EXTENDED CLIP LIVE

Extended Clip is a film podcast that was established in 2019, deep in the San Fernando Valley. Hosts Eddie Averill, Malcolm Baum, and JT White have moved around the country quite a bit in the time since, but always kept the show consistent through digital means. In early November, the three hosts will reunite for two nights in Brooklyn, for a pair of screenings and live podcasts.

Nov 4 - Boudu Saved From Drowning

1932, dir. Jean Renoir

85 min

The unquestioned master of French cinema’s first fifty years was Jean Renoir. While films like Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game have been canonized stateside since the foundation of film studies, his other masterpieces of the 1930s are still a bit underseen. Boudu Saved from Drowning is, alongside Toni and his mid-length A Day in the Country, is a perfect example of French Poetic Realism’s tendencies. The titular tramp, played by Michel Simon in a career-best turn, attempts suicide before being rescued and taken in by a bookseller and his family, who do their best to domesticate the man. The attention to detail within bourgeois Parisian life is equalled by the lyrical camerawork and editing.

Nov 5 - Routine Pleasures

1986, dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin

81 min

Jean-Pierre Gorin is perhaps most known for his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard in the Dziga Vertov Group of the early 1970s. These highly didactic films sought to redefine cinema through a new ideological lens. When Godard returned to narrative in the 1980s, Gorin went to California and made a trilogy of documentaries. The greatest of these is Routine Pleasures, his study of model train enthusiasts and, loosely, how they relate to the work of Manny Farber. It’s a film about the work and processes of creating pleasure, and how art and life interact. It’s also perhaps the greatest ode to guys who really like model trains in all of the cinema.

After the film and a brief intermission, the hosts of Extended Clip will take the stage for a live podcast, featuring secret surprises and special guests…

Both programs courtesy of Janus Films