After the break you can find the latest episode of Travis Bickle on the Riviera, the world's only movie podcast. With your hosts Morgan Jeske and Sean Witzke.
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Before we start this week's show notes, check out friend of the podcast/frequent guest/best panel host in the biz David Brothers' appearance on the Ignorant Bliss podcast with Julian Lytle if you're interested in hearing smart shit.
0:00:00 - 0:32:45 - Morgan watched all of the Fast and the Furious movies directed by Rob Cohen, John Singleton, Justin Lin, and James Wan, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Tyrese, Jordana Brewster, and Michelle Rodriguez.
Also discussed in this section: The Avengers, Star Trek, The Road Warrior, Bond, Hunger Games, Jeroen Crabbe, Person of Interest, Criminal Minds, Point Break, Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Miami Vice, Death Proof, Wile E. Coyote, Tom Cruise, Monica Belluci, Daredevil, Havoc, Dolph Lundgren, The Raid, Old Boy, the "Charlie Work" episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, True Detective, Hannibal, Tron Legacy, Game of Death, and Keanu Reeves.
0:32:46 - 0:43:00 - Sean watched The Osterman Weekend (1983), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Sweet Baby Rutger Hauer, Craig T. Nelson, Meg Foster, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, Burt Lancaster, and Chris Sarandon.
Also discussed in this section: Convoy, George Jones, CW McCall, James Coburn, Conway Twitty, Watchmen, Alan Moore's Writing For Comics, Wanted Dead or Alive, Hobo With A Shotgun, The Hitcher, Flesh and Blood, Batman Begins, Spetters, Blade Runner, Takashi Miike, Robocop, and Showgirls.
0:43:01 - 1:12:15 - Morgan watched:
The Conversation (1974), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, and Harrison Ford.
Blow Out (1981), directed by Brian De Palma, starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, and Dennis Franz.
Klute (1971), directed by Alan J Pakula, starring Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi, and Roy Schieder.
Also discussed in this section: Blow Up, Deep Red, Steven Soderbergh, Obsession, Greetings, Raising Cain, Godfather 2, Walter Murch, Apocalypse Now, Frantic, Willem Dafoe, Timothy Carey, Evil Dead, Halloween, The Shining, Josh Brolin, The Sleeping Car Murders, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Hairspray, Wild Hogs, Black Christmas, Room 237, The Exorcist, Going Clear, The Thing, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, and Heaven's Gate.
1:12:16 - 1:26:46 - To close out, we talk about the Star Wars 7 trailer, as well as Ex Machina, Sunshine, Star Trek, Roberto Orci, Super 8, Rian Johnson, Terminator: Genisys, James Cameron, George Lucas' politics, Kathleen Kennedy, Leigh Brackett, Marcia Lucas, Gary Kurtz, Irvin Kershner, Thor, Event Horizon, Brothers Bloom, Mad Max Fury Road, 28 Days Later, Day of the Dead, The Beach, 127 Hours, Dredd, and Prometheus.
Next Week: The Osterman Weekend and The Conversation.
Our outro music this week: "Dream Sequence" by David Shire from The Conversation. And our intro, as always, is from Escape From New York.
You can download episodes directly from itunes and rss. For a quick look at who has been on the show before and what movies have been discussed in each episode, look at our one-page episode guide. You can follow the show on twitter, tumblr, and facebook. If you like this show, check out Tucker’s other podcast Comic Books Are Burning In Hell (also located at TFO and here), TFO's music podcast Beat Connection with Marty Brown and Nate Patrin - first episode here, and Katie Skelly & Sarah Horrock’s Trash Twins (located here and here).
THE FIFTH AGE: Sam Kleiman from The Thing About My Folks.
Re: the escalation of the Fast and Furious movies: I'm really considering writing a letter in crayon to Vin Diesel asking him to please put an underwater car chase in F8.
Posted by: Colin | 2015.06.03 at 06:38
For a great Rutger Hauer movie, go see The Blood of Heroes, with Joan Chen. Haven't seen it in decades, but I remember it being pretty awesome.
Posted by: Chris Mautner | 2015.06.03 at 18:52