After the break, you'll find a brand new episode of Travis Bickle on the Riviera.
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0:00:00 - 0:05:05 -INTROS. To start this week off Tucker Stone and Sean Witzke talk about Person of Interest, Inside Amy Schumer, and Joel McHale on Billy on the Street.
0:05:06 - 0:23:02 - Sean finally saw THE RAID 2: BERENDAL (2014), directed by Gareth Evans, starring Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruihan, AND THE FACE OF GOD (we talk about the movie twice I use the stupid line twice). In this section we also discuss: Captain America 2: Jason Goes To Hell, Caddy Shack, Suspiria, Thor 2, Batman Begins, John Favreau, Kenneth Branagh, Joss Whedon, El Mariachi, the Bourne films, John Hyams, Neveldine/Taylor, They Live, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, Alien, and Aliens.
0:23:03 - 0:33:41 - HOMEWORK - Tucker assigned Sean The Last Stand (2013), directed by Kim Jee Woon, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, Forrest Whittaker, Harry Dean Stanton, Jaime Alexander, Luis Guzman, Eduardo Noriega, Rodrigo Santoro, and Peter Stormare. Also discussed in this section: Robert Rodriguez, Bourne,The Good, The Bad, & The Weird, Ivan Reitman, James Cameron, Commando, and The Last King of Scotland.
0:33:42 - 0:41:45 - Sean watched Cannibal Holocaust (1980), directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman, Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, and Luca Barbareschi. Also discussed in this section: Come and See,the Miami Vice inspired by it, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, Ichi the Killer, Snowtown, the trailer for The Rover, Cosmopolis, Animal Kingdom, Memento, Hard to Kill, and Jim Lee in the 80s.
0:41:46 - 0:54:06 - HOMEWORK - Sean assigned Tucker to watch The Duellists (1977), directed by Ridley Scott, starring Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Christina Raines, and Diana Quick. Also discussed in this section: Muppet Most Wanted, Unlawful Entry, Barrry Lyndon, Cannes, Alien, Predator, Unstoppable, Unbreakable, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Signs, The Happening, and The Village.
0:54:07 - 0:59:59 - Sean watched Matchstick Men (2003), directed by Ridley Scott, starring Nicholas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Melora Waters, and Bruce McGill. Also discussed in this section: Paul Thomas Anderson, White Oleander, The Sting, con men movies, Orson Welles, Terror Train, The Insider, My Cousin Vinny, Austin Pendelton, and racist character actors on The Cosby Show.
1:00:00 - 1:14:14 - And finally Sean watched both Hostel (2005) directed by Eli Roth, starring Jay Hernandez and one minute of Takashi Miike; and Hostel 2 (2007), also by Roth and starring Lauren German and about two minutes of Ruggero Deodato. Also discussed in this section: Seven, The Green Inferno, Cannibal Holocaust, Saw, Inside, Irreversible, Lucio Fulci, The Raid 2, Come and See, Ichi the Killer, Tarantino, Darius Khondji, Prime Suspect, Silence of the Lambs, Transendence, Christopher Doyle, Gamer, Denzel, Bridesmaids, Tilda Swinton, Glenn Close, and our ideas for Garfield 3.
Our outro music this week: ""I Love LA" by Randy Newman from The Naked Gun.
HOMEWORK FOR NEXT WEEK: Public Enemies and Coriolanus.
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Paul Reiser Lives.
I enjoyed this episode, but I'm finally coming to terms with the fact that you're never going to do a Chantal Akerman episode. You're not going to bracket Raul Ruiz movies. Bela Tarr, maybe? Maybe not.
Posted by: Aaron | 2014.05.01 at 22:54
How about an Eric Rohmer retrospective?
PLEASE, NOT IN THE FACE
Posted by: Aaron | 2014.05.02 at 08:16
Well, my comments disappeared, which may be an indication that I should buzz off. But let's try a different tack:
I like the idea that Duellists is the not-boring remake (remix?) of Barry Lyndon. I suspect there's a fruitful line of historical analysis here; cribbing style but pulping it up, dragging highbrow into the low, or vice versa. Not that no one's ever discussed this before, of course, but you guys know enough about the art house and the trash art to make these fresh connection.
Posted by: Aaron | 2014.05.02 at 09:57