Can you believe it's been 20 years since Heath Ledger and Shannyn Sossamon donned 14th century attire for a David Bowie dance sequence in Brian Helgeland's jousting action comedy "A Knight's Tale"? Or that it's been 15 years since Sofia Coppola followed up her Oscar win with an 80s New Wave-scored take on "Marie Antoinette" with Kirsten Dunst and fellow Coppola, Jason Schwartzman? We feel old.
For this special anniversary episode, we'll be joined by film and culture writer Abid Anwar to reevaluate these period piece/genre mashups and see if they hold up after all these years. Is Heath Ledger the secret to A Knight's Tale's best scene? Can Shannyn Sossamon don any fucked up haircut imaginable and still be unreasonably beautiful? How much would Paul Bettany ass can you show and still get a PG-13 rating? Does anyone actually want to see Sofia Coppola tackle racism and 18th century French politics in her movies? Was the boo'ing really necessary at Marie Antoinette's Cannes debut? Does anyone *actually* want to give a movie a 10 minute standing ovation? There's only one place to find out.
