About this episode
For the fourth episode of our special retrospective season, we’re looking back to our season on the awesome movie year of 2007 to feature another of Josh’s personal picks, Gregg Araki’s Smiley Face . Directed by Gregg Araki from a screenplay by Dylan Haggerty and starring Anna Faris, Danny Masterson, John Krasinski, Adam Brody and Roscoe Lee Browne, Smiley Face premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a very limited theatrical release. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Matt Zoller Seitz in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/movies/26smil.html ), Nathan Lee in the Village Voice ( https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/12/18/high-times-2/ ), and John DeFore in The Hollywood Reporter ( https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/smiley-face-158205/ ). Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for our next retrospective installment covering the awesome movie year of 1989, featuring another foreign film pick, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso .