Pod Casty For Me

Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine
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Pod Casty For Me: a left politics and culture podcast about the films of Steven Soderbergh (formerly Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader), one movie per episode. Hosted by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine. New episodes every other Friday.

  1. 5D AGO

    Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

    We're going back to Vegas for one more job...it's the thrilling conclusion to the trilogy, OCEAN'S THIRTEEN! Well, maybe "thrilling" is arguable. But the episode sure is! We're talking Oprah, Steve Wynn, Mexican labor action, Five Diamond status - it's all here, folks. Further Reading: "Steve Wynn's Biggest Gamble" by Nina Munk Meet The AAA Diamond Rating Experts Further Viewing: DOWN BY LAW (Jarmusch, 1986) SEA OF LOVE (Becker, 1989) HARD EIGHT (Anderson, 1996) SHREK THE THIRD (Miller, 2007) THE TURIN HORSE (Tarr & Hranitzky, 2011) MANK (Fincher, 2020) BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Ross brothers, 2020) Steve Wynn's 1983 Golden Nugget commercial   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    1h 49m
  2. PATREON PREVIEW: Clint Character Tier List with Aaron from Hit Factory

    OCT 3

    PATREON PREVIEW: Clint Character Tier List with Aaron from Hit Factory

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Friend of the show Aaron from Hit Factory joins us to assemble the definitive Tier List of characters played by Clint Eastwood. Along the way, we answer important questions like: What is a Tier List for? What makes a good character? Has Ian developed any insane theoretical frameworks lately? What happens in Joe Kidd, again? Plus, a Pine Cone Crime Zone about Tarzan. See our final tier list here (SPOILERS!!!): https://imgur.com/a/K3oBYpS As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Follow Aaron: https://x.com/HitFactoryPod https://www.patreon.com/c/hitfactorypod/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    10 min

  3. SEP 26

    The Good German (2006) with Peter Raleigh

    After 2005's digital day-and-date experiment BUBBLE, Soderbergh swung hard in the other direction with a Golden Age Hollywood pastiche: his (loose) adaptation of Joseph Kanon's postwar Berlin mystery THE GOOD GERMAN. Joining us is film writer and literal historian Peter Raleigh! We talk adaptation, aesthetic imitation, Denazification, CASABLANCA, and much more. Check it out! Further Reading: The Good German by Joseph Kanon Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt Commemorating Hell: The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora by Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong "Fighting Men" by Anthony Lane "Style Wars: Steven Soderbergh's 'The Good German'" by Michael Koresky Further Viewing: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Hitchcock, 1940) CASABLANCA (Curtiz, 1942) TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Wilder, 1948) THE THIRD MAN (Reed, 1949) JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (Kramer, 1961) EUROPA (Von Trier, 1991) BARB WIRE (Hogan, 1996) PHOENIX (Petzold, 2014) TRANSIT (Petzold, 2018)   Follow Peter Raleigh: https://x.com/PetreRaleigh https://peterraleigh.substack.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    1h 54m
  4. PATREON PREVIEW: Legally Blonde (2001) with Veronica Phillips

    SEP 19

    PATREON PREVIEW: Legally Blonde (2001) with Veronica Phillips

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. A year after ERIN BROCKOVICH, another unashamedly feminine legal professional challenged norms and won at the box office in LEGALLY BLONDE. Here to talk gender performance, turn-of-the-millennium feminism, and Reese Witherspoon's many crimes is writer Veronica Phillips! Really fun episode. Plus, Carmel gets its own Columbo in the Pine Cone Crime Zone. Follow Veronica: https://hi-femme.com/ https://x.com/vnickyy As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

    8 min

  5. SEP 12

    Bubble (2005) with Evan from Left of the Projector

    Another Pod Casty For Me Experience: we're talking Steven Soderbergh's 2005 experiment BUBBLE - day-and-date release experiment, digital cinematography experiment, first-time actor experiment, improvised script experiment - with our buddy Evan from Left of the Projector! And this one's set at a factory, so you know we go crazy on it. We get into film distribution economics, working people on film, first-time actors, naturalism, digital cinema, eastern Ohio accents, and much more. Really tremendous film and tremendous conversation. It's also Jake's dang birthday, so you better enjoy this episode!!! Further Reading: "Eight Hours Are Not A Day" by Matthew Ross "An Interview with Steven Soderbergh" by Scott Indrisek Further Viewing: Interview with Debbie Doebereiner HARLAN COUNTY USA (Kopple, 1976) STROSZEK (Herzog, 1977) BLUE COLLAR (Schrader, 1978) SLACKER (Linklater, 1990) CLERKS (Smith, 1994) CITY OF GOD (Meirelles and Lund, 2002) ELEPHANT (Van Sant, 2003) FISH TANK (Arnold, 2009) WESTERN (Grisebach, 2017) THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Eastwood, 2018) BAD TRIP (Sakurai, 2021)   Follow Left of the Projector: https://leftoftheprojector.com/   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    2h 14m
  6. PATREON PREVIEW: Robocop (1987) & Jake's Trip to Amsterdam

    SEP 5

    PATREON PREVIEW: Robocop (1987) & Jake's Trip to Amsterdam

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. This week we're looking at another one of Dirty Harry's spiritual children, Paul Verhoeven's 1987 ROBOCOP. Violence, corporate greed, police stuff - much to talk about here. But we're also talking about it because Verhoeven is a Dutch guy and Jake just got back from a trip to Amsterdam, which we gotta talk about too! OCEAN'S TWELVE locations, European public infrastructure, visiting the Anne Frank House during Israel's genocide of Palestinians - big ep. Plus: a message from Hotel Detective Maxwell Pierson. Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Check out Jetski's new album, The Radiant Radish!

    8 min

  7. AUG 29

    Nightwatch (1997)/Criminal (2004)

    A little something different this week: we're looking at two Soderbergh-scripted adaptations of international genre films! First, Soderbergh adapted Ole Bornedal's 1994 NATTEVAGTEN as 1997's NIGHTWATCH, also directed by Bornedal, starring post-TRAINSPOTTING, pre-PHANTOM MENACE Ewan McGregor as a night watchman at a spooky morgue. Next, Soderbergh turned Fabián Bielinsky's 2000 Argentine heist smash NUEVA REINAS (NINE QUEENS) into 2004's CRIMINAL, the directorial debut of Gregory Jacobs starring John C. Reilly and Diego Luna. Why did Sodey do this? Is there anything of the man in these adaptations? Do you need to watch four films before you listen to this episode? The answer to the last question is no! Fun ep, please enjoy. Further Reading: Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman Further Viewing: LOCAL HERO (Forsyth, 1983) THE KINGDOM (Von Trier et al, 1994) HARD EIGHT (Anderson, 1996) PUSHER (Refn, 1996) FUNNY GAMES (Haneke, 1997/2007) FIGHT CLUB (Fincher, 1999) LA CIENAGA (Martel, 2001) BORGEN (Price et al, 2010) ZAMA (Martel, 2017) LA FLOR (Llinás, 2018)   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    1h 59m
  8. PATREON PREVIEW: Silence (2016) with Robert Rubsam

    AUG 22

    PATREON PREVIEW: Silence (2016) with Robert Rubsam

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Writer and PCFM official Catholicism Correspondent Rob Rubsam is back for another Martin Scorsese examination of faith: 2016's SILENCE. We talk Jesuits, Japan, nuance, and our own religious baggage. Great, thoughtful ep - hope you enjoy! Follow Rob Rubsam: https://www.robertrubsam.com/ Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    10 min
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Pod Casty For Me: a left politics and culture podcast about the films of Steven Soderbergh (formerly Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader), one movie per episode. Hosted by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine. New episodes every other Friday.

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  • Creator
    Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    136
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022
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