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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