The Super 70 Podcast

Dylan Davis
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  • TV & Film

The Super 70 Podcast is a commentary you play along with the film for scene by scene analysis, or you can just listen in your car. Dylan Davis is the author of "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine, and Threshold. He is a reader, listener, and appreciator of culture. Find him at www.thatdylandavis.com and on Twitter @thatdylandavis #super70podcast

  1. Jul 20

    39.2 One Conversation After Another

    Dave Anderson and I had three or four conversations about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another which took the cinemas by storm last fall and the awards season this spring. One Battle After Another was a juggernaut. It garnered 506 nominations this year, it won 287 awards including Oscars for Andy Jurgesen for Film editing, Cassandra Kulukundis for Best Casting which was the first time they handed out that award, Sean Penn for Best Supporting Actor, and Paul Thomas Anderson picked up three for Best Adapted Screenplay from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Best Director and he was with Adam Somner and Sara Murphy one of the Producers for Best Picture. It raked in over two hundred million dollars at the box office on a budget of seventy two million, it was shot on Vista Vision lenses using celluloid safety film and was almost three hours long. Dave and I meant for this to drop the weekend of the Oscars, but to be honest it was a nightmare to edit. Dave and I did this over zoom when we were not at our best. We needed more coffee at times, less alcohol at other times, and condensing the almost seven hours of audio down to a podcast that is ten minutes longer than the film literally took me six months to do in my spare time. Again, I thank you for being patient. Dave and I focus on the production value of the film, the shockingly good attention to detail in casting, directing, cinematography, and performances. We then grope around the flaws of the movie, what must have been the difficulty in adapting Pynchon’s novel about 60’s radicals resurfacing in the 80’s like in Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty (1988). In somewhat of a break from previous episodes, we touch around the edges of the politics of the film and how some of them are extremely relevant to our times and others... well... not so much. One Battle After Another is an astounding film, and whether you think it succeeds or not, everyone in America should see it. Thank you so much for listening to the Super 70 Podcast and for unsubscribing while I was gone. The Super 70 Podcast is available wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. I am @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxed, and BluSky. All music on the Super 70 is written and performed by Rozalind MacPhail and you can find her on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube. For those of you who think One Battle After Another has no basis in reality, please take a look at this Reuters article about a member of the Baader_Meinhof Gang who was recently arrested in Germany after being on the run for forty years. https://www.reuters.com/world/long-sought-red-army-faction-suspect-charged-germany-1990s-attacks-2026-03-27/

  2. Jan 11

    39.1 Our 4K Projections

    Dave A and I have not zoomed in a while. I reminisce about watching Turner Classic movies during a hospital visit. We ramble on about Badlands, Dogma, and One Battle After Another. After we’ve had our coffee, we take on Netflix and Reifenstahl’s Berg films. If it seems all over the place, that’s because it is. Also, we discuss my new 4K laser projector for my Kino Room. There was a lot of editing done on this, so I urge the listener to up that play speed to point five. Thanks for staying while Dave and I discussed everything under the sun. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

    39.1 Our 4K Projections

  3. 11/15/2025

    39 Ms. .45 (1981)

    Abel Ferrara shocked the exploitation world with his feminist statement Ms. .45 (1981). Starring the incomparable Zoe Lund as a mute, submissive fashion designer in New York City, Ms. .45 exposes the everyday experience of women as a slugfest of misogyny and non-stop harassment. Lund’s role as Thana is critical in understanding the female experience, and why when she’s had enough, she’s ready to give something back to the male world that dominated her. The Super 70 Podcast is available wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. I am @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxed, and BluSky. All music on the Super 70 is written and performed by Rozalind MacPhail and you can find her on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube. An early cut of Ms. .45 with bad sound is currently on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aSl8UhGTY&t=1177s The Arrow UK has a brilliant edition here that is worth it for us fans: https://www.arrowfilms.com/p/ms-45-limited-edition-4k-uhd/17194059/?variation=17194059

    39 Ms. .45 (1981)

  4. 11/01/2025

    38.11 The Best Needle Drops

    We try to keep the Tarantino and Scorsese mentions at a minimum in this episode. The Super 70 Podcast is wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. I am @thatdylandavis on Letterbxd, Threads, and Blusky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail’s music on Soundcloud and iTunes.

    38.11 The Best Needle Drops

  5. 10/12/2025

    38.10 The Redfordcast

    What else can you say but that the man was great. He was great with Jane Fonda. He was great with Faye Dunaway. He was great with Debra Winger and Demi Moore. He was even great with guys like Sidney Poitier and of course his long friendship with Paul Newman. Dave bowed out this time, but Luke showed up to do a back-to-back recordings and this is our tribute to a great actor whom we will miss on the silver screen. Thanks for hanging out with Luke and I while we yapped about Robert Redford. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and Blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

    38.10 The Redfordcast

  6. 10/04/2025

    38.9 Assassination Cinema

    Hey, folks, things got a bit serious in the States lately. We’ve had a spate of assassinations and assassination attempts the past few years. Trump’s been shot at twice. He's been hit once. Josh Shapiro’s governor’s mansion was burnt down. Melissa and Mark Hortman were murdered in their home. And of course Charlie Kirk was murdered just a few weeks ago. Political assassinations are not new in this country. Medgar Evers was killed in 1963, kicking off a spate of assassinations in the 1960’s that included among others: a President, a Senator, a governor, and two Civil Rights advocates. This violent atmosphere is trouble, absolute trouble for our country. But it sure does inspire outstanding art. Since the 60’s we’ve seen an astounding number of films addressing political murder in an effort to understand and convey the hopes and fears of our national polity. I asked Luke to come in the Hacienda and discuss assassination cinema and why we’re so fascinated by it. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

    38.9 Assassination Cinema

  7. 09/20/2025

    38.8 The Multiverse Conversation

    Luke fled, as Will Patton said in the Fishbourne movie. Wren stayed to list praises and grievances with the MCU, specifically the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. The conversation is a keen eye into the target demographic of the Disney / Marvel Studios franchise, as GenZ continues to dominate cinema pop culture as they age into maturity. Join Wren and I we sift through the Multiverse of TV Madness and Cinema Goodness. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

    38.8 The Multiverse Conversation

  8. 09/07/2025

    38.7 The MCU Conversation

    Well, we had to get to it sooner or later, and since the Fantastic Four: First Steps was released, I guess now was a good time as any. I asked my Gen Z kids Luke and Wren to come onto the pod to talk about what it was like to grow up with the MCU as the defining cultural shift from cinema in their lives. Their reactions are probably not that far off from what you expect only you’re not getting it from an app. You’re getting it from the horses’ mouth. Well, you kind of are getting it from an app, but you know what I mean. It’s not a social media app, right, like it’s kind of like, well it’s probably the Apple Podcasts player, or Pocket Casts or Spreaker or Himalaya or... Thanks for hanging out with Wren and Luke while we yapped about the MCU. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find RozilandMacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

    38.7 The MCU Conversation
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The Super 70 Podcast is a commentary you play along with the film for scene by scene analysis, or you can just listen in your car. Dylan Davis is the author of "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine, and Threshold. He is a reader, listener, and appreciator of culture. Find him at www.thatdylandavis.com and on Twitter @thatdylandavis #super70podcast

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  • Creator
    Dylan Davis
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    91
  • Rating
    Explicit
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