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| BONUS: Technical Chat with New Orleans Gardener Bob Martin | 15 Nov 2024 | 00:53:52 | |
As a little bonus, we talked some more MASTER GARDENER with Jake's old friend and professional New Orleans gardener Bob Martin! Lots of technical gardening chat, native NOLA plants, gardening movies, and some commiseration between friends of Jake that he very quickly shuts down. Enjoy! Check out Bob's band, Bobbi: https://bobbiloves2play.bandcamp.com/album/custom-bobbi Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Schrader Ep. 36: Master Gardener (2022) with Matthew Germenis | 15 Nov 2024 | 02:18:14 | |
It's the end of our Schrader project - for a few weeks, at least - as we tackle the final film of his "Man In A Room" trilogy, 2022's MASTER GARDENER. Joining us is New Orleans-based writer Matthew Germenis! We're talking horticulture as both a restorative and reactionary practice, the film's ultimately tangential relationship to far-right movements, reformed Neo-Nazis, the legacy of plantation architecture, and more! Great ep! Don't forget to check out our technical chat with IRL New Orleans gardener Bob Martin, also in this feed! See you next week for a wrap-up of Schrader so far. Further Reading: "Three Bullets in the Gun: Paul Schrader on Master Gardener" by Erik Luers Paul Schrader Interview by Isaac Feldberg "Christian Picciolini: The neo-Nazi who became an anti-Nazi" by Natasha Lipman "I was a neo-Nazi. Then I fell in love with a black woman" by Claire Bates "The Rehabilitation of ‘Pitbull,’ a Former Wrestler and Neo-Nazi" by Joseph Goldstein "Land-Grant Eugenics: Spreading an Idea in Rural America" by Joshua Earle Further Viewing: FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017) THE CARD COUNTER (Schrader, 2021) ERASING HATE (Brummell, 2011)
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| Schrader Ep. 27: The Walker (2007) | 13 Sep 2024 | 01:52:16 | |
Paul Schrader concludes his first set of Man In A Room films with 2007's THE WALKER, a bookend to AMERICAN GIGOLO that finds the lonely man working as a literal escort for society women in D.C. But will Carter Page III find meaning outside of managing a few political wives' secrets? Should Woody Harrelson be doing that voice? Is Jake so unceasingly distractible on this episode that it ends the podcast? You'll have to listen to find out! Further Reading: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham "The Consummate Chum: Jerome Zipkin Dies at 80" by Mort Sheinman "The Gigolo Grows Up" by Kyle Buchanan Further Viewing: AMERICAN GIGOLO (Schrader, 1980) NOW YOU SEE ME (Leterrier, 2013) NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (Chu, 2016)
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| Schrader Ep. 26: Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist (2005) with Chadd Harbold | 06 Sep 2024 | 02:11:27 | |
The power of 'cast compels you, listener - to enjoy this week's episode! Paul Schrader was hired to replace John Frankenheimer as director of a prequel to THE EXORCIST, and things only got stranger from there. Our pal, and producer of the new film CRUMB CATCHER, Chadd Harbold returns to the show to help us discuss Schrader's DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST (and Renny Harlin's reworked version, EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING). It's all here: the auteur theory proven correct(???), crises of faith, British imperialism, the theme song from POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE. Check it out! Further Reading: "Colonial Possessions: A Fanonian Reading of The Exorcist and its Sequels" by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. "'Exorcist' prequel bedeviled from the beginning" Paul Schrader interview on CaptainHowdy.com Further Viewing: THE EXORCIST (Friedkin, 1973) EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (Boorman, 1977) THE EXORCIST III (Blatty, 1990) EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING (Harlin, 2004)
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| Schrader Ep. 25: Auto Focus (2002) with Nick Wiger | 30 Aug 2024 | 02:25:01 | |
Schmile, listener! This week we're pointing our viewfinders at Paul Schrader's sleazy 2002 Bob Crane biopic AUTO FOCUS with writer and co-host of the Doughboys and Get Played podcasts, Nick Wiger! Join us for a discussion of fame, destructive sexual obsession, smoldering male violence, Willem Dafoe - you know, all the usual Schrader stuff. Plus: we talk the Minions, Tyga bites, and how Bob Crane would have been a podcaster. Also if you're related to either of the hosts of the show, maybe don't listen to this one. For everyone else: great ep, please enjoy! Further Reading: The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes? by Robert Graysmith "Raging Bullshit. Auto Focus Is Not My Dad's Story" by Scotty Crane "Michael Gerbosi on Writing Auto Focus" by Paul Rowlands Further Viewing: SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (Soderbergh, 1989) BOOGIE NIGHTS (Anderson, 1997) GUNGAN STYLE (GANGNAM STYLE PARODY) (Wiger, 2012) Follow Nick Wiger: https://headgum.com/get-played
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| Schrader Ep. 24: Bringing Out The Dead (1999) with Soraya Sebghati | 23 Aug 2024 | 02:08:21 | |
Somebody call 911 - it's a new episode podcast! Only kidding, there's no emergency. Except you might have some friggin palpitations when you hear our great conversation on Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese's final collaboration (to date), BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, with film writer and literal rock star Soraya Sebghati! We're talking Cage, we're talking TAXI DRIVER redux, we're talking the novel coronavirus, we're talking blood-soaked dreadlocks, we're talking all kinds of stuff. Great movie, great guest, great ep. Further Reading: Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly Conversations with Scorsese by Richard Schickel Further Viewing: TAXI DRIVER (duh) KUNDUN (Scorsese, 1997) AMBULANCE (Bay, 2022) STRANGE DAYS (Bigelow, 1995)
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| Schrader Ep. 23: Forever Mine (1999) | 16 Aug 2024 | 02:01:34 | |
1999 is one of the great movie years - perhaps because Paul Schrader's FOREVER MINE only technically premiered that year, and didn't see release until 2002 (on Starz, to boot). But is this long-gestating tale of torrid passion the Sirkian romance Schrader claims, or more of a nasty noir pastiche? Is it neither of those things, and instead a very compelling advertisement for The Legendary Pink Palace of St. Pete Beach? What's the deal with Joseph Fiennes? You'll have to listen to find out!
Further Reading: The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema by Linda Ruth Williams Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Further Viewing: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Sirk, 1995), etc. FAR FROM HEAVEN (Haynes, 2002) "Pitbull - Sexy Beaches (Official Video) ft. Chloe Angelides"
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| Schrader Ep. 22: Affliction (1997) with Glenn Heath, Jr. | 09 Aug 2024 | 01:58:52 | |
"AFFLIC" - the Aflac duck if he was talking about this movie! For real, though, a lot of the characters in this film could have used some insurance based on many of the events that take place in Paul Schrader's 1997 Russell Banks adaptation AFFLICTION. Returning to the show to help us discuss this snowbound story of alcoholism and abuse is writer and film programmer Glenn Heath, Jr.! Join us for discussion of small-town authority, proximity, auto-dentistry, and more. Further Reading: Affliction by Russell Banks "'Half A Damn Excuse': Tragic Vigilantism in Paul Schrader's Affliction" by Jason Christian "Sins Of The Father: Josh Zeman talks to Paul Schrader about his new film Affliction" "Production Slate: Affliction" Further Viewing: THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Egoyan, 1997) CHINATOWN (Polanski, 1974) THE SACRIFICE (Tarkovsky, 1986) JENNIFER 8 (Robinson, 1992)
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| Schrader Ep. 21: Touch (1997) with Jane Altoids | 02 Aug 2024 | 02:10:13 | |
Paul Schrader. Elmore Leonard. Tom Arnold. Dave Grohl. It's like the freaking Traveling Wilburys had a baby! Four babies, I guess. Anyway what I'm saying is Schrader's 1997 faith healer comedy TOUCH involved a weird bunch of people. Luckily we have the great Jane Altoids joining us to sort it all out! We're talking stigmata, daytime TV, self-parody, tonal control, and more. Everything goes very normally on this episode and Jake behaves in a way that is completely fine and actually impressive. Not only does he come across as rhetorically powerful, he also sounds pretty handsome. He doesn't basically start crying when Ian lightly disagrees with him at all. You'll find all this out when you listen to the episode, which you should do! Further Reading: "Touch: Paul Schrader adapts Elmore Leonard's quirky novel of faith & healing" by David Skal Talking Trash: The Cultural Politics of Daytime TV Talk Shows by Julie Engel Manga "The Social Gospel and Socialism" by Jacob H. Dorn The Century of the Holy Spirit : 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal by Vinson Synan Further Viewing: GET SHORTY (Sonnenfeld, 1995) JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997) OUT OF SIGHT (Soderbergh, 1998)
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| Schrader Ep. 20: City Hall (1996) | 26 Jul 2024 | 02:05:27 | |
Now I've heard of a Major Motion Picture...but a Mayor Motion Picture??? Now I'm being carted off to a hospital for having typed that!! Nah, just kidding. We're talking about one of those today: Harold Becker's 1996 not-John-Grisham city politics thriller CITY HALL, on which Paul Schrader was one of four credited writers! Your favorite Pauld Casty boys had a grand old time talking municipal procedure, Al Pacino, Danny Aiello, Donald Manes, David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani, bongo clubs, and more. Plus, obviously: impressions. Further Reading: Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein "Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades" by John Nichols Further Viewing: CITY HALL (Wiseman, 2020) SEA OF LOVE (Becker, 1989) THE FIRM (Pollack, 1993), etc.
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| Schrader Ep. 19: Witch Hunt (1994) with Jack Sinclair | 20 Jul 2024 | 01:58:04 | |
"Boy, I sure wish there was a sequel to the 1991 HBO Original Movie CAST A DEADLY SPELL, only more of a reboot than a sequel, and with Dennis Hopper taking over the role of detective H. Phillip Lovecraft from Fred Ward, and I hope it's mostly a fumbled metaphor for McCarthyism," you're probably saying to yourself all the time. Well, you will not believe your luck: there is one of those, and for some goddamn reason Paul Schrader directed it! Today we're talking 1994's WITCH HUNT, a film noir pastiche about an alternate postwar Los Angeles where magic is real and the HUAC hearings are about literal witchcraft. Returning to the show from our remarkably similar CASPER episode is Twitter scoundrel Jack Sinclair! Join us for a conversation about, frankly, the 1994 film WITCH HUNT. Wacky ep! Further Reading: "Exorcising His Dark Side" by Daniel Cerone Snakes In Movies: Witch Hunt (1994) Further Viewing: CAST A DEADLY SPELL (Campbell, 1991)
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| Schrader Ep. 18: Light Sleeper (1992) with Jake Tropila | 12 Jul 2024 | 02:03:14 | |
Wake up, listeners! Should be easy if you're anything like the protagonist of Paul Schrader's 1992 film LIGHT SLEEPER, which we're talking all about today with writer/editor/poster extraordinaire Jake Tropila! Join us for a great conversation about Schrader's "mid-life movie," addictive behavior, actually humanizing the drug trade, 90s New Age stuff, and our favorite jokes. Damn, we should really be charging at least $200 for a show like this. Instead it's free!!! Further Reading: "Movie High" by Scott Macaulay Further Viewing: BAD LIEUTENANT (Ferrara, 1992) PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959) (again)
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| Schrader Ep. 35: There Are No Saints (2022) | 08 Nov 2024 | 01:57:14 | |
It's the one you've all been waiting for - our episode on Alfonso Pineda Ulloa's 2014 film THERE ARE NO SAINTS, adapted from an unmade Schrader script, which sat on a shelf for 8 years before getting dumped on VOD after his FIRST REFORMED/CARD COUNTER comeback. What's that? You don't know what this movie is and you don't really want to hear us talk about it? Great news - this episode was recorded live (to tape) at Ian's home in Oaxaca, is mostly about Jake's visit there, and contains shocking revelations that turn much of PCFM's Ian Lore upside down. Plus some talk about neo-exploitation cinema, John Wick riffs, narcocultura, and eating bugs. Fun ep, check it out! Further Reading: Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower "After 'The Canyons,' Strange Tale of 'The Jesuit'" by Paul Schrader Further Viewing: ROLLING THUNDER (Flynn, 1977) HARDCORE (Schrader, 1979) JOHN WICK (Stahelski, 2014)
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| Schrader Ep. 17: The Comfort of Strangers (1990) with Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori | 06 Jul 2024 | 02:18:36 | |
No, you haven't fallen asleep in a Venice alleyway - it's really the podcast! Today we're wandering La Serenissima and monologuing about our fathers as we discuss Paul Schrader's dreamy 1990 literary adaptation THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS with filmmakers and To The White Sea cohosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! And yes, we do figure out which of us is which character from the film. We talk Ian McEwan, Harold Pinter, Gen X masculinity, befriending weirdos, dad stuff, vampires, and much more. Please, listen to our podcast - we insist. Further Reading: The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan "What's Left of Generation X" by Kim Phillips-Fein "Ian McEwan: 'I had the time of my life'" by Rachel Cooke "Pinter's weasels" by David Edgar
Further Viewing: DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg, 1973) DEATH IN VENICE (Visconti, 1971)
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| Emergency Minisode: The Estate Sale | 30 Jun 2024 | 00:26:52 | |
Surprise, listeners! Jake went to a Clint-related estate sale recently and we had to tell you all about it ASAP. Ian's hearing all of this for the first time on mic, too. We'll post all the photos over on our Patreon feed, unlocked for everybody. Enjoy! https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Schrader Ep. 16: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) with Robert Rubsam | 28 Jun 2024 | 02:53:33 | |
"I want him to stop. I can't take the pain. The voices and the pain." No, those aren't the words of our listeners - they're the words of Jesus Christ as written by Paul Schrader! Understand your confusion, though. Today we're genuflecting before Martin Scorsese's highly controversial 1988 film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, adapted by Schrader from not The Bible, and joining us on our spiritual journey is writer Robert Rubsam. Jake has a bunch of day-one theology questions that Ian and Rob do their best to answer while we all discuss the film's artistic achievements, the Brooklyn of it all, and the enormous backlash. Some crazy French guys blew up a movie theater over this one, gang. The movie, not the episode. Check it out! Further Reading: The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars by Thomas R. Lindlof Kyrios Christos by Wilhelm Bousset A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by Peter Bien Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert J. Myles also the freaking Bible duh
Further Viewing: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pasolini, 1964) MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Jones, 1979)
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| Schrader Ep. 15: Patty Hearst (1988) | 21 Jun 2024 | 02:12:59 | |
Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the podcast! Just playing, nobody preys upon us. But we're back in Symbionese Liberation Army territory this week to talk Paul Schrader's 1988 biopic PATTY HEARST! Join us for a spirited conversation about Natasha Richardson, Ving Rhames, the movie's angle on leftism, ideological and physical consent, and Disneyland in 1974. It's a good ep! Content warning: we talk about sexual violence on this episode. Further Reading: An Oral History with Ericka Huggins by Fiona Thompson Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin FBI Records: The Vault - COINTELPRO Black Extremist Files Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer "Who Ran The S.L.A.?" by Dick Russell "Los Angeles Is Burning" by Sasha Frere-Jones Further Viewing: THE ENFORCER (Fargo, 1976) GUERILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST (Stone, 2004)
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| UNLOCKED: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) | 14 Jun 2024 | 01:59:34 | |
This is an unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me. Here's some hidden gold for ya: the damned Pod Casty For Me Patreon feed! No, for real. Let's be for real now. Today we're finishing up the Man With No Name trilogy with the final and best film of the lot, Sergio Leone's 1966 Civil War Western epic THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. No Oxford comma for Sergio I guess! Well, fair enough. We both loved this one, actually, and had a bang-up time talking about Eli Wallach, the Civil War, cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli, trick shooting, dehydration prosthetics, and all kinds of crazy stuff like we always do. All that twice a month for just $5! They ought to hang us for this. Please! Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Schrader Ep. 14: Light of Day (1987) with Altmania | 07 Jun 2024 | 02:20:44 | |
1..2..3..4! Pretty rock and roll way to start an episode description, I thought. This week we're absolutely shredding (guitar term) through a discussion of Paul Schrader's understandably underseen 1987 struggling rock band sibling melodrama film, LIGHT OF DAY, and joining us are our great pals Ryan and Este from the Altmania podcast! We talk mom stuff, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox's palpable sexual chemistry, the very limited revolutionary potential of popular music, and a lot about the podcast Guys: A Podcast About Guys. You don't have to have heard that or even seen the movie LIGHT OF DAY to enjoy this one, though. We're just a couple of cool rock music types jamming out (music term), podcast-style. Check it out! Further Reading: "Rock Against Racism" by Danny Goldberg Further Viewing: THE COMMITMENTS (Parker, 1991) ONE-TRICK PONY (Young, 1980)
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| Schrader Ep. 13: The Mosquito Coast (1986) | 31 May 2024 | 02:04:52 | |
Hop on the launch, folks, we're heading to THE MOSQUITO COAST! Peter Weir's 1986 film scripted by Paul Schrader, that is. Join us for a conversation about the unfinished capitalist critique of prepper guys, the problems with Going Back To Nature, and how we are much smarter and better than Allie Fox generally because we have done more reading. Well, Ian has. One time I pitched Ian on a Patreon episode where I just ask him questions about agriculture for an hour, and this basically became that. For free! What a good podcast. Hope you all enjoy! Further Reading: The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux Further Viewing: WALKER (Cox, 1987) PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Weir, 1975)
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| Schrader Ep. 12: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) with Comrade Yui | 24 May 2024 | 02:48:53 | |
It's the MISHIMA episode. It's also the Mishima episode, in a way. We do our best to discuss both Paul Schrader's 1985 art-biopic MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS and the man Yukio Mishima with our returning pal Comrade Yui, who has been on a real journey with this film. As you might expect, things get pretty weighty: the nature and purpose of art, Schrader's depiction of the suicide, whether you can be a bodybuilder without being fascist about it. This is a special one, folks. Further Reading: Mishima: Aesthetic Terrorist - An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima "Mishima, Mon Amour" by Gary Indiana "Sea of Crises" by Brian Phillips Further Viewing: THE STRANGE CASE OF YUKIO MISHIMA (McIntyre, 1985)
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| Schrader Ep. 11: Cat People (1982) with Esmé Holden | 17 May 2024 | 01:39:58 | |
It's been so long...just kidding, it's been a week! That's the normal time between episodes. Nevertheless, we're back with Paul Schrader's first film he "didn't" write himself, the 1982 erotic horror remake CAT PEOPLE, and we're thrilled to be joined by film writer and genuine English person Esmé Holden! We talk Schrader's depiction(s) of women, remakes, zoos as prisons/prisons as zoos, and the David Bowie of it all. Excited for you to have John Heard this one, folks! Hey, come on. I'm just kidding around. Further Reading: "Guilty Pleasures: The Films of Paul Schrader" by Neil Sinyard "Schrader's Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst" by Brian Brems Carceral Space, Prisoners, and Animals Symposium Further Viewing: CAT PEOPLE (Tourneur, 1942) THE HUNGER (Scott, 1983) ANATOMY OF HELL (Breillat, 2004) Follow Esmé Holden: https://esmesnotes.substack.com/
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| Schrader Ep. 10: Raging Bull (1980) with Bilge Ebiri | 10 May 2024 | 02:24:49 | |
THIS is entertainment, folks! We're taking a swing at Martin Scorsese's masterful 1980 boxing biopic RAGING BULL (from a script by Paul Schrader) with film critic and Heavyweight Champion of the Podcast, Bilge Ebiri!!! Join us for a wonderful conversation about Scorsese's wild years, ROCKY, memory, the word "doggerel," and more. Plus, Bilge tells us about something he did that may change the podcast forever. Like, for real. Further Reading: Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan by J. Hoberman Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind "Masculinity in Crisis?" by Pam Cook "Raging Bull: Never Got Me Down" by Glenn Kenny "Raging Bull: American Minotaur" by Robin Robertson Further Viewing:
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| Schrader Ep. 34: The Card Counter (2021) with Roxana Hadadi | 01 Nov 2024 | 02:00:21 | |
Ante up, listeners - we're dealing out another big one this week. Paul Schrader's 2021 follow-up to FIRST REFORMED, the (ostensible) poker drama THE CARD COUNTER, was another "Man in a Room" film, this time exploring the moral weight of past actions. Joining us to talk about Abu Ghraib, Iraq War films, and how much a filmmaker's stated politics really matter compared to what's on screen is writer and critic Roxana Hadadi! Don't worry, there's plenty of Star Wars prequel digression on this one, too. Further Reading: Roxana's review of THE CARD COUNTER Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck Lynndie England interview in Stern Paul Schrader interview with The Playlist Further Viewing: STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (Morris, 2008) CAMP X-RAY (Sattler, 2014) FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017) THE REPORT (Burns, 2019) Follow Roxana: Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Schrader Ep. 9: American Gigolo (1980) with Brandon Streussnig | 03 May 2024 | 01:44:37 | |
Pick out your shirt and tie, listener! We're talking Paul Schrader's 1980 stylish crime film AMERICAN GIGOLO this week, and we've called up film critic Brandon Streussnig to help us do it! Production design, fashion history, Bresson, several Giorgios - we get into it. Jake put on cologne for this one as a bit. See if you can hear the smell! Further Reading: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Painter of Modern Life XI: The Dandy by Charles Baudelaire "Talking Film Costume: Richard Gere in 'American Gigolo'" by Ada Pîrvu "About That Urban Renaissance" by Dan Rottenberg Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood Further Viewing: THE CONFORMIST (Bertolucci, 1970)
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| Schrader Ep. 8: Old Boyfriends (1979) with Marya E. Gates | 26 Apr 2024 | 02:38:19 | |
Hey listener, it's been a while. How have you been? Do you ever think about me? Just kidding it's a new episode on Joan Tewkesbury's sole feature film, OLD BOYFRIENDS, written by Paul and Leonard Schrader! Who better to join us on this exploration of women's experience in New Hollywood than writer, Online Film Culture Titan and the inventor of #AYearWithWomen, Marya E. Gates (@oldfilmsflicker)??? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on everything from the film's rediscovery and restoration to Schrader's reaction to the 2022 Sight & Sound poll to Keith Carradine being really hot to the social function of movie gifs on Tumblr. It's a great ep and we hope you'll enjoy it! If you don't, please don't hire Buck Henry to find our home addresses!!! Follow Marya E. Gates: https://twitter.com/oldfilmsflicker https://linktr.ee/oldfilmsflicker Further Reading: "Canon Fodder" by Paul Schrader Further Viewing: AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Mazursky, 1978)
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| Schrader Ep. 7: Hardcore (1979) with Manuela Lazić | 19 Apr 2024 | 01:52:29 | |
"Oh my Pod, cast's my daughter!" - something Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive today...to hear our episode on Paul Schrader's sophomore feature as director, the 1979 Calvinist-dad-goes-to-Pornville film HARDCORE! Joining us on our journey into smut-hell is writer, actress, and filmmaker Manuela Lazić! We get into Dad Stuff, Schrader's aesthetic style as a director, the political economy of sex work, HARDCORE as remake of THE SEARCHERS, and try very, very hard to understand Christian Reformed Calvinism. Do we succeed? To find out, you'll simply have to listen to the episode. Another thing Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive right now? "Turn it...on!! The episode, I mean!!!" Further Reading: "'Hard-core' grows fashionable - and very profitable" by Ralph Blumenthal Schrader on Schrader, ed. Kevin Jackson Further Viewing:
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| Schrader Ep. 6: Blue Collar (1978) | 12 Apr 2024 | 02:49:14 | |
Get your disguise on, listener! We got a big boy this week: Paul Schrader's directorial debut, the 1978 auto workers union heist film BLUE COLLAR! The fellas are going long on this one, talking UAW history, race and organized labor, Richard Pryor's performance, Harvey Keitel trying very hard to quit the movie, Yaphet Kotto's lifetime of UFO encounters (really), and whether Schrader could really have made such a leftist film without meaning to, as he claims. This episode is nearly three hours of gleaming chrome fresh off the line or whatever. Check it out! Further Reading: "Ex‐Operative Says He Worked for F.B.I. to Disrupt Political Activities Up to '74" "Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management" by Alex N. Press A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkin Bates Organized Labor and the Black Worker and The Black Worker by Philip S. Foner
Further Viewing: MATEWAN (1987) SILKWOOD (1983)
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| Schrader Ep. 5: Rolling Thunder (1977) | 05 Apr 2024 | 01:41:12 | |
Get your hand out of that garbage disposal and press play, listener! We're doing our best to do an episode on John Flynn's 1977 vetsploitation nasty ROLLING THUNDER, but mostly we end up talking about Paul Schrader's mucked-with script. It's a fascinating study in how a story can go from TAXI DRIVER damning to DEATH WITH reactionary with just a few strokes of Heywood Gould's pen. Plus some Vietnam talk, a COCKTAIL/RAIN MAN tangent, and Tommy Lee Jones. Good ep!
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| Schrader Ep. 4: Obsession (1976) with Aaron Casias | 29 Mar 2024 | 02:05:10 | |
Pucker up, listeners - Daddy's here! That's right: accomplished Brian De Palmist and official Daddy of the show, Hit Factory co-host Aaron Casias, is back to help us unpack De Palma's Schrader-scripted 1976 VERTIGO riff OBSESSION! We kind of did a one-episode De Palma podcast, honestly, because there's a bit more BDP here than Paul Schrader. Join us for more Bernard Herrmann talk, more Geneviève Bujold talk (from TIGHTROPE, remember?), and very informed New Orleans opinions. Check it out! You don't really have to watch the movie tbh!!! Topics include: Vilmos Zsigmond, Hitchcock riff, Tony Scott's DEJA VU, voyeurism, women in genre film, "The New South", Cliff Robertson being a pain in the ass, OLDBOY, Aaron's impassioned plea for us to cover BDP, and only a little bit of bathroom talk, we promise. Further Reading: Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood "Repeat Performance": Brad Westcott on Obsession
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| Schrader Ep. 3: Taxi Driver (1976) Pt. 2 | 22 Mar 2024 | 01:43:36 | |
We're back with the second part of our discussion of Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER. Join us for more on the film's engagement with race and gender, Jodie Foster's performance, Travis Bickle's cinematic children, and the John Hinckley, Jr. of it all. Further Reading: Taxi Driver: BFI Film Classics by Amy Taubin "Manhattan Transference: Ashley Clark on Taxi Driver" An Assassin's Diary by Arthur Bremer Further Viewing: THE KING OF COMEDY (Scorsese, 1982) "Top 10 Wisconsin Dells Haunted Houses For Free Pulled Pork"/"PVC Feces Rig Tour (Home Made) #vanlife" (O'Malley/Resnick, 2021)
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| Schrader Ep. 2: Taxi Driver (1976) Pt. 1 | 15 Mar 2024 | 01:28:38 | |
Buckle up, listeners! We talked so much about Martin Scorsese's landmark 1976 neo-noir nightmare TAXI DRIVER, written by Paul Schrader, that it's gonna be a two-parter. Talk about morbid self-attention! What was the film's production process like? Whose beach house did Scorsese and Schrader hang out at? Why don't discussions of 1970s New York City crime ever talk about root causes? Should someone become a person like other people? How is Jake like both Martin Scorsese AND Drew Carey? All this and more will be answered...but you gotta listen to the episode. And the next one!!
Further Reading: Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood Further Viewing:
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| Schrader Ep. 1: The Yakuza (1975) | 08 Mar 2024 | 02:06:49 | |
The time has come, listeners, to discuss the films of Paul Schrader. That's right: Pauld Casty For Me has arrived, and this is the first episode. Of a new series about Paul Schrader movies. Basically imagine how the Clint Eastwood episodes went, roughly, but just replace all the specifics with Paul Schrader stuff. It'll make sense once you start listening. To kick things off, we're digging into Schrader's first produced screenplay, the 1975 Sydney Pollack neo-noir-yakuza picture THE YAKUZA, co-written with his brother Leonard Schrader and rewritten by Robert "China" Towne. We go deep on Schrader's strict Calvinist upbringing, early career as a film critic, persistent prickliness, and mentorship from Pauline Kael. Then, we turn our focus to THE YAKUZA (the movie), the yakuza (the guys), Robert Mitchum, and white dude who are obsessed with Japan. Plus, each of us is audibly succumbing to his own respiratory disease throughout the episode. Great way to start off the new series! Topics include: Paul's letters to Leonard, being a cinephile in the late 60s, LA movie theaters that no longer exist, how to pronounce "primer," Jake's very normal time visiting Japan, connections between the yakuza and Japan's far right, Ian's childhood arrow tricks, and more! Further Reading: Paul Schrader's "Letters to Len" Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer by Paul Schrader
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| Ep. 56: Clintclusions | 16 Feb 2024 | 01:20:34 | |
We've run out of Clint Eastwood movies that fit our weird criteria, and now we're gonna talk about what we've learned from this whole endeavor. Where we are on Clint, on the auteur theory, on thinking about film, on thinking about political art, on each other, on the prospect of ever doing anything - it's all here for your inspection, dear listener. Oh and also we reveal what we're doing next! We're very excited about it and we hope you will be, too. Here's a hint: I'm going to start reading the Bible. We can't thank you all enough for joining us through the Clint Eastwood ouvre. Your support, however worrisome to your friends and family, has meant a ton to us. We set out to make a podcast that we'd like to listen to, and it turned out that whatever's wrong with us has been afflicting other people too. Thank you to all the friends we've made through doing the show, thank you to the brave listeners who simply download episodes and leave us alone about it, thank you to the folks who support us on Patreon, thank you to the clearly more mentally stable folks who don't do that, and thank you to the handful of dangerous freaks who send us too many emails. We love you all. We'd also like to say a huge thank you to all the unbelievable guests who have joined us over the past year and change. You made us feel like real boys and you made the show a lot better, too. Our undying gratitude to Forrest Tiffany, John Semley, Eric Markovits, Chris Alfonso, Nick Newman, Dr. Joe Street, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory, Dr. Laurie R. Lambert, Jesse Thorn, Jordannah Elizabeth, Jonah Jeng, Marie Bardi-Salinas, Chadd Harbold, Jack Sinclair, Nima Shirazi, Jesse Hawken, Molly Lambert, Jamie Loftus, Jarrod Murray, Glenn Heath, Jr., Comrade Yui, Bilge Ebiri, Andrew Ti, Ian Green, Jordan Fish, Ray Tintori, and Will Sloan. We are truly lucky punks. We're taking a couple weeks off to get ready for the next thing and to apologize to our partners for all of this, but we'll see you in March with all-new, all-nude episodes of Pod Casty For Me. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: | |||
| Schrader Ep. 33: Unproduced Schrader | 25 Oct 2024 | 02:13:21 | |
We're taking a detour this week to talk about some Paul Schrader projects that never made it to the screen - the Montreal-set gangster film QUÉBECOIS!, the Elio Petri remake INVESTIGATION, psychedelic murder mystery THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION, film festival-set stage plays Berlinale and The Cleopatra Club, biopics EIGHT SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF HANK WILLIAMS and GERSHWIN, and the Bret Easton Ellis-scripted shark thriller BAIT. We read PDFs so you don't have to! Unless you want to, in which case they're linked below. Ian also makes a medium-exciting discovery about one of the screenplays he read...listen to find out what the h--- we're talking about. Further Reading: INVESTIGATION by Paul Schrader THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Paul Schrader The Cleopatra Club by Paul Schrader EIGHT SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF HANK WILLIAMS by Paul Schrader
Further Viewing: 24 HOURS OR MORE (Groulx, 1973) INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION (Petri, 1970) ODYSSEY INTO THE MIND'S EYE (Boydstun, 1996) MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (Schrader, 1985) THE CANYONS (Schrader, 2013) INTO THE BLUE (Stockwell, 2005)
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| Ep. 55: Cry Macho (2021) with Will Sloan | 10 Feb 2024 | 01:54:31 | |
Here we are, folks - the end of Clint Eastwood's filmography to date. We've unlocked all the legendary weapons and retailer-exclusive armor sets and are ready to do battle with the final boss of Pod Casty For Me: writer and podcaster Will Sloan! Will joins us for a relaxed and agreeable discussion of Eastwood's relaxed and agreeable 2021 neo-Western CRY MACHO and some thoughts on the man's long career, his always-evolving relationship to images of masculinity, his love of animals, and his confounding age. A lovely end to the Clint Eastwood project - for now! - and a lot fewer attacks on the personal character of David Zaslav than you'd expect. Plus a teaser of what we're doing next - although you'll have to come back for next week's Clintclusions episode to find out for real. Give it a listen or we'll make you live at your dad's house! Topics include: if we've ever disliked Clint the man, final (and almost-final) films, Al Ruddy, the film's decades-long development process, Ian discusses the film's vision of Mexico, machismo, strong dogs, connections to more or less every movie we've ever covered, Will's recent zine, The Journal of Stoogeological Studies, pig triage, and more. Follow Will Sloan: https://twitter.com/WillSloanEsq
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| Ep. 54: Richard Jewell (2019) with Hit Factory | 03 Feb 2024 | 02:27:47 | |
You, dear listener, will know his name...and the truth. That's right, we're going long as hell on Clint's 2019 A.C.A.B. masterpiece RICHARD JEWELL with our biological parents, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory!! Join us for a thorough investigation of Eastwood's evolving relationship to images of masculinity, the film's treatment of the Kathy Scruggs character, #NOlympics, and the wonderful performances of Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates, and Sam Rockwell. Special movie, special episode! Never talk to the cops! Topics include: Clint's decades, American flag paraphernalia, Newt Gingrich, disc golf, the Bruce McGill courtroom scene in THE INSIDER, cinematic treatment of journalists, cinematic treatment of fat people, cinematic treatment of diarrhea, this movie's many connections to THE WATERBOY, and more. Follow Aaron and Carlee: https://twitter.com/HitFactoryPod https://twitter.com/deepimpactcrier
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| Ep. 53: The Mule (2018) | 26 Jan 2024 | 02:19:02 | |
Hop in the Lincoln Mark LT, listeners, we've got a duffel bag full of conversation about THE MULE! Join us for a long-haul chat about Clint's 2018 old-man-drug-trafficker drama about shitty fathers and late capitalism. Spoiler for what we thought of the movie: we both loved it! We talk drug war cinema, the film as a sort of GRAN TORINO REDUX, the film as Alison Eastwood's personal 15:17 TO PARIS, Sondra Locke's death just before its release, and lots more. Hee-haw, folks! (Actually I looked up a video of the sounds mules make and none of them are hee-haw.) Topics include: hybrid animals, demeaning jobs, the film's real-life inspiration Leo Sharpe, Cooper's A STAR IS BORN, Taissa Farmiga's relationship to Vera Farmiga, Jake recounts a nightmare, the "Mexico Filter" and this film's lack of it, Jukt Micronics, Noel G., the VFW, the roots of American Empire in the Philippines, Waffle House, and, of course, the threesomes. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Ep. 52: The 15:17 To Paris (2018) with John Semley | 19 Jan 2024 | 01:51:26 | |
Life has been catapulting us toward this moment...the episode where we lose our minds singing the praises of THE 15:17 TO PARIS with returning guest, writer and Slow Learners Podcast host John Semley! Join us for several hours of exaltant analysis of Clint Eastwood's 2018 avant garde docudrama, starring the real guys who really tackled a heavily armed shirtless man on a train. We really get into it here, folks: millennial masculinity amid the bleak futurelessness in which we've all spent most of our lives, re-enactments/non-professional actors in cinema history, and the transcendental quality of Dutch nightclubs. Listen up or we'll kick you out of Air Force sewing class! Topics include: Clint as optimistic Hill/McBride, trains, Clint making some big and unequivocally not-lazy choices, Ian invokes Bresson a bunch, millennial grammar, the supporting cast of sitcom players, major breakthoughs on Clintertextuality, and more! Follow John Semley: https://twitter.com/johnsemley3000
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| Ep. 51: Sully (2016) with Nick Newman | 12 Jan 2024 | 01:27:54 | |
Brace for impact, listeners! Returning guest Nick Newman of The Film Stage joins us for a white-knuckle journey through Clint Eastwood's 2016 chronicle of real-life heroism and not-so-real-life stifling bureaucracy, SULLY. We talk about the film's relationship to real events, the oddness of turning this particular story into a movie, and Nick unlocks something huge about late Clint for us. Great ep, and we even kept it under the film's running time! Listen or you're an NTSB stooge! Topics include: Ian's Birthday Trutherism, January movies, Christian Petzold's love for DEN OF THIEVES, memories of the Miracle on the Hudson, Jake's Michael Rappreport, Nick scares the shit out of us by dryly pretending he's about to start a Woody Allen podcast, Robert Zemeckis's FLIGHT, some upsetting things the city of New York did to innocent birds, mustaches, and more. Follow Nick Newman: https://twitter.com/Nick_Newman
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| Ep. 50: American Sniper (2014) | 05 Jan 2024 | 01:49:20 | |
This is a big one, folks: for our 50th episode (arguably), we're taking aim at Clint Eastwood's monster hit military biopic AMERICAN SNIPER. Is this an anti-war film, as Clint claims? Is it a glorification of military power? Is it either? Why does Chris Kyle's hat say "Charlie" on it? What is Bradley Cooper's whole deal? For real, though, we get into a lot of pretty heavy stuff on this one, and we're extremely smart about it. They say we're the deadliest minds-men in podcast history, with over 200 confirmed Good Points each. Listen and enjoy! Topics include: trucks, healing uses of orange juice, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, hedge fund guys wrestling on the floor of a bar, military intelligence, MAESTRO (sort of), texting while driving, and much more. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Holiday Bonus: The Chair Speech (2012) | 29 Dec 2023 | 01:59:35 | |
Here's a little gift for you all this holiday season: we're going deep on Clint's infamous impromptu speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention where he talked to an invisible Barack Obama in a chair. Plus a bunch of our usual bullshit! Enjoy and see you in 2024! https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Ep. 49: Jersey Boys (2014) with Marie Bardi-Salinas | 22 Dec 2023 | 02:09:31 | |
Oh, what an ep! We're singing in beautiful harmony about Clint's 2014 Broadway adaptation JERSEY BOYS with returning guest Marie Bardi-Salinas (now with extra last name)! Join us as we talk directly to the camera about jukebox musicals, New Jersey's cultural dominance in the 2000s, falsetto masculinity, and why exactly Clint was the one to make this movie. Plus, Ian gets mad at Jake for liking this movie despite claiming that he doesn't like musicals only for Marie to mostly talk him out of liking it that much. A real fun one, gang - listen to it or you aren't from Jersey. Topics include: our high school bands, late December 1963, The Sopranos, the Philadelphia-Jersey connection, Marshall Brickman, a bunch of real-life mob guys, a humiliating relitigation of Jake's pronunication of "Pulitzer," the Beach Boys, and a good chunk of Jersey Shore talk. Follow Marie Bardi-Salinas: https://twitter.com/mariebardi
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| Ep. 48: Trouble With The Curve (2012) with Chadd Harbold | 15 Dec 2023 | 01:46:36 | |
Take me out to the freaking podcast! It's time for us to talk Clint Eastwood's final (to date) film acting for another director, Robert Lorenz's 2012 father-daughter baseball dramedy TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. And who better to join us than producer-director, former aspiring pro baseballer, and returning guest Chadd Harbold? We discuss who exactly directed this thing, peak Amy Adams, the demon Justin Timberlake, sabermetrics, and more. Lousy movie, great ep. Check it out! Topics include: screenplay theft, MONEYBALL, faith-based cinema, "You Are My Sunshine," speculation about Clint's acting coda, high school sports phenoms, clogging, the scene with the horse, Super Monkey Ball, and more. Follow Chadd Harbold: https://twitter.com/chaddwithtwoDs
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| Ep. 47: J. Edgar (2011) | 08 Dec 2023 | 02:04:11 | |
Who better to cover a film about unrequited homoerotic lust so powerful it maybe destroyed US civil liberties forever than your two favorite co-hosts of Pod Casty For Me? That's right, it's just us guys this week covering J. EDGAR, Clint's 2011 biopic of FBI Director and anticommunist monster J. Edgar Hoover! We're going deep on this one, talking FBI history, gerontocracy, the film's depiction of Hoover's mysterious personal life, the prosthetics, how we think Clint feels about all this, and a lot more MLK talk than the film really gets into. Plus a lot more. Check it out or we'll know you're a fed! Topics include: I, FRANKENSTEIN, oysters, Armie Hammer, Leonardo DiCaprio's accent, who everybody looks like, THE MATRIX, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, term limits, civil servant pathologies, Emma Goldman and a brief history of American anarchism, Naomi Watts, Jake goes on a weird tear about carpentry YouTubers, Dustin Lance Black's haircut circa 2011, MLK/FBI, and we take strong positions on such topics as "pigs," "loyalty," and "being tall." https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
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| Schrader Ep. 32: First Reformed (2017) with Hit Factory | 18 Oct 2024 | 02:28:00 | |
This is a big one, folks. Paul Schrader's 2017 FIRST REFORMED, a climate-doom riff on WINTER LIGHT and DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, kicked off a new phase of his career that's still unfolding as we speak. Phases unfold, right? Anyway, to help us unpack both this tremendous work of transcendental cinema and our own crushing despair, we're joined once again by our great friends Aaron and Carlee from the Hit Factory podcast. Is it illegal to describe a bomb vest as a form of prayer? We'll find out together! Further Reading: "Paul Schrader on How ‘First Reformed’ Reflects His Own Despair Over Climate Crisis" "Paul Schrader on First Reformed’s Provocative Ending and Its Many Influences" IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, 2023 WWF Backgrounder: Comparing climate impacts at 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C and 4°C Further Viewing: DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Bresson, 1951) WINTER LIGHT (Bergman, 1963)
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| Ep. 46: Hereafter (2010) with Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori | 01 Dec 2023 | 01:59:03 | |
Hold on to your hats, folks - we're talking Clint's 2010 near-death experience drama HEREAFTER with filmmakers and To The White Sea podcast hosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! It's a wide-ranging chat about hyperlink cinema, visual effects, Matt Damon, and how we all fell for this sort of corny movie a lot more than we meant to. Plus, Jake has a big brain read about capitalist realism and Ray surprises us with a revelation about his friend Doug. Great ep, check it out or we'll haunt you! Topics include: Top 9 films, Bobbies Deerfield and Bacala, Franz Dameh, PizzaExpress, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Peter Morgan's weird monarchist fixation, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cecile de France (who is really de Belgium!), filmographies, equating the 2004 tsunami and the 7/7 London bombings, the absolute god Richard Kind, what's going on with Derek Jacobi, and more! Follow Jordan and Ray: https://twitter.com/RayTintori https://twitter.com/tothewhitesea Check out the video Jordan directed for MGMT's "Mother Nature": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDzIO5ahGE8
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| Ep. 45: Invictus (2009) with Ian Green | 24 Nov 2023 | 01:45:43 | |
I am the captain of my freaking PODCAST, more like! This week we're talking Clint Eastwood's 2009 true-story South African rugby drama INVICTUS, and Jake's other friend Ian - Ian Green - is joining the scrum! You might call this episode "IANVICTUS" if you weren't concerned about SEO or whatever!!! We're talking accents, sports movies, Nelson Mandela's legacy, the bad music, whether Clint really wanted to make this movie, and more. Plus, a quiz segment that goes perfectly, no issues at all with the quiz segment. Check it out, okes! Hope that's OK to say, not at all confident. Topics include: Ian Green's experiences attending pro rugby games, who we'd want to play us in a movie, Jake takes a few swings at an Afrikaner accent, historical context missing from the film, connections to modern apartheid in Palestine, whether this should just have been a documentary, and we talk about the "Mandela effect" for like five seconds because that's all it deserves. Follow Ian Green:
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| Ep. 44: Gran Torino (2008) with Andrew Ti | 17 Nov 2023 | 02:03:52 | |
Fasten your seatbelts, listeners: we're taking Clint's 2008 hit GRAN TORINO for a spin with racism expert (and native Michigander) Andrew Ti! This is a loaded one, gang: we talk about the film's lingering effect on the Hmong diaspora community, if it could have been made about any ethnic minority, whether the many slurs are intended to be funny, fatherly advice, and we try to sell Andrew on Clint's many other, better films. Plus there's a lot of Ann Arbor talk because Jake's dad is from there too. Great ep, check it out or we'll steal your car! Topics include: doing drugs in class, ROMEO MUST DIE, Jake tries to make the case that this could have been a remake of TOKYO STORY, hamburger pizza, ping-pong humiliation, 8 MILE, star Bee Vang's 2021 op-ed about the film's contribution to anti-Asian racism, going from gamer to racer, and more! Read Bee Vang's op-ed: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/covid-19-era-s-anti-asian-racism-isn-t-new-ncna1258184 Follow Andrew Ti:
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| Ep. 43: Changeling (2008) with Bilge Ebiri | 10 Nov 2023 | 01:51:31 | |
Get ready to sue the LAPD, everybody: this week we're examining Clint's 2008 child abduction docudrama CHANGELING with critic and writer Bilge Ebiri! From the metatextual depth of Angelina Jolie's performance to the film's status as Clint's first ACAB movie to ongoing moves by the state to use forced institutionalization against unhoused and other "inconvenient" people to Bilge's childhood memories of Clint (and of Peter Medak's THE CHANGELING), this is a real corker of a chat! Excited to share it with you, our beloved listeners, whom we love as if you were our own uncircumcised children. Topics include: taking Bilge to task for something he wrote in 2014, public transit, Mike Leigh's ANOTHER YEAR for some reason, SALT, Universal Studios Blu-rays, the 2008 Universal backlot fire, a PHANTOM MENACE connection, celebrity activsm, the history of anti-institutionalization movements, comparing CHANGELING's execution scene to those in TRUE CRIME and A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING, conservative art, and more! Here are Bilge's pieces on Clint that we mention in the episode: https://www.vulture.com/2010/10/will_this_clint_eastwood_movie.html https://ebiri.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-clint-matters.html https://ebiri.blogspot.com/2011/07/outlaw-josey-wales-mending-patchwork.html Follow Bilge Ebiri: https://twitter.com/BilgeEbiri https://www.vulture.com/author/bilge-ebiri/
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