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. 1h ago

    Let Them All Talk (2020) with Veronica Phillips

    All aboard the LET THEM ALL TALK episode! Hot off of all the fun they had making THE LAUNDROMAT, Soderbergh and Meryl Streep teamed up again for a largely improvised movie about three old friends taking a boat ride with one of their nephews. And it's...great?! Joining us on the main feed is our good pal, writer and High Femme editor Veronica Phillips! We chat about letting women over 70 talk about their experiences, the inherent narcissism of creativity, going Wiest Mode, and a whole lot about BOOK CLUB (2018). We've been making jokes about covering this movie but that's because we didn't realize it's actually kind of a banger. We're stupid! Good thing Veronica is smart, though, that's why we asked her to be the guest. Fun ep! Further Reading: The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment by Philippa Snow Nightwood by Djuna Barnes George Smiley books by John le Carré read by Simon Vance "Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, and Dianne Wiest are ready to Talk" by Tyler Aquilina:  https://ew.com/movies/meryl-streep-candice-bergen-dianne-wiest-let-them-all-talk/ Further Viewing: CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Nichols, 1971) MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (Malle, 1981) ADAPTATION. (Jonze, 2002) BOOK CLUB (Holderman, 2018) Follow Veronica Phillips: https://x.com/vnickyy/ https://hifemmes.substack.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  2. Jul 10

    PATREON PREVIEW: Leatherheads (2008)

    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 comedy script about the early days of pro football followed Steven Soderbergh like a shadow for over a decade until George Clooney finally directed it himself, hot off the critical success of GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. It was also an important early major film role for TV star and CIA asset John Krasinski. But was it worth the wait? And what's the deal with football and screwball comedies, like, politically or whatever? We take these questions and more straight into the dang end zone! As ever, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    PATREON PREVIEW: Leatherheads (2008)

  3. Jul 3

    The Laundromat (2019) with Luke Savage

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: our episode on Soderbergh's 2019 Panama Papers infotainment film THE LAUNDROMAT. Joining us to parse this deeply odd "comedic" "look" into the mysterious world of offshore finance is co-host of the Michael & Us podcast and author of The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History, Luke Savage! Together we get to the bottom of Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns' decision to give the BIG SHORT treatment to Jake Bernstein's entirely unfunny nonfiction book Secrecy World, and find in the film a very familiar liberal disinterest in the transformative potential of moments like the Panama Papers leak. Great conversation, check it out (whether or not you've seen the pretty lousy movie)! Note: We had a small technical problem in the last 20 minutes or so, and our guest's audio quality is notably lower but still perfectly listenable for the end of the episode. We blame transnational gangs of malefactors. Further Reading: Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History by Luke Savage The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman  "The Dirty Problems with Operation Car Wash" by Vincent Bevins: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/anti-corruption-crusades-paved-way-bolsonaro/596449/ "'Keep It Confidential': The Secret History of U.S. Involvement in Brazil's Scandal-Wracked Operation Car Wash" by Andrew Fishman, Natalia Viana, & Maryam Saleh: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/united-states-justice-department-brazil-car-wash-lava-jato-international-treaty/ "Steven Soderbergh: On His New Film 'The Laundromat' And What The Panama Papers Teach Us" by Risa Sarachan: https://www.forbes.com/sites/risasarachan/2019/10/17/steven-soderbergh-on-his-new-film-the-laundromat-and-what-the-panama-papers-teach-us/ "Meryl Streep Says Financial Corruption in 'Laundromat' Is a 'Black-Hearted Joke'" by Ariston Anderson: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-2019-meryl-streep-steven-soderbergh-laundromat-1235958/  Further Viewing: THE INSIDER (Mann, 1999) WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS (Gibney, 2013) WILD TALES (Szifron, 2014) THE BIG SHORT (McKay, 2015) SPOTLIGHT (McCarthy, 2015) THE REPORT (Burns, 2019) CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia, 2024) Follow Luke Savage: https://x.com/LukewSavage https://www.lukewsavage.com/ https://www.patreon.com/cw/michaelandus   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  4. Jun 26

    PATREON PREVIEW: COMMENTARY: Tightrope (1984)

    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. It's commentary time once again, folks, and we thought we'd revisit the first time we talked about Louisiana and sex work on the show: the Clint Eastwood film TIGHTROPE! This sort-of-Richard Tuggle joint is almost as sweaty and nasty as the two guys talking over it, discussing the American giallo, cop sneakers, and hoisting oysters. Listen along with the film or just listen while you do whatever! Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

    PATREON PREVIEW: COMMENTARY: Tightrope (1984)

  5. Jun 19

    High Flying Bird (2019)

    Roundball...talk?!?!?! That's right, it's the HIGH FLYING BIRD episode where we cover Soderbergh's second shot-on-iPhone feature, a 2019 direct-to-Netflix basketball lockout drama starring his old THE KNICK pal André Holland (and a totally different guy named Dr. Edwards). Join us for a great in-person (!) discussion of the intersections of sports, labor, race, and technology, and what exactly Soderbergh is trying to suggest he's really doing with this experimental distribution business. Plus we come up with some genuinely great names for basketball teams. Listen or we'll smoke you like the clown that you are! Further Reading: The Revolt of the Black Athlete by Harry Edwards Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler "Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook" by Lonnae O'Neal: https://andscape.com/features/harry-edwards-mexico-city-olympics-sports-activism-john-carlos-tommie-smith-1968/ "Michele Roberts vs. the NBA: Why the New Head of the Players Union Is a Hero for Progressive Sports Fans" by Will Leitch: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/11/michele-roberts-the-hero-of-progressive-sports.html "Steven Soderbergh on the High-Speed Production of High Flying Bird" by Brian Raftery: https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/steven-soderbergh-high-flying-production.html Further Viewing: JERRY MAGUIRE (Crowe, 1996) MONEYBALL (Miller, 2011) LOGAN LUCKY (Soderbergh, 2017) UNSANE (Soderbergh, 2018) THE LAST DANCE (Hehir, 2020) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  6. Jun 12

    PATREON PREVIEW: Mr. Majestyk (1974)

    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. Originally written for Clint Eastwood by friend of the show Elmore Leonard, Richard Fleischer's 1974 Charles Bronson vehicle MR. MAJESTYK is that classic action film setup: a melon farmer accidentally ends up in the middle of a mob hitman's prison transport escape and teams up with a beautiful migrant labor organizer to save his crop. It's a hell of a lot of fun, and probably should have been Patreon episode 3, but here we are. We talk Bronson, small grower economics, and a whole lot about the United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and Cesar Chavez. Good ep! Roger Ebert's profile of Bronson: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/charles-bronson-its-just-that-i-dont-like-to-talk-very-much Paul Koslo interview: https://iamlegendarchive.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_10.html Review of Christian Paiz's Strikers of Coachella: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/coachella-united-farm-workers/ Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers by Frank Bardacke: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2213-trampling-out-the-vintage As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

    PATREON PREVIEW: Mr. Majestyk (1974)

  7. Jun 5

    Unsane (2018) with Esmé Holden

    It'll be a lot easier for everyone if you just listen to our episode on UNSANE, Soderbergh's 2018 shot-on-iPhone experiment that's otherwise a pretty solid thriller! Writer Esmé Holden returns to the show after far too long to talk smartphone aesthetics, involuntary holds, whether all doctors are cops or just most of them, the intersections of mental illness and misogyny and transphobia, and a very special man by the name of Gavin de Becker. Wonderful guest, wonderful conversation, check it out! Heads up: there's a very brief bit of rough audio right when our guest starts speaking, but it clears up quickly. Further Reading: The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker "Still The Smartest Guy On The Hill 30 Years After Sex, Lies & Videotape: Steven Soderbergh Unravels Hollywood Chaos" by Mike Fleming, Jr. https://deadline.com/2019/01/steven-soderbergh-sundance-slamdance-icon-interview-1202544513/ Further Viewing: GASLIGHT (Cukor, 1944) SHOCK CORRIDOR (Fuller, 1963) THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Demme, 1991) THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Myrick & Sánchez, 1999) SIDE EFFECTS (Soderbergh, 2013) TANGERINE (Baker, 2015) Follow Esmé Holden: https://letterboxd.com/esmepartii/ https://substack.com/@esmeholden Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Hosted and produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  8. May 29

    PATREON PREVIEW: Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

    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. George Clooney's second feature - written with his producing partner Grant Heslov - was 2005's GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, a dramatization of newsman Edward R. Murrow's brave stance against Senator Joe McCarthy's anticommunist witch hunt. Well, just against the witch hunt part. And we're not sure it was all that brave - listen and find out. Plus, obviously, we talk about how this all obviously reminds us of support for Gaza, and how Clooney doesn't seem to know that. Further Reading: A History of Broadcasting in the United States + Media Marathon, both by Erik Barnouw The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Gender, Race, and McCarthyism https://web.archive.org/web/20071103160336/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.2/friedman.html Further Listening: Michael and Us - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/michael-and-us-cinematic-civics-lesson/id791564318?i=1000659893073 Citations Needed - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-207-us-backed-killing-of-journalists-in-gaza/id1258545975?i=1000665331874 Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

    PATREON PREVIEW: Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
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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 - 2026
  • Episodes
    176
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022
  • Show Website
    Pod Casty For Me

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