Super Rate

- Season 1

(2017)

Super Rate takes a look at Kafkaesque film through Cristian Mungiu's new release, Graduation, Roman Polanski's The Tenant and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes.

This week Lauren Bertacchini and Kai Perrignon review explore music documentaries through new release, Whitney: Can I Be Me, Zac Oberzan's Tell Me Love is Real and Julian Temple's The Filth and the Fury.

In episode three, the Super Rate duo takes a look at Terence Davies new film on Emily Dickinson A Quiet Passion. Who is Johnny rubber-face?

Super Rate hosts Lauren and Kai look at Wong Kar-wais In the Mood for Love as part of our films that smoulder week.

Join Super Rate as Kai Perrignon and Lo Ren get all MA+ and chancy as they look back at Paul Schrader's erotic shlock horror Cat People.

In episode 6, our Super Rate young curmudgeons take a look at the new film about the plumpest English PM of all time, Winston Churchill, in Churchill. *Spoiler alert on WW2 result.

In episode 7 of Super Rate we look back at Paul Schrader's 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters as part of our biopic series.

This episode of Super Rate rounds out our investigation of biopics with a look at Nicolas Winding Refn's stylised prison flick Bronson.

In episode 9 of Super Rate we kick off our 'female leads in film' week with a review of the debut director, William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth.

In episode 10 of Super Rate Kai and Lauren look back at 1981 revenge exploitation film Ms. 45 and debate what it might have to offer in our 'femmes in film' week.

On episode 11 of Super Rate Lauren and Kai get into heated and violent/watery debate over Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita.

In episode 12 Kai and Lauren discuss new release Una, the film adaptation of a shocking play about sexual abuse.

Things get a little acerbic in episode 13, as Lauren and Kai debate the whether one can 'enjoy' Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In episode 14 we finish looking at movie adaptations with a review of Tom Noonan's 'What Happened Was...'

Super Rate review new release action car flick, Baby Driver for episode 15.

Kai and Lauren take a look at key auteurs, starting with the 1961 Godard film, A Woman Is A Woman in episode 16.

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In the final episode of Super Rate's auteur series, Kai and Lauren debate the purity of 'Lynchism' in David Lynch's Blue Velvet.

Equal parts deep and weird, Lauren and Kai discuss Walter Hill's The Driver - the 'fertile seed' from which Baby Driver sprung.

For episode 20 Lauren and Kai review Walter Hill's existential masterpiece, 'The Driver'.

To launch Super Rate's "obscurities week" Kai and Lauren chat about the deeply aesthetic Confessions among Actresses by Yoshishige Yoshida.

The second instalment of 'obscurities week' features surreal animator Jan Svankmajer's Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), replete with lively Freud/Jung jabs.

The 'obscurities week' series finishes in strong outsider-art style, with Carl J Sukenick's 1991 VHS nightmare Alien Beasts.

Kai and Lauren both tear up over the new release film A Monster Calls in the first episode of the Storytelling in Film series.

The second of our Storytelling in Film series sees Kai and Lauren discuss the animated PTSD documentary Waltz with Bashir.

In the final episode of Super Rate, Lauren and Kai take a look at horrific sequel film Book of Shadows: Blair Witch II.