Michael Cera’s Adventures in Moviegoing
17 Episodes
Did you know that the star of JUNO, SUPERBAD, and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD is a major cinephile? Here he tells us how he was introduced to art-house cinema by director Miguel Arteta (YOUTH IN REVOLT). Now he wants to do the same for you!
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21:03Episode 1Michael Cera in Conversation
Episode 1
The star of SUPERBAD and JUNO on a lifetime of moviegoing
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02:59Episode 2Michael Cera on HIGH AND LOW
Episode 2
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2:23:39Episode 3High and Low
Episode 3
Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1963 • Japan
Starring Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya MihashiToshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), the highly influential domesti...
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03:32Episode 4Michael Cera on A MARRIED COUPLE
Episode 4
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1:36:55Episode 5A Married Couple
Episode 5
Directed by Allan King • 1969 • Canada
Billy and Antoinette Edwards let it all hang out for Allan King and crew in this jaw-dropping examination of a marriage in trouble, which "makes John Cassavetes's Faces look like early Doris Day" (Time). Intense and hectic, frightening and funny, A Marrie...
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03:24Episode 6Michael Cera on SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
Episode 6
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SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE: Theatrical Version
Episode 7
Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1973 • Sweden
Starring Liv Ullmann, Erland JosephsonSCENES FROM A MARRIAGE chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. Shot in intense, i...
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03:18Episode 8Michael Cera on FOX AND HIS FRIENDS
Episode 8
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2:04:08Episode 9Fox and His Friends
Episode 9
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1975 • West Germany
Starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Carl BoehmA lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casti...
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02:09Episode 10Michael Cera on EMPIRE OF PASSION
Episode 10
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1:45:21Episode 11Empire of Passion
Episode 11
Directed by Nagisa Oshima • 1978 • Japan
Starring Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro TamuraWith an arresting mix of eroticism and horror, Oshima plunges the viewer into a nightmarish tale of guilt and retribution in EMPIRE OF PASSION (AI NO BOREI). Set in a Japanese village at the end of ...
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02:05Episode 12Michael Cera on THE GREEN RAY
Episode 12
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1:39:03Episode 13The Green Ray
Episode 13
Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1986 • France
Starring Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent GauthierEric Rohmer captures the ache of summertime sadness with exquisite poignancy in this luminous tale of self-exploration. The Jules Verne novel of the same name provides the loose inspiration for t...
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Michael Cera on WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOUSE?
Episode 14
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1:23:23Episode 15Where Is the Friend’s House?
Episode 15
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1987 • Iran
The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing KOKER TRILOGY takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous, child’s-eye adventure of ...
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03:05Episode 16Michael Cera on THE CASTLE
Episode 16
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2:10:30Episode 17The Castle
Episode 17
Directed by Michael Haneke • 1997 • Austria
Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's absurdist novel follows a land surveyor as he struggles with the increasingly difficult and bureaucratic practices of the local authorities.
