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Pod Casty For MePATREON PREVIEW: Walking Tall (1973)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. In the aftermath of DIRTY HARRY, there were plenty of films looking to get in on the semi-legal vigilante craze. One of the most successful of these was Phil Karlson's WALKING TALL, starring the great, recently departed Joe Don Baker as real-life Tennessee lawman Buford Pusser, who was all too willing to tell the world how he beat the corruption out of McNairy County with a fencepost. Except...2025-06-1309 min
Pod Casty For MePATREON PREVIEW: Duck, You Sucker! (1971)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. We return to our very slow trip through the films of Sergio Leone with 1971's DUCK, YOU SUCKER!, also known as A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, also known as GIÙ LA TESTA, a story of the Mexican Revolution starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn. It's a real humdinger of an episode, as Jake's allergies flare up while he tells a long story about some unpleasant men at the barbershop, I...2025-05-3007 min
Pod Casty For MeOut of Sight (1998) with Bilge EbiriIt's the OUT OF SIGHT episode, and our guest is Bilge Ebiri. Do we need to sell you on this? OK, fine: in 1998 Steven Soderbergh took a job for hire directing an Elmore Leonard adaptation and ended up finding the style that would define much of his career, minting George Clooney as a movie star, capturing Jennifer Lopez's best-ever performance, working with Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman and a bunch of other people for the first time, and making one of the most watchable films of the 1990s. Jake also read the whole book. We talk about Leonard's moral...2025-05-092h 05
Pod Casty For MeSchizopolis (1996) with Jordan Fish and Ray TintoriWhat the hell is going on with Steven Soderbergh's 1996 super-low-budget labor of love comedy SCHIZOPOLIS? Our returning guests, the filmmakers and all-around handsome devils Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori of the To The White Sea Podcast, help us get to the bottom of it. Is this quietly a devastating analysis of a failed marriage starring the director and his real-life ex-wife Betsy Brantley? Or is all that drowned out by too much proto-Random Humor and OK Cola-style 90s disaffection? Is Jake even capable of being nice about this movie? Listen to find out! Further Reading:2025-04-251h 53
Pod Casty For MePATREON PREVIEW: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)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. One of "the world's favorite movies," starring two guys who won back-to-back Best Supporting Actor Oscars under Clint Eastwood's direction, and Jake's never seen it? You know we had to talk about Frank Darabont's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, prison abolition, Tim Robbins's legs, and what we think the best films of 1994 are. Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our...2025-04-1810 min
Pod Casty For MePATREON PREVIEW: A Star Is Born (2018) with Nicole Veneto***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.*** Around 2011, Clint Eastwood tried to remake A STAR IS BORN with Beyoncé and any of a number of men including Bradley Cooper and maybe Tom Cruise. It didn't pan out, but the project eventually became Cooper's directorial debut and a star vehicle for Lady Gaga, who incidentally has a new album out today. We invited film critic, podcaster, and Lady Gagalogist Nicole Veneto to talk about the film, w...2025-03-0808 min
Pod Casty For MeEpaulogueWell, we've reached the end of our Paul Schrader retrospective - for a couple weeks until OH, CANADA comes out - and it's time to discuss our findings. What did we learn about Schrader? About film? About podcasting? About ourselves? Can we remember all the different ways we got sick and hurt since March? Where are we going next, and when? Thank you to everyone who has followed along on our lonely journey toward transcendence. A very special thanks to all the guests who joined us and made the show listenable whenever we let them get a...2024-11-221h 19
Pod Casty For MeBONUS: Technical Chat with New Orleans Gardener Bob MartinAs a little bonus, we talked some more MASTER GARDENER with Jake's old friend and professional New Orleans gardener Bob Martin! Lots of technical gardening chat, native NOLA plants, gardening movies, and some commiseration between friends of Jake that he very quickly shuts down. Enjoy! Check out Bob's band, Bobbi: https://bobbiloves2play.bandcamp.com/album/custom-bobbi Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on...2024-11-1553 min
Pod Casty For MeThere Are No Saints (2022)It's the one you've all been waiting for - our episode on Alfonso Pineda Ulloa's 2014 film THERE ARE NO SAINTS, adapted from an unmade Schrader script, which sat on a shelf for 8 years before getting dumped on VOD after his FIRST REFORMED/CARD COUNTER comeback. What's that? You don't know what this movie is and you don't really want to hear us talk about it? Great news - this episode was recorded live (to tape) at Ian's home in Oaxaca, is mostly about Jake's visit there, and contains shocking revelations that turn much of PCFM's Ian Lore upside down...2024-11-081h 57
Pod Casty For MeUnproduced SchraderWe're taking a detour this week to talk about some Paul Schrader projects that never made it to the screen - the Montreal-set gangster film QUÉBECOIS!, the Elio Petri remake INVESTIGATION, psychedelic murder mystery THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION, film festival-set stage plays Berlinale and The Cleopatra Club, biopics EIGHT SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF HANK WILLIAMS and GERSHWIN, and the Bret Easton Ellis-scripted shark thriller BAIT. We read PDFs so you don't have to! Unless you want to, in which case they're linked below. Ian also makes a medium-exciting discovery about one of the sc...2024-10-252h 13
Pod Casty For MeDying of the Light (2014) / Dark (2017)It's two movies for the price of one today! (Podcast remains free.) In 2014, Paul Schrader directed Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin in a thriller about a CIA agent with frontotemporal dementia trying to hunt down an old enemy before his mind goes. The money guys took the film away from him, edited it into a totally anonymous Redbox movie themselves, and released it as "A Paul Schrader Film" anyway. He was contractually prohibited from disparaging the result, but Schrader, along with the cast and producer Nicholas Winding Refn, publicly disowned the released version, and Paul drank himself into a...2024-10-052h 21
Pod Casty For MeThe Canyons (2013) with Charles Lyons-BurtIn 2013, Paul Schrader directed deeply troubled recent child actress Lindsay Lohan and porn star/human Quagmire James Deen from a script by literary dolt Bret Easton Ellis in a crowdfunded, low-budget curio about the vapid cruelty of modern Los Angeles. THE CANYONS was widely disregarded on release, but has steadily grown in esteem by some particularly movie-brained folks. Will we be among them? What about our guest, writer Charles Lyons-Burt? You'll have to listen to find out! Spoiler: we both despised the experience of watching this, and reading other people's appreciations of it made us feel insane...2024-09-271h 59
Pod Casty For MeAdam Resurrected (2008)Sorry for the late update, everybody - we got trapped in one of those two-person horse costumes for like 48 hours, really really scary. But we're back to talk pretty seriously about Paul Schrader's 2008 literary adaptation ADAM RESURRECTED, the story of a German Jewish clown who becomes a concentration camp commander's human dog and then finds himself the Van Wilder of an Israeli psychiatric facility after the war. It is at once a very relevant and profoundly unhelpful film for the current moment, but we do our best to get to the bottom of the ideas at work here. We...2024-09-222h 07
Pod Casty For MeThe Walker (2007)Paul Schrader concludes his first set of Man In A Room films with 2007's THE WALKER, a bookend to AMERICAN GIGOLO that finds the lonely man working as a literal escort for society women in D.C. But will Carter Page III find meaning outside of managing a few political wives' secrets? Should Woody Harrelson be doing that voice? Is Jake so unceasingly distractible on this episode that it ends the podcast? You'll have to listen to find out! Further Reading: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham "The Consummate Chum: Jerome Zipkin...2024-09-131h 52
Pod Casty For MeDominion: Prequel To The Exorcist (2005) with Chadd HarboldThe power of 'cast compels you, listener - to enjoy this week's episode! Paul Schrader was hired to replace John Frankenheimer as director of a prequel to THE EXORCIST, and things only got stranger from there. Our pal, and producer of the new film CRUMB CATCHER, Chadd Harbold returns to the show to help us discuss Schrader's DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST (and Renny Harlin's reworked version, EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING). It's all here: the auteur theory proven correct(???), crises of faith, British imperialism, the theme song from POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE. Check it out! Further Reading: 2024-09-072h 11
Pod Casty For MeAuto Focus (2002) with Nick WigerSchmile, listener! This week we're pointing our viewfinders at Paul Schrader's sleazy 2002 Bob Crane biopic AUTO FOCUS with writer and co-host of the Doughboys and Get Played podcasts, Nick Wiger! Join us for a discussion of fame, destructive sexual obsession, smoldering male violence, Willem Dafoe - you know, all the usual Schrader stuff. Plus: we talk the Minions, Tyga bites, and how Bob Crane would have been a podcaster. Also if you're related to either of the hosts of the show, maybe don't listen to this one. For everyone else: great ep, please enjoy! Further Reading: 2024-08-302h 25
Pod Casty For MeBringing Out The Dead (1999) with Soraya SebghatiSomebody call 911 - it's a new episode podcast! Only kidding, there's no emergency. Except you might have some friggin palpitations when you hear our great conversation on Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese's final collaboration (to date), BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, with film writer and literal rock star Soraya Sebghati! We're talking Cage, we're talking TAXI DRIVER redux, we're talking the novel coronavirus, we're talking blood-soaked dreadlocks, we're talking all kinds of stuff. Great movie, great guest, great ep. Further Reading: Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly Conversations with Scorsese by Richard Schickel2024-08-232h 08
Pod Casty For MeForever Mine (1999)1999 is one of the great movie years - perhaps because Paul Schrader's FOREVER MINE only technically premiered that year, and didn't see release until 2002 (on Starz, to boot). But is this long-gestating tale of torrid passion the Sirkian romance Schrader claims, or more of a nasty noir pastiche? Is it neither of those things, and instead a very compelling advertisement for The Legendary Pink Palace of St. Pete Beach? What's the deal with Joseph Fiennes? You'll have to listen to find out! Further Reading: The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema by Linda Ruth Wi...2024-08-162h 01
Pod Casty For MeAffliction (1997) with Glenn Heath, Jr."AFFLIC" - the Aflac duck if he was talking about this movie! For real, though, a lot of the characters in this film could have used some insurance based on many of the events that take place in Paul Schrader's 1997 Russell Banks adaptation AFFLICTION. Returning to the show to help us discuss this snowbound story of alcoholism and abuse is writer and film programmer Glenn Heath, Jr.! Join us for discussion of small-town authority, proximity, auto-dentistry, and more. Further Reading: Affliction by Russell Banks "'Half A Damn Excuse': Tragic Vigilantism in Paul Schrader's A...2024-08-101h 58
Pod Casty For MeTouch (1997) with Jane AltoidsPaul Schrader. Elmore Leonard. Tom Arnold. Dave Grohl. It's like the freaking Traveling Wilburys had a baby! Four babies, I guess. Anyway what I'm saying is Schrader's 1997 faith healer comedy TOUCH involved a weird bunch of people. Luckily we have the great Jane Altoids joining us to sort it all out! We're talking stigmata, daytime TV, self-parody, tonal control, and more. Everything goes very normally on this episode and Jake behaves in a way that is completely fine and actually impressive. Not only does he come across as rhetorically powerful, he also sounds pretty handsome. He doesn't...2024-08-022h 10
Pod Casty For MeCity Hall (1996)Now I've heard of a Major Motion Picture...but a Mayor Motion Picture??? Now I'm being carted off to a hospital for having typed that!! Nah, just kidding. We're talking about one of those today: Harold Becker's 1996 not-John-Grisham city politics thriller CITY HALL, on which Paul Schrader was one of four credited writers! Your favorite Pauld Casty boys had a grand old time talking municipal procedure, Al Pacino, Danny Aiello, Donald Manes, David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani, bongo clubs, and more. Plus, obviously: impressions. Further Reading: Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of...2024-07-262h 05
Pod Casty For MeWitch Hunt (1994) with Jack Sinclair"Boy, I sure wish there was a sequel to the 1991 HBO Original Movie CAST A DEADLY SPELL, only more of a reboot than a sequel, and with Dennis Hopper taking over the role of detective H. Phillip Lovecraft from Fred Ward, and I hope it's mostly a fumbled metaphor for McCarthyism," you're probably saying to yourself all the time. Well, you will not believe your luck: there is one of those, and for some goddamn reason Paul Schrader directed it! Today we're talking 1994's WITCH HUNT, a film noir pastiche about an alternate postwar Los Angeles where magic is...2024-07-201h 58
Pod Casty For MeLight Sleeper (1992) with Jake TropilaWake up, listeners! Should be easy if you're anything like the protagonist of Paul Schrader's 1992 film LIGHT SLEEPER, which we're talking all about today with writer/editor/poster extraordinaire Jake Tropila! Join us for a great conversation about Schrader's "mid-life movie," addictive behavior, actually humanizing the drug trade, 90s New Age stuff, and our favorite jokes. Damn, we should really be charging at least $200 for a show like this. Instead it's free!!! Further Reading: "Movie High" by Scott Macaulay Further Viewing: BAD LIEUTENANT (Ferrara, 1992) PICKPOCKET (Bresson, 1959) (again) 2024-07-122h 03
Pod Casty For MeThe Comfort of Strangers (1990) with Jordan Fish and Ray TintoriNo, you haven't fallen asleep in a Venice alleyway - it's really the podcast! Today we're wandering La Serenissima and monologuing about our fathers as we discuss Paul Schrader's dreamy 1990 literary adaptation THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS with filmmakers and To The White Sea cohosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! And yes, we do figure out which of us is which character from the film. We talk Ian McEwan, Harold Pinter, Gen X masculinity, befriending weirdos, dad stuff, vampires, and much more. Please, listen to our podcast - we insist. Further Reading: The Comfort of Strangers b...2024-07-062h 18
Pod Casty For MeEmergency Minisode: The Estate SaleSurprise, listeners! Jake went to a Clint-related estate sale recently and we had to tell you all about it ASAP. Ian's hearing all of this for the first time on mic, too. We'll post all the photos over on our Patreon feed, unlocked for everybody. Enjoy! https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: 2024-06-3026 min
Pod Casty For MeThe Last Temptation of Christ (1988) with Robert Rubsam"I want him to stop. I can't take the pain. The voices and the pain." No, those aren't the words of our listeners - they're the words of Jesus Christ as written by Paul Schrader! Understand your confusion, though. Today we're genuflecting before Martin Scorsese's highly controversial 1988 film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, adapted by Schrader from not The Bible, and joining us on our spiritual journey is writer Robert Rubsam. Jake has a bunch of day-one theology questions that Ian and Rob do their best to answer while we all discuss the film's artistic achievements, the Brooklyn of...2024-06-282h 53
Pod Casty For MePatty Hearst (1988)Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the podcast! Just playing, nobody preys upon us. But we're back in Symbionese Liberation Army territory this week to talk Paul Schrader's 1988 biopic PATTY HEARST! Join us for a spirited conversation about Natasha Richardson, Ving Rhames, the movie's angle on leftism, ideological and physical consent, and Disneyland in 1974. It's a good ep! Content warning: we talk about sexual violence on this episode. Further Reading: An Oral History with Ericka Huggins by Fiona Thompson Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom and...2024-06-212h 12
Pod Casty For MeUNLOCKED: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)This is an unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me. Here's some hidden gold for ya: the damned Pod Casty For Me Patreon feed! No, for real. Let's be for real now. Today we're finishing up the Man With No Name trilogy with the final and best film of the lot, Sergio Leone's 1966 Civil War Western epic THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. No Oxford comma for Sergio I guess! Well, fair enough. We both loved this one, actually, and had a bang-up time talking about Eli Wallach, the...2024-06-141h 59
Pod Casty For MeLight of Day (1987) with Altmania1..2..3..4! Pretty rock and roll way to start an episode description, I thought. This week we're absolutely shredding (guitar term) through a discussion of Paul Schrader's understandably underseen 1987 struggling rock band sibling melodrama film, LIGHT OF DAY, and joining us are our great pals Ryan and Este from the Altmania podcast! We talk mom stuff, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox's palpable sexual chemistry, the very limited revolutionary potential of popular music, and a lot about the podcast Guys: A Podcast About Guys. You don't have to have heard that or even seen the movie LIGHT OF DAY...2024-06-072h 20Pod Casty For MeThe Mosquito Coast (1986)Hop on the launch, folks, we're heading to THE MOSQUITO COAST! Peter Weir's 1986 film scripted by Paul Schrader, that is. Join us for a conversation about the unfinished capitalist critique of prepper guys, the problems with Going Back To Nature, and how we are much smarter and better than Allie Fox generally because we have done more reading. Well, Ian has. One time I pitched Ian on a Patreon episode where I just ask him questions about agriculture for an hour, and this basically became that. For free! What a good podcast. Hope you all enjoy! By...2024-05-312h 04
Pod Casty For MeMishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) with Comrade YuiIt's the MISHIMA episode. It's also the Mishima episode, in a way. We do our best to discuss both Paul Schrader's 1985 art-biopic MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS and the man Yukio Mishima with our returning pal Comrade Yui, who has been on a real journey with this film. As you might expect, things get pretty weighty: the nature and purpose of art, Schrader's depiction of the suicide, whether you can be a bodybuilder without being fascist about it. This is a special one, folks. Further Reading: Mishima: Aesthetic Terrorist - An Intellectual...2024-05-242h 48
Pod Casty For MeCat People (1982) with Esmé HoldenIt's been so long...just kidding, it's been a week! That's the normal time between episodes. Nevertheless, we're back with Paul Schrader's first film he "didn't" write himself, the 1982 erotic horror remake CAT PEOPLE, and we're thrilled to be joined by film writer and genuine English person Esmé Holden! We talk Schrader's depiction(s) of women, remakes, zoos as prisons/prisons as zoos, and the David Bowie of it all. Excited for you to have John Heard this one, folks! Hey, come on. I'm just kidding around. Further Reading: "Guilty Pleasures: The Films o...2024-05-171h 39
Pod Casty For MeRaging Bull (1980) with Bilge EbiriTHIS 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 "...2024-05-102h 24
Pod Casty For MeAmerican Gigolo (1980) with Brandon StreussnigPick 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...2024-05-031h 44
Pod Casty For MeOld Boyfriends (1979) with Marya E. GatesHey 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...2024-04-262h 38
Pod Casty For MeHardcore (1979) with Manuela Lazić"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 V...2024-04-191h 52
Pod Casty For MeBlue Collar (1978)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: "...2024-04-122h 49
Pod Casty For MeRolling Thunder (1977)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:2024-04-051h 41
Pod Casty For MeObsession (1976) with Aaron CasiasPucker up, listeners - Daddy's here! That's right: accomplished Brian De Palmist and official Daddy of the show, Hit Factory co-host Aaron Casias, is back to help us unpack De Palma's Schrader-scripted 1976 VERTIGO riff OBSESSION! We kind of did a one-episode De Palma podcast, honestly, because there's a bit more BDP here than Paul Schrader. Join us for more Bernard Herrmann talk, more Geneviève Bujold talk (from TIGHTROPE, remember?), and very informed New Orleans opinions. Check it out! You don't really have to watch the movie tbh!!! Topics include: Vilmos Zsigmond, Hitchcock riff, Tony Scott's DEJA V...2024-03-292h 05
Pod Casty For MeTaxi Driver (1976) Pt. 2We're back with the second part of our discussion of Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER. Join us for more on the film's engagement with race and gender, Jodie Foster's performance, Travis Bickle's cinematic children, and the John Hinckley, Jr. of it all. Further Reading: Taxi Driver: BFI Film Classics by Amy Taubin "Manhattan Transference: Ashley Clark on Taxi Driver" An Assassin's Diary by Arthur Bremer Further Viewing: LE FEU FOLLET (Malle, 1963) THE KING OF COMEDY (Scorsese, 1982) SPREE (Kotlyarenko, 2020) "Top 10 Wisconsin Dells Haunted...2024-03-221h 43
Pod Casty For MeTaxi Driver (1976) Pt. 1Buckle up, listeners! We talked so much about Martin Scorsese's landmark 1976 neo-noir nightmare TAXI DRIVER, written by Paul Schrader, that it's gonna be a two-parter. Talk about morbid self-attention! What was the film's production process like? Whose beach house did Scorsese and Schrader hang out at? Why don't discussions of 1970s New York City crime ever talk about root causes? Should someone become a person like other people? How is Jake like both Martin Scorsese AND Drew Carey? All this and more will be answered...but you gotta listen to the episode. And the next...2024-03-151h 28
Pod Casty For MeThe Yakuza (1975)The time has come, listeners, to discuss the films of Paul Schrader. That's right: Pauld Casty For Me has arrived, and this is the first episode. Of a new series about Paul Schrader movies. Basically imagine how the Clint Eastwood episodes went, roughly, but just replace all the specifics with Paul Schrader stuff. It'll make sense once you start listening. To kick things off, we're digging into Schrader's first produced screenplay, the 1975 Sydney Pollack neo-noir-yakuza picture THE YAKUZA, co-written with his brother Leonard Schrader and rewritten by Robert "China" Towne. We go deep on Schrader's strict Calvinist...2024-03-082h 06
Pod Casty For MeClintclusionsWe've run out of Clint Eastwood movies that fit our weird criteria, and now we're gonna talk about what we've learned from this whole endeavor. Where we are on Clint, on the auteur theory, on thinking about film, on thinking about political art, on each other, on the prospect of ever doing anything - it's all here for your inspection, dear listener. Oh and also we reveal what we're doing next! We're very excited about it and we hope you will be, too. Here's a hint: I'm going to start reading the Bible. We can't thank you all enough for jo...2024-02-161h 20
Pod Casty For MeCry Macho (2021) with Will SloanHere we are, folks - the end of Clint Eastwood's filmography to date. We've unlocked all the legendary weapons and retailer-exclusive armor sets and are ready to do battle with the final boss of Pod Casty For Me: writer and podcaster Will Sloan! Will joins us for a relaxed and agreeable discussion of Eastwood's relaxed and agreeable 2021 neo-Western CRY MACHO and some thoughts on the man's long career, his always-evolving relationship to images of masculinity, his love of animals, and his confounding age. A lovely end to the Clint Eastwood project - for now! - and a lot fewer a...2024-02-101h 54
Pod Casty For MeRichard Jewell (2019) with Hit FactoryYou, dear listener, will know his name...and the truth. That's right, we're going long as hell on Clint's 2019 A.C.A.B. masterpiece RICHARD JEWELL with our biological parents, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory!! Join us for a thorough investigation of Eastwood's evolving relationship to images of masculinity, the film's treatment of the Kathy Scruggs character, #NOlympics, and the wonderful performances of Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates, and Sam Rockwell. Special movie, special episode! Never talk to the cops! Topics include: Clint's decades, American flag paraphernalia, Newt Gingrich, disc golf, the Bruce McGill courtroom scene...2024-02-032h 27
Pod Casty For MeThe Mule (2018)Hop in the Lincoln Mark LT, listeners, we've got a duffel bag full of conversation about THE MULE! Join us for a long-haul chat about Clint's 2018 old-man-drug-trafficker drama about shitty fathers and late capitalism. Spoiler for what we thought of the movie: we both loved it! We talk drug war cinema, the film as a sort of GRAN TORINO REDUX, the film as Alison Eastwood's personal 15:17 TO PARIS, Sondra Locke's death just before its release, and lots more. Hee-haw, folks! (Actually I looked up a video of the sounds mules make and none of them are hee-haw.)2024-01-262h 19
Pod Casty For MeThe 15:17 To Paris (2018) with John SemleyLife has been catapulting us toward this moment...the episode where we lose our minds singing the praises of THE 15:17 TO PARIS with returning guest, writer and Slow Learners Podcast host John Semley! Join us for several hours of exaltant analysis of Clint Eastwood's 2018 avant garde docudrama, starring the real guys who really tackled a heavily armed shirtless man on a train. We really get into it here, folks: millennial masculinity amid the bleak futurelessness in which we've all spent most of our lives, re-enactments/non-professional actors in cinema history, and the transcendental quality of Dutch nightclubs. Listen up...2024-01-191h 51
Pod Casty For MeSully (2016) with Nick NewmanBrace for impact, listeners! Returning guest Nick Newman of The Film Stage joins us for a white-knuckle journey through Clint Eastwood's 2016 chronicle of real-life heroism and not-so-real-life stifling bureaucracy, SULLY. We talk about the film's relationship to real events, the oddness of turning this particular story into a movie, and Nick unlocks something huge about late Clint for us. Great ep, and we even kept it under the film's running time! Listen or you're an NTSB stooge! Topics include: https://twitter.com/Nick_Newman https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty F...2024-01-121h 27
Pod Casty For MeAmerican Sniper (2014)This is a big one, folks: for our 50th episode (arguably), we're taking aim at Clint Eastwood's monster hit military biopic AMERICAN SNIPER. Is this an anti-war film, as Clint claims? Is it a glorification of military power? Is it either? Why does Chris Kyle's hat say "Charlie" on it? What is Bradley Cooper's whole deal? For real, though, we get into a lot of pretty heavy stuff on this one, and we're extremely smart about it. They say we're the deadliest minds-men in podcast history, with over 200 confirmed Good Points each. Listen and enjoy! Topics include...2024-01-051h 49Pod Casty For MeHoliday Bonus: The Chair Speech (2012)Here's a little gift for you all this holiday season: we're going deep on Clint's infamous impromptu speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention where he talked to an invisible Barack Obama in a chair. Plus a bunch of our usual bullshit! Enjoy and see you in 2024! https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: 2023-12-291h 59Pod Casty For MeJersey Boys (2014) with Marie Bardi-SalinasOh, what an ep! We're singing in beautiful harmony about Clint's 2014 Broadway adaptation JERSEY BOYS with returning guest Marie Bardi-Salinas (now with extra last name)! Join us as we talk directly to the camera about jukebox musicals, New Jersey's cultural dominance in the 2000s, falsetto masculinity, and why exactly Clint was the one to make this movie. Plus, Ian gets mad at Jake for liking this movie despite claiming that he doesn't like musicals only for Marie to mostly talk him out of liking it that much. A real fun one, gang - listen to it or you aren't...2023-12-222h 09Pod Casty For MeTrouble With The Curve (2012) with Chadd HarboldTake me out to the freaking podcast! It's time for us to talk Clint Eastwood's final (to date) film acting for another director, Robert Lorenz's 2012 father-daughter baseball dramedy TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. And who better to join us than producer-director, former aspiring pro baseballer, and returning guest Chadd Harbold? We discuss who exactly directed this thing, peak Amy Adams, the demon Justin Timberlake, sabermetrics, and more. Lousy movie, great ep. Check it out! Topics include: screenplay theft, MONEYBALL, faith-based cinema, "You Are My Sunshine," speculation about Clint's acting coda, high school sports phenoms, clogging, the scene with...2023-12-151h 46Pod Casty For MeJ. Edgar (2011)Who better to cover a film about unrequited homoerotic lust so powerful it maybe destroyed US civil liberties forever than your two favorite co-hosts of Pod Casty For Me? That's right, it's just us guys this week covering J. EDGAR, Clint's 2011 biopic of FBI Director and anticommunist monster J. Edgar Hoover! We're going deep on this one, talking FBI history, gerontocracy, the film's depiction of Hoover's mysterious personal life, the prosthetics, how we think Clint feels about all this, and a lot more MLK talk than the film really gets into. Plus a lot more. Check it out or...2023-12-082h 04Pod Casty For MeHereafter (2010) with Jordan Fish and Ray TintoriHold on to your hats, folks - we're talking Clint's 2010 near-death experience drama HEREAFTER with filmmakers and To The White Sea podcast hosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! It's a wide-ranging chat about hyperlink cinema, visual effects, Matt Damon, and how we all fell for this sort of corny movie a lot more than we meant to. Plus, Jake has a big brain read about capitalist realism and Ray surprises us with a revelation about his friend Doug. Great ep, check it out or we'll haunt you! Topics include: Top 9 films, Bobbies Deerfield and Bacala, Franz Dameh...2023-12-011h 59Pod Casty For MeInvictus (2009) with Ian GreenI am the captain of my freaking PODCAST, more like! This week we're talking Clint Eastwood's 2009 true-story South African rugby drama INVICTUS, and Jake's other friend Ian - Ian Green - is joining the scrum! You might call this episode "IANVICTUS" if you weren't concerned about SEO or whatever!!! We're talking accents, sports movies, Nelson Mandela's legacy, the bad music, whether Clint really wanted to make this movie, and more. Plus, a quiz segment that goes perfectly, no issues at all with the quiz segment. Check it out, okes! Hope that's OK to say, not at all confident. 2023-11-241h 45Pod Casty For MeGran Torino (2008) with Andrew TiFasten your seatbelts, listeners: we're taking Clint's 2008 hit GRAN TORINO for a spin with racism expert (and native Michigander) Andrew Ti! This is a loaded one, gang: we talk about the film's lingering effect on the Hmong diaspora community, if it could have been made about any ethnic minority, whether the many slurs are intended to be funny, fatherly advice, and we try to sell Andrew on Clint's many other, better films. Plus there's a lot of Ann Arbor talk because Jake's dad is from there too. Great ep, check it out or we'll steal your car! ...2023-11-172h 03Pod Casty For MeChangeling (2008) with Bilge EbiriGet ready to sue the LAPD, everybody: this week we're examining Clint's 2008 child abduction docudrama CHANGELING with critic and writer Bilge Ebiri! From the metatextual depth of Angelina Jolie's performance to the film's status as Clint's first ACAB movie to ongoing moves by the state to use forced institutionalization against unhoused and other "inconvenient" people to Bilge's childhood memories of Clint (and of Peter Medak's THE CHANGELING), this is a real corker of a chat! Excited to share it with you, our beloved listeners, whom we love as if you were our own uncircumcised children. Topics include: H...2023-11-101h 51Pod Casty For MeLetters From Iwo Jima (2006) with Comrade YuiTake this down, listeners - we're talking the second half of Clint Eastwood's 2006 WWII diptych, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and we're joined by writer and filmmaker Comrade Yui! We're talking Ken Watanabe, connections to FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, both films' perspectives on propaganda, and Jake and Yui pressure Ian to acknowledge Clint's GOAThood. Check it out! Topics include: THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA, much of the film's cast appearing in Takeshi Kitano's KUBI, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's take on the film, the bushido code, killing ourselves with grenades, elves, the occult, and more! Follow Comrade Yui: ...2023-11-031h 54Pod Casty For MeFlags of Our Fathers (2006) with Glenn Heath, Jr.Say cheese, listeners: this week we're taking a look at FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, the first part of Clint's 2006 diptych about the Battle of Iwo Jima, and we're joined by writer, lecturer, and Pacific Arts Movement Managing Director Glenn Heath, Jr.! We talk WWII cinema, shout out our favorite little guys in the cast, publicity machines, look ahead to LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and say the word "simulacrum" even more than usual. Great ep, check it out! Topics include: Steven Spielberg, beach-taking on film, Adam Beach's wonderful performance, whether Clint has seen BRING IT ON, his public...2023-10-271h 55Pod Casty For MeMillion Dollar Baby (2004) with Jarrod MurrayGet in the ring, listeners! We're going toe-to-toe with MILLION DOLLAR BABY, Clint Eastwood's 2004 Best Picture winning boxing drama, and we're joined by producer and Hollywood big-wig Jarrod Murray! It's all here, baby: race and class in boxing and the boxing film, the response from voices for disability rights, Hilary Swank's career since her Oscar, the whole Paul Haggis thing, Irish terms of endearment, whatever Jay Baruchel is doing. Listen to this one or we won't tell you how they get the ice in the water bottle! Topics include: real life nice boxing women, Paul Haggis's self-mythologizing...2023-10-201h 47Pod Casty For MeMystic River (2003) with Jamie LoftusClimb aboard this relaxing cruise down the MYSTIC RIVER (2003) - jk this movie is actually a huge bummer but we have a wonderful time talking about it with New York Times bestselling author Jamie Loftus!!! We talk the mid-aughts trend of Boston crime downers, what this film has to say about the patriarchy, and we all weigh in on Sean Penn. Plus vampires. Topics include: actors doing Boston accents, Laura Linney as Lady MacBeth, the BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY tie-in fragrance Jamie discovered, McGruff the Crime Dog, Jamie's book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, D...2023-10-131h 41Pod Casty For MeBlood Work (2002) with Molly LambertLet your heart guide you...to listen to this episode! We're joined by writer and podcaster Molly Lambert to talk Clint's final detective movie (to date), 2002's Michael Connelly adaptation BLOOD WORK. We cover it all, from Long Beach to the Valley, organ transplant injustice to boat guys, Jeff Daniels's weird personal politics to Paul Rodriguez's weird personal politics. Be careful listening if you have a heart condition, because this ep is so good it could freaking kill you jk!!!! Topics include: Ian's birthday present for Jake, movie locations on Google Maps, Anjelica Huston, the Bosch literary...2023-10-061h 47Pod Casty For MeSpace Cowboys (2000)If you wanna fly / come and take a ride / take a space ride with the Pod Casty boys, baby! Today we're launching into Eastwood's 2000 old-guys-rule astronaut film SPACE COWBOYS, and boy do we launch. We get into Donald Sutherland, James Garner, and every young boy's favorite adult man circa Y2K, Tommy Lee Jones, as well as the "Whitey on the Moon" of it all, comparisons to THE RIGHT STUFF and APOLLO 13, and whether this might be Clint's most conservative movie since the 80s. Take your protein pills, put your helmet on, and give it a listen! ...2023-09-291h 56Pod Casty For MeTrue Crime (1999) with Jesse HawkenFor one week only: we're a TRUE CRIME podcast. We're going to make so much money as Jesse Hawken (writer/filmmaker/Junk Filter Podcast) joins us to cover Clint Eastwood's 1999 death row journalism thriller TRUE CRIME! We go deep on True Crime as a genre, capital punishment, and, of course, Speed Zoo. Give it a listen! Topics include: Clint's ageless sexual dynamism, OJ: MADE IN AMERICA, obviously the Star Wars prequels, the function of the media in Eastwood films, Denis Leary, the rightward turns of James Woods and Isaiah Washington, the triumphant return of the Pine Cone...2023-09-221h 54Pod Casty For MeMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)Two tears in a bucket...time to podcast! We're interrogating Clint Eastwood's 1997 Savannah murder trial adaptation MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, and it's basically all context today, folks! The bestselling book of it all, the Kevin Spacey of it all, the Savannah of it all, and most importantly the Lady Chablis of it all - we're covering it. We also discuss notions of truth, Hoodoo as a practice of resistance, and finally introduce Ian's powerful and dangerous teenage crush on Smallville actress Kristin Kreuk. Good ep! Check it out! Topics include: what to do w...2023-09-151h 50Pod Casty For MeAbsolute Power (1997) with Nima ShiraziHave a seat in your favorite concealed armchair, because it's time for our episode on Eastwood's 1997 not-quite-Clinton crime family thriller ABSOLUTE POWER! We're joined by Nima Shirazi, co-host of the Citations Needed podcast, to break down the film's parallels to the not-yet-broken Lewinsky scandal, the William Goldman of it all, and whether this film is just Clint explaining that his absent parenting style is good, actually. Check it out! Topics include: Judy Davis's Hillary haircut, Clint's friend Leon Panetta, near-death experiences, live sports alibis, accidentally having chemistry with your real-life daughter, the film's surprising connection to JACKASS...2023-09-081h 44Pod Casty For MeThe Bridges of Madison County (1995)Who better to talk about Clint Eastwood's 1995 study of brief passion than two guys who have been best friends for over a decade and still don't make a lot of eye contact? Nobody, that's who! Today we're exploring THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, talking the beginning of Clint's bestseller-adaptation run, Meryl Streep, war brides, and why the movie is in part a rebuke of FORREST GUMP. Good ep, check it out! Topics include: our Iowa experiences, THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, Clint's relationship with Dina Ruiz, the film's changes from the source material, more Spielberg talk...2023-09-011h 53Pod Casty For MeCasper (1995) with Jack SinclairClint's onscreen for a few seconds, which means it is our duty to discuss Brad Silberling's 1995 CGI ghost-boy comedy CASPER. Luckily we have the encyclopedic mind of Jack Sinclair (prolific tweeter, artist formerly known as William Friedkin Truths) to help us untangle what, if anything, this film is about. Why don't they make the whole podcast out of the tangents? Find out today!! Topics include: Ben Stein's film career, Steven Spielberg's producing empire, the late Billy Friedkin's love of basketball, Father Guido Sarducci, Lou Pearlman, ghosts, the return of the instant classic segment Jake Is Buy-Curious, and...2023-08-252h 16Pod Casty For MeA Perfect World (1993) with Marie Bardi and Chadd HarboldWe're back to discuss what might be Clint Eastwood's finest work, 1993's surrogate father crime film A PERFECT WORLD, with best friends (and Blank Check social media maven and filmmaker, respectively) Chadd Harbold and Marie Bardi! Let us gently abduct you and take you on a journey of Kevin Costner hotness debate, Clint's regrets as a father, talk about his working methods with people who have actually been on film sets, and our long-awaited engagement with the Official Clint Eastwood Twitter kerfuffle(s). Get in the damn car with us already. Topics include: Peter Hyams a...2023-08-182h 20Pod Casty For MeIn The Line Of Fire (1993) with Jonah JengYou have a rendezvous with our 'cast, beloved listener! Today we're talking Wolfgang Petersen's 1993 Clint-starring Secret Service thriller IN THE LINE OF FIRE with writer Jonah Jeng! Join us for a potentially treasonous discussion of action cinema, official residences, disguises, John Malkovich, Clint-as-character-type, and more! Follow Jonah Jeng: https://twitter.com/JonahJeng https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/tag/The%20Action%20SceneEp. 30: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme...2023-08-111h 56Pod Casty For MeUnforgiven (1992)Finally: our episode on Clint Eastwood's 1992 western, UNFORGIVEN. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart2023-08-052h 30
Pod Casty For MeThe Rookie (1990)Fasten your seatbelt, folks, it's time for THE ROOKIE, Clint Eastwood's 1990 attempt to do Dirty Harry in big, loud LETHAL WEAPON mode with strange CLOUD ATLAS-style colorblind casting. Did it work? You gotta listen to find out, pal. I can't answer every little question you have! I have a podcast description to write, for h**ven's sake. As I was trying to say, we get into toxic police self-mythologizing, huge stunts, the long history of Germans in Latin and South America, plus Jake's got a big-brain reading of the film that he's very proud of. Check it out! 2023-07-281h 56
Pod Casty For MeWhite Hunter, Black Heart (1990)It's the ugliest godd*mn podcast you've ever seen, back again for another episode. We are pleased as punch to be talking about Clint Eastwood's 1990 adaptation WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART, a thinly-disguised account of the production of John Huston's THE AFRICAN QUEEN. A very good movie about a just-OK movie, we both agree! Join us for a chat about the sort of Larger-Than-Life white men like Huston and Hemingway that we used to be impressed by and now find tiresome, Hollywood depictions of Africa, performative anti-semitism, and King of the Film Timothy Spall. Please join us! Please!!! ...2023-07-141h 51
Pod Casty For MePink Cadillac (1989) with Eric MarkovitsBeep beep! What's that we've got stashed in our trunk? Look at that, it's a brand new episode on Buddy Van Horn's 1989 action comedy PINK CADILLAC, and with our friend Eric Markovits, no less! Hop on in for a discussion of Bernadette Peters, a whirlwind history of white supremacist groups in the 80s, MIDNIGHT RUN (again), Ian's exciting new segment, and a return to the Pine Cone Crime Zone. Check it out! Topics include: the mostly unrelated Bruce Springsteen song of the same name, James Cromwell, Frances Fisher, French nobility, British Israelism, Neo-Nazis on film, prison abolition...2023-07-072h 03
Pod Casty For MeBird (1988) with Jordannah Elizabeth"Podcasts are the bebop of our time" - nobody has said this that I know of, but it could be true! Today we're talking Clint Eastwood's 1988 Charlie Parker biopic BIRD with writer, jazz critic, and lecturer Jordannah Elizabeth! We get into Forrest Whitaker's Cannes-winning performance, jazz on film, trying to be good little intersectional boys, what it means when white dudes make Charlie Parker biopics, and more! Check it out please!! Follow Jordannah: https://twitter.com/lovejordannah https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://t...2023-06-301h 28
Pod Casty For MeThe Dead Pool (1988) with Jesse ThornOpinions are like podcasts: everybody's got one. Pretty good reference to the film, if you ask me. We're diving in to Buddy Van Horn's 1988 finale to the Dirty Harry series, THE DEAD POOL, with podcasting's #2 expert on late '80s San Francisco, Jesse Thorn! He's also the host of NPR's Bullseye and the podcast Jordan Jesse Go, and the founder of Maximum Fun, now a worker-owned cooperative. We get into the San Francisco of the movies, the unaddressed trauma all around Harry Callahan, and talk with Jesse about the process of transitioning his podcast network to a co-op. Real...2023-06-231h 57
Pod Casty For MeHeartbreak Ridge (1986) with Laurie R. LambertLook alive, ladies (complimentary)! Today we're digging into Clint Eastwood's 1986 war...comedy(?) HEARTBREAK RIDGE with Laurie R. Lambert, associate professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University and author of the book Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution. We talk about the film's extremely casual engagement with the facts of the 1983 American invasion of Grenada, consider its failure as a satire, if that's even what it's trying to do, and heap a lot of praise on Damani Baker's excellent documentary THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD. Check it out! Topics include: whether this...2023-06-161h 44
Pod Casty For Me"Vanessa in the Garden" (1985)[update: fixed an audio issue] It's the episode you've all been begging for: by popular demand, we're covering "Vanessa in the Garden," the 22-minute episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories anthology television series directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sondra Locke! Join us as we fully break down mentally trying to squeeze a drop of blood from this stone. This audio will probably be entered into a court case as evidence someday, so listen now while it's still cool and underground!! Topics include: Steven Spielberg, Errol morris's MR. DEATH, Harvey Keitel, Beau Bridges, anthology television, Jake's distaste fo...2023-06-0952 min
Pod Casty For MePale Rider (1985)Behold a couple of pale guys doing a podcast! Today we're breaking down Eastwood's 1985 oater PALE RIDER, his riff on SHANE if the little boy was a teenage girl and the cows were gold. There's a lot of SHANE talk, obviously, plus a deep dive into the history of hydraulic mining, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and more! Good episode, if you ask me. Check it out. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube...2023-05-261h 39
Pod Casty For MeCity Heat (1984) with Forrest TiffanyTwo movie stars...three guys chatting...one episode!! We're joined once again by our friend Forrest Tiffany for a discussion of CITY HEAT, Richard Benjamin's 1984 period buddy cop movie in which Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds don't exactly make sparks fly. Well, Ian liked it. We do some Burt context, talk about the history of Kansas City political machines, and there's a silly little game. Check it out! https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube...2023-05-191h 43
Pod Casty For MeTightrope (1984) with Hit FactoryThey say a podcast must choose between being funny and being insightful. They're wrong! On today's hugely fun episode, we're joined by Aaron and Carlee from the terrific Hit Factory podcast to talk Richard Tuggle's 1984 sleazy serial killer thriller TIGHTROPE - with all the dog rescue stories, sex worker rights history, and do-cops-deserve-empathy conversations you can handle. Plus the three dudes talk about how good Carlee is at posting! She's so good at it. We had a stupid amount of fun recording this episode and we think you will have at least some portion of that listening to it...2023-05-122h 03
Pod Casty For MeSudden Impact (1983) with Dr. Joe StreetGo ahead, listen to this episode! We are beyond thrilled to be joined for our discussion of the fourth Dirty Harry film, SUDDEN IMPACT, by the man who literally wrote the book on Dirty Harry: Dr. Joe Street, author of Dirty Harry's America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash. From "Make my day" to Santa Cruz history to Reagan's cruel legacy of spending cuts to Sondra Locke's sunglasses, we cover it all on this one, folks. There's even a novelty song and a farfetched theory about an androgynous bulldog that probably should have been cut out of t...2023-05-051h 53
Pod Casty For MeHonkytonk Man (1982)It wasn't G-d who made HONKYTONK MAN podcasts...it was us! Join us for a conversation about Clint Eastwood's 1982 Depression-set country music road trip drama, careening from Grand Ole Opry history to Oklahoma Land Runs to discussion of whose uncles are the most unwell. It's a foot-stompin' good time. Throw your arms around this freaking episode, why don't you? https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Artwork by Jeremy Allison: 2023-04-281h 51
Pod Casty For MeFirefox (1982)We are writing this episode description directly via thought waves! Also typing! It's the FIREFOX episode, folks, and we're talking all about the 1982 Cold War mind-controlled spyplane thriller some have called "Clint Eastwood's STAR WARS," which is funny to do! Join us for a daring infiltration of the film's real-life inspirations, the particular early-Reagan geopolitical climate in which it was made, and the sundry White House creeps Clint rubbed elbows with at the Kennedy Center premiere. Topics include: Taking a Gander, our fondness for practical effects, Jake finds a way to bring up Back to t...2023-04-212h 51
Pod Casty For MeAny Which Way You Can (1980) with Nick NewmanBeers to you, dear listener - it's a new episode of the show! Today we're joined by Managing Editor of The Film Stage, Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman), for a movie that's extremely stupid: Buddy Van Horn's Clint-and-Clyde sequel ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN. This one's got all the animal actor rights and Jackson Hole context you could want, plus three adult men politely complimenting each other on their appearance. What are you waiting for? Listen now! Topics include: legacy sequels, going to Europe to dodge labor laws, William Smith's strange pre-Hollywood career, calling our shot re: new...2023-04-141h 52
Pod Casty For MeBronco Billy (1980)Gather round, little pards: the BRONCO BILLY episode's in town! Join Ian "Handsy Bill" Rhine and Jake "Steel Arlo" Serwin as they talk Clint Eastwood's 1980 Capraesque neo-western comedy, the history of wild west shows, the famous Scatman Crothers story, and get into an argument about THE FABELMANS, of all things. It's a good one! Topics include: the 2023-04-072h 07
Pod Casty For MeEscape From Alcatraz (1979) with Chris AlfonsoUh oh, the episode's good! Sorry, we're trying to remove it. Anyway today we are getting into Clint's final collaboration with Don Siegel, 1979's prison breakout movie ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, and we're joined by activist and Mitigation Specialist for Youth Justice Network, Chris Alfonso! Join us for a discussion of prison life, the nature of punishment, imagining a post-carceral world, and much more. Also Clint is n*de in this movie. This is a special one, folks. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme 2023-03-311h 57
Pod Casty For MeEvery Which Way But Loose (1978)Put up your dukes! We're turning EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE this episode to talk about James Fargo's 1978 bare-knuckle boxing hangout road trip orangutan movie, which we both like many parts of while still somehow not really enjoying the film. There's also plenty of San Fernando Valley history, Nazi biker discussion (critical), and Jake tells a story about a moviegoer so rude she sent him spiraling into despair. Give it a listen! Topics include: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, the American Humane Association, allegations of animal mistreatment on the set of this film (sort of), Las Vegas ape...2023-03-242h 03
Pod Casty For MeThe Gauntlet (1977)Lock(e) and load, it's time to run...THE GAUNTLET (1977)! Jake and Ian get to the bottom of Clint Eastwood's shockingly pro-sex-work, anti-cop action comedy road movie and dig deep on Sondra Locke. There's also lots of praise for MIDNIGHT RUN, obviously. Give it a listen! Topics include: SHAFT IN AFRICA, cop corruption scandals, Vinnie Jones, "vital statistics," pig iron, new misogynist phrases, Josh Brolin's stepmother Barbra Streisand, and Frank Gorshin's impressions. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube...2023-03-171h 53
Pod Casty For MeThe Enforcer (1976)Actually you're late uploading YOUR podcast! Today we're digging into the third Dirty Harry film, James Fargo's THE ENFORCER. We're talking women in law enforcement, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the occupation of Alcatraz by Native activists, all that stuff. Plus another visit to a certain crime zone... Topics include: fake names, Jake's dad's fondness for Hugo Boss cologne, the film's title, Ian brings up Richard Donner's TIMELINE like that's normal to do, communiqués, "Stockholm Syndrome," THE OTHER GUYS, and the co-hosts shock absolutely no one by knowing the same gross bird fact, plus more! C...2023-03-102h 07
Pod Casty For MeThe Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) with Eric MarkovitsWe got ourselves a juicy new episode and we're spitting it at your dog! Sorry! We shouldn't do that, it's mean. Anyway time to talk THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES with our friend, labor attorney Eric Markovits (@thechancegiver). We all scrambled to become Civil War scholars in a week to make sense of the politics here, so you're welcome. Settle in for a hell of a ride once we get talking about the guy who wrote the book, too. Enjoy the show! Buzzards gotta listen to podcasts, same as worms! Topics include: Bleeding Kansas, ANIMAL HOUSE, Chief Dan...2023-03-032h 15
Pod Casty For MeThe Eiger Sanction (1975) with John SemleyGot a mountain-sized episode for ya, folks. Today we're attempting Eastwood's spy thriller THE EIGER SANCTION with writer John Semley (@johnsemley3000) and talking the difficulty of making an American Bond, the deadly injury on the set of this film, and even more George Kennedy appreciation than last week's episode. Listen to it or be sanctioned (just kidding, it's fine)! Topics include: the water in Oaxaca, Jake doesn't know anything about football, scurrying through hatches, some quick and dirty espionage history, Clint's little shorts, Jack Cassidy, the film's casual but intense homophobia, Tom Cruise, the Vanderpump empire, Brenda...2023-02-241h 41
Pod Casty For MeThunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) with Forrest TiffanyLadies and gentlemen...we got 'im. A guest, that is! Today the lovely and talented Forrest Tiffany (@forresttiffany) joins us to talk Michael Cimino's 1974 road trip bank heist film THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT. We welcome Geoffrey Lewis and George Kennedy to the Pod Casty cast of guys and investigate what this film has to say about American masculinity halfway through the 70s. There is also a quiz at the end. Topics include: the real-life highwaymen who inspired the book that inspired the movie that inspired this movie, convertibles, what's in Montana, Jeff Bridges in drag, exactly who pistachio...2023-02-172h 09
Pod Casty For MeMagnum Force (1973)A man's got to know his limitations...and that's why we started a podcast! This ep we go deep on Ted Post's 1973 film MAGNUM FORCE, the first sequel to DIRTY HARRY and a fascinating piece of equivocation and reaction-to-the-reaction. We'll also check in with Ian's enemy goose in another edition of Taking A Gander, and Jake has a new segment about Pauline Kael. ACAB, Google LASD Gangs, stay safe out there. Topics include: the 1970s epidemic of skyjacking, US-sponsored death squads in Latin America, Harry Callahan's sexual magnetism, the history of gangs within the Los Angeles County...2023-02-102h 05
Pod Casty For MeBreezy (1973)It's time for us to tackle BREEZY, Clint Eastwood's 1973 romantic dramedy starring William Holden and Kay Lenz and, for the first time in his career, not him! Extremely comfortable ep about an extremely comfortable movie to watch and discuss. We talk about the age gap and age gap movies generally, Eastwood's romantic life in the early seventies, LICORICE PIZZA (and PHANTOM THREAD), and offer our very timely reactions to the Sight & Sound poll along with what we would have put on our ballots had they not been (we assume) lost in the mail. Give it a listen, you can...2023-02-031h 52
Pod Casty For MeEp. 4: High Plains Drifter (1973)We're wandering into the pod feed out of thin air to talk HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973), Clint Eastwood's second film as director and still one of his very best. We also recorded this one in person, so, it's, uh, better maybe? Could also be worse. Leave me out of it! [Content heads-up: the film depicts sexual violence and we discuss that in this episode. Something to keep in mind when deciding when and where to listen to it.] Topics include: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, Jake's special haircut story, the film's relationship to High N...2023-01-272h 22
Pod Casty For MeEp. 3: Joe Kidd (1972)This week we're talking about the little-remembered 1972 western JOE KIDD, starring Clint Eastwood, directed by John Sturges, and written by Elmore Leonard. We'd never heard of it either, but our viewing of the film led to a great discussion of the real person who inspired the story, the New Mexican land grant activist Reies López Tijerina. Topics include: courtroom appearances, school dances, Tijerina's 1967 armed raid on the courthouse at Tierra Amarilla, the frustrating legacy of misogyny in activist groups, roles for women in westerns, calculating how much money people in old movies are actually talking about, t...2023-01-201h 43
Pod Casty For MeDirty Harry (1971)Join us for a discussion of the 1971 Don Siegel police action film Dirty Harry, its left and liberal reception at the time, and its reverberations throughout the rest of Clint Eastwood's career. Sorry we mostly forgot to be funny on this one. ACAB, by the way. Topics include: police brutality, fascist aesthetics, cop movies and copaganda, the meaning(s) of San Francisco as a setting, how we think Eastwood and Siegel feel about the cops, the Hunters Point social uprising of 1966, the Zodiac killer, mineral oil, and a conversation about the Scorpio Killer's driving directions. 2023-01-131h 53
Pod Casty For MePlay Misty For Me (1971)Our first episode, in which we discuss Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, the 1971 thriller Play Misty For Me, and Jake debuts a special segment. Topics include: Eastwood's early career, collaborators like Don Siegel and cinematographer Bruce Surtees, the film's gender politics, Jessica Walter, whether Carmel-by-the-Sea and Sausalito are actually the same place, and for some reason 9/11. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme2023-01-061h 57
Pod Casty For MeClintroductionsThis is a quick introduction to Pod Casty For Me, the podcast about Clint Eastwood movies and left politics. Here you will find answers to important questions like: Why are we doing the show? Who are we, the guys who are doing the show? Will you like our, like, whole thing? Do we say cussing? Are we well-informed or at least funny? A good place to start for new listeners! Probably a decent place for those same new listeners to end! Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/p...2023-01-0516 min