Autumn has fallen in New York and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by tumbling down the stairs of the Angelika straight into Oliver Hermanus’s Palme D’Or nominated The History of Sound.
A WWI (?), gay, heart wrenching movie starring mischievous scamp Josh O’Connor and former Phantom of the Opera Paul Mescal. Listen in as they discuss period filmmaking on a budget, the possible litigious wrath of Hanya Yanagihara, and what all this had to do with the Stomp Clap Hey music of Barack Obama’s first term.
Time Stamped Notes:
0:47 Autumn in New York ….rated the #1 creepiest age gap film
3:00 Oliver Hermanus has had multiple films at Cannes
6:22 The jacket scene in Brokeback Mountain
12:52 The History Of Sound: a short story by Ben Shattuck
18:22 Fat City: Both a film and a production company with a great logo
20:00 The cover of the collection of stories is the same as the poster is the same as the cover of A Little Life
23:53 Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor Rationed Jolly Ranchers
26:00 Paul Mescal can sing!!!
36:54 Malaga island conflict in movie actually happened in 1912
38:35 "Bury Your Gays" literary trope
43:02 The film began pre production in 2020
44:36 Indiewires Top 100 Movies of the 2020s So Far
48:22 The Tragedy of Stomp Clap Hey
48:45 Every song in The History of Sound sounds like this
49:50 Trader Joe’s newsletter and Victorian art
52:30 Chris Cooper on playing the older version of Paul Mescal
58:22 One of the many tv shows starring Julianne Moore
1:01 Daniel Day-Lewis ends 7-year retirement
1:05:12 The Baby Carriage in the Battleship Potemkin
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