Episode 17: “Why Do They Leave Them There?” (The Big Picture)

Join Sam and Jason this month as they’re joined by host of The Directors Club podcast and Chicago-based Film Critic Jim Laczkowski to talk about Christopher Guest’s 1989 debut feature The Big Picture, wherein the following topics may occur: Pay-Per-View, The persistence of vision of Corky St. Clair, The Goodbye Girl: The Musical, fleeting Bechdel moments, Al Cliver/Pierluigi Conti, misunderstanding genre, L.A.’s Vista Theatre, Fran Leibowitz, This Is Spinal Rap (Fear of a Black Hat vs CB4), Logan Stevens, how we’re finally going to get Sam to watch Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, bêtisier, charity shop serendipity, Jiminy Glick vs Ed Grimley vs Jackie Rogers Jr, pernicious and omnipresent sexism, The many lives of Richard Belzer, Quiet On The Set, and the Dan Schneider of it all.

Sam: Bluesky / Letterboxd

Jason: Bluesky / Twitter / Rotten Tomatoes

Jim: Twitter / Bluesky / Substack / Director's Club