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- All About Eve (AFI #28) and All About Steve (RT 6%)The two biggest award winners for All About movies!
Yes, we have a special treat for your Oscar season listening. We present a double episode, this time covering ALL ABOUT EVE and ALL ABOUT STEVE. Despite the similar names, they are not in the least bit similar themselves. Following are two quotes from reviews, see if you can work out which is the classic.
“It has substance in virtually every dramatic and romantic mood, which have been given proper shading and projection by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and Mankiewicz. The segue from the commentary school of cinematurgy, to bridge the flashback sequences, into the vignettes is unobtrusive but an effective technique to tie up the entire package which ends with Miss Baxter hugging the coveted trophy–and a stranger to her friends.”
“If it didn't come from a major studio, I would think the film is a satire of romantic comedies, or at least some kind of avant-garde experiment in testing the limits of audience identification.”
Yeah, so they’re basically the same movie. Mike and Dave discuss the difficulties of fame, awful male friendship, how Bette Davis is the greatest female star in history, and how one of these movies is worse than THE BLIND SIDE. Listen to find out all the details!
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58 min - Waterworld (RT 47%)"That Costner's antihero should be so fundamentally dislikable is entirely acceptable... but that he should also be deadly dull is far less tolerable."
Sounds like Anton Bitel of Little White Lies should focus more on important matters, like Kevin Costner's hairline, and less on the man's ability to banter. On this episode we keep our eye on the ball (a movie star's dome) and celebrate Earth Day with a non-4k screening of WATERWORLD. In this episode we learn that while now this movie may just be worth a stream, back in the summer of 1995 it was a curiosity begging to be seen at a midnight showing and designed to divide children from their families. Fun!
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42 min - His Girl Friday (1001 Films #141)"Except to add that we've seen THE FRONT PAGE under its own name and others so often before we've grown a little tired of it, we don't mind conceding HIS GIRL FRIDAY is a bold-faced reprint of what was once- and still remains- the maddest newspaper comedy of our times."
Frank Nugent of the New York Times gives one of the most backhanded compliments imaginable to a certified classic in HIS GIRL FRIDAY. Basically, it’s just like this other really good movie, but that’s fine, I guess!
Will our hosts be more impressed than grumpy Mr. Nugent? You’ll have to listen to find out because neither Mike nor Dave has seen this movie or talked about it until right this moment!
Join us as we talk Cary Grant vs. George Clooney, yet more suicide attempts, fast talkers, and Weezy trapped in a cabinet…
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42 min - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (RT 42%)"Both lovers are duplicitous creeps -- in a perverse way they're made for each other."
Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader sounds fun at parties... but he's not wrong about Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS. He's just wrong about how enjoyable it is to see Ms. Hudson take a wrecking ball to a man that one host calls "too pretty" and the other thinks is too picky about names for his penis. It's clearly an episode about CLASSIC CINEMA and as such we eventually work our way around to the Best Picture snub that this film received for the 2004 Academy Award ceremony and if a sprinkle of Kathryn Hahn is ever enough.
Also Katherine Heigl. Romcom talk is pointless without paying respect to The Queen. Even if she is not in this movie. Enjoy!
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1 hr 6 min - It Happened One Night (AFI #46)"I just finished the worst picture in the world." Star Claudette Colbert upon finishing filming.
Geez, Claudette, what were you looking at? Both hosts, and our guest Erica had a great time with this one. Sure Mike still hasn’t opened his Criterion copy, but at least he stimulated the IHON economy by purchasing it on digital as well!
We cover a lot of ground here; including Matthew McConaughey movies, when it’s ok to tell a woman what to eat, and the best way to troll your rich boss. This one is a classic for a reason, so we are real positive. Don’t worry, ti won’t last.
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50 min - Road Trip (RT 57%)"ROAD TRIP is nothing more than a series of sight gags and put-down. It's often funny, but it never has anything smart to say."
So says stick-in-the-mud Bob Longino of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. However, AS ALWAYS, the hosts of OFF SCREEN DEATH have the last word on cinema. And cinema is exactly what this Todd Phillips masterpiece is.
A sex tape gone missing!
A hero's journey to retrieve said sex tape!
Unfortunately we don't get to see said sex tape...
...but fortunately we are missing seeing Breckin Meyer naked!
Most fortunate of all... this is an audio only podcast!
Enjoy!
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35 min - Withnail & I (BFI #29)"This is and always will be a perfect dark comedy."
William Thomas of Empire would definitely love our choice of movie...but maybe not our opinion of it. We discuss the idea of cult films and how it has changed just in the last few years. But WITHNAIL AND I took place many years before that, and it is possible that it is a product of its time. A 1987 film, set in the late 70’s, and we attempted to watch it in 2021. If it is truly timeless, that shouldn’t matter, but we are putting that to the test.
Much to Mike’s chagrin, we have gone away from sexy films once again, but maybe that’s good, given his opinion of these ugly, ugly people...
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37 min - American Desi (38% RT)"Clubfooted but earnest, Pandya's movie never forgets about its second-gen issues, but never quite plumbs them, either."
"Clubfooted" is always a good way to start off describing a selection on OFF SCREEN DEATH. Which is why for most of the runtime of this episode we let our guest WEB BIST of TRILOGY IN THEORY explain this personal pick of his in AMERICAN DESI.
So personal that it may prove very hard to find. We don't make it easy for you, but the whites on this podcast do connect with this film the only way they know how... through the archetypes from which all cinema derives its characters: AMERICAN PIE.
Thank you and we tried. Try along with us and chase down AMERICAN DESI! You are already a fan of art that no one else has heard of... you found this podcast. Now follow us elsewhere:
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1 hr 7 min - The Crying Game (BFI #26)"Jordan's wonderful film does what Hitchcock's PSYCHO, a very different film, also did: It involves us deeply in its story, and then reveals the the story is really about something else altogether. We may have been fooled, but so was the hero, and as the plot reveals itself we find ourselves identifying more and more with him.:
Roger Ebert goes to bat for a classic that both of our host can actually agree on. But with one host watching this for the third time and another on a first time watch, will they actually meet in the middle?
Another issue we take a look at is, given when THE CRYING GAME was created, does it hold up in a woke world of 2021, or does it go down the path of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and get the terrifying moniker of “problematic?”
We talk sweet romances, the desire for a world without international terrorists, oh and thinking about cricket while having sex. We swear it makes sense. Kind of.
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47 min - Spartan (65% RT)"Imagine David Mamet rewriting his political satire WAG THE DOG as a joke-free kidnap drama. Or don't imagine, just pony up for the glum spectacle of SPARTAN"
Peter Travers of ROLLING STONE does not share our sense of humor or our large audience but that's okay because we've got something most people don't:
SPARTAN on DVD.
Or at least one host does. And that's good enough for him as we go back to working without a list and instead the consumer decisions that were made pre-VERONICA MARS... though we get into the days of blind buying season of television as well in our latest episode, baby.
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41 min
About Off Screen Death
From the publisher's feed
A podcast about all the things we must do before the inevitable. Mostly watching movies. However one host intends to use that time wisely by looking at respected lists of curation from the likes of Sight And Sound or the AFI's Top 100. Meanwhile the other watches a lot of STARZ.
Really. An unreasonable amount of STARZ. And yet he heroically finds the time to podcast. Before he dies. This is OFF SCREEN DEATH.
Hosted by Michael Denniston and David Giannini.
Artwork by Nathan Thomas Milliner.
Music by Joplin Rice.