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00:00 - 09:32 - This week on Travis Bickle on the Riviera, we start by talking about what it means to be a man in America. Also the first season of The Shield, which is supremely important to understanding being a man in America. Also clothing gives you powers, and Alan Sepinwall's The Revolution Was Televised. America.
09:33 - 21:45 - Tucker watched Life Without Principle (2012), directed by Johnnie To, starring Lao Ching Wan, Richie Ren, Denise Ho, and Myoli Wu. Also mentioned in this section: other Johnnie To movies, Pulp Fiction, Amores Perros, Glenngarry Glen Ross, The Insider, Spy Game, To's collaborative movie Triangle, and this scene from Pam Grier's autobiography. We also talk about Andrei Tarkovsky and the previous conversation had about him on the guest episode with Joe McCulloch.
21:46 - 26:34 - Tucker watched Destry Rides Again (1939), directed by George Marshall, starring Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Deitrich. This is pretty much the only movie we don't rave about this week. Also discussed in this section - The Blue Angel, The Young Mr Lincoln, Vertigo, and Jim Carrey reading Jimmy Stewart's poetry.
26:35 - 34:30 - Sean watched Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000), directed by Takashi Miike, starring Show Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi. Also mentioned in this section - Miike's other Dead or Alive movies, Ben Sachs' Miike pieces at MUBI, Terminator 2, Blues Brothers 2000, Ichi the Killer, MPD Psycho, James Gunn's Super, Shinya Tsukamoto, a little more about Life Without Principle, and Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai.
34:31 - 39:52 - Tucker watched Forbidden Games (1952), directed by Rene Clement, starring Georges Poujoly and Brigette Fossey. Also mentioned in this section: Saving Private Ryan.
39:53 - 49:57 - And finally Tucker watched Small Back Room (1949), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger/ The Archers, starring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, and Michael Gough. Yeah, this one sounds soooooo goddamn good. Also mentioned in this section: The Conversation, other Archers films, The Hurt Locker, Scorsese on three strip technicolor in Colonel Blimp, the Salvador Dali sequence in Spellbound, the BFI, the Criterion Collection, the production history of Dr. Who and Monty Python's Flying Circus, and our disgust at the failure of socialism.
NEXT WEEK - ANOTHER ONE OF THESE THINGS ABOUT MOVIES WITH TWO PEOPLE TALKING.
Homework assignments for next time: Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and De Palma's Sisters.
Solid episode, gentlemen. I can't wait to check out that To film, somehow it flew under my radar!
Posted by: Jeppe | 2013.03.28 at 12:21
Andrei Rublev was my first Tarkvosky as well. Still one of my favorites. I think that and The Sacrifice are my favorite films by him. I think Stalker and Solaris, while I guess more well known--aren't quite as solid overall. Nostalghia is uneven. The Mirror is one that grows as you have seen the rest of his work. But yeah Rublev and the Sacrifice are the two Tarkovsky movies I'd recommend people watching first.
Also I'm a film snob.
Posted by: sarah horrocks | 2013.03.31 at 23:45