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Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 7 | Cannes You Believe It?! 🇫🇷🎞️

We’re back in the saddle after a wild ride to the Cannes Film Festival 🥂🎥 — where Danny’s work on Slauson Recwas a last-minute addition to the prestigious Cannes Classics lineup! 😱✨

In this very special episode:

🐎 Dan survives the red carpet and a brutal sinus infection

🧢 Buys waaaaay too many souvenir hats

🎟️ Breaks down the circus-like chaos of Cannes

📽️ Reflects on editing a vérité doc for 2 years straight

✍️ Retreats into the French countryside for a creative Eat Pray Love style journey

🍷 Visits Ridley Scott’s personal vineyard (and, yes, the Alien space suits are there)

From the Palais to the Provence, this one’s a jetlagged, wine-drenched, film-soaked recap of a life-changing creative high. ✈️💻📓

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Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 6 | The Smight Stuff: Claire, Con Artists & Paper Moon

This week, the Smight family expands—and upgrades.
✨Claire Smight—art director, film connoisseur, and certified agent of cool—makes her long-awaited Timecode Cowboys debut 🎤🎉

With Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon (1973) as our  compass, we hit the open road to explore a world of scams, grifts, and Americana. Along the way we discuss the following:

👧 Tatum O’Neal’s Oscar-winning chaos as Addie Loggins

📖 The fine art of a Bible hustle

🎥 Bogdanovich’s obsession with vintage style and modern sharpness

🍼 And the truth about growing up in a house full of filmmakers, jokers, and cinephiles

It’s part family roast, part roadside elegy, and all love.
The Smights get reflective, ridiculous—and maybe a little rowdy. And yes: Claire absolutely steals the show (just like Tatum).

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Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 5 | Doctor’s Orders: Learning to Love the Cut with Mark Baldwin (and Dr. Strangelove)

This week, we step into the war room and go full Kubrick. Editor, documentarian, and raconteur Mark Baldwin joins us for a deep dive into the genius of Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb — from its razor-sharp satire to the way its editing reshaped comedy.

As a longtime industry vet with credits across both docs and narrative fare, Mark also shares his own career journey:

🧠 How Strangelove rewired his brain as a young cinephile
🎬 What it takes to build a lasting editing career in Hollywood
📼 Why sometimes the best edits happen when you don’t follow the script

It’s part masterclass, part therapy session for film lovers. Slim Pickens rides the bomb, and we ride shotgun with Baldwin.

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Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys | Ep. 4 | Edit Room Rodeo: John Heath on his Career in and Out of the Cutting Room

This week, The Cowboys welcome their very first guest to the corral: producer, editor, and director John Heath 🎥✂️. We saddle up for a ride through John's decades-spanning career — from the wild early days of non-linear editing 🖥️ to the modern media frontier — swapping tales from the trenches of Hollywood across genres and eras. Plus, John brings a personal favorite to the table: the Coen Brothers' underworld masterpiece, Miller’s Crossing 🎩🔫.

It's a story of cutting, crafting, and crossing paths — don't miss it!

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Buckle up, movie lovers — it’s time to hit the gas!🔥

In Episode 3 of Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys, we cruise the highway with Vanishing Point (1971), the cult classic that turned a white Dodge Challenger into an everlasting symbol of freedom, fatalism, and full-throttle filmmaking.

We talk the seeds of the screenplay written by a Cuban novelist (who might have also been a CIA agent) Barry Newman’s effortlessly stoic protagonist Kowalski, the mysterious DJ Super Soul, and that surreal mix of high-speed chases and ‘70s soul-searching that makes this film so indelibly iconic.

We also veer off-road into other iconic car chase flicks (The French Connection, Two-Lane Blacktop) and share how Vanishing Point floored us the first time we saw it.

This one’s got muscle cars, desert vibes, and a whole lot of cinematic myth-making. If you’ve ever dreamed of outrunning society with just a full tank and a fuzzed-out soundtrack, this episode’s for you.

Like, comment, and subscribe if you’re riding with us each week for film nostalgia, deep cuts, and father-son film talk!

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Is Lonely are the Brave (1962) the real beginning of New Hollywood? In this episode of Timecode⏱️🤠Cowboys, we saddle up with one of the most underrated modern Westerns ever made — a film that saw Kirk Douglas swapping six-shooters for existentialism and horses for helicopters.

This isn’t your granddad’s cowboy movie. This is a boundary-breaking elegy for the American individualist, a spiritual bridge from the mythic West to the morally complex antiheroes of the 1970s. Before Easy Rider, before The Wild Bunch, before Taxi Driver or Five Easy Pieces, there was Jack Burns — a man out of time, trapped between the frontier and the freeway.

We dig deep into:
🎬 The subversive screenplay by Dalton Trumbo
🐎 Kirk Douglas' soulful performance and why he considered this his favorite film
🚓 The film’s subtle political undertones and countercultural spirit
🛣️ How this movie foreshadowed the themes, tone, and rebellion of New Hollywood cinema

If you love Westerns that break the rules — or want to trace the cinematic lineage from Shane to Scorsese — this is your stop.

Subscribe, like, and comment to let us know your favorite proto-New Hollywood films or Westerns with a twist!

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Welcome to the first episode of Timecode Cowboys, where we dive deep into the rugged, rebellious terrain of 1970s cinema! 🎥 From gritty antiheroes to groundbreaking auteurs, the ‘70s redefined Hollywood storytelling with daring new visions. 🍿🤠

Join us as we explore how filmmakers wrangled the chaos of the era to create some of the most unforgettable movies in history.

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For those who are curious, here's a list of all movies - no matter how brief or tangential - mentioned in this episode (by order of oldest release date to newest...)

Sunrise – 1927, directed by F.W. Murnau
White Heat – 1949, directed by Raoul Walsh
DOA – 1950, directed by Rudolph Maté
Gun Crazy – 1950, dir. Joseph H. Lewis
In A Lonely Place — 1950, dir. Nicholas Ray
Sunset Blvd. – 1950, directed by Billy Wilder
Ace in the Hole – 1951, directed by Billy Wilder
Kiss Me Deadly – 1955, directed by Robert Aldrich
A Face in the Crowd – 1957, directed by Elia Kazan
Sweet Smell of Success – 1957, directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Dr. Strangelove – 1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick
Seconds – 1966, directed by John Frankenheimer
Bonnie and Clyde – 1967, directed by Arthur Penn
The Swimmer – 1968, directed by Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? — 1969, directed by Sydney Pollack
Easy Rider – 1969, directed by Dennis Hopper
Klute – 1971, directed by Alan J. Pakula
Vanishing Point – 1971, directed by Richard C. Sarafian
A Clockwork Orange – 1971, directed by Stanley Kubrick
Sleeper – 1973, directed by Woody Allen
Paper Moon – 1973, directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Zardoz – 1974, directed by John Boorman
The Sugarland Express – 1974, directed by Steven Spielberg
Chinatown – 1974, directed by Roman Polanski
Barry Lyndon – 1975, directed by Stanley Kubrick
All the President's Men – 1976, directed by Alan J. Pakula
Tough Guys Don't Dance – 1987, directed by Norman Mailer
The Lost World: Jurassic Park – 1997, directed by Steven Spielberg
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery – 1997, directed by Jay Roach
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me – 1999, directed by Jay Roach
Death Proof – 2007, directed by Quentin Tarantino

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Alec and Danny Smight, father and son filmmakers, discuss Movies, TV, Filmmaking from it's beginnings to present day and beyond!   

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