Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Why is it called that?!
We winge about Chris Nolan, Jake Busey's teeth and Huarache's vegetarian options.
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Outro: Willie Bobo performing Fried Neck Bone and Some Home Fries
Theme by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

In which we talk Sarah Palin, Morgan Spurlock and Dick Warlock.
Pop Culture Detective | Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie

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Outro: Kenonyx performing Urban Commando
Theme by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

We bite into this month of films featuring Shelley Duval with Robert Altman's meandering musical movie adaptation of the spinach-powered cartoon sailor man. With Robin Williams in the titular role, Duvall as Olive Oyl; we weren't sure what to expect. And that's exactly what we got.
Naturally we end up discussing film as propaganda, occupied Palestine and the coming fall of imperialism. The yoozh.
#FreePalestine
#Landback

Warographics | The Six Day War (this video is the one quoted in the episode but mostly for brevity. the Al Jazeera video is more comprehensive)
Al Jazeera English | Six Days That Changed the Middle East

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Outro: Anika performing He Needs Me
Theme by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

We wrap July with Barton Fink (1991); a film that was perhaps second only to Trust (1990) in it's influence on a teen Keithy.
Turturro, Goodman, Buscemi, Mahoney, Shaloub -- there's lots to enjoy about this movie.
Plus we talk: Holocaust/Nazi/WWII fetishism in the US, the Hollywood trap, and Cradle Will Rock (1999). Plus our reflection on this month's selections.
Referenced materials:
The Story Department | Screenwriting for Sound
JessFlix | Why Barton Fink Terrifies Me
Every Frame A Painting | Shot/Reverse Shot
Coens & Turturro on Dick Cavett, 1991

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Outro: Marc Blitzstein & Shirley Booth performing I've Got the Tune

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Don't be fooled by the the title or the marketing for this film, it's not about green terlet goblins really. But is about some vague "black magic" and sick ass shades.
So, as you might expect, we end up discussing reusing cooking oils and other food traumas.

Scaredy Cats

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Winston Roomfort performing The Gremlins Rag
Theme by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

Move #2 of Keith's bday selection is one that has haunted him since he was one of the extremely few people to view it in a cinema at the time: The End of Violence (1997).
Starring Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Andie MacDowell, Traci Lind, Loren Dean, with notable support roles by Rosalind Chao, John Diehl, Pruitt Taylor Vince, K. Todd Freeman, Nicole Ari Parker, Marshall Bell, Marisol Padilla Sanchez, Henry Silva, to name but a few.

A treatise on the rise and fall of the popularity of violence?
The function of media in a surveillance state?
A meta-commentary on Hollywood?
So many things it comes close to being...

Plus we discuss the pros & cons of:  rippled chips, shampooing techniques, and sad Irish dog faces.

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Outro: Lorn performing Everything is Violence
Theme by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

We open Keith's birth month-o-movies with Brian de Palma's rock n roll Faust with a soupçon of Leroux/Lubin and a heaping scoop of Paul Williams.
An excess of excess, an explosion of exploitation, a spectacle of split screens -- plus a special appearance by T.O.N.T.O.! We think it makes a perfect follow up to Velvet Goldmine.

Relating to the Cass Review: 

What the Cass Review Means for Trans Kids in Britain -- and Beyond | Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Cass Review 'obscures key findings' and 'misrepresents data', finds Yale Law School | Ross Hunter

Trans Youth Suicides Covered Up By NHS, Cass After Restrictions, Say Whistleblowers | Mira Lazine

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Outro: Bauhaus performing Party of the First Part

The film Keith discovers is a bigger "root" then previously acknowledged and is then subsequently beset upon by a ~mid~ life crisis.
Plus we wrap on our month queerness.
Marcus Bullock - Treasures of the Earth and Screen: Todd Haynes's Film "Velvet Goldmine"
The PassAJoke Podcast | Micko Westmoreland
A Grrrl's Two Sound Cents | The Bowie "biopic" that wasn't

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Outro: David Robert Jones performing Eponymous

Extremely controversial in it's day (for legitimate reasons), somewhat middling today; this week we bring you the movie that began William "Hurricane Billy" Friedkin's hate affair with Al Pacino, Cruising (1980).
We talk about how to look at looking, the intrinsic biases therein, and transgression vs oppression and repression in a capitalist, white supremacist society.
So the yoozh.
Friedkin's 2007 DVD commentary
The Celluloid Closet
Seeing White | Scene on Radio 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia#Systemic_bias_in_coverage

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Outro: Smokey performing Leather
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Ostensibly this episode is about The Velocity of Gary (1998) starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Selma Hayek, Thomas Jane, Chad Lindberg, Olivia d'Abo, and Ethan Hawke for some reason.
So you can count on discussions of Bob's Burgers, Taking Lives (2004), Freeway, and Mad Men.

Happy Pride!
Julie Delpy at Sundance 2016

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Outro: COIL performing Tainted Love