OKC Film Society: After Dark

After another long hiatus, we are back with a massive episode. We cover the Scorsese/Marvel controversy, speak a bit about The Irishman, do a bit of jazz solo jumping around, and barely cover our last double-feature, Flash Gordon/Flesh Gordon.

Hippieploitation meet Italian auteurism in our latest episode of Oklahoma Film Society: AFTER DARK. First up is Zabriskie Point, Michelangelo Antonioni 1970's capture of Vietnam protesting, airplane stealing and strange desert happenings; and last is An American Hippie in Israel, another instance of a foreign filmmaker trying to capture hippie culture... with very different results (a lot more white-faced murderers, goats and raft losing than Zabriskie Point).

In this episode, 3/4ths of our illustrious hosts talk about Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, discuss the 60s in America and the Manson family lure.

Later on, Eric joins the fray just in time for some John Waters talk.

On this episode of Oklahoma Film Society: After Dark, independent filmmakers The Burns Brothers, join us for a double-feature time travel extravaganza.  The specimens this episode are George Roy Hill's 1972 film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Nacho Vigalondo's 2007 scifi thriller Timecrimes.

On this episode, the gang explores the neo-noir subgenre. This weeks double feature: Carl Franklin’s 1992 film ONE FALSE MOVE and Sam Raimi’s 1998 film A SIMPLE PLAN. 

Both films feature Billy Bob “Uncle Goddamn” Thornton and the late great Bill Paxton.

In hot anticipation of the FX Fosse/Verdon series, the gang dives head-first into All That Jazz and Star 80, Bob Fosse’s final two films. Give a listen as the guys merrily wade through these two light-hearted, feel-good movies about showbiz and fame! 

 

 

Patrick Crain: @patrickcrain73

Eric King: @uncannykarloff

Rodney McKinley: @rodofwar1

Kevin Tudor: @KevTudo

We continue our conversation with Mickey Reece, this time over film directors with problematic backgrounds.  We also get in a little 2019 OSCAR talk.

In this episode, the gang is joined by filmmaker Mickey Reece to discuss Greetings and Hi, Mom!, Brian De Palma’s two early, revolutionary comedies and other sundry items.

In this episode, the gang tackles the directorial debut of George Clooney, the woefully under-appreciated Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Scripted by Charlie Kaufman, this wonderfully weird and dazzling adaptation of Chuck Barris’s famed autobiography is a flashy and surprisingly poignant ode to showbiz and its crushing pressures and disappointments. Paired with this was Chuck Barris’s one and only directorial turn, The Gong Show Movie. A notorious flop when released in 1980, this “film” is something of a wild curio that reflects Barris’s state of mind just prior to his penning of the source material for Clooney’s film. Terrible vanity project from a dark and troubled character, a cheap knock on Fellini’s 8 1/2, or a little of both? Go down a wild rabbit hole in a spirited discussion that spins completely out of control at the end and somehow pivots to a discussion on Bob Fosse and has Patrick screaming at Proud Boys.

On this episode, the gang tackles a horror double feature that should be experienced by everyone: Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck’s Messiah of Evil and John Hancock’s 1971 chiller, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death. Although they are two films that convey their respective female protagonists’ crumbling mental states, each entry is very unique in how it presents that material but each one is equally fascinating in its own right. One a low-budget, Euro-inspired semi-riff on Carnival of Souls and the other a forward-thinking meditation on mental illness and isolation, the two make for a double bill the perfection of which even caught the gang by surprise.

 

Patrick Crain: @patrickcrain73

Eric King: @uncannykarloff

Rodney McKinley: @rodofwar1

Kevin Tudor: @KevTudo