Vintertainment: Wine and Movie Pairing

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Microbudget filmmaker Joe Burke spent a decade trying to get a second feature off the ground after his 2013 debut FOUR DOGS. But after all the “no’s”, all the Hollywood rejection, and finally spending months waiting for an A-list actor to add to this list of “no’s”, Joe said “fuck it, I can get $7,000 together and make a movie with Burt Berger. I’m 40 years old, I need to make another movie now, and I love Burt, let’s do it.”

Who us BURT BERGER and why is this movie starring him one of the best indie films of the decade? Listen on.

THE WINES:

• Municipal Winemakers “Nowadays” label’s release of Alicante Bouschet from Cucamonga Valley 2022
• 2018 King of The Mountain Cuvee from Saddlerock Estate

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Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
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Last December, while recording a different episode for this podcast, Dallas and myself discovered that we both had fond memories of a movie titled (ridiculously, but also awesomely) "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. We’d both seen it in the theater back in 2002, and…never again since.

That’s partly due to the movie largely being unavilable due to rights issues, but mostly because it has the LOWEST RATING OF ANY MOVIE EVER ON ROTTEN TOMATOES!!! That’s right, with 119 professional reviews, that is the highest number of total reviews while still maintaining a splat-tastic 0%.

So we were scared. Did we want to ruin this childhood memory? (By “childhood” I mean young adulthood, but you get what we’re saying.)

Well, then returning special guest (from our MIRACLE MILE episode) Nicholas Langdon took interest in joining us if we ever covered it on the pod, and we said eff it, let’s do it. Let find out.

FOLLOW NICK ON LETTERBOXD

You can even join us as you like on our shared LB weekly film club, THE COLLAB

THE WINES:

• Precision Napa Cab
• St Hallett Faith Shiraz “Bagnum” 1.5Liter
• Patroferno Appassimento Puglia Primitivo

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

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• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
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THE NAPA BOYS is a brand new comedy that debuted last year at the Toronto Internatuional Film Festival (TIFF) and caused quite a stir. The film follows the two sons of Sideways main characters - Jack, Jr. and Miles, Jr. - and their entire “Napa Boys” crew which has become famous throughout the world because - get this - this is in fact the FOURTH Napa Boys movie in an ever-expanding Sideways-sequel franchise which also includes The Napa Girls.

The title screen for this film, when it displays, is THE NAPA BOYS 4: THE SOMMELIER’S AMULET. It’s a fake fourth movie of a never-made franchise of a film that never even spawned a sequel let alone a franchise and it is an SNL-style gross-out comedy-fest and it is going to be divisive.

We know this because…we were divided! Yes, this is the first episode where we strongly disagreed with a guest regarding their movie. Decarceration had seen it twice and enjoyed it and thought highly of it’s blackly comedic critical lashes while Dallas and myself were…less enthused.

We cover the backstory and making of the film, then spend a half hour being painfully polite, trying to express our differences while nodding to the talent involved, etc. But folks, we get INTO IT at around the hour mark. It had to happen eventually! Fight! Fight! Fight!

THE WINES:

Nicola Centonze’s White House Marsala, Sicily, Italy

Meiomi Pinot Noir 

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

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• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
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• https://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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We did BOTTLE SHOCK, so we had to do the better of the two 00's wine movies - SIDEWAYS. 

We discuss "The Sideways Effect". "The French Paradox", how both dovetailed to alter the American wine industry, and why this movie still matters. And then pair wines to match certain characters.

THE WINES:

• Korbin Kameron 2021 Merlot, Moon Mountain District, Sonoma (Maya and Victoria)
• 2021 Testamatta Bibi Graetz Toscana (Miles)

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

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• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
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THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ALL THE SPOILERS! ALL OF THEM! GO WATCH THIS MOVIE BEFORE LISTENING! AND DEFINITELY DO WATCH THIS MOVIE!

With special guest, Screenwriter MARK PALERMO, writer of one of my Top 5 movies of all time, DETENTION (2011). Also podcast host for MOVIES AND CHAOS and writer for the The Retroscope zine.

ONE CUT OF THE DEAD is not-really a horror film that was made for $30,000 by a director whose ethos was: you need to make 200-300 movies before you can make a single good one!

We do argue whether that’s actually necessary, certainly at that nutty number, but one thing is certain: Ueda made something AMAZING with One Cut off the Dead.

The film soon reveals itself, and it is a celebratory, life-affirming, wild, comedic, charming, unforgettable filmwatching experience by the time the second (?) credits roll.

THE WINES (and Hard Ice Cream Float)

• FINAL GIRLS WINE 2023 “Frankenfizz” Piquette of Sangiovese
• 2014 Fiddlehead Cellars “728” Pinot Noir, Fiddlestix Vineyard, Sta. Rita Hills
• Vodka Root Beer Float (instructions below)

Instructions

• Split a can of soda between two large glasses and then add a shot of vodka to each.
• Carefully drop two scoops of either dairy dairy-free ice cream into each glass (if you have an ice cream that is cinnamon or coconut flavored - or both! - it makes it even better), and then top off with remaining can of root beer.
• Slurp, scoop, and enjoy.

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

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We finally tackle a WINE movie! And since the 50th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris was last week, we had to cover the (highly fictionalized) movie that was made about the event. We're talking the rather silly and otherwise forgettable BOTTLE SHOCK starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, and Chris Pine's wig.

Dig in for a little wine history, a little film history, and a lot of rewriting a shitty script in real time.

PAIRED WITH (AI-free search links, always):

• Steven Kent Winery ELEMENTS 4-Pack, Cabernet Franc, Livermore Valley, California
• Terlato & Domaine Chapoutier Lieu-Dit Malakoff Shiraz (Syrah), Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

Follow us on the socials!

• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
• https://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemala
• https://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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Make sure you listen you our VINTERVIEW with Chris which dropped last week! We cover his short films, branded content company, and how he came to direct our favorite wine documentary of the past many years, EDEN (2024) about the Mount Eden Winery and Vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, considered to have the oldest lineage of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in all of North America!

WATCH CHRIS' DOCUMENTARY EDEN

FOLLOW CHRIS:

• Instagram
• Website

And today Chris joins us to talk about a favorite movie - the Western to End All Westerns, Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST from 1968.

PAIRIED WITH:

• Alegre Valganon Rioja Blanco 2024
• Pax Syrah, Sonoma Hillsides 2023
• Borgo Savaian "Aransat" Orange Wine, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy 

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

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• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
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Today’s VINTERVIEW is with filmmaker, branded content creator, and now documentarian Chris McGilvray.

We chat with Chris about his narrative short filmmaking, how he quickly realized this was never going to lead to the kind of breakthrough previous generations enjoyed, pivoted to branded content and became a champion of pushing that type of work into more organic and authentic expressions, and then segued from that into his first feature length documentary about the Mount Eden Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains, considered to have the longest lineage of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in all of North America.

We thought this Vinterview would run 20-30 minutes. We had the whole thing Q&A’d scripted out and it was only 5 Q’s! But the conversation evolved organically and we talked at length about the themes of the documentary, themes you rarely see in a Wine doc yet pertain to nearly every aspect of the wine industry.

Chris' Short Films:

• The Silence
• Damage
• Out of Nowhere
• Terroir

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

Follow us on the socials!

• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
• https://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemala
• https://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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Dallas asked me: "What's the creepiest movie you've ever seen? Not the scariest - the creepiest."

I only had to think about it for a short moment: PULSE. A movie that is creepy, unnerving, unsettling, and so, so easy to sink into.

We dive deep into its themes of human lonliness, the rise of the internet and the moment of Y2K, and how PULSE imagines the human world might end. Or, perhaps, how it's already ended.

PAIRED WITH:

• 2016 Loma Prieta Amorosa Vineyard Pinotage, Lodi, CA
• 2023 Gambler's Ghost Cabernet Sauvignon, North Coast, CA

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

Follow us on the socials!

• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
• https://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemala
• https://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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This week we are joined by no-budget filmmaker Courtney Daniels, writer/director of: 

• WHAT OTHER COUPLES DO 
• BEDROOM STORY
• IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S LA

And writer of the book Yes You Can: How to Make a Movie for Almost No Money

You can follow Courtney's journey as she films her 4th feature at:

COURTNEY DANIELS SUBSTACK

and

COURTNEY DANIELS WEBSITE

THE WINES:

• HUSCH Late Harvest Gewurtztraminer, Anderson Valley, California
• MIRAVAL Provence Rose, Cote du Provence, France
• Whiny Baby "Obsessed" Red, who fucking knows?

Support the show

Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie!
Curated-Wines.com

Come interact with us and support the show at:
vintertainmentstudios.com

Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles!
WineCellarCinema.substack.com

Follow us on the socials!

• https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod
• https://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemala
• https://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios