Director Rodney Ascher (“Room 237”) joins the podcast to discuss Gus Van Sant’s “shot-for-shot remake” of Hitchcock’s “Psycho”.

Directed by Gus Van Sant. Starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Phillip Baker Hall, Robert Forster

How is the world wrong about “Psycho” (1998)

From Andras: When Gus Van Sant chose to follow-up his greatest hit (“Good Will Hunting”) with this big budget experimental art film based upon one of the most popular movies from one of the most esteemed directors of all time the responses ranged from befuddled to enraged but as usual the world was wrong.

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The best film you’ve never heard of from the best director you’ve never heard of.

Directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney Starring Marj Dusay, Oliver Wyman and Margot White

How is the world wrong about A Chronicle of Corpses?

From Bryan: When I first saw this movie I was floored. It’s Andy Milligan by way of Kubrick. Masterfully constructed, this is easily one of the best films of the 21st Century thus far. Yet nobody knows about it or has ever heard about it. I try to share this one with anyone who loves cinema, but feels like they’ve hit a wall with finding new challenging stuff. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.

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Robert Towne writes and directs a glossy film about a heroic coke dealer and his best friends, an LA cop and a Mexican drug lord.

Written & Directed by Robert Towne. Starring Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Raul Julia, J.T. Walsh, Arliss Howard, Arye Gross & Budd Boetticher

How is the world wrong about “Tequila Sunrise”?

From Andras: This whole enterprise is pretty wrong and yet, the performances (from Gibson, Julia & Pfieffer) and its amoral drives make it compelling in ways that few films can match. Kurt Russell in particular is in top form. This might be the performance that demands the most of him as an actor.

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Jack Nicholson directs and stars in the sequel to “Chinatown”.

Directed by Jack Nicholson. Written by Robert Towne. Produced by Robert Evans. Starring Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Madeline Stowe, Meg Tilly, Ruben Blades, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth & Tracy Walter

How is the world wrong about “The Two Jakes”?

From Andras: You’d think people would be into a Roman Polanski-less “Chinatown” sequel but they were not. Nicholson manages to give us a continuation of Robert Towne’s detective story about the evolution of Los Angeles that is simultaneously sleazier AND more compassionate than the original. If the world had been a little less wrong about this film we might’ve got a third installment, all about pollution and the LA freeway which, as Bryan points out in the episode, is kind of the plot of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”? which may be the closest we’ll get to the completion of the Chinatown series.

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Sprawling, strange near masterpiece from the director of Donnie Darko

Directed by Richard Kelly. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Timberlake, Mandy Moore, John Laroquette, Wallace Shawn, Curtis Armstrong, Amy Poehler, Cheri Oteri, Will Sasso, Miranda Richardson, Nora Dunne and Jon Lovitz

How is the world wrong about Southland Tales? Most people hate it. Most people find it an incomprehensible mess. Bryan finds it funny and unique. Altman meets Lynch meets Philip K. Dick meets Reality TV trash. Director Kelly takes a really big swing here. We applaud him for it!

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An everything but the kitchen sink zany masterpiece!!!

Directed by H.C. Potter Starring Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Elisha Cook JR. & Shemp Howard.

How is the world wrong about Hellzapoppin’?

From Bryan: Fall down on your face funny stuff starring forgotten comedy duo Olsen & Johnson. Is this the greatest comedy of all time that no one talks about? Yep. Never released on a proper home video format this film inspired great filmmakers like Zucker & Abrahams & Zucker, Joe Dante, Allan Arkush and Steven Spielberg. The earliest example I can think of the joke per second way of presenting gags. Released the same year as Citizen Kane and goddammit just as important!

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Andras Jones joins Bryan Connolly and AJ Gonzalez on The Directors' Wall podcast to discuss "The Rainmaker" from 1997, and the films based upon John Grisham's novels in general.

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Sean Penn interprets a stark Springsteen song as his directorial debut and launches the career of Viggo Mortensen

Written & Directed by Sean Penn. Starring David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Patricia Arquette, Valeria Golino, Charles Bronson, Sandy Dennis & Dennis Hopper

How is the world wrong about The Indian Runner?

From Andras: Sean Penn’s first film as a director is his best. Is it the first films of the 1990’s? A difficult character study based upon “Highway Patrolman”, a Bruce Springsteen song from his dark acoustic masterpiece “Nebraska” featuring three of the decade’s most defining cinematic performers; Patricia Arquette, Benicio Del Toro (in one scene) and Viggo Mortensen’s debut as a leading man/anti-hero. And yet…you don’t really hear people talk about this film much. That’s just plain wrong.

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Let the insanity flow from actor to director to manimal.

Directed by John Frankenheimer & Richard Stanley. Starring Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk and Nelson de la Rosa.

How is the world wrong about The Island Of Dr. Moreau?

From Bryan: A troubled production that became tabloid fodder. The behind the scenes shenanigans of two directors in over their heads and unruly method actors may have tainted people’s opinions of this strange, unique film. Brando and Kilmer are really going for it here. Time for the hate to stop now. In this month of Shocktober let’s maybe give this creature filled horror film a chance.

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A lean, mean paranoid political thriller from Mamet and Kilmer.

Written & Directed by David Mamet. Starring Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, Tia Texada, William H. Macy, Ed O’Neil, Kristen Bell, Mark Pellegrino, Said Taghmaoui, Natalia Nogulich & Geoff Pierson

How is the world wrong about Spartan?

From Andras: I’ve heard people call this a “fascist film”. It certainly depicts the cold machinations of the the US intelligence apparatus when they kick into action to “cherchez la femme” but not in any celebratory way. This film is dark, and cold and rich with Mamet’s words and rhythms which are particularly well-served by Kilmer’s natural low-key arrogance.

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