You're Missing Out: A National Film Registry Podcast

"It's nice to be individualistic, but there are certain places to be individualistic."

"I didn't mean to be individualistic."

What better way to examine Frederick Wiseman's sophomore documentary than with a self-described "survivor of the late 60s educational system"? Mike's high school English teacher, Celia Blumm, stops by to talk about what Wiseman captured, what remains eerily true to this day, and what the hell was up with that guy giving "the talk"?

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"Tomorrow the birds will sing."

Actor Jae Kim returns to the show to talk Charlie Chaplin's rebuke of the talkie, the romantic comedy City Lights. We'll talk great gags, moving scenes, and how many filmmakers have lifted so much from this classic Chaplin masterwork.

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Shadowplay (Jae's college film made with Mike and Tom)

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Way, way back in 2018, our hosts Mike Natale and Tom Lorenzo had a different podcast (with the same name, because names are hard, y'all). On that show, they devoted a whole episode to the history of the mighty cinematic ape known as King Kong, who had recently leaped from the silver screen to the Great White Way.

As a supplement to our recent episode on 1933's King Kong with Graham Skipper, we've dug out this vintage podcast episode where the Mike and Tom of the past discuss every major Kong movie up until then, as well as the Broadway musical based on the character.

We'll be back to National Film Registry talk next week, but for now, enjoy the King Kong Special!

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"They said it couldn't be filmed – but it was! See it and ask – what if such a thing could happen?"

Horror expert and "literally wrote the book on big monsters" author Graham Skipper swings by the pod to talk everyone's big ape buddy King Kong. We'll talk the birth of the blockbuster, palpable personality in a stop-motion creature, and why the Kong iconography remains so powerful 90 years later.

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"The Ultimate Trip"

Filmmaker Ian Faria joins us on the show to talk about Stanley Kubrick's complex and and entrancing science fiction classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. We talk award-winning special effects, critic-confounding stories, and of course, that Pauline Kael review.

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"The lives lost were precious lives- to their county, to their loved ones, and to the men themselves."

In 1945, military officials were astounded by the battle footage captured by John Huston in his pointedly anti-war documentary short The Battle of San Pietro. Decades later, it was revealed that the real battle had occurred before the cameras even arrived. Editor Glenn Garthwaite joins us to untangle the complicated legacy of Houston's WWII film, and the rich history of those fateful filmmaking figures who went to war and came back changed.

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Keeper of the Bay documentary

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Michael H. Weber was simply trying to lay low, enjoying his life as a successful screenwriter, when a figure from his past reappears to remind him of a foolish deal he made: agreeing to appear on a show about the National Film Registry about a year ago. Now he must return to the world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames known as podcasting, to discuss Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and Jane Greer in Jacques Tourneur's iconic noir, Out of the Past.

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"It took two years to make; it gives you two hours of engrossing entertainment. You may hate it, as you hate the dangerous undercurrents of life, but you will be fascinated, thrilled, held spell-bound."

Heads up! This is a very different kind of episode of You're Missing Out. Instead of sitting down with a guest and bouncing all around the plot of the film like we often do, this time, Mike, Tom, and Kyle sat down on mic to record a full-length (well, full-length for the shortest of the full length versions of this film) commentary track for Erich von Stroheim's 1924 masterpiece, Greed. Listen to it here, or watch the full film with commentary attached on our Youtube channel.

Find the film with commentary here: https://youtu.be/nyPQAUGGCkI

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A quick heads up on what's coming up this week for You're Missing Out

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"A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner!"

The twisting turns of a con-artist drama meet the ping-pong dialogue of a romantic comedy, all with that classic Ernst Lubitsch touch. Actor David Bluvband joins us to talk about 1932's Trouble in Paradise. We discuss bawdy humor, the Hays code, and of course, which Super Mario Bros. character would play which role in the film.

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