THANK GOD IT’S POST-CHRISTMAS-FRIDAAAAY!

It’s that special fugue state time of the season between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve when one celebration is over but another is about to begin. If we’re lucky, we’re full of food, full of family, and full of movies: like a boxer taking a breath between bouts in the ring, we’re down…but not quite out. Welcome to Episode Eleven of Season Two of A Couple of Old Fashioneds: Becca and Joe’s Double Feature Date Night at the Movies!

On this episode the Theme is, “Down but not Out”, and the movies are:

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE & STAR WARS: EPISODE V - EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!

Which of the two interpreted the theme emotionally to mean the downwards moment of a blockbuster trilogy’s rollercoaster story arc, and which of the two interpreted the theme literally to mean the act of love between two women never able to be out of the closet their society’s trapped them in. And will Becca and Joe be down with this double feature, or is this one out of sync?

Watch the episode to find out if you guessed right, and stay tuned to the end to find out what the Theme will be next week!

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This Theme was in fact chosen by Brian Clancy, who suggested it on the YouTube version of the show. Thank you Brian, and thank you to our amazing community for supporting the show and offering incredible suggestions like this one! Please keep throwing them out there, you never know whose Theme might be chosen next…

After all, the greatest gift a movie lover can give another is a great title they have yet to discover. That’s what movies are all about - they’re the only kind of marathon worth participating in and they’re what Date Nights are made for.

So settle in, grab your favorite old fashioned drink with your favorite old fashioned person (if that’s the pleasure of your own company then we completely feel you), and revel in a couple old fashioned conversations with Becca and Joe. They are, let’s face it, a pretty old fashioned kind of couple themselves.

PLUS! SOME OF THE OTHER FILMS DISCUSSED:

DAS BOOT (1981) DIR: Wolfgang Petersen

TOMBOY (2011) DIR: Céline Sciamma

PERSONA (1966) DIR: Ingmar Bergman

DUNE (2021) DIR: Denis Villeneuve

STAR WARS: EPISODE VI - REVENGE OF THE JEDI (1983) DIR: Richard Marquand

THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY (2001-2003) DIR: Peter Jackson

RATATOUILLE (2007) DIR: Brad Bird

JOKER (2019) DIR: Todd Phillips

JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (2024) DIR: Todd Phillips

THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) DIR: Paul Thomas Anderson

EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) DIR: Stanley Kubrick

DAS BOOT (1981) DIR: Wolfgang Petersen

THE KEEP (1983) DIR: Michael Mann

NEW YEAR’S EVIL (1980) DIR: Emmett Alston