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In this episode, each of your hosts bullies the other into watching a movie he would normally not touch with a bargepole. Phil has been (unsuccessfully) trying to get JF to watch Vincente Minnelli's 1953 musical comedy The Band Wagon and JF has been (also unsuccessfully) trying to get Phil to watch Panos Cosmatos's 2018 psychedelic horror film Mandy. For this episode, they decided they would compromise and watch both. What started as a goof ended up a fascinating Glass Bead Game from which emerge occulted correspondences between films that, on the surface, could not be more dissimilar. One film is a dream of song and dance, the other a dream of blood and violence. Either way, though, watch out: as Deleuze says, "beware of the dreams of others, because if you are caught in their dream, you are done for."

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Vincente Minnelli (dir.), The Bandwagon
\nPanos Cosmatos (dir.), Mandy
\nWeird Studies, Episode 73 on Carl Jung
\nNorman Jewison (dir.), Moonstruck
\nDavid Thompson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
\nGilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image) and Cinema 2: The Time Image
\nHenri Bergson, \u201cThe Cinematographical Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion\u201d, from Creative Evolution
\nTerry Gilliam (dir.), The Fisher King
\nClaudia Gorbman, Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music
\nRaymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity
\nRichard Dyer, \u201cEntertainment and Utopia\u201d in Only Entertainment
\nGilles Deleuze, \u201cWhat is the Creative Act\u201d