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Wake up, listeners! Should be easy if you're anything like the protagonist of Paul Schrader's 1992 film LIGHT SLEEPER, which we're talking all about today with writer/editor/poster extraordinaire Jake Tropila! Join us for a great conversation about Schrader's "mid-life movie," addictive behavior, actually humanizing the drug trade, 90s New Age stuff, and our favorite jokes. Damn, we should really be charging at least $200 for a show like this. Instead it's free!!!

Further Reading:

"Movie High" by Scott Macaulay

Further Viewing:

BAD LIEUTENANT (Ferrara, 1992)

PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959) (again)

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No, you haven't fallen asleep in a Venice alleyway - it's really the podcast! Today we're wandering La Serenissima and monologuing about our fathers as we discuss Paul Schrader's dreamy 1990 literary adaptation THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS with filmmakers and To The White Sea cohosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! And yes, we do figure out which of us is which character from the film. We talk Ian McEwan, Harold Pinter, Gen X masculinity, befriending weirdos, dad stuff, vampires, and much more. Please, listen to our podcast - we insist.

Further Reading:

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

"What's Left of Generation X" by Kim Phillips-Fein

"Ian McEwan: 'I had the time of my life'" by Rachel Cooke

"Pinter's weasels" by David Edgar

Further Viewing:

DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg, 1973)

DEATH IN VENICE (Visconti, 1971)

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Surprise, listeners! Jake went to a Clint-related estate sale recently and we had to tell you all about it ASAP. Ian's hearing all of this for the first time on mic, too. We'll post all the photos over on our Patreon feed, unlocked for everybody. Enjoy!

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"I want him to stop. I can't take the pain. The voices and the pain." No, those aren't the words of our listeners - they're the words of Jesus Christ as written by Paul Schrader! Understand your confusion, though. Today we're genuflecting before Martin Scorsese's highly controversial 1988 film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, adapted by Schrader from not The Bible, and joining us on our spiritual journey is writer Robert Rubsam. Jake has a bunch of day-one theology questions that Ian and Rob do their best to answer while we all discuss the film's artistic achievements, the Brooklyn of it all, and the enormous backlash. Some crazy French guys blew up a movie theater over this one, gang. The movie, not the episode. Check it out!

Further Reading:

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars by Thomas R. Lindlof

Kyrios Christos by Wilhelm Bousset

A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by Peter Bien

Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert J. Myles

also the freaking Bible duh

Further Viewing:

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pasolini, 1964)

MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Jones, 1979)

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Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the podcast! Just playing, nobody preys upon us. But we're back in Symbionese Liberation Army territory this week to talk Paul Schrader's 1988 biopic PATTY HEARST! Join us for a spirited conversation about Natasha Richardson, Ving Rhames, the movie's angle on leftism, ideological and physical consent, and Disneyland in 1974. It's a good ep!

Content warning: we talk about sexual violence on this episode.

Further Reading:

An Oral History with Ericka Huggins by Fiona Thompson

Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin

FBI Records: The Vault - COINTELPRO Black Extremist Files

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

"Who Ran The S.L.A.?" by Dick Russell

"How a Band of Yippies Shut Down Disneyland for Just the Second Time in History" by Stephen M. Silverman

"Los Angeles Is Burning" by Sasha Frere-Jones

Further Viewing:

THE ENFORCER (Fargo, 1976)

GUERILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST (Stone, 2004)

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Here's some hidden gold for ya: the damned Pod Casty For Me Patreon feed! No, for real. Let's be for real now. Today we're finishing up the Man With No Name trilogy with the final and best film of the lot, Sergio Leone's 1966 Civil War Western epic THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. No Oxford comma for Sergio I guess! Well, fair enough.

We both loved this one, actually, and had a bang-up time talking about Eli Wallach, the Civil War, cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli, trick shooting, dehydration prosthetics, and all kinds of crazy stuff like we always do.

All that twice a month for just $5! They ought to hang us for this. Please!

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1..2..3..4! Pretty rock and roll way to start an episode description, I thought. This week we're absolutely shredding (guitar term) through a discussion of Paul Schrader's understandably underseen 1987 struggling rock band sibling melodrama film, LIGHT OF DAY, and joining us are our great pals Ryan and Este from the Altmania podcast! We talk mom stuff, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox's palpable sexual chemistry, the very limited revolutionary potential of popular music, and a lot about the podcast Guys: A Podcast About Guys. You don't have to have heard that or even seen the movie LIGHT OF DAY to enjoy this one, though. We're just a couple of cool rock music types jamming out (music term), podcast-style. Check it out!

Further Reading:

"Rock Against Racism" by Danny Goldberg

Further Viewing:

THE COMMITMENTS (Parker, 1991)

ONE-TRICK PONY (Young, 1980)

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Hop on the launch, folks, we're heading to THE MOSQUITO COAST! Peter Weir's 1986 film scripted by Paul Schrader, that is. Join us for a conversation about the unfinished capitalist critique of prepper guys, the problems with Going Back To Nature, and how we are much smarter and better than Allie Fox generally because we have done more reading. Well, Ian has. One time I pitched Ian on a Patreon episode where I just ask him questions about agriculture for an hour, and this basically became that. For free! What a good podcast. Hope you all enjoy!

By the way, the podcast I couldn't remember any real details about was this great Upstream episode with Kristen Ghodsee.

Further Reading:

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

"Billionaires Are Suing The Honduran Government for Blocking Their Profit-Making Scheme" by Grace Blakeley

Use of Energy Explained

Further Viewing:

WALKER (Cox, 1987)

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Weir, 1975)

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It's the MISHIMA episode. It's also the Mishima episode, in a way.

We do our best to discuss both Paul Schrader's 1985 art-biopic MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS and the man Yukio Mishima with our returning pal Comrade Yui, who has been on a real journey with this film. As you might expect, things get pretty weighty: the nature and purpose of art, Schrader's depiction of the suicide, whether you can be a bodybuilder without being fascist about it. This is a special one, folks.

Further Reading:

Mishima: Aesthetic Terrorist - An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

"Mishima, Mon Amour" by Gary Indiana

"Sea of Crises" by Brian Phillips

Further Viewing:

THE STRANGE CASE OF YUKIO MISHIMA (McIntyre, 1985)

PATRIOTISM (Mishima, 1966)

It's been so long...just kidding, it's been a week! That's the normal time between episodes. Nevertheless, we're back with Paul Schrader's first film he "didn't" write himself, the 1982 erotic horror remake CAT PEOPLE, and we're thrilled to be joined by film writer and genuine English person Esmé Holden! We talk Schrader's depiction(s) of women, remakes, zoos as prisons/prisons as zoos, and the David Bowie of it all.

Excited for you to have John Heard this one, folks! Hey, come on. I'm just kidding around.

Further Reading:

"Guilty Pleasures: The Films of Paul Schrader" by Neil Sinyard

"Schrader's Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst" by Brian Brems

Carceral Space, Prisoners, and Animals Symposium

Further Viewing:

CAT PEOPLE (Tourneur, 1942)

THE HUNGER (Scott, 1983)

ANATOMY OF HELL (Breillat, 2004)

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