Uncut Gems Podcast
By Uncut Gems Podcast
A CLAPPER production.
Uncut Gems PodcastSep 23, 2022
Episode 166 - The Fan
In this episode of the show, we are closing our Spring Clinging series with a homerun as we are talking about Tony Scott's The Fan! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how much Nine Inch Nails music is too much, whether this movie gets baseball right and if there is a point to it in the first place only a few short years after Cape Fear. We also talk about positioning this movie as Tony Scott's middle child, the logistics of shaving your body hair as a marketing pitch and whether it is a good idea to bring a car door to a sales meeting.
Tune in and enjoy!
Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Hillary White
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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BONUS Kathryn Bigelow Marathon 03 - Blue Steel (teaser)
In the third episode of our 2024 Kathryn Bigelow Marathon we are entering the 90s together with her police procedural Blue Steel. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Jamie Lee Curtis and whether Roger Ebert was right to call her character the next iteration of Laurie Strode, Bigelow's continuing fascination with John Carpenter and James Cameron, and how her own personal life may have been reflected in the movie. We also talk about Clancy Brown's perm, Tom Sizemore's appearance and Ron Silver's workout routine.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp
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Episode 165 - The Crush
In this episode of the show, we are continuing our exploration of obsession and stalking, aka Spring Clinging, as we are talking about the 1993 The Crush. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Alan Shapiro as a filmmaker, his attempt at meshing real life experience with Lolita, his writing acumen or lack thereof, and whether he knew what to do with Cary Elwes's acting prowess... or lack thereof. We also talk about the logistics of building carousels in the attic, how to distinguish bees from yellowjackets and whether the filmmakers asked anyone what forensic scientists actually do.
Tune in and enjoy!
Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Hillary White
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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Episode 164 - The Fanatic
In this episode of the show, we are continuing our conversations about obsession and lack of personal boundaries, as we talk about The Fanatic. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if this universally panned movie can be salvaged, whether John Travolta's performance is overblown, by how much and why, as well as what we think about Fred Durst as a filmmaker. We also talk about on-the-nose references to film-bro movies, the ego behind playing your own music in the car and if the movie is smarter than it makes it look.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Nicolo Grasso
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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BONUS Tie-in 32 - Misery (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. In this show, which is tied into our month's conversations about obsession and people who don't know where the boundaries are, we are talking about one of the most iconic obsessed stalker fan movies of all time, Rob Reiner's Misery. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about Stephen King's unique way of writing quirky characters, how the movie improves occasionally on the novel and how James Caan and Kathy Bates truly bring their A-game to the set. We also talk about the logic of driving muscle cars in a blizzard, the suspense of waving a piss-filled pitcher around and just how disturbed we were by the "hobbling" scene.
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Featuring: Hillary White
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Episode 163 - Ingrid Goes West
In this episode of the show, we are talking about Ingrid Goes West as we begin our March bout of Spring Clinging. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Aubrey Plaza's troll deadpan, the dangers of social media and how reality is warped by looking at carefully curated lives online. We also talk about Hollywood's fake-it-till-you-make-it toxicity, how the movie continues a much longer tradition, how nowadays teenage bullying is seemingly inescapable and whether asking what your biggest emotional wound is a good line to open when you're greeting customers at a restaurant.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Hillary White
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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BONUS Spike Lee's Major Joint 02 - Do the Right Thing (teaser)
In this episode of our 2024 Spike Lee Joint-a-thon, we are talking about Lee's magnum opus, Do the Right Thing. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to deconvolute the intricate cultural mosaic that is this movie, understand Lee's political convictions and map them over the cyclical nature of American history. We also talk about racial relations as depicted in the movie, the idea that the characters ought to be decoded as entire communities, police brutality and what exactly Lee wanted us to learn by showing us quotes from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X back-to-back.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
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Episode 162 - Mo' Better Blues
In this episode of the show, making our monthly stop at the Spike Lee Station to talk about his fourth feature, Mo' Better Blues. Joined by our two great buddies, Jak and Carson, we dig into this dense movie to find out whether it should be faulted for its archetypal storytelling or applauded for its symbolic richness. We also talk about Lee's place in the pantheon of filmmakers at the time of its release, his potential anguish at the state of Hollywood, the problem with the film's bookends, its many controversies and more!
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp & Carson Timar
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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BONUS Kathryn Bigelow Marathon 02 - Near Dark
In the second episode of our Kathryn Bigelow Marathon, we are talking about her vampire western sophomore, Near Dark. Joined by our great friend Hillary, we talk about Bigelow meshing genre, taking inspiration from James Cameron and John Carpenter, and wonder how much one can refresh the vampire canon. We also talk about her becoming an action director in the world dominated by men, the pros and cons of poaching the cast of Aliens and that any vampire who isn't wealthy is a failure.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Hillary White
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Episode 161 - The Hindenburg
In this episode of the show, we are taking a slow and steady blimp trip as we talk about Robert Wise's The Hindenburg. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about the genre of disaster movies slowly reaching its climax and fizzling out towards the latter half of the 70s, how nice it is to see George C. Scott in shape and how the movie may have been built around a great idea for an ending. We also talk about whether James Cameron's Titanic does a better job at what The Hindenburg is trying, how awkward it is to root for a Nazi Colombo and what we think about spectacles unfolding in slow motion.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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Episode 160 - Airport Sequels
In this jumbo jet-sized episode we are joined by our great buddy Jak to talk about the three movies that followed the 1970 Airport: Airport '75, Airport '77 and The Concorde... Airport 1979. Over the course of our conversation you will hear what we think about the early days of Hollywood franchising, how the Airport movies are either B-movies or Bond movies without Bond, and whether their titles reflect reality. We also talk about giving old stars stuff to do, Charlton Heston as a 60s Superman, monetizing The New Hollywood and whether it is a good idea to open the window in a supersonic jet flying at super-high altitudes, even if you're being chased by a stray rocket.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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BONUS Tie-in 31 - Airport
Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. In this show, tied to our February theme of Terror in the Sky, we are talking about the 1970 Airport! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how this movie paved the way for the disaster movie genre to come into existence, how in 1970 it looks a decade out of place, and how the genre itself may have become a refuge for ageing stars. We also talk about insecure men, model airplanes as special effects, George Kennedy's cigar diet and the fact of all people Helen Hayes got an Oscar for her role in this film.
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp
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Episode 159 - Skyjacked
In this episode of the show we are getting jacked in the sky as we are talking Skyjacked to kick off our February theme of Terror in the Sky (or T-air-or?). Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the ripples that Airport made in 1970, how the big studio heads grappled with the advent of The New Hollywood and how this movie maybe belongs in the 60s more than in the 70s. We also talk Charlton Heston's intimidating kissing regimen, airport security, the movie's many outdated proclivities and whether on some level it was maybe a forebearer of the post-Vietnam conversation that materialized towards the end of the decade.
Tune in and enjoy!
Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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BONUS Spike Lee's Major Joint 01 - School Daze (teaser)
In this inaugural episode of our Patreon side of the 2024 Spike Lee retrospective, we are looking at his sophomore feature School Daze. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the sophomore ego, the surprise of this movie being a musical and the perils of stuffing a musical template with too much content. We also talk about Spike Lee's acting chops or lack thereof, the movie as a conversation about intracommunal animosities, the college privilege and whether School Daze would have been better placed as a later entry in Spike Lee's filmography.Tune in and enjoy!
Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp
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Episode 158 - She's Gotta Have It
In this episode of the show we are officially beginning our new long-term project where we will comprehensively go through the cinema of Spike Lee and there's only one way to begin such a journey, which is with his debut She's Gotta Have It. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how this movie, short as it may be, fosters a truly nuanced discussion, how it comments on different shades of feminism and how Spike Lee begins his lifelong mission of bringing the black experience to the cultural foreground. We also talk about Wizard of Oz, black-and-white cinematography as a vessel for people to connect with art and that Spike Lee's films may be better received if you pay very close attention to them.
Tune in and enjoy!
Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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Episode 157 - Non-Stop
In this episode of the show we are concluding our brief journey through Liam Neeson movies confined to different modes of transportation and we are taking off into the skies to talk about Non-Stop! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder why this movie was as successful as it was, the woes of making action movies in the Marvel era and the idea of staying busy in times of grief. We also touch on Jaume Collet-Serra's directorial proclivities, the implicit benefits of setting movies on a plane and whether the ending of Non-Stop makes any sense at all.
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BONUS Kathryn Bigelow Marathon 01 - The Loveless (teaser)
The time has come for us to get on our bikes and launch a brand new director marathon and for this year we decided to shadow Kathryn Bigelow and chart the course of her career as she went from indie obscurity to genre re-invention and all the way to the highest echelons of prestige filmmaking! We begin our escapade by talking about her indie debut The Loveless! Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about biker movies, how this movie homages (or doesn't) The Wild One, how Jim Jarmusch may have influenced the NY indie scene and whether young Willem Dafoe was a hot hunk or not. We also talk about pretentiousness in film, men being trash and much more!
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Episode 156 - The Ice Road
In this episode of the show we are going on a road trip with Liam Neeson while trying not to be left out in the cold, as we talk The Ice Road! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to understand what makes this movie work way better than it perhaps should, how important it is to anchor an action movie in the classics of the genre and whether it would have worked even half as well without the film's central character dynamic. Surprisingly enough, in a conversation about a disposable direct-to-streaming actioner we end up talking about 90s blockbusters, The Wages of Fear and even John Steinbeck himself!
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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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BONUS Tie-in 30 -Taken (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are talking about Taken, the movie which recalibrated Liam Neeson's career and transformed him from an aging prestige thespian into a latter-day superhero. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about this surprising late-career shift, the meme of Bryan Mills, the legacy of Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne and the moral panic of setting Albanian human traffickers as the villains. We also talk making movies set in Europe, Bryan Mills' scruples, and Maggie Grace's graceless running. Enjoy!
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Episode 155 - The Commuter
In this episode of the show we are beginning our January theme of Liam Neeson's Planes, Trains and Automobiles (transitioning from our recent chat on Terror Train) and we begin with his train-bound thriller The Commuter. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Neeson fully embracing his action stardom, the question whether this movie is perhaps too complex for its own good and if it is a good idea to hire Patrick Wilson for what looks like a cameo. We also talk guitar fights, safety sticker locations and whether The Commuter is secretly an indictment of the financial crisis.
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Episode 154.5 - Steven Soder-noument
In this episode of the show we are finally coming to an end of our epic journey through the cinema of Steven Soderbergh we have been on for the last thirteen months! We are also plugging a few blind spots here by discussing the two Spalding Gray movies he made (Gray's Anatomy and And Everything Is Going Fine), just to make sure we have covered his entire feature output. We also share our reflections on this journey, opine on what we learned about Soderbergh, how our appreciation for this man developed over the course of this past year, all in addition to sharing our top 10 Soderbergh movies!
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BONUS Cutting into Soderbergh 13 - Magic Mike's Last Dance (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This is it! We have come to the end of our Soderbergh project and on this occasion we are discussing the last movie he directed thus far, Magic Mike's Last Dance. Over the course of this chat you will hear us talk about the mindboggling allure of the series, how it works or doesn't work as a rom-com and if Channing Tatum still has the chops. We also talk about what drives Soderbergh to make these movies, whether he still wants to continue making escapist entertainment and whether Magic Mike and Magic Steve are in fact the same person and those movies are a reflection of Hollywood.
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Episode 154 - Kimi
In this episode of the show we are inching ever closer to the end of our Steven Soderbergh journey as we talk about one his most recent efforts, Kimi. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how reliant Soderbergh has become on the quality of the scripts he directs, David Koepp's magic touch, and how a well-paced story can hide a lot of exposition using visuals alone. We also talk about pandemic cinema, know-it-all youngsters, the idea of bugging your own house and that we are all happy to see Devin Ratray aka Buzz from Home Alone in a movie again.
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Episode 153 - Terror Train
In this episode of the show we close the year with a New Year's Party aboard the Terror Train! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us argue the question if this movie is more a slasher or a whodunnit, if its central gimmick of "Halloween on a train" is enough to set the film apart from other movies in the genre and if there is anything special about Jamie Lee Curtis' run as the 1980s Scream Queen. We also talk about magic, David Copperfield's acting, the many opportunities this movie squanders and much more!
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John Cassavetes 12 - Big Trouble (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of the twelfth and final episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. We are finally coming to a close of our year-long journey through the cinema of John Cassavetes and we finish with Big Trouble. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about this movie being a job for hire, whether it carries some Cassavetes DNA in it, if Alan Arkin and Peter Falk had enough chemistry to make the movie a success, and how Beverly D'Angelo is a comedic gem. We also spend some time looking back upon our time watching all Cassavetes films, reflect on what we learned in the process, and share our top moments too.
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Episode 152 - Anna and the Apocalypse
In this episode of the show we are getting ready for a Christmas zombie apocalypse together with the cast of Anna and the Apocalypse. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about the many ways one could execute a gimmick, the idea of mashing up genres, how much this movie owes to Edgar Wright and whether it would have been better off if it had committed to either of the elements it was trying to mash together! Merry Zombie Christmas!
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Episode 151 - Krampus
In this episode of the show we are continuing our December theme of Holiday Horror with the 2015 Krampus. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if this movie is a Christmas film, a dark fairy tale, a horror or a combination of all three, how much it owes to Joe Dante and Guillermo Del Toro, whether it is actually scary and if if even matters in the first place. We also talk about the film's dysfunctional family dynamic, the woes of raising bilingual children, Toni Collette's feng shui skills and much more!
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BONUS Tie-in 29 - Black Christmas (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are talking about Black Christmas in connection to the theme of Holiday Horror we are exploring on the main show. Joined by our great friend Jak, we are exploring the boundaries of the slasher template, wondering how Bob Clark draws from Hitchcock and giallo, and how his movie was an inspiration for John Carpenter. We also talk about moral panics of the time, hippies, Margo Kidder and the logistics of leaving dead bodies in the attic.
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Episode 150 - Silent Night, Deadly Night
In this episode of the show we are beginning our December theme of Holiday Horror with the 1984 Silent Night, Deadly Night. Over the course of our chat you will hear us go into the controversy that saw this movie pulled from cinemas, the many ways it induced a moral panic, the idea of using a Christmas icon as an axe murderer, church methods for raising orphans, the legacy of this movie and much more!
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BONUS Cutting into Soderbergh 12 - No Sudden Move (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This month we are digging into Steven Soderbergh's quite recent outing, No Sudden Move. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about whether Soderbergh is looking to break new ground or if he is happy revisiting the well, how dependent he might have become on the quality of the scripts he directs, the vagaries of using fisheye lenses, oversaturating the narrative with plot and characters and much more!
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Episode 149 - Let Them All Talk
In this episode of the show we are catching up once more with one of the heroes of our 2023 conversations, Steven Soderbergh, as we talk about Let Them All Talk. Over the course of our chat you will hear us come back to the old questions of whether Soderbergh is making movies on autopilot, if he's revisiting modes of his youth, how the movie works as a film critic's film, what it says about the responsibilities of a storyteller and more. We also talk about biological clocks, the etiquette of wearing baseball caps indoors and that Lucas Hedges really needs a haircut.
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John Cassavetes 11 - Love Streams (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of the eleventh episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. In this episode of our 2023 John Cassavetes Marathon, we are talking about arguably the last great movie John Cassavetes directed, Love Streams. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the finality of this movie, its relationship with the filmmaker's entire body of work, Gena Rowlands climbing to new heights, and how Cassavetes himself was trying to bid the world farewell from behind the camera.
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John Cassavetes Marathon 10 - Gloria
Here's a short teaser of the tenth episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. In this episode of our 2023 John Cassavetes Marathon, we are talking about Gloria. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Cassavetes brushing shoulders with mainstream Hollywood, operating on the fringes of the New Hollywood, how the movie inspired Leon: The Professional and many other films, how Gena Rowlands was a John Wick of her time and much more!
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Episode 148 - Star 80
In this episode of the show we are closing our November Bob Fosse retrospective with Fosse's final film, Star 80. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about why Fosse would make a movie like that, the symmetry between Dorothy Stratten and Sharon Tate. Eric Roberts' turn as a sleazy psychopath, the sleaze of Hollywood, the 80s iconography and much, much more!
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Episode 147 - All That Jazz
In this episode of the show, we gather to celebrate a momentous occasion, Randy's birthday, and as luck would have it, we are talking about his favourite film ever - All That Jazz! Flanked by a duet of very special guests, Sarah and Jak, we discuss Bob Fosse's New Wave ways, Roy Scheider's phenomenal acting range and the movie's many meta-musical moments. We also spare a thought or two on the subject of film critics not being able to recognize Fosse's genius, the film's many metaphorical planes of interpretation, its subtle sense of humour and much more!
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Featuring: Sarah Buddery & Jak-Luke Sharp
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BONUS Tie-in 28 - Cabaret (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are gathering to talk about Cabaret, arguably Bob Fosse's most universally acclaimed directorial effort. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if it is a musical, an evolved musical or an anti-musical, how it comments on world history and whether it is still just as timely as it was when it was released. We also talk about the chemistry (or lack thereof) between Liza Minelli and Michael York, the revolutionary idea of taking the camera onto the stage and much more!
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Episode 146 - Sweet Charity and Lenny
In this episode of the show, we assemble as The Fosse Posse to gallop through the cinema of one Bob Fosse. We begin with Sweet Charity, his 1969 musical with Shirley MacLaine, and Lenny, his 1974 new wave biopic of Lenny Bruce and his crusade against censorship. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Fosse needing to fail in 1969 to become the master that he needed to be, his inability to kill his darlings in 1969 as well as his acute sense of the visual art just a few years later, his take on cinema verité, Dustin Hoffman's funny bone, free speech absolutism and that you should never show up to an interview without a resume.
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BONUS Cutting into Soderbergh 11 - High Flying Bird
Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies.
This month, as we are slowly nearing completion of our year-long journey through Steven Soderbergh's movies, we are talking about his 2019 movie High Flying Bird. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about whether Soderbergh was the right man for the job, if it is his Moneyball or Jerry Maguire, how it opens a difficult conversation about racial politics in American sports, and whether it is acceptable to leave boogers in a sauna.
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Episode 145 - The Laundromat
In this episode of the show, we add another notch to our Soderbergh belt as we talk The Laundromat. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to find something to latch onto in this string of vignettes, make fun of Mossack and Fonseca, stipulate that the movie would have been better if Meryl Streep played all the roles and that Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns maybe just couldn't decide if they wanted to make a serious investigative thriller or a me-too The Big Short.
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Episode 144 - The Ninth Configuration
In this episode of the show, we put a bow on our William Peter Blatty's Demonic-Tober by talking about The Ninth Configuration. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us pontificate over how this movie is potentially related to The Exorcist, whether its farcical underpinnings do the story any good, how Blatty may be a bit too pretentious for its own good and much more!
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Episode 143 - Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
In this episode of the show, we decided against our better judgment to take a close look at Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to find a reason why these movies exist at all, what propelled Paul Schrader to step behind the camera in this instance, whether it is even possible to stage a prequel to The Exorcist and if this franchise has anything to stand on. We also talk about Renny Harlin's directorial talents or lack thereof, Gabriel Mann's background acting, the ability of these movies to slow down time and much more!
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Episode 142 - Exorcist 2: The Heretic and The Exorcist 3: Legion
In this episode of the show, we are discussing a pair of sequels to the iconic 1973 The Exorcist, namely the 1977 Exorcist 2: The Heretic and the 1990 The Exorcist 3: Legion. Over the course of our chat you will hear us wonder how exactly one is supposed to follow up a cinematic singularity that was the William Friedkin masterpiece, whether John Boorman was the right man to do it and if William Peter Blatty's movie needed an exorcism at all. We also talk about Richard Burton's detective skills, Pazuzu as a villain, carp as a Christmas staple in Poland and George C. Scott's gas.
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BONUS Tie-in 27 - The Exorcist (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. In this special bonus episode of our show, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of William Friedkin's The Exorcist. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about how The Exorcist was a unique singularity that transcended the genre, how its horror works, and how its legacy continues to this day. We also talk about bridging the gap between science and religion, the horrors of medicine, Friedkin's rogue directorial methods, and most importantly, how this movie affects everyone who ever attempts to watch it.
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Episode 141 - Unsane
In this episode of the show, we are talking about Unsane, Steven Soderbergh's little indie side hustle he shot on an iPhone after coming out of his extremely busy retirement. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about Soderbergh's experimentalist approach finding artistic elevation in a phone camera, Claire Foy's acting chops, the movie as a politically charge piece of genre storytelling and how it also, on top of being quite poignant, makes very little sense.
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BONUS Cutting into Soderbergh 10 - Logan Lucky (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This month, we are talking about West Virginia, NASCAR, one-armed charmers and John Denver singalongs because we take a look at Logan Lucky. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about how hard it must have been for Soderbergh to stay retired, how difficult to swallow it must have been for Seth MacFarlane to realize Daniel Craig was way funnier than him and how Riley Keough's driving was just about good enough for her to qualify as a NASCAR driver. We also chat about the movie's Coen-esque vibes, Soderbergh's americana and whether George R.R. Martin is worth organizing a prison riot over.
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Episode 140 - Red Heat
In this episode of the show, we are concluding our September series on Arnie's less like 80s movies, all of which start with the letter 'R' by talking about Red Heat. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about Walter Hill's idea to take Arnie into original territories, the anatomy of a buddy cop movie, whether Walter Hill makes stealth comic book movies or westerns, and you will also hear a thing or two about what we think of James Belushi as a comedic presence.
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John Cassavetes Marathon 09 - Opening Night
Here's a short teaser of the sixth episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. In this episode of our ongoing marathon we are talking about John Cassavetes' ninth film, Opening Night. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about Gena Rowlands' unbridled talent and the tender way in which her husband filmed her, the movie as a conversation on ageing and a complex tirade on what makes performing arts work. We also revisit some of our own traumas and stories from the past, as we wrestle with mortality and the fact nobody seemed to notice Cassavetes' filmmaking genius when he was around.
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Episode 139 - The Running Man
In this episode of the show we are talking about another Arnie cult classic from the 80s starting (sort of) with the letter R - The Running Man! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us argue about whether this movie is amazing or just a bit too much, how it functions as an Arnie best-of mixtape and how it may have marked an inflection point in the 80s as a whole. We also talk dystopian future, dangers of adapting Stephen King and straying away from the source material, the movie's prescience with regard to consumerism and addiction to media, and how nobody taught Jesse Ventura how to swallow pills correctly.
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Episode 138 - Raw Deal
In this episode of the show we are continuing our journey through Arnold Schwarzenegger's underseen 80s movies starting with the letter R, as we talk Raw Deal. In the course of our chat you will hear us talk about what happens when Arnie is asked to take the character seriously, the idea of making a gritty gangster movie in the 80s, Schwarzenegger's relationship with Stallone and his own growing legacy, the dangers of going overboard with pyrotechnics and much more!
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BONUS Tie-in 26 - Conan the Barbarian (teaser)
Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month, in connection to a selection of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 80s oddities we explore on the main show, we are tying in with a conversation about Conan the Barbarian, the movie that catapulted him into stardom. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about John Milius as the legendary badass of the New Hollywood, the genesis of 80s action man, this movie's peculiar approach to fantasy storytelling, flammable witches, stiffened snakes and much more!
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