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For your reconsideration - an Oscars podcast is a look backward at the various Academy Award winners for Best Picture. Our expert panel of film critics and fans carefully discuss, debate, and dissect Oscar winners and nominees from the year in question to determine if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences got it right or whether they require a do-over! For more information or to join a panel please email Jamie at jamie@dewvre.comJoin in the discussion at our Facebook group, Twitter, or Instagram. @FYR_Podcast

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  1. 06/25/2023

    Reassessing the 1977 Best Picture: Iconic Films and Missed Opportunities

    Did the Oscars get it right in 1977? Join me, Matti Price, and our fantastic panellists Karen Gordon, Ryan McNeil, and Leslie Byron Pitt as we travel back in time to the 50th Annual Academy Awards, reevaluating the nominees for Best Picture and presenting our own alternative ballots. From Annie Hall to Star Wars, we discuss our personal connections to these iconic movies and their influence on modern cinema. We delve into the filmmaking techniques used in Woody Allen's Annie Hall, exploring how it shaped modern films like Olivia Wilde's Book Smart and Game Night. Our panellists also analyze the cultural impact of other nominees such as The Goodbye Girl, The Turning Point, and Julia, sparking an interesting debate on overlooked films like Saturday Night Fever and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. As we reflect on the 1977 Oscars. Listen in as we discuss a pivotal year in film history and ponder if the Oscars truly got it right in 1977. Don't miss out on this fascinating trip down memory lane! Transcript 0:00:00 - Speaker 1 In 1928, the first winner for Outstanding Motion Picture was Wings. In a few minutes we'll know the 50th. The films nominated for the Academy Award this year are Annie Hall, jack Rollins, charles H Jaffe Productions. United Artists. Charles H Jaffe, producer. The Goodbye Girl. Ray Stark Production. Metra Goldwood-Mair, warner Brothers. Ray Stark, producer. Julia, a 20th Century Fox Production. 20th Century Fox. Richard Roth, producer. Star Wars, a 20th Century Fox Production, 20th Century Fox. Gary Kurtz, producer. The Turning Point, hera Productions, 20th Century Fox. Herbert Ross and Arthur Lawrence, producers. And the winner is Annie Hall, charles H Jaffe.  0:01:22 - Speaker 2 It's the fourth episode of For Your Reconsideration 1977 has arrived. Yay, apologies to Kermit and the Muppets, i get excited. I'm Mattie Price and along with producer Jamie JD Doe, we are back with a great panel. I'm your host for the conversation once again. Will we need a do-over, or did the Oscars get it right? This episode looks at the mostly American movies of 1977, including Best Picture winner Annie Hall, dance Drama, the Turning Point, unreliable Memoir, julia Star Vehicle, the Goodbye Girl and an obscure film now lost to history, star Wars. As always, our panelists will present their own alternative ballot and winner. Thanks again for listening and downloading.  As always, this podcast is available pretty much wherever podcasts are available, and you can learn more about this and other great shows at Doveracom. That's D-E-W-V-R-Ecom. Join me. Panelists Karen Gordon, ryan McNeil and Leslie Byron Pitt. This discussion was recorded over the interwebs and feels like it happened only yesterday actually, instead of one or two weeks ago, so let's get into it. Okay, this is 1977. I am Maddie Price. I'm joined by an amazing panel. I'm going to go around and give everybody a chance to introduce themselves. Karen, why don't you start? Let the folks know who you are.  0:02:55 - Speaker 3 Hi, maddie, thanks And hello everybody. My name is Karen Gordon, i'm located in Toronto and I'm a freelancer. One of the things I do is work as a film writer and film critic. I'm a longtime film fan, so it's really an exciting thing to me to be able to do this. I've done film criticism, writing on a whole bunch of mediums TV, on the CBC, on radio But I'm also one of the founding critics of a website called OriginalSynca, and that's mostly what I'm doing now.  0:03:26 - Speaker 2 Nice Thanks And thank you for doing this. It's a pleasure. On a personal note, karen Gordon, you are my favorite, maybe one of my top five favorite all-time CBC radio hosts. Thank, you. And I'm so happy that I got to know you really, really, truly.  0:03:41 - Speaker 3 Thank you. I was always freelance, never full-time there, so maybe I should send this to them.  0:03:45 - Speaker 2 The first time I met you, i was scared to go up to you. That's how much I think you're great. I like everybody on the show, but I just needed to say that I needed to level set un-Karen. Leslie, please introduce yourself from across the pond, as it were.  0:04:04 - Speaker 5 Yeah, so my name's Leslie. I am a film writer, podcaster and photographer allegedly all those things in England And I've been kind of freelancing and writing movies for more than I would like to say, mostly blogging, but just I find myself in places like Set the Tape. I've written for Empire, i've contributed to BBC iPlayer and Sight and Sound and Jazz FM and all over the place.  0:04:40 - Speaker 2 And thank you so much Again. This is such a thrill to meet you in person. I know you threw a website called Row 3, which is now defunct. Yeah, But boy, it's been a pleasure knowing you all these years and to get to talk to you in person Amazing. Last oh, me too. Last, and absolutely not least, because of course I am the worst person here, Ryan welcome.  0:05:02 - Speaker 6 I'm Ryan McNeil. I'm in Toronto, canada. I feel like I'm the one at the kids table in this little coffee clutch that we've assembled. My podcast is the matineeca. You can find it anywhere. The podcasts are found. We talk about film from the point of view of passion and perspective and a bribe. Fort Knightley used to write a lot more than I do now. Maybe one day I'll try it again, but these days I live behind my microphone and inside of my own headphones and I'm very, very happy to be here.  0:05:33 - Speaker 2 Yes, this is super exciting. I'm really. This is a great year. I'm really happy to dig into it with you guys.  Just a level set The Best Picture nominees for this year of 1977, which was presented in 78. The winner was Annie Hall, a little tiny film that nobody had heard of, called Star Wars, the Goodbye Girl, julia and The Turning Point. One thing I like to do to start this off is just a level set with everybody and get a sense of your perspective In a way. What I'm curious about is what is your relationship to this year in movies, like, how did you generally encounter these films And this year in filmmaking, were you alive? You may not have been And, for instance, i was six in 1977.  Here's what I remember. I remember other six-year-old kids in my class bragging in September about how many times that summer they had seen Star Wars. I've seen it four times. I've seen it five times And I remember thinking that was dumb. I just remember. I very distinctly remember thinking what Five times, that's just dumb And obviously I was wrong. I did not see any of those other nominated films that year. I didn't see any of them until much later The Goodbye Girl and Annie Hall. I probably saw it in early high school, grade nine or 10, something like that. And then I watched Julia and The Turning Point much more recently, and I think that may be the same for you guys. But I'm curious what were you like in 1977? Were you a thing? And, whether you were or not, how did you come at these movies?  0:07:15 - Speaker 5 It was the first. Well, i think I don't know if I'm the youngest, so I wasn't around in 1977. So how I got to these films? I obviously had seen two of the nominees already in my teenage years, and I do mean my teenage years. I saw Annie Hall and Star Wars when I was in my teens.  I didn't watch Star Wars when I was younger, and that one decision has kind of really dictated how I view movies. I think so many people watch Star Wars and they're in love with it And I am at times indifferent to it, and fans have not made it easier. But the year of 1977, for me, i just went back and looked at some lists of these movies and I just forget how stacked some of these years of film are. And I just had a look and there was a list of films that I had that I thought was just a little bit more interesting at times. I mean, you got Saturday Night Live, you got A Raise A Head and you got Close Encounters, sorcerer, looking for Mr Goodbar and Free Women And I'm like, wow, this is interesting the nominations they picked up, because I would have changed at least three of them.  0:08:45 - Speaker 2 We're gonna hold that thought We're gonna get there. Ryan, were you alive?  0:08:52 - Speaker 6 Not quite. I was conceived Great to go. Mom and Dad.  0:08:57 - Speaker 2 So you, as my parents would say, you did not have a window seat.  0:09:00 - Speaker 6 I did not have a window seat. No, yeah. So I mean, star Wars is one of the earliest films I can remember seeing as a boy. I'm a little bit more into it than, obviously, than Leslie is, but not as into it as some, and so I can understand the angst for lack of a better word. As I got into classic film in my early 20s, i would have come across Annie Hall And then, more recently, the Goodbye Girl and Julia. The Turning Point was the only film that I had never seen before, you know, being approached for this show. So that was the new introduction And I find this to be a really fascinating little cross-section, even more fascinating when you mentioned some of those films that Leslie talked about that are on the outside looking in. But this is a really, really interesting group of films.  0:09:54 - Speaker 2 Yeah, i couldn't agree more. I'm dying to sort of get into it. I will give Karen. Karen, i apologize for in any way referencing your age, but my suspicion is you did see some of these.  0:10:05 - Speaker 3 Yeah, i would really terrified to talk. I considered hanging up. Not only was I alive in 1977, when I was already into my 20s, i'd already had a job and moved to another city. I was living in Ottawa in 1977 and saw was already. It's funny, at that point in my life I didn't think of movies as anything but the thing I did on the weekend. And so I had.  When I thought back, when I started writing about movies and thought back to what, which movies? Annie Hall, for me, changed the game, by the way. It was a huge moment for me, and Star Wars was a novelty, a wonderful novelty, but it w

    Reassessing the 1977 Best Picture: Iconic Films and Missed Opportunities

  2. 06/18/2023

    The 50th Annual Academy Awards - A Primer

    Get ready for a blast from the past as we take you back to 1977, an unforgettable year in American filmmaking. Join me, your host Matti Price, and our fantastic panel of film writers and broadcasters, Karen Gordon, Leslie Byron Pitt, and Ryan McNeil, as we discuss the 50th Academy Awards, the groundbreaking achievements in sound, and the legends we lost during this iconic year in cinema.  We won't just focus on the Oscars – we'll also pay tribute to the likes of the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley, and Bing Crosby, as well as the directors and actors who left their mark on the silver screen. From Howard Hawks and William Castle to the tragically short but brilliant career of John Cazale, we'll explore the magic of 1977 together in this episode of For Your Reconsideration. So, visit Dewvre.com for more great podcasts, and join the conversation! Transcript For Your Reconsideration is a podcast. In the next episode, we have a great and diverse panel and really a pretty crazy year 1977. I'm Matty Price and, along with JD, we could not be happier to be able to bring you discussions like the one we have coming up. As per usual, our panellists discuss a specific year in mostly American filmmaking through the clarifying crucible of Oscar's best picture. I'll be your host this time. Our panellists are film writers and broadcasters Karen Gordon, Leslie Byron, Pitt and, of course, a longtime friend of the show, podcaster and writer, Ryan McNeil.  The 50th Academy Awards were actually held earlier than in previous years, in February of 1978. They were back at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and they went back to a single host for the first time in a while, bringing Bob Hope back as MC for the night. Despite Annie Hall winning Best Picture along with three other awards, it was actually Star Wars that had the best night. Overall, they took home six Oscars. Woody Allen did do something that nobody had done for a while, becoming the first person since Orson Welles to be nominated for writing, directing and acting in the same picture. The turning point still holds the record for most nominations without a single win with 11. They are tied with the colour purple and Close Encounters is tied with two films They Shoot Horses, don't They? and The Poseidon Adventure for most nominations without a Best Picture nod, with eight.  There were two special achievement awards that year and actually, both of them were for sound. The sound was in a bit of a major renaissance in the late 70s with stereo, surround and digital sounds all coming to audiences really for the first time. One of those awards went to Frank Warner and Close Encounters for sound editing, and you can imagine the editing in Close Encounters and the specific sounds of those organ notes and everything else that happens. I mean it is an achievement. But the real achievement, I think, went to Ben Burt for creating the Alien Robot and Creature Voices in Star Wars Boy. There's a lot to talk about with Star Wars but I can't imagine it without that soundscape. Just amazing.  Notable presenters, performers and recipients of awards that year included Debbie Boone, who sang You Light Up My Life. Now they decided that when she sang You Light Up My Life they would have deaf interpreters on the stage to sign as she sang. The problem is they turned out to not be real interpreters. They were fakes and their signs were totally unintelligible to the deaf community. Nailed it, Debbie Boone.  The ceremony also neatly defined two sides of a debate that continues and actually probably will never be settled. Vanessa Redgrave used her acceptance speech to address concerns she had with the rights of the Palestinian community and how she was being treated in the press, and Patty Czevsky used his presenter time to essentially rebuke that by saying he was quite sick and tired of people exploiting the occasion of the Academy Awards for the propagation of their own personal political propaganda. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no end to this debate. Should actors and actresses and others Stand up for things they are important in front of a global, they feel are important in front of a global audience, or should they shut up and dribble? Yeesh? Anyway, lots of special, special presenters, including Mickey Mouse, r2-d2 and C3PO, as the awards got increasingly sophisticated from a production standpoint and they were able to mix in things like remote-controlled robots and animation and live action. Really a big moment in terms of how the show looked.  Jack Nicholson presented Best Picture and the Academy Awards. Chorus brought That's Entertainment back again. They really love That's Entertainment. Anyway, for the first year in several years, they gave OJ Simpson the night off. I'm actually not sure what he did with his free time.  As always, there was no in memoriam until 1993, but for that year it would have been, I think, quite significant. Two of the remaining three Marx Brothers passed away, Groucho and Gummo, and Zeppo would pass really only a couple of years later. So the end of an era in terms of that, and, and kind of interesting that the same year that Annie Hall got nominated, I think there's a pretty direct line between the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen, especially in the early years of his career. Charlie Chaplin also passed away that year, as did Joan Crawford. So some real Titans.  On the character actor side, three huge influential character actors Zero Mustel, most famously from the producers, but also the original Tevea and Fiddler on the Roof. Sebastian Cabot, who just an absolutely wonderful presence in a lot of Hitchcock films and later movies as well, and also Gene Hagen. Now, the name Gene Hagen might not mean anything to you just on the surface, but if I say I can't see them, maybe you'll realize who she is. Gene Hagen is, for my money, the best part of one of the best movies that I know, which is Singing in the Rain. Steven Boyd also passed away. Steven Boyd had a really interesting career. He was the second lead in Ben Hur, starting a lot of stuff. But the reason I bring him up is that he was the star of an absolutely incredible so bad it's a good movie, The Oscar, which I mean. Check that movie out. It is insane to me that they built that movie the way they did. The minute you start watching it you're like I cannot believe that this is the movie they decided to make and call The Oscar And then cut short, cut down in the prime of his life with four incredible performances and we all lost out.  John Kazal, who had been Fredo in The Godfather and The Godfather part two, starred in Dog Day Afternoon and had a very strong role in The Dear Hunter and tragically passed away way too young. Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby both died that year, so significantly they left only Sinatra as the last man standing in terms of the greatest pop hero icons of the 20th century. Directors who passed away that year included Howard Hawks, William Castle, Roberto Rossellini and Bob McKimson, who was a director of hundreds and hundreds of Looney Tunes shorts, as well a couple of people in the history of noir, both James M Cain, who wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice. Tay Garnett, who directed it, passed away in that year. Tay Garnett also and this is just for viewers who want to go down this road He directed one of my favorite movies of all time. It stars Marlena Dietrich and John Wayne and it's called Seven Sinners, or sometimes called Cafe of the Seven Sinners, and I love it and I hope you check it out. Last but absolutely not least, Leopold Stokowski, was quite an accomplished conductor but famously was the conductor in Fantasia. Anyway, I'm looking forward to sharing this year's movies with all of you.  1977 is coming right up. Remember, go to Dewvre.com for all the shows and more great podcasts. Can't wait to talk to you again. On For Your Reconsideration, for Your Reconsideration is the production of Dewvre Podcasts and Such. To subscribe, share, rate and review. Please visit Dewvre.com.

    The 50th Annual Academy Awards - A Primer

  3. 06/11/2023

    6. Reassessing the Film Treasures of 1976's Best Picture Race

    Join us on a cinematic journey through the best picture nominees of 1976, as our panel of film buffs, including JD Duran, Dave Voigt, Norm Wilner, and myself, Matti Price, revisit the Academy Awards and dissect the impact of these films on the movie industry. We're diving deep into the cultural impact of Rocky, the legacy of Network, and the storytelling approaches of All the President's Men and Bound for Glory, so grab your popcorn and get ready to view these classics through a fresh lens! Discover how the iconic underdog story of Rocky has stood the test of time and influenced the movie industry, as well as its effect on Stallone's career. Unravel the relevancy of Network's critique on the media landscape, as we analyze its themes and explore how they have become more poignant in today's world. Our panellists will also shed light on the technical achievements and stellar performances that made these groundbreaking films the talk of the town in 1976. As we wrap up our discussion, we'll pose the question: did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences get it right in 1976? We'll examine the impact of these films on the industry and explore our own cinematic blind spots from that year. From the horror films like Carrie and The Omen to foreign films like Seven Beauties and Cousin Cousine, we'll leave no stone unturned. Join us as we reevaluate the best picture nominees of 1976 and see if they still hold up today! Transcript 0:00:01 - Speaker 1 The film is nominated for the Academy Award this year. All the President's Men. A Wildwood Enterprises production. Warner Brothers. Walter Colbin's producer. Bound for Glory the Bound for Glory Company production. United Artists. Robert F Blumoff and Harold Leventhal. Producers. Network a. Howard Gottfried-Patty Chefsky production. Metro Golden Mayor. United Artists. Howard Gottfried. producer. Rocky a. Robert Chardhoff Irwin Winkler production. United Artists. Irwin Winkler and Robert Chardhoff. Producers. Taxi Driver. A Bill Hyphen Phillips. Production of a Martin Scorsese film. Columbia Pictures. Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. Producers. The winner is Rocky. Irwin Winkler and Robert Chardhoff. Producers. For Your Re-Consideration.  0:01:29 - Speaker 2 Hey, it's JD here and welcome to, for Your Re-Consideration, an Oscars podcast. Each and every week, i assemble a panel of film buffs to talk about movies, so get your popcorn and join us. This week, we're discussing 1976 and its best picture, rocky. We'll also be discussing the other four films that were nominated in the category, and they are All the President's Men, bound for Glory Network and Taxi Driver. As always, we'll open the table for our panelists to curate their own ballot by removing one or more films and allowing them to add their own. Once we've done all that, we'll get to the nitty gritty and ask the question did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences get it right? Today we've got an excellent panel including JD Durand, dave Voight and Norm Wilner, along with your host, maddie Price. With that preview out of the way, let's dim the lights and start the show.  0:02:39 - Speaker 3 This is a spectacular year for movies that were nominated. I don't know if 1976 is the best year for movies, but it might be the best year for Oscar nominees of those movies. Probably we'll talk to our guests or panelists here, but it feels like there's the least amount of daylight between what was actually good in the long run and what the Oscars talked about, which rarely, if ever, happens. So let's just get started. I am Maddie Price. I am your host. I would love to introduce our panelists, starting with JD. JD, welcome to For Your Reconsideration. Would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself?  0:03:22 - Speaker 4 Yeah, first of all, thanks for having me. I'm really glad to be here. I am the owner of Incession Film, so we've been doing Incession Film for a little over 10 years now, which is hard to believe We have. I guess there's the podcast side of us and then there's the written element of the website as well. So we have two podcasts one that we do each week that has a slew of film topics. We have Our Women in Session a show as well, which is really great, and then we also have a team of writers that I really love that do such a great job of writing written content at IncessionFilmcom as well. So they had just been at this for a little while now and we got a good little team, and I'm very, very excited for everyone that's been doing this with us over the last decade or so.  0:04:24 - Speaker 3 Thank you, that's great, and we will talk about where we can find all your work towards the end of the show. Norm, how are you?  0:04:34 - Speaker 5 I'm well, thank you. It's been a while since I've done a film panel and it's kind of nice to know that it's still a thing that's happening. I don't even know how to introduce myself anymore. I used to be a film critic. I still kind of am, But in the last year I've taken a job with Tiff and I don't know when this episode is going to be coming out, so I hesitate to even give you my job title because it's about to change for you to do some stuff happening. It's not I'm not teasing anything, it's just that the things that I have at the top are not going to be the things that's happening anymore.  Nah, it's just some moving around. It's basically I don't know which order to say stuff in. So I was let's see what was it Programmer Digital Releasing and Industry Selects and Co-host of Secret Movie Club Probably still doing all that stuff, but then there's going to be some other stuff too, so it's just a question of reorganization. On the business card, which is sad because I think I only gave away like seven of those. But yeah, that's my mostly thing. I do that all the time, and I also have a podcast called Someone Else's Movie that will be eight years old on March 14th, I think, and I write a newsletter called Shiny Things where I just talk about physical media and whatever else I want to, because it turns out I kind of miss writing after all. Excellent.  0:05:55 - Speaker 3 I will be coming back to you for a norm specific question a little later in this show, but I appreciate that very convoluted But Norm is still employed.  0:06:03 - Speaker 6 That's very hard.  0:06:04 - Speaker 3 Yes, it's just very hard to talk about. What are our lives anymore in this pandemic age? Bringing me to Mr Voight, dave, how are you I am doing?  0:06:14 - Speaker 6 well, sir, tell us about yourself, but I mean well, just I mean for those who don't know. For those who don't know, my name is Dave Voight and I'm the editor and producer and host over at InTheSeatsca for all the latest and greatest from the world of film television, basically the moving image at large from all around the world. However, i am also the host and producer of our podcast series, where I sit down with a wide-ranging variety of industry professionals and I pick the brain about current projects, state of the industry and so very much more, in light and conversational fashion, called InTheSeats, with Excellent.  0:06:47 - Speaker 3 Well, thank you all. You're all well prepared for this. My norm specific question is that, as we get into this year, norm, do you want to tell us all the people we're going to talk about who you have been in a room with, like all at once now, or would you rather drop those names as we go through the show? It is your choice how you would like to approach it. It's honestly 30 years as a movie journalist. you have met a lot of people. It's funny And I feel like you always have good anecdotes.  0:07:17 - Speaker 5 Not so many for this year. It's weird. I think there's some sort of changing of the guard that was going on where the people who were making movies in 1976, or making movies that got released in 1976, were already sort of aging out of the publicity circuit by the time I started writing. And even in 1989, i guess, is when I first started really doing interviews with people And there's a handful here or there, but really not so many I was surprised to find that even the Cassavetes film Killing of a Chinese Bookie, i never met Gazzara. I never got the chance. He's the black hole in there. I had interviewed Rowlands and Falk and Al Raban and Seymour Cassel, but yeah, missed out on the core of that one.  0:08:01 - Speaker 3 Well, i don't think there's a bigger sweetheart in the history of Hollywood than Seymour Cassel, so we can talk about that later.  0:08:07 - Speaker 5 Absolutely Lovely, lovely man.  0:08:08 - Speaker 3 The best. Met him on the street one time, just great.  So let's talk a little bit about the 1977 Academy Awards event itself, honoring the films of 1976. This was the 49th Academy Awards, held, as was the usual thing during that time period, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Interestingly enough, had a four person hosting quad of people. None of them were comedians, i guess, except for Richard Pryor. Ellen Burston, jane Fonda and Warren Beatty were the other hosts. I would love to have seen the rehearsals of whatever those interact with.  Leading up to the show, chevy Chase came out and explained the voting rules, which also probably was pretty funny at the time, before Chevy Chase became who he is now. Other presenters that year included Muhammad Ali, lillian Hellman and Norman Mailer. Ben Vereen performed Going to Fly Now the theme from Rocky, which I have been digging online, cannot find a clip of it. But boy, i would love to see whatever that was. No honorary Oscars that year, but there were a couple of special achievement awards for effects. The visual effects teams of King Kong and Logan's Run both got special achievement awards.  Pedro S Berman won the Thalberg and a couple of notable award nominations. The first time a woman was nominated for directing a film was in this year. Did not happen again until 1993, with Jane Campio

    6. Reassessing the Film Treasures of 1976's Best Picture Race

  4. 06/04/2023

    5. 1976 Primer

    Ever wondered how the Oscars have evolved over time and their impact on the film industry? Join Matti Price and his esteemed panel of guests as we take a trip down memory lane and focus on the awards year of 1976. The upcoming episode will feature series regular Norm Wilner (critic and TIFF programmer), Dave Voight (InTheSeats.ca), and JD Duran (InSessionFilm.com), our insightful conversation delves into the fascinating history of the Academy Awards and their role in shaping the world of cinema. From the original 5 to the current 17 branches, we'll examine the Oscars' journey and uncover some lesser-known facts about these prestigious awards, like the story behind the iconic gold-plated bronze statue and the original intentions of the Academy's founders. Plus, we discuss how the Oscars have influenced the film industry and why certain categories, like stunt performers, still remain conspicuously absent. Don't miss this engaging and insightful conversation about one of the most famous awards shows in the world! 0:00:05 - Speaker 1 For Your Reconsideration, for Your Reconsideration is a podcast. Next week we return with another year in movies and a panel that can't wait to discuss them. I'm Mattie Price, and myself and Jamie Dew, JD, as we like to say are your navigators through the sometimes choppy waters of the past. Once again, we have put together some great panellists to examine and contextualize a whole year in mostly American movies. Alongside the choices the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made for that year's best picture, we'll be focusing on 1976. I'm in the host chair this time. Joining me are series regular Norm Wilner, a critic and Tiff programmer, Dave Voight from InTheSeats.ca, also a writer and podcaster, and another great writer and podcaster, jd Duran from InSessionFilmcom. It's a good talk. I'm hoping you'll join us. I've been thinking about how we got here this podcast, but also the idea that the Oscars, no matter what you think of them, have this weird special place in the culture. There are a lot of awards shows, but clearly this is the king Name, the winner of a song of the year at the Grammys from 1976. Not easy, it's. I write the songs.  By the way, barry Manilow, the Academy was put together basically to improve the image of the film industry. It was often seen as a kind of disreputable business. Its founders, including Louis B Mayer, cecil B DeMille and Irving Thalberg, wanted to promote this idea that there was artistic achievement of the film community and they basically just wanted to give it credibility. That said, they also wanted to use the Academy to mediate labor disputes without unions because of course they did. They actually spent more time initially working on labor disputes, but eventually they turned the Academy away from arbitrations. There were 230 initial members under founding president Douglas Fairbank Sr. The awards were actually approved in July of 1928 with 12 original categories. Ballots were sent out to the 230 members. Actually, some of those original 12 awards are still around Best actor, best actress, best cinematography, and others have really changed over time. There were separate directing awards for comedy and drama. There was both an outstanding picture award, which was won by Wings, and a quote unquote best unique and artistic picture, which was won by Sunrise, a song of two humans, which is why you'll often see both of those films cited as the winner of the first Academy award. There was also an award for best title writing, which I mean. Who knew that was even a job? Where is that job? I could make a meal out of that job. You put the whole movie together, make it and then I come in at the end and just do the title in. I am in for that.  Most people know that Oscar itself is made of sort of gold-plated bronze and it was designed by Cedric Gibbons, who was the head of the art department at MGM Studios. Just Google Cedric Gibbons His name is on literally 5,000 movies. It depicts the statue sorry, depicts a knight holding a sword and he's standing on a reel of film that has five spokes. There's a spoke for each of the original five branches of the Academy, which were actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers. There are currently 17 branches of the Academy, most of which were actually expanded from that technicians group. As films got larger, studios understood that you needed more people and that films became more of a collaboration of departments. So cinematographers, visual effects, sound, makeup and hair stylists, designers, editors and costume designers all pretty much grew out of that initial technicians designation. The Academy also has branches now for less direct participants in filmmaking casting directors, public relations and executives. But despite the 17, there's still this glaring omission which remains for stunt performers They do not have their own Academy branch and they still have no representation and no award.  The Academy Awards is the world's longest running show award show that is televised live, and today it's actually broadcast live in 76 countries. Over the years there have also been condensed, edited versions of the awards packaged to be broadcast later around the world, which I honestly that might be something home audiences would enjoy if it were possible in real time. I would certainly sign on to watch a two hour condensed version of the Oscars if I had the choice. Anyway, we will be back soon with the 1976 awards year. Hope you can join us. Go to duvercom for all the shows and more great podcasts. Can't wait to talk to you again. On For Your Reconsideration. 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    5. 1976 Primer

  5. 05/28/2023

    4. Exploring the Best Picture Nominees of 1975 and Their Lasting Effects

    Welcome back to another episode of For Your Reconsideration! This time, we're taking a trip back in time to explore the iconic 1975 movie season. Join me, Matty Price, along with expert panelists Ryan McNeil, and JM McNabb and our host jD, as we discuss the Best Picture nominees – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, and Nashville. We'll be offering our own alternative ballot and winner, so be sure to tune in! Listen in as we dissect each of the five nominated movies from 1975, discussing standout performances, unique filmmaking techniques, and cultural impact. We'll also touch on lesser-known gems from the year that could have made the cut for Best Picture. As we analyze each film, we'll share our thoughts on which ones have stood the test of time and which ones might be due for a reevaluation. In addition to our in-depth analysis of these classic films, we'll be exploring the broader movie landscape of 1975, discussing the role of air conditioning in theaters, the impact of blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars, and the ever-evolving landscape of the Academy Awards. So grab some popcorn and join us as we revisit the unforgettable movie season of 1975 on For Your Reconsideration! --------- EPISODE CHAPTERS --------- (0:00:00) - For Your Reconsideration (0:15:14) - Film Critique and Analysis (0:18:38) - Nashville (0:30:48) - Analysis of "Dog Day Afternoon" (0:39:06) - Jaws and Its Cultural Impact (0:48:49) - Movie Business and Academy Awards (0:53:35) - Cuckoo's Nest Analysis (1:02:40) - 1975 Oscar Nominee Do-Over (1:10:48) - Film Podcast Transcript 0:00:00 - Cold Open The nominees for the best picture of the year are Barry Linden, a Hawke Film Limited production, warner Brothers, stanley Kubrick producer, dog Day Afternoon, warner Brothers, martin Bregman and Martin L Fan producers. So is Universal, xanac Brown production, universal, richard D Xanac and David Brown producers, nashville, an ABC entertainment, jerry Wyenthal, robert Altman production, paramount, robert Altman producer. And one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, a fantasy films production, united Artists, saul Zanz and Michael Douglas producers. And the winner is one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. And the winner is one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.  0:01:25 - Matti Hey, i'm Matty Price and welcome to another episode of For Your Reconsideration. As always, our expert panel will dive deeply and look fondly at a full year in mostly American movies, ultimately deciding if that year's Oscars got it right or need a do-over. This week we're looking at the films of 1975, including Best Picture Winner One, flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and nominees Barry Linden, dog Day Afternoon, jaws and Nashville, along with many other films made and released in that pivotal year. As always, our panelists will be able to present their own alternative ballot and winner. Thanks for listening and downloading. You can find this podcast through the client of your choice at duvercom. That's D-E-W-V-R-Ecom. A great year and should be a great discussion, so join. Host JD, jamie Dew and panelists JM McNabb, ryan McNeil and oh me, i'm a panelist this time out. Oh, that's a switch. Well, listen, this was recorded live and in the same room, face to face, in the before times when we all could be face to face, geez, i hope I knew what I was talking about, so let's get into it ["Mammo Podcast"].  0:02:58 - jD Hey, it's JD here and welcome to For Your Reconsideration. Let's get right to the panel. Starting on my left, we have.  0:03:05 - Matti I'm Matthew Price of the Mammo podcast. I'm nominally half of that podcast. I guess potentially 49%. I'm the Mammo, i'm No, we're both the Mam. Do I need to go through this again? All right, for folks that are interested, there are probably 55 episodes of Mammo that explain why it's called Mammo, so you can buy all of them, just randomly pick one, you'll find it.  It's in the context And identify those episodes, put them together and, hopefully, tell you We're still working on having some sort of custom price for our contest, but we haven't gotten anything yet. Anyway, that's Hawaii Cool. Thanks, man.  0:03:44 - Ryan I'm Ryan McNeil, my site is theMatin8.ca, which is not nearly as complicated to explain, and I also host the Magnatecast.  0:03:52 - JM Cool. thanks, man. I'm JM McNabb. I'm one of the hosts of the rewatchability podcast. rewatchabilitycom, or the iTunes or whatever fringe websites people get podcasts on, is probably there. Are you on GeoCities? Probably? yeah, we're on Angel Fire now It's pretty big.  0:04:11 - Speaker 4 There are a ton. I did a search just the other day and there were like two sites that I've never signed up for or anything like that that were carrying podcasts, Yeah yeah, yeah, that's weird.  Totally far out, thanks. Well, we're here to talk about an embarrassment of riches, i think, 1975,. We're going to talk about the five nominated pictures today, and then we'll go around the table and we'll hear what you guys have to think, whether the ballot should stay the same, whether it should change, You're scratching your chin?  0:04:46 - Speaker 5 That's my pencil. look, i'm sorry. OK, is that picking up on the mic?  0:04:50 - Speaker 4 No, no, no, I was just waiting for you to say 1975. Suddenly, the panel drinks.  0:04:57 - Speaker 5 I don't have a pipe and a monocle, so that's like I'm going to scratch my chin.  0:05:02 - Speaker 4 You must feel beardless.  0:05:03 - Speaker 6 I have no idea how naked I feel.  0:05:06 - Speaker 4 Three of us have beards, one of us do not. Let's see if you can pick that up.  0:05:09 - Speaker 2 You're trying to groan, it just won't grow Are you even allowed to talk about movies.  0:05:12 - Speaker 6 I know, but that's your thing. It'll be your tour of the war, and so already Here's how we come full circle.  0:05:17 - Speaker 3 In the 1980s, you weren't allowed to make them unless you had a beard Right, You can't talk about them. Yeah, Everyone's sort of seazy. Having the beard like It was like, oh, you have to have one And we're not letting you. What are you?  0:05:27 - Speaker 5 going to get behind the camera without a beard. You'll cut your chin in the view. Peter, that's fine, that's right.  0:05:34 - Speaker 3 You can't have a house, come back and you have a beard.  0:05:36 - Speaker 5 Most people haven't seen the photos.  0:05:37 - Speaker 3 She was pretty quiet, but Nina Burtmuller had a huge beard Yeah, she had a huge beard.  0:05:41 - Speaker 4 She was five.  0:05:42 - Speaker 3 Yeah.  0:05:43 - Speaker 4 We were running a little hot there with that beard talk. I just had to make some adjustments there. It was all right guys. So I got excited 1975, we had as your best picture that year. One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. The other four nominees were Jaws Nashville, dog Day Afternoon and Barry Lyndon. Is there a particular film that you guys want to start with?  0:06:06 - Speaker 3 Jesus throwing darts Can we start with Barry Lyndon.  0:06:08 - Speaker 4 Yeah.  0:06:10 - Speaker 3 Because I just feel like it's the easy one to talk about. at least for me, I don't know how everybody else wants to.  0:06:13 - Speaker 5 Yeah, let's start with. Yeah, it's a brief movie that's easy to talk about Very long.  0:06:19 - Speaker 3 I mean in the sense that I think, legitimately, if you're looking through the lens of history, it's the one that is the easiest to dismiss as, like this is the least of all the Cooper films. It's kind of not in the same league with the other movies in this year. For me I don't know that it necessarily It feels like a movie that they're giving him because they couldn't give it to him for 2001. Like they're making up to him, yeah, and sort of like no, no, we know, We know Cooper's a genius, so here's a movie he made. It doesn't feel like part of the same cadre. I don't know how anyone else feels. Does anybody really like Barry Lyndon?  0:06:51 - Speaker 4 Okay. So I went into it thinking I was really going to dislike it. I don't dislike it, but I I guess I come in with this weird bias that for some reason I think I don't like Santa Cooper movies, But every time I sit down and watch one I'm like f**k, that's pretty good. It is pretty good, And this was no exception for me, Other than the fact that the narrator sometimes ground on me a little bit. But I suspect if the narration wasn't there I would have been lost a lot of times. Yeah, I really liked it. I really really liked it.  What do you like about it? I don't know that I could put my finger on what I liked about it because, again, there's a lot of components of the movie that I shouldn't like Or, based on my history, I shouldn't like, But I found myself appreciating things that I wouldn't normally appreciate. There's a shot, for example, at one point, where the camera is way up on a hill and it's a countryside And it's just to get this stagecoach or wagon or whatever you want to call it carriage going by, And I'm watching the shot and just like Jesus Christ, like the amount of work that must went into just thinking that up is mind-blowing to me?  0:08:02 - Speaker 5 Well, the one that's cinematography Oscar this year it didn't I think it did.  0:08:07 - Speaker 4 I'm not sure what was it.  0:08:08 - Speaker 3 It went four awards, yeah, i think one of the most cinematography And it's the lenses thing. It's the only movie shot Candlelight in natural light. Or he didn't like the candlelight scenes because he had NASA make lenses for him that could take in enough light to. The lenses were the size of people's heads, Wow.  0:08:26 - Speaker 5 Yeah, so, crossman, i remember in film school when film 101 class, like the first year there when you got to cinematography. I remember seeing stills from Barry Linden. They taught us that to teach us about lens speeds and sensitivity for light

    4. Exploring the Best Picture Nominees of 1975 and Their Lasting Effects

  6. 05/21/2023

    Episode 3 - 1975 Primer

    Chapter 1: Introduction Hosted by Mattie Price and Jamie Dew Panelists: Ryan McNeil, JM McNabb, and Matti Price Overview of the podcast's premise and format Discussion on the 48th Annual Academy Awards held in 1976 Keywords: Podcast introduction, Hosts, Panelists, Academy Awards Chapter 2: Highlights of the 48th Annual Academy Awards ABC acquires broadcast rights for the first time Co-hosts: Walter Mathau, Robert Shaw, George Siegel, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly Humorous remark on the desire for a heist movie with the star-studded cast Keywords: Academy Awards highlights, ABC, Co-hosts, Humor Chapter 3: Notable Films and Achievements "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" sweeps the five major categories Comparison with other films achieving a clean sweep Mention of Isabelle Adjani's record as the youngest Best Actress nominee George Burns becomes the oldest acting winner Keywords: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Clean sweep, Youngest nominee, Oldest winner Chapter 4: Memorable Moments from the Ceremony "Jaws" winning multiple awards except Best Picture Honorary award presented to Mary Pickford Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient: Mervyn LeRoy Gene Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient: Jules C. Stein Keywords: "Jaws," Mary Pickford, Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Gene Hersholt Humanitarian Award Chapter 5: Musical Performances and Presenters Ray Bolger's opening number, "Hollywood Honors its Own" Keith Carradine's performance of "I'm Easy" USC Trojan's marching band's closing medley Notable presenters from outside the entertainment industry Keywords: Musical performances, Ray Bolger, Keith Carradine, USC Trojan's marching band, Presenters Chapter 6: Remembering the Departed Mention of notable individuals who passed away between ceremonies Frederick March, Paul Robeson, Lee Jay Cobb, Sal Minio, Michelle Simo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wild Bill Wellman, Busby Berkeley, Master Luo, Rod Serling, Sidney Buckman, Bernard Herman Keywords: In Memoriam, Departed individuals Chapter 7: Closing and Future Episodes Conclusion of the episode's content Invitation to join the panelists for the next episode on 1975 Website and contact information for the podcast Keywords: Closing remarks, Next episode preview, Contact information Transcript 0:00:05 - Speaker 1 For your reconsideration, for your reconsideration is a podcast. Next week we are back with another stacked panel and another great year in movies. I'm your host, mattie Price, and I'm here with the always fabulous Jamie Dew. Together we assemble great panelists with diverse points of view to discuss a specific year in mostly American filmmaking, but through the clarifying crucible of the Oscars Best Picture. Our next episode is a good one, looking at the movies of 1975. Jd is hosting that conversation and our panelists are Podcaster and writer Ryan McNeil, writer JM McNabb and, oh and me, mattie Price. I am in the panelist chair for this one.  So the 48th annual Academy Awards were presented in March of 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. As was the style at the time, they awarded films made in 1975. Abc had the broadcast rights for the first time and the show was once again co-hosted. This again was a popular thing in the 70s to have multiple hosts on this show. This time it was stacked Walter Mathau, robert Shaw, george Segal, goldie Hahn and Gene Kelly. Here is my heist movie with this cast is my question.  Most folks know that for the first time since it happened, one night a single movie. Milosh Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, made a clean sweep of the five major categories Best Picture, best Actor, best Actress, best Director and Best Screenplay this time adapted. It's only happened one other time so far, and that's with the Silence of the Lambs. At 20, isabella Johnny became the youngest Best Actress nominee ever at the time. Ultimately, her record was beaten first by 13-year-old Keisha Castle Hughes in whale music, and then they both went down hard to nine-year-old Kavanjanae Wallace in Beasts of the Southern Wild. At 80, george Burns became the oldest acting winner, as well as the last person born in the 19th century to receive an acting award, george Oswand. Every award it was nominated for that year, except Best Picture. The honorary award for that year went to Mary Pickford. The Irving G Thalberg Award, which is given to producers of Note, was given to Mervin G Leroy, and then they gave out a Gene Herschold Award. That's something they don't actually do all the time. That award is given for public service and working for the public good. This time they gave it to Jules C Stein, who had founded MCA, which ultimately wound up owning Universal Studios and also helped create the Hollywood canteen during World War II, which was a place where servicemen and women could go to relax and be entertained.  Ray Bolger sang the opening number. It was a classy little diddy called Hollywood Honors It's Own. I cannot find any evidence of this song anywhere but presumably it existed at the time. There were other notable musical I'm going to start that paragraph again. Ray Bolger sang the opening number, a classy little diddy called Hollywood Honors It's Own, which I can't find any evidence of that song anywhere, but I guess it does exist. There were other notable musical performances. Keith Carradine sang his Nashville hit, i'm Easy, which he also wrote. Then at the end of the show, the USC Trojans marching band played a medley of America the beautiful. And that's entertainment. I'm sure there was not a dry eye in the house.  There were other notable presenters that year from worlds outside of entertainment Gore Vidal, poet and playwright, poet and composer Rod McEwen. Audrey Hepburn was the presenter for Best Picture. Oh, and for the second year in a row, future murderer OJ Simpson gave out an Oscar. I don't know They loved OJ Simpson, i anyway. There was no in memoriam. Those didn't start until much later.  But these notable folks did pass away between ceremonies Frederick March, the great actor Paul Robeson, and the activist and brilliant performer as well, actor Lee J Cobb, who had just completed the Exorcist, not a couple of years earlier. Salminio, gone way too young from well, mostly notably from Rebel Without a Cause, but many other things as well. Michel Simond, the great French actor who worked extensively with Renoir and many other great French directors. And then, for the second year in a row, one of the three Stooges died. This time they got Moe Directors Pierpaolo Pasolini, wild, bill Wellman, busby Berkeley and Master Lucchino Visconti all passed away in that year.  Writer Rod Serling, four-time writing nominee, sidney Buckman, who wrote, among other things, mr Smith Goes to Washington and Agatha Christie. And then composer Bernard Herman died right before his score for Taxi Driver was released posthumously. So we'll be back soon with that episode 1975. Join us and our panelists, including me, and enjoy. Go to duvercom for all the shows and more great podcasts. Can't wait to talk to you again on For Your Reconciliation, for Your Reconciliation is the production of Duver Podcasts and Such. To subscribe, share, rate and review, please visit duveracom. Duvera Ah podcasts and such.

    Episode 3 - 1975 Primer

  7. 05/14/2023

    Episode 2 - 1974

    Hello & welcome to another incredible episode of “For Your Reconsideration - an Oscars podcast.” This week, Phil, Andrew, Jose, David & Norm join me on the show as we discuss five of the best Oscar-nominated movies in 1974. From Chinatown, The Conversation, Lenny, Towering Inferno to its best picture GodFather part II. Moreover, the panelists share movies they would add or eliminate in 1974. Tune in to our candid & interesting conversation on some of the best movie scenes and characters as well as our nominee movie from 1974! Timestamps [01:23] Introducing this week’s topic, “1974.” [01:58] About this week’s panelists [04:12] Why “Chinatown” is one of the best-written films of the 70s in the detective movie genre & Jack’s outstanding character [17:07] Interesting scenes in “The Towering Inferno “movie & McQueen versus Newman performance [25:03] Was McQueen’s role supposed to be Newman’s role? [27:50] Dissecting outstanding characters and problems in “Lenny” [35:31] Lenny Bruce's exceptional performance in Lenny compared to his actual sets [37:58] The conspiracy paranoia and what stands out in “The Conversation Movie.” [52:00] Best scenes & characters in “The Godfather Part II” Movie [01:04:20] What would our panel take away or add to the 1974 list [01:13:33] Does 1974 require a do-over? [01:15:17] The Panel’s nominee movie from the 1974 list Notable Quotes “Chinatown is a great stepping stone movie for anyone that wants to get into the film world.” (08:35-08:40) “Lenny is just too off the moment and too rigidly controlled to try and stick to the story. It's almost too faithful.” (32:10-32:22) “In a lot of ways, Lenny Bruce was more of a performance artist than he was in stand-up. People respect Lenny Bruce's performance more than his actual sets. They appreciate the craft more than what he was actually saying.” (37:39-37:53) “The Godfather will always be a classic movie.” (56:20-56:22) Please share, subscribe & leave a review! Transcript 0:00:01 - Speaker 1 The nominees for the best picture of the year are Chinatown, a Robert Evans production, paramount. Robert Evans producer. The Conversation, a director's company production, paramount. Francis Ford Coppola producer. Fred Roos, co producer. The Godfather Part II, a Coppola company production, paramount. Francis Ford Coppola producer. Gray Fredrickson and Fred Roos co-producers. Lenny, a Marvin Worth production, united Artists. Marvin Worth producer. The Towering Inferno, an Irwin Allen production, 20th Century Fox, warner Brothers. Irwin Allen producer. And the winner is Godfather Part II, francis Ford Coppola, gray Fredrickson and Fred Roos. For your reconsideration.  0:01:20 - Speaker 2 Hey, it's Matty Price. Myself and today's host, jamie Dew, are here for you, as we will be in every episode. Welcome to, for Your Reconsideration, an Oscars podcast. As always, we have an amazing panel of film buffs. This week, we are looking at the best picture of 1974, the Godfather, part II, as well as the other nominees Lenny, the Conversation, the Towering Inferno and Chinatown. As always, we will open it up so the panel can discuss those films, but also curate their own ballots. Remove choices they think don't work, add films that they feel like shouldn't have been overlooked. So thanks again for listening. Subscribe through the podcast client of your choice to get new episodes every week as they are available. Welcome to Season 1, and now it's time to join this episode's host, jamie. Panelist Norm Willner, David Brown, david Follows, andrew Parker and Jose Roldan. Listen. The episode was originally recorded live and in person in 2016. Remember 2016?  0:02:23 - Speaker 3 Before there was a pandemic And we all Oh, never mind, anyway, let's get into it, it's 1974 is what we're doing and of course, i didn't recall that This is the year I was born, so Well of course you wouldn't recall.  0:02:46 - Speaker 4 I don't remember a whole bunch.  0:02:52 - Speaker 3 We will go around the table with introductions. Does everybody introduce themselves? I wasn't here when everybody else arrived, but we'll start over here on my left.  0:02:57 - Speaker 5 Andrew Parker. I am the Film and Performing Arts Editor of the website Dorkshelf. You can find me on Twitter at AndrewJ Parker.  0:03:04 - Speaker 3 Cool Thanks.  0:03:05 - Speaker 4 Andrew, i'm Norm.  0:03:06 - Speaker 3 Willner. You can find me on Twitter at Norm Willner.  0:03:08 - Speaker 4 I'm the senior film writer for Now Magazine and I also do some stuff for MSN Great.  0:03:13 - Speaker 6 Thanks, norm, i'm Phil Brown. You can find me on Twitter at that. Phil Brown and I rate for a bunch of. I rate for Dorkshelf and Now, like Them and I rate for Charmstar and Globe and Mound Remorgen Fingery and Bunch of Anyone will let me? basically.  0:03:28 - Speaker 8 I'm Jose Roldan. You can find me on Twitter at DEC22CM and I work for one of the major studios. I'm a suit.  0:03:35 - Speaker 7 I love all movies, i'm all about movies. No, he's not in a suit right now. Yeah, i'm David Follows. I am only from Drink Along with Dave and Jeremy. I play Jeremy. I'm going to steal Jeremy's joke from the last episode. We're on the Modern Superior Network and you can follow us on Twitter at Drink Along and myself. You can follow me at D Fidicus. It spells itself.  0:04:03 - Speaker 3 I'm trying to spell it right now It would have to. It doesn't really spell itself. Just go to Add Drink Along, then Cool. Thanks everybody for coming out on a hazy Sunday. We are here talking 1974. What better place to start in 1974 than What do you say? we start with Chinatown. Sure, forget it, i'm going to profound.  0:04:29 - Speaker 6 Essay on the evil.  0:04:31 - Speaker 3 Chinatown, let's throw in Chinatown.  0:04:34 - Speaker 4 Profound psychological essay on the evil that men and women do, written by Robert Towne directed by. Roman Plansky, probably one of the best movies in the 1970s. Oops, I may have given something away.  0:04:45 - Speaker 5 We didn't give away the ending to Chinatown Not a monster.  0:04:48 - Speaker 4 The title does that. Although you would not believe what men can do when they are pressed. No one really knows, do they Mr Giddish, isn't it Giddish He calls?  0:04:58 - Speaker 8 him Mr.  0:04:58 - Speaker 4 Giddish. He always gets it wrong because he doesn't care. So again, John Houston, Best Supporting Actor. That's my Sorry, we're getting ahead of ourselves.  0:05:08 - Speaker 6 Yeah, no, absolutely.  0:05:09 - Speaker 7 That's one of the great film performances all the time, and Jack was sleeping with his movie daughter and his real life daughter when they were making that movie.  0:05:18 - Speaker 6 That explains all that aggression.  0:05:22 - Speaker 7 Jack was sleeping with Houston's daughter.  0:05:24 - Speaker 4 Oh, angelica, he and Angelica Houston were in that film.  0:05:26 - Speaker 7 We were in that film when they were making that film. So it was when he was like are you f*****g my daughter?  0:05:32 - Speaker 8 It was like yes, Jack is so badass in that movie. Though That's when it's still counted After that, it's just like a version of himself In this movie. it's so awesome.  0:05:41 - Speaker 5 He's awesome, but he's also kind of a wimpy badass. Every time someone confronts him, like the scene where he's confronted by Roman Polansky. He gets his nose cut. It's not really a badass thing. You kind of just fold it. You act like such a badass. But there's these two dudes, and the little shrimpy dude gets the jump on you.  0:05:58 - Speaker 4 Yeah really, all you have to do is step back, yeah, and Roman Polansky cannot actually reach you.  0:06:02 - Speaker 5 Yeah, you could just bob you, Even if you're being held back. you could have bobbed your head just enough for him to miss you.  0:06:09 - Speaker 4 But that is what's so great about the character is that he doesn't. he's a terrible detective.  0:06:13 - Speaker 1 He's an immediate detective.  0:06:15 - Speaker 4 The very first scene is he's tricked by someone who isn't who. She says she is into doing something that isn't what he thinks it is. He continues to get everything wrong. It's the Harrison Ford Blade Runner performance, basically, where you just suck but people keep falling over, people keep tripping, you're there at the right moment. It's a really different version of a sleuth than we've been led to believe, although this was just a year after the long goodbye, where Aliakul played a very similar kind of detective, although with Gould you get the sense with Marlowe that he's actually paying attention Yeah, he could actually be good And faking it. And with Giddy he's overconfident. He's a dumbass. He has already gotten people killed before the movie starts or whatever happened in Chinatown. He screwed up.  And this is what happens when this plan like basically and this is a bit of a spoiler, i suppose conceptually, but the bad guys do win The plan that he's lured into works in the first two minutes of the film And he has played from beginning to end and watching Jack Nicholson be that guy as opposed to the character from The Last Detail or the characters he played before, who were super confident and also competent That was really something That was kind of a statement of Nicholson's at the time.  0:07:30 - Speaker 6 Is he kind of opening in The Last Detail? Well, yeah, he's a lot of bluster.  0:07:33 - Speaker 4 He does his job and he doesn't get anybody killed Except for the one that he was supposed to get killed, Yeah but he knows the system is wrong, so there's that He's a cog in a machine, but he cooperates and he's doing a professional In this one. He is absolutely a professional, with very nice suits and a lovely office and he's useless, Which is a very California thing.  0:07:57 - Speaker 5 He looks very good, he's very

    Episode 2 - 1974

  8. 05/07/2023

    Episode 1 - 1974 Primer

    Join Host, Matti Price as he gives you the lowdown on the 1974 Best Picture nominees and a run down of what you can expect on For Your Reconsideration.

    Episode 1 - 1974 Primer

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For your reconsideration - an Oscars podcast is a look backward at the various Academy Award winners for Best Picture. Our expert panel of film critics and fans carefully discuss, debate, and dissect Oscar winners and nominees from the year in question to determine if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences got it right or whether they require a do-over! For more information or to join a panel please email Jamie at jamie@dewvre.comJoin in the discussion at our Facebook group, Twitter, or Instagram. @FYR_Podcast

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