By Dave Maher and Madeline Lane-McKinley
4.9
88 ratings
The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.
For our final episode of this season on school films, Eleanor Russell helps us emotionally process the recent documentary about the Brat Pack, Brats (2024), and St. Elmo's Fire (1985).
Spoilers: self-indulgence, repression, saxophones, sweat, swirlies, the "wet look is in," not getting over shit, Joel Schumacher's filmography, cocaine, Georgetown, Demi Moore's mansion, most of these guys are rapists, matching denim shirts, undeserving of incredible original scores, stalking women, incredible apartments.
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This week we're joined by Kayte Terry, host of Tender Subject and Fangs for the Memories (a Buffy and horror podcast), to discuss The Faculty (1998).
Spoilers: horror in the late '90s, Jon Stewart teaches science, Dawson's Creek talk, reverse She's All That-ing, it's good to do drugs, blondes from out of town, horrible use of hair gel, gay boys on TV, misunderstood endings.
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This week we covered the most contemporary film from our season "School Days," the queer-absurdist high school sex comedy Bottoms (2023).
Spoilers: murder, blood, "main guys," cheerleaders, absurdism, making fun of skinny culture / being body positive and making the joke anyway, pineapple juice, beware of those who have cell phones.
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We talked about even more graduation movies, this week with Genre Reveal Party series regular Jasmine Bridges. We paired two unlikely films in a double feature, and found a lot of connective tissue...
Spoilers: Jasmine and Madeline and their Ghost World thing, we've got problems with Ben, movies that end with bus scenes, ambivalence about adulthood, generational traitors, going from one diner to the next diner, dying your hair twice in a day, getting married too young, swimming pools, missing out on the rev.
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This week we talk about two canonical gen-x graduation movies: Reality Bites and Kicking and Screaming (no, not the one with Will Ferrell).
Spoilers: 90s bisexual cinema, friendship cinema, lots of kinds of "cinema," geriatric millennial talk, chain smoking, Troy was a fuckboi but maybe Madeline forgives him because he gives good apology, more chain smoking, Noah Baumbach's directorial debut, MTV, gas stations and the food we buy at them, AIDS, jobs, and what do they mean by "reality" anyways man?
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It's our second double feature of student uprising films, including perhaps the most legendary movie in the genre, 1968's if... And Class of 1984 is also here. Joining us is Sean O’Brien, a writer and researcher who teaches at the University of Bristol.
Spoilers: animal sounds, the worst movie we’ve ever watched for the podcast, the young Michael J Fox, ammunition, bad punks, vengeance, Mr Holland’s Opus but murderous.
Check out Sean's lecture series for 87 Press.
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This week we talk about two excellent films from the 1970s about two very different contexts of student uprising. We're joined by E Conner, editor of The Weakly and TANC organizer in the Bay Area.
Spoilers: teen runaways, rioting, Meinhof talk, the young Matt Dillon, being young and doing crimes, movies that end in the back of a bus with ambivalent facial expressions, German prison slang, poor Johnny, don't trust adults, more rumors about book titles.
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This week we're joined by Milo Muise to discuss what we're calling the "School Scandals Double Feature," May December (2023) and Notes on a Scandal (2006).
Both films deal with the sexualization of the teacher/student relationship, abusive power dynamics, obsession, and divas.
We felt this was a fascinating double feature, but we also flirt with the idea of this as a trilogy with Tar (2022). Maybe we'll talk about Tar in a future episode...
Spoilers: Susan Sontag, obsession, genres vs. sensibilities, diarists are creepy, Julianne Moore went for that lisp, Todd Haynes-let's meet up in Portland and please also employ Dave, acting is embarrassing, #justiceforCharlesMelton, the concept creep of 'camp,' scenes in mirrors, the clash of obvious metaphors and repressive characters is the gap between interpretation and representation, lots of talk about artifice, pet stores, failed attempts to discuss Tar.
Milo Muise is a writer and educator based in Portland, OR.
Learn about their writing and more here: https://milormuise.wixsite.com/mrmew
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We put together another double-feature for this week called "All Teachers Are Cops." We watched a couple '90s, VHS classics: Dangerous Minds (1995) and Kindergarten Cop (1990).
Spoilers: white savior complexes, child actors, "police school," sweat pants, leather jackets, Coolio, junk food diets, Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't won an Oscar, watching women eat in films in the '90s, grade abolition, karate, Emilio gets shot, Penelope Ann Miller's career, Ivan Reitman / Schwarzenegger collaborations, height differentials, Linda Hunt's problematic Oscar win, pedagogy, Peak Ferret.
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This week we discussed two films about precocious high school students that came out in 1998 and 1999, which were both second features made by precocious indie filmmakers: Wes Anderson's Rushmore and Alexander Payne's Election. These films have a lot in common, but they also have very different takes on the adolescent / mid-life crisis dynamics they stir up.
We also listen to a call-in from Johanna Isaacson about Slumber Party Massacre, as we continue looking at representations of school in film.
Spoilers: bee sting sequences, Bueller... Bueller..., American Beauty, justice for Margaret Yang, unnecessary aquariums, Alexander Payne and teenage girls, fencing clubs, hand jobs and fingering, women who smoke cigarettes in Wes Anderson films, the power of theater (again), please cast Dave in another Dick Wolf production.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley
The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.