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DigiGods Episode 232: 22andYou
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Dune leads the first round of 2022 4k UHD releases, along with Criterion’s The Red Shoes! Also television, music and concert Blu-rays and the amazing Shawscope Volume 1! Only on The DigiGods! #DVD #Blurry #4k #TV #Movies
DigiGods Podcast, 01/11/22 (M4a) — 44.25 MB
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In this episode, the Gods discuss:
- 2021 World Series Collector's Edition - Atlanta Braves (Blu-ray)
- 2021 World Series Film - Atlanta Braves (Blu-ray)
- The Abbott and Costello Show - Season 1 (Blu-ray)
- Beethoven: Sonatas: Pathetique - Moonlight - Waldstein - Appassionata (Idil Biret) (DVD)
- The Best of Cher (DVD)
- Casual Sex? - Retro VHS (Blu-ray)
- Corridor of Mirrors (Blu-ray)
- Country Legends: Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner & Friend (DVD)
- Creepshow Season 2 (Blu-ray)
- The Deceivers (Blu-ray)
- Disciples of Shaolin (Blu-ray)
- A Discovery of Witches, Season 2 (Blu-ray)
- Dolly: The Ultimate Collection (DVD)
- Dune (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Eli Roth's History of Horror, Season 2 (Blu-ray)
- Eric Clapton: The Lady in the Balcony - Lockdown Sessions (Blu-ray/DVD)
- Flight to Mars (Blu-ray)
- Gangs of London (Blu-ray)
- Genesis: The Last Domino? (DVD)
- Hahn: Ciboulette (Blu-ray)
- Harvey (The David Susskind Archive) (DVD)
- The Heart Guy, Series 5 (DVD)
- Hercules and the Captive Women (Blu-ray)
- Hinterland: Complete Collection (DVD)
- International Lady (Blu-ray)
- It Happened Tomorrow (Blu-ray)
- Jack Irish, Season 3 (Blu-ray)
- Juice 4k UHD (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Kull The Conqueror - Retro VHS (Blu-ray)
- The Learning Tree (Blu-ray)
- A Life at Stake (Blu-ray)
- The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 3 (Blu-ray)
- Lully: Atys (DVD)
- Maillot / Shostakovich: La mégère apprivoisée (Blu-ray)
- Malignant (Blu-ray)
- Manen: Live - Schläpfer: 4 (Blu-ray)
- Massenet: Thaïs (Blu-ray)
- MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Baptiste, Season 2 (DVD)
- MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Grantchester, Season 6 (DVD)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Blu-ray)
- Mondonville: Titon et l'Aurore (DVD)
- Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries Series 2 (Blu-ray)
- My Life is Murder, Season 2 (Blu-ray)
- Offenbach: Barbe-bleue (Blu-ray)
- One Night in Miami (Blu-ray)
- The Original Three Tenors - In Concert, Rome 1990 (Blu-ray)
- Paul Newman - The Paul Newman Trilogy (The David Susskind Archive) (DVD)
- Placido Domingo Arena di Verona (Blu-ray)
- The Power and the Glory (The David Susskind Archive) (DVD)
- Prodigal Son: Season 2 (Blu-ray)
- The Red Shoes (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Renegades - Retro VHS (DVD)
- Rick and Morty: The Complete Fifth Season (Blu-ray)
- Rossini: L'equivoco stravagante (Blu-ray)
- Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro (DVD)
- Shawscope Volume One: Limited Edition Box (King Boxer, The Boxer from Shantung, Five Shaolin Masters / Shaolkin Temple, Mighty Peking Man, Challenge of the Masters / Executioners from Shaolin, Chinatown Kid, The Five Venoms / Crippled Avengers, Heroes of the East / Dirty Ho) (Blu-ray)
- The Show (Blu-ray)
- Silver Queen (Silver Series) (DVD)
- South of Heaven
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Transcript
Amacron and Weekly Reflections
00:00:26
Speaker
Happy New Year, everybody. We are back and hopefully you're all well and not amacron. I've turned it into a verb. I'm going to make every single article of speech out of amacron before it's called that. But, you know, Tim, it's been a brutal week. Wow, man. Look, they've been falling hard and fast. I got to tell you, it's been the old guard.
00:00:53
Speaker
That's that's going down and so so in that in that way It's kind of okay So what do we start with Peter with Betty?
Honoring Betty White
00:01:05
Speaker
Well, we we Betty was the last day of the year, you know Just barely two weeks shy of her 100th birthday as far as I'm concerned. She made it to man I'm just gonna say she she fulfilled most of that hundredth. Yeah, she lived in 99 years and
00:01:20
Speaker
Excuse me. And almost all of a hundredth year. So for my money, that counts as- Yeah, I was gonna say, when people say she almost made it, I'm like, how do people count me? We start at zero and go forward. The first year is zero to one. Now, she's 100 freaking years old. And I think there was a documentary in the works.
00:01:40
Speaker
I think they've renamed, you know, it was called something like Betty, a hundred years or whatever. They renamed it to whatever the hell they renamed it. But it was still... Ninety-nine. Whatever. But there it is, Betty White, who, you know, over my 30 years, you know, working Red Carpets and this, that and the other thing here, I ran into a lot where I got my Betty White. I was just wearing a video podcast, and the one which she wrote Kisses Betty.
00:02:31
Speaker
For me there and he's just just fantastic, but you know my favorite Betty white
00:02:33
Speaker
He wasn't you know, he wasn't the the core that we always kind of see in the He's lost a long time ago and of course not too long ago actually
00:02:45
Speaker
All last year all like in the last two years I mean nearly that entire cast apart from I mean Gavin McLeod and they're all in and Rhoda all of them they like in the last Yeah, yeah some years ago, but yeah right there. Yeah, but John Amos is on that show quite quite a bit loved him on that show You know playing that weatherman and he did in John and Betty or Sue Ann on that show Just look up some scenes They had a thing
00:03:14
Speaker
they had a thing and it was really really really really cool so you know there you go. And and you know she i had forgotten but she produced her own show in nineteen fifty four we always talk about ole lucille ball was the first woman to you know produce her own show on television but you know what better it was the same life of the i think it was on the on the air at the same time.
Peter Bogdanovich and His Cinema Influence
00:03:40
Speaker
Ricardo's is out there bumbling around right now, but on the air at the same time as when they were recording over there, Betty White. So, you know, she came on television as television became a thing. The first time, the very, very, very, very, very first time she was broadcast over the air was in 1939.
00:04:05
Speaker
No 1939 experimental settlement beginning when he was Betty White. So there you go, Betty. And then we were part of a different press organization.
00:04:21
Speaker
And and and by donnage was interviewed we weren't part of it but ray interviewed by donnage for our documentary schlock in new york. And he's a i'm thrilled that he's just a wonderful part of it roger corman's now the only surviving interview we've heard a lot of people but but by donnage you know was and what i didn't realize you told me this you know i was looking at that photo.
00:04:45
Speaker
that famous photo of obese Orson Welles when he was practically homeless and he was rooming with Bogdanovich and they're shopping for groceries in that cart filled with junk food. And Bogdanovich is
00:04:58
Speaker
You're just a young man and Orson Welles is like a fat old dude wearing an ascot and I thought that's where he got the ascot. He borrowed it from Orson and then you told me, you heard it first. Oh yeah, absolutely. He told me himself, I had a bunch of opportunities to chat with Peter. You know, cross velvet ropes and red carpets or sit down interviews for this man. Catch me now. What was that? 2000, 2001 something like that was
00:05:26
Speaker
Not this way, I think he had a doc, he had a documentary,
Sidney Poitier: A Cinematic Legacy
00:05:30
Speaker
a doc about it. I want to say Buster Keaton maybe, a couple of months ago. I mean, boy, a few years ago.
00:05:39
Speaker
And look, here's the thing about him. He did just about everything one can do in the field of cinema. He was an actor. He first began as an actor. We wrote about cinema not unlike, you know, the guys out of the new wave and then started making movies and producing movies and then started writing histories about cinema.
00:06:03
Speaker
of my figures and John Ford and so many people. And while making, you know, that early 70s run, late 60s, early 70s run from last picture show. It's amazing. And look, he had a movie just a few years ago. I mean, she's funny.
00:06:21
Speaker
Yeah, which made no money, and I don't think it got a proper release, but I thought it was a wonderful film. I was one of the few that just thought, what a great little movie. It's just a perfect throwback Peter Bogdanovich movie that would have had Barbara Streisand in it if it had been made four years ago.
00:06:41
Speaker
But, you know, what a great, I mean, I didn't, you know, he didn't have enough of a career, but what a great career he did have. And he was a film critic originally. We forget that. Esquire, you know, he started as film critic, so he led the way for all the rest of us.
00:06:56
Speaker
very, very, very sad, but what a scholar and a gentleman. And then, I mean, Sidney, dude, I mean, you spent the whole day yesterday just talking about Sidney. Yeah. Sidney Cordier, who I was, I'm so lucky that I was able to, you know, again, encounter him late in his career, which is still
00:07:15
Speaker
30 years ago, 1992, when he made the movie sneakers, you know, him, Robert Rutherford, Dan Aykroyd, still all in Robinson film, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, a neat movie. And I did the junket and the red carpets and all that business way back then. And so that was my moment, actually encountering and talking to and having a moment with Sidney Poitier. And I joke with the guys that I hacked
00:07:41
Speaker
actually have that interview, those interviews on tape, beta SP. Somewhere, somewhere. What are you gonna do? And you know, Poitiers was, he is, I mean, I'm trying to think if there are many of that stature, those movie star giants left among us. And I mean, there's Hackman, there's Harry Belafonte's streets still walking around.
00:08:08
Speaker
Harry Belafonte Jack Nicholson i mean you know i'm trying to you know but she know i mean right there there's a handful that we can kind of. Assign that all that stature to but i'm still not even sure because what was like a you know you often said that he wasn't just an actor he was sort of carrying the hopes and dreams of a whole community on his shoulders for almost twenty.
00:08:33
Speaker
And and and how do you you know i've often wondered how do you even do how do you emerge out of that burden. To still pull off the performance knowing that you're doing both of these you gotta be the character but you also gotta be the icon that's how do you do that and i know you know i can tell you.
00:08:50
Speaker
I can tell you what he told me, and he said it many times in media, if you look up, but way back then, he came to understand exactly what he was going to represent very early in his career. He played that doctor in No Way Out, opposite Richard Whitmer. They were very good friends, by the way, friends for food. You know, from then until Richard Whitmer died, they were very different.
00:09:13
Speaker
make a bunch of movies together, the long shifts and all this stuff. And he and Richard Whitmark talked about this, and Richard Whitmark told him, he says, you're the best actor I've ever, ever worked with. This is Richard Whitmark talking to Sydney Portier.
00:09:33
Speaker
You know, you've been around for a little while then. In the city court case, you know, I knew he was right. And that I was going to have to be that person. He made a very specific decision about what that would represent, what that meant.
00:09:52
Speaker
And that guided everything he decided to do from that point forward. So it was really kind of a straight line for him. Once the decision was made and he luckily was able to make it very early in his career and then he just walked the path.
00:10:10
Speaker
That's so interesting because, you know, it's interesting because we obviously all have our favorite roles. I mean, what's your, when you think of Sidney, what do you think of him? It's funny because I know a lot of people in the heat of the night, you know, the university, they call me Mr. Tiz and all that kind of stuff. That's fantastic. We'll have all that. But I go straight to the Buck and the Preacher, which was the first film he directed because I think it was Joe Sargent.
00:10:34
Speaker
Yeah, Joseph Sargent, who was the director, issues, problems, he pulled out. Sidney Portier got the film. So this sort of unexpected, handed his directorial debut.
00:10:46
Speaker
Interesting. It takes this film, which broke even. It was not a big, gigantic box office success, but over the years, it became a touchstone for black audiences. Anyway, this is what Buck and the Preacher is about. Sidney Portier, Harry Belafonte. Sidney Portier is a, right after the Civil War, Sidney Portier is a black ex-soldier, and he's leading a wagon train of black ex-slaves out west. It's a great movie.
00:11:17
Speaker
And this film is about these two black men taking their people out west to establish a community and lies for themselves. And how they're willing to do whatever it takes to get them there. How they ally themselves with the Native Americans as they go.
00:11:39
Speaker
how they ally themselves with good white folks as they go through these, because at the same time that that was happening, all these Swedes were immigrating to the United States through all this kind of stuff, and they allied, and it's just really deeply complicated.
00:11:55
Speaker
film that hits all of these beats, and this is like 1972, 73. Plus, it is funny as hell. Sidney Portier pulled that off in his very, very first film. His directing career is one that doesn't often get enough work to be honest. Particularly those early films. Look, some of the funniest films ever made were made by Sidney Portier. First of all, let's do it again, Uptown Saturday Night.
00:12:23
Speaker
Let's do it again. Oh my god. Still funny, by the way. Still hysterical. Let's do it again. One for the money. And then when he started working with Richard Pryor, one of the funniest Richard Pryor films on Earth, Richard and Gene Wilder, that's still crazy. That's a city 48 film. Really, it goes a long way, man. Well, when I think of it, I go to the Blackboard Jungle. Oh, man.
00:12:53
Speaker
What a wonderful movie. I was talking to somebody just a couple of days ago. I was talking about The Awful Truth as the movie where Cary Grant discovered Cary Grant. It's in The Awful Truth where Cary Grant says, oh, this is who I'm going to be. And you see it happening in that movie with Irene Dunn. You see Cary Grant figuring out his persona.
00:13:21
Speaker
Because who Cary Grant was in movies, it's not who Cary Grant was in his private life, but he had to figure out who he was going to be for millions of years. And I think in Blackboard Jungle, I got that same thing out of scenes. You know, as this young kid, who's supposed to be kind of a delinquent, but he's not going to play the delinquent, right? He's giving him a certain
00:13:50
Speaker
dignity that was not on the- Oh yeah, Glenn Ford's film. He's playing Glenn Ford as the teacher. And you know, Sidney Cordier and all these kids in his room. And then what's interesting about that, X number of years later, what does he play? Just Sir With Love.
00:14:08
Speaker
Now he's the teacher with all of these british kids. You can watch those two films back to back and see how they inform each other. That's so interesting. That is so interesting. That's absolutely true. I've never made that before.
00:14:25
Speaker
I it's just it when you watch the blackboard jungle which it you know at the time what he is not a star he is not a known actor he's he's he's a little bit like James Dean was some years earlier you know you're getting your parts and people are starting to notice you and you're here and there but you know that's a good.
00:14:42
Speaker
And here's this kid, here's this young black kid with this voice and this look who just takes a part that was written one way and gives it a whole different persona and knowing in hindsight what he would become. When you watch that part, you see him doing that same thing that Cary Grant does in The Awful Truth. You see him saying, I know who I'm going to be.
00:15:05
Speaker
And even though this role isn't written in that i don't care i'm going to make this role belong to me rather than the other way around that's a movie and it's a movie star move any and i mean how old is he in that movie twenty one he's probably twenty one.
00:15:21
Speaker
He's playing 16-17, but he's probably 21. And straight off, he had done one other thing, but straight off Broadway, really, is where he had been. And yeah, it's just an amazing thing.
00:15:36
Speaker
anything that we can go on talking about the dead guys all day but there's this moment in the late in the late sixty sixty seven we have those three films lilies. In the heat of night.
00:15:52
Speaker
Three major films. Yeah. Yeah. And guess who's coming. Guess who's coming to dinner. And that year is particularly interesting to me as he's in the heat of the night. He's in the heat of the night. Which I love and I can't stand guess who's coming to dinner.
00:16:12
Speaker
First of all, Stanley Kramer wears everything. The other part is that Catherine Hepburn's niece is a terrible... Oh, she can't act at all. She can't act at all. And that whole movie, all I can think of is, Sydney, why are you with me?
00:16:30
Speaker
It's not worth it. She's not worth it. It's not worth the trouble. I will not defend her, but I have always defended that film. That film had issues at the time vis-a-vis the black community. Again, a sector of the black community. 1967 got the solo up and coming. Black panthery types. And they're having issues with that film and carrying that film.
00:16:57
Speaker
Because it's one of those credit to your age. Now, my mother and her generation, not to mention my mother's mother, my grandmother's generation, they didn't have any issue with that film or city in that film at all. There was a generational divide about that, and it's funny that that divide continues. In 1967, I was six, so I was glad I didn't see that movie then. I saw it years later, and I saw a different
00:17:24
Speaker
thing, I think perhaps than either one of those two groups of people. For one thing, what I saw was a young black man sitting on his character in that movie, saying to both the white folks in the film, Spencer and Catherine, and to his own parents in that film, father played by Glenn Morgan. Yeah. I'm not going to do anything either. One of you people were, I don't think I'm going to do whatever the hell I want to do. Cause
00:17:53
Speaker
You know, and that's what's going on in that film. But you know, various different generations took it. Literally that same year he's in, in the heat of the night, obstacle outside it. And there's a scene in that film, and you know the scene a little better, to describe. Everybody's seen it. We talked about it earlier. But you know, when that old white judge down south, slaps him,
00:18:20
Speaker
And Sidney Cournay immediately, Virgil Tibbs, immediately slaps him back. That was a slapper across certainly Black America. Oh, and you know, I told you this in email, because I just watched the film, you know, about a year and a half, two years ago. And it still holds up because what's going on in their eyes and in their faces fills in the legs. Even if that context does not exist today,
00:18:48
Speaker
their acting brings you into the context.
00:18:53
Speaker
You're absolutely right. Lives forever, and it's just a perfect fit. People who don't know that was not in the script. He was supposed to get slapped and walk away. Norman Jewison, right? Norman? Yes, it was Norman. In fact, Norman Jewison told me about that whole story, too. I interviewed Norman Jewison, did an evening with him some years ago, and I have his signed book upstairs, too.
00:19:18
Speaker
just lovely. But he even said that was Sidney's idea. Yes. And then Sidney said, he said, you know what, I can't allow this to happen. This is just not what that character will do. And and Jewish and said, okay, like, do it, do what he would do, you know, just not no problem with
The Passing of Icons and Their Impact
00:19:35
Speaker
it. Just tell him, only he and Norman knew.
00:19:40
Speaker
When slap gets slapped and what I love is that all those actors, the old butler standing behind them over there, none of those, the judge plainly, there's not enough. I love those professional actors just stay in the scene, man. Just stay in the scene, man. I might not see those professional actors right there. You gotta love them. All right, I guess I'm over myself.
00:20:07
Speaker
Well, and then, you know, so Marilyn Bergman just died today as we are recording this. Great lyricist, you know, married for over 60 years to her husband, Alan. Speaking of In the Heat of the Night, you know, lyrics to that great Quincy Jones song, all the songs for Yentl, the Michelle Legrand music.
00:20:28
Speaker
the way we were I mean their work with Streisand was it was extensive I mean they just they were they were an amazing songwriting duo and and what a love story too I mean over 60 years married writing working together you know that just almost never works in the film business and you know lovely lady and she will be dearly missed and I think that as often happens with couples carry that long and the page that Alan is perhaps long for this world as well.
00:20:56
Speaker
Yeah. They've been walking hand in hand for all this long. Speaking of ages, we did this in email too. We were making mention. Steven Spielberg is 75. Woody Allen is 86. Ridley Scott and Morgan Freeman are 84. William Friedkin is 86. Even Meryl Streep is 72. Gene Hackman is 91 pushing 92. This is a whole generation that is going to age out in the next 10
00:21:29
Speaker
What's amazing is how many of them, I think June Hackett has retired, but Clint Eastwood is still out there swinging. Luke Gossett Jr. is still out there swinging. Betty White, right up until she actually dropped dead, is still out there swinging. It's kind of amazing that working wouldn't allow.
00:21:48
Speaker
And so on and so forth so that's kind of amazing and and and yes, they're all way at the back Peter Peter my daughter He was you know more or less still working. I mean you wouldn't you wouldn't not working, you know, so busy Old man old man
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00:22:38
Speaker
It's funny you mentioned that because I was telling you before the show I was just watching Cotton Club Redux last night and you know Mario I think they cut him out of the previous cut but he's right there you know all glistening checks
00:22:57
Speaker
This was a little bit of trivia. If anybody wants to take our cue on this and you want to write to the Academy and tell them that maybe they should get all the people who sang James Bond songs for one last round up at the Oscars before one of them starts to die because they are all still alive. No one who sang a James Bond song has passed on. The oldest is Shirley Bassey. It was 84. She sang three.
00:23:22
Speaker
But the youngest, I think that list you sent me is like, the youngest was 71, maybe? Yeah, I mean, it's Rita Coolidge is 72. Lulu is 73. Gladys Knight and Nancy Sinatra are 82. Tina Turner is 81. Tom Jones is 81. Tina Turner is 82. Shirley Bass is 84. Paul McCartney is 79. Carly Simon is 76. And if you want to go off-canon, Lanny Hall, who sang the theme for Never Say Never Again, is 77.
00:23:50
Speaker
Now obviously that doesn't include all the recent ones Madonna. But these are the ones that are on the edge and I say get those, Shirley Bassey's as healthy as could be and same with the rest of them. Nancy Sinatra I'm not so sure about.
00:24:06
Speaker
You know get him get him on stage man. They're all still telling you look If somebody doesn't do something just with the fact of that You know that's just do something just with the fact that the fans out there some some clever person We just told you something really interesting You know send us a link to the interesting little piece of media that you make out there
00:24:29
Speaker
Well, I'm going to roll here and just get some of this music stuff off our plate real quick. Before music, I'm going to make mention of the World Series stuff. The Atlanta Braves won the World Series last year under a rather messy circumstance. I prefer to be the Dodgers. I'm not a huge baseball fan, but whatever.
Music Legends and Creative Outputs
00:24:48
Speaker
There's a couple of releases from the wonderful people at Shout and Major League Baseball. We've got the single disc 2021 World Series.
00:24:58
Speaker
basically the regular main primary disc which has Blu-ray and DVD discs in it. It's got the official World Series film, season highlights and things like that.
00:25:09
Speaker
And then if you want to go a little more hardcore, you get the, uh, the, the collector's edition, which features the documentary and all the stuff that's on the other disc plus, you know, uh, multiple audio options like, you know, for TV and home and radio, away radio, Spanish language broadcast. Um, it includes all of the, uh, world series games, the, the six complete world series games.
00:25:36
Speaker
and the complete NLCS game six as well. So that's a much more complete set. So both of these are out and get whichever one fits your fancy if you're an Atlanta Braves fan.
00:25:47
Speaker
And then we've also got on the music front a whole bunch of great things. We've got Eric Clapton, the lady in the balcony, Lockdown Sessions, which is a Blu-ray and CD combo set. This is part of a live performance that he did in February 2021. These live shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London were canceled because of the pandemic. So what he did was he just brought his band together separately
00:26:16
Speaker
in the countryside and they did their own recording, right? They just figured the Royal Albert Hall performances aren't happening, but we're still going to do this for the world. Anyway, they put this album together and it's wonderful. And the Blu-ray is great, but the music's great to listen to anytime. They do Layla.
00:26:33
Speaker
River of Tears, Man of the World, nobody knows when you're down and out. Got my mojo working. I mean, you know, you're going to recognize all this stuff. So it's really, really wonderful. And I want to give a shout out to the rest of his band, Chris Stanton, Nathan East, and Steve Gad. Really, really a nice release.
00:26:51
Speaker
Got a couple of great time life sets here as well. Wasn't able to get these in the gift guide, but we've got Dolly, the ultimate collection, which is six DVDs, Dolly Parton. Woman is ageless, this is absolutely amazing. This is 11 episodes of her 80s variety show, her London concert from 2009, a Christmas disc, a lot of behind the scenes stuff. The BBC documentary from 2019, Here I Am.
00:27:20
Speaker
Really really lovely if you can't get enough of Dolly Parton you're just gonna love it and then we also have the best of share with Five discs set pretty much the same kind of stuff ten episodes of her show which includes you know tons of great show
00:27:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah. In fact, I kind of like her show better than the one she did with Sunny. And it's funny, I like Sunny and Cher independent of each other more than I like them together. It's a very weird thing. But anyway, no, there's a lot of great stuff here. TV clips, Dick Cavett interview, just really, really wonderful stuff. Interviews with Bob Mackey and George Schlatter, you know, all talking about her costumes and producing her.
00:28:05
Speaker
And then we've also got an interesting little two DVDs set here. This is a TV movie fan called Dolly Parton and Porter Wagner and Friends.
00:28:20
Speaker
It's, oh gosh, I don't, you know, not my favorite thing. This is from MPI, but as long as we're talking about Dolly, it's kind of, I mean, it's, I shouldn't say a TV movie. It's like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's, it's like just variety stuff, but it's very, it's, it's kind of vintage. It's young Dolly. And I don't particularly like this Porter Wagner guy. Do you know who Porter Wagner was? Am I a country spirit for not knowing him? I'm from Missouri homes.
00:28:50
Speaker
So yeah, I know who Porter Wagner is. Porter wasn't able to wear those suits very loud, very Western with the danglies from them and with the boots and the whole thing. And he had a blonde pompadous. That's Porter. And that was not his name, Porter Wagner,
The Legacy of Live Performances
00:29:07
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for God's sake. Oh, I'm sure. Well, anyway, basically, this is like, I guess, TV in 1967, late 60s. He had a TV show. Dolly came on to be part of the TV show. And that's basically what this is.
00:29:18
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If she has always been credited to her, then goodbye to this day, Dolly Parton will credit Porter Wagner for giving her her start.
00:29:37
Speaker
He was kind of like the Liberace of countries. There you go. That's what bugged me. I knew something bugged me. We also have Genesis, the last domino. This is all kind of a behind the scenes thing for the last domino tour. And it involves obviously a lot of dealing with COVID and everything else. Genesis doesn't fill columns in those guys.
00:30:03
Speaker
Yes, and I'll say the one thing that I found, I mean, it's very interesting and it's nice to see Genesis putting it back together and the show looks great and all that. Phil Kahn's obviously not playing drums because he physically is not able to. He's had a lot of physical challenges in the last few years. It's something degenerative, it's something degenerative. But that's the thing that I found really deeply troubling about this is just seeing what has happened to Phil. He's not the Phil Kahn's we remember.
00:30:30
Speaker
And so it's great that they're they're getting the band back together and doing this tour and prepping it is very impressive but there's a sadness to it as well.
00:30:39
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And then just kind of fly through a few more things from the people at Naxos. We've got a few great classical music tidbits to throw your way. Idil Beret Beethoven playing the Sonatas, Patetique, Moonlight, Wallstein, Appassionata. This is on DVD, not Blu-ray. There's also an Ode to Joy bonus performance. Idil Beret, absolutely wonderful.
00:31:03
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Then we've got the Taming of the Shrew as a ballet with the ballet of Monte Carlo choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot. This is from Opus Arte. You know, I don't know that I really get Taming of the Shrew as a ballet, but I'm sure it works for somebody. Shostakovich wrote the music.
00:31:20
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I kind of prefer it just as a play. I like ballet, but this one's a little bit strange to me. Another Blu-ray from Opus Arte often box a barbe bleu by the Lyon Opera. I used to live near Lyon. It's a very lovely opera.
00:31:37
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they have there. It's a nice big city, second biggest city in France, unless you count Marseille's suburbs. It's an ongoing debate. But anyway, Offenbach, not my favorite opera guy, but this is nicely done. It's kind of a modern interpretation of it.
00:31:52
Speaker
DVD only, also from Opus Arte from the Royal Opera House is Strauss's De Rosenkavalier with the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Kiri Takanoa, beautiful, beautiful performance, wonderful vocals.
00:32:09
Speaker
And then from, let's hear, the original three tenors, Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti conducted by Ruben, Zubin Mehta in concert, Rome 1990. This is from C Major and Decca. This is absolutely beautiful on Blu-ray. Don't miss it if you want to revisit that amazing evening in 1990 in Rome. This also includes the brand new documentary from Caracalla to the World.
00:32:37
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which puts everything in perspective, but this is one of the great evenings of all time. If you do not own any classical music on Blu-ray, this is a great place to start. Midsummer Night's Dream is a ballet version and more Shakespeare turned into ballet. This is a ballet of Midsummer Night's Dream by John Neumire in the Hamburg Ballet, very loosely based on Shakespeare. They take a lot of very avant-garde postmodern liberties with it.
00:33:06
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The music is sort of an interesting mix. It includes Ligeti, the guy who wrote all that weird stuff that Kubrick used to use.
00:33:14
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in 2001 in the Schooning. It's a little bit strange, but it's okay. Placido Domingo at the Arena di Verona, doing famous arias by Verdi and Giordano, along with Sayao Hernandez, the orchestra of the Arena di Verona, conducted by Jordi Bernacher. It's lovely. It's just Domingo doing his thing. Got, let's see, what else do we have here?
00:33:43
Speaker
Jules Massenet, Thais, with the Orff Radio Symphony Orchestra and Arnold Schoenberg Choir. This is the opera house in Vienna. Then we've got Bruchner and Wagner compositions with the Salzberger Festspieler. Let's see, this is all unitel.
00:34:05
Speaker
Four live ballet performances, Martin Schlapper, Hans von Manen. This is also with live music by Franz Liszt. This is a little bit avant-garde kind of more modern dance stuff with song. I didn't quite get it. It's not my thing, but, you know, somebody will really vibe to it. And lastly, on the Naxos front.
00:34:29
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We've got DVDs only, a Rossini opera called Locazione Fa il Ladro. Didn't really watch much of this. I didn't really get it, but I'm sure somebody will. Ronaldo Han opera called Siboulette, which is very nicely staged. Seems to be kind of deliberately kind of funny. This is done with the opera in Tullo, the symphonic opera in Tullo, where I did live and I never had any idea there was an opera happening.
00:34:59
Speaker
I don't know I don't I don't know what that says about me Rossini's like kibiko Stravagante. I'm sure I'm murdering all the Italian here, but you know Yeah Jean Baptiste Louise at ease at ys
00:35:15
Speaker
And then lastly, John Joseph Castaneda de Mondeville, an opera called Teton et Laurent.
Cinema Collaborations and Adaptations
00:35:24
Speaker
Never heard of it. Don't really know what to make of it, but for the opera fans out there, there you go. That's your opera scratch and your ballet scratch room. Tim, shall we talk about the forks? Yeah, man, because for one thing, I noticed two evil eyes.
00:35:46
Speaker
I wrote about those movies, that movie, that set of movies based on the Edgar Allan Poe. Adrian Barbeau and Harvey Keitel. Those were pretty cool, kind of Americanized, you know, jello.
00:36:04
Speaker
It's very interesting that George Romero and Dario Argento would come together on something like this. This is from Blue Underground, who's doing so much great, really cool culty stuff. 4K Ultra HD looks so good that you can tell it's fake blood. I don't know what it is about blood in Dario Argento movies, but it doesn't look like blood that I... No, no. It never did and was never meant to.
00:36:29
Speaker
And it's purposeful there. And plus, Adrian Barbeau. I was going to say that again. Yeah, there you go. That's all I need to know. It's all I need to know. It is, yeah, you know, and Harvey Kitell. I mean, it's certainly an unusual film. And Martin Balsam is in this too, E.G. Marshall as well as John Amos. Yeah.
00:36:53
Speaker
So lots of extras here, most of them on disk too, but it's all interviews and a little bit of behind the scenes stuff, but primarily interviews with just about everybody, including Pinot de Naja, which is very nice. Before we get to the biggie here, June. Man, 1992, did the junkets for that too. My first time sitting down across from Tupac Shakur.
00:37:17
Speaker
And you know my wife worked as an accountant on a Tupac Shakur film with Mark at one point too. Really a fascinating guy. You know one of those just troubled artists who just bring so much like the art comes from the baggage but the baggage also
00:37:36
Speaker
The day that I talked to Tupac Shakur, he was 19 and I was 29. We were literally, I was literally a decade older than him. And I realized that we were over at the hotel on Hill Guard, the fence hotel on Hill Guard, at the corner of Hill Guard in La Conte in Westwood, not forth from UCLA.
00:37:59
Speaker
And I was sitting down to start when I had already talked to Ernest Dickerson and Omar Epps and all those other kids that were in the shoes. Tupac's first movie, Ernest Dickerson's first movie. And Tupac had a swagger. And I won't go into the specific things that he said as he entered the room, but they were things that I knew that as a 29-year-old black man, I would never say, walking into a room full of white people.
00:38:28
Speaker
Tupac not only said them, he said them really loud. And then he sat down, and we had this wonderful conversation in which he quoted passages from Hamlin, because he played Hamlin in high school with Jayden, and he quoted all that kind of stuff in Macbeth. And not only did he just quote them, but actually understood what they were about. And we talked about all kinds of things, and I thought to myself, this is a new generation of young black men.
00:38:56
Speaker
He's not from the NAACP. A mind is a terrible thing to waste Martin Luther King's generation. He's from a different generation. And this is the thing that's true about that generation. They did not care what anybody thought about them or expected from them at all, even a little bit. Not black people, not white people, not anybody. They were going to live their lives full, whole, and complete.
00:39:21
Speaker
that thirty years old or earlier city courtier was making the same point in a different way you know and then these kids were just louder and had wilder haircuts and so you know super interesting thing
00:39:39
Speaker
so many contradictions in them and uh... they all kind of come out in this room so i mean it it's it's a it's a hell of a film and i'm glad some blue ray i mean it's uh... you know it's it's one of those homes i wouldn't expect to show up on blue ray but it's got a lot of great uh... feature at stuff on here
00:39:55
Speaker
Obviously, music video and some interviews and EPK type stuff. Really very interesting commentary with Ernest Dickerson, by the way, who migrated from being Spike Lee's cinematographer to directing with this film and does a great job putting his own stamp on it. This is a tougher, more rugged film than I think even Spike would. Oh, yeah. All these people want on their careers, Omar Epps and Queen Tethys in that movie.
00:40:28
Speaker
which you can watch on HBO Max, or you can get it on the 4K Ultra HD and throw it up on movies anywhere. And I'll tell you, I took a look at the streaming
00:40:42
Speaker
The the stream that is available on HBO Max versus the on call stream you can pull up from movies and where versus the on call stream from apple and the on call stream from voodoo it's very interesting. I think apple looks better than all.
00:40:59
Speaker
I think Voodoo looks second best, HBO Max next, and then movies anywhere last. Oddly- What's the nature? Are we just talking about resolution? Yeah, okay. Compression. It's just compression. All of them are 4K. Obviously, the disc looks the best. Sound is the best in the disc. If you want to really come close to experiencing this anywhere close to IMAX, and nothing will equal the IMAX version of this, which just blows you out of the back of the theater.
00:41:30
Speaker
But, you know, you got to get the disc. It's still a very impressive film. But let's talk about this for a second, because, you know, this is considered one of the Oscar front runners and whatnot. But, Tim, how do you feel about Doom? Well, you know, so that Doom, and then David Lynch's Doom, and then I suppose you got that TV Doom with, you know, whoever. Which my wife also. And so, you know, these Dunes we have, right?
00:41:58
Speaker
And it's funny, so after watching that Dune, I decided to go back and watch David Lynch's Dune. And I had a better time. Obviously, this is a much more sophisticated Dune, I'm much more interested in it. But I had a better time rewatching David Lynch's Dune. That was infinitely more entertaining.
00:42:16
Speaker
And I have to say, you know, Lynch's Dune is the complete story. This is now the beginning. Yeah, it's gonna be another one of those. There's gonna be two more. They greenlit them. I don't know what they were thinking because this thing ends with a cliffhanger. It doesn't really go anywhere. It's sort of, you know, this is literally like a first act of something. So there's no payoff here. It's all it's all sin. So we really got it. I feel guilty almost even reviewing this thing. I mean, does it work? Well, I don't know. I gotta see the next two films and see if it works.
00:42:43
Speaker
Avatar, the first Avatar worked however long ago that was. But you know, relatively speaking, but yet there are what, two or three or four more to come? Two more to come? But the first one was fine, I don't know.
00:43:04
Speaker
I'll tell you, I kind of look at Peter Jackson, who has not really made anything other than Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films for the better part of the last 20-some years, and I'm not sure I'd want to do that. That sounds like a case of burnout to me. Denis Villeneuve will wind up having done nothing but dune for almost a solid decade by the time of this. Yeah, you know. But again, Cameron has been jacking around with those avatars for what now?
00:43:30
Speaker
You know? And so for them, I don't know, it might burn them out, but I gotta tell you what.
00:43:37
Speaker
They definitely burned me out. But it's not like this isn't a perfectly, you know, it's fine. It's fine. But I just noticed it as I'm, my attention was held much more firmly by the David Lynch film when I popped that sucker back in and got to watch him sting.
00:44:03
Speaker
And I go, wow, this I can't turn away from. The other one, I'm like, OK.
Celebrating Classic Releases
00:44:09
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We got some stuff from Cohen Film Collection. They have a lot of great lines. I remember Cohen owns Landmark Theatre House, so they're all in. Got a couple of releases from their classics of British cinema line. The first is an old Terrence Young film called Corridor of Mirrors, which is a new digital restoration.
00:44:27
Speaker
just freaking gorgeous. I mean, it really does. It almost, I mean, you put this on the right TV, it'll look like a nitrate print. Absolutely amazing. You know, it's a nice period piece and obsessive artist story. The very first film that Terrence Young ever directed. So, you know, you don't, it's not the same guy who'd go on to do Dr. No and other things. It's very kind of neorealistic or not near it, but expressionistic, sorry.
00:44:57
Speaker
But yeah, it's a lovely, lovely film from 1948 and stars Eric Portman and you ought to see it. It's fun. They also have a double feature.
00:45:09
Speaker
from classics of British cinema, which also features Eric Portman in Wanted for Murder, as well as Dirk Bogart in Lewis Gilbert's Casted Arch Shadow. These are British film noirs, which are kind of, you know, they're basically like American film noirs, except people bang.
00:45:27
Speaker
That's the only way i can put it and the camera angles are great the stories are really cool the scripts are terrific the performances are just spot on really really fun stuff but i especially just like dirt bogart and cast dark shadow dirt bogart has one of those faces that's just.
00:45:46
Speaker
It's both innocent and evil at the same time. And just such a gifted actor. From the Merchant Ivory Library, we have Pierce Brosnan, the deceiver. Oh, yes. Which I think is, you know, takes place in India. And it's one of those, you know, jewel in the crown type British Empire things. But I actually think this is a really, really sharp. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this age is much better in my memory than I remember it. And
00:46:16
Speaker
I really like it quite a lot, looking at it in hindsight. It was not directed by James Ivers of Merchant Ivory. Ismail Merchant produced it, and Nicholas Meyer, that's right, Nicholas Meyer of Star Trek II fame directed it, but it's certainly one of his better films, and Pierce Brosnan looking dashing.
00:46:33
Speaker
Wonderful East Indian. I mean, it's really good photography. And then last one from the Cohen collection is a classics of American cinema, digital restoration of It Happened Tomorrow with Dick Powell and Linda Darnell. And, you know, I'm a big Dick Powell fan. Tim knows a lot of reasons for that. I've grown to be very familiar with Dick Powell. But but yeah, no, this was a directed by Renee Claire, the famous French director.
00:47:03
Speaker
And it's quite charming. He was not able to go back to France during World War II, so he made some films in the US. And this is one of them. And Dick Powell is always tremendously charming and sweet. And Linda Darnell, really underrated actress again. So it happened tomorrow. Really, really fun. French art house director doing wonderful things with an American cast.
00:47:27
Speaker
Tim, let's get into the criterions here. First up, the immortal red shoes on 4K Blu-ray combo set. I mean, the red shoes have never looked better. Oh, wow. Oh, man. This movie, this movie, this movie.
00:47:47
Speaker
It's it's it's so gorgeous. This is I think is this is this Martin Scorsese's favorite film. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, I think so. Yeah, because, you know, yeah, obviously, it's it's it's better than Thelma. Oh, Thelma. Thelma married to Michael Bow. Right. Right. That's right. That's the connection. I always forget that.
00:48:07
Speaker
Well, no, this is absolutely gorgeous. Not really considered a musical, even though it kind of is, but just technicolor galore and the 4K transfers from the 2009 restoration. So it is amazing. Audio is uncompressed mono, which is a little bit weird.
00:48:26
Speaker
So if you have a home theater you wanna you might wanna kind of tweak with your setup to get the audio coming out of all of your your front speakers the sides and the and the center so you get the real full benefit of it because it's it's a it's a it's really nice mix as well when the music kicks in. Tons of extras on this thing i mean it's you know you can get into it but there's the two thousand making up making up documentary.
00:48:52
Speaker
Lots and lots and lots of stuff on here. There's an interview with Telmer Schoonmacher, which I didn't even bother looking at. That's from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. There are audio recordings, which is really interesting of Jeremy Irons reading excerpts.
00:49:08
Speaker
from the novelization of the red shoes, and it's kind of weird. I mean, it's fine, but it's like, it's very strange, especially if you watch the film first. And then there's an animated film from 1948 called The Red Shoe Scotches.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah, which is pretty cool. So, I mean a lot of really interesting stuff on here for just this legendary film. And then we've got, we were talking recently about Gordon Hawters with the passing of... Melvin.
00:49:45
Speaker
And I remember I asking you, you know, being that Melvin is from Parks Junior's generation, Gordon Parks preceding him, which is the more significant Renaissance man as far as the civil rights movement is concerned. And you said Melvin, which I thought was really interesting, because Gordon predates it rather significantly. Fascinating life, the learning tree based on his own his own autobiography.
00:50:11
Speaker
and they made a movie of it in nineteen sixty nine which kind of you know comes around right about the same time there is sweet sweet and you know i always found that interesting but the learning tree gets the criteria and there's a great new documentary on gordon parks out which i just thought was so fascinating but this is uh this is an absolutely beautiful movie i mean i i think the learning tree totally particularly the cinematography
00:50:36
Speaker
the tornadoes, set in Kansas in the 20s. And of course Gordon would be adept in the visual landscape that he captured coming from still photography as he did, one of the first, the first African American, the first African American to direct the studio film. That was just, this is a studio film.
00:51:01
Speaker
the learning tree. So he did so a lot of the first there of the and it is autobiographical and you know, so so the script and some of that stuff, you know, but a very, very powerful movie. I just remember as a kid, that was one of the films that they actually brought on assist in 16 millimeter reels and show to us I would have been a date in the learning tree. And I loved
00:51:28
Speaker
that it was about, you know, sort of, you know, young, young black boy sort of forced to grow up too soon. But you know, it's just a lot of meaning for me and still does. Anything on that thing? Is that a part of the?
00:51:43
Speaker
Oh, it's just so much stuff. There's a documentary on the making of the film with Rhea Combs and Diane Archer, Ernest Dickerson, and Nelson George. There's a new conversation moderated by Michael Gillespie between Hank Willis Thomas and art historian, Deborah Willis, which is all about
00:52:04
Speaker
Gordon Parks's influences culturally and artistically and it's very interesting. There's also a movie makers feature on here and there's a documentary My Father Gordon Parks that was done on the set of the film by Gordon Parks Jr. who of course as many people may not know died tragically when he was
00:52:24
Speaker
scouting locations for Shaft and Africa, I think it was. Very, very small. Gordon Parks himself would go on to do, yeah, that's right, Gordon Parks Jr. to Superfly Gordon Parks to Shaft. Very interesting generational split there. Yeah, I mean, a couple of 1968 films that Parks was involved with, The World of Piri Thomas and Diary of a Harlem Family. And then there's a wonderful 1963 life photo album.
00:52:50
Speaker
That that he did which is it you know which was excerpted from his two thousand five books i mean there's a there's a ton of stuff on here it's all actually wonderful and it's a historic film it's a beautiful films poetic film. And then we got one night in Miami.
00:53:06
Speaker
I guess the criterion treatment right out of the gate, which doesn't happen to a lot of films. And I'm thrilled. This didn't get a whole lot of love for from the Oscars, but I thought it deserved a lot more. Regina King's directing debut knocks it out of the mark. Absolutely terrific film with a great screenplay by Kemp Powers, who also wrote the Pixar film. What was it? So
00:53:31
Speaker
Soul, thank you, Soul. But anyway, One Night in Miami is based on his actual play. Did you ever see the play? I did not see the play. I interviewed him, and we had a really interesting conversation. Of course, he adapted his own play, and he spoke specifically about how he was able to put so much more into the script for the film.
00:53:53
Speaker
in which Regina. That's what I was wondering. That's what I was wondering. Because Regina really makes it. What I thought was amazing was she directs it very classically. But she preserves the play stuff, the character interactions. But she's able, in certain places, to open it up. You get to the Ollie Frazier fight, right? You're there for that. And there's a wonderful little bit of sound work that she does where this crossfade with the sound. I mean, there's some really wonderful technical filmmaking here.
00:54:21
Speaker
But yet, she understands her bread and butter is these four characters. And this is actually kind of a fictionalized story for those who don't know about an actual moment when, after that famous Muhammad Ali fight, right before Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali, officially to the cameras, where Sam Cooke and Jim Brown and Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali were hanging out together at the same... Yeah, yeah.
00:54:45
Speaker
Yeah, he said we had a motel and this sort of theorizes as to what did those four people talk about. And I think it's an amazing, you know, I'm sure the real conversations were very different, but man, this is really good. And I think the casting is amazing. This Eli Gory, who plays Muhammad Ali, is fantastic. He was fantastic. I thought you were really great performances, but he is fantastic.
00:55:06
Speaker
Oh, he is so good. I mean, look, I love Leslie Odom Jr. I think Alice Hodge and Kingsley Benadir are all really, really good. I think that it's just a terrific cast. But Eli Gory is the one that stands out because we already have not only like 50 years of Muhammad Ali burned into our brains as to what he looked like and talked like and what his body was like, but we have Will Smith's transformation into Muhammad Ali also burned into our heads from that Michael Manville.
00:55:34
Speaker
So now we are going to compare this poor kid, not only to the real Muhammad Ali, but to Will Smith doing Muhammad Ali. How are you going to measure that? If I'm this kid, I mean, what is he, 22, 21 years old, something like that. If I'm this kid, I'm like tapping out. I don't want that. Yeah, but he did. No, he did it. He rises to the occasion. He makes it his own. He is absolutely wonderful. I tip my hat to him. He's absolutely spectacular.
00:55:58
Speaker
Um, a lot, a lot of great stuff on, on this as well. You know, the usual criterion assortment of stuff, but the, um, the, you know, there's a bit with, uh, with Regina King and all the actors, which I say you got to sort of deal with that. That's just fantastic. And a great conversation between Regina King and Casey limits.
00:56:16
Speaker
Really, really interesting. So, I recommend that as well. Where do we go from here? I think we are going into one of the classic fix. You got the low rascals of three volume set. Yeah. Restored there.
00:56:31
Speaker
Yeah, let's do some classic flicks stuff. Little Rascals, three volumes. Restorations, one, two, and three from Classic Flicks. That is Classic Flicks with X at the end. You can go to classicflicks.com and check this stuff out. Yeah, these Little Rascals restorations, they're gonna have more coming, are pretty great. They look really gorgeous, aren't they?
00:56:51
Speaker
The little rascal stuff that's been released previously is all mostly public domain. It's on DVD. It looks like crap. It's been transferred from somebody 16 millimeter triple dub in the basement that got rained on and flooded somewhere in Nebraska. So Classic Flix finally just grabs his stuff and they've really, really done a great job cleaning this stuff up. I have to say, watching this again, and I grew up on the ooze, I find them
00:57:14
Speaker
Absolutely charming you know you've got eleven separate shorts on on each of these and i have to say spanky was too he might have been a little chubby. Watching this now there's a part of me cuz you know we're all about healthy and and and i you don't really see obese kids that age anymore to at least not where i live and i'm looking at this and i'm like oh.
00:57:40
Speaker
I mean, was, was Hal Roach like, like, was he doing a number with the craft services table? Was he feeding the pork? I mean, you couldn't get away with Fanta Albert anymore either. First of all, you couldn't call that kid Fanta Albert. That would be so inappropriate. And then there's, of course, the problem that Fanta Albert weighs 300 pounds. What the hell are we doing?
00:58:08
Speaker
Oh, man. Well, I'll tell you, Jackie Cooper, seeing little Jackie Cooper is so, he's wonderful as a kid. And, you know, my Jackie, I didn't grow up with Jackie Cooper here. I grew up with Jackie Cooper, you know, Superman. Yeah, right as the editor of the paper, Daily Planet and Superman. So, you know, when you see that face imposed on a little kid and you realize what a great actor he was just so... Was these?
00:58:35
Speaker
Yeah, Dean Stockwell was a rascal, and so was Robert Blake from the very, very last class. Those have not yet been... Okay, interesting. Robert Blake's doing it. Yeah, so more will be released, but boy, these are pretty great.
00:58:52
Speaker
Talkies, and they're a whole lot of fun. Also from Classic Flix, we have the Abbott Costello show season one on Blu-ray looking great. This is from 3D Film Archive and Classic Flix, working also with the Library of Congress. Some really funny stuff here. 26 episodes and a three-disc set. The other season is soon to come. They have been released before, but they look better now than ever.
00:59:17
Speaker
And then we got some old movies on Blu-ray and DVD, one on Blu-ray, two on DVD. I wish they were all on Blu-ray, but they can't do it, I guess. This is all from the Silver Series of their movie classics. The one on Blu-ray is World War II spy thriller called International Lady, which I had never seen before. Actually quite fun. Not, you know, amazing from 1941. Kind of a, you know, a
00:59:43
Speaker
A world war two is underway the united states has not yet entered the war so this is kind of a spy thriller designed to be a little bit of a propaganda.
00:59:57
Speaker
and deals with these saboteurs and an FBI agent working with a guy from Scotland Yard to play by Basil Rathbone. I mean, it's fine. It's fun and a little bit mindless and does the job. And then on DVD only, we've got a screwball comedy called Young and Winning from 1943.
01:00:18
Speaker
and then a romantic western called Silver Queen from 1942. These are a little bit unknown films, but they're worth checking out as well. George Brent, who's also in International Lady, is a star of Silver Queen. There's some fun stuff in Young and Willing as well, mainly because it's got a young William Holden, Sue Hayward, and Eddie Bracken in it, so it's a really, really good cast.
01:00:46
Speaker
So you might want to check that out. And that's that for classic flicks. Cool, cool, cool. Film detective. Flight to Mars. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, go ahead. Flight to Mars is the biggie. Yeah, 1951. I just always dug that film. I just thought it was a lot of fun. So what's on that? That's film detective.
01:01:08
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Only a few, only, yeah, only a few special features. It's a 4K restoration. It's a, it's a Blu-ray, but it's a 4K restoration. A couple of documentaries. One, Walter Marish from Bomba to Body Snatchers and Interstellar Travel Logs. Cinema's first space race. That's very interesting. Walter Marish, by the way, is 100 years old.
01:01:28
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He made it he made it to where you know we're hoping that oh by the way we should point out today is the night as we are recording this is the ninety ninth birthday of larry store larry storch storch corporal a guard also were started for his his his weftroop star on the original ghostbusters tv show which is not you know.
01:01:51
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Yeah, that was a Sid and Marty Croft thing, but yeah, he's 99 today. No, Walter Marish is 100, so that's all there is on this. But yeah, this was one of Walter Marish's genre pieces, and it's kind of cool. The effects really do hold up, don't they? Yeah, there's an audio commentary by Justin Humphries. Then we also have Hercules and the captive women. I don't even know what to say.
01:02:19
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No, you can't even have that title there. You just can't. This was from that era of Hercules movies, 1961. You know, it's one of those Italian Hercules movies. They were they were basically doing spaghetti westerns.
01:02:37
Speaker
There's just nothing that works on this thing. It just makes no sense. These are just excuses for Italian bodybuilders to get work and for Italian women to wear as little.
01:02:53
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heard of these movies, and then I realized, oh, it's because these women are wearing... That's why I'm watching these movies. That's what's going on. The artwork alone just makes me laugh. I mean, it makes me so laugh, and I have to describe this. There's a tagline, could she subdue this giant man with her sorcery? And here's the picture. You have a picture of a man from behind waist down wearing like one of those little rope and... Right?
01:03:21
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So like just barely below. And he's holding and he's holding an upside down goblet with the wine dripping out of it. And through his legs, you see this woman with her hand in a bikini with her hands bound behind her back and her head conspicuously right hearing up at his.
01:03:43
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It is so, it is so risque. I'm looking at this, I'm like, did they actually advertise it with that work? Are you kidding me? It was on the wall in front of a theater. That's fantastic. Oh my goodness gracious. And then we've also got an old movie from a film detective called A Life at Stake with Angela Lansbury and Keith Andes. This is, you know, one of those Angela Lansbury movies that nobody's ever heard of. But it's from 1955. It's perfectly fine. It's a little indie production that
01:04:13
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you know, kind of a mystery thriller quasi-noir thing. You know, it's got a lot of noir cliches in it, but it's okay. You know, Angela Lansbury is not exactly a femme fatale, but she does a good job. And there's some great extras on here, including a commentary by a film scholar named Jason Nay or Nye in EY. And it's good.
Teleplays and TV Adaptations
01:04:37
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Let's talk for a second about these
01:04:40
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Um, Mill Creek, uh, VHS throwback jobs that they always do where it make it, you know, like they make it look like an old VHS thing. Kevin Sorbo as Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb. Culb.
01:05:01
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Yeah, something like that. Tia Carrere. Yeah, all of a sudden. Yeah, yeah. Kind of, I've totally forgotten. I thought Hercules was the first thing that he did, but no, it was cool. No Harvey Weinstein. He looks exactly like Hercules, but yeah, cool.
01:05:17
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Well, that's what did it. He was good without a shirt. Casual sex. Oh, yes. The thing I remember about this is that Dice Clay basically stole the movie by being the pig that he constantly turned up.
01:05:35
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But victoria jackson right off of s and l with this and leah thompson i guess you know i might write and produce this it's kind of funny i don't know if it holds up at the time nineteen eighty whatever the heck it was a cute little sexy movie. I'm putting women at the center of the story about you know casual sex these women wanna have a little fun without all the stuff mary gross.
01:06:00
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I remember what was in this movie, really sexy. I see Mary Gross all, well, I used to see Mary Gross all the time before the pandemic. You see her all the time at the pandemic. Another SNL veteran, sister of Michael Gross from Family Ties. And then the last two here, and I love how they put the stickers, those stickers that used to always be on Vietnam, the rental store. We've got Splitting Airs and Renegades. Oh, Renegades. Jack, Jack, shoulders.
01:06:26
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I want to say you probably did this for sure. You know, all of whom were like big, big, big when this is what it's just like 89, 99, so whatever. All these big, big movie stars at that time. 89. 89.
01:06:43
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Yeah, there was. Yeah, that was that was quite the time. I remember that. Yeah, I mean, it's not bad. It's got, you know, it was one of those regency productions at the time. And then Splitting Air is kind of a weird comedy, Eric Idle. Oh, yeah. Very young Catherine Zeta Jones and Barbara Hershey with not much to do and John Cleese completely miscast. This is a weird movie.
01:07:06
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Um, very, very strange movie. Robert Young directed for some reason. I don't know. It's like, you know, this is one of those movies from the, uh, from, from like the eighties nineties period where I look at it and I just think, how did those people in that material all come together? I don't understand that would never happen today. It just, it just, it just wouldn't, but anyway, very, very, uh, kind of a weird anomaly, but there it is. Uh, should we do some, absolutely.
01:07:34
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Yeah. Creepshow season two. Season two of Creepshow. How do we feel about Creepshow? I'm not a big Creepshow fan. None of the recreations of any of the great shows of my youth make me happy.
01:07:54
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Yeah, this is an AMC series, part of the shutter empire of stuff. You know, this has like a Creepshow animated holiday special on it. I'm not sure why anybody would watch that. Eleven Tales on this Blu-ray of season two. I think the original Creepshow movie was fine. I think Tales from the Crypt as a television series was fine this first run. I feel like there's not a lot of
01:08:24
Speaker
I don't know. I feel like it's kind of pushing the envelope a little bit to try to squeeze all these episodes out under the Creepshow brand. I don't know. It just doesn't quite work for me. But a lot of people on this thing, Kevin Dill and Ted Ramey, brother of Sam Ramey, C. Thomas Howell, who else is on this thing, Molly Ringwald shows up to these Crosby.
01:08:49
Speaker
keith dave real friends other than just talk about keepers are you know i guess season two but there is anyway you know it's not my taste but again it wouldn't made a decision to if people didn't absolutely. What is steelbox season five season five steelbook blu-ray and the digital code which will get you a voodoo.
01:09:14
Speaker
Access if nothing else so you can watch your Rick and Morty. I'm not a huge Rick and Morty fan I know people who love this it was funny for a while, but the joke gets old Yeah
01:09:27
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We also have the prodigal son, the complete second season. I didn't really quite latch onto this either, to be honest. I probably should have given it a little bit more time. I think the reason that I didn't quite latch on it is because the whole Silence of the Lambs was the first time that we ever were exposed to someone
01:09:47
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to the psychological aspect of profiling, right? That was the first time. And then we had a few movies with profilers. I think Denzel played a profiler in one of them. And then we had like seven television series about profilers. Including one called The Profiler.
01:10:05
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Yeah, we want to call the profile some of them are mystical magical profilers. Some of them are just you know, super Sherlock Holmes II type Profilers and this guy in this series. He's you know, he's he's a profiler, but he can see the crime He's got like Dexter cousin Dexter was the killer. Yes. He was a coroner or whatever it is So yeah, you know he can see it from the perspective of the killer
01:10:29
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you know so so i i think it's a nice move that they added catherine jones season two she does bring something more than she doesn't splitting errors you know thank goodness you get more to do but i don't know man it just doesn't it's still i have a hard time with the concept maybe i'll try some more episodes another time.
01:10:49
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What is on Eli Roth's history of horror season two? So we've got a bunch here from AMC. A lot of shows that are from AMC. That's one of them. Eli Roth's history of horror season two. I think that's kind of got the same problem as Creepshow, to be honest.
01:11:13
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This is an anthology show of interviews. It's not no horror anthologies, but it still kind of belabours the point just a little bit, I think. This has interviews with Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino and Rob Zombie and Slash. It seems like it's a little bit
01:11:40
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Feels a little bit kind of all over the map. I appreciate looking into the craft and kind of trying to pull the curtain back a little bit.
01:11:53
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I don't know. I don't feel like I learned a whole lot to be honest. I don't feel like I learned a whole lot that I didn't already know previously. As long as we're on other AMC shows, got a couple of seasons here of dramatic shows, Gangs of the Season 1 and Discovery of Witches. Oh, I love Discovery of Witches in particular. You know what? And let me just say, Gangs of London, I think, has promise. I've watched a little bit of this. I'm really kind of starting to get into it. I think there's a lot of
01:12:19
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Cole Meaney is really good. So I think I'm looking forward to where this goes and the remainder of the shows I have to watch and obviously another season. But yeah, let's talk about Discovery of Witches for a second. Really a good looking one. I like the looking beef in London and it just is so gorgeous the way they shot it. Yeah, it's just a dramatic romance really, but it's just so well done. There are a lot of these running around. Well, it's based on some
01:12:46
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It's based on some books, I guess, by someone named Deborah Harness, whose books I've read. I'm sure you probably love them. But yeah, I think the recreation of London, that whole Shakespearean era, Elizabethan era London is really very sharp. I mean, it's just beautiful, 10 episodes, and they pour all of their money into the production value. It's really very sharp.
01:13:09
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Very, very, very, very, very sharp. Yeah, let's see what other things we got here. We've got some PBS stuff there. It's Baptiste Granchester.
01:13:21
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Yeah, Baptiste and Grantchester, Baptiste season two on DVD, and Grantchester, the complete sixth season, is a part of the Masterpiece series, Masterpiece Mystery. Both of these, Masterpiece Mystery. You know what I love about Baptiste? It's just a great cast. Just a great cast. Chicky Carrillo and Fiona Shaw.
01:13:40
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to, I mean, wonderful actors that, you know, were great in movies in the 90s and they're not doing TV as often as the 80s, but they're just really great actors. And I think this is just a wonderful, wonderful showcase for the two of these. It takes place in the underworld of Budapest. And Budapest is a great backdrop for anything, but very, very cool. I like Batiste.
01:14:07
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Grantchester's been on for forever. I'm going a little bit tired of Grantchester. Whenever I watch it, it kind of feels like they're doing the same thing. It's a little bit like long orders, but whatever.
01:14:19
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Let's see, what are there other fun things we hear? Tim, we got a bunch of stuff from Acorn. Tell me which of these you respond to, if any. Jack Irish, Hinterland, My Life is Murder, Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, The Heart Guy, and Whit Stable Pearl. Jack Irish? No, Jack Irish is an Australian series. Yeah, it's the guy curious. That's actually pretty interesting to me.
01:14:46
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Yeah, I like that. I like it. It's out back noir. But Guy Pearce somehow still looks the same as he did 30 years ago. I'm not quite sure what he's doing. It's an Aussie, maybe an Aussie thing. I don't know. But didn't work for Paul Hope.
01:15:02
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Well, Paul Holman was old as hell when he made that first record album. He was almost 60. Paul Holman was almost 60, 40 years ago. So Paul, he might be 100 years old now. Hinterland. I don't know that he was supposed to say.
01:15:19
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So, Hinterland was a very short series. This is a detective drama. I like it, but it's a little bit derivative. It won a whole bunch of these awards from BAFTA and some others.
01:15:38
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It's one of those it's one of those london british police dramas that gets very very interior and goes to a remote location where that remote location can be the metaphor for all of the dark things that are happening. So very often it'll be like well they've gone to you know the more or they've gone to some other very remote location or sometimes it'll be in scandinavia or wherever the case is.
01:16:05
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And here they are in this place called Aberystwyth. Aberystwyth, I guess. And so it's a little bit like he spent all this time on the London police force and now he goes to this remote place.
01:16:22
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on the coast and you know, he brings all of his psychological baggage with him and you know, despite all of this beauty on the coast, there's something dark happening. So you get a little, it's a little Twin Peaks-y, I guess, right? I mean, there are a number of British shows like this. But I mean, the acting is great. The acting is absolutely terrific. And Richard Harrington, who stars in this was previously in Poldark and Bleed House, is really, really good.
01:16:47
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He's a really, really good actor. So Hinterland, complete collection. Not on Blu-ray. It's only on DVD. But we're trying to- I dig that Lucy Lawless series. My Life is Murder. She's an ex-cop or whatever it is. Lucy Lawless. That's a good one too. Is that part of the acorn? Excuse me. My Life, yes. My Life is Murder. And it's funny because she doesn't even look like Lucy Lawless. Yeah.
01:17:16
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or your princess, as it were. I know. It's kind of weird for an acorn show. But yeah, I mean, we also, we often forget that Lucy Lawless is not an acorn.
01:17:27
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This takes place in New Zealand, so she's not being Xena anymore. There's an interesting angle here, which is that she's someone from New Zealand who's lived for a long time in Australia.
01:17:49
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And she goes back to her small town in New Zealand and now has to start investigating murders. And, you know, she has this woman played by Ebony Vaculans from The Heart Guy, who is her partner. And, you know, it's it's perfectly serviceable as far as a kind of British style mystery series that is now transposed to New Zealand. But I mean, you know what, Lucy Lawless is great. She's
01:18:19
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Very different. That's just non-Z. I think it's kind of fantastic. Did we do The Heart Guy yet? It's The Heart Guy season five. We did not. Yeah, that's just on DVD. That's just season five of The Heart Guy. And there's not much more you can really say about that. Roger Courser is still playing The Heart Surgeon on this show.
01:18:40
Speaker
You know it's a it's fine it's a you know it's a freaking medical show and they are pretty much the same the world around but i am waiting for roger coarser to show up in something here some movie or something somewhere we also have the more murder mystery of which stable project.
01:18:59
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Which is which is which is also find some good acting here as well. And then Miss Fisher's monitoring. Oh, I like that one. It's set in Melbourne in the 60s. So that's that's what's the fashion. Oh, yeah. Yeah, fashion is great. Yeah, that one. That one's really, really fun. This is the this is eight episodes in series two and really nice period recreation there. It's really, really good.
01:19:22
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I I I'm inclined to believe that Joel Jackson's character on this the reason they named him James Steed I'm sure it's a it's a nod to the Avengers. You don't do that without without some deliberation You know what? I real quickly. Are there any other TV things that you want? You know real real fast here. Let me just pull these out because these are kind of
01:19:53
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A little bit of a major thing, because we're going to run out of time here momentarily. But there are three from the Greatest Teleplays of All Time series, which are really interesting because a lot of people realize that there used to be a thing called Live, where they would do these teleplays. And there's some really, really good ones here that have been released in this series. There's a trilogy featuring Paul Newman.
01:20:17
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The Army Game, The Rag Jungle, and Five in Judgment. David Susskind produced all of these. David Susskind, huge producer. We get a lot of these David Susskind things. But Five in Judgment, The Rag Jungle, The Army Game, all of them television, hour-long TV plays. Five in Judgment's only about a half an hour. But all of them featuring Blueman. And really,
01:20:43
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peddling his, his, his, practicing his craft in the mid 1950s. And what's interesting is Five in Judgment co-stars a young Jackie Ford. Looking pretty great. He's not yet, you know, you're like, Oh, that guy's gonna be on a whole life. And then we also have Harvey, not the movie, but a TV version of it with Art Carney, Fred Gwynn, Elizabeth Montgomery and Charlotte Ray. Are you kidding me? Yeah.
01:21:09
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uh, directed by my old professor, George Shafer. Uh, I was, you know, it's funny when George Shafer was teaching her class, he'd come out like he was hosting, he'd talk and he'd tell us all these great stories and this and that and the other thing. And then I'd always think, but I've never seen any movies. I like, literally, I've never seen a thing you've directed and you're talking to all these stars you've worked with. He worked with them all on TV.
01:21:34
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But, you know, Art Carney is terrific. Very different interpretation from Jimmy Stewart in the movie, and this was originally a stage play, so very, very, very fun. And then the last one is The Power and the Glory, which is very intense. Laurence Olivier, Julie Harris, George C. Scott, Patty Duke, King and Win, and Roddy McDowell. Come on. Directed by Star Trek veteran Mark Daniel. Wow, fantastic.
01:22:03
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Great. And this takes place in the 1930s during the period where there's a lot of tension in Mexico and about a Catholic priest who goes to Mexico to be a bit of a missionary. And Laurence Olivier is really pretty great, you know, with all the political and religious
01:22:22
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told going on in mexico at the time it's pretty great and then there's like this you know that somebody's come after him to kill him and it turns into a little bit of a noir and it's kinda weird but that's okay it's well it's it's it's pretty nicely done mark daniels direct hello
01:22:38
Speaker
So let's see, what else do you want to cap off with there, too? Just under new, we have a few things, malignant, and a couple other things just in terms of new stuff. And Zola. Do you want to talk about Zola for a second? Because I was in the running for
Recent Film Highlights
01:23:01
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our awards. That kept popping up left and right, and I hadn't seen it. I really liked it a lot, particularly that performance from Taylor Page.
01:23:08
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And Riley Keel, for that matter, too. And for that matter, also, Coleman Domingo, based on this sort of loosely told true story, this young black stripper who meets this young white stripper who thinks she's a young black stripper, and they go on a road trip to Florida together, and they end up in a wacky caper film. It's sort of like loosely based on a true story. It's just a couple of great performances and a really dashing
01:23:34
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uh sort of bouncy film that's mostly funny yeah it's i i was i mean i hadn't you know i i didn't get to it because nobody was raving about it and then everybody started voting for it on the on voting day and i'm like well why didn't you say so it's because i would i would have prioritized it but yeah i i love Taylor she's absolutely wonderful
01:23:52
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and Riley Keough as well. These are some good, very talented actresses and actors and we'll see a lot of them. Talk about Malignant for a second. That was another one that was off my radar and then everybody like you and Bob Strauss and a lot of other people
01:24:07
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Well, it was actually a pretty good film. Let me get my data here. It's a darker and more well-constructed film, a horror film, than a lot of these films have been before.
01:24:28
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James Wan, of course, directly. It's just coming in. So you have this woman who's just, she has these visions of these murders and they paralyzed her. And it's really a very, very dark film. Now, when you're watching this film, this film is making references not only to other horror films, but to horror films in general.
01:24:51
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And it really gets sort of interesting in the way that these things were sort of all laid together and you got to watch really some good performances to make movies. And then there's one that Luke Thompson put right at the top of his list and recommended that I didn't pay attention to. And it's the show, which is the Alan Moore thing written by Alan Moore. Alan Moore, you know, disowns almost everything that's adapted for anything he's written, but he wrote this straight up.
01:25:18
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And it's pretty sharp. I think this is really cool. It's kind of a cool wild fever dream of a comic bookie noir. Really, you know, very psychedelic and kind of almost LSD inspired in some respects. But, you know, pretty much everything Alan Moore has some element of that. Alan Moore, Watchman Alan Moore. Yeah, Watchman Alan Moore. But I'll say this, for what it is, I prefer this to the new
01:25:47
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The new Matrix film immensely, because I hate that. You know what bugged me most about that film? What that film says is, the investment that you put into all the previous Matrix films, but certainly that first Matrix film, I kind of ignored the other two anyway, but basically it says the investments you put into that film, those characters and everything, that was completely wasted investment.
01:26:16
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Because because here we are 20 however many years later, you know what you're still in the matrix. Well, how about fuck you? And then it sets you up to keep you in the matrix forever
01:26:33
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Yeah, it's a little bit of a fail that I was not fond of. Here's a film that before we run out of time, I really want to give a good shout out to South of Heaven. One of the problems that I have with Jason Sudeikis is that he has the Will Ferrell problem coming out of SNL, which is that he has a funny face.
01:26:55
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And you know for him to play a dramatic character is that he's got to invest a lot he's got to dig himself out of your expectations of your preconceptions out of the all the baggage that we have him doing you know all the stuff he's done the jersey guy on the you know what up with that sketches and all the junk that he's done.
01:27:16
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And, damn, if he doesn't do it, I'll tell you, it's very impressive. He plays a guy, this is really interesting, it's a love story, basically. Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly, he's a guy that spent time in prison, and you'll find out why, because he's a nice guy, right? I mean, he's a nice guy, like, why are you in prison? Why did you kill somebody? What got you into prison? And it's a fascinating dilemma that got him there, because he's did it out of love, and Evangeline Lilly, he's getting out now, and she's got cancer, and he wants to do right by her.
01:27:44
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But then, Shay Wiggum plays this crooked parole officer. Mike Coulter plays this crime lord. And they have all of this stuff going on that drags him right back into the middle of it. And somehow, in order for him to be a really good guy and do right by her, he's gotta go dark again. He's gotta go really dark.
01:28:02
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It's a really interesting psychological journey. He does not fall prey to the funny stuff at all. I mean, he really, really, he cuts a line right down the middle. I think this is a really sharp little movie. And I don't know how well it did theatrically, obviously, because of the pandemic and everything else. But man, I really, I really urge people to check this out. South of heaven, terrific little kind of micro noir quasi-romantic noir with Jason Sudeikis, Evangeline Lilly, Shay Wiggum, Walter.
01:28:31
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Really good. Nice to see Mike Colter
Shaw Brothers Films Collection
01:28:33
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do something other than, well, not just Luke Cage and Luke Cage. Or go with some of them, just, you know, heroic guy, so I can, when he plays a little, you know, figures it a little bit dark. Oh, he's plenty dark here. You know what? He's dark. He's dark with it, but yet caring, because there's a whole, he's a family man too, you know, like he's a, he's a crime lord, but he loves his family. He loves his kid. He's a family man who wears his v-neck sweaters.
01:29:04
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And just to wrap out real fast here, because this is the last thing I want to put on everybody's radar, because we may talk about this on the next show a little bit more. We're starting to get Shaw Brothers. Oh, yeah, that thing. Yeah.
01:29:18
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Man, I'm telling you, so first of all, we've got a great release here of an old Shaw Brothers classic, Disciples of Shaolin, which is one that is far too often forgotten. It comes with a ton of extras on this thing. I think it's absolutely wonderful that they put this together. It comes out with both English and Mandarin audio on it.
01:29:39
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Lots of notes and interviews and it's it's just really really sharp this is a real show brothers classic great choreography great fight stuff a good stand alone film however and good for regions a and b by the way if you're going to be.
01:29:54
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you know recommending this to friends in other regions how ever this is the one you got the show scope volume one box set which is like my dream come true i've been waiting for this forever shot the people who own the show brothers library have not done the greatest job of exploiting it so they're finally.
01:30:14
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Finally, through Arrow, we are getting these amazing Shaw films. Thank you, Arrow. My goodness, really, really great stuff. It's the Celestial Library. The Shaw films belong to the Celestial Library. And this is what you get on eight discs, plus two additional bonus discs, nine and 10, that have music on them.
01:30:39
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You know, they're CDs, the last two discs are CDs. But the official eight discs, the Blu-rays, contain the following films. King Boxer, the boxer from Shantung,
01:30:56
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Five Shaolin Masters and Shaolin Temple on one disc. Mighty Pick King Man, Challenge of the Masters and Executioners from Shaolin. Chinatown Kid, The Five Venoms, amazing with Crippled Avengers on disc seven and on disc eight, Heroes of the East and Dirty Ho. H.O. character named Ho, not Dirty Ho, don't get all, you know.
01:31:19
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jump ahead of me there. I can't even go into each individual film. They're amazing. They come with some interviews and some commentaries and a lot of great stuff on them. It's a really, really great box set. It's amazing. It's volume one, so save your dimes because there are a lot more to come. There are literally thousands of these movies, so you might wind up with hundreds of these box sets.
01:31:44
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And that's it. We are done. All right. Tim, let's hope everyone, you know, stays well and whatnot. We'll be back in a couple of weeks and hopefully nobody else dies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, look. Cheers. Cheers. Happy to you and everyone. It's, you know, it's so happy to you and to everyone. And all of those who are near 100 are over. Hang in there.
01:32:06
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Hang in there, Bill.
01:32:55
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you