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.

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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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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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