The Dead of Night, Pt. 2 — Sinners

Intro: 00:00:00-00:02:03

Sinners Discussion: 00:02:04-00:28:46

Connections: 00:28:47-1:02:37

Your Next Picture Show, next pairing, and goodbyes: 1:02-38-end

Director Ryan Coogler has been generous in sharing his many points of inspiration for SINNERS, including the other film in this pairing, but his exceptional new feature is refreshingly singular in both vision and execution. It makes for an admittedly lopsided comparison with FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, but also an illuminating one: examining Coogler’s vision through the lens of the 1996 Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino teamup sheds light on the added depth SINNERS brings to its own vampire mythology, criminal-brother protagonists, and mid-film genre shift. And in Your Next Picture Show, we briefly imagine the conversation we could have had if we’d instead paired SINNERS with the Coen brothers’ O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?  

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Next Pairing: Jake Schreier's THUNDERBOLTS and Kinka Usher’s MYSTERY MEN 

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