Joining us at our big, round podcast table for Alan Rudolph's dive into historical drama - from Pacino Pod, it's Jane Altoids! We talk about Rudolph reuniting with Robert Altman, the Algonquin roundtable, how Bob got two different studios to bankroll this, the copius research and method that went into creating this whole thing, and how that's maybe the least interesting part of what makes this a good film, and what Jennifer Jason Leigh brings to playing Dorothy Parker.

I'm seeing double... FOUR Matthew Modines! You've already guessed it, it's a movie we've been anticipating in this series based on it's bizarre premise alone - that doesn't actually turn out to be as weird as you'd think. Joined by our new pal Etan Weisfogel, a writer, occasional critic, and certified Rudolph Enjoyer. He helps us break down EQUINOX - a film about twin Matthew Modines seperated at birth that has big things to say about class, connection in a broken world, urban decay, the lottery, and disassociative mental conditions - thank god we've solved all that stuff and can just look back and laugh. Join us please

In 1991, Alan Rudolph receives a call from Demi Moore ONE day before they're about to shoot this little movie she's producing, MORTAL THOUGHTS. The original director's been fired, the production company is gonna pull back the money unless they can get someone in under the wire, what are they gonna do?? Well, get yourself a gun, and let's head on over to Jersey town to tune into this week's episode, and find out exactly what happens. Alan Rudolph being knighted as Captain-Save-a-Film, New Jersey accents, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's razor-sharp instincts, how he managed to imprint his own touch on it in a matter of days. All of this and sooo much more on ALTMANIA:FRIENDS OF BOB.

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Live at Largo, it's LOVE AT LARGE. The Alan Rudolph movie that feels vaguely like Trouble in Mind, transplanted to a 1990s Portland, with an added hitchcock-ian "wrong man" story, that is also a screwball comedy, and Tom Berenger talks like Beetlejuice, and there's a cameo even more insane than Divine in TiM. So what did we think of it? Well, perhaps one of us was more into it than the other, but the only way to truly unlock that secret, you gotta listen to the dang episode you nonce! I'm not gonna spoil the episode right here, what are you crazy?

From all the times we say "postmodern" on the show, we finally get to POST Moderns, Alan Rudolph's THE MODERNS, from 1988. The Altmania boys are together at last, recording in the same room, and now have to make eye contact with each other. Scary stuff. We manage to get through it as we talk about Este's trip up to Seattle, Scarecrow video, eating Doritos, watching this movie together + the documentary film packaged in the blu ray, art and artifice, recreating myths, Keith Carradine painting, so much awesome stuff to get into with THE MODERNS

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From podcast to GODcast! That’s right, folks, today we’re covering the 2003 Tom Shadyac film BRUCE ALMIGHTY. And this week's guest is a match made in heaven for this show, it's our research comrade and friend-in-Rudolph, Jason Miller! He checks in with us as we cross the halfway mark on our Alan Rudolph series. We see how good of a job we're doing, key players we should keep an eye out for, and we talk about some COOL unproduced works from the director himself. From there, we dive into this fascinating movie, how much fun it has with dream logic, the "heaven movie genre", Rudolph cutting the budget to do more clever effects. Fantastic movie, listen in!

We knew this guy was trouble when he walked in, it's Aaron from the Hit Factory Podcast returning to discuss Alan Rudolph's 1985 neo-noir set-in-the-past-but-also-in-the-future, shot right there in beautiful Seattle, it's TROUBLE IN MIND. We get into some overall Rudolph discussion and share some big PTA news, before we jump right in with Keith Carradine in cool suits and funky hair, Divine, the Reagan '80s, prosperity in the US, and Ryan peppers in some fun Seattle facts as we get into the first hometown feature for his half of the show. It's a lot of fun, you do NOT want to miss it, truly.

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Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be podcasters. It's another edition of Altmania: Friends of Bob, continuing right along in our Alan Rudolph series. This time we're joined again by a returning champion, our pal from Podside Picnic, Chris Woodward. We get into this interesting leap in budget for ol' Rudolph, working alongside Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson in a fun little film about what it means to make art in the US of A. What does it mean to be an artist, to get tied up in the financial end of the music biz, and to avoid all those fat gangsters in suits? Well, you'll just have to tune in to find that out now won't you. Y'all come back now, ya hear?

Choose me!! That's what this episode is telling you in your feed right now, press play, press the little button and listen to me!! We're back from a short break, joined by our friend Esmé Holden, a wonderful film writer and cool person all around to discuss Alan Rudolph's biggest independent film CHOOSE ME. We get into the film's many playful depictions genre, artifice, and mood; its many wonderful characters and how they intermingle within the sparse Rudolphian spaces. And unfortunately about halfway through we also learn about the passing of David Lynch, which was a real bummer, and we got it aaaall on tape! Listen in, and enjoy this episode because it's a "good one".