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"Megalopolis" & "The Substance"

From left: Adam Driver in Megalopolis (2024); Demi Moore in The Substance (2024).
From left: Adam Driver in Megalopolis (2024); Demi Moore in The Substance (2024).

Any kind of art, but especially cinematic art, is seldom a static process. The best artists are always those who choose to push boundaries. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that roll over boundaries as if they were so much roadkill—Francis Ford Coppola’s reach into the fantastic titled Megalopolis and French-born filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s feminist study The Substance.