neo-noir Lost Highway! A product of pure, postmodern pulp, it also samples as a brilliant encapsulation of the en...
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Season 2
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Episode 55
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59:08
Buyer Beware... - JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (2017)
SOOOOMEBODY PLEASE… GET THIS MAN… A GUN! In what will certainly go down as one of the alltime great action franchises, your hosts track the impossible rise and delightful highs of the John Wick franchise, dialing in especially to Chapter...
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Season 2
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Episode 54
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58:58
Oh Brother, What Art Thou? - MIKEY AND NICKY (1976)
Starting off their second season, Dolly Back wrestles with a filmic friendship that couldn’t be further from their own partnership, yet profoundly truthful in its own right. Elaine May’s 1976 crepuscular drama sees Peter Falk’s Mikey and John C...
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Episode 53
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50:36
Print the Legend! - THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962)
Marking one year of releases from yours truly, Dolly Back celebrates by gazing into the sunsetting Western, epitomized by John Ford's incredible The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! A master who has grown weary of desert plains and gunpla...
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Episode 52
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56:24
In Digital Amber Clad - CRANK (2006)
The year is 2006 - YouTube still has training wheels on, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are about to throw down, and digital filmmaking is ready to explode! In a year full of exciting experimentation from auteurs such as David Lynch and Michael Mann, dir...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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51:36
Between Love and a Hard Place - DIL SE (1998)
CW: Sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.For every happy wanderer and stranger, there remains a distance. In Mani Ratnam’s 1998 romance/political thriller, Bollywood tropes and the mythology of its star are flipped on their he...
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Episode 50
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57:02
The Fog of Faith - NOSTALGHIA (1983)
Brotherly love, national values, and home - time has a funny way of sweeping them all away without discrimination. In an act of preserving fire, Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 religious drama questions the ethics of returning to the past and bearing s...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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58:56
