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THIS is entertainment, folks! We're taking a swing at Martin Scorsese's masterful 1980 boxing biopic RAGING BULL (from a script by Paul Schrader) with film critic and Heavyweight Champion of the Podcast, Bilge Ebiri!!! Join us for a wonderful conversation about Scorsese's wild years, ROCKY, memory, the word "doggerel," and more.
Plus, Bilge tells us about something he did that may change the podcast forever. Like, for real.
Further Reading:
Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan by J. Hoberman
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
"Masculinity in Crisis?" by Pam Cook
"Raging Bull: Never Got Me Down" by Glenn Kenny
"Raging Bull: American Minotaur" by Robin Robertson
Further Viewing:
ROCKY (1976)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
 
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Pick out your shirt and tie, listener! We're talking Paul Schrader's 1980 stylish crime film AMERICAN GIGOLO this week, and we've called up film critic Brandon Streussnig to help us do it! Production design, fashion history, Bresson, several Giorgios - we get into it. Jake put on cologne for this one as a bit. See if you can hear the smell!
Further Reading:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Painter of Modern Life XI: The Dandy by Charles Baudelaire
"Talking Film Costume: Richard Gere in 'American Gigolo'" by Ada Pîrvu
"About That Urban Renaissance" by Dan Rottenberg
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood
Further Viewing:
PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959)
THE CONFORMIST (Bertolucci, 1970)
PRETTY WOMAN (Marshall, 1990)
 
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Hey listener, it's been a while. How have you been? Do you ever think about me? Just kidding it's a new episode on Joan Tewkesbury's sole feature film, OLD BOYFRIENDS, written by Paul and Leonard Schrader! Who better to join us on this exploration of women's experience in New Hollywood than writer, Online Film Culture Titan and the inventor of #AYearWithWomen, Marya E. Gates (@oldfilmsflicker)??? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on everything from the film's rediscovery and restoration to Schrader's reaction to the 2022 Sight & Sound poll to Keith Carradine being really hot to the social function of movie gifs on Tumblr. It's a great ep and we hope you'll enjoy it! If you don't, please don't hire Buck Henry to find our home addresses!!!
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Further Reading:
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler
"Canon Fodder" by Paul Schrader
Further Viewing:
GIRLFRIENDS (Weill, 1978)
AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Mazursky, 1978)
 
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"Oh my Pod, cast's my daughter!" - something Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive today...to hear our episode on Paul Schrader's sophomore feature as director, the 1979 Calvinist-dad-goes-to-Pornville film HARDCORE! Joining us on our journey into smut-hell is writer, actress, and filmmaker Manuela Lazić! We get into Dad Stuff, Schrader's aesthetic style as a director, the political economy of sex work, HARDCORE as remake of THE SEARCHERS, and try very, very hard to understand Christian Reformed Calvinism.
Do we succeed? To find out, you'll simply have to listen to the episode. Another thing Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive right now? "Turn it...on!! The episode, I mean!!!"
Further Reading:
"'Hard-core' grows fashionable - and very profitable" by Ralph Blumenthal
Schrader on Schrader, ed. Kevin Jackson
Further Viewing:
THE SEARCHERS (1956)
 
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Get your disguise on, listener! We got a big boy this week: Paul Schrader's directorial debut, the 1978 auto workers union heist film BLUE COLLAR! The fellas are going long on this one, talking UAW history, race and organized labor, Richard Pryor's performance, Harvey Keitel trying very hard to quit the movie, Yaphet Kotto's lifetime of UFO encounters (really), and whether Schrader could really have made such a leftist film without meaning to, as he claims. This episode is nearly three hours of gleaming chrome fresh off the line or whatever. Check it out!
Further Reading:
"Ex‐Operative Says He Worked for F.B.I. to Disrupt Political Activities Up to '74"
"Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management" by Alex N. Press
A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis
The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkin Bates
Organized Labor and the Black Worker and The Black Worker by Philip S. Foner
 
Further Viewing:
MATEWAN (1987)
SILKWOOD (1983)
 
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Get your hand out of that garbage disposal and press play, listener! We're doing our best to do an episode on John Flynn's 1977 vetsploitation nasty ROLLING THUNDER, but mostly we end up talking about Paul Schrader's mucked-with script. It's a fascinating study in how a story can go from TAXI DRIVER damning to DEATH WITH reactionary with just a few strokes of Heywood Gould's pen. Plus some Vietnam talk, a COCKTAIL/RAIN MAN tangent, and Tommy Lee Jones. Good ep!
 
Further Reading:
Paul Schrader's original screenplay for ROLLING THUNDER
Further Viewing:
HEARTS & MINDS (1974)
DEATH WISH (1974)
FIRST BLOOD (1982)
 
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