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Sep 28, 2026 · 2:27:23
On Episode 233 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Luke, Kenji Mizoguchi! On this week of the series, we begin the episode talking about Mizoguchi's…
Sep 21, 2026 · 3:02:48
On Episode 232 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Luke, Kenji Mizoguchi! On this week of the series, we first spend some time discussing the…
Sep 14, 2026 · 2:32:13
On Episode 231 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Luke, Kenji Mizoguchi! On this opening week of the series, we first spend some time giving our…
Sep 7, 2026 · 56:16
Episode 230: FTF Football Night (College Hounds + Two for the Money) On Episode 230 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing two football films in honor of the NFL season…
Aug 31, 2026 · 1:34:51
On Episode 229 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing two films from DreamWorks Animation, 2008's Kung Fu Panda (18:30), followed by 2010's How to Train Your Dragon (50:32).…
Aug 24, 2026 · 2:20:06
On Episode 228 of Floating Through Film, we have returning guest Sean, this time to review his pick for us, Asghar Farhadi's 2011 film, A Separation (1:32:13). He also told us he…
Aug 24, 2026 · 1:49:03
On Episode 227 of Floating Through Film, we have returning guest Chris, this time with his girlfriend Sam! Her pick to review on the pod was Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash, so we…
Aug 3, 2026 · 56:04
On Episode 225 of Floating Through Film, we're returning to our FTF related film version of Jeopardy! This time the questions are created by Blake, with Dany and Luke going head…
Jul 13, 2026 · 3:08:14
On Episode 222 of Floating Through Film, we're conclude our series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this final week of the series, Dany begins the episode by mentioning some…
Jul 6, 2026 · 3:05:08
On Episode 221 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this fourth week of the series, Dany begins the episode by speaking about…
Jun 29, 2026 · 3:26:25
On Episode 220 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this third week of the series, Dany starts the episode by speaking about the…
Jun 22, 2026 · 3:14:45
On Episode 219 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this second week of the series, Dany starts the episode by speaking about the…
Jun 15, 2026 · 2:49:59
On Episode 218 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this opening week of the series, we start by giving our overall thoughts…
May 25, 2026 · 1:03:15
On Episode 215 of Floating Through Film, we're trying out a FTF related film version of Jeopardy created by Luke, with Dany and Blake going head to head to see who wins. We hope…
May 4, 2026 · 3:03:33
Episode 212: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 5 (Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast + Hanagatami) On Episode 212 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series…
Apr 27, 2026 · 2:41:14
On Episode 211 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we're reviewing two of the films from Obayashi's…
Apr 20, 2026 · 2:30:32
On Episode 210 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we start by reviewing his 1989 drama Beijing…
Apr 13, 2026 · 2:08:40
Episode 209: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 2 (Lonely Heart + His Motorbike, Her Island) On Episode 209 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake,…
Apr 6, 2026 · 2:40:40
On Episode 208 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! On this opening week of the series, we start by giving our overall…
Mar 30, 2026 · 1:28:11
On Episode 207 of Floating Through Film, we're coming back to our FTF Theory series to talk about Fritz's Lang's 1931 serial killer film M, while bringing up Deleuze's analysis…
Mar 24, 2026 · 2:17:44
On Episode 206 of Floating Through Film, we're returning to our Genre Night series to talk about the two films in the con men genre, Lubitsch's 1932 comedy Trouble in Paradise,…
Mar 16, 2026 · 1:01:19
On Episode 205 of Floating Through Film, we're coming back to our FTF Theory series to not only review Oshima's controversial 1976 film In the Realm of the Senses, but to also…
Mar 8, 2026 · 1:34:19
On Episode 203 of Floating Through Film, we're each drafting our top 10 favorite villains (and antagonists) in film. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: FTF Rejects (Rivette's…
Feb 23, 2026 · 3:18:36
On Episode 202 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series on John Ford! For this final week, we're reviewing two of Ford's most renowned Western films, starting with…
Feb 17, 2026 · 2:12:30
On Episode 201 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Luke, John Ford! For week 4, we're reviewing two Ford films from the early 50s, starting with his…
Feb 9, 2026 · 2:11:25
For Episode #200 of Floating Through Film, we're looking back on the last 2 years of doing the podcast, and updating our FTF Canon list (check episode #100 for our first…
Feb 9, 2026 · 1:59:49
On Episode 199 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Luke, John Ford! In week 3 of the series, we're reviewing 2 of Ford's more pleasant films,…
Jan 26, 2026 · 2:45:59
On Episode 198 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Luke, John Ford! In week 2 of the series, Luke starts by giving us his reasons for picking…
Jan 12, 2026 · 3:29:26
On Episode 196 of Floating Through Film, we're recapping our 2025 in film! As has become an annual tradition for us, we're going over each of these categories: Worst Movie…
Jan 5, 2026 · 57:04
On Episode 195 of Floating Through Film, we're going back to Griffith with his 1919 film, True Heart Susie (33:07). But before we review the film, Luke created his own film…
Dec 29, 2025 · 1:02:30
On Episode 194 of Floating Through Film, we're coming up with our official comedy canon list. The goal was to come up with one comedy film from each decade (starting from the…
Dec 21, 2025 · 1:20:44
On Episode 192 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series picked by Dany on Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another major figure of the American…
Dec 8, 2025 · 1:56:31
On Episode 191 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another figure of the American Avant-Garde,the…
Dec 1, 2025 · 1:41:18
On Episode 190 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another one of the key figures of the American…
Nov 24, 2025 · 1:43:18
On Episode 189 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on one of the key figures of Avant-Garde film,…
Nov 17, 2025 · 1:31:53
On Episode 188 of Floating Through Film, we're starting a new series picked by Dany, Experimental Film! Dany starts the episode by trying to give some definitions of what…
Nov 3, 2025 · 2:23:16
On Episode 186 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our annual horror month! Week #3's picks were made by Blake and he picked two very different kinds of horror movies,…
Oct 27, 2025 · 2:20:15
On Episode 185 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our annual horror month! Week #1's picks were made by Luke and he picked two of his favorite horror films, starting with a…
Oct 20, 2025 · 2:12:23
On Episode 184 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our annual horror month! Week #1's picks were made by Dany and he picked two different ghosts stories: starting with Kenji…
Oct 6, 2025 · 2:11:47
On Episode 182 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this week of the series, we're starting with reviewing one of To's early…
Sep 29, 2025 · 2:38:55
On Episode 181 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this week of the series, we're reviewing two early 2000s To films, starting…
Sep 22, 2025 · 2:47:17
On Episode 180 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this week of the series, we're reviewing two of the more unique stories in…
Sep 15, 2025 · 2:50:09
On Episode 179 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this opening week of the series, we start by giving our overall thoughts…
Sep 8, 2025 · 1:18:23
On this break episode 178 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing Hitchcock's classic Rear Window, and then a Rear Window inspired film, the 2021 film The Voyeurs (48:44). We…
Sep 1, 2025 · 1:01:13
On this break episode 177 of Floating Through Film, we decided to ask each other random questions (mostly) related to film, just to see what answers we'd also come up with. There…
Aug 25, 2025 · 1:03:42
On this break episode 176 of Floating Through Film, the guys discuss their favorite opening scenes in cinema. Then to create our top 10 list, each host picked three films they…
Aug 4, 2025 · 2:23:19
On Episode 175 of Floating Through Film, we concludeour series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! This week we're moving further into his films from the early 200s, starting with…
Jul 28, 2025 · 2:57:04
On Episode 174 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! This week we're moving further into his later period, first with his 1995 musical…
Jul 14, 2025 · 2:09:30
On Episode 172 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! This week we're reviewing two films that both released in 1976, first…
Jul 7, 2025 · 3:10:32
On Episode 171 of Floating Through Film, we're starting a new series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! Luke starts us off with some background and why he chose to do a series on…
Jun 30, 2025 · 1:14:12
On Episode 170 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing a movie Wes Anderson latest film, The Phoenician Scheme! All three of us enjoy Wes Anderson's movies a lot, so it was…
Jun 23, 2025 · 1:58:29
On this break episode of Floating Through Film, the guys are coming back to a new series we started called FTF Theory where we try to discuss some film theory/criticism. This…
Jun 2, 2025 · 2:52:43
On Episode 165 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Dany, Satyajit Ray! This week we're reviewing 2 of the 3 movies from his 'Calcutta Trilogy', the first…
May 26, 2025 · 2:16:30
On Episode 165 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Dany, Satyajit Ray! This is the Sharmila Tagore episode, as we review two of her major films with Ray,…
May 12, 2025 · 2:58:22
On Episode 163 of Floating Through Film, we're starting a new series picked by Dany, Satyajit Ray! The guys give their thoughts on what they think of Ray, before Dany starts the…
May 5, 2025 · 1:32:40
On Episode 162 of Floating Through Film, we're trying something new by discussing our first non-film, Bazin's seminal essay, 'Ontology of the Photographic Image'! We then shift…
Apr 28, 2025 · 1:55:02
On Episode 161 of Floating Through Film, we're doing a different take on our "Blindspots" series by doing two films by two directors we haven't discussed on the podcast yet. That…
Apr 14, 2025 · 1:32:55
On Episode 159 of Floating Through Film, we're drafting our favorite movies from 2010-now. We hope you enjoy! Luke's List: 1:28:15 Blake's List: 1:28:47 Dany's List: 1:29:25…
Apr 7, 2025 · 2:25:35
On Episode 158 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series picked by Blake, Takeshi Kitano! We're reviewing the final two movies of his Filmmakers Trilogy this week,…
Mar 31, 2025 · 2:59:48
On Episode 157 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Blake, Takeshi Kitano! We're getting into some of more Kitano's more experimental films this week,…
Mar 10, 2025 · 2:38:10
On Episode 154 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Blake, Takeshi Kitano! We start the episode by the guys giving their thoughts on what they know about…
Feb 24, 2025 · 2:09:04
On Episode 152 of Floating Through Film, in honor of Valentine's Day (that was over a week ago), we're reviewing 2 different kinds of rom-coms. First we're starting with a more…
Feb 17, 2025 · 1:33:22
On Episode 151 of Floating Through Film, we're talking football in honor of the Super Bowl that happened last week. We're starting by reviewing FTF favorite Tony Scott's football…
Feb 10, 2025 · 1:55:50
On Episode 150 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! Just like most of the movies we did for the series, we conclude with two more great…
Feb 3, 2025 · 1:52:16
On Episode 149 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! We're continuing Ray's great run in the 50s with 1955's Run for Cover, and 1956's…
Jan 27, 2025 · 2:53:03
On Episode 148 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! We're reviewing two of Ray's color films from the 50s, 1954's Johnny Guitar, and…
Jan 20, 2025 · 2:26:06
On Episode 147 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! We're reviewing two of Ray's black and white films from the early 50s, 1951's On…
Jan 13, 2025 · 2:58:50
On Episode 146 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! Luke starts off the episode introducing by introducing Nicholas Ray and telling us…
Jan 6, 2025 · 3:12:56
On Episode 145 of Floating Through Film, we're recapping our 2024 in film! We're discussing various topics related to our year in movie watching, including Worst Movie Watched in…
Dec 30, 2024 · 2:01:24
On Episode 144 of Floating Through Film, we're getting in the spirit of Christmas with two Christmas classics, starting with another excuse to review a Lubitsch film, 1940's The…
Dec 23, 2024 · 1:10:13
On Episode 143 of Floating Through Film, we tried to come up with our consensus top 10 duos in film. We were very loose with what exactly a duo in film is, which makes for an…
Dec 16, 2024 · 2:58:44
On Episode 142 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing two sci-fi films we love, the first pick was by Dany, Satoshi Kon's 2006 film Paprika, and Nolan's 2021 film Tenet…
Dec 9, 2024 · 1:09:41
On Episode #141 of Floating Through Film, we are experimenting with the movie draft format, because why not? We explain it in greater detail at the beginning of the episode, but…
Dec 2, 2024 · 3:29:47
On Episode 140 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series picked by Dany, Roberto Rossellini! Dany starts the episode with various discussions on Rossellini's art and…
Nov 25, 2024 · 2:48:50
On Episode 139 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Dany, Roberto Rossellini! Dany starts the episode with a discussion on Rossellini's shift to "Historical…
Nov 18, 2024 · 3:05:59
On Episode 138 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Dany, Roberto Rossellini! Dany starts the episode with a discussion on what it means to say that…
Nov 11, 2024 · 3:00:41
On Episode 137 of Floating Through Film, we continue our new series picked by Dany, Roberto Rossellini! Dany starts the episode with a continuation of last week's discussion on…
Nov 4, 2024 · 2:46:16
On Episode 136 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Dany, Roberto Rossellini! Dany starts the episode with a discussion on what the term "Neorealism" could…
Oct 28, 2024 · 2:22:28
On Episode 135 of Floating through Film, we conclude our third annual Horror Month with 2 somewhat random picks (our reasoning being one classic and one modern pick), Tobe…
Oct 21, 2024 · 1:46:55
On Episode 134 of Floating through Film, we continue our third annual Horror Month with Blake's picks this week, Larry Cohen's 1972 film God Told Me To (01:22) and 2005's…
Oct 14, 2024 · 2:05:46
On Episode 133 of Floating through Film, we continue our third annual Horror Month with Dany's picks this week, 1942's Cat People directed by Jacques Tourneur (06:02), and 1997's…
Oct 7, 2024 · 2:02:37
On Episode 132 of Floating through Film, we begin our third annual Horror Month. For this series each one of us will pick the movies for the week, and we're starting with Luke's…
Sep 30, 2024 · 1:45:48
On Episode 131 of Floating Through Film, we're drafting our favorite movies from the 2000s! Once again, the only rule was you couldn't pick multiple movies by the same director.…
Sep 23, 2024 · 2:03:29
On Episode of 130 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series that was picked by Blake, Buster Keaton! This week we're doing 2 of Keaton's last features where he was able to…
Sep 9, 2024 · 1:22:25
On Episode of 128 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Buster Keaton! This week we're doing 2 of Keaton's features he directed in 1924: The…
Sep 2, 2024 · 1:30:43
On Episode of 127 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Buster Keaton! This week we start Keaton's features with two films directed in 1923:…
Aug 19, 2024 · 2:21:30
On Episode 125 of Floating through Film, we're coming back to review a director we all like, M Night Shyamalan, because of his new thriller Trap that is now out in theaters! We…
Aug 12, 2024 · 1:27:52
On Episode 124 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing silent movies from 2 great directors, Ernst Lubitsch and John Ford. We start with Lubitsch's 1919 comedy, The Doll…
Jul 22, 2024 · 1:49:01
On Episode 121 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing two films that indicated Godard's sharp shift…
Jul 15, 2024 · 2:33:23
On Episode 120 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing two films Godard directed in 1967, 2 or 3…
Jul 8, 2024 · 2:15:11
On Episode 118 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le Fou, and his 1966…
Jul 1, 2024 · 2:18:10
On Episode 118 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing Godard 1963 political film Le Petit Soldat…
Jul 1, 2024 · 2:30:14
On Episode 117 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! We start the episode by each giving our own thoughts on Godard, what we…
Jun 17, 2024 · 1:53:06
On this week's episode of Floating Through Film we have guest co-host Bryan on again to help us review to crime movies this week, 1987's Hard Ticket to Hawaii directed by Andy…
Jun 10, 2024 · 2:29:03
On Episode 115 of Floating through Film, we review two "love triangle" movies from two different eras of American film, first Ernst Lubitsch's 1933 film Design for Living, before…
Jun 3, 2024 · 1:10:29
On Episode 114 of Floating through Film, we decided to come to a consensus on FTF's favorite "genre" movies. We each picked 1 movie from 10 different genre categories (Action,…
May 27, 2024 · 3:05:29
On Episode 113 of Floating through Film, we conclude our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel and Dreams, before reviewing two of his late…
May 20, 2024 · 2:28:11
On Episode 112 of Floating through Film, we continue our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel and his relationship with Surrealism, before…
May 13, 2024 · 2:24:51
On Episode 111 of Floating through Film, we continue our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel and Religion, before reviewing two of his of more…
May 6, 2024 · 2:17:56
On Episode 110 of Floating through Film, we continue our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel's interesting relationship to neorealism (4:40),…
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