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Join two films fans on their cinematic journey. Mike and Nick will explore various themes and subjects in the movies they watch. Their goal is to cultivate rewarding conversation about film and uncover the things that make movies truly special.
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Foodversation - The Taste of Things & The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick step into their kitchen to cook up a mix of delicacy and debauchery. Trần Anh Hùng brings to life an intimate nineteenth century French countryside. Mike espouses the…
Konstantin Lopushansky - A Visitor to a Museum & Dead Man's Letters
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick go back to the Soviet Union and explore one their greatest unsung voices. Nick forces Mike into apocalyptic hellscapes baked in Cold War dread, Tarkovskian philosophy,…
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick enter Ingmar Bergman’s imperial era. The two meditate on morality, memory, and the terror of self-realization. Digging into Bergman's internal and visual philosophy, the…
2025 Year in Review - Part Two
Send us Fan MailThe rest of the hosts' respective top 10 lists are revealed: places sixth through first!More than previous years, potentially, the final lists offer some refreshing and…
2025 Year In Review - Part One
Send us Fan MailNow that the Oscars have come and gone, The Filmversation crew can give their final say. That's right, that special time of year is here. Mike and Nick present their top 10 lists for…
Ralph Bakshi - The Lord of the Rings & Fire and Ice
Send us Fan MailThe pair of hosts head back to younger years and visit a staple of vintage nerdom: Ralph Bakshi. Bakshi was an iconic animator in his own right who worked alongside a fellow great…
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos) - 2025
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick hunt aliens! The pair visit one of their modern favourite's most recent outputs to see if the magical weirdness still shines bright. Mike helps interpret the film's…
Smiles of a Summer Night - Ingmar Bergman (1955)
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick continue their journey through Bergman's work and finally land on his most lauded comedy. After Bergman suffered several box office failures, he risked it all on a more…
A Filmversation Christmas - My Night at Maud's - 1969
Send us Fan MailNick makes a Pascalian wager to show Mike his first Éric Rohmer movie he hopes might be... Christmas-y!Enjoy all the festive talk about intellectualism, Marxism, sexual politics, and…
Hong Kong Action! Police Story & Hard Boiled
Send us Fan MailMike takes the pair to Hong Kong to dodge bullets, shoot guns, watch explosions, and move their bodies in every which way. The hosts observe the different characterizations of Hong…
Ingmar Bergman - Dreams (1955)
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick return to their journey through Bergman's filmography. This time they explore the medial film in Bergman's "comedic" trilogy. One of the lesser regarded films upon its…
Dario Argento - Suspiria & Inferno
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick dive into the kaleidoscopic prism of deep colour, fantastic soundtracks, and brutal murder at the hands of one of horror's most famous maestros: Dario Argento. Having…
John Carpenter - The Thing & Prince of Darkness
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick kick off their seasonal Halloween episode pair with a tribute to one of their favourite American filmmakers: John Carpenter. It never hurts to revisit the undeniable…
Jean Cocteau - Beauty and the Beast & Orpheus
Send us Fan MailNick has been wanting to show Mike Jean Cocteau for a long while, thinking he may be one of Mike's "guys." The pair discuss the poet's most famous films, how interesting Cocteau was,…
Ingmar Bergman - A Lesson in Love - 1954
Send us Fan MailMike and Nick continue their journey through Bergman's major and minor works. Hot off the tails of Sawdust and Tinsel, the director makes a pivot into more lighthearted humour,…
Bleak Week 2025 - Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom and more!
Send us Fan MailNick descends upon Mike's hometown to celebrate his favourite time of year: Bleak Week! A festival started in Los Angeles, now expanded to other states, brought Nick across state…
Kinuyo Tanaka - The Moon Has Risen & Forever a Woman
Send us Fan MailKinuyo Tanaka is likely best know for her tremendous acting career performing in great works of directors like Kenji Mizoguchi. But she also had a shorter directing career.…
Sawdust and Tinsel - Ingmar Bergman (1953)
Send us Fan MailThe Bergman retrospective continues with one of the director's first widely-recognized works. What is it about the circus setting that is so unsettling? Nick argues this is Bergman's…
S5E2 FernGully: The Last Rainforest & The Land Before Time
Send us Fan MailGo back in time with Filmversation. A time of innocence and beginnings. A time of earnestness and naivete. Go back to your youth.Mike discusses his early memories of saving the…
S5E1 Best of 2024
Send us Fan Mail2024 was quite the year. Some people, like Nick, think this was the best year in film in almost a decade. Mike snubs and surprises Nick with some of his picks while Nick continues to…
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A Filmversation with Mike and Nick has published 72 episodes since February 2019, covering topics in Arts, Visual Arts.
A Filmversation with Mike and Nick is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 1h 13m.
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