Episode 22: Unviewable JJL

Join the gentlemen for the latest special episode of Fearless Pretender, where we explore two legendary pieces of Lost JJL work: we explore the remnants left behind of the TV pilot Partners in Life (and the show it eventually became) as well as Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut, examining the ripples left from works which are simply – gone.

In addition, you’ll hear Sam and Jason get silly and sorrowful and talk about cartoons, The Wall Of Temptation, more multiverse theory, cult followings, Margaret Dumont, boxsets, Laura Branigan, Single Female Lawyer, Stanley Kubrick as Master of sexual signifiers, QAnon, the Johan Falk films, the legacy of devoted fans and their video instincts, Jack Parsons, a future mystery, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, eidetic memory, Temptation vs Possibility, The JPL, lost media, William Friedkin, Luke Skyywalker & The 2 Live Crew, Strange Angel, Liv Ulmann’s Faithless, Star Trek pilots and their evolutions, the cinema of grind, Thelema, realtime social media intervention, and Jason getting ridiculously in-depth about photochemical processing and camera philosophy and the various and sundry transfers of the film.

Also, Jason misidentifies Sydney Pollack’s character as “Zidler,” rather than “Ziegler.” Zidler is Jim Broadbent’s character in Moulin Rouge!

Laura Branigan’s “Self Control” video, directed by William Friedkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs

The 1969 Traumnovelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50DsIKCa1w