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My guest for this month is Serenity Caldwell, and she's joined me to discuss the film she chose for me, the 2002 American science-fiction romantic comedy film S1m0ne). You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.

Show notes:

• Andrew Niccol, who directed this film, is also married to its star, Rachel Roberts)
• Al Pacino is an actor, perhaps you've heard of him
• Gattaca is also a film by Andrew Niccol
• Alphaville is the film we discussed on the previous episode of this podcast
• The dot-com era was a period where tech companies with no future got lots of money, completely unlike today
• Second Life is a virtual reality world that you can run around in
• One of the more notable things about Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is its ridiculously long title
• The first Lord of the Rings) film, The Fellowship of the Ring came out in 2001
• 3.5" hard drives are still used as internal storage in slow computers
• The Mac Pro and PowerMac G4 are both computers from Apple, they are both relatively recent
• 5.25" floppies on the other hand, haven't been used regularly in a very, very long time
• Hackers is a phenomenal film about, well, hacking
• An SNL parody of this film would probably just be this film
• John Cassavetes was an actor and director, and a pioneer of American independent film
• Michelangelo Antonioni made quite a few masterpieces with a monochromatic color palette
• Notting Hill) is a 1999 film starting Julia Roberts, written by the guy who wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Roberto Rossellini was an Italian neorealist director
• The Auteur theory is a vision of cinema where the director is the sole voice of the film
• The Crow is seriously every goth kids dream
• The stars of The Force Awakens, including Daisy Ridley, are newly famous, and dealing with it in interesting ways
• People Magazine) is a celebrity "news" periodical
• Rebecca Romijn is also in this film, in a tiny but fun role
• Jason Schwartzman is a national treasure, and can do no wrong
• We are in the 2016 presidential election cycle, and Donald Trump is a leading candidate. We've clearly gone crazy
• I am huge Catherine Keener fan, but man is she misused here
• This film stars a young Evan Rachel Wood, she's great
• Winona Ryder is probably the best thing about this entire film
• Seriously, there are three versions of A Star is Born) already, and a fourth is in the works
• 42nd Street) is another film about the process of stardom
• The Tupac Shakur hologram at Coachella was so creepy
• Jean-Luc Godard directed Alphaville, among many others
• Niccol only wrote The Truman Show. It was directed by Peter Weir, who also made Picnic at Hanging Rock and Dead Poets Society, among others
• Niccol's did direct In Time with Justin Timberlake, as well as The Host), and Good Kill, none of which I've heard of
• We should do an alternate episode where Siri is our main guest for this film
• Go check out The Incomparable, they have some seriously great podcasts

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