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S02E16: Heavy (1995)
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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S02E15: Radio On (1979)
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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S02E14: Paris, Texas (1984)
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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S02E13: Shattered Glass (2003)
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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S02E12: Keane (2004)
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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S02E11: Babylon (1980)
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