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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E68.mp3 Touki Bouki (1973; Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty) Canon Fodder Episode 68 This week, Daniel and Corky hit the road again with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki. Blending French New Wave style, African oral traditions and bursts of surrealism, Mambéty’s remarkable debut follows two young outcasts scheming to escape…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E67.mp3 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964; Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini) Canon Fodder Episode 67 This week, Daniel and Corky spread the good word about Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Shot with neorealist immediacy and scored with everything from Bach to Blind Willie Johnson, Pasolini’s radical…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E66.mp3 The Battle of Algiers (1966; Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo) Canon Fodder Episode 66 This week, Daniel and Corky rock the Casbah with their review of The Battle of Algiers . Shot with the urgency of breaking news, Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark docu-thriller covers colonial occupation, violent rebellion and the human cost of…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E65.mp3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Directed by John Ford) Canon Fodder Episode 65 After printing the legend, maiming the facts, and murdering the truth execution-style, Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell ride into town to review John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance . A stripped-down western about mythmaking,…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E64.mp3 Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Dir.: Bela Tarr) Canon Fodder Episode 64 With the cold, dead eyes of stuffed whales, cinematic world travelers Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell finally arrive in a remote, fog-shrouded Hungarian village to review Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies . Composed of just 39 shots in 145 minutes,…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E63.mp3 L’Atalante (1934; Dir.: Jean Vigo) Canon Fodder Episode 63 Corky McDonnell and his slovenly first mate Daniel Barnes continue their cinematic world tour with the most magically dreamlike movie ever set in a fetid, filthy, French canal. It’s no stretch to say that the 29-year-old Vigo killed himself to make a film that the…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E62.mp3 Out of the Past (1947; Dir.: Jacques Tourneur) Canon Fodder Episode 62 Daniel and Corky take a long drive into the past to review Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past . The epitome of film noir, Out of the Past is everything your mind conjures when you think about the genre – the…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E61.mp3 The Green Ray (1986; Dir.: Eric Rohmer) Canon Fodder Episode 61 After spending several months deciding where to hold the annual Canon Fodder company retreat, Daniel and Corky slouch all the way from Cherbourg to Biarritz to review Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray . Also known as Le Rayon Vert , the film follows the emotionally…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E60.mp3 Andrei Rublev (1966; Dir.: Andrei Tarkovsky) Canon Fodder Episode 60 For their latest cinematic adventure, Daniel and Corky take a hang-gliding tour of 15th century Russia to review Andrei Tarkovsky’s remarkable Andrei Rublev . A visually awe-inspiring anti-biopic of the legendary icon painter, Andrei Rublev is about faith…
https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E59.mp3 A Touch of Zen (1971; Dir.: King Hu) Canon Fodder Episode 59 In this highly enlightened episode, Daniel and Corky bring their cinematic world tour to Taiwan to review King Hu’s widescreen wuxia epic. A story of corruption, subterfuge, and ghosts both real and imaginary, A Touch of Zen starts slow but keeps building for…
