Pod Casty For Me

Ladies and gentlemen...we got 'im. A guest, that is! Today the lovely and talented Forrest Tiffany (@forresttiffany) joins us to talk Michael Cimino's 1974 road trip bank heist film THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT. We welcome Geoffrey Lewis and George Kennedy to the Pod Casty cast of guys and investigate what this film has to say about American masculinity halfway through the 70s. There is also a quiz at the end.

Topics include: the real-life highwaymen who inspired the book that inspired the movie that inspired this movie, convertibles, what's in Montana, Jeff Bridges in drag, exactly who pistachio ice cream is for, how easy it seems like getting a (lousy) job used to be, Ian's reading of the film with respect to Melville's Billy Budd, and the photo on the Wikipedia page for Michael Cimino.

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A man's got to know his limitations...and that's why we started a podcast! This ep we go deep on Ted Post's 1973 film MAGNUM FORCE, the first sequel to DIRTY HARRY and a fascinating piece of equivocation and reaction-to-the-reaction. We'll also check in with Ian's enemy goose in another edition of Taking A Gander, and Jake has a new segment about Pauline Kael. ACAB, Google LASD Gangs, stay safe out there.

Topics include: the 1970s epidemic of skyjacking, US-sponsored death squads in Latin America, Harry Callahan's sexual magnetism, the history of gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the many vigilante films that followed DIRTY HARRY, unrelatedly AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME, a brief aside about Darth Vader, and much, much more.

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It's time for us to tackle BREEZY, Clint Eastwood's 1973 romantic dramedy starring William Holden and Kay Lenz and, for the first time in his career, not him! Extremely comfortable ep about an extremely comfortable movie to watch and discuss. We talk about the age gap and age gap movies generally, Eastwood's romantic life in the early seventies, LICORICE PIZZA (and PHANTOM THREAD), and offer our very timely reactions to the Sight & Sound poll along with what we would have put on our ballots had they not been (we assume) lost in the mail. Give it a listen, you can always take a shower afterwards.

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We're wandering into the pod feed out of thin air to talk HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973), Clint Eastwood's second film as director and still one of his very best. We also recorded this one in person, so, it's, uh, better maybe? Could also be worse. Leave me out of it!

[Content heads-up: the film depicts sexual violence and we discuss that in this episode. Something to keep in mind when deciding when and where to listen to it.]

Topics include: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, Jake's special haircut story, the film's relationship to High Noon, talk smack about stupid film by a bad man EL TOPO, some questions about the upcoming movie about Spider-Man's nemesis Kraven the Hunter, and a broader conversation about communal responsibility and bogus invocations of the debunked "bystander effect" by people who ultimately just want more cops.

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This week we're talking about the little-remembered 1972 western JOE KIDD, starring Clint Eastwood, directed by John Sturges, and written by Elmore Leonard. We'd never heard of it either, but our viewing of the film led to a great discussion of the real person who inspired the story, the New Mexican land grant activist Reies López Tijerina.

Topics include: courtroom appearances, school dances, Tijerina's 1967 armed raid on the courthouse at Tierra Amarilla, the frustrating legacy of misogyny in activist groups, roles for women in westerns, calculating how much money people in old movies are actually talking about, that stupid-looking gun the one guy has, Clint's Splinter Cell moves, the complicated intersections of liberation movements and religious groups, and allergies.

[Heads up: we had an audio mix-up on this recording, so Ian sounds a little funny on this one. Totally listenable, just sounds lousy. And if you think the audio quality is bad, wait until you hear the words this guy's saying! Hey, come on, I'm joking around. Hey!]

For further reading, here's the great article on Tijerina's legacy that we mention in the episode: https://alibi.com/news/44776/Who-is-Reies-Lopez-Tijerina.html

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Join us for a discussion of the 1971 Don Siegel police action film Dirty Harry, its left and liberal reception at the time, and its reverberations throughout the rest of Clint Eastwood's career. Sorry we mostly forgot to be funny on this one. ACAB, by the way.

Topics include: police brutality, fascist aesthetics, cop movies and copaganda, the meaning(s) of San Francisco as a setting, how we think Eastwood and Siegel feel about the cops, the Hunters Point social uprising of 1966, the Zodiac killer, mineral oil, and a conversation about the Scorpio Killer's driving directions.

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Our first episode, in which we discuss Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, the 1971 thriller Play Misty For Me, and Jake debuts a special segment.

Topics include: Eastwood's early career, collaborators like Don Siegel and cinematographer Bruce Surtees, the film's gender politics, Jessica Walter, whether Carmel-by-the-Sea and Sausalito are actually the same place, and for some reason 9/11.

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This is a quick introduction to Pod Casty For Me, the podcast about Clint Eastwood movies and left politics.

Here you will find answers to important questions like: Why are we doing the show? Who are we, the guys who are doing the show? Will you like our, like, whole thing? Do we say cussing? Are we well-informed or at least funny?

A good place to start for new listeners! Probably a decent place for those same new listeners to end!

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