Episódios
Episode 361 - Disclosure Day
This week on Unknown Pleasures, Jennifer and Craig prepare to drop flash drives of conversation about Spielberg, generational divides of attitudes about systems, and getting alien powers in 2026's DISCLOSURE DAY! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 360 - The Living End
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about gay sex, clown-based liquor stores, and the switch from external sources of oblivion to internal ones in 1992's THE LIVING END! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 359 - In the Earth (w/ Delaney Jordan)
This week on the show, we welcome back video essayist and editor Delaney Jordan to discuss making appeals to the fungus god, things made in the immediate wake of a pandemic, and how much filmic shag is too much filmic shag in 2021's IN THE EARTH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode JEN8 - Enter the Void
This week on Swimfans, we celebrate Jennifer's birthday and look back on formative film experiences, the power of a drifting crane shot, and we think about death and get sad and stuff in 2009's ENTER THE VOID! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 358 - Pillion
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just okay gay movies in 2025's PILLION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 357 - The Lighthouse
This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019's THE LIGHTHOUSE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 356 - Poison
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in 1991's POISON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 355 - High Life
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we get really into witchy jerkoff chambers, ponder the meaning of the dog cannibalism box, and consider movies that don't commit to anything in 2018's HIGH LIFE! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod
Episode 354 - The End of Evangelion
It all returns to nothing. It all comes tumbling down. This week on Swimfans, we talk the profane and the divine, the power of sigils and esoterica, and the horrors of being a discrete person in the world in 1997's THE END OF EVANGELION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 353 - The Boys in the Band
This week on Swimfans, we kick off Pride Month by talking the worst party vibes imaginable, the beauty of seeing ourselves in visions from the past, and the necessity of art depicting queer people flaws and all in 1970's THE BOYS IN THE BAND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 352 - The Double Life of Véronique
On this week's Unknown Pleasures, we sacrifice ourselves at the altar of takes to discuss having a doppelganger, puppeteers, and how far a film's beauty can take it in 1991's THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 351 - Skinamarink
This week on Swimfans, we discuss film grain and attention to detail, the cradle of horror being the domestic, and scary phone in 2022's SKINAMARINK! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 350 - Death Race 2000
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk surprisingly horny race car drivers, the joys of movies whose seams and craft you can see, and more about Hanna-Barbera cartoons than one would expect in 1975's DEATH RACE 2000! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 349 - Repo Man
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the tightrope of making a movie feel truly punk, a delicate tonal balance not since replicated, and the joys of underwear in 1984's REPO MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 348 - Baby Assassins
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk movies that are really, really good at just one thing, compulsory cohabitation with your coworker, and the literal woke mob in 2021's BABY ASSASSINS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 347 - Persona
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we keep it real classic and talk the reflections of filmmakers on themselves, the multitude of roles we play in our own lives, and what happens when the mirror stares back in 1966's PERSONA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 346 - Fresh Kill
This week on the show, we travel to Staten Island to talk lo-fi cyberpunk, chilling predictions of the future, and the joys of dining in an undefined space in 1994's FRESH KILL! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 345 - Vulcanizadora
This week on the pod, we get real Michigan Mindset to talk character as director surrogate, European sensibilites and American aesthetics, and the sublime joy of a really good stick in 2024's VULCANIZADORA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode J8 - Happy Together
Everybody say happy birthday Josh!! This week, we celebrate aging by talking about the metaphors of water, the homies under the summer sun, and when gay people just can't leave each other alone in 1997's HAPPY TOGETHER! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 344 - In the Mood for Love (w/ Kevin Jay Stanton)
This week, we're joined by artist and designer Kevin Jay Stanton to discuss the steaminess of love unconsummated, the intimacy of the camera, and the allure of a soup thermos in 2000's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 343 - Cloud
Welcome to SWIMFANS: UNKNOWN PLEASURES! This week on the pod, we get mad about rent prices, value the inexplicable homies, and ponder about the sturdiness of cover walls in 2024's CLOUD! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART TWO
Still coming to you live from the red carpet, we dive back into the rest of the Best Picture nominees: 2025's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, SECRET AGENT, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SINNERS, and TRAIN DREAMS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART ONE
Put on your sparkliest dress, dear listener: it's time once again for OSCARMANIA! This week, we dip into some of the Best Picture nominees: BUGONIA, F1, FRANKENSTEIN, HAMNET and MARTY SUPREME! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
Episode 342 - Femme Fatale (2002)
This week on the show, we return to de Palma and discuss cross-genre and split-screen jaunts, shifting your karmic debt to some random guy via magic, and even find the time to discuss interesting choices in skirts and shoes in 2002's FEMME FATALE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
