2/2/2010
Posted in Episodes at 9:19 pm by Sam
This episode is All TV Talk, as we recap the history of television, as it relates to the movie industry, and talk about how cinematic it’s become in the last few years.
Show contents:
- The Early Days of Television
- Competing With Movies
- I Love Lucy
- The Three Camera Setup
- The Stigma of Working On Television
- Art On Television Abroad: Scenes From a Marriage, Fanny and Alexander, The Decalogue.
- Film Directors Who Started Their Careers In Television: Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman.
- Forerunners of Serialized Storytelling On Television: The Fugitive, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- The Sopranos
- The Wire
- Why Television Had To Change
- 24
- House
- Mad Men
- Dexter
- Lost
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1/25/2010
Posted in Bloopers at 12:55 pm by Sam
A series of false starts from Special #2.
Blooper: Intro Hitches [0:23m]:
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1/20/2010
Posted in Links at 11:25 am by Sam
Here’s a great short film from 2007. It’s earned a slew of film festival awards and a high rating on the IMDb, but it’s virtually unknown, for no better reason than that there isn’t a commercial delivery system for short films anymore. I love it because in the span of just nine minutes, it manages to cover a wider range of emotions than most full features do. For that matter, it tells a more complete story than many do, too. Shorts like this demonstrate just how much you can do with so little.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYykXgwl20
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1/6/2010
Posted in Side Topics at 6:08 pm by Sam
News came in about the director of the next James Bond film, and the name couldn’t have been more surprising to me. It’s Sam Mendes, director of American Beauty and Revolutionary Road.
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1/5/2010
Posted in Episodes at 4:40 pm by Sam
This episode’s theme is “no theme.” We talk about a wide variety of topics, freely changing the course of our conversation without notice.
Show contents:
- The Room (follow-up to the discussion from Special #1)
- The Children of MST3K: RiffTrax, Cinematic Titanic, and The Film Crew
- High and Low (1963)
- Horror In 2009: Saw VI and Paranormal Activity
- Scenes From a Marriage (1973)
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut
- Metropolis: Lost and Found
- The Warner Archive Project
- Blu-Ray and Digital Downloads
- Remaking “Blood Simple”
- The Coens: Great American Filmmakers
- Renaissance (2006)
- Sin City (2005) and The Spirit (2008)
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12/22/2009
Posted in Reviews at 1:11 pm by Stephen
Two centuries and $75 billion in the making, Avatar has received strong reviews and big box office, though I personally found it to be a bit of a disappointment. It’s an amazing looking movie — especially in 3D — but it seems like director and writer James Cameron spent all that time working on the visuals when he could have taken a few more passes on the script.
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12/18/2009
Posted in Bloopers at 11:36 am by Sam
English? What’s that? From this outtake from Special #2, you wouldn’t think I know anything about it. But that’s the power of editing for you.
Blooper: English [0:18m]:
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12/1/2009
Posted in Episodes at 5:00 am by Sam
In this episode, we try to help movie fans broaden their horizons by recommending good first forays into classic and foreign films.
Show contents:
- Top 6: Accessible Older Movies
- Top 6: Accessible Foreign Films
- Top 6: Foreign Films You Don’t Want To Start With
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11/11/2009
Posted in Vintage at 1:33 pm by Sam
Even long-lasting fame is fleeting. In the 1920s, “everybody” would have known, to pick two unrelated examples, Warner Baxter and Aileen Pringle. In the Film Daily Yearbook for 1929, they each had a full page publicity ad. But who knows them today?
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11/10/2009
Posted in Bloopers at 2:40 pm by Sam
During the recording of Special #1, Stephen conflated a couple of movie titles.
Blooper: Simple [0:22m]:
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