Hi I'm Emily V. Gordon.
And I'm Kumail Nanjiani. And we are at Amoeba.
We're at Amoeba and
this is what's in our bag.
What's in My Bag?
I'm starting with this: 'Lost Soul'
This is a documentary about the making of 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'
which is a movie I have not seen.
It's great beacuse it's about the process of trying to get a movie made
staying true to your vision and all the stuff that happens
and it's just kind of a bananas story.
Obviously, we never got to see the director's version
this guy's version of 'Island of Dr. Moreau'
but it sounded like it was going to be really interesting.
But you think this is worth not having gotten the movie?
No. I'd still rather see his 'Island of Dr. Moreau' than this documentary
but I really like movies about movies that don't happen
so, like 'Lost in La Mancha,' Jodorowsky's 'Dune,' this, so this is a really good one.
Knowing that the odds were stacked against me
I resorted to witchcraft.
I was friendly with this warlock chappie, commonly known as Skip
at the exact same time that I went into the meeting, on the other side of the world
Skip convened his coven, cut his arm, drew a sigil, did some kind of routine to fix it
and make it all alright.
The new Sleater-Kinney album, on cassette.
It's just a really...'No Cities to Love' is an amazing album. I really loved it and
when I see cassette tapes my heart still skips a beat a little bit
I don't own a tape player anymore. Probably should fix that.
But I just like the idea of having this on cassette
because they look cooler, they're more fun to display
Yeah.
I can't believe this is only 10 bucks.
This is one of the best nature documentaries.
This is what we do with our lives: 'Life.' When we're at home.
It's really, really amazing.
It's just, y'know...animals are up to a bunch of crazy stuff.
and you can watch it here. In HD.
I think it really gives you perspective of life, like your own life
and how important Twitter is, or social media or whatever and then you get on this, you're like
some people...
So would you say it's aptly named?
I would say it's very aptly named.
This definitely has, yeah, heartbreaking defeats and awe-inspiring escapes.
Life.
Angel Olsen's new album. It's amazing.
She's amazing all the time, and not just because we have similar bangs
but I love this album. Everybody should have this album.
'Shut Up Kiss Me' I remember that one being one of my favorite tracks on this one.
You like this one too.
Yeah.
We don't have a lot of music tastes in common.
We tend to overlap with acoustic-y
yeah acoustic-y stuff, like more kind of romantic-y stuff so
this is one we can both agree on.
Yes.
I found this book about Brad Pitt.
I collect books like this. I used to get them from the Scholastic Book Fair.
Oo, beautiful. He really was a good-looking man.
I have a Vanilla Ice book, I have a book about Wham.
You have a novelization of 'Gremlins 2' I believe.
I do own a lot of novelizations of movies but
this is just pure fan material.
We didn't have websites back then.
Oh, 'Dog Soldiers.'
So this director, Neil Marshall
who went on to make 'The Descent,' which I think is one of the best modern horror movies
this is his first movie, and it's werewolves fighting soldiers.
Why'd it take us so long to get to soldiers fighting werewolves?
Y'know, that's a new premise, like when 'Reign of Fire' came out
that was dragons vs. bazookas.
Why have we not seen that?
And by 'we,' it's mostly Kumail.
I was so excited, rocket launchers, dragons, what more do you need?
Turns out you needed more of both. But this movie
really, the first werewolf attack, and there's is one of the best
monster attacks in movies, I think.
We do that sometimes, we'll invite people over and just show our favorite monster emergence scenes from movies.
Yeah, you have so many.
Skinny Puppy's one of my favorite bands.
I saw them fairly recently, in fact, by myself.
Could not get anyone to go with me.
12-inch Anthology has my favorite version of 'Stairs and Flowers'
which is one of my favorite songs, and
I haven't seen this album, I haven't glimpsed this
in maybe 10 years.
Wasn't everyone at the Skinny Puppy concert on their own?
They were all individuals.
Everyone was by themselves.
Yeah, "ticket for one, please."
Great band, great band.
'Before Midnight.' The 'Before Sunset,' 'Before Sunrise,' 'Before Midnight' trilogy
is the best trilogy in movies.
Better than Lord of the Rings, you're saying?
No, I mean the fact that they're all made 10 years apart
and you sort of check in on these people and their relationship
and it stays true to who they were, so they change as people
but the way they grow feels true to where they were in the last movie.
And I think all the movies enrich and make each other better
so after you've seen this one, the first one is better
and after you've seen the second one, the third one is better
and 'Before Sunset' has one of my favorite endings of all time
like the last little exchange is...
Is that the "I think you're gonna miss..."
Yeah, don't tell them if they haven't seen it.
And this one is more brutal to watch than the others.
It's like the realities of rom-com lives.
Really, really good. Yeah, most rom-coms end with them getting together
these movies explore what happens next.
Know what's going on here? It's simple.
I don't think I love you anymore.
And off of you're very serious one, I found an Indiana Jones button.
This is why I love Amoeba, because you can find stuff like this
and Indiana Jones is my favorite movie trilogy
Well, there's four of them.
Oh, god.
Oh, this movie's awesome: 'Society'
It's... what is it...
Body horror.
Body horror. And it's such a product of its time, but also commenting on its time.
It could not have been made any other time period.
Is that all you think about? Parties and social status?
but it also sort of transcends it
and it's got the craziest last 15 minutes
It's really, really something.
It's good and bad in exactly the right ways
and it actually is still pretty applicable to our time.
In the 80's, there were all these movies, Cronenberg was doing them
and Henenlotter was doing them, and
they're all movies where there was some sort of
person going through some sort of physical gross body transformation
and we were trying to figure out why, in the 80s, those movies were happening
and we think it's because of herpes and AIDS and stuff
so these movies were sort of commenting on that.
There's a lot of really, really great ones, like 'Reanimator'
'The Fly,' obviously. 'From Beyond' is really, really good
but this is one that not as many people have watched
and it's really, really good.
I am a butthead.
This is another body horror one, this is David Cronenberg's second movie
it's his first movie with a real budget.
This is a really, really creepy, really great movie
He went through a really horrible divorce and made this movie
and you can kind of tell.
If you had to guess, when you watch this movie, you're like
"he seems like he went through a really horrible divorce."
Unlucky in love.
It's one of those which starts off with the supernatural thing
you're like, how could this make sense, this feels so crazy
but at the end, it kind of makes sense.
Doing a quick 180 from body horror
'Broadcast News.' Obviously everyone knows this movie
but I feel like we don't talk about this movie as much anymore.
It's super funny, it's super moving, it's complicated the people in it are grown-ups.
The character that William Hurt plays is an archetype that
I don't remember in any other movie. It's just a classic.
Great movie.
So if you have anything to say, sir, why not say it now, the way you want.
Oh, that's great, that's great, I think it's great you left in what you said, just great.
Yes, please, let's never forget we're the real story not them.
Monkees button, another one of my favorite bands
I used to watch the Monkees on TV and I thought that it was a contemporary show.
The Monkees and the Brady Bunch I thought were both shot in the eighties. Didn't know.
So it led to a lot of confusion, but also, great band. Amazing songs.
I have the most recent Godspeed album. I love this album.
I took you to see Godspeed last year.
Yes, that was an awesome show.
It was a really great show.
I've seen Godspeed a bunch of times in my hometown
so much so that I thought they were from my hometown in North Carolina, but they weren't
For years, our alarm was a Godspeed song.
so whenever I would hear it, I would be like, fuck, time to live this day
It's just a very upsetting song, and intense.
This was an amazing album, absolutely amazing album and I'm excited.
We have a record player now, we haven't had one in years, so
I'm excited to have this on... just for some ambient music in the house.
This 'Don't Look Now' is a movie, Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
What a weird movie.
It's a really sort of trippy kind of horror thriller set in Venice
It's got a sex scene in it, that while we're watching, we're like, what's weird about this sex scene?
and we looked it up and there's rumors that they actually had sex.
They both deny it but...
That's how intimate it looks.
Hollywood rumors
You don't think you're watching a movie, you think you're watching people having sex.
Because it's not cool, it's weird.
And her style in that movie is the best style I've seen.
But this is a great....this is a great movie.
It's ok.
I'm a friend.
Darlings.
My final one. I did this one a little bit for you.
This is a band we actually have in common. Lemonheads, 'It's a Shame About Ray.'
When we moved in together we did not have a lot of albums in common.
This was one of the few. This one and Outkast. But I love this album.
Yeah, that's a...
It's a great album. And I think it means a lot to us.
Yes.
'They Live,' classic, John Carpenter
I had to pick one John Carpenter and 'The Thing' would've been too obvious
'They Live' is still pretty obvious but
it's just a really re-watchable movie
Best fist fight in a movie ever.
Yeah it's got a great tussle and
why wasn't Rowdy Roddy Piper in more movies?
I've got a guess.
Again, another movie very applicable to our times.
I said what's your problem?
How are you today sir?
Okay, how's it going?
Fine, thank you.
And finally I had to pick one Guillermo del Toro movie
This, I think, is his best movie, 'The Devil's Backbone.'
It's the one I've seen the most.
Better than 'Pan's Labyrinth?'
It's hard to pick but I do think I like this one better than 'Pan's Labyrinth.'
People say it's a ghost story. It's not really.
It's about 5 different people, and one of them happens to be a ghost.
But it's really, really beautiful. The colors in this movie are amazing
and the design of the ghost is really fantastic
and it's just a really... I mean, it's Guillermo del Toro's best movie.
I think that's it. This is what's in our bag.
Thank you.