Oeuvre Busters presents...

On this out-to-sea episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio fame to discuss Jack Goes Boating (2010), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Amy Ryan, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Topics discussed: dramaturgy; porno parodies; directorial debuts; reggae-loving dudes. Also, who goes boating in Central Park?! 

Topics not discussed: How the Panama Canal radically changed shipping routes in the twentieth-century.

Episodes of Adam’s great podcast can be found here: http://www.filmwaxradio.com

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On this no doubt about it excellent episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Caitlin Mae Burke to discuss Doubt (2008), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. Topics discussed: devotional candles; Vatican II: The Revenge; Creaster Christians; the boogie down Bronx. Also, oof, dads!

Topics not covered? The great Christian Schism of 1054 that gave us the Catholic and Orthodox churches as we know them today. 

Friend of the podcast, Mark Pagan of the Other Men Need Help podcast, will be having an event on October 8: https://www.google.com/search?q=other+men+need+help+caveatt&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS821US821&oq=other+men+need+help+caveatt&aqs=chrome..69i57.7423j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Please show up and support Mark, Caitlin and their awesome podcast.

Event listing at BRIC: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/brooklyn-media-maker-weekend-2019-redefining-media-mogul

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On this synecdochal episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite Shahir Daud on to discuss 2008’s Synecdoche, New York, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, and Catherine Keener. The film is written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Topics discussed: Cotard syndrome; existentialist filmmaking; houses on fire; anonymous actor T. Cruise; also, what happens when you combine Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Her? Well, listen and find out! Topics not discussed: Bertolt Brecht’s journals and what they can teach us about the rise of fascism.

Shahir Daud is a filmmaker and podcaster. Find his work at https://shahirdaud.com/ He also co-hosts a podcast with Matthew Krol, The Only Podcast About Movies. Give it a listen if you have not already!

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This week, join dialectical materialist and frequent-swearer George Fragopoulos as he discusses 2007's Charlie Wilson's War, featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Topics include: Where the f*ck is Liam?; Big Phil, Little Phil; Recent contemporary Greek History; Julia Roberts not respecting Papa F's 8 hours of recreation.

Topics not covered: Is anyone worried about Liam? This isn't like him.

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On this not-the-25th episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome onboard Michael Ranghelli to discuss Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, starring Ed Norton, Rosario Dawson and, yes, of course, the one and only Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics discussed on this episode: Liam crying at work; the oddity that is Oldboy; the differences between dragons and dogs; tone poems. Also, rent in New York City is truly obscene.

Topics not covered: John Ashbery’s radical verse experimentation in 1962's The Tennis Court Oath. 

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George is on vacation, so Liam hijacked the podcast to speak with Annie Malamet about the queer roles of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Films covered: Flawless, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Capote, Boogie Nights, and The Master. Also, Annie legit teaches us like 3 new words.

Annie Rose Malamet is an Educator, Artist, and Podcast Host. Her podcast, @girlsgutsgiallo, can be found wherever you get podcasts. Help support her work at https://www.patreon.com/girlsgutsgiallo

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On this impossible episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam welcome guest host Jose Rodriguez to discuss 2006's Mission Impossible Three, starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, and, of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics covered: fulcrums vs. pendulums; Tom Cruise's thetan count; Liam's recent religious conversion; spy franchises, ranked! Plus: Ethan Hunt fucks the flag. 

Topics not covered: The biographical masterpieces of the one and only Hermione Lee. As the Guardian recently said in regards to her recent biography of Penelope Fitzgerald: "Lee is a master of that most neglected of literary genres: the literary biography. It is essential that she be read."

Our guest host, Jose Rodriguez, is a brilliant filmmaker. Find his work below!  

DEAD-END (fiction short)

https://vimeo.com/140514161

ADOLESCENCIA (documentary short)

https://vimeo.com/180646107

Film Force (film collective run by Jose Rodriguez & Tim Noble)

https://www.thisisfilmforce.com

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On this week’s capotesque episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2005’s Capote, starring (no, really) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Clifton Collins Jr., and directed by Bennett Miller. Topics covered: our favorite communist novels; Gore Vidal’s Wildean wit; the origin of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie; trips to Spain. And Weekend at Bernie’s relationship to the American avant-garde.  

Topics not covered? How Stendhal’s experiences during the Napoleonic Wars were foundational to his novels, in particular The Charterhouse of Parma, his last work.    

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On this A is for aardvark episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and special guest Michael Carroll chat about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s appearance on the animated series, Arthur! Topics discuss: What kind of animal, exactly, is Fern; cringeworthy cartoons; the embrace of lukewarm showers; real people existing, making art. Finally, Liam watches PSH eat a hot dog!

Topics not covered: Voltaire’s very famous claim that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Discuss, please.   

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On this pollyannaish episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam welcome guest host Mark Pagán to discuss 2004’s Along Came Polly, starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston and, yes, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics discussed? Hunk Azaria; manic pixie dream girls; student-film versions of Fight Club; the philological history of sharting. Also, Jennifer Aniston: indie-film muse.

Topics not discussed: How Franz Kafka’s parables are allegorical reflections about the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 

Mark's amazing podcast, Other Men Need Help, can be found here: https://othermenneedhelp.com/

Please also consider supporting Mark and Other Men Need Help on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/othermenneedhelp

Please support your local podcasts and podcasters any way you can!

You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail recording, at [email protected]. We are looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners during the show itself, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast.

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