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Hey listener, it's been a while. How have you been? Do you ever think about me? Just kidding it's a new episode on Joan Tewkesbury's sole feature film, OLD BOYFRIENDS, written by Paul and Leonard Schrader! Who better to join us on this exploration of women's experience in New Hollywood than writer, Online Film Culture Titan and the inventor of #AYearWithWomen, Marya E. Gates (@oldfilmsflicker)??? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on everything from the film's rediscovery and restoration to Schrader's reaction to the 2022 Sight & Sound poll to Keith Carradine being really hot to the social function of movie gifs on Tumblr. It's a great ep and we hope you'll enjoy it! If you don't, please don't hire Buck Henry to find our home addresses!!!
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Further Reading:
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler
"Canon Fodder" by Paul Schrader
Further Viewing:
GIRLFRIENDS (Weill, 1978)
AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Mazursky, 1978)
 
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"Oh my Pod, cast's my daughter!" - something Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive today...to hear our episode on Paul Schrader's sophomore feature as director, the 1979 Calvinist-dad-goes-to-Pornville film HARDCORE! Joining us on our journey into smut-hell is writer, actress, and filmmaker Manuela Lazić! We get into Dad Stuff, Schrader's aesthetic style as a director, the political economy of sex work, HARDCORE as remake of THE SEARCHERS, and try very, very hard to understand Christian Reformed Calvinism.
Do we succeed? To find out, you'll simply have to listen to the episode. Another thing Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive right now? "Turn it...on!! The episode, I mean!!!"
Further Reading:
"'Hard-core' grows fashionable - and very profitable" by Ralph Blumenthal
Schrader on Schrader, ed. Kevin Jackson
Further Viewing:
THE SEARCHERS (1956)
 
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Get your disguise on, listener! We got a big boy this week: Paul Schrader's directorial debut, the 1978 auto workers union heist film BLUE COLLAR! The fellas are going long on this one, talking UAW history, race and organized labor, Richard Pryor's performance, Harvey Keitel trying very hard to quit the movie, Yaphet Kotto's lifetime of UFO encounters (really), and whether Schrader could really have made such a leftist film without meaning to, as he claims. This episode is nearly three hours of gleaming chrome fresh off the line or whatever. Check it out!
Further Reading:
"Ex‐Operative Says He Worked for F.B.I. to Disrupt Political Activities Up to '74"
"Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management" by Alex N. Press
A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis
The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkin Bates
Organized Labor and the Black Worker and The Black Worker by Philip S. Foner
 
Further Viewing:
MATEWAN (1987)
SILKWOOD (1983)
 
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Get your hand out of that garbage disposal and press play, listener! We're doing our best to do an episode on John Flynn's 1977 vetsploitation nasty ROLLING THUNDER, but mostly we end up talking about Paul Schrader's mucked-with script. It's a fascinating study in how a story can go from TAXI DRIVER damning to DEATH WITH reactionary with just a few strokes of Heywood Gould's pen. Plus some Vietnam talk, a COCKTAIL/RAIN MAN tangent, and Tommy Lee Jones. Good ep!
 
Further Reading:
Paul Schrader's original screenplay for ROLLING THUNDER
Further Viewing:
HEARTS & MINDS (1974)
DEATH WISH (1974)
FIRST BLOOD (1982)
 
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Pucker up, listeners - Daddy's here! That's right: accomplished Brian De Palmist and official Daddy of the show, Hit Factory co-host Aaron Casias, is back to help us unpack De Palma's Schrader-scripted 1976 VERTIGO riff OBSESSION! We kind of did a one-episode De Palma podcast, honestly, because there's a bit more BDP here than Paul Schrader. Join us for more Bernard Herrmann talk, more Geneviève Bujold talk (from TIGHTROPE, remember?), and very informed New Orleans opinions. Check it out! You don't really have to watch the movie tbh!!!
Topics include: Vilmos Zsigmond, Hitchcock riff, Tony Scott's DEJA VU, voyeurism, women in genre film, "The New South", Cliff Robertson being a pain in the ass, OLDBOY, Aaron's impassioned plea for us to cover BDP, and only a little bit of bathroom talk, we promise.


Further Reading:
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood
"Repeat Performance": Brad Westcott on Obsession
 
Further Viewing:
VERTIGO (1958)
DEJA VU (2006)
DE PALMA (2015)
 
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We're back with the second part of our discussion of Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER. Join us for more on the film's engagement with race and gender, Jodie Foster's performance, Travis Bickle's cinematic children, and the John Hinckley, Jr. of it all.
Further Reading:
Taxi Driver: BFI Film Classics by Amy Taubin
"Manhattan Transference: Ashley Clark on Taxi Driver"
An Assassin's Diary by Arthur Bremer
Further Viewing:
LE FEU FOLLET (Malle, 1963)
THE KING OF COMEDY (Scorsese, 1982)
SPREE (Kotlyarenko, 2020)
"Top 10 Wisconsin Dells Haunted Houses For Free Pulled Pork"/"PVC Feces Rig Tour (Home Made) #vanlife" (O'Malley/Resnick, 2021)
 
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