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For Screen and Country For Screen And Country | Age of Radio
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- TV & Film
Brendan and Jason dive into the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films of All-Time list. What does that mean? Well, they'll be exploring each film's significance, if it deserves its place in history and answering questions and comments from you, the listeners.
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No Man's Land
Hey, thanks for coming to the podcast. Really appreciate it. You want a water? Soda? Orange whip? Just want you to be comfortable. Ok, so go ahead and lay down on the floor here. Yep - right on top of the pokey thing. Yeah, it'll be fine; it's like a massage. Cool, cool, great. Okay, don't move! Please, whatever you do! Good. Now, if you'll continue to stare at the dentist TV in front of you without even so much as moving a millimetre we're gonna watch this week's movie - 2001's No Man's Land. I'm just gonna watch from the other side of this here tank. Enjoy!
Next week: Brendan is away so enjoy the first live commentary episode on... well, you'll see...
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No Man's Land stars Branko Đurić, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Šovagović, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Katrin Cartlidge and Simon Callow; directed by Danis Tanović.
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Sisu
Sometimes ya just gotta kill some Nazis. It's as simple as that. Brendan and Jason grab their rifles and go out huntin' with Sisu, a film about a badass Lapland prospector who just wants to keep his gold and will kill any Nazis in his path. They gush about the insane and creative kills, the badass women hostages that get to have their own unexpected moments, the joy of a "meat-and-potatoes" movie and much more.
Next week: stuck in the middle with you...
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Sisu stars Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onni Tommila and Mimosa Williamo; directed by Jalmari Helander.
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Ashes and Diamonds
We talked about Kanal so why not talk about another Wajda War™ film - Ashes and Diamonds. While this one focuses less on war itself and more of the implications of post-war and one's own morality, this is our podcast so don't tell us what to do, MOM!!!
Ahem.
Anyhoo, the fellas chat it up about this film and discuss the scene with very realistic (if not real?) drunk acting, the stark imagery particularly with religious symbols, the massive changes between this and the propagandistic source material, the Polish James Dean and much more.
Next week: kill! kill! kill!
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Ashes and Diamonds stars Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Stanisław Milski and Ignacy Machowski; directed by Andrzej Wajda.
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The Battle of the River Plate
BRIT PICK!
Stand up and salute the Union Jack, 'cause Jason keeps us seaborn with this week's film THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE! Can it hang with the other films? Did Paste Magazine even watch this one? It's Powell and Pressburger, for chrissakes.
Next week: The director of Kanal is BACK... in pog form.
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The Battle of the River Plate stars Bernard Lee, Peter Finch, John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Patrick Macnee, Andrew Cruikshank, Anthony Newley and Christopher Lee; directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
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Run Silent, Run Deep
You wanna go down, son? You wanna go all the way down? This ain't no Jim Cameron tour, fella, this is mortal combat at 150 feet below! Light up a Lucky and peel your shirt off 'cause it's getting real sweaty down here in 1958's Run Silent, Run Deep. Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster and Don Rickles crammed in a tube! Man... I wish Rickles was the captain. Now, that would have been a film! But no - they wanted Clark and I was like "fine." Stupid studio politics.
Next week: going off the grid again... and more naval warfare!
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Run Silent, Run Deep stars Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Nick Cravat, Joe Maross, Mary LaRoche and Don Rickles; directed by Robert Wise.
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They Were Expendable
The Duke is back and this time, he's very patriotic! Wait... what do you mean "this time?" Uhh... anyway, this week the guys discussed the John Ford WWII film They Were Expendable centering on some PT boats following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The guys discuss if this John Wayne performance is worth anything, the character "Dad" who seemingly wandered in from another movie, the delightful Donna Reed and much more. Plus: a LOT of bad John Wayne impressions.
Next week: two ways you can run!
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They Were Expendable stars Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Cameron Mitchell and Russell Simpson; directed by John Ford.
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