The James Landy Show

The James Landy Show

film + tv + life podcast@jmlandy.com

Episodes

March 15, 2025 19 mins

the environment is really boring but also the world is ending what are we to do?

 

Jurassic Park copyright Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment.

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there are lots of "ai movies", but hardly any speak to the reality of our current ai moment. what is that reality? and what movie nails it perfectly? come on a tour of the philosophy of mind, and of movies, to find out. 

 

the above is an example of "clickbait", which means tricking people into thinking something interesting is about to happen. 

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February 27, 2025 23 mins

james is struck by illness and nearly watches all forty years of the soap opera eastenders. he emerges unscathed with a new theory of aesthetics.

 

Watch Lifeboat (1944), copyright 20th Century Fox

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.70a9f65e-f410-32b0-fdd3-00d04a2f7e89?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb

 

Eastenders, copyright BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d

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February 19, 2025 16 mins

i got a weird haunted feeling during a scene in the bob dylan movie. i think mark fisher had an explanation for why.

 

it's a mystery episode. a GHOST mystery, like scooby doo! warning: episode more dour than implied. 

 

The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan, copyright Columbia records / Sony Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE

 

We Shall Overcome, as performed by Joan Baez at the March on Washington

https://yout...

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February 13, 2025 21 mins

it's marx and marvel. can karl marx explain why marvel films, despite having harrison ford in them sometimes, are bad?

 

yes. yes he can. but you will only learn this by listening to me and what i have to say. 

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February 5, 2025 18 mins

severance isn't just a show about how work sucks. it's about how work allows us to escape from ourselves, like sartre's waiter with bad faith. (spoilers for season 1 of severance.)

 

this podcast episode won nine oscars.

 

full interview with severance creator @ austin film festival: https://youtu.be/JLSz1g3LqCw

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