Here, for your listening pleasure (just click on the link above), is the inaugural episode of a hopefully-mildly diverting series of forays into film and its oddly comforting discontents.
Co-hosts Gareth Hedges and David Fiore sketch out their credentials as cinephiles and look ahead to this podcast’s nigh-limitless future.
Along the way, we work in references to/or at least find the time to sneer at Crazy People, current Oscar stalking horse Argo, the evil that is Star Wars, American Reunion, That’s My Boy, Sante Fe Trail, Amistad, Mission To Moscow, Lincoln, Gone With the Wind and probably quite a few others…
We also mentioned Jeffrey Sconce‘s fine essay “A Century of Failure” in Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics.
Oh — and Walker Percy’s immortal novel: The Moviegoer. You pretty much have to read that.
We hope you enjoyed our ramblings. We’ll be more focused from now on – armed to the teeth with discussion notes and tethered by our brains to a cavalcade of the most cogent film-related topics of our time.
In the meantime, here’s a picture of two people we know would have irritated you more than we did:
That’s Not Funny
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And thanks for listening!
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Intro Song: Eddie Cochran, “Sittin’ in the Balcony”
Outro Song: Artie Shaw, “Frenesi”
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