After the break, you'll find the latest episode of the world's only movie podcast, Travis Bickle on the Riviera. Listen with your hosts Morgan "Timothy" Jeske and Sean "Waldman" Witzke.
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In our gift to you this holiday season, Morgan Jeske is back. He has made his preliminary best of the year list, and he has joined us to share it. Tucker and Sean will be doing a definitive best of 2014 episode with a countdown and everything the first or second week of the new year. People who made their list in November either have far more access than we do or are garbage people who act like whatever five things they sat in front of must have be the best of the year. I mean, what other conclusion could you make? It has a talking raccoon in it.
0:00:00 - 0:12:16 - We start off this week talking about Nightcrawler (2014), direced by Dan Gilroy, starring Jake Gyllenhall, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, and Riz Ahmed.
Also mentioned in this section: Paul Thomas Anderson, Collateral, Enemy, Prisoners, Taxi Driver, Michael Mann, The Driver, Terminator, Bill Paxton, Gary Oldman, Robert Deniro, Takeshi Kitano, Joaquin Phoenix, Boyd Crowder on Justified, Michael Fassbender, Robert Elswitt, Mission Impossible 5, Peyton Reed, Jimi Hendrix, The Thomas Crowne Affair, and Get Shorty.
0:12:17 - 0:22:24 - While we're at it, check out Abhay's Best of the Year round up over at the Savage Critics, including a few movies we talked about a lot this year only because he tipped us off to them. Here's is Morgan's Best of the Year (preliminary list) includes the following films:
Edge of Tomorrow
The Rover
Whiplash
Starred Up
Nightcrawler
The Guest
Housebound
The Immigrant
Night Moves
The Raid 2
Also discussed in this section: Louie, The Nick, True Detective, Drive, Ryan Gosling, You're Next, Tom Cruise, Guardians of the Galaxy, Cliffhanger, Cliff Martinez, Inherent Vice, John Carpenter, Walter Hill, John Woo, Martin Scorsese, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Django Unhchained, Kill Bill, and Deadwood.
0:22:25 - 0:36:18 - Morgan has been watching Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009), show-run by Josh Friedman.
Also discussed in this section: Dollhouse, Person of Interest, David Cronenberg, Dawn of the Dead, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Criminal Minds, The Prowler, Maniac, the senate report on CIA torture, 24, Person of Interest, Neuromancer, Terminator, The Wire, The Warriors, Daredevil, Transformers, Jag, Enemy, John Wick, Notting Hill, and Days of Thunder.
0:36:19 - 0:41:31 - The movie Morgan watched the most this year may have been The Hitcher (1986), directed by Robert Harmon, starring C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and RUTGER HAUER.
Also discussed in this section:Near Dark, Body Parts, Blue Steel, American Psycho, Night Breed, Hellraiser, and Under The Skin.
0:41:32 - 0:49:12 - Morgan watched Birdman (2014), directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaratu, starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, and Naomi Watts.
Also discussed in this section: Austin Powers, The Passenger, The Incredible Hulk, Robert Downey Jr., Tobey Maguire, Christian Bale, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, Val Kilmer, Marvel comics movies, and American Idol.
0:49:13 - 0:58:10 - Morgan and Sean talk about similar film Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), directed by Olivier Assayas, starring Juliet Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Moretz.
Also discussed in this section: X-Men movies, Suicide Squad, Demonlover, Carlos, Apres Mai, Summer Hours, Biutiful, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, I Saw The Devil, David Fincher, Gravity, Peter Suchizitsky, Emmanuel Luzbeki, and Empire Strikes Back.
0:58:11 - 1:10:33 - Finally Sean watched The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2014), directed by Takashi Miike, starring Toma Ikuta.
Also discussed in this section: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Sketchers commercials, Only God Forgives, early technicolor musicals, Full Metal Yakuza, Sukiyaki Western Django, Ace Attorney, Fu-doh, MPD Psycho, Ichi The Killer, Hara-Kiri, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sam Fuller, Steven Soderbergh, Guy Maddin, Joe Swanberg, Johnnie To, Fred Orland Reye, Ed Wood, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, and Will Ferrell.
Next Week: Best of 2014?
Our outro music this week: "Jet Jaguar Theme" from Godzilla Vs. Megalon. And our intro, as always is from Escape From New York.
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The Miike horror film from 2014 Over Your Dead Body is really pretty great and also founded in something classical like Harakiri (which in that case the original is as brutal and tough to watch as the new one)
Your talk of the Mole Song reminded me of another movie from this year. The World of Kanako which is directed by Tetsuya Nakashima and stars Kôji Yakusho(the main guy in 13 Assassins) as a Private Investigator trying to find his daughter and is the wildest, dark, irreverent, bloody mess of a movie and I think you both would really enjoy it.
Posted by: Rick Vance | 2014.12.24 at 08:50