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00:00 - 01:34 - INTROS - Hey this week on Travis Bickle on the Riviera we have another Stunt Casting edition, this time with special guest multi-hyphenate (writer / artist / colorist / games designer / astronaut / chainsaw juggler) and all around best person, Sloane Leong. Sloane's pick of theme for the week is foreign science fiction.We covered way too many damn movies.
01:34 - 08:19 - Both Sean and Sloane watched The Hole (1998), directed by Tsai Ming-Liang, starring Kuei-Mei Yang and Kang-sheng Lee. Also discussed in this section: Ming-Liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn, and Brazil.
08:20 - 14:14 - both of us watched World On A Wire (1973), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Klaus Lowitsch. Also discussed in this section I Heart Huckabees, Inception, The Matrix, Thief, and Solaris.
14:15 - 20:25 - Sloane watched Ikarie XB-1 (1963) directed by Jindrich Polak and X: the Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963) directed by Roger Corman. In this section we talk about 2001 a Space Odyssey, Death Race 2000, and the brilliance of the CARNOSAUR franchise.
20:26 - 27:55 - Both of us watched Black Moon (1975), directed by Louis Malle , starring Cathryn Harrison, Therese Geihse, Alexandra Stewart, and Joe Dallesandro. Also discussed in this section - Jan Svankemyer's Alice In Wonderland, Bergman, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Zardoz, and Zazie Dans Le Metro.
27:56 - 31:32 - We both watched Fata Morgana (1969), direceted by Werner Herzog. Also discussed in this section - Star Wars, Herzog's Lessons of Darkness and Heart of Glass.
31:33 - 37:10 - Sloane watched La Jetee (1962), directed by Chris Marker. Also discussed in this section Chafed Elbows, the new re-edited trailer for the film from Cinefamily, the Hero's Journey, Vertigo, 12 Monkeys, and Terry Gilliam at Help magazine.
37:11 - 44:37 - Both of us watched Je T'aime Je T'aime (1968), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac. In this section we also talk about Hiroshima Mon Amour, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bad Timing, Muriel, and Magritte's Empire of Light.
44:38 - 49:35 - Both of us also watched Kin Dza Dza (1986), directed by Georgiy Daneliy, starring Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze, Anatoli Serenko, and Yury Yakovlev. Also mentioned in this section - Mad Max.
49:36 - 55: 27 - Sloane watched a documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov called Islands, and we use this as an excuse to talk about a large chunk of their work. We also talk about their friendship, Jodorowsky and Otomo's friendship.
55:28 - 58:08 - Sloane watched Letters From a Dead Man (1986) directed by Konstantin Lopushansky, starring Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Vikto Mikhaylov. Also talked about in this section: Stalker, the movie Sean is talking about is Yeleen, a Malian film directed by Souleymane Cisse.
58:09 - 1:02:39 - Sloane watched Pumzi (2013) directed by Wanrui Kahiu and can be seen on youtube here. We also talk about District 9 (2009) and Neil Blompkamp's other short films Tetra Vaal and Alive in Joburg. And in this section we also discuss Avatar, Starship Troopers, Pocahantas, and colonization plots in science fiction.
1:02:40 - 1:10:20 - Sean wanted to talk about AI: Artificial Intelligence (2000) directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, and a robot head protoype designed by Chris Cunningham. Blah blah feelings. Also we briefly touch on Dead or Alive: Final, Battle Angel Alita, Pluto, Shozin Fukui's 964 Pinocchio, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Eraserhead, and Kenneth Anger.
1:10:21 - 1:14:58 - Sloane watched Alphaville (1965) directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Eddie Constantine. Also in this section we also talk about 2 or 3 Thing I Know About Her.
1:114:59 - 1:23:54 - And finally, Sloane watched The Host (2013), directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Saorise Roanan and Diane Kruger, and we also talk about the Twilight franchise, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Near Dark, Gattaca, Hanna, and In Time.
NEXT WEEK - OTHER PEOPLE TALKING OTHER THINGS (probably at least one movie with The Rock).
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