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00:00 - 10:07 - INTROS. This week on TRAVIS BICKLE ON THE RIVIERA, a movie podcast about movies and movies, Tucker read David Denby's Do The Movies Have A Future?, and we talk about Denby, his other book Snark, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Judd Apatow, and comic book movies. Sean tried to read The Evil Dead Companion by Bill Warren. But couldn't. Which leads to...
10:08 - 16:28 - Sean watched the Evil Dead remake (2013), directed by Fede Alvarez, starring the five available people nearest to the casting director at the time they went to shoot the movie. In this section we talk about how you can't copy someone else's fetishes.
16:29 - 23:15 - Tucker has been marathoning, and finished, the entire series of The Shield.
Also in this section we talk about Alan Sepinwall's The Revolution Was Televised, and Shawn Ryan's other shows, specifically Terriers.
23:16 - 29:11 - Tucker has also been catching up on Delocated, which Sean loves like crazy. In this section we talk about Todd Barry's twitter and PFFFR! tv shows.
29:12 - 38:56 - HOMEWORK - Tucker watched Cul De Sac (1966), directed by Roman Polanski, starring Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasance, Lionel Stander, and Jack Magowran. In this section we talk about Beckett, Polanski's other films, and his attempt to adapt Waiting For Godot, and Straw Dogs. We also talk about the Parker adaptations, including Slayground and The Split. Rare corrections - when Sean says "Brecht" he means "Beckett", and when Tucker says "The Apartment" he means "The Tenant".
38:57 - 46:36 - HOMEWORK (sorta) Sean watched The Small Back Room (1949), directed by Powell and Pressburger/ the Archers, starring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, and Michael Gough. In this section we also talk The Hurt Locker, The Spy In Black, Fritz Lang, and then we detour in a great sidebar about how Tucker fucking loves Carl Theodore Dreyer.
46:37 - 55:44 - Sean has been watching every single Brian De Palma movie (and slapping screencaps on tumblr because going outside is for suckers), because of reasons, he's about halfway done with it and we kind of briefly talk about it without going full geek. Don't worry, this will probably happen the next time. Also in this section we talk about Die Hard 4, Ghost Protocol, Kirk Douglas, Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, the 6 hour cut of All the Pretty Horses, and how every movie would be better with Dune voiceovers.
Our homework movies this week are Mean Streets and Moonraker, and our outro music is Norma Jean's "Sorcerer".
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Raimi, Campbell, et al. did not write the new Evil Dead. But Diablo Cody turned in a draft! They only produced, but it seems like they were pretty hands on. I liked it, but I think I like horror movies the way you guys like action movies. (That said, most horror movies are way worse than most action movies. It's a hard life.) I liked the big dumb ending. Chainsawing the ridiculous puppet in two, then having the two halves of its head looking up? Yes sir. Really loved what Sean had to say about what worked and what didn't and why.
Did you say PFFR produced Louie? What the what?
Posted by: Colin Panetta | 2013.04.23 at 14:26
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the Evil Dead remake, given I'm not that big a fan of the series (I like them, and Raimi, but they never quite caught on with me the way Carpenter's work did). Part of it has to do with how it's about addiction (more specifically, the shitty treatment of addicts), which is where I think the mutilation stuff is coming from (kept thinking of Jared Leto losing his arm in Requiem for a Dream) and why it ends the way it does. It's also the first horror movie in years I've both seen in theaters and was completely engaged with (I think the last one was Neil Marshall's The Descent, which was what? 2006?), so maybe I'm being more generous to it than I should be?
Either way, it's way better than Cabin in the Woods.
Posted by: Andrew Taylor | 2013.04.24 at 19:44
This is among the best podcasts all of you have done. I'm going to give the first season of the Shield a go based on Tucker's love.
Posted by: bebreezy | 2013.04.24 at 21:32
PFFR doesn't produce Louie, but Vernon Chatham (one of the, I think, two guys who make up PFFR) produced and co-wrote the latest season.
I let Sean handle horror, but allow me to pipe up from the amateur corner and admit a deep fondness for The Descent.
Bebreezy: thanks so much!
Posted by: tucker stone | 2013.04.25 at 00:12
I have a copy of The Split from Warner Archives. It's not very good but it has an all star cast: Warren Oates, Earnest Borgnindne, Gene Hackman, James Whitmore, Donald Sullivan, and Jim Brown. Give me a mail address and I'll send it you if you want to review it for the show.
Posted by: Matt Allegretti | 2013.04.25 at 18:03
I'll have to give Cul De Sac another go - the problem is that while I love Donald Pleasance I can't take watching (or listening) to Lionel Stander for that long...ugh...what to do.
Posted by: Matthew Allison | 2013.04.25 at 21:40