Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast

Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast

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Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast episodes

  • The Birds (1963)
    We’re winding down February’s theme of WOMEN IN CRISIS and for our last vintage selection we got a case of Crisis in front of and behind the camera. We couldn’t wrap up without a little Hitchcock and the struggles of Tippi Hedren regarding some calculated aviary beasts. Alfred Hitchcock wanted Tippi to be his personal leading lady human doll that he could control and throw birds at. He got two films out of her before she ran away and today’s talk is of the first. We’re discussing the 1963 horror hit “THE BIRDS” starring Tippi, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy & Suzanne Pleshette. The birds couldn’t have picked a better idiot town than Bodega Bay to spiral these humans off into a local apocalypse. If I were a seagull, it would be fun as hell to dive bomb folks. I would be just like a typical seagull in that way. They should have had some California Condors plucking the small children off the street. Like any other horror that came after it, this movie is full of human beings making the worst decisions. Here’s a link if it still works: https://archive.org/details/the-birds
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    35 min
  • A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
    We’re heading into the last leg of February’s theme of WOMEN IN CRISIS and the mental state of women this month has been pretty rough. Imagine being a housewife in the 1970s and you’re pretty much losing it. Sure, you can get away with being “eccentric” much of the time but eventually the mask slips and all the devotion in the world can’t get in the way of the struggle. You can question the intensity and reactions of how love plays out, people certainly aren’t their best, but love may win no matter how bad it gets. Even in the face of madness. We break the seal on John Cassavetes with his 1974 film “A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE” featuring intense and emotional performances by Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk. Middle class dynamics have never been more tense while at the same time, decompressed, as though we’re an awkward guest peering on a marriage scene that we can’t quite figure out. So long as they figure it out then maybe, just maybe, it can work out. Of course you can watch it online. Try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cur1RY4N58s&themeRefresh=1
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    Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249
    Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers
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    38 min
  • Anatomy Of A Fall (2023)
    We’re almost done discussing all of the Best Picture Oscar nominations and we’re talking about the other Sandra Hüller nominated movie in a VERY UNSPOILERY way. A crafty little mystery that is not so much about the mystery itself, but the culmination of pieces that form guilt and animosity in long term relationships. Did she kill her husband or did he do that himself? We’re going to the lovely French Alps in Justine Triet’s “ANATOMY OF A FALL” starring Sandra Hüller, Samuel Theis, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Garner & Antoine Reinhartz. Imagine if all of the troubles of your relationships were revealed? How do you think people would look at you?
    Anatomy of a Fall’s Oscar Nominations
    Best Picture
    Best Actress in a Leading Role
    Best Director
    Writing / Original Screenplay
    Best Editing
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    17 min
  • Gaslight (1944)
    It’s WOMEN IN CRISIS all month long and our classic film discussion today is a little bit different. Most of our selections actually have women going through a detrimental mental change Our heroine in this movie is being completely manipulated into thinking she is crazy. Based on a play by Patrick Hamilton, this tale coined a very common term to signify emotional and mental manipulation in a relationship. Of course we’re referencing the term “gaslighting” and term was popularized by George Cukor’s 1944 film adaptation of the play, “GASLIGHT”. It stars Ingrid Bergman in full range of love and despair, an impressively villainous Charles Boyer and an extremely intuitive Joseph Cotton. It also features Angela Lansbury in her peak “would” era. Let’s be honest, we’d hit it in her “Murder She Wrote” era as well. She’d probably go crazier. Wilder. More experience there. Think about it, man. Here’s a link we found to this movie: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i5me5
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    30 min
  • The Zone Of Interest (2023)
    Some extra fun this month as we explore the rest of what we haven’t seen amongst the 2024 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINATIONS. Well, we’re skipping the fun for this particular week because we finally get to the disturbing and unsettling Jonathan Glazer film about the Holocaust that centers specifically on its perpetrators. Perpetrators with wives and children and pets. Husbands who seek to rise within the mundane bureaucracy of an ethnostate that administers horror just on the other side of a wall. You can’t see it but you can hear it. Thank god only the characters in the film could smell it but too many seemed rather used to it. Glazer said his new film, “THE ZONE OF INTEREST” starring Christian Friedel & Sandra Hüller, is about the present. Where we find ourselves in the present, drifting along the wake of the holocaust’s legacy, leaves us with plenty to ponder and a surprising amount to observe. The past isn’t so far gone.
    THE ZONE OF INTEREST’s Oscar Nominations:
    Best Picture
    Best International Feature
    Best Director
    Best Writing / Adapted Screenplay
    Best Sound
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    Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers
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    32 min
  • Possession (1981)
    Breaking up is quite hard to do. Especially when you’re not yourself and controlled by some entity that makes you into a really bad parent. You can’t feel pain, that’s a plus, but poor Bob. Polish director, Andrzej Żuławski pulled directly from his life as a filmmaker and cuckold from Poland and set to make a psychological horror right by the wall of Cold War era Berlin. It’s the only Andrzej Żuławski film made in English. Isabell Adjani and Sam Neill very intensely star in this cult classic about the cruelty of divorce and expatriotism, the 1981 film “POSSESSION”. This shit is wild. Think “Repulsion” meets “Hellraiser” with a side of “The Thing” and that still barely explains this strange ride of a movie. That subway scene will forever live inside of our brains. Oh, look! Here’s a link to the movie right here!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wexIzvSgMF0 Highly recommended! (hope it still works) We have fun at the end of this video. Hope we don’t get a strike on it but if certain stuff can’t happen on YouTube then you should be able to hear full audio on the podcast version. Links below.
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    Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249
    Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers
    Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought
    36 min
  • Blonde (2022)
    February’s official theme is WOMEN IN CRISIS and people went through a crisis getting this movie made and then people went through a crisis watching it. Our one “biopic” this month and who else could it be about than Norma Jean Baker AKA Marilyn Monroe. There’s a lot of Marilyn Monroe biopics to choose from but our theme is WOMEN IN CRISIS and never has the icon been portrayed in such a damaged way as she was in Andrew Dominik’s controversial NC-17 Netflix release “BLONDE” starring Ana de Armas in a very underrated performance as Norma Jeane. It’s loosely based on a novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. It also stars Bobby Cannavale as Joe DiMaggio & Adrien Brody as Arthur Miller. There’s talking fetuses in this movie, folks. This fever dream was rather divisive amongst audiences, as you can imagine, with it being relentless in ways that feel almost laughably insane. I mean, there’s not much to laugh at unless you’re Bob who would giggle through a funeral. That warped fuck. The talking fetus was funny though. I’m actually watching the movie right now as I type this up. Oh, she’s on her way to meet the President. JFK, one of our most beloved and honored leaders. I wonder what they’re going to talk abou…oh….oh wow….
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    37 min
  • Repulsion (1965)
    It’s time to go vintage with our theme of WOMEN IN CRISIS and today’s movie discussion involves a certain director who should know a little something about that type of thing. Yes, we are definitely talking about Roman Polanski and his 1965 film, “REPULSION”, is his first English speaking film. It stars Catherine Deneuve as a young and beautiful French woman in London making her way while living with her sister. All the men are drawn to her. Many pine for her. They want to constantly be around her. The problem? She’s disgusted by them. What seeks to keep and “protect” her also repulses her. She might be losing it a bit. That’s one thing you will see a lot of this month. Women losing their mind. We’re not even halfway though and it’s been 90% that. The rest of the week will be no different. Poor Carol. Can’t these men just leave her alone? Polanski is a creep but this movie is quite good and you can watch it for nothing here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7znfbq
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    Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers
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    33 min

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Bob Sham and Angela (former Documenteers hosts)have expanded their film discussion into broader waters with MOVIEHUMPERS. This feed is the one stop shop for our classic and current shows.