After the break you can find the best of the year countdown episode of Travis Bickle on the Riviera, the world's only movie podcast. With your hosts Tucker Stone and Sean Witzke.
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0:00:00 - 0:42:58 - 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), directed by Michael Bay, starring James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini, Dominic Fumasa, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, and Alexa Barlier.
Also discussed in this section: Miami Vice, Tucker's original review of Miami Vice, Collateral, Black Hawk Down, Lords of Salem, Ridley Scott, Pain & Gain, Green Zone, Dirrty Harry, The Wire, Captain Phillips, Zero Dark Thirty, Steven Soderbergh, Dion Beebe, Act of Valor, Need For Speed, Orange Is the New Black, Blackhat, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, American Sniper, Lone Survivor, Shooter, Armageddon, Assault on Precinct 13, Zulu, The Alamo, The Coen Brothers, Transformers 4, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, 1941, Twisted Metal, Malice, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, Glengarry Glen Ross, Sicario, Pacific Rim, Black Sails, You're Next, the Drive-By Truckers, Quantum of Solace, Heat, The Island, Kathryn Bigelow, Tony Scott, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Born on the Fourth of July, Rain Man, Total Recall, and Natural Born Killers.
0:42:59 - 0:49:56 - 7 Man Army(1976), directed by Chang Cheh, starring Ti Lung, David Chiang, Kau Tai Chen, and Sheng Fu.
Wolf Warrior (2015), directed by Wu Jing, starring Wu Jing, Scott Adkins, Yu Nan, and Ni Dahong.
Also discussed in this section: Red Cliff, John Woo, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vengeance, Johnnie To, Defiance, Jan Michael Vincent.
0:49:57 - 0:54:33 - Body & Soul(1925), directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Paul Robeson, Mercedes Gilbert, Julia Theresa Russell.
Also discussed in this section: Charles Burnett and Killer of Sheep
0:54:34 - 1:16:52 - Coonskin (1975), directed by Ralph Bakshi, starring Scatman Crothers, Phillip Michael Thomas, Barry White, and Charles Gordone.
Also discussed in this section: Taxi Driver, Heavy Traffic, Al Sharpton, The Godfather, Wizards, Fritz the Cat, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Fukitor, Black Caesar, Let's Do It Again, Song of the South, Steven Spielberg, Vaughn Bode, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Mr. Freedom, Putney Swope, Charlie Brown, and Irreversible.
1:16:53 - 1:41:39 - The Intern (2015), directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Robert Deniro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, and Zack Perlman.
Also discussed in this section: The Parent Trap, The Devil Wears Prada, Avatar, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Baxter, The Queen, Elizabeth, The Iron Lady, Julie & Julia, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, The Bridges of Madison County, Sam Elliot. Glen Close, Damages,Roadhouse, and Alice.
1:41:40 - 1:45:45 - We are extremely happy to feature another episode of Deacon's Corner with David Brothers, the world's longest running Blade fancast. We are proud to be re-running a month of episodes here on Travis Bickle. Only one episode left!
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Next Week: The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Our outro music this week: "Bombers" by David Bowie. And our intro, as always, is from Escape From New York. This week combined with David Bowie's "All Saints". The interstitial music is "Delia's Dream" by Delia Derbyshire.
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Oh man, please do an all Chang Cheh Bickle. I'd love to hear what you guys make of FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS.
I was pumped to hear some Bakshi discussion. I'm a big fan of his, but I haven't seen Coonskin yet. American Pop is one of my favorite movies.
And to the commenter above me, heck yeah FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS!
Also also, about the talk about anti Japanese propaganda in 7 Man Army, I lived in Japan for several years so I got to observe first hand how all those east Asia countries hate each other and feel superior to each other. It's almost a different level of nationalism and racism than what we have here.
Bakshi's recent "The Last Days of Coney Island" continues (and, I guess, sort of tries to 'process') the homosexual caricatures in his earlier films... the whole thing is a very deliberate throwback to that early-to-mid-'70s period of his work. Just as vignette-driven as the older stuff too, albeit much shorter...
Oh man, please do an all Chang Cheh Bickle. I'd love to hear what you guys make of FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS.
That is a movie which gives no fucks, at all.
Posted by: LAndrew | 2016.01.29 at 19:44
I was pumped to hear some Bakshi discussion. I'm a big fan of his, but I haven't seen Coonskin yet. American Pop is one of my favorite movies.
And to the commenter above me, heck yeah FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS!
Also also, about the talk about anti Japanese propaganda in 7 Man Army, I lived in Japan for several years so I got to observe first hand how all those east Asia countries hate each other and feel superior to each other. It's almost a different level of nationalism and racism than what we have here.
Posted by: Colin | 2016.01.30 at 10:31
Bakshi's recent "The Last Days of Coney Island" continues (and, I guess, sort of tries to 'process') the homosexual caricatures in his earlier films... the whole thing is a very deliberate throwback to that early-to-mid-'70s period of his work. Just as vignette-driven as the older stuff too, albeit much shorter...
Posted by: Joe McCulloch | 2016.01.31 at 17:34