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Shane and Matthew reach the end of season 2 with a wonderful slice-of-life Americana from James Mangold; his debut and mini-masterpiece 'Heavy' from 1995.
Notes:
Mangold's filmmaker tips: https://filmschoolrejects.com/filmmaking-tips-james-mangold-9c10355d5a88/
Mangold on Mackendrick: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/logan-director-james-mangold-discusses-183056098.html
9 Movies where Shelly Winters dies in the middle: http://cassavafilms.com/list-of-9/nine-movies-in-which-shelley-winters-dies-in-the-middle
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Matthew and Shane buckle up for a classic British road movie that foregoes the tropes of the genre and instead offers a mesmerising cinematic scrapbook of late 70's music, images and philosophy.
Notes:
Locations then and now: https://www.reelstreets.com/films/radio-on/
Film Comment review: https://www.filmcomment.com/article/vision-radio-on/
2013 Interview with Chris Petit: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/man-on-the-outside-27967.html
Further reading:
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/chris-petit-radio-on-interview https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview13 https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-4-issue-1-autumn-winter-2008/germany-and-england-england-and-germany-proposal-for-a-film/ https://psychogeographicreview.com/film-of-the-month-march-2012-radio-on/ https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/spirit-of-the-bauhaus-in-electronic-sounds -
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Shane is joined by Sam Baws for a surprisingly tender road trip across the US. Harry Dean Stanton stars as a man trying to reconcile the destructive effects of his past mistakes in Wim Wender's visually striking 'Paris, Texas' from 1984.
Notes:
Info on Paris Texas: https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/paris-texas-en/
NY Times period review: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/14/movies/paris-texas-from-wim-wenders.html
Article on Wenders' Stills Photography: https://www.vogue.com/article/paris-texas-film-wim-wenders-photographs
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Shane and Matthew investigate the fishy true life tale of journalist Stephen Glass and his work for The New Republic in Billy Ray's highly recommended newsroom thriller 'Shattered Glass' from 2003.
Notes:
Buzz Bissinger's Vanity Fair article: https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1998/09/bissinger199809
The New Republic's 2014 Glass article: https://newrepublic.com/article/120145/stephen-glass-new-republic-scandal-still-haunts-his-law-career
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Matthew and Shane try to catch their breath with Lodge Kerrigan's intense portrait of a man on the precipice of a mental health collapse. Arresting, unnnerving and unforgettable.
Notes:
Trailer for Keane: https://youtu.be/6QhY17g8QBs
Interview with Lodge Kerrigan: https://www.indiewire.com/2005/09/on-the-edge-lodge-kerrigan-talks-collapse-and-chance-in-keane-77998/
Interview with Damian Lewis: https://www.damian-lewis.com/2016/01/18/19968.php
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Matthew and Shane get embroiled with a reggae sound system in South London in the late seventies in Franco Rosso's blistering Babylon from 1980.
Notes:
Trailer for Babylon: https://youtu.be/t_xhN87G8bk
Incredible archive for Babylon: https://www.uncarved.org/babylon/
Babylon locations then and now: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/babylon-franco-rosso-locations-london
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Shane is joined by Adam Lowes to discuss James Foley's 1986 classic 'At Close Range' starring Sean Penn and Christopher Walken as an estranged father and son reunited to embark on a life of crime in this bloody violent, true-life thriller.
Notes:
Rogert Ebert's period review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/at-close-range-1986
Trailer for At Close Range: https://youtu.be/nANVblfeTH4
Madonna's video for 'Live To Tell': https://youtu.be/IzAO9A9GjgI
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The Christmas 2020 Special. Matthew and Shane find themselves on opposing sides in this wartime battle for the spirit of Christmas and the soul of man. Good will is in short supply.
Notes:
Fascinating article on Keith Gordon: https://longreads.com/2018/01/25/the-many-acts-of-keith-gordon/
Roger Ebert's review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-midnight-clear-1992
Mark Isham's 'My Wife With Champagne Shoulders': https://youtu.be/UDV4cVMN9HE
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Matthew and Shane go toe-to-toe on the court of cinema. Shane attempts to slam-dunk Spike Lee's 'He Got Game' as a bona-fide (but flawed) masterpiece. Matthew rebounds with a vicious counter and a couple of fouls. This one is gonna need a time out.
Links:
He Got Game Trailer: https://youtu.be/h4uJ6938buE
Vanity Fair 20th Anniversary Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/he-got-game-20th-anniversary
Roger Ebert's 1998 Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/he-got-game-1998
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Shane and Matthew celebrate an outrageous 80's comedy classic with Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams' irresistible mad mess Top Secret (1984).
Trailer for Top Secret: https://youtu.be/-DQ3URc4KiM
An evening with Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams: https://youtu.be/jauruv4ZPto
Swedish Bookstore Scene reversed: https://youtu.be/czuC1LWcPMc
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Shane and Matthew look for their dignity as they join The Party of Dynamic Erection in a bid to better understand British male... stuff.
Trailer for Little Malcolm: https://youtu.be/K3DseWf-Nlc
Article from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/30/george-harrison-little-malcolm-handmade
Mike Leigh on David Halliwell: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/07/mike-leigh-on-playwright-david-halliwell-little-malcolm
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For the 2020 Halloween Special Shane and Matthew head to Pittsburg to drink some blood with George A. Romero's 'Martin' from 1977.
Notes:
A guided tour of the locations from 'Martin': http://martinthereisnomagic.blogspot.com/
Matthew's reading recommendation: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Martin-Midnight-Movie-Monographs-Winship/dp/1786360527
Original trailer for 'Martin': https://youtu.be/NNIGTSdKPl0
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Shane and Matthew flash their assets and high-kick their way through Michael Ritchie's exquisite beauty pageant satire 'Smile' from 1975.
Notes:
Trailer for Smile: https://youtu.be/tbdKZQcxKYM
BFI Championing Bruce Dern: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/championing-bruce-dern-king-marvin-gardens
Local history of 'Smile' from Santa Rosa: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/gaye-lebaron-when-smile-made-santa-rosans-do-anything-but/?artslide=2
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Shane is joined by Adam Lowes for a bloody violent trip to the South Korean underworld in Kim Jee-woon's breathtaking A Bittersweet Life (2005). Notes: Trailer for A Bittersweet Life: https://youtu.be/q5O2tfiaTxU Comparison of DC & Theatrical: https://www.movie-censorship.com/repo... Period Variety review from Cannes 2005: https://variety.com/2005/film/markets... All images are copyright the original owners.
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Matthew and Shane duke it out in the back streets of Hell's Kitchen, trying to survive on peanuts, salami and some goofy one-liners.
Notes:
Trailer for Paradise Alley: https://youtu.be/mxXdouKmoOY
1978 NY Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/10/archives/movies-rocky-goes-to-limbo-in-paradise-alleyrocky-as-wrestler.html
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Matthew and Shane get lost in Germany with Wim Wender's astonishing and tender road trip classic from 1974. Notes: Trailer for 'Alice In The Cities': https://youtu.be/MoRe7srFtZ8 MOMA archive footage of Wuppertal Suspended Railway from 1902: https://youtu.be/MoRe7srFtZ8 Wim Wenders interview with BFI: https://youtu.be/FbzFZ0CjEVY
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Matthew and Shane go crazy scrutinising their masculinity with Donald Cammell's 'White of The Eye' (1987).
Notes:
Trailer for 'White of The Eye': https://youtu.be/u4WMa5SfqJg
'White of The Eye' at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094320/
Arrow Films release info: https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/white-of-the-eye-dual-format/FCD900
Kermode's excellent intro for 'White of The Eye' on BFI Player: https://youtu.be/QbOFXh2CW1Q
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Shane and Matthew are cursed to battle for eternity as they slice through Kihachi Okamoto’s The Sword of Doom from 1966.
Notes:
2017 article on Tatsuya Nakadai: https://www.filmcomment.com/article/tastuya-nakadai-the-sword-of-doom/
The Sword of Doom at Criterion: https://www.criterion.com/films/925-the-sword-of-doom
The Sword of Doom HD Trailer: https://youtu.be/FGhpT8PGslA
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Matthew and Shane get their brains sucked dry by David Cronenberg's horror/thriller Scanners from 1981.
Notes:
Scanners at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455
Stephen Lack interview at Film Comment: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-stephen-lack/
UK 'X' certificate trailer for Scanners: https://youtu.be/tqvPviqbb4c
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The Xmas Special: Matthew and Shane sit down for a holiday movie that ticks all the boxes. Paul Newman stars in Robert Benton's adaptation of Nobody's Fool (1994).
Notes:
Nobody's Fool at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110684/
The locations of Nobody's Fool: www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/rob/?p=2262
NY Times period review: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/23/movies/film-review-paul-newman-in-blue-collar-gear.html
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