Lanterns is a miniseries celebrating 10 years of Karyn Kusama's THE INVITATION (2015) with some of the brightest lights in contemporary film criticism and podcasting. Through a hybrid of personal essay and long form interview, host/creator Jim Penola weaves a narrative conversation around the persistent merits and prescient lessons of Kusama's cult masterpiece.

Episode #06, the finale, welcomes none other than Blake Howard—who Michael Mann once called "insane" (for good reason). Blake is the host and creator of One Heat Minute which famously examined Mann's HEAT one minute at a time in exhaustive detail. Blake has since produced countless other film podcasts, including Miami Nice and All The President's Minutes, that have emerged under the broader One Heat Minute Productions banner. He is the patron saint of granular film analysis and, without him, there would be no An Invitation to THE INVITATION, et al.

Our talk slaloms through a variety of topics—Blake's surreal experience meeting Michael Mann, the fallacy of the "easy way," the reciprocal dialogue that occurred between our two podcasts—with one unifying notion:

the end.

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Lanterns is written, produced, edited, mixed, and hosted by Jim Penola.
Original music by John Penola.

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