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This is a big one, folks. Paul Schrader's 2017 FIRST REFORMED, a climate-doom riff on WINTER LIGHT and DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, kicked off a new phase of his career that's still unfolding as we speak. Phases unfold, right? Anyway, to help us unpack both this tremendous work of transcendental cinema and our own crushing despair, we're joined once again by our great friends Aaron and Carlee from the Hit Factory podcast. Is it illegal to describe a bomb vest as a form of prayer? We'll find out together!

Further Reading:

"Paul Schrader on How ‘First Reformed’ Reflects His Own Despair Over Climate Crisis"

"Paul Schrader on First Reformed’s Provocative Ending and Its Many Influences"

IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, 2023

WWF Backgrounder: Comparing climate impacts at 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C and 4°C

Further Viewing:

DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Bresson, 1951)

WINTER LIGHT (Bergman, 1963)

 

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Arf arf, listeners - this week we're talking Paul Schrader's 2016 goofaround crime thriller DOG EAT DOG with Darryl Edge and Petros Patsilivas from the Getting Dafoe You podcast! This film was a form of creative redemption for Schrader and Nicolas Cage after the fiasco of DYING OF THE LIGHT, but is it of any interest to an audience? We report, you decide. We also decide, to be honest. The four of us have now likely given more attention to this film than anyone involved in its production, so I think we've earned the right. Fun ep, check it out!

Further Reading:

"Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’"

"Paul Schrader and Willem Dafoe: 'We thought we should really do the nasty'"

"The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s 'Dog Eat Dog'" by Richard Brody

Dog Eat Dog by Edward Bunker

Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker

Further Viewing:

STRAIGHT TIME (Grosbard, 1978)

AFTER DARK, MY SWEET (Foley, 1990)

OUT OF SIGHT (Soderbergh, 1998)

 

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It's two movies for the price of one today! (Podcast remains free.) In 2014, Paul Schrader directed Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin in a thriller about a CIA agent with frontotemporal dementia trying to hunt down an old enemy before his mind goes. The money guys took the film away from him, edited it into a totally anonymous Redbox movie themselves, and released it as "A Paul Schrader Film" anyway. He was contractually prohibited from disparaging the result, but Schrader, along with the cast and producer Nicholas Winding Refn, publicly disowned the released version, and Paul drank himself into a stupor. Several years later, during the editing process on First Reformed, he returned to DYING OF THE LIGHT and made it into something between a director's cut and a fascinating work of video collage art called DARK, which is legally unreleasable but available to view for free. It's so nuts, and it changed the course of his career. We're gonna talk about it!

Further Reading:

"Warning: ‘Dying of the Light’ Is Not a Paul Schrader Movie" by Anne Thompson

"Paul Schrader’s Secret New Movie: How the Director Resurrected a Wild Nicolas Cage Performance Without Permission" by Eric Kohn

Further Viewing:

DARK (Schrader, 2017)

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In 2013, Paul Schrader directed deeply troubled recent child actress Lindsay Lohan and porn star/human Quagmire James Deen from a script by literary dolt Bret Easton Ellis in a crowdfunded, low-budget curio about the vapid cruelty of modern Los Angeles. THE CANYONS was widely disregarded on release, but has steadily grown in esteem by some particularly movie-brained folks. Will we be among them? What about our guest, writer Charles Lyons-Burt? You'll have to listen to find out!

Spoiler: we both despised the experience of watching this, and reading other people's appreciations of it made us feel insane. But Charles makes some compelling arguments! Good ep, please don't get too mad at us.

Further Reading:

"In Lindsay's Stardust Orbit" by Braxton Pope

"Paul Schrader's 'The Canyons'" by Richard Brody

"Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie" by Stephen Rodrick

Paul Schrader interviewed for Salon by Daniel D'Addario

Further Viewing:

AMERICAN GIGOLO (Schrader, 1980)

THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (Schrader, 1990)

THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Eastwood, 2018)

THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (Cassavetes, 1976)

 

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Sorry for the late update, everybody - we got trapped in one of those two-person horse costumes for like 48 hours, really really scary. But we're back to talk pretty seriously about Paul Schrader's 2008 literary adaptation ADAM RESURRECTED, the story of a German Jewish clown who becomes a concentration camp commander's human dog and then finds himself the Van Wilder of an Israeli psychiatric facility after the war. It is at once a very relevant and profoundly unhelpful film for the current moment, but we do our best to get to the bottom of the ideas at work here. We recorded this a few weeks ago, so facts about Israel's genocide of the people of Palestine are that many weeks old as we post this, to say nothing of whenever you find yourself listening to it. But, as ever: free Palestine.

Further Reading:

Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk

"We Are Conquerors" by Adam Shatz

"Yoram Kaniuk - The Last Great Zionist" by Yuval Ben-Ami

"Israeli Writer Yoram Kaniuk, 83, On Pain And Peace"

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction ed. Sumaya Awad and brian bean

Further Viewing:

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Forman, 1975)

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Benigni, 1997)

THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED (just kidding)

 

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Paul Schrader concludes his first set of Man In A Room films with 2007's THE WALKER, a bookend to AMERICAN GIGOLO that finds the lonely man working as a literal escort for society women in D.C. But will Carter Page III find meaning outside of managing a few political wives' secrets? Should Woody Harrelson be doing that voice? Is Jake so unceasingly distractible on this episode that it ends the podcast? You'll have to listen to find out!

Further Reading:

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

"The Consummate Chum: Jerome Zipkin Dies at 80" by Mort Sheinman

"The Gigolo Grows Up" by Kyle Buchanan

Further Viewing:

AMERICAN GIGOLO (Schrader, 1980)

NOW YOU SEE ME (Leterrier, 2013)

NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (Chu, 2016)

 

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The power of 'cast compels you, listener - to enjoy this week's episode! Paul Schrader was hired to replace John Frankenheimer as director of a prequel to THE EXORCIST, and things only got stranger from there. Our pal, and producer of the new film CRUMB CATCHER, Chadd Harbold returns to the show to help us discuss Schrader's DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST (and Renny Harlin's reworked version, EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING). It's all here: the auteur theory proven correct(???), crises of faith, British imperialism, the theme song from POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE. Check it out!

Further Reading:

"Colonial Possessions: A Fanonian Reading of The Exorcist and its Sequels" by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

"'Exorcist' prequel bedeviled from the beginning"

Paul Schrader interview on CaptainHowdy.com

Further Viewing:

THE EXORCIST (Friedkin, 1973)

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (Boorman, 1977)

THE EXORCIST III (Blatty, 1990)

EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING (Harlin, 2004)

 

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Schmile, listener! This week we're pointing our viewfinders at Paul Schrader's sleazy 2002 Bob Crane biopic AUTO FOCUS with writer and co-host of the Doughboys and Get Played podcasts, Nick Wiger! Join us for a discussion of fame, destructive sexual obsession, smoldering male violence, Willem Dafoe - you know, all the usual Schrader stuff. Plus: we talk the Minions, Tyga bites, and how Bob Crane would have been a podcaster. Also if you're related to either of the hosts of the show, maybe don't listen to this one. For everyone else: great ep, please enjoy!

Further Reading:

The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes? by Robert Graysmith

"Raging Bullshit. Auto Focus Is Not My Dad's Story" by Scotty Crane

"Michael Gerbosi on Writing Auto Focus" by Paul Rowlands

Further Viewing:

SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (Soderbergh, 1989)

BOOGIE NIGHTS (Anderson, 1997)

GUNGAN STYLE (GANGNAM STYLE PARODY) (Wiger, 2012)

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Somebody call 911 - it's a new episode podcast! Only kidding, there's no emergency. Except you might have some friggin palpitations when you hear our great conversation on Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese's final collaboration (to date), BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, with film writer and literal rock star Soraya Sebghati! We're talking Cage, we're talking TAXI DRIVER redux, we're talking the novel coronavirus, we're talking blood-soaked dreadlocks, we're talking all kinds of stuff. Great movie, great guest, great ep.

Further Reading:

Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly

Conversations with Scorsese by Richard Schickel

"TS Eliot, Y2K, and Street Preaching: A Loose Exploration of the Mythological and Biblical in Bringing Out The Dead" by Soraya Sebghati

Further Viewing:

TAXI DRIVER (duh)

KUNDUN (Scorsese, 1997)

AMBULANCE (Bay, 2022)

STRANGE DAYS (Bigelow, 1995)

 

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1999 is one of the great movie years - perhaps because Paul Schrader's FOREVER MINE only technically premiered that year, and didn't see release until 2002 (on Starz, to boot). But is this long-gestating tale of torrid passion the Sirkian romance Schrader claims, or more of a nasty noir pastiche? Is it neither of those things, and instead a very compelling advertisement for The Legendary Pink Palace of St. Pete Beach? What's the deal with Joseph Fiennes? You'll have to listen to find out! 

 

Further Reading:

The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema by Linda Ruth Williams

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Further Viewing:

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Sirk, 1995), etc.

FAR FROM HEAVEN (Haynes, 2002)

"Pitbull - Sexy Beaches (Official Video) ft. Chloe Angelides"

 

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"AFFLIC" - the Aflac duck if he was talking about this movie! For real, though, a lot of the characters in this film could have used some insurance based on many of the events that take place in Paul Schrader's 1997 Russell Banks adaptation AFFLICTION. Returning to the show to help us discuss this snowbound story of alcoholism and abuse is writer and film programmer Glenn Heath, Jr.! Join us for discussion of small-town authority, proximity, auto-dentistry, and more.

Further Reading:

Affliction by Russell Banks

"'Half A Damn Excuse': Tragic Vigilantism in Paul Schrader's Affliction" by Jason Christian

"Sins Of The Father: Josh Zeman talks to Paul Schrader about his new film Affliction"

"Production Slate: Affliction"

Further Viewing:

THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Egoyan, 1997)

CHINATOWN (Polanski, 1974)

THE SACRIFICE (Tarkovsky, 1986)

JENNIFER 8 (Robinson, 1992)

 

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Paul Schrader. Elmore Leonard. Tom Arnold. Dave Grohl. It's like the freaking Traveling Wilburys had a baby! Four babies, I guess. Anyway what I'm saying is Schrader's 1997 faith healer comedy TOUCH involved a weird bunch of people. Luckily we have the great Jane Altoids joining us to sort it all out! We're talking stigmata, daytime TV, self-parody, tonal control, and more.

Everything goes very normally on this episode and Jake behaves in a way that is completely fine and actually impressive. Not only does he come across as rhetorically powerful, he also sounds pretty handsome. He doesn't basically start crying when Ian lightly disagrees with him at all. You'll find all this out when you listen to the episode, which you should do!

Further Reading:

"Touch: Paul Schrader adapts Elmore Leonard's quirky novel of faith & healing" by David Skal

Talking Trash: The Cultural Politics of Daytime TV Talk Shows by Julie Engel Manga

"The Social Gospel and Socialism" by Jacob H. Dorn

The Century of the Holy Spirit : 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal by Vinson Synan

Further Viewing:

GET SHORTY (Sonnenfeld, 1995)

JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997)

OUT OF SIGHT (Soderbergh, 1998)

 

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Now I've heard of a Major Motion Picture...but a Mayor Motion Picture??? Now I'm being carted off to a hospital for having typed that!! Nah, just kidding. We're talking about one of those today: Harold Becker's 1996 not-John-Grisham city politics thriller CITY HALL, on which Paul Schrader was one of four credited writers! Your favorite Pauld Casty boys had a grand old time talking municipal procedure, Al Pacino, Danny Aiello, Donald Manes, David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani, bongo clubs, and more. Plus, obviously: impressions.

Further Reading:

Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein

"Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades" by John Nichols

"White Riot: In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall — and changed New York history" by Laura Nahmias

Further Viewing:

CITY HALL (Wiseman, 2020)

SEA OF LOVE (Becker, 1989)

THE FIRM (Pollack, 1993), etc.

 

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"Boy, I sure wish there was a sequel to the 1991 HBO Original Movie CAST A DEADLY SPELL, only more of a reboot than a sequel, and with Dennis Hopper taking over the role of detective H. Phillip Lovecraft from Fred Ward, and I hope it's mostly a fumbled metaphor for McCarthyism," you're probably saying to yourself all the time. Well, you will not believe your luck: there is one of those, and for some goddamn reason Paul Schrader directed it! Today we're talking 1994's WITCH HUNT, a film noir pastiche about an alternate postwar Los Angeles where magic is real and the HUAC hearings are about literal witchcraft. Returning to the show from our remarkably similar CASPER episode is Twitter scoundrel Jack Sinclair! Join us for a conversation about, frankly, the 1994 film WITCH HUNT. Wacky ep!

Further Reading:

"Exorcising His Dark Side" by Daniel Cerone

"Once Again, the History of Witch Trials Has Inspired the World’s Most Annoying Merch" by Eleanor Janega

Snakes In Movies: Witch Hunt (1994)

Further Viewing:

CAST A DEADLY SPELL (Campbell, 1991)

 

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Wake up, listeners! Should be easy if you're anything like the protagonist of Paul Schrader's 1992 film LIGHT SLEEPER, which we're talking all about today with writer/editor/poster extraordinaire Jake Tropila! Join us for a great conversation about Schrader's "mid-life movie," addictive behavior, actually humanizing the drug trade, 90s New Age stuff, and our favorite jokes. Damn, we should really be charging at least $200 for a show like this. Instead it's free!!!

Further Reading:

"Movie High" by Scott Macaulay

Further Viewing:

BAD LIEUTENANT (Ferrara, 1992)

PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959) (again)

 

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No, you haven't fallen asleep in a Venice alleyway - it's really the podcast! Today we're wandering La Serenissima and monologuing about our fathers as we discuss Paul Schrader's dreamy 1990 literary adaptation THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS with filmmakers and To The White Sea cohosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! And yes, we do figure out which of us is which character from the film. We talk Ian McEwan, Harold Pinter, Gen X masculinity, befriending weirdos, dad stuff, vampires, and much more. Please, listen to our podcast - we insist.

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The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

"What's Left of Generation X" by Kim Phillips-Fein

"Ian McEwan: 'I had the time of my life'" by Rachel Cooke

"Pinter's weasels" by David Edgar

 

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DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg, 1973)

DEATH IN VENICE (Visconti, 1971)

 

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Surprise, listeners! Jake went to a Clint-related estate sale recently and we had to tell you all about it ASAP. Ian's hearing all of this for the first time on mic, too. We'll post all the photos over on our Patreon feed, unlocked for everybody. Enjoy!

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"I want him to stop. I can't take the pain. The voices and the pain." No, those aren't the words of our listeners - they're the words of Jesus Christ as written by Paul Schrader! Understand your confusion, though. Today we're genuflecting before Martin Scorsese's highly controversial 1988 film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, adapted by Schrader from not The Bible, and joining us on our spiritual journey is writer Robert Rubsam. Jake has a bunch of day-one theology questions that Ian and Rob do their best to answer while we all discuss the film's artistic achievements, the Brooklyn of it all, and the enormous backlash. Some crazy French guys blew up a movie theater over this one, gang. The movie, not the episode. Check it out!

Further Reading:

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars by Thomas R. Lindlof

Kyrios Christos by Wilhelm Bousset

A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by Peter Bien

Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert J. Myles

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Further Viewing:

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pasolini, 1964)

MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Jones, 1979)

 

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Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the podcast! Just playing, nobody preys upon us. But we're back in Symbionese Liberation Army territory this week to talk Paul Schrader's 1988 biopic PATTY HEARST! Join us for a spirited conversation about Natasha Richardson, Ving Rhames, the movie's angle on leftism, ideological and physical consent, and Disneyland in 1974. It's a good ep!

Content warning: we talk about sexual violence on this episode.

Further Reading:

An Oral History with Ericka Huggins by Fiona Thompson

Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin

FBI Records: The Vault - COINTELPRO Black Extremist Files

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

"Who Ran The S.L.A.?" by Dick Russell

"How a Band of Yippies Shut Down Disneyland for Just the Second Time in History" by Stephen M. Silverman

"Los Angeles Is Burning" by Sasha Frere-Jones

Further Viewing:

THE ENFORCER (Fargo, 1976)

GUERILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST (Stone, 2004)

 

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Here's some hidden gold for ya: the damned Pod Casty For Me Patreon feed! No, for real. Let's be for real now. Today we're finishing up the Man With No Name trilogy with the final and best film of the lot, Sergio Leone's 1966 Civil War Western epic THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. No Oxford comma for Sergio I guess! Well, fair enough.

We both loved this one, actually, and had a bang-up time talking about Eli Wallach, the Civil War, cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli, trick shooting, dehydration prosthetics, and all kinds of crazy stuff like we always do.

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1..2..3..4! Pretty rock and roll way to start an episode description, I thought. This week we're absolutely shredding (guitar term) through a discussion of Paul Schrader's understandably underseen 1987 struggling rock band sibling melodrama film, LIGHT OF DAY, and joining us are our great pals Ryan and Este from the Altmania podcast! We talk mom stuff, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox's palpable sexual chemistry, the very limited revolutionary potential of popular music, and a lot about the podcast Guys: A Podcast About Guys. You don't have to have heard that or even seen the movie LIGHT OF DAY to enjoy this one, though. We're just a couple of cool rock music types jamming out (music term), podcast-style. Check it out!

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"Rock Against Racism" by Danny Goldberg

Further Viewing:

THE COMMITMENTS (Parker, 1991)

ONE-TRICK PONY (Young, 1980)

 

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Hop on the launch, folks, we're heading to THE MOSQUITO COAST! Peter Weir's 1986 film scripted by Paul Schrader, that is. Join us for a conversation about the unfinished capitalist critique of prepper guys, the problems with Going Back To Nature, and how we are much smarter and better than Allie Fox generally because we have done more reading. Well, Ian has. One time I pitched Ian on a Patreon episode where I just ask him questions about agriculture for an hour, and this basically became that. For free! What a good podcast. Hope you all enjoy!

By the way, the podcast I couldn't remember any real details about was this great Upstream episode with Kristen Ghodsee.

Further Reading:

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

"Billionaires Are Suing The Honduran Government for Blocking Their Profit-Making Scheme" by Grace Blakeley

Use of Energy Explained

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WALKER (Cox, 1987)

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Weir, 1975)

 

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It's the MISHIMA episode. It's also the Mishima episode, in a way.

We do our best to discuss both Paul Schrader's 1985 art-biopic MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS and the man Yukio Mishima with our returning pal Comrade Yui, who has been on a real journey with this film. As you might expect, things get pretty weighty: the nature and purpose of art, Schrader's depiction of the suicide, whether you can be a bodybuilder without being fascist about it. This is a special one, folks.

Further Reading:

Mishima: Aesthetic Terrorist - An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

"Mishima, Mon Amour" by Gary Indiana

"Sea of Crises" by Brian Phillips

Further Viewing:

THE STRANGE CASE OF YUKIO MISHIMA (McIntyre, 1985)

PATRIOTISM (Mishima, 1966)

 

It's been so long...just kidding, it's been a week! That's the normal time between episodes. Nevertheless, we're back with Paul Schrader's first film he "didn't" write himself, the 1982 erotic horror remake CAT PEOPLE, and we're thrilled to be joined by film writer and genuine English person Esmé Holden! We talk Schrader's depiction(s) of women, remakes, zoos as prisons/prisons as zoos, and the David Bowie of it all.

Excited for you to have John Heard this one, folks! Hey, come on. I'm just kidding around.

Further Reading:

"Guilty Pleasures: The Films of Paul Schrader" by Neil Sinyard

"Schrader's Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst" by Brian Brems

Carceral Space, Prisoners, and Animals Symposium

Further Viewing:

CAT PEOPLE (Tourneur, 1942)

THE HUNGER (Scott, 1983)

ANATOMY OF HELL (Breillat, 2004)

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THIS is entertainment, folks! We're taking a swing at Martin Scorsese's masterful 1980 boxing biopic RAGING BULL (from a script by Paul Schrader) with film critic and Heavyweight Champion of the Podcast, Bilge Ebiri!!! Join us for a wonderful conversation about Scorsese's wild years, ROCKY, memory, the word "doggerel," and more.

Plus, Bilge tells us about something he did that may change the podcast forever. Like, for real.

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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan by J. Hoberman

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind

"Masculinity in Crisis?" by Pam Cook

"Raging Bull: Never Got Me Down" by Glenn Kenny

"Raging Bull: American Minotaur" by Robin Robertson

Further Viewing:

ROCKY (1976)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)

ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

 

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Pick out your shirt and tie, listener! We're talking Paul Schrader's 1980 stylish crime film AMERICAN GIGOLO this week, and we've called up film critic Brandon Streussnig to help us do it! Production design, fashion history, Bresson, several Giorgios - we get into it. Jake put on cologne for this one as a bit. See if you can hear the smell!

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Painter of Modern Life XI: The Dandy by Charles Baudelaire

"Talking Film Costume: Richard Gere in 'American Gigolo'" by Ada Pîrvu

"About That Urban Renaissance" by Dan Rottenberg

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

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PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959)

THE CONFORMIST (Bertolucci, 1970)

PRETTY WOMAN (Marshall, 1990)

 

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Hey listener, it's been a while. How have you been? Do you ever think about me? Just kidding it's a new episode on Joan Tewkesbury's sole feature film, OLD BOYFRIENDS, written by Paul and Leonard Schrader! Who better to join us on this exploration of women's experience in New Hollywood than writer, Online Film Culture Titan and the inventor of #AYearWithWomen, Marya E. Gates (@oldfilmsflicker)??? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on everything from the film's rediscovery and restoration to Schrader's reaction to the 2022 Sight & Sound poll to Keith Carradine being really hot to the social function of movie gifs on Tumblr. It's a great ep and we hope you'll enjoy it! If you don't, please don't hire Buck Henry to find our home addresses!!!

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Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler

"Canon Fodder" by Paul Schrader

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GIRLFRIENDS (Weill, 1978)

AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Mazursky, 1978)

 

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"Oh my Pod, cast's my daughter!" - something Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive today...to hear our episode on Paul Schrader's sophomore feature as director, the 1979 Calvinist-dad-goes-to-Pornville film HARDCORE! Joining us on our journey into smut-hell is writer, actress, and filmmaker Manuela Lazić! We get into Dad Stuff, Schrader's aesthetic style as a director, the political economy of sex work, HARDCORE as remake of THE SEARCHERS, and try very, very hard to understand Christian Reformed Calvinism.

Do we succeed? To find out, you'll simply have to listen to the episode. Another thing Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive right now? "Turn it...on!! The episode, I mean!!!"

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"'Hard-core' grows fashionable - and very profitable" by Ralph Blumenthal

Schrader on Schrader, ed. Kevin Jackson

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THE SEARCHERS (1956)

 

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Get your disguise on, listener! We got a big boy this week: Paul Schrader's directorial debut, the 1978 auto workers union heist film BLUE COLLAR! The fellas are going long on this one, talking UAW history, race and organized labor, Richard Pryor's performance, Harvey Keitel trying very hard to quit the movie, Yaphet Kotto's lifetime of UFO encounters (really), and whether Schrader could really have made such a leftist film without meaning to, as he claims. This episode is nearly three hours of gleaming chrome fresh off the line or whatever. Check it out!

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"Ex‐Operative Says He Worked for F.B.I. to Disrupt Political Activities Up to '74"

"Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management" by Alex N. Press

A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkin Bates

Organized Labor and the Black Worker and The Black Worker by Philip S. Foner

 

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MATEWAN (1987)

SILKWOOD (1983)

 

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Get your hand out of that garbage disposal and press play, listener! We're doing our best to do an episode on John Flynn's 1977 vetsploitation nasty ROLLING THUNDER, but mostly we end up talking about Paul Schrader's mucked-with script. It's a fascinating study in how a story can go from TAXI DRIVER damning to DEATH WITH reactionary with just a few strokes of Heywood Gould's pen. Plus some Vietnam talk, a COCKTAIL/RAIN MAN tangent, and Tommy Lee Jones. Good ep!

 

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HEARTS & MINDS (1974)

DEATH WISH (1974)

FIRST BLOOD (1982)

 

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Pucker up, listeners - Daddy's here! That's right: accomplished Brian De Palmist and official Daddy of the show, Hit Factory co-host Aaron Casias, is back to help us unpack De Palma's Schrader-scripted 1976 VERTIGO riff OBSESSION! We kind of did a one-episode De Palma podcast, honestly, because there's a bit more BDP here than Paul Schrader. Join us for more Bernard Herrmann talk, more Geneviève Bujold talk (from TIGHTROPE, remember?), and very informed New Orleans opinions. Check it out! You don't really have to watch the movie tbh!!!

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Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

"Repeat Performance": Brad Westcott on Obsession

 

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VERTIGO (1958)

DEJA VU (2006)

DE PALMA (2015)

 

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We're back with the second part of our discussion of Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER. Join us for more on the film's engagement with race and gender, Jodie Foster's performance, Travis Bickle's cinematic children, and the John Hinckley, Jr. of it all.

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Taxi Driver: BFI Film Classics by Amy Taubin

"Manhattan Transference: Ashley Clark on Taxi Driver"

An Assassin's Diary by Arthur Bremer

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LE FEU FOLLET (Malle, 1963)

THE KING OF COMEDY (Scorsese, 1982)

SPREE (Kotlyarenko, 2020)

"Top 10 Wisconsin Dells Haunted Houses For Free Pulled Pork"/"PVC Feces Rig Tour (Home Made) #vanlife" (O'Malley/Resnick, 2021)

 

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Buckle up, listeners! We talked so much about Martin Scorsese's landmark 1976 neo-noir nightmare TAXI DRIVER, written by Paul Schrader, that it's gonna be a two-parter. Talk about morbid self-attention!

What was the film's production process like? Whose beach house did Scorsese and Schrader hang out at? Why don't discussions of 1970s New York City crime ever talk about root causes? Should someone become a person like other people? How is Jake like both Martin Scorsese AND Drew Carey?

All this and more will be answered...but you gotta listen to the episode. And the next one!!

 

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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

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PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959)

 

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The time has come, listeners, to discuss the films of Paul Schrader. That's right: Pauld Casty For Me has arrived, and this is the first episode. Of a new series about Paul Schrader movies. Basically imagine how the Clint Eastwood episodes went, roughly, but just replace all the specifics with Paul Schrader stuff. It'll make sense once you start listening.

To kick things off, we're digging into Schrader's first produced screenplay, the 1975 Sydney Pollack neo-noir-yakuza picture THE YAKUZA, co-written with his brother Leonard Schrader and rewritten by Robert "China" Towne. We go deep on Schrader's strict Calvinist upbringing, early career as a film critic, persistent prickliness, and mentorship from Pauline Kael. Then, we turn our focus to THE YAKUZA (the movie), the yakuza (the guys), Robert Mitchum, and white dude who are obsessed with Japan. Plus, each of us is audibly succumbing to his own respiratory disease throughout the episode. Great way to start off the new series!

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Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer by Paul Schrader

 

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We've run out of Clint Eastwood movies that fit our weird criteria, and now we're gonna talk about what we've learned from this whole endeavor. Where we are on Clint, on the auteur theory, on thinking about film, on thinking about political art, on each other, on the prospect of ever doing anything - it's all here for your inspection, dear listener.   Oh and also we reveal what we're doing next! We're very excited about it and we hope you will be, too. Here's a hint: I'm going to start reading the Bible.   We can't thank you all enough for joining us through the Clint Eastwood ouvre. Your support, however worrisome to your friends and family, has meant a ton to us. We set out to make a podcast that we'd like to listen to, and it turned out that whatever's wrong with us has been afflicting other people too. Thank you to all the friends we've made through doing the show, thank you to the brave listeners who simply download episodes and leave us alone about it, thank you to the folks who support us on Patreon, thank you to the clearly more mentally stable folks who don't do that, and thank you to the handful of dangerous freaks who send us too many emails. We love you all.   We'd also like to say a huge thank you to all the unbelievable guests who have joined us over the past year and change. You made us feel like real boys and you made the show a lot better, too. Our undying gratitude to Forrest Tiffany, John Semley, Eric Markovits, Chris Alfonso, Nick Newman, Dr. Joe Street, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory, Dr. Laurie R. Lambert, Jesse Thorn, Jordannah Elizabeth, Jonah Jeng, Marie Bardi-Salinas, Chadd Harbold, Jack Sinclair, Nima Shirazi, Jesse Hawken, Molly Lambert, Jamie Loftus, Jarrod Murray, Glenn Heath, Jr., Comrade Yui, Bilge Ebiri, Andrew Ti, Ian Green, Jordan Fish, Ray Tintori, and Will Sloan. We are truly lucky punks.   We're taking a couple weeks off to get ready for the next thing and to apologize to our partners for all of this, but we'll see you in March with all-new, all-nude episodes of Pod Casty For Me.  

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Here we are, folks - the end of Clint Eastwood's filmography to date. We've unlocked all the legendary weapons and retailer-exclusive armor sets and are ready to do battle with the final boss of Pod Casty For Me: writer and podcaster Will Sloan! Will joins us for a relaxed and agreeable discussion of Eastwood's relaxed and agreeable 2021 neo-Western CRY MACHO and some thoughts on the man's long career, his always-evolving relationship to images of masculinity, his love of animals, and his confounding age. A lovely end to the Clint Eastwood project - for now! - and a lot fewer attacks on the personal character of David Zaslav than you'd expect. Plus a teaser of what we're doing next - although you'll have to come back for next week's Clintclusions episode to find out for real.

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You, dear listener, will know his name...and the truth. That's right, we're going long as hell on Clint's 2019 A.C.A.B. masterpiece RICHARD JEWELL with our biological parents, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory!! Join us for a thorough investigation of Eastwood's evolving relationship to images of masculinity, the film's treatment of the Kathy Scruggs character, #NOlympics, and the wonderful performances of Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates, and Sam Rockwell. Special movie, special episode! Never talk to the cops!

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Hop in the Lincoln Mark LT, listeners, we've got a duffel bag full of conversation about THE MULE! Join us for a long-haul chat about Clint's 2018 old-man-drug-trafficker drama about shitty fathers and late capitalism. Spoiler for what we thought of the movie: we both loved it! We talk drug war cinema, the film as a sort of GRAN TORINO REDUX, the film as Alison Eastwood's personal 15:17 TO PARIS, Sondra Locke's death just before its release, and lots more. Hee-haw, folks!

(Actually I looked up a video of the sounds mules make and none of them are hee-haw.)

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Life has been catapulting us toward this moment...the episode where we lose our minds singing the praises of THE 15:17 TO PARIS with returning guest, writer and Slow Learners Podcast host John Semley! Join us for several hours of exaltant analysis of Clint Eastwood's 2018 avant garde docudrama, starring the real guys who really tackled a heavily armed shirtless man on a train. We really get into it here, folks: millennial masculinity amid the bleak futurelessness in which we've all spent most of our lives, re-enactments/non-professional actors in cinema history, and the transcendental quality of Dutch nightclubs. Listen up or we'll kick you out of Air Force sewing class!

Topics include: Clint as optimistic Hill/McBride, trains, Clint making some big and unequivocally not-lazy choices, Ian invokes Bresson a bunch, millennial grammar, the supporting cast of sitcom players, major breakthoughs on Clintertextuality, and more!

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Brace for impact, listeners! Returning guest Nick Newman of The Film Stage joins us for a white-knuckle journey through Clint Eastwood's 2016 chronicle of real-life heroism and not-so-real-life stifling bureaucracy, SULLY. We talk about the film's relationship to real events, the oddness of turning this particular story into a movie, and Nick unlocks something huge about late Clint for us. Great ep, and we even kept it under the film's running time! Listen or you're an NTSB stooge!

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This is a big one, folks: for our 50th episode (arguably), we're taking aim at Clint Eastwood's monster hit military biopic AMERICAN SNIPER. Is this an anti-war film, as Clint claims? Is it a glorification of military power? Is it either? Why does Chris Kyle's hat say "Charlie" on it? What is Bradley Cooper's whole deal? For real, though, we get into a lot of pretty heavy stuff on this one, and we're extremely smart about it. They say we're the deadliest minds-men in podcast history, with over 200 confirmed Good Points each. Listen and enjoy!

Topics include: trucks, healing uses of orange juice, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, hedge fund guys wrestling on the floor of a bar, military intelligence, MAESTRO (sort of), texting while driving, and much more.

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Here's a little gift for you all this holiday season: we're going deep on Clint's infamous impromptu speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention where he talked to an invisible Barack Obama in a chair. Plus a bunch of our usual bullshit! Enjoy and see you in 2024!

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Oh, what an ep! We're singing in beautiful harmony about Clint's 2014 Broadway adaptation JERSEY BOYS with returning guest Marie Bardi-Salinas (now with extra last name)! Join us as we talk directly to the camera about jukebox musicals, New Jersey's cultural dominance in the 2000s, falsetto masculinity, and why exactly Clint was the one to make this movie. Plus, Ian gets mad at Jake for liking this movie despite claiming that he doesn't like musicals only for Marie to mostly talk him out of liking it that much. A real fun one, gang - listen to it or you aren't from Jersey.

Topics include: our high school bands, late December 1963, The Sopranos, the Philadelphia-Jersey connection, Marshall Brickman, a bunch of real-life mob guys, a humiliating relitigation of Jake's pronunication of "Pulitzer," the Beach Boys, and a good chunk of Jersey Shore talk.

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Take me out to the freaking podcast! It's time for us to talk Clint Eastwood's final (to date) film acting for another director, Robert Lorenz's 2012 father-daughter baseball dramedy TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. And who better to join us than producer-director, former aspiring pro baseballer, and returning guest Chadd Harbold? We discuss who exactly directed this thing, peak Amy Adams, the demon Justin Timberlake, sabermetrics, and more. Lousy movie, great ep. Check it out!

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Who better to cover a film about unrequited homoerotic lust so powerful it maybe destroyed US civil liberties forever than your two favorite co-hosts of Pod Casty For Me? That's right, it's just us guys this week covering J. EDGAR, Clint's 2011 biopic of FBI Director and anticommunist monster J. Edgar Hoover! We're going deep on this one, talking FBI history, gerontocracy, the film's depiction of Hoover's mysterious personal life, the prosthetics, how we think Clint feels about all this, and a lot more MLK talk than the film really gets into. Plus a lot more. Check it out or we'll know you're a fed!

Topics include: I, FRANKENSTEIN, oysters, Armie Hammer, Leonardo DiCaprio's accent, who everybody looks like, THE MATRIX, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, term limits, civil servant pathologies, Emma Goldman and a brief history of American anarchism, Naomi Watts, Jake goes on a weird tear about carpentry YouTubers, Dustin Lance Black's haircut circa 2011, MLK/FBI, and we take strong positions on such topics as "pigs," "loyalty," and "being tall."

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Hold on to your hats, folks - we're talking Clint's 2010 near-death experience drama HEREAFTER with filmmakers and To The White Sea podcast hosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! It's a wide-ranging chat about hyperlink cinema, visual effects, Matt Damon, and how we all fell for this sort of corny movie a lot more than we meant to. Plus, Jake has a big brain read about capitalist realism and Ray surprises us with a revelation about his friend Doug. Great ep, check it out or we'll haunt you!

Topics include: Top 9 films, Bobbies Deerfield and Bacala, Franz Dameh, PizzaExpress, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Peter Morgan's weird monarchist fixation, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cecile de France (who is really de Belgium!), filmographies, equating the 2004 tsunami and the 7/7 London bombings, the absolute god Richard Kind, what's going on with Derek Jacobi, and more!

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I am the captain of my freaking PODCAST, more like! This week we're talking Clint Eastwood's 2009 true-story South African rugby drama INVICTUS, and Jake's other friend Ian - Ian Green - is joining the scrum! You might call this episode "IANVICTUS" if you weren't concerned about SEO or whatever!!! We're talking accents, sports movies, Nelson Mandela's legacy, the bad music, whether Clint really wanted to make this movie, and more. Plus, a quiz segment that goes perfectly, no issues at all with the quiz segment. Check it out, okes! Hope that's OK to say, not at all confident.

Topics include: Ian Green's experiences attending pro rugby games, who we'd want to play us in a movie, Jake takes a few swings at an Afrikaner accent, historical context missing from the film, connections to modern apartheid in Palestine, whether this should just have been a documentary, and we talk about the "Mandela effect" for like five seconds because that's all it deserves.

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Fasten your seatbelts, listeners: we're taking Clint's 2008 hit GRAN TORINO for a spin with racism expert (and native Michigander) Andrew Ti! This is a loaded one, gang: we talk about the film's lingering effect on the Hmong diaspora community, if it could have been made about any ethnic minority, whether the many slurs are intended to be funny, fatherly advice, and we try to sell Andrew on Clint's many other, better films. Plus there's a lot of Ann Arbor talk because Jake's dad is from there too. Great ep, check it out or we'll steal your car!

Topics include: doing drugs in class, ROMEO MUST DIE, Jake tries to make the case that this could have been a remake of TOKYO STORY, hamburger pizza, ping-pong humiliation, 8 MILE, star Bee Vang's 2021 op-ed about the film's contribution to anti-Asian racism, going from gamer to racer, and more!

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Get ready to sue the LAPD, everybody: this week we're examining Clint's 2008 child abduction docudrama CHANGELING with critic and writer Bilge Ebiri! From the metatextual depth of Angelina Jolie's performance to the film's status as Clint's first ACAB movie to ongoing moves by the state to use forced institutionalization against unhoused and other "inconvenient" people to Bilge's childhood memories of Clint (and of Peter Medak's THE CHANGELING), this is a real corker of a chat! Excited to share it with you, our beloved listeners, whom we love as if you were our own uncircumcised children.

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Take this down, listeners - we're talking the second half of Clint Eastwood's 2006 WWII diptych, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and we're joined by writer and filmmaker Comrade Yui! We're talking Ken Watanabe, connections to FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, both films' perspectives on propaganda, and Jake and Yui pressure Ian to acknowledge Clint's GOAThood. Check it out!

Topics include: THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA, much of the film's cast appearing in Takeshi Kitano's KUBI, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's take on the film, the bushido code, killing ourselves with grenades, elves, the occult, and more!

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Say cheese, listeners: this week we're taking a look at FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, the first part of Clint's 2006 diptych about the Battle of Iwo Jima, and we're joined by writer, lecturer, and Pacific Arts Movement Managing Director Glenn Heath, Jr.! We talk WWII cinema, shout out our favorite little guys in the cast, publicity machines, look ahead to LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and say the word "simulacrum" even more than usual. Great ep, check it out!

Topics include: Steven Spielberg, beach-taking on film, Adam Beach's wonderful performance, whether Clint has seen BRING IT ON, his public spat with Spike Lee over this movie, whether this movie is about Vietnam or Iraq, Ryan Phillippe's powerful mind, artfully unconvincing CGI, and the upcoming San Diego Asian Film Festival.

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Get in the ring, listeners! We're going toe-to-toe with MILLION DOLLAR BABY, Clint Eastwood's 2004 Best Picture winning boxing drama, and we're joined by producer and Hollywood big-wig Jarrod Murray! It's all here, baby: race and class in boxing and the boxing film, the response from voices for disability rights, Hilary Swank's career since her Oscar, the whole Paul Haggis thing, Irish terms of endearment, whatever Jay Baruchel is doing. Listen to this one or we won't tell you how they get the ice in the water bottle!

Topics include: real life nice boxing women, Paul Haggis's self-mythologizing, Clint showing his ass re: accessibility ramps, Fry's Electronics, Taylor Swift, when Woody Woodpecker was Universal Studios's Mickey Mouse, and Jake gets revenge on TMZ.

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Climb aboard this relaxing cruise down the MYSTIC RIVER (2003) - jk this movie is actually a huge bummer but we have a wonderful time talking about it with New York Times bestselling author Jamie Loftus!!! We talk the mid-aughts trend of Boston crime downers, what this film has to say about the patriarchy, and we all weigh in on Sean Penn. Plus vampires. 

Topics include: actors doing Boston accents, Laura Linney as Lady MacBeth, the BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY tie-in fragrance Jamie discovered, McGruff the Crime Dog, Jamie's book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, Dirty Harry's fondness for hot dogs, Tim Robbins, how Marcia Gay Harden seems really nice, THE MATRIX RELOADED, and more.

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Let your heart guide you...to listen to this episode! We're joined by writer and podcaster Molly Lambert to talk Clint's final detective movie (to date), 2002's Michael Connelly adaptation BLOOD WORK. We cover it all, from Long Beach to the Valley, organ transplant injustice to boat guys, Jeff Daniels's weird personal politics to Paul Rodriguez's weird personal politics. Be careful listening if you have a heart condition, because this ep is so good it could freaking kill you jk!!!!

Topics include: Ian's birthday present for Jake, movie locations on Google Maps, Anjelica Huston, the Bosch literary universe, the Queen Mary, Selena Gomez's kidney replacement drama, Clint as sex object, BOPRA, changes to the Malpaso crew, Jeff Daniels as avatar of capital on and off-screen, the surprising connections between the fictional origins of criminal profiling and EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE, and more!

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If you wanna fly / come and take a ride / take a space ride with the Pod Casty boys, baby! Today we're launching into Eastwood's 2000 old-guys-rule astronaut film SPACE COWBOYS, and boy do we launch. We get into Donald Sutherland, James Garner, and every young boy's favorite adult man circa Y2K, Tommy Lee Jones, as well as the "Whitey on the Moon" of it all, comparisons to THE RIGHT STUFF and APOLLO 13, and whether this might be Clint's most conservative movie since the 80s. Take your protein pills, put your helmet on, and give it a listen!

Topics include: the time we got stuck on Splash Mountain, chimpanzees in space, the opening scene's overdubbing, how the space program is just a higher-budget Jackass, SKYLAB truths, how the space program is just PR, the sort-of cast reunion in AD ASTRA, the fascinating life of Rade Šerbedžija, OSIRIS-REx, N*SYNC, climate "moonshots," and more.

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For one week only: we're a TRUE CRIME podcast. We're going to make so much money as Jesse Hawken (writer/filmmaker/Junk Filter Podcast) joins us to cover Clint Eastwood's 1999 death row journalism thriller TRUE CRIME! We go deep on True Crime as a genre, capital punishment, and, of course, Speed Zoo. Give it a listen!

Topics include: Clint's ageless sexual dynamism, OJ: MADE IN AMERICA, obviously the Star Wars prequels, the function of the media in Eastwood films, Denis Leary, the rightward turns of James Woods and Isaiah Washington, the triumphant return of the Pine Cone Crime Zone, and more.

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Two tears in a bucket...time to podcast! We're interrogating Clint Eastwood's 1997 Savannah murder trial adaptation MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, and it's basically all context today, folks! The bestselling book of it all, the Kevin Spacey of it all, the Savannah of it all, and most importantly the Lady Chablis of it all - we're covering it. We also discuss notions of truth, Hoodoo as a practice of resistance, and finally introduce Ian's powerful and dangerous teenage crush on Smallville actress Kristin Kreuk. Good ep! Check it out!

Topics include: what to do with Nazi memorabilia, Northern chauvinism, Savannah city planning, unfortunately more discussion of THE FLASH, accidentally rooting for the Taliban, a little transgender history, Jake's hot FIFTH ELEMENT take, Ian's very tepid FIFTH ELEMENT take, and more.

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Have a seat in your favorite concealed armchair, because it's time for our episode on Eastwood's 1997 not-quite-Clinton crime family thriller ABSOLUTE POWER! We're joined by Nima Shirazi, co-host of the Citations Needed podcast, to break down the film's parallels to the not-yet-broken Lewinsky scandal, the William Goldman of it all, and whether this film is just Clint explaining that his absent parenting style is good, actually. Check it out!

Topics include: Judy Davis's Hillary haircut, Clint's friend Leon Panetta, near-death experiences, live sports alibis, accidentally having chemistry with your real-life daughter, the film's surprising connection to JACKASS FOREVER, we devise a perfect plan to replace the US presidency with a completely incorruptible institution (jk), and more!

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Who better to talk about Clint Eastwood's 1995 study of brief passion than two guys who have been best friends for over a decade and still don't make a lot of eye contact? Nobody, that's who! Today we're exploring THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, talking the beginning of Clint's bestseller-adaptation run, Meryl Streep, war brides, and why the movie is in part a rebuke of FORREST GUMP. Good ep, check it out!

Topics include: our Iowa experiences, THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, Clint's relationship with Dina Ruiz, the film's changes from the source material, more Spielberg talk, Taking A Gander, David Ayer's FURY (obviously), whether British people are European, and more!

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Clint's onscreen for a few seconds, which means it is our duty to discuss Brad Silberling's 1995 CGI ghost-boy comedy CASPER. Luckily we have the encyclopedic mind of Jack Sinclair (prolific tweeter, artist formerly known as William Friedkin Truths) to help us untangle what, if anything, this film is about. Why don't they make the whole podcast out of the tangents? Find out today!!

Topics include: Ben Stein's film career, Steven Spielberg's producing empire, the late Billy Friedkin's love of basketball, Father Guido Sarducci, Lou Pearlman, ghosts, the return of the instant classic segment Jake Is Buy-Curious, and more!

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We're back to discuss what might be Clint Eastwood's finest work, 1993's surrogate father crime film A PERFECT WORLD, with best friends (and Blank Check social media maven and filmmaker, respectively) Chadd Harbold and Marie Bardi! Let us gently abduct you and take you on a journey of Kevin Costner hotness debate, Clint's regrets as a father, talk about his working methods with people who have actually been on film sets, and our long-awaited engagement with the Official Clint Eastwood Twitter kerfuffle(s). Get in the damn car with us already.

 

Topics include: Peter Hyams auterism, dad stuff, the films of John Lee Hancock, relatedly SO much Lights Camera Jackson talk, Jehovah's Witnesses, Frances Fisher and Francesca Eastwood, forgotten Jewish family comedies, a long detour into Seltzer Talk, Steven Soderbergh, and more!

 

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You have a rendezvous with our 'cast, beloved listener! Today we're talking Wolfgang Petersen's 1993 Clint-starring Secret Service thriller IN THE LINE OF FIRE with writer Jonah Jeng! Join us for a potentially treasonous discussion of action cinema, official residences, disguises, John Malkovich, Clint-as-character-type, and more!

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Finally: our episode on Clint Eastwood's 1992 western, UNFORGIVEN.

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Fasten your seatbelt, folks, it's time for THE ROOKIE, Clint Eastwood's 1990 attempt to do Dirty Harry in big, loud LETHAL WEAPON mode with strange CLOUD ATLAS-style colorblind casting. Did it work? You gotta listen to find out, pal. I can't answer every little question you have! I have a podcast description to write, for h**ven's sake. As I was trying to say, we get into toxic police self-mythologizing, huge stunts, the long history of Germans in Latin and South America, plus Jake's got a big-brain reading of the film that he's very proud of. Check it out!

Topics include: Ian's recent trip abroad (and why we didn't have an episode out last week), San Jose talk, Sesame Street, another visit to the Frank Capracorner, Raul Julia appreciation, the Sonia Braga scene, Charlie Sheen and family, and how much we love chasing G-rides.

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It's the ugliest godd*mn podcast you've ever seen, back again for another episode. We are pleased as punch to be talking about Clint Eastwood's 1990 adaptation WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART, a thinly-disguised account of the production of John Huston's THE AFRICAN QUEEN. A very good movie about a just-OK movie, we both agree! Join us for a chat about the sort of Larger-Than-Life white men like Huston and Hemingway that we used to be impressed by and now find tiresome, Hollywood depictions of Africa, performative anti-semitism, and King of the Film Timothy Spall. Please join us! Please!!!

Topics include: hate crimes, good and bad John Huston impressions, helicopter piloting, shots fired at Cate Blanchett, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Peter Vertiel, the very ugly dissolution of Eastwood's relationship with Sondra Locke, reusing boats, the late Mann National Theater in Westwood, and more!

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Beep beep! What's that we've got stashed in our trunk? Look at that, it's a brand new episode on Buddy Van Horn's 1989 action comedy PINK CADILLAC, and with our friend Eric Markovits, no less! Hop on in for a discussion of Bernadette Peters, a whirlwind history of white supremacist groups in the 80s, MIDNIGHT RUN (again), Ian's exciting new segment, and a return to the Pine Cone Crime Zone. Check it out!

Topics include: the mostly unrelated Bruce Springsteen song of the same name, James Cromwell, Frances Fisher, French nobility, British Israelism, Neo-Nazis on film, prison abolition talk, skiptracers, bounty hunters, whether those are the same type of guy, and more!

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"Podcasts are the bebop of our time" - nobody has said this that I know of, but it could be true! Today we're talking Clint Eastwood's 1988 Charlie Parker biopic BIRD with writer, jazz critic, and lecturer Jordannah Elizabeth! We get into Forrest Whitaker's Cannes-winning performance, jazz on film, trying to be good little intersectional boys, what it means when white dudes make Charlie Parker biopics, and more! Check it out please!!

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Opinions are like podcasts: everybody's got one. Pretty good reference to the film, if you ask me. We're diving in to Buddy Van Horn's 1988 finale to the Dirty Harry series, THE DEAD POOL, with podcasting's #2 expert on late '80s San Francisco, Jesse Thorn! He's also the host of NPR's Bullseye and the podcast Jordan Jesse Go, and the founder of Maximum Fun, now a worker-owned cooperative. We get into the San Francisco of the movies, the unaddressed trauma all around Harry Callahan, and talk with Jesse about the process of transitioning his podcast network to a co-op. Real proud of this one, gang. Please check it out!

Topics include: whale watching, an appreciation of Blaine Capatch, working with people who've worked with Mr. Eastwood, Liam Neeson's silly accent, Denmark, Jim Carrey, spoilers for MICHAEL CLAYTON, relatedly Jake gets in trouble for still not having seen ANDOR, ventriloquist dummy and SFPD officer Brendan O'Smarty, DARKMAN, celebrity death pools, Deadpool (the Ryan Reynolds one), THE POPE'S EXORCIST, Jesse's decision to transition the Maximum Fun podcast network to an employee-owned cooperative, and the 2011 GQ profile of Rick Ross.

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Look alive, ladies (complimentary)! Today we're digging into Clint Eastwood's 1986 war...comedy(?) HEARTBREAK RIDGE with Laurie R. Lambert, associate professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University and author of the book Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution. We talk about the film's extremely casual engagement with the facts of the 1983 American invasion of Grenada, consider its failure as a satire, if that's even what it's trying to do, and heap a lot of praise on Damani Baker's excellent documentary THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD. Check it out!

Topics include: whether this is Clint doing STRIPES, misogyny and homophobia as essential parts of masculinity, reference points for the population and size of Grenada, favorite plants, Cuba's foreign policy both real and imagined, Mario Van Peebles, relatedly JAWS: THE REVENGE, and more!

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[update: fixed an audio issue] It's the episode you've all been begging for: by popular demand, we're covering "Vanessa in the Garden," the 22-minute episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories anthology television series directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sondra Locke! Join us as we fully break down mentally trying to squeeze a drop of blood from this stone. This audio will probably be entered into a court case as evidence someday, so listen now while it's still cool and underground!!

Topics include: Steven Spielberg, Errol morris's MR. DEATH, Harvey Keitel, Beau Bridges, anthology television, Jake's distaste for UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, the sexual politics of the "muse," somehow the unmade Roger Rabbit sequel/prequel where he fights in World War II, and more!

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Behold a couple of pale guys doing a podcast! Today we're breaking down Eastwood's 1985 oater PALE RIDER, his riff on SHANE if the little boy was a teenage girl and the cows were gold. There's a lot of SHANE talk, obviously, plus a deep dive into the history of hydraulic mining, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and more! Good episode, if you ask me. Check it out.

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Two movie stars...three guys chatting...one episode!! We're joined once again by our friend Forrest Tiffany for a discussion of CITY HEAT, Richard Benjamin's 1984 period buddy cop movie in which Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds don't exactly make sparks fly. Well, Ian liked it. We do some Burt context, talk about the history of Kansas City political machines, and there's a silly little game. Check it out!

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They say a podcast must choose between being funny and being insightful. They're wrong! On today's hugely fun episode, we're joined by Aaron and Carlee from the terrific Hit Factory podcast to talk Richard Tuggle's 1984 sleazy serial killer thriller TIGHTROPE - with all the dog rescue stories, sex worker rights history, and do-cops-deserve-empathy conversations you can handle. Plus the three dudes talk about how good Carlee is at posting! She's so good at it. We had a stupid amount of fun recording this episode and we think you will have at least some portion of that listening to it. As a reminder, the podcast is free.

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Go ahead, listen to this episode! We are beyond thrilled to be joined for our discussion of the fourth Dirty Harry film, SUDDEN IMPACT, by the man who literally wrote the book on Dirty Harry: Dr. Joe Street, author of Dirty Harry's America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash. From "Make my day" to Santa Cruz history to Reagan's cruel legacy of spending cuts to Sondra Locke's sunglasses, we cover it all on this one, folks. There's even a novelty song and a farfetched theory about an androgynous bulldog that probably should have been cut out of the episode. But we left it in for you, the listener, whom we love and cherish! Please give this one a listen, it was a wonderful discussion and we're excited to share it with you. [There are some minor audio issues that we did our best to clean up, so be nice to us about it.]

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It wasn't G-d who made HONKYTONK MAN podcasts...it was us! Join us for a conversation about Clint Eastwood's 1982 Depression-set country music road trip drama, careening from Grand Ole Opry history to Oklahoma Land Runs to discussion of whose uncles are the most unwell. It's a foot-stompin' good time. Throw your arms around this freaking episode, why don't you?

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It's the FIREFOX episode, folks, and we're talking all about the 1982 Cold War mind-controlled spyplane thriller some have called "Clint Eastwood's STAR WARS," which is funny to do! Join us for a daring infiltration of the film's real-life inspirations, the particular early-Reagan geopolitical climate in which it was made, and the sundry White House creeps Clint rubbed elbows with at the Kennedy Center premiere. 

Topics include: Taking a Gander, our fondness for practical effects, Jake finds a way to bring up Back to the Future: The Ride, PTSD, PASSENGER 57, Soviet dissidents, the SR-71 Blackbird, Hollywood depictions of life in the USSR, the largely-European cast's other credits, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (obviously), the absence of comparable Soviet action spy thrillers, the fabled summer of 1982, FIRST BLOOD, paramilitary weirdo Bo Gritz, and more!

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Beers to you, dear listener - it's a new episode of the show! Today we're joined by Managing Editor of The Film Stage, Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman), for a movie that's extremely stupid: Buddy Van Horn's Clint-and-Clyde sequel ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN. This one's got all the animal actor rights and Jackson Hole context you could want, plus three adult men politely complimenting each other on their appearance. What are you waiting for? Listen now!

Topics include: legacy sequels, going to Europe to dodge labor laws, William Smith's strange pre-Hollywood career, calling our shot re: new Clint memes, Jake proposes legislation to require animals to have last names, strong predictions that Trump will never be indicted (lol), and much more.

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Gather round, little pards: the BRONCO BILLY episode's in town! Join Ian "Handsy Bill" Rhine and Jake "Steel Arlo" Serwin as they talk Clint Eastwood's 1980 Capraesque neo-western comedy, the history of wild west shows, the famous Scatman Crothers story, and get into an argument about THE FABELMANS, of all things. It's a good one!

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Uh oh, the episode's good! Sorry, we're trying to remove it. Anyway today we are getting into Clint's final collaboration with Don Siegel, 1979's prison breakout movie ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, and we're joined by activist and Mitigation Specialist for Youth Justice Network, Chris Alfonso! Join us for a discussion of prison life, the nature of punishment, imagining a post-carceral world, and much more. Also Clint is n*de in this movie. This is a special one, folks.

 

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Put up your dukes! We're turning EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE this episode to talk about James Fargo's 1978 bare-knuckle boxing hangout road trip orangutan movie, which we both like many parts of while still somehow not really enjoying the film. There's also plenty of San Fernando Valley history, Nazi biker discussion (critical), and Jake tells a story about a moviegoer so rude she sent him spiraling into despair. Give it a listen!

Topics include: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, the American Humane Association, allegations of animal mistreatment on the set of this film (sort of), Las Vegas ape act impresario Bobby Berosini, the weirdness of animal rights people who aren't also human rights people, PETA's whole deal, a largely apocryphal history of the Palomino Club, more Locke Talk, movies with low stakes, The Gene LeBell Story, Beverly D'Angelo, and, for no particular reason, here's a list of bail funds.

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Lock(e) and load, it's time to run...THE GAUNTLET (1977)! Jake and Ian get to the bottom of Clint Eastwood's shockingly pro-sex-work, anti-cop action comedy road movie and dig deep on Sondra Locke. There's also lots of praise for MIDNIGHT RUN, obviously. Give it a listen!

Topics include: SHAFT IN AFRICA, cop corruption scandals, Vinnie Jones, "vital statistics," pig iron, new misogynist phrases, Josh Brolin's stepmother Barbra Streisand, and Frank Gorshin's impressions.

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Actually you're late uploading YOUR podcast! Today we're digging into the third Dirty Harry film, James Fargo's THE ENFORCER. We're talking women in law enforcement, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the occupation of Alcatraz by Native activists, all that stuff. Plus another visit to a certain crime zone...

Topics include: fake names, Jake's dad's fondness for Hugo Boss cologne, the film's title, Ian brings up Richard Donner's TIMELINE like that's normal to do, communiqués, "Stockholm Syndrome," THE OTHER GUYS, and the co-hosts shock absolutely no one by knowing the same gross bird fact, plus more!

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We got ourselves a juicy new episode and we're spitting it at your dog! Sorry! We shouldn't do that, it's mean. Anyway time to talk THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES with our friend, labor attorney Eric Markovits (@thechancegiver). We all scrambled to become Civil War scholars in a week to make sense of the politics here, so you're welcome. Settle in for a hell of a ride once we get talking about the guy who wrote the book, too. Enjoy the show! Buzzards gotta listen to podcasts, same as worms!

Topics include: Bleeding Kansas, ANIMAL HOUSE, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Keams, Lost Cause bullshit, the DGA's "Eastwood Rule," not Sondra Locke really because that'll be on THE GAUNTLET episode, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and more!

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Got a mountain-sized episode for ya, folks. Today we're attempting Eastwood's spy thriller THE EIGER SANCTION with writer John Semley (@johnsemley3000) and talking the difficulty of making an American Bond, the deadly injury on the set of this film, and even more George Kennedy appreciation than last week's episode. Listen to it or be sanctioned (just kidding, it's fine)!

Topics include: the water in Oaxaca, Jake doesn't know anything about football, scurrying through hatches, some quick and dirty espionage history, Clint's little shorts, Jack Cassidy, the film's casual but intense homophobia, Tom Cruise, the Vanderpump empire, Brenda Venus's strange life, and much more.

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Ladies and gentlemen...we got 'im. A guest, that is! Today the lovely and talented Forrest Tiffany (@forresttiffany) joins us to talk Michael Cimino's 1974 road trip bank heist film THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT. We welcome Geoffrey Lewis and George Kennedy to the Pod Casty cast of guys and investigate what this film has to say about American masculinity halfway through the 70s. There is also a quiz at the end.

Topics include: the real-life highwaymen who inspired the book that inspired the movie that inspired this movie, convertibles, what's in Montana, Jeff Bridges in drag, exactly who pistachio ice cream is for, how easy it seems like getting a (lousy) job used to be, Ian's reading of the film with respect to Melville's Billy Budd, and the photo on the Wikipedia page for Michael Cimino.

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A man's got to know his limitations...and that's why we started a podcast! This ep we go deep on Ted Post's 1973 film MAGNUM FORCE, the first sequel to DIRTY HARRY and a fascinating piece of equivocation and reaction-to-the-reaction. We'll also check in with Ian's enemy goose in another edition of Taking A Gander, and Jake has a new segment about Pauline Kael. ACAB, Google LASD Gangs, stay safe out there.

Topics include: the 1970s epidemic of skyjacking, US-sponsored death squads in Latin America, Harry Callahan's sexual magnetism, the history of gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the many vigilante films that followed DIRTY HARRY, unrelatedly AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME, a brief aside about Darth Vader, and much, much more.

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It's time for us to tackle BREEZY, Clint Eastwood's 1973 romantic dramedy starring William Holden and Kay Lenz and, for the first time in his career, not him! Extremely comfortable ep about an extremely comfortable movie to watch and discuss. We talk about the age gap and age gap movies generally, Eastwood's romantic life in the early seventies, LICORICE PIZZA (and PHANTOM THREAD), and offer our very timely reactions to the Sight & Sound poll along with what we would have put on our ballots had they not been (we assume) lost in the mail. Give it a listen, you can always take a shower afterwards.

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We're wandering into the pod feed out of thin air to talk HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973), Clint Eastwood's second film as director and still one of his very best. We also recorded this one in person, so, it's, uh, better maybe? Could also be worse. Leave me out of it!

[Content heads-up: the film depicts sexual violence and we discuss that in this episode. Something to keep in mind when deciding when and where to listen to it.]

 

Topics include: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, Jake's special haircut story, the film's relationship to High Noon, talk smack about stupid film by a bad man EL TOPO, some questions about the upcoming movie about Spider-Man's nemesis Kraven the Hunter, and a broader conversation about communal responsibility and bogus invocations of the debunked "bystander effect" by people who ultimately just want more cops.

 

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This week we're talking about the little-remembered 1972 western JOE KIDD, starring Clint Eastwood, directed by John Sturges, and written by Elmore Leonard. We'd never heard of it either, but our viewing of the film led to a great discussion of the real person who inspired the story, the New Mexican land grant activist Reies López Tijerina.

Topics include: courtroom appearances, school dances, Tijerina's 1967 armed raid on the courthouse at Tierra Amarilla, the frustrating legacy of misogyny in activist groups, roles for women in westerns, calculating how much money people in old movies are actually talking about, that stupid-looking gun the one guy has, Clint's Splinter Cell moves, the complicated intersections of liberation movements and religious groups, and allergies.

[Heads up: we had an audio mix-up on this recording, so Ian sounds a little funny on this one. Totally listenable, just sounds lousy. And if you think the audio quality is bad, wait until you hear the words this guy's saying! Hey, come on, I'm joking around. Hey!]

 

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Join us for a discussion of the 1971 Don Siegel police action film Dirty Harry, its left and liberal reception at the time, and its reverberations throughout the rest of Clint Eastwood's career. Sorry we mostly forgot to be funny on this one. ACAB, by the way.

Topics include: police brutality, fascist aesthetics, cop movies and copaganda, the meaning(s) of San Francisco as a setting, how we think Eastwood and Siegel feel about the cops, the Hunters Point social uprising of 1966, the Zodiac killer, mineral oil, and a conversation about the Scorpio Killer's driving directions.

 

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Our first episode, in which we discuss Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, the 1971 thriller Play Misty For Me, and Jake debuts a special segment.

Topics include: Eastwood's early career, collaborators like Don Siegel and cinematographer Bruce Surtees, the film's gender politics, Jessica Walter, whether Carmel-by-the-Sea and Sausalito are actually the same place,  and for some reason 9/11.

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This is a quick introduction to Pod Casty For Me, the podcast about Clint Eastwood movies and left politics.

Here you will find answers to important questions like: Why are we doing the show? Who are we, the guys who are doing the show? Will you like our, like, whole thing? Do we say cussing? Are we well-informed or at least funny?

A good place to start for new listeners! Probably a decent place for those same new listeners to end!

 

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