You may be at a podcast called the Wages of Cinema but, you might ask, what sort of ‘wages?’ Can they buy you sex? How about the sex comes free? Maybe you’re a perv and should go away some place else! Maybe we’ll throw in a sandwich on the way out… Ok, strange intro.

How about… back in February, Jack and Andrew had a discussion about SEX in cinema. We return with another discussion about this, but only this time we also have the return of REQUIRED READING. The book is by British author Neil Fulwood, and is called ‘One Hundred Sex Scenes That Changed Cinema.’ What did he put in, or possibly leave out? What kind of spectrum are we talking about here? Well… give it a listen, and you may be surprised by some of the selections made – by and large due to how the chapters are presented (and how far back in history and where the author digs into).

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(Song is 'Blame it on the Mame' sung by Rita Hayworth from "Gilda")

The LIST this week gets epic. How epic? Two films that altogether run a total of 3 ½ hours (maybe longer), and have a connecting thread: two historical films about figures you may have heard of (or not, as case might be), and both directed not only by actors, but the actors in question – Richard Attenborough and Warren Beatty – won Oscars in back-to-back years for their long-gestated triumphs (it took more or less 15 years a-piece to produce the films). So, join Jack and Andrew as they go in the Wayback machine – if such a thing exists – to the early 80’s for epics about Mahatma Gandhi and John Reed, and their trials and tribulations in India and Russia.

Warren Beatty’s REDS (1981)

Richard Attenborough’s GANDHI (1982)

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Jack and Andrew return, once again, NOT for the last time (far as we know, we don’t control the sponsors…)

Time for more movie talk, but before the movies that they saw this week, Jack brings up the latest sound-bytes that seem to be coming out of that fount of movie-geekdom, Quentin Tarantino, and his comments about streaming and taping from TV on VHS in ‘I Lost it at the Video Store’.

The 2-Minute Movie-Mile this week, meanwhile (starting at 13:35 in), is once again an eclectic mixture – you want em, we got em, folks: new releases, documentaries, horror films by a late (great?) master, horror movies that are actually comedies, animated films that changed the medium forever, and how about some Philip Glass and AC/DC composed films while we’re at it?

2MMM: SICARIO – THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (72) – ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTILD STORY OF CANNON FILMS – THE HILLS HAVE EYES (77) – THE KILLING FIELDS – GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES – WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS – THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED – (Jacks marathon: 31:57) WHIRLPOOL – WHISPER OF THE HEART – KOYAANISQATSI – AC/DC: LET THERE BE ROCK – THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

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It only took 26 episodes (give or take a few), but Jack Gattanella and Andrew Birchenough present their very first LIVE presentation!

Here's a question: what are THE important animated movies ever made? Or more specifically, how many came from Walt Disney studios alone? Are they only for kids - what about adults? Over the course of an hour (and then some), Jack and Andrew look to find the 10 (really 11) feature films that have changed the medium of animation forever - from silent-era Germany, to Japanese anime, independent films from the UK and France, and a foray into the medium for the most successful filmmaker of the past 40 years.

A special thanks to the Midland Park Public Library in Midland Park, New Jersey, for hosting us, and to everyone who came out to see us talk. Also - if you would like to see the clips we used for the presentation, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_OgMEmSnw

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Sure, it's the Wages of Cinema - but we have a limit for our 'cins', right?

Long ago, when young men wore flannel and young women were catching up on episodes of My So-Called Life, people could walk into a theater, pay the $5, and get the crap knocked out of them by seeing something they hadn’t seen before – such as, in 1995, a serial killer movie that had a grisly, nasty, dark-black-brown-hued vision of hell, with a surprise actor in the last act, and stars Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt making one of the most indelible detective teams in modern film.

The movie was Se7en, staying at #1 for four weeks in a row, and it grossed 100 million at the domestic box office (327 worldwide). It became to horror/serial killer movies what Pulp Fiction at the time was to sly day-in-the-life crime movies: full of snappy, hard-edged dialog, nihilistic visions of the world, and taking humanity to task for things. The term ‘put him in the map’ can be said for David Fincher on this film (prior to this he cut his teeth on Madonna videos and Alien3), and writer Andrew Kevin Walker (who would go on to… write The Game, also for Fincher, and other films).

It’s now 20 years old, and Jack and Andrew go in deep to look at the kills, the morality (and apathy), and surprises of the film – does it hold up? What’s in the box? Oh, and SPOILERS.

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Two men know what they want out of life. One will become a major league baseball player – a rookie at the age of 40 – and defy any odds to be nearly the greatest the game ever saw – and the other will become an obsessive over intelligent life off the Earth that’s come to seek him (and others) out, and he may just have to go to them at the rendezvous point. Oh, and both characters are named Roy.

Aside from that, not too much in common with these two films, except that they do get the spirits soaring (whether more for Jack or Andrew you’ll have to listen to know), and Robert Redford and Richard Dreyfuss give it their all as the unlikely heroes of their stories.

Barry Levinson’s THE NATURAL (1984)

Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

Clips from The Natural trailer, and disco version of 3rd Kind theme

Snakes. Monkey Brains. Giant Bugs. Crocodiles. Rats. Sean Connery. What do all these things have in common? They were all on the set for director Steven Spielberg’s constant, undivided amusement! (Well, duh). In this mini-episode, culled from the 2MMM, Jack and Andrew see all three films from when Spielberg and Lucas decided to get together and play in 1930’s Saturday matinee/James Bond style sandbox. Do the films hold up?

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)

Clip from ‘Raiders’ trailer

Before the intrepid hosts get into the Two-Minute Movie-Mile, Andrew is upset about Pacific Rim 2 being shelved indefinitely, and Jack recounts his trip to Retro Con in Oaks, PA, and his purchase of an unusual NES (movie-related) game from 1986.

Then, the movies on tap for this week are… dominated by Jack, who else, but there’s some good talk for animation (80’s robot action, Spielberg mo-cap and Disney classics abound), a faith-based nightmare, and movies featuring Oscar-winners, tragic deaths and sexual encounters of the bizarre and strange kind. Also, Jack may have discovered the black Klaus Kinski in an otherwise forgettable would-be Lifetime movie, and Andrew related Colin Trevorrow’s first film to a 40’s horror classic. (Jack’s ‘Marathon’ starts 28:28)

MOVIES (2MMM, starts 14:14 in): THE VISIT – JODOROWSKY’S DUNE – THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE – THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN – RICKI AND THE FLASH – SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED – DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL – THE PERFECT GUY – GOD’S NOT DEAD – THE LION IN WINTER – THE SWEET HEREAFTER – DISNEY’S BEAUTY & THE BEAST – TOY STORY

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Theme is “Jubillee Stomp” by Duke Ellington

Clip is from Boogie Nights

Ingrid Bergman. Immediately you'll think of a scene set in the fog outside of an airplane, where Laszlo is about to get on a plane - but beautiful Ilsa will be getting on there too, all because Rick has to give up what he's had, once again, and... of course it's one of THE noble gestures in cinema. Casablanca, often called the greatest Hollywood film, was something that Bergman didn't find that compelling as she made it. What movie was she more excited about to make at the time? What was working with Hitchcock like? The monumental scandal (for Americans of the period, and even US Senators on the House floor) involving Roberto Rossellini - and which gave the world a number of very memorable dramas (and Isabella Rossellini to boot). Then, near the end, Ingmar Bergman.

Jack and Andrew talk Bergman's films that they've seen, like Notorious, Joan of Arc and Voyage to Italy, on the week of Ingrid Bergman's 100 year birthday (and at BAM in Brooklyn, NY, a retrospective will be going on).

Country music in Nashville. Yuppies in San Francisco. Henry Gibson. Michael Keaton. So many other things to list - what do they have in common? Well, probably not much, except they are Andrew and Jack's LIST movies of the week!

Robert Altman's NASHVILLE (reviewed by Andrew)

John Schlesinger's PACIFIC HEIGHTS (reviewed by Jack)