The Good, The Pod and The Ugly

Ken and Thomas
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The Good, The Pod and The Ugly

Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through twelve season they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc).SEASON 13: 4X4 3! Four films by four directors. Aldrich, Von Trier, Wyler and Tsai Ming-Liang. 

  1. BIG WILLIE #4: THE COLLECTOR (OR HOW ELON AND GRIMES MET)

    7 DÉC.

    BIG WILLIE #4: THE COLLECTOR (OR HOW ELON AND GRIMES MET)

    Send us a text4X4X3: WILLIAM WYLER CONCLUSION: THE COLLECTORTGTPTU wraps its third director of Season 13’s 4x4 with a discussion of a fourth and final William Wyler film THE COLLECTOR (1965). Like The Big Country, its paired film from last week, The Collector began as a book, this one penned by John Fowles, author whose adapted novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman was covered by TGTPTU during our Meryl Streep season. The Collector was Fowles’ first published book, and Wyler took liberties with...

    1 h 5 min
  2. BIG WILLIE #3: THE BIG COUNTRY

    30 NOV.

    BIG WILLIE #3: THE BIG COUNTRY

    Send us a text4X4: WILLIAM WYLER. #3: THE BIG COUNTRY(Note: Don't skip the theme song this week)TGTPTU Host Ryan’s Willie gets a glow-up with THE BIG COUNTRY (1958), the third in our cultivated William Wyler collection.Shot in glorious Technicolor on large-format Technorama to set it apart from the glut of midcentury black-and-white television Westerns, the big-budget film was not a financial success despite winning one, after being nominated for two, Academy Awards and starring at the time f...

    1 h 9 min
  3. WILLIAM WYLER #2: LIKE SAND THROUGH AN HOUR GLASS... SO ARE OUR DESPERATE HOURS

    23 NOV.

    WILLIAM WYLER #2: LIKE SAND THROUGH AN HOUR GLASS... SO ARE OUR DESPERATE HOURS

    Send us a textWILLIAM WYLER: PART 2 OF 4: THE DESPERATE HOURSPaired with last week’s Detective Story, TGTPTU’s Big Willie Winter continues with THE DESPERATE HOURS (1955), another black-and-white film adaptation by William Wyler and a rare feature from the director to not earn a single Academy Award nomination. Perhaps first home invasion picture, The Desperate Hours was adapted from a book that itself was inspired by tragic, real events (bonus fact: Richard Nixon would become involved i...

    1 h 9 min
  4. WILLIAM WYLER #1: DON'T SAY THE A WORD, DETECTIVE STORY

    16 NOV.

    WILLIAM WYLER #1: DON'T SAY THE A WORD, DETECTIVE STORY

    Send us a textDETECTIVE STORYSeason 13’s 4x4 has reached its 1/2way point with our 9th of 16 movies and a new director, provisional co-host Ryan’s pick of the 15-time Academy Award-nominated, 3-time Oscar-winning director William Wyler. This week, we cover the first of Ryan’s four curated Wyler flicks DETECTIVE STORY (1951). Up for four Academy Awards, including Best Director, but winning none, Detective Story was Wyler’s 22nd talkie and his earliest we’re covering the for the pod (the ...

    1 h 9 min
  5. TSAI MING-LIANG: MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS

    2 NOV.

    TSAI MING-LIANG: MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS

    Send us a text4X4 III: TSAI MING-LIANG 4: DAYSTGTPTU’s back to finish (cough) the job handily (cough) with a happy ending (oh boy) for our coverage of director Tsai Ming-liang, coming together (really, dude?) to get every ounce our four gents have to offer, pulling and tugging (grow up) on each’s points and hot takes for this fourth and final 4x4 film of Jack’s offering (was that a pun?) called, in its English release (are you serious?), DAYS (2020). If you like washing your vegetables ...

    1 h 1 min
  6. HaLLoWeEn SPECIAL: JEREMY SAULNIER'S GREEN ROOM

    26 OCT.

    HaLLoWeEn SPECIAL: JEREMY SAULNIER'S GREEN ROOM

    Send us a text2024 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!NOTE: Approximately 35 punk rock band names are concealed in these show notes. Play along!It’s the end of October, which means the four misfits of TGTPTU are back with a special Birth-/ Halloween/Election Day episode, interrupting their regular Season 13 4x4 programming to bring you a tale fitting this celebratory trifecta: auteur director Jeremy Saulnier’s punk-horror-antifascist classic GREEN ROOM (2015). As a low budget, mostly practical, minimally...

    1 h 27 min
  7. TSAI MING-LIANG III: GOODBYE MOVIES

    19 OCT.

    TSAI MING-LIANG III: GOODBYE MOVIES

    Send us a textThis week’s Season 13 4x4 entry is GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003), the third of four films curated by guest host Jack to represent the filmography of director Tsai Ming-liang. The original TPTGTU boys are reunited this ep with the return of host Thomas but divided in their appreciation for what is billed as Tsai Ming-liang’s comedy-drama. As promised in last episode, this third film by the Taiwanese slow cinema director takes on a lighter tone than his previously discussed movi...

    1 h 16 min
  8. TSAI MING-LIANG'S EMPATHY MACHINE: "STRAY DOGS"

    12 OCT.

    TSAI MING-LIANG'S EMPATHY MACHINE: "STRAY DOGS"

    Send us a text4X4 2: TSAI MING-LIANG and "STRAY DOGS"Our four film investigation into slow cinema master Tsai Miang-liang tackles his 2013 masterpiece STRAY DOGS. If you can vibe to a five minute opening static shot of a woman brushing her hair while her children sleep beside her in a charred husk of as bedroom where even the sheets on the bed look like ruin before cutting to a nearly ten minute long shot of a depressed homeless man in the lashing rain of Tai Pei holding a sign at a busy inte...

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Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through twelve season they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc).SEASON 13: 4X4 3! Four films by four directors. Aldrich, Von Trier, Wyler and Tsai Ming-Liang. 

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    Ken and Thomas
  • Années d’activité
    2020 - 2024
  • Épisodes
    171
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