Arthouse Legends Podcast

In 1985, Australian auteur Peter Weir came to America to make his first Hollywood film. For this effort, he chose Witness about a young Amish boy who sees a murder and the police officer who is trying to protect him and his mother. Nominated for Academy Awards, including one for Harrison Ford, does Witness deserved the attention or should it be buried in the corn? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster head to Amish Country to find out.

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Just after World War II, Italy was in the midst of great hardship. Director Vittorio De Sica, utilizing practical locations and unknown actors, created a film that captured the hardship of a man whose employment is at risk when his bicycle is stolen. Having only one day to find it, he and his young son traverse Rome in a desperate search. But does this film deserve to be found or should time have stolen it for good? MovieDude Eric, Kent, and Lobster lace up their sneakers to find out.

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In the final installment of Arthouse Summer, the Arthouse Legends crew take on the one filmmaker no one expected to be touched; Michael Bay. In 1996, fresh off his unexpectedly successful feature debut, he released his second film with famous action producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer with action icon Sean Connery along with esteemed actors Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris called The Rock about a convict and a federal agent trying to bring down an esteemed general and his forces that have holed up on Alcatraz with 81 hostages and tons of nerve gas. But does this film deserve the adoration of critics and action fans or should it have been victim to one of Bay's trademark explosions?

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In 1975, a young director named Steven Spielberg to tasked to helm an adaptation to Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws as his first big budget film. Set in a New England island, the story of three men's fight with a menacing great white shark notoriously kept people off the beach in its wake. But does the film deserve a bigger boat or a deep watery grave? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster head out to sea to find out.

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In 1985, Director Robert Zimeckis teamed up with former film school pal Steven Spielberg to make his most ambitious film at the time about an 80s teen who is sent 30 years into the past, meeting up and complicating the lives of the younger versions of his parents, not to mention his mad scientist mentor. Back to the Future would be the most successful film that year and become one of the most iconic films of that decade. But does the film deserve that acclaim or should it be erased from existence? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster hit 88 miles per hour to find out.

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1939 was considered a great year in film, but it was also the year of the first genuine summer blockbuster, a film directed a both adults and children based on Frank L. Baum's book, The Wizard of Oz. The story of a Kansas farmgirl who finds herself in a fantasy world after being swept up in a cyclone has become a mainstay in the imaginations of generations and considered one of the best films ever made. But does the film deserve such high esteem or should it be destroyed by a pack of flying monkeys? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster follow the Yellow Brick Road to find out.

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Welcome to the first episode of Arthouse Summer, our month-long look at Summer Blockbusters that changed pop culture forever. The first episode in this series looks at not just one but TWO films that did so when filmmaker James Cameron, along with mega-star Arnold Schwarzenegger as well as sci-fi icon Linda Hamilton, took audiences on a chase against advanced robots determined to alter the future by eliminating a young woman, then her son in both The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

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1994 was the year we saw the world through a simple man's eyes, learned what a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is called in France and that singing lions can stage Shakepearian tragedies. But the one film nobody saw coming that year was The Shawshank Redemption, a film that only a few short years later would be deemed one of the films of all time. Directed by Frank Darabount and based on a novella by Stephen King, this is the story of two convicts serving life sentences whose friendship gets them through the hardships of life on the inside. But does the film deserve the acclaim it got or does it deserve 2 months in the Hole? Eric, Kent & Lobster take a cell to find out.

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After suffering from what be his most monumental failure at the time, director Quentin Tarantino, feeling unsure of his future, did what anybody would do in his position, make his first big-budget feature featuring Brad Pitt as his main star (only to give him very little screen time) and a little-known German actor named Cristoph Waltz as his most iconic villain. Set in Nazi-occupied France, he set a stage of revenge, wish fulfilment and cinema that could only be named Inglourious Basterds. But does the film deserve the red carpet or a most horrible, violent death? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster drop in to find out.

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In 1967, comedic writer and actor Mel Brooks created one of the most bombastic films of all time about two unscrupulous Broadway producers who are out to make the worst musical of all time, simply called The Producers. The film garnered critial acclaim all the way to Academy Awards, then 30 years later at the Tonys. But does the film deserve the standing ovation or does it deserve 10-to-25 in the can? Eric, Kent & Lobster invests to find out.

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