Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Z and Keith Watched A Movie

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Z and Keith Watched A Movie episodes

  • Ep 4.35 - Erin Brockovich (Deft, Chromium and Legally Blonde)

    Never before or since have you heard the phrase "hexavalent chromium" so many times within a 130 min window.

    You guessed it- this week we're discussing Erin Brockovich, the Soderbergh-directed biographical legal drama from 2000.

    So put on your waders and don't drink the iced tea, cuz something's hinky in Hinkley

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Go Sing Choir performing BITCH

    1 hr 23 min
  • Ep 4.34 - Flirt

    Sadly, this marks the end of Hartley fest '23.

    We wrap things up with Flirt (1995): Three different cities, three different stories... or the same story told three different ways?
    Lovers' ultimatums, a gun, a pay phone, Panama.
    You be the judge.
    Plus give you our reflections on our wooly ride through the hairy world of Halorrcy Hartleymann.
    Thanks for listiening!
    Be good to her, etc.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Pizzicato Five performing Baby Love Child (L.A. English Mix Version)

    1 hr 17 min
  • Ep 4.33 - Amateur

    What do our past in/experiences say about us?
    Is there any escape from them, any starting over?
    Are there innocent men? Are there whores and virgins?

    We're all beginners at something.

    Welcome to Hal Hartley's Amateur


    View Master commercial

    Huell Howser meets a dog that eats avocados

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Whores performing I'm an Amateur at Everything

    1 hr 14 min
  • Ep 4.32 - Simple Men [w/special guest Brian Flota!l]

    In our second installment of Hartleyfest, we welcome very special guest Dr. Brian Flota on to talk Simple Men (1992).

    The third installment in Hartley's so-called Long Island Trilogy, Simple Men follows brothers Bill and Dennis on their search for their father who has recently escaped from prison.
    Along the way they encounter hijinks, hard truths, a busted clutch assembly and women who challenge them.
    The two of them I mean. The womens don't challenge clutch assemblies.
    At least not on camera...
    Brian Flota is a Humanities Librarian & Associate Professor at James Madison University, inventor of hot food in machines and lifelong confederate of Stu Wankovits.
    Oh and co-editor of The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror


    Be Good to Her And She'll Be Good To You by bell hooks

    Anna Deavere Smith on Identity, Racism, and Disrupting the System with Her Work

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Ned Rifle performing Opening Credits - Simple Men

    1 hr 40 min
  • Ep 4.31 - The Unbelievable Truth

    The full version of this episode is now available for one-time purchase in our Patreon shop


    Hello and welcome to Long Island!

    We kick off a month of Hal Hartley films, appropriately enough, with his first feature length - The Unbelievable Truth (1989). Starring Robert John Burke, the incomparable Adrienne Shelly, plus a whole host of soon-to-become regulars, this movie really tickles us in the Trust bone.

    A must watch for Hartley fans and well, probably everyone.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Opening Credits by Jim Coleman

    1 hr 12 min
  • Ep 4.30 - Critters [BdayK #4]

    Oh hey. Sup?

    We're just closing out July with Critters (1987) -- a film neither of us had seen, Keith remembers from video store shelves and that Z was almost entirely unaware of.

    Plus late 80's hip hop, door knobs and Twi'leks, oh my!⁠

    Westcoast Rap All-Stars - We're All in the Same Gang⁠

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on ⁠Bandcamp⁠

    Outro: ⁠Johnny Steele performing Power of the Night⁠

    1 hr 6 min
  • Ep 4.29 - Risky Business [BdayK #3]

    Like removing a gangrenous toe, we check off another film from Keith's rewatch bucket list.

    Just another sad story about a upper middle class white man failuring his way up: aka, 1980s Tom Cruise's bread & butter, apparently.

    Plus more on psychopathy vs neurotypicality from some armchair auties and we FINALLY weigh in on Ana & Cenk's recent lean into transphobia.


    Tom Cruise on Letterman, 1999


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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Xavier Vistín performing Tren Fugativo

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 4.28 - Time Bandits [BdayK #2]

    From a negative early VHS experience to this, likely the ONLY film Keith has ever seen on CED, first impressions are definitely first.

    Long on our to rewatch list, this one did not fair well.

    Plus hear about how we recently went with out electricity for 22hrs!
    Whitt Castle, if you're out there- holler back.


    Instrumental cover of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" performed by Justin Canton

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    Intro by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Gerry Rafferty performing Stealin' Time

    56 min
  • Ep 4.27 - Moscow on the Hudson [BdayK #1]

    Finally- the film Keith watched with his mother and grandparents which contained enough nudity that Keith's mom was mortified.
    Not for nuthin, one of Robin Williams' first dramatic roles.

    Cry for Anatoly...

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: cast of Silk Stockings performing Too Bad (We Can't Go Back To Moscow)


    1 hr 7 min
  • Ep 4.26 - Eat The Rich

    Join us as we blindly leap into July with a film we had next to no prior knowledge of!

    Spoiler: it rules!
    UK Father's Day
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    Intro by Professor PIng available on Bandcamp

    Outro: The Coup performing The Guillotine

    1 hr 2 min

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