Aug 17, 2026 · 37 min · 14 segments
Tod Field’s *Tár* (2022) is one of the best ghost stories we’ve discussed on the show. The story of a troiubled genius, the film is also a wonderfully ambiguous portrat of a person persued by her past…
Dan MoranHost
Mike TaklaHost
When you sold me on this movie and you had to do a little bit of salesmanship, you said that this movie was pure Nabokov, meaning it's everything we like.
The Vane Sisters is a story about a guy who is a biographer, I believe, or he's trying to write about these two sisters or this subject.
And then at the end, you find out from reading the last paragraph that the first letter of each word in the last paragraph explains kind of what was happening in the story.
It's an acrostic message from beyond the grave that proves that not only is there life after death, but that the dead can affect.
And I thought this was going to be a movie like, for example, autofocus where someone loses control and it's sort of their buildings Roman of their career where this edifice crumbles.
But midway through the movie, when I start to think about the vein sisters, I started to realize that tar is perhaps the the best horror movie that I've seen in 10, possibly 15 years.
When you sold me on this movie and you had to do a little bit of salesmanship, you said that this movie was pure Nabokov, meaning it's everything we like.
The Vane Sisters is a story about a guy who is a biographer, I believe, or he's trying to write about these two sisters or this subject.
And then at the end, you find out from reading the last paragraph that the first letter of each word in the last paragraph explains kind of what was happening in the story.
It's an acrostic message from beyond the grave that proves that not only is there life after death, but that the dead can affect.
And I thought this was going to be a movie like, for example, autofocus where someone loses control and it's sort of their buildings Roman of their career where this edifice crumbles.
But midway through the movie, when I start to think about the vein sisters, I started to realize that tar is perhaps the the best horror movie that I've seen in 10, possibly 15 years.
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