Tim and Jen host the freakiest guest they know, the lovable Bitter Karella of Midnight Pals fame, to chat about one of the freakiest movies she knows, Dr. Caligari!

Screen Anarchy has a wonderful gallery of Caligari director Stephen Sayadian’s work,going all the way back to his earliest days as an editorial illustrator. Included are some reminisces about Dr. Caligari!

Read a 2024 interview with Caligari co-writer Jerry Stahl, in which he speaks candidly about sobriety and being an artist in a world ruled by money.

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Jen and Tim unearth one of the most famous unproduced screenplays of all time, Clair Noto's dark sci-fi tale The Tourist.

Read the Clair Noto interview that reminded Jen that this screenplay exists!

Read the screenplay itself at the Internet Archive— highly recommended

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You can watch the BBC Moving Pictures segment on The Tourist, featuring the screenwriter herself, on YouTube.

See more of Giger's concept art for The Tourist at the charmingly Web 1.0 official Giger website.

Shelley Hack?!

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Tim and Jen experience a stodgy treatment of Hollywood avarice, The Oscar.

Friend of the show Josh Olson does indeed appreciate the corniness of this movie— so much so that you can hear him join comedian Patton Oswalt and filmmaker Erik Nelson for the audio commentary on the Kino Lorber blu-ray!

If you’re dying to read an academic paper on The Oscar, have at it.

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Jen and Tim unearth a cursed relic: the television show cancelled before the final credits even rolled, Turn On!

Thank you, SoapsNThings on YouTube, for archiving so many episodes of Peyton Place.

The offensive Aussie show Jen alluded to that also got cancelled during the first episode was "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos." You can see the singular episode at the Internet Archive!

Finally, Gershon Kingsley's "Popcorn" is kind of a bop.

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Tim and Jen ride along with a taciturn Ryan O'Neal for Walter Hill's sinuous neo-noir, The Driver!

Walter Hill spoke with Deadline in 2024 about his influences, Tony Scott's idiot brother, and of course, westerns.

Hill also talked about the controversy surrounding The Warriors in an interview for Esquire:

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Jen and Tim examine some D-tier David Mamet: the by-the-numbers heist flick, uh, Heist.

Chris Person of the worker-owned tech news site Aftermath dug up the previously unavailable special Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants in pristine broadcast resolution and made it available to the world once again. Read an interview with Person about the process and the importance of archiving conducted by David J. Roth and Dan McQuade of Defector, and watch the special at the Internet Archive. Fun fact: David Mamet directed the special!

Person also wrote a rundown of the cutting edge of analog media archiving (as of mid-2024, anyway) that is extremely worth your time.

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Tim and Jen suffer through a patchwork spy pastiche, Casino Royale.

Errata: Jen attributed the anecdote about producer Charles K. Feldman removing the pay-offs to the jokes in the script to Joe McGrath, but it actually came from another director credited on the film, Val Guest.

Speaking of, you can look through some of superagent-turned-producer Feldman's personal papers courtesy of AFI.

Robert Von Dassanowsky's critical essay on Casino Royale just might be the final word on the film:

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Jen sends thousands of robots to compel Tim to discuss a film "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's writings, I, Robot!

The creepshot photographer Jen couldn't remember the name of was Miroslav Tichý. You can see many of his surreptitious and admittedly beautiful works at ArtNet.

Speaking of Czech artists, we neglected to mention that Alex Proyas is currently working on an adaptation of Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. ("Rossum's Universal Robots"). This play, of course, is the one that brought the word "robot" to the English-speaking world.

If you love arid Will Smith blockbusters as much as Tim does (lol j/k), check out our episode on Wild Wild West!

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Tim can barely hold back his excitement about a movie that (kind of) has Cynthia Rothrock in it: Prince of the Sun!

View the (kind of) English dub of the film at the Internet Archive.

Jen forgot that her Letterboxd list was called "Anti-Girlboss Movies," and any movie starring Mai certainly qualifies for it. (Protip: there's also a list of every single movie we've talked about on the show, and sometimes it'll give you a little hint as to what's coming up next!)

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Jen invites comedian Kath Barbadoro to enjoy Psycho Kickboxer, the martial arts schlock movie that put Virginia Beach on the map!*

Hear more of Kath on the Lie, Cheat, & Steal and What a Time to Be Alive podcasts. She also riffs movies with Master Pancake Theater! Look for them on Twitch.

When in Virginia Beach, visit the Hot Tuna, as seen in Psycho Kickboxer!

Read Daisy Thursday's Sex Change USA: Transgender Life in the Supermarket Tabloid at the Shapeless Press website.

*I assume. I've never been.

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