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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

SF BAY AREA - On Sunday, April 26th, The Balboa Theater SF will be presenting the fantastic, exceedingly timely archival documentary WTO/99 alongside a Q&A w/ director Ian Bell moderated by Hit Factory Pod. Tickets and additional info below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // Something new for our faithful Patrons: "What Have You Watched with Me Lately?" A conversation about all the movies, new and old, that we've been enjoying this past month not covered elsewhere on the show. See below.

28 Years Later - The Bone Temple (dir. Nia DaCosta, 2026)

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Over on Patreon - Carlee (@deepimpactcrier.bsky.social) discusses the mode of mythic storytelling as an antidote to the anesthesia induced by the Language of Empire and Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER as a modern example of epic poetic form. See below.

Botticelli's La Mappa dell'Inferno (c. 1485)

Giussepe Bottani's Athena Appearing to Odysseus to Reveal the Island of Ithica (c. 1775)

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

NEW HIT FACTORY // DENZEMBER 2 kicks off with Spike Lee & Denzel Washington's first collaboration, MO' BETTER BLUES, a film about jazz, the appropriation of Black music, and the pursuit of greatness at the expense of human connection. Minnie Zondi is our guest. Links below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

SF BAY AREA - Come see Todd Haynes' disquieting, shapeshifting masterpiece SAFE in a new 30th anniversary 4K restoration on Saturday, December 13th at The Roxie, introduced by Hit Factory Pod! Tickets and info below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

SF BAY AREA - Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4-Star Theater TOMORROW 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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AFTER LIFE (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins to discuss Brian De Palma's masterful crime saga CARLITO'S WAY which sees the filmmaker at his most formally audacious, contemplative, and breathtakingly intimate. Link below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!

Failed State (dir. Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer, 2023)

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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MAGNOLIA (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

On our latest premium episode, we discuss the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and his ambitious, sweeping 1999 ensemble drama MAGNOLIA. We also contend with PTA skepticism, articulating the director's limitations as artist alongside his singular idiosyncrasies. Link below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

NEW HIT FACTORY // Writer @robrubsam.bsky.social joins to discuss the career of the brilliant Terence Davies and his 1992 masterwork THE LONG DAY CLOSES - an impressionistic, elliptical journey through childhood memory both warmly nostalgic and mournfully ruminative. Links below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

NEW HIT FACTORY// Filmmaker Pascal Plante (Red Rooms) joins us to discuss mediated violence, spectatorship, and the visceral thrills of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's debut THESIS. Links below.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

NEW HIT FACTORY// Denzember kicks off with the return of @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social to discuss the singular, totemic biopic MALCOLM X, a Spike Lee joint. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5h7l...

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

💥HIT FACTORY PRESENTS💥 DENZEMBER... A monthlong celebration of our greatest living actor, Denzel Washington. Featuring very special guests. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's MALCOLM X [1992]

Denzel Washington in Carl Franklin's DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS [1995]

Denzel Washington in Mira Nair's MISSISSIPPI MASALA [1991]

Denzel Washington in Penny Marshall's THE PREACHER'S WIFE [1996]

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

NEW HIT FACTORY // The fellas from the quintessential (clintessential?) Clint Eastwood podcast @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Nanni Moretti's charming, introspective personal essay/anthology film CARO DIARIO. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Spotify: spotify.link/FYmM4suOJDb

Nanni Moretti riding his beloved Vespa in CARO DIARIO [1994]

Jennifer Beals in Nanni Moretti's CARO DIARIO [1993]

Nanni Moretti and Renato Carpentieri in CARO DIARIO [1993]

Nanni Moretti enjoying his customary glass of water before breakfast in CARO DIARIO [1993]

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // We're solo for the first time in a while to talk the teen romantic comedy 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, the wonder (and tragedy) of Heath Ledger, & the reward of looking at natural teeth on a big screen. Subscribe & Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/10-thi...

Julia Stiles and Laris Oleynik in 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU [1999]

Heath Ledger, David Krumholtz, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU [1999]

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU [1999]

Heath Ledger in 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU [1999]

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

NEW HIT FACTORY // @sorayaspaghetti.bsky.social joins for Atom Egoyan's breakout 1994 feature EXOTICA, a fascinating study of habit, performance, and the cycles people adopt to compartmentalize alienation and loss. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/th/podcast/e... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dBK...

Mia Kirshner in Atom Egoyan's EXOTICA (1994)

Don McKellar in Atom Egoyan's EXOTICA (1994)

Bruce Greenwood in Atom Egoyan's EXOTICA (1994)

Elias Koteas in Atom Egoyan's EXOTICA (1994)

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