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THIS is entertainment, folks! We're taking a swing at Martin Scorsese's masterful 1980 boxing biopic RAGING BULL (from a script by Paul Schrader) with film critic and Heavyweight Champion of the Podcast, Bilge Ebiri!!! Join us for a wonderful conversation about Scorsese's wild years, ROCKY, memory, the word "doggerel," and more.

Plus, Bilge tells us about something he did that may change the podcast forever. Like, for real.

Further Reading:

Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan by J. Hoberman

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind

"Masculinity in Crisis?" by Pam Cook

"Raging Bull: Never Got Me Down" by Glenn Kenny

"Raging Bull: American Minotaur" by Robin Robertson

Further Viewing:

ROCKY (1976)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)

ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

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Pick out your shirt and tie, listener! We're talking Paul Schrader's 1980 stylish crime film AMERICAN GIGOLO this week, and we've called up film critic Brandon Streussnig to help us do it! Production design, fashion history, Bresson, several Giorgios - we get into it. Jake put on cologne for this one as a bit. See if you can hear the smell!

Further Reading:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Painter of Modern Life XI: The Dandy by Charles Baudelaire

"Talking Film Costume: Richard Gere in 'American Gigolo'" by Ada Pîrvu

"About That Urban Renaissance" by Dan Rottenberg

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

Further Viewing:

PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959)

THE CONFORMIST (Bertolucci, 1970)

PRETTY WOMAN (Marshall, 1990)

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Hey listener, it's been a while. How have you been? Do you ever think about me? Just kidding it's a new episode on Joan Tewkesbury's sole feature film, OLD BOYFRIENDS, written by Paul and Leonard Schrader! Who better to join us on this exploration of women's experience in New Hollywood than writer, Online Film Culture Titan and the inventor of #AYearWithWomen, Marya E. Gates (@oldfilmsflicker)??? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on everything from the film's rediscovery and restoration to Schrader's reaction to the 2022 Sight & Sound poll to Keith Carradine being really hot to the social function of movie gifs on Tumblr. It's a great ep and we hope you'll enjoy it! If you don't, please don't hire Buck Henry to find our home addresses!!!

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Further Reading:

Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler

"Canon Fodder" by Paul Schrader

Further Viewing:

GIRLFRIENDS (Weill, 1978)

AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Mazursky, 1978)

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"Oh my Pod, cast's my daughter!" - something Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive today...to hear our episode on Paul Schrader's sophomore feature as director, the 1979 Calvinist-dad-goes-to-Pornville film HARDCORE! Joining us on our journey into smut-hell is writer, actress, and filmmaker Manuela Lazić! We get into Dad Stuff, Schrader's aesthetic style as a director, the political economy of sex work, HARDCORE as remake of THE SEARCHERS, and try very, very hard to understand Christian Reformed Calvinism.

Do we succeed? To find out, you'll simply have to listen to the episode. Another thing Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive right now? "Turn it...on!! The episode, I mean!!!"

Further Reading:

"'Hard-core' grows fashionable - and very profitable" by Ralph Blumenthal

Schrader on Schrader, ed. Kevin Jackson

Further Viewing:

THE SEARCHERS (1956)

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Get your disguise on, listener! We got a big boy this week: Paul Schrader's directorial debut, the 1978 auto workers union heist film BLUE COLLAR! The fellas are going long on this one, talking UAW history, race and organized labor, Richard Pryor's performance, Harvey Keitel trying very hard to quit the movie, Yaphet Kotto's lifetime of UFO encounters (really), and whether Schrader could really have made such a leftist film without meaning to, as he claims. This episode is nearly three hours of gleaming chrome fresh off the line or whatever. Check it out!

Further Reading:

"Ex‐Operative Says He Worked for F.B.I. to Disrupt Political Activities Up to '74"

"Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management" by Alex N. Press

A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkin Bates

Organized Labor and the Black Worker and The Black Worker by Philip S. Foner

Further Viewing:

MATEWAN (1987)

SILKWOOD (1983)

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Get your hand out of that garbage disposal and press play, listener! We're doing our best to do an episode on John Flynn's 1977 vetsploitation nasty ROLLING THUNDER, but mostly we end up talking about Paul Schrader's mucked-with script. It's a fascinating study in how a story can go from TAXI DRIVER damning to DEATH WITH reactionary with just a few strokes of Heywood Gould's pen. Plus some Vietnam talk, a COCKTAIL/RAIN MAN tangent, and Tommy Lee Jones. Good ep!

Further Reading:

Paul Schrader's original screenplay for ROLLING THUNDER

Further Viewing:

HEARTS & MINDS (1974)

DEATH WISH (1974)

FIRST BLOOD (1982)

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Pucker up, listeners - Daddy's here! That's right: accomplished Brian De Palmist and official Daddy of the show, Hit Factory co-host Aaron Casias, is back to help us unpack De Palma's Schrader-scripted 1976 VERTIGO riff OBSESSION! We kind of did a one-episode De Palma podcast, honestly, because there's a bit more BDP here than Paul Schrader. Join us for more Bernard Herrmann talk, more Geneviève Bujold talk (from TIGHTROPE, remember?), and very informed New Orleans opinions. Check it out! You don't really have to watch the movie tbh!!!

Topics include: Vilmos Zsigmond, Hitchcock riff, Tony Scott's DEJA VU, voyeurism, women in genre film, "The New South", Cliff Robertson being a pain in the ass, OLDBOY, Aaron's impassioned plea for us to cover BDP, and only a little bit of bathroom talk, we promise.

Further Reading:

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

"Repeat Performance": Brad Westcott on Obsession

Further Viewing:

VERTIGO (1958)

DEJA VU (2006)

DE PALMA (2015)

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We're back with the second part of our discussion of Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER. Join us for more on the film's engagement with race and gender, Jodie Foster's performance, Travis Bickle's cinematic children, and the John Hinckley, Jr. of it all.

Further Reading:

Taxi Driver: BFI Film Classics by Amy Taubin

"Manhattan Transference: Ashley Clark on Taxi Driver"

An Assassin's Diary by Arthur Bremer

Further Viewing:

LE FEU FOLLET (Malle, 1963)

THE KING OF COMEDY (Scorsese, 1982)

SPREE (Kotlyarenko, 2020)

"Top 10 Wisconsin Dells Haunted Houses For Free Pulled Pork"/"PVC Feces Rig Tour (Home Made) #vanlife" (O'Malley/Resnick, 2021)

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Buckle up, listeners! We talked so much about Martin Scorsese's landmark 1976 neo-noir nightmare TAXI DRIVER, written by Paul Schrader, that it's gonna be a two-parter. Talk about morbid self-attention!

What was the film's production process like? Whose beach house did Scorsese and Schrader hang out at? Why don't discussions of 1970s New York City crime ever talk about root causes? Should someone become a person like other people? How is Jake like both Martin Scorsese AND Drew Carey?

All this and more will be answered...but you gotta listen to the episode. And the next one!!

Further Reading:

Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

Further Viewing:

PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959)

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The time has come, listeners, to discuss the films of Paul Schrader. That's right: Pauld Casty For Me has arrived, and this is the first episode. Of a new series about Paul Schrader movies. Basically imagine how the Clint Eastwood episodes went, roughly, but just replace all the specifics with Paul Schrader stuff. It'll make sense once you start listening.

To kick things off, we're digging into Schrader's first produced screenplay, the 1975 Sydney Pollack neo-noir-yakuza picture THE YAKUZA, co-written with his brother Leonard Schrader and rewritten by Robert "China" Towne. We go deep on Schrader's strict Calvinist upbringing, early career as a film critic, persistent prickliness, and mentorship from Pauline Kael. Then, we turn our focus to THE YAKUZA (the movie), the yakuza (the guys), Robert Mitchum, and white dude who are obsessed with Japan. Plus, each of us is audibly succumbing to his own respiratory disease throughout the episode. Great way to start off the new series!

Topics include: Paul's letters to Leonard, being a cinephile in the late 60s, LA movie theaters that no longer exist, how to pronounce "primer," Jake's very normal time visiting Japan, connections between the yakuza and Japan's far right, Ian's childhood arrow tricks, and more!

Further Reading:

Paul Schrader's "Letters to Len"

Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer by Paul Schrader

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