Judgement Day: T2 VS Cinema

What movie’s better than Terminator 2?

And why do we all agree this one movie is so good?

Wait, do we even all agree that it’s so good?

How committed are you to your comfort movies?

What are the movies that deeply touch you?

And have you seen anything good lately?

Each episode a different guest discusses a series of movies with a theme or a topic they’re passionate about.

Then we ask them: “are these movies better than T2?”

It’s a stupid premise for a podcast

but it’s stupid on purpose.

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For our first episode we’re talking to Liam Billingham of the Oeuvre Busters podcast. Each season Oeuvre Busters explores the work of an esteemed film figure. When we sat down in late 2019, the show had covered the careers of John Cassavettes and Philip Seymour Hoffman in its first two seasons so we took the opportunity to look at THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (1976), HAPPINESS (1998) and THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)

Episode music by Johnny Ampersand: https://jonnyampersand.bandcamp.com/

Films Discussed:

THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE

Directed byJohn Cassavetes

Produced byAl Ruban

Written byJohn Cassavetes

StarringBen Gazzara

Timothy Agoglia Carey

Seymour Cassel

Azizi Johari

Music byBo Harwood

CinematographyMitchell Breit

Al Ruban

Caleb Deschanel

HAPPINESS

Directed byTodd Solondz

Produced byDavid Linde

James Schamus

Written byTodd Solondz

Starring

Jane Adams

Elizabeth Ashley

Dylan Baker

Lara Flynn Boyle

Ben Gazzara

Jared Harris

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Louise Lasser

Jon Lovitz

Camryn Manheim

Rufus Read

Cynthia Stevenson

Music byRobbie Kondor

CinematographyMaryse Alberti

Edited byAlan Oxman

Production

company

Killer Films

Distributed byGood Machine Releasing

THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Directed byJoel Coen

Produced byEthan Coen

Written by

Ethan Coen

Joel Coen

Starring

Jeff Bridges

John Goodman

Julianne Moore

Steve Buscemi

David Huddleston

John Turturro

Music byCarter Burwell

CinematographyRoger Deakins

Edited by

Roderick Jaynes[a]

Tricia Cooke

Production

company

Working Title Films

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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