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- 296: Retrospectating 1999 - THE LIMEY / THREE KINGS20 years ago this week, 2 of the Sundance Film Festival’s favorite sons both leveled-up with their respective genre exercises and experienced creative breakthroughs. Yet, for some reason, Steven Soderbergh’s melancholy daylight noir, THE LIMEY and David O. Russell’s Heller-esque military satire, THREE KINGS rarely get mentioned in the same breath as either director’s later successes.We’re here to change all of that with dual reappraisals and hosannahs in a podcast ode to the first week of 1999!Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS1 hr 2 min
- 295: Present Tense- Admiring AD ASTRA and Commencing the Awards Conversation———Editor’s Note: Apologies for the tardiness of this episode. Technical issues led to the late posting. But it sounds great now and we’re really proud of the conversation. Thanks for listening!———We’re talkin’ AD ASTRA, we’re talkin’ box office, we’re talkin’ festival reactions, and we’re talkin’ awards predictions.We talk, you listen, you comment, we read… It’s the podcasting circle of life!Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS1 hr 9 min
- 294: Retrospectating 1999 - AMERICAN BEAUTYIt’s a complicated movie with a complicated legacy.These are complicated times. So it’s going to take a complex conversation to properly excavate the Best Picture winner from 1999 on the week of its 20th anniversary. Join us as we celebrate and ruminate [on] AMERICAN BEAUTY, a film that–for better or for worse–defined the end of a decade and a bygone era of incorrigible ennui.Listen closer. This is a complicated one.Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS1 hr 4 min
- 293: AFI #62 - AMERICAN GRAFFITI“You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you!”Email: [email protected]: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS45 min
- 292: Oeuvre - The 1st Age of JOHN MCTIERNAN - 1986-1990A new Oeuvre journey begins this week as we inaugurate our excavation into the career of one, John McTiernan. His incredible run from 1986 to 1990 represents a singular rise from relative obscurity to industry relevance, prominence, and pertinence. Join us as we set the table for his unique career path, attempt to divine meaning from his bizarre debut, and deep-dive into three of his most beloved masterworks. Vive l'oeuvre!-NOMADS (1986)-PREDATOR (1987)-DIE HARD (1988)-THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990)(special thanks to Mr. Beau Marks — a longtime collaborator of John McTiernan — for consulting on this series)Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS1 hr 23 min
- 291: Retrospectating 1999 - BOWFINGERIf you’ve ever considered joining Mindhead, were always intrigued by the premise of “Chubby Rain,” or get nervous when someone asks you if you’re willing to cut your hair, then you’re probably going to get a lot out of this week’s episode. We’re revisiting the forgotten comedic gem BOWFINGER, a film that got lost in the late summer of 1999 amid the feeding frenzy for repeated viewings of the THE SIXTH SENSE. But there’s many things to glean from Steven Martin and Frank Oz’s sweet little 97 minute Hollywood satire (one of Eddie Murphy’s favorite of his own films) including some thematic and cultural cues that would signpost a comedic pivot that took place at the turn of the century. We hope that you’ll join us on this journey, and never forget- “Cash, every movie costs 2,184 dollars!”Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS54 min
- 290: Retrospectating 1999 - THE SIXTH SENSEIn the tenth installment in our ongoing series about 1999 we revisit M. Night Shyamalan’s zeitgeist-rattling supernatural thriller THE SIXTH SENSE; a film we had previously covered in our AFI Top 100 series and had been disproportionately hard on. This time around we look at the film with fresh eyes, examine its relationship to the horror movies that bookended it on the calendar (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and STIR OF ECHOES respectively), and even find time to throw some love toward under-appreciated gems ARLINGTON ROAD and DEEP BLUE SEA- both of which also turned twenty last month to zero fanfare. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy M. Night.Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS47 min
- 289: AFI #63 - CABARET“The continent of Europe is so wide, mein herr.Not only up and down, but side to side, mein herr.I couldn't ever cross it if I tried, mein herr.But I do…What I can…Inch by inch…Step by step…Mile by mile…Man-by-man.”Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS46 min
- 288: Present Tense - Reckoning with ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD and Tarantino's Complex LegacyRoughly three or four times a decade we declare a national cinematic holiday in honor of the man who’s been reinventing the rules of mainstream cinema for the last quarter century. Regardless of how you feel about ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD, it’s hard to argue with the fact that Quentin Tarantino’s “9th” (mmm, “10th”?) feature film as writer/director is one of the most hotly-anticipated and hotly-debated films of the year—nay, the 2010s!Join us as we do a deep-dive into the career of the provocateur, demarcate the three[ish] phases of his career, and take a long, spoilerrific look at his newest period epic.Whether you’re floating in your Hollywood Hills pool, drinking a whiskey sour from a beer stein, or hanging out in your trailer, eating macaroni and cheese in the lowlands of Panorama City, this episode has a little something for everybody…Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS1 hr 9 min
- 287: Retrospectating 1999 - EYES WIDE SHUTWe’re a week late for our 20th anniversary celebration of Stanley Kubrick’s provocative final masterpiece, Eyes Wide Shut. But the added buffer gave us more time to stew and reflect upon the truly bizarre cultural real estate that the film occupies in the the filmmaker’s career, in Cruise and Kidman’s respective filmographies, and within the weird and wonderful contextual sphere of the summer of 1999.Email: [email protected]Donate: Thanks!Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS57 min
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