PATREON PREVIEW: Neil Breen's FATEFUL FINDINGS - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary

Reel Politik Podcast

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full commentary and much more besides. Recorded later the same night as our commentary for Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX (which is why Tom briefly falls asleep towards the end) we present the second in what will likely be - for now - a trilogy of RP audio commentaries for "classic" (of whatever esoteric interest to us) films. In this one, Tom introduces me to the work of outsider artist Neil Breen, a distinctly Wiseauean writer/director/star/inventor of fake companies with which to credit himself pseudonymously for odd jobs on his own films. His 2013 film FATEFUL FINDINGS is a strikingly strange piece of work, spanning Lynchian horror, family (melo)drama and high-stakes political thriller in its inability to settle on a genre. In terms of instructions for watching along with us, we kind of fucked up the count-in here, but it should be easy enough to get in sync with Tom and I when you bear in mind that we're watching this precise copy of the film on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vLLNIAvJ9Y - although we do have a sort of built in piss break halfway through the commentary where we pause the film, so don't leave your copy playing during that bit! Writing this all out, this is more complicated than I thought. If you just want to listen, that's ok. Maybe we'll do our own sync of our audio commentary with a video file of the film. Peace! Jack