The Super 70 Podcast

The last forty years of Hollywood has been dominated by a handful of stars that stayed in the A List. Join us as we go through the impressive career of Bruce Willis, American Wunderkind who managed to turn his television career into an impressive melee into action, comedy, and dare I say…art?

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British Director Gurninder Chadha dominated the UK theaters for three weeks in 2002 with a story about an Indian girl who just wanted to play soccer. When the audience turned out, though, they saw a multi-layered critique of modern British society that included sexism, racism, and clashing culture. Join me as we go scene by scene to see how clandestinely Chadha discusses these topics using clever iconography and metaphor in what is one of the most important films about immigration, assimilation, and aloo gobi.

Works Cited

Bagguley, Paul and Hussaine, Yasmin. Bend It Like Beckham film review. Feminist Media Studies, Vol 2, No. 3, 2002. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group Press.

Deprez, Camille. Comparative Reflections on Hong Kong and indian Cinema - Identity, Diaspora, and Cosmopolitanism. China Perspectives, 2009. No. 3 (79) (2009), pp 87-96.

Gianrdina, Michael. Bend[ing] it Like Beckham: Stylish Hybridity in Popular British Culture. Counterpoints, 2005, Vol 282, Sporting pedagogies: Performing Culture & Identity in the Global Arena (2005), pp 27-48.

Alie, Lorraine. GOOOOOOAL! Newsweek; 4-21-2003, Vol 141 Issue 16, p52, 2p, 2c.

Ransom, Amy J. Bollywood Goes to the Stadium: Gender, national Identity, and Sport Film in Hindi. Journal of Film and Video, Vol 66. No. 4 (Winter 2021). Pp 34-49.

Stuart, Jan. Alive and Kicking. The Advocate. 4-1-03. Issue 886. P57. 1p. 1c.

Sawhney, Cary Rajinder. ‘Another Kind of British’: An Exploration of British Asian Films. Cineaste, Fall 2001. Vol. 26, No. 4. Pp58-61.

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Okay fan boys and girls, you know the drill. Once upon a time I bet any year of film in the 1980’s would beat any film from any other year in any other decade. I flippantly told Dave 1984 would beat 1924, 1934 and do on. And he roundly proved me wrong. I wanted a rematch, and again chose 1987 out of a hat. That year may flip both of our points of view. By the time the podcast is over we’ll take a huge deep dive into our Letterboxd accounts, finally spend an adequate amount of time on the amazing October of 2021, and we breakdown our love of cinema and compare the size of our…screens.

The Super 70 Podcast can be found on Soundcloud, Spotify, and any feed Apple RSS pushes to. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylavis.com. You can find Rozalind MacPhail at www.rozilandmacphail.com. You can find Dave Anderson on a future episode of The Super 70 Podcast.

Ok, fanboys and girls, what we have here is two recordings. The first recording is my son and I after we recorded the Breathless podcast chatting about Godard. That’s about 20 minutes. And the second recording is me and Dave Anderson chatting about Godard as well. I went over to his house and miked his back yard so we could smoke outside and watch the Astros lose and well, that pretty much dictated how the recording went. We also jumped into Communist Ideology, the amazing Cinema of October of 2020, James Bond, and Lady Gaga’s stunning debut into modern Kino.

Cinema Cited

Breathless

Vivre Savie

Le Petit Soldat

Contempt

A Band a Par

Pierrot le Fou

Tenet

575 Castro Street

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

Montage of Heck

Woodstock ‘99

Underwater

Milk

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Works Cited

Make this Marxist blush with some Capitalist Expenditure:

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Thanks for hanging out with Luke, Dave, and I while we chatted about cinema. The Super 70 podcast is brought to you by Dylan Davis. That’s me. You can find me, my books, and my blog on www.thatdylandavis.com.

Last episode I asked Dr. Teresa Van Hoy from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, to go scene by scene with me through Maria Louise Bemberg’s Immortal story about Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz titled “I the Worst of All.” We had such a stimulating conversation I asked her back for a couple of hours so we could discuss important topics as racism and John Ford’s The Searchers, Confederates in film and in stature, and being good Texans we take a deep dive into Mexican and Texas history and film.

Teresa Van Hoy teaches history at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, just a couple of miles away from the Alamo. Look in my notes to for links to her book and Ellen Brodsky’s film “25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln.”

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You can get her book Social History of Mexico's Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and Priests here on Amazon.com:

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Rip Ford lived through every major even in the Republic of Texas, and wrote it all down. His biography is here: https://smile.amazon.com/Fords-Texas-Personal-Narratives-West/dp/0292770340/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11F0USNBP2YGC&keywords=rip+ford%27s+texas&qid=1640148418&sprefix=rip+ford%27%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1

You can see Ellen Brodsky’s film “25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln” on Kanopy here:

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Maria Louisa Bemberg, the granddaughter of German immigrants to Argentina, was 48 years old and the mother of four when she moved from Franco’s Spain back to Peronist Argentina to pursue a film career. At 68, she moved her critical eye to the Church of New Spain when she directed I, the Worst of All. A compelling true story of a seventeenth century nun in the convent of St. Gerome outside Mexico City, the film explores the effect of misogyny and jingoism upon the lives of genuinely good natured, intelligent, and faithful women who see knowledge and God as synonymous. This world view crashes down when a new Viceroy comes to the new world and challenges the status quo of the Bishop of Puebla, the ecclesiastical authority in New Spain. Caught in a political trap that could cost her a trial by the Inquisition, Sor Juana uses her wits to try to survive in a man’s world. Bemberg’s focus is of course women’s rights but along the way we see shades of the authoritarianism Bemberg herself was subjected to. Joining me on this episode is Dr. Teresa Van Hoy of St. Mary’s University, San Antonio.

WORKS CITED

Find I, the Worst of All on DVD at http://firstrunfeatures.com/iworstofalldvd.html

De La Cruz, Sor Juana Ines. Selected Works. Ed. Julia Alvarez. Translated by Edith Grossman. W.W. Norton and Company. New York. 2014.

Sor Juana: The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz. Harvard University Press. 1990.

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Katsushiro Otomo’s Akira Commentarycast guest starring Laura Seiling and Danny Gaylord from the Film is Lit Podcast and their friend and self appointed Manga enthusiast Ryan Burns was a blast. We had so much fun doing that we decided to do this special report in which we wander through discussion of psychology and Akira, race and Ghost in the Shell, misogyny and Blue is the Warmest Color; we discuss Dune probably too much and we end by pondering what is our Rushmore of literature?

Works Cited

Dune, Frank Herbert

Doctor Sleep, Stephen King

Blue is the Warmest Color, Julie Maroh

Katsuhiro Otomo was 34 years old and had only directed a short film when he dished out the most important Japanese anime film of all time. Based on his own massively popular Manga, AKIRA takes western influences and filters them through eastern experiences. Join Laura Seiling, Danny Gaylord, and Ryan Burns from the Film is Lit Podcast as we go scene by scene through AKIRA and discuss the influence of biker gangs, the trauma of growing up after a nuclear holocaust, and the insufferable torment of adolescent angst.

Get a hold of Film Is Lit here: https://www.facebook.com/filmislitpodcast

And Roz’s new album here: www.rozalindmacphail.com

Works Cited

Otomo, Katsuhiro. AKIRA. Six Volumes. Kodansha Comics. Tokyo, 1990.

Lopez, Remi. The Impact of AKIRA: A Manga Revolution. Third Edition. Toulouse. 2020.

Mike White of the Projection Booth Podcast was nice enough to sit for a Special Report for the Super 70 Podcast. We discuss the career and possible future of Bruce Lee, the importance of Cinema in our lives, and I ask him when the hell does he have time to push out three hour episodes every week on the Projection Booth?

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Martial artist and Hollywood actor Bruce Lee passed away a mere month before the release of his breakthrough Gung Fu film Enter the Dragon. Easily dismissed as a remake of Doctor No that rehashed a famous scene from Orson Welles’ The Lady From Shanghai, Enter the Dragon has several puzzling loopholes neither the screenwriter, editor, or director could fix. However, this Hong Kong production cashed in on Lee’s California Connections, his personalized style of Jeet Kune Do, and Lee’s absolute determination to finally make a 'western' film his way. Join Mike White of the Projection Booth Podcast as we go scene by scene and discuss how a forgone tragedy turned into not only the film Bruce Lee is most remembered for, but the seminal martial arts movie for an entire generation.

If you live on the moon and have never heard of the Projection Booth Podcast, you can find it here or wherever you listen to podcasts.

All music by Roziland MacPhail. You can find her here and on iTunes.

WORKS CITED

Works Cited

Clouse, Robert. The Making of Enter the Dragon. UP 1983.

Clouse, Robert. Bruce Lee: the Biography. UP 1983.

Astarate, Richard John. About Chinese Cinema. Film Quarterly Vol. 62. No. 02. Winter 2008. P72-76. University of California Press.

Flanagan, B. P. Kung Fu Krazy: or The Invasion of the Chop Suey Easterns’ Cineaste Vol. 6 No. 3 (1974) p8-11.

Logan, Bey. Hong Kong Action Cinema. The Overlook Press. Woodstock, New York. 1995

Tiana (Thi Thanh Nga). From Wong to Woo: Asians in Hollywood. Cineaste: Race in Contemporary American Cinema. P38-39.

Thomas, Bruce. Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit. Frog, Ltd. Berkeley.1994.