When Bonnie and Clyde arrived in 1967, it sparked a fierce debate among film critics. At the center of that debate was New York Times critic Bosley Crowther, who publicly opposed the film even as its reputation grew. This episode looks at Crowther’s battle with the movie, the critics who disagreed with him, and what the controversy reveals about a changing era in American cinema.

Times Announcement. “Crowther Named Critic Emeritus; Renata Adler of New Yorker to Review Films for Times.” The New York Times, November 20, 1967.

Crowther, Bosley. “Run, Bonnie and Clyde: Run, Bonnie.” The New York Times, September 3, 1967. ProQuest.

Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Arrives: Careers of Murderers Pictured as Farce.” The New York Times, August 14, 1967. ProQuest.

Crowther, Bosley. “Shoot-’Em-Up Film Opens World Fete.” The New York Times, August 7, 1967. ProQuest.

Harris, Mark. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.

Lubow, Arthur. “Renata Adler Is Making Enemies Again.” The New York Times, January 16, 2000.

Martin, Charlie. “The Saga of Bosley Crowther: That Time Film Criticism Got Turned….” Medium.

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The making of the quirky heist comedy The Linguini Incident is not a pleasant memory for writer-director Richard Shepard. Yes, he had a great cast including David Bowie and Rosana Arquette. He also was under funded and overwhelmed and eventually lost final cut. However, the sting of this failure never fully left him and thirty years later he set out to correct it. Shepard and Linguini Incident co-star Eszter Balint help tell this story of a missed opportunity and what it means to reclaim your past.

Links

Check out Eszter Balint's latest album

THE LINGUINI INCIDENT -- DIRECTOR'S CUT (2024) TRAILER

Sources

David Bowie - Today Show (USA TV) - INTERVIEW ABOUT THE LINGUINI INCIDENT - 28 April 1992

David Bowie - Good Morning America - Interview On The Set Of The Linguini Incident

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Season 2 of Closing Night is finally here—the theater history podcast that takes you behind the curtain to uncover stories about famous and forgotten Broadway show that closed too soon. While season 1 focused on musicals that came and went from the Marquis Theatre, this season host Patrick Oliver Jones is tackling a whole new kind of theatrical heartbreak: shows that never actually opened on Broadway. 

These are the productions that fizzled out during out-of-town tryouts or preview performances, including Lone Star Love, The Little Prince and the Aviator, Lolita, My Love, Let My People Come, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, among others. Episodes start at the end of January and will drop once a month throughout the year, with the first episode being all about Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge, which was actually slated to open at the Marquis Theatre but was canceled after a disastrous run in Washington, DC.

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Presenting an episode from Noiser and Airship's podcast History Daily.

On History Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. This episode is about our favorite kind of history, film history.

The day is May 1, 1941. Orson Welles’ revolutionary debut “Citizen Kane” premieres in New York after a bitter battle to suppress the film. 

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Something different from the creator of The Industry is coming soon. Here's a short preview of Stories My Brother Used To Tell.

My older brother Eric would often tell stories of his misspent youth at family gatherings. Seemingly always about a car or girl or both, these ridiculous stories seemed almost impossible to believe. Now, after years of pestering, I've gotten him to share a few of those stories in a new podcast.

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In 1982 British filmmakerJames Scott had made an Academy Award winning adaptation of a Graham Greene novella. Adapting another Greene novella, this time as a feature length film, seemed like a natural progression of things. He had Greene's blessing to take his novella Loser Takes All and turn into a film that would feature stage star Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald. He had every element in place. Almost. The only thing left was getting American distribution. And that was found when a deal was struck with Miramax. All that James Scott had to do in order to get his modest British comedy made was deal with a producer named Harvey Weinstein, who had a lot of ideas on how this film should be made.

Links

James Scott's Website

Sources

Rizov, Vadim. The Legend of Harvey Scissorhands. MTV.com, August 9, 2013.

https://www.mtv.com/news/zs4qqu/harvey-weinstein-snowpiercer-cuts

Ringwald, Molly. All The Other Harvey Weinsteins. The New Yorker, October 17, 2017.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/all-the-other-harveys

Robert Lindsay: 'Monster' Weinstein blacklisted me. BBC.com, November 9, 2017.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-41927167

Connelly, Christopher. The Heartbreak Kid. Premiere Magazine, July 1990.

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Elaine May will always be best known for her comedy with Mike Nichols and her screenwriting skills. However, as a director May is an uncompromising force who seemingly would do whatever it takes to get her vision on the screen. This episode looks at the great lengths May went to in order to get Mikey and Nicky, a lifelong passion project made, and what that lack of compromise cost her.

Author Patrick Cooper, director of photography/cameraman Jack Cooperman, and an unnamed crewmember help tell this story of a seemingly simple production that was anything but.

Links

Check out Patrick Cooper's book Aren't You Gonna Die Someday?

Courtney Kocak's podcasts are Podcast Bestie and The Bleeders

Articles

Before the Snyder Cut: Look back at other Hollywood director's cuts (ew.com)

Cock, Jay. Cinema: Hit Men. Time Magazine. January 31st, 1977.

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,918649,00.html

MIKEY AND NICKY - HOLLOW SQUARE PRESS

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The death of actor Peter Sellers in 1980 also seemed like the death of the Pink Panther film series. Instead, director Blake Edwards decided it was a new beginning. A beginning of numerous lawsuits, several flops, and one unseen television pilot. Author John LeMay and actor Charlie Schlatter help tell the story of what happened when Blake Edwards kept trying to keep the Panther on the hunt.

Sources

Books

LeMay, John. Trailing the Pink Panther Films: An Unauthorized Guide to the Pink Panther Series. Bicep Books, January, 2022.

Oldham, Gabriella. Blake Edwards: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, December, 2017.

Wasson, Sam. A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards. Wesleyan University Press, July, 2011.

Articles

"Seller’s Widow Wins $1 Million Damages Over Panther Film" AP News. AP Services, May 24, 1985. https://apnews.com/article/39ab5abec851ab132d99965780aa6a7e

"Film maker Blake Edwards filed a $180 million lawsuit..." UPI Archives. September 28, 1983. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/28/Film-maker-Blake-Edwards-filed-a-180-million-lawsuit/1090433569600/

"BLAKE EDWARDS SUED BY MGM/UA" New York Times. Aljean Harmetz. April 17, 1984. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/17/movies/blake-edwards-sued-by-mgm-ua.html

Links

Closing Night: Victor Victoria episode

Transcription Available at The Industry Podcast website.

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Alan Dean Foster is an accomplished author in his own right, but in this episode of The Industry, he shares his process of writing movie novelizations and some of the more interesting novelizations he's done. From Star Wars, Alien, The Thing, The Black Hole, and even a very special episode of Maude, Alan shares many of his experiences in this unique writing world.

Links

Dan Delgado on Twitter and Bluesky

Visit Alan Dean Foster's website

Alan Dean Foster's Memoir of his novelization work

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Back in the 1970s and 80s if you walked into a bookstore you would undoubtedly had seen whatever the newest movie was in theaters sitting on a display in book form. The movie novelization is a world unto itself. We take a look at what it takes to adapt a movie to a novel, why the differences can be interesting, and get into why they exist in the first place. With insight from novelization experts Alan Dean Foster and Tim Waggoner, podcast host Paxton Holley, and filmmaker Whit Stillman, the rare filmmaker who has novelized his own films.

Links

Dan Delgado on Twitter and Bluesky

Listen to Paxton Holley's I Read Movies Podcast

Visit Tim Waggoner's website

Visit Alan Dean Foster's website

Buy Whit Stillman's books

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