Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
This week's double feature is: Il Posto (1961) My Brilliant Career (1979) Trigger & Content Warnings for this episode include: Corporal punishment, Eugenics, Racism, Classism, Elitism, Ableism…
For our double feature this week, we have Il Posto from 1961, starring Sandro Passeri, Loredana Detto, Corrado April.
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big, impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.
While I was planning this season, I wanted to make sure that Dad had a chance to pick two movies.
I didn't give him really any guidelines.
All I care about is that there's some kind of connection between the two movies.
And he goes, oh, okay.
What would I pick? And then he walks over to the criterion section of the basement.
I guess this is where I find out why he has the Criterion selection separately organized.
Do you know what Criterion is, what the Criterion collection is? I just know it has something to do with true film geeks.
Oh, it's the real film nerds.
And it was started by real film nerds.
And the idea was, if I'm understanding this correctly, there were all these incredible movies, and Il Posto would actually be a good example.
Movies from other parts of the world and other languages from earlier times that weren't in good condition.
Okay.
The film had deteriorated.
Maybe the sound wasn't as good.
They weren't up to the quality of what movies currently are.
Okay.
But they were very much worth watching and the film geeks weren't willing to put up with bad quality in their good movies.
For our double feature this week, we have Il Posto from 1961, starring Sandro Passeri, Loredana Detto, Corrado April.
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big, impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.
While I was planning this season, I wanted to make sure that Dad had a chance to pick two movies.
I didn't give him really any guidelines.
All I care about is that there's some kind of connection between the two movies.
And he goes, oh, okay.
What would I pick? And then he walks over to the criterion section of the basement.
I guess this is where I find out why he has the Criterion selection separately organized.
Do you know what Criterion is, what the Criterion collection is? I just know it has something to do with true film geeks.
Oh, it's the real film nerds.
And it was started by real film nerds.
And the idea was, if I'm understanding this correctly, there were all these incredible movies, and Il Posto would actually be a good example.
Movies from other parts of the world and other languages from earlier times that weren't in good condition.
Okay.
The film had deteriorated.
Maybe the sound wasn't as good.
They weren't up to the quality of what movies currently are.
Okay.
But they were very much worth watching and the film geeks weren't willing to put up with bad quality in their good movies.
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