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Soderbergh finally hit a box-office home run in 2000 with ERIN BROCKOVICH, a Julia Roberts-starring biopic about a paralegal with a big personality and a nose for corporate environmental malfeasance, and the one-two punch of BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC in a single year cemented him as a truly major filmmaker. This is one of the big ones, so we brought in our friend Carlee from Hit Factory to talk about basically everything: capitalism, the climate, gender, fashion, interpassivity, Todd Haynes, and Sheryl Crow. Great ep! Don't use ChatGPT even as a joke!

Further Reading:

Superman's Not Coming by Erin Brockovich

"Digging For The Truth" by Robert B. Welkos

"Ordinary Heroes vs. Failed Lawyers: Public Interest Litigation in 'Erin Brockovich' and Other Contemporary Films" by Michael McCann and William Haltom

"Erin Brockovich, 20 Years Later: 'I See So Many of Us Finding That Courage to Stand Up'" by Susan King

Further Viewing:

A CIVIL ACTION (Zaillian, 1998)

LEGALLY BLONDE (Luketic, 2001)

FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017)

DARK WATERS (Haynes, 2019)

EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, 2023)

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We return to our very slow trip through the films of Sergio Leone with 1971's DUCK, YOU SUCKER!, also known as A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, also known as GIÙ LA TESTA, a story of the Mexican Revolution starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn. It's a real humdinger of an episode, as Jake's allergies flare up while he tells a long story about some unpleasant men at the barbershop, Ian explains the Mexican Revolution, and we both read passages from Frantz Fanon. Enjoy!

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In 1999, Steven Soderbergh pushed his formal experimentation even further, rendering a straightforward revenge tale into a modernist masterpiece. In the process, the Terence Stamp/Peter Fonda joint THE LIMEY examines memory, the legacy of the 60s, and inaugurates Sodie's obsession with Cockney rhyming slang. Film writer and podcaster and UK resident Elena Lazic joins us to get limey! Good ep!

Further Reading:

Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis & Jon Wiener

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

"Steven Soderbergh on the 20th anniversary of The Limey" by David Fear

Commentary track with Steven Soderbergh and Lem Dobbs

Further Viewing:

POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967)

POOR COW (Loach, 1967)

EASY RIDER (Hopper, 1969)

GET CARTER (Hodges, 1971)

VANISHING POINT (Sarafian, 1971)

APRÈS MAI (Assayas, 2012)

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GET SHORTY and OUT OF SIGHT weren't the only high-profile Elmore Leonard adaptations of the 1990s. Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited follow up to PULP FICTION was a race- and setting-swapped adaptation of Rum Punch retitled JACKIE BROWN, starring exploitation icons Pam Grier and Robert Forster. Podcasting's preeminent Elmore Leonard discusser Jane Altoids returns to the show to talk race, class, and Ray Nicolet in what might be Tarantino's best film!

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It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode, and our guest is Bilge Ebiri. Do we need to sell you on this? OK, fine: in 1998 Steven Soderbergh took a job for hire directing an Elmore Leonard adaptation and ended up finding the style that would define much of his career, minting George Clooney as a movie star, capturing Jennifer Lopez's best-ever performance, working with Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman and a bunch of other people for the first time, and making one of the most watchable films of the 1990s. Jake also read the whole book. We talk about Leonard's moral universe, prison stuff, cop stuff, crime fiction stuff. I mean, come on. It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode with Bilge.

Further Reading:

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

"Louisiana's Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism" by W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Further Viewing:

POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967)

DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg, 1973)

GET SHORTY (Sonnenfeld, 1995)

JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997)

THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (Garbus, Rideau & Stack, 1998)

"Karen Sisco" (2003)

"Justified" (2010)

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We're talking more Gene Hackman and getting into the 1990s Elmore Leonard boom with Barry Sonnenfeld's GET SHORTY, and our friend Forrest Tiffany is here to help! Join us as we plot the line from PULP FICTION to GET SHORTY to JACKIE BROWN to OUT OF SIGHT, sing the praises of the cast, and check in with a particularly juicy Pine Cone Crime Zone.

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What the hell is going on with Steven Soderbergh's 1996 super-low-budget labor of love comedy SCHIZOPOLIS? Our returning guests, the filmmakers and all-around handsome devils Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori of the To The White Sea Podcast, help us get to the bottom of it. Is this quietly a devastating analysis of a failed marriage starring the director and his real-life ex-wife Betsy Brantley? Or is all that drowned out by too much proto-Random Humor and OK Cola-style 90s disaffection? Is Jake even capable of being nice about this movie? Listen to find out!

Further Reading:

Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

"E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" by David Foster Wallace

"David Lynch Keeps His Head" by David Foster Wallace

Further Viewing:

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Lester, 1964)

MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS (McNaughton/Davies, 1969)

PUTNEY SWOPE (Downey, 1969)

THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (Landis, 1977)

GRAY'S ANATOMY (Soderbergh, 1996)

LOST HIGHWAY (Lynch, 1997)

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One of "the world's favorite movies," starring two guys who won back-to-back Best Supporting Actor Oscars under Clint Eastwood's direction, and Jake's never seen it? You know we had to talk about Frank Darabont's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, prison abolition, Tim Robbins's legs, and what we think the best films of 1994 are. Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

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In 1989, Steven Soderbergh was on top of the world. By 1995, he was underneath...THE UNDERNEATH, that is! We're talking Sodie's very loose remake of the 1949 Robert Siodmak film noir CRISS-CROSS (and the 1934 novel on which it was based), noir in the 1990s, armored cars, and Soderbergh's evolving film language as he becomes the director we all know and love. Nobody's favorite Sodie movie, but maybe somebody's favorite ep? Remains to be seen!

Further Reading:

Criss Cross by Don Tracy

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews ed. Anthony Kaufman

Reinventing Hollywood by David Bordwell

"Neither Noir" by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Further Viewing:

THE KILLERS (Siodmak, 1946)

KISS OF DEATH (Hathaway, 1947)

CRISS CROSS (Siodmak, 1949)

THE KILLING (Kubrick, 1956)

BLOOD SIMPLE (Coen, 1984)

PULP FICTION (Tarantino, 1994)

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Today we're talking about the 2005 documentary BUDD BOETTICHER: A MAN CAN DO THAT, which features both Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader (among others) talking about the elemental western films of Budd Boetticher and his influence on their work. We also talk about some Boetticher films ourselves, and take this moment to go a little deeper on auteur theory - its usefulness, its problems, our relationship to it as a framework. You don't have to watch the doc to enjoy this episode, but it is kind of fun if you can track it down!

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