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We always hate to say goodbye... but we must close this chapter of the podcast and officially send off our Alan Rudolph series out to the beautiful blue ocean. We honor the man himself talking about what we learned looking at all of these movies he made, what he and Altman showed us about American filmmaking, read some choice quotes from the man himself, his top 10 favorite movies. AND... we announce our upcoming subject for the next season, before we hand out some Bob awards for these final 10 Rudolph movies, our ranked list of them, and what we're looking for in the next series. From both of us hosts, thank you to everyone who's listened to us ramble about movies for these 20+ episodes, whether you're a new listener or a day-oner, we appreciate having you around. Thank you to everyone in our discord for keeping the conversation going and for anyone that went and watched even one Alan Rudolph movie from our discussions let alone all of them. And thank you to all of our guests who we'll list below, but the biggest thanks of all goes to our pal Jason Miller who really got the fire cooking on this season, who got us so psyched about a guy that made some seriously unparalleled movies right under the radar of the Hollywood machine, thanks Jason! And to all of our other guests - Thank you so much to…VALERIE KEATON, PETER RALEIGH, ESME HOLDEN, CHRIS WOODWARD, AARON CASIAS, ETAN WEISFOGEL, JANE ALTOIDS, JORDAN FISH, GIGI, IAN RHINE, JAKE SERWIN - and our guests who couldn't quite make it in ANNABEL JESSICA GOLDSMITH and TORREY PAQUETTE, we'll catch you again next time.  See you all in June for Series 4 of Altmania! Follow Altmania: altmaniapod.com estebannoel.com Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

Alan Rudolph returns from his 15-year hiatus from filmmaking with a paintbrush in his hand a copy of premiere pro to bring us RAY MEETS HELEN. Joining us are two Clint Eastwood experts, Jake and Ian from Sōd Casty for Me, to help us talk about what would end up being Sondra Locke's final film, green screen, digital filmmaking, and the growing list of the things that baffled us about this movie. If you're a big Rudolph-head and you love this movie, we're so sorry for this one, but its still a lot of fun to listen to - lots of laughs to be had. We love you bobbleheads, stay tuned for the finale next week, you can write into our mailbag if you'd like us to answer any questions or just read a comment from you on that episode! Follow Sōd Casty for Me: podcastyforme.com patreon.com/podcastyforme Follow Altmania: Linktree Esteban Noel - Short Stories Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania Music: American Sunset - Jack Adkins Audrey - John Andrews & the Yawns California - Drug Cabin

Whatever happened to toothpaste flavored toothpaste... this week we're hanging out with the ghost of Denis Leary in Alan Rudolph's THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS. A movie about a guy that is so scared of being a cuckold that he runs away from his wife to mow the lawn. We get into what drew Rudolph to this script, how we miss his signature curveball to help what is otherwise a simple midlife crisis movie, read some wise words from Rudolph on the state of filmmaking in the 2000s, Campbell Scott and Hope Davis' great acting, kids throwing up, Dennis Leary telling you to murder your wife, and a whole lot more. Don't forget to write into our mailbag for the upcoming Rudolph finale!! Follow Altmania: Linktree Read Este's writing Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

Get out your pipes and magnifying glasses, Sherlock HOLES is on the case. This week we're joined by our good friend Detective Gigi to look into these matters on Alan Rudolph's INVESTIGATING SEX, aka INTIMATE AFFAIRS. We get into the film's setting, its depiction of real surrealist artists and intellectuals, Andre Breton, post-WWI artists and philosophers, their bankrolling by the upper class, the characters' posturing and the women they've hired to transcribe their arcane discussions, incel behavior, sex demons, and how this film speaks not just to the 2020s, but to 2001 and the 1920s. Also, don't forget to WRITE INTO THE MAILBAG, we'll answer all of your questions when we wrap up on Alan Rudolph in a few weeks. Hi Femme article mentioned in the episode Hyper-femininity, Transaction and ‘Showgirls' with Carlee Gomes Follow Gigi: Twitter Bluesky Conversation w/ Karthik Puru Follow Altmania: Linktree Subscribe to Este's Writing Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

To hear the rest of this episode, you can head over to our Patreon where for $5 a month you'll get access to two of these bonus episodes per month, AND all of our previous bonus episodes! -- SuperGOOD is the way we'd describe this episode!! Joined by our friend John (@fender_belly), we get into the first two episodes of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's latest project THE STUDIO. We see if these rumors of it being a modern twist on Robert Altman's THE PLAYER are true, talk Thomas Pynchon's upcoming novel SHADOW TICKET, PTA/Vineland, the modern Hollywood landscape, TV comebacks, art and commerce, Sony email leaks, Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, Food Fight, and in general we beat the dead horse of why capitalism sucks...MUCH to consider...

Altmania, the only show hosted by TWO private defectives. We get into the new trailer for PTA's One Battle After Another, before we jump over to the critical fallout from Breakfast of Champions, Rudolph vs Disney (and critics), Y2K, Alan Rudolph's election-inspired script for Trixie, liars and truthers, cheeked up Dermot Mulroney (not Dylan McDermott), Mancow Nathan Lane, and so much more... only on ALTMANIA. Oh, and WRITE IN TO OUR FINALE EPISODE MAILBAG, ask us anything you want!! Follow our friend Annabelle, who couldn't make it for this episode: twitter.com/themoderns_ Our Man Gregory La Cava Follow Altmania: Linktree Read Este's writing! Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut releases his much awaited follow up to Slaughterhouse-Five. Just one year later, off the tails of Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Robert Altman tasks Alan Rudolph with writing him a script based on this book, Breakfast of Champions. His one direction being, "don't follow the book", advice that would be echoed by Kurt Vonnegut himself. The project slowly fizzles away into the dustbin... until 1999. This week we're talking Alan Rudolph's BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, starring Bruce Willis as Dwayne Hoover. We take a trip to Alan-Town to talk about the new Choose Me 4K, this film's recent 4K restoration, then we get into Vonnegut talk, how this film and the book find common ground, car dealers in the Bush era, late capitalism and the "self-made" owner class, and also a lot of joking around! Write in to the mailbag for our finale episode! Follow Altmania: Linktree estebannoel.com Altman / Rudolph archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

Bonjour à tous! Joining us this week, in the strange and alienating city that is Alan Rudolph's montreal, is our friend, a filmmaker, co-host of To the White Sea - Jordan Fish! We have a lengthy discussion on Alan Rudolph's 1997 film AFTERGLOW, its characters estranged from their roots, People Magazine's 1992 Sexiest Man Alive Nick Nolte and his gruff handsomeness, Julie Christie, love triangles, how funny it is when someone is horny, Altman's budget tricks for his buddy Alan, unspoken truths, withheld secrets, a whole lot more on ALTMANIA: FRIENDS OF BOB! Follow Jordan Fish / To the White Sea: To the White Sea - a Coen brothers study group https://twitter.com/tothewhitesea https://twitter.com/jwordfish Jordan's DSA NYC ad (mentioned in the episode) Follow Altmania: Linktree Esteban Noel (Este's writing) Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

Joining us at our big, round podcast table for Alan Rudolph's dive into historical drama - from Pacino Pod, it's Jane Altoids! We talk about Rudolph reuniting with Robert Altman, the Algonquin roundtable, how Bob got two different studios to bankroll this, the copius research and method that went into creating this whole thing, and how that's maybe the least interesting part of what makes this a good film, and what Jennifer Jason Leigh brings to playing Dorothy Parker. Follow Jane Altoids: Pacino Pod https://www.patreon.com/pacinopod https://x.com/staticbluebat https://letterboxd.com/staticbluebat/ Follow Altmania: Linktree Este's Writing Altman/Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

I'm seeing double... FOUR Matthew Modines! You've already guessed it, it's a movie we've been anticipating in this series based on it's bizarre premise alone - that doesn't actually turn out to be as weird as you'd think. Joined by our new pal Etan Weisfogel, a writer, occasional critic, and certified Rudolph Enjoyer. He helps us break down EQUINOX - a film about twin Matthew Modines seperated at birth that has big things to say about class, connection in a broken world, urban decay, the lottery, and disassociative mental conditions - thank god we've solved all that stuff and can just look back and laugh. Join us please Follow Etan Weisfogel: letterboxd.com/etan_weisfogel/ Follow Altmania: Linktree Este's Writing Altman / Rudolph Archive  Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

In 1991, Alan Rudolph receives a call from Demi Moore ONE day before they're about to shoot this little movie she's producing, MORTAL THOUGHTS. The original director's been fired, the production company is gonna pull back the money unless they can get someone in under the wire, what are they gonna do?? Well, get yourself a gun, and let's head on over to Jersey town to tune into this week's episode, and find out exactly what happens. Alan Rudolph being knighted as Captain-Save-a-Film, New Jersey accents, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's razor-sharp instincts, how he managed to imprint his own touch on it in a matter of days. All of this and sooo much more on ALTMANIA:FRIENDS OF BOB.   Follow Altmania: Linktree Este's Writing Altman/Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

Live at Largo, it's LOVE AT LARGE. The Alan Rudolph movie that feels vaguely like Trouble in Mind, transplanted to a 1990s Portland, with an added hitchcock-ian "wrong man" story, that is also a screwball comedy, and Tom Berenger talks like Beetlejuice, and there's a cameo even more insane than Divine in TiM. So what did we think of it? Well, perhaps one of us was more into it than the other, but the only way to truly unlock that secret, you gotta listen to the dang episode you nonce! I'm not gonna spoil the episode right here, what are you crazy? Follow Altmania: Linktree Read Este's New Short! Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

From all the times we say "postmodern" on the show, we finally get to POST Moderns, Alan Rudolph's THE MODERNS, from 1988. The Altmania boys are together at last, recording in the same room, and now have to make eye contact with each other. Scary stuff. We manage to get through it as we talk about Este's trip up to Seattle, Scarecrow video, eating Doritos, watching this movie together + the documentary film packaged in the blu ray, art and artifice, recreating myths, Keith Carradine painting, so much awesome stuff to get into with THE MODERNS   Follow Altmania: Linktree estebannoel.com Altman/Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

From podcast to GODcast! That's right, folks, today we're covering the 2003 Tom Shadyac film BRUCE ALMIGHTY. And this week's guest is a match made in heaven for this show, it's our research comrade and friend-in-Rudolph, Jason Miller! He checks in with us as we cross the halfway mark on our Alan Rudolph series. We see how good of a job we're doing, key players we should keep an eye out for, and we talk about some COOL unproduced works from the director himself. From there, we dive into this fascinating movie, how much fun it has with dream logic, the "heaven movie genre", Rudolph cutting the budget to do more clever effects. Fantastic movie, listen in! Follow Jason Miller: https://x.com/bronco7732 Follow Altmania: Linktree Altman/Rudolph Archive https://estebannoel.com Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/altmania

We knew this guy was trouble when he walked in, it's Aaron from the Hit Factory Podcast returning to discuss Alan Rudolph's 1985 neo-noir set-in-the-past-but-also-in-the-future, shot right there in beautiful Seattle, it's TROUBLE IN MIND. We get into some overall Rudolph discussion and share some big PTA news, before we jump right in with Keith Carradine in cool suits and funky hair, Divine, the Reagan '80s, prosperity in the US, and Ryan peppers in some fun Seattle facts as we get into the first hometown feature for his half of the show. It's a lot of fun, you do NOT want to miss it, truly. Follow Hit Factory:  https://x.com/HitFactoryPod https://www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod Follow Altmania: Linktree Este's Writing Altman / Rudolph Archives Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/altmania

To hear the rest of this episode, you can head over to our Patreon where for $5 a month you'll get access to two bonus episodes per month. We both had a lot of fun researching this one, it's a good way to get into the Patreon. -- Another edition of the Patreon feed coming straight down the tube -- we're checking out Alan Rudolph's first and only documentary feature, following the Los Angeles stop of the Timothy Leary // G. Gordon Liddy debate tour. We get into the current state of the world, where we're at now, before we jump into the deep end on the FBI, CIA, Nixon, MKultra, watergate, Iran Contra, counterculture movements, and all of that jazz. Plus we learn that Gordon Liddy was one crazy ass white boy.

Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be podcasters. It's another edition of Altmania: Friends of Bob, continuing right along in our Alan Rudolph series. This time we're joined again by a returning champion, our pal from Podside Picnic, Chris Woodward. We get into this interesting leap in budget for ol' Rudolph, working alongside Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson in a fun little film about what it means to make art in the US of A. What does it mean to be an artist, to get tied up in the financial end of the music biz, and to avoid all those fat gangsters in suits? Well, you'll just have to tune in to find that out now won't you. Y'all come back now, ya hear? Follow Chris Woodward: https://twitter.com/cww_0 https://www.patreon.com/PodsidePicnic Podside Picnic Follow Este on Substack: https://estebannoel.substack.com/ Follow Altmania: Patreon Linktree Altman / Rudolph Archive

Choose me!! That's what this episode is telling you in your feed right now, press play, press the little button and listen to me!! We're back from a short break, joined by our friend Esmé Holden, a wonderful film writer and cool person all around to discuss Alan Rudolph's biggest independent film CHOOSE ME. We get into the film's many playful depictions genre, artifice, and mood; its many wonderful characters and how they intermingle within the sparse Rudolphian spaces. And unfortunately about halfway through we also learn about the passing of David Lynch, which was a real bummer, and we got it aaaall on tape! Listen in, and enjoy this episode because it's a "good one". Follow Esmé Holden: https://twitter.com/esmesayss https://letterboxd.com/esmepartii/ Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973): That Long Black Cloud is Comin' Down mentioned in the episode Follow Este on Substack: https://estebannoel.substack.com/ Follow Altmania: Patreon Linktree Altman / Rudolph Archive

We're taking a short break for some personal stuff, but for now, enjoy this unlocked episode from our Patreon feed. If you like what you hear, consider subscribing for just $5/month, and receive 2 monthly bonus episodes ---------------------------------------- It's our final Lion's Gate production this episode (Remember My Name is this week so that's the other one we're doing lol). This time it's THE LATE SHOW written/directed by ROBERT BENTON - we've got Lily Tomlin and Art Carney as a couple of LA wackos trying to solve a caper. It's a ton of fun; we're really in the chit-chat joke zone on this episode so come join us for some fun talk on Altman's sound technology, edible underwear, Ryan's oven, and perhaps a special sneak peek on something cool that we're gonna be doing soon. It's all here on ALTMANIA PREMIUM. Articles Mentioned: A True Pioneer in Recording Overlapping Dialogue - Cinemontage Interview With Robert Altman - Roger Ebert The Late Show - AFI catalog, 1893 - 1993 Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff, a biography of the great American director by Patrick McGilligan Robert Benton: Character Determines Action - GreenCine

Don't have a cow, man - it's another episode of Altmania right on schedule. We're joined by a returning favorite, a writer we both admire, Peter Raleigh! He steps into the pen with us to check out Alan Rudolph's second film with Zalman King (happy Zalmanuary to those that celebrate). It's the horror sci-fi eco-thriller ENDANGERED SPECIES - we get into X-Files talk, Twin Peaks, 1982 horror, cattle mutilations, aliens, the CIA, other government ops, Gary Larson, Cow Tools, Robert Urich being a weird sex freak in the movie. So much to enjoy on this episode, and the movie is pretty cool, too! HERE'S A LINK to a nice version you can watch...    Follow Peter Raleigh: twitter.com/PetreRaleigh peterraleigh.substack.com/ Follow Altmania: Patreon Este's Substack Linktree Altman / Rudolph Archive

It's time to kick out the mother-loafing jams because we're getting into 2025 with ROADIE. A movie where Meat Loaf plays a redneck macgyver that goes around fixing other band's equipment. Oh and Art Carney eats a bunch of ribs with sauce all over his face. There's other stuff in here too, we talk about late '70s rock, Meat Loaf's music, his abilities as a leading man, and what Alan Rudolph was doing on his first big studio picture. All that and sooo much more on Altmania, the year of Rudolph!!   Follow Altmania: Patreon Linktree Este's Substack Altman / Rudolph Archive

We were lucky enough to sit down for an interview with the composer of Nashville, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Welcome to LA, RICHARD BASKIN - who shared stories with us from throughout his career; starting out as a singer-songwriter in LA, meeting Altman and working on all of the music of Nashville, his experiences with Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakely, Gwen Welles, Henry Gibson. This leads up to Buffalo Bill and the Indians, working at the Lion's Gate Production studios, and right into Alan Rudolph's WELCOME TO LA. We discuss being a part of making these two films that are centered around his music, how both directors worked on massively different scales, and we close out on some general conversation on his work, Altman and Rudolph's style of work, etc.  Thank you so much again to Mr. Baskin for taking some time during the holidays to chat with us, and making our show feel legit, we hope to do more interviews with Altman / Rudolph, even PTA collaborators if we can. This was so much fun and thank you to our listeners who helped us all year and keep the show alive through Patreon or just listening on the main feed! You're all awesome, we hope to have a great 2025.  Follow Altmania: Patreon Linktree Este's Substack Altman / Rudolph Archive

It's our final episode of 2024 (special bonus episode next week) and we're ending it on Rudolph's second film under his renewed directorial vision. Joining us this time is Altmania third timer Valerie, who helps us examine this film following Geraldine Chaplin as an ex-con putting her life and image back together, while secretly tormenting Anthony Perkins' suburban life - perhaps theres more at play? So much to get into this episode, and we were all very excited for this one, hope you all enjoy it. Follow Valerie: twitter.com/StealingValerie stealingvalerie.bsky.social Follow Altmania: Patreon Linktree Este's Substack Altman / Rudolph Archive

This is like our third intro episode in the Rudolph series, but this time we're really getting started. It's his first big swing, setting the precedent for a unique vision of his own, it's WELCOME TO LA. We go over some stuff on Nashville, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, this time focusing on Rudolph's hand in those productions. We talk about Lion's Gate, Rudolph influencing Altman, the responses that this film has. Overall, we give this one a ton of praise for its style, the way it uses the medium of film, conventions of genre, and strange camera spiking throughout to evoke a mood that we've never really seen before - but also have seen throughout the history of film. It's time to lock in because we are in full on Rudolph mode. Special thank you to Richard Baskin for communicating with us, we don't mention in this episode, but he helped us with some of the music in the edit, you might see something else related to him soon. Special thanks as well to Dan Sallitt, who wrote so much wonderful stuff on Rudolph - and to Jason Miller for being our guide through these films, as well as additional readings. Este's NEW Substack! https://substack.com/@estebannoel Dan Sallitt's writing: https://sallitt.blogspot.com/2016/08/alan-rudolph-1985.html https://sallitt.blogspot.com/2022/01/alan-rudolph-only-true-romantic-left-in.html Follow Altmania: Linktree Patreon Altman/Rudolph Archive

Terror Circus, I didn't know we were watching C-SPAN this episode! We're joined by our resident Alan Rudolph scholar and a wonderful mind in this world we know - it's Jason Miller. We spend maybe 33% of this episode discussing Terror Circus, and 66% on what we'll be looking forward to once we begin Rudolph's legit filmography. We talk about the overly formal trends of modern films, the eschewing of imagination, Rudolph's influences, his work with Robert Altman, and some of his approaches to directing. Jason also gets us really excited about EQUINOX, which looks so sick. There's also a discussion about Terror Circus in here too, a movie Alan Rudolph directed about 1 day in advance. Thanks everybody   Follow Jason Miller: https://linktr.ee/millerjeremyjason Follow Altmania: https://linktr.ee/altmania You can support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Altmania

We're BACK, it's only been one week but we're BACK. This time we're introducing our new guy, Alan Rudolph. We read about his dad's career in Hollywood, life growing up in LA, majoring as an accountant at UCLA, joining the DGA program and becoming an assistant director, his story of meeting Bob, and then we get into his very first film, PREMONITION. It's a weird hippie horror film about evil red flowers and smoking too much dope, with a crazy soundtrack and shot by the guy that went on to do Mishima. Insane stuff!! We're happy to be back though and hope you're excited to get into some great movies.  HERE'S A LINK to today's movie Follow us here: Patreon Linktree Altman Archive

Well folks, it's time to close the old book on Paul - or at least until he puts out a new movie. We take a final look back over this little series, read some cool PTA news, talk a little bit of The Master, read some Punch-Drunk Love rotten tomatoes reviews, pay a tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman, and read some finely curated critic reviews. Then we bring back something all the fans have been wanting, begging for every single episode, THE BOB AWARDS. We hand out some nice new awards, as well as some old categories you may remember. We close out introducing our next subject, the great ALAN RUDOLPH - very close to home for us.  Articles mentioned: https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/11/14/more-clues-surface-about-paul-thomas-andersons-the-battle-of-baktan-cross https://www.vulture.com/article/emily-watson-dune-prophecy-small-things-like-these-interview.html Thank you to all our new and old listeners, the show had a little jump, and we hope to keep that momentum up into next year. You're gonna want to stick with us.  And to our guests (new and old) - it was such a treat to have you all on for a truly spectacular, guest packed look at PTA.  Reilly, Chris Woodward, Jordan Fish, Peter Raleigh, Jake Serwin / Ian Rhine, CJ, Brie, Lydia. THANK YOU!! Follow Altmania: https://patreon.com/altmania https://linktr.ee/altmania  

Well, we've already reached the end of our PTA mini-series! This week we're joined by Ryan's partner and Altmania social media manager Lydia, as we discuss PTA's most recent film. We recorded this episode once already and the audio got messed up, so you all get to hear the second try in all of its glory. It turned out to be a much looser and more fun episode as we discuss burnt pizzas, being aimless 20-somethings, PTA's characters and their relationships, his "synthesis" era and solidifying himself as a Hollywood Elder Statesman. We also talk about Jon Peters, Sean Penn, being the son of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, all the strange and wacky faces that show up in this film. Thank you everyone who's followed us through this series, we'll come back and wrap it up with a little finale - and welcoming in our next director that we're gonna be focusing on for a little while.    Follow Lydia! https://x.com/plantaunt Follow Altmania: https://patreon.com/Altmania https://linktr.ee/altmania

We must never begin a day with conflict, and today we began with a beautiful discussion. This time it's 2017's PHANTOM THREAD, joined by our wonderful friend Brie! We get into luxury estates in the Cotswolds, PTA goes to London, smoking the camera, Dr. Steve Brule, Daniel Day Lewis' final film (for now), the amazing Vicky Krieps, modern PTA, Reynolds Woodcock's relatability, and a ton more. It's a great episode, we had a lot of fun. Rate and review us too, it helps us out! PHANTOM THREAD | Camera Tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHRl0urd5qE Follow Brie: https://bsky.app/profile/brieplay.com Follow Altmania, support the show: linktr.ee/altmania patreon.com/altmania

We're taking this week off to get back on schedule, but we'll return next week with Inherent Vice! For now, enjoy this unlocked episode from our Patreon feed. If you like what you hear, consider joining us, where for just $5/month you'll receive 2 monthly bonus episodes! ---------------------------------------- Halfway into our PTA series, we take a step back to look at leftover notes and ideas. Subjects include: talk radio, Ryan does a Tom Leykis impression, PTA's stories and their basis in reality, Boogie Nights and PTA's ambivalence to the patriarchal family, movie biz talk, the missing middleperson in current filmmaking, postmodern consumerism in Punch-Drunk Love, abstraction, surrealism. It's a good one! Follow Altmania: https://linktr.ee/altmania

Joined by our pals Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine from Pod (Pauld) Casty for Me, we chatted about PTA's big, shot on 70mm epic. Our guests share a story of visiting the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum, we talked sand women, John Huston's war dept. documentary Let There Be Light. There's Thomas Pynchon stuff, cameras and lens stuff for the nerds, and a lot of us getting off topic into various rabbit holes. Ryan attempts to steer the ship forward as Este guides him through the oceans of riffs and bits. Overall though, it was a ton of fun. Here's a pic of our costumes by the way Follow Pod Casty for Me: https://podcastyforme.com/ https://patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Follow Altmania: https://linktr.ee/altmania https://patreon.com/Altmania

To hear the rest of this episode, you can head over to our Patreon where for $5 a month you'll get access to two bonus episodes per month. Exclusive! Halfway into our PTA series, we take a step back to look at leftover notes and ideas. Subjects include: talk radio, Ryan does a Tom Leykis impression, PTA's stories and their basis in reality, Boogie Nights and PTA's ambivalence to the patriarchal family, movie biz talk, the missing middleperson in current filmmaking, postmodern consumerism in Punch-Drunk Love, abstraction, surrealism. It's a good one!

DRAINAGE! Writer and friend Peter Raleigh comes by to discuss PTA's western oil-slicked nightmare THERE WILL BE BLOOD. We get into Upton Sinclair's Oil!, some movie title talk, I Drink Your Milkshake memes, Daniel-Day Lewis' misrepresentations in the media, we do the Daniel Plainview voice, talk God and capitalism, Paul Dano, unearthing cosmic terrors from beneath the earth, the film's patriarchal world, and overall have a really great discussion of one of the biggest films in the last 20 years. It's a big one folks, so check it out! Follow Peter Raleigh: https://peterraleigh.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/PetreRaleigh Follow Altmania: https://patreon.com/Altmania https://linktr.ee/altmania

What's the most you ever lost for a pudding cup? Well, Paul Thomas Anderson has a little story about that! Jordan Fish, filmmaker and co-host of To the White Sea, comes by to help us discuss Punch-Drunk Love, this wonderful movie from 2002, a certified classic. We talk Sandler, SNL, Maya Rudolph, pudding cups, surrealism, PTA stepping up after a hiatus, Jon Brion's score, Jeremy Blake, love and anger, Sandler yelling. This was a fantastic episode, and we hope you all like it, too.    Follow Jordan Fish / To the White Sea! https://linktr.ee/tothewhitesea https://x.com/jwordfish Petscop Screening NYC https://www.spectacletheater.com/petscop/   Follow Altmania: https://linktr.ee/altmania https://www.patreon.com/Altmania

We return with Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 epic, an indulgent, melodramatic, beautiful film. And joining us is a returning champ, our friend Chris from Podside Picnic! We discuss PTA's life up to '99, Fiona Apple, cocaine, the LA comedy scene, Aimee Mann, Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, PTA fighting for full creative control, messy production, Tom Cruise, Short Cuts, Henry Gibson, parents and kids. There's so much packed in here but it was one of our favorite episodes, so we hope you dig it.   Follow Chris, he rules! https://www.patreon.com/PodsidePicnic https://twitter.com/cww_0   Follow Altmania: https://www.patreon.com/Altmania https://linktr.ee/altmania   Check out Ryan's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6mE2x3U6a2jyLUP04trwSn https://paintworkmusic.bandcamp.com/

Our friend Reilly stops by for a BIG movie, smash hit, a real banger. We're talking Wahlberg, Burt, VHS, JCR, PSH, RDS, PBH, John Holmes, the Wonderland murders, PTA's movie brain, New Line Cinema, Robert Redford's porn collection, so much to discuss. We had a great time talking about this one, hope you all enjoy. Artwork by Ryan   Follow Reilly! https://x.com/GoodPostReilly   Follow Altmania: patreon.com/Altmania https://linktr.ee/altmania  

We begin the filmography of PTA with his first movie! It's pretty normal to start something with the first one that happened, and we're very strict about following the rules. Talking about '90s PTA, his confidence, petulance, struggles. We get into Raymond Carver, being in your 20s, Philip Baker Hall, Sundance, John C. Reilly, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Reno, PTA's struggles with the production, the movie's title, Entourage, the 90s director. Lots to cover, lots to discuss but we had a great time and it's a great movie! Thanks everybody   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Altmania Other links: Cigarettes & Red Vines - The Definitive Paul Thomas Anderson Resource (cigsandredvines.blogspot.com) https://linktr.ee/altmania

We're baaaack! Kicking off the new series, it's Este's birthday! Go wish him a happy birthday everybody. We begin Altmania "Friends of Bob", starting with our Paul Thomas Anderson journey talking about his films overall, our first encounters with them, and our sort of plan for the upcoming films this season. Then we dive into some PTA news on his upcoming (expensive) movie, rewriting Napoleon, his life in the valley in the '70s, Ernie Anderson, Tim Conway, Robert Ridgely. Then we go right into our two films of today, PTA's first short films The Dirk Diggler Story and Cigarettes & Coffee. One movie we really loved and another we felt was lacking, find out which one is which!! Anyway, it feels great to be back and we hope you're all ready for a wonderful series with some great guests! We've got some fun in store, and we hope you all enjoy. Thanks everybody, peace and love.   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Altmania Other links: https://linktr.ee/altmania

If you're interested in hearing the rest of this episode, we've got our new Patreon page up and running where for $5 you can access two monthly bonus episodes. You can help us keep the show goin' and have a little something extra as well. This week we started digging into our own physical media, and Ryan kicked us off with a pick from his collection that he hadn't seen in a long time, Haskell Wexler's 1969 film Medium Cool. We get into the Chicago DNC of 1968, the Chicago DNC of 2024, cinema verité filmmakers, George Lucas, Godard, cop cities, journalism, 24-hour news. We go all over! So come check it out. We'll be back September 6th when we kick off our new series, "Friends of Bob", beginning with Paul Thomas Anderson!   Altmania Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Altmania Other links: https://linktr.ee/altmania

Well, the time has come to say goodbye to our friend Bob (for now). We share our big announcement, rank some Bob movies, read some listener mail, and we just spend a good two hours or so talking about Bob, art, politics, and what it all means to us at the end of this road. It's been a great privilege for us both to get to do this project together every week. Both Este and I grew as friends, we made new friends, and best of all we mutually gained a greater appreciation for one of America's greatest artists. If you love movies and want to share that love, don't be afraid to do something about it! Write about it, get some microphones and record yourselves chatting about it, or just have a conversation with your friends or even a stranger. I couldn't recommend it enough. When we started this show, we'd only known each other for about a year, but having a chance to talk with a friend about art and anything else every week for a year really gave me some memories that I'll never forget. I'm happy to both have 50 episodes to look back on AND great memories with a friend.  And to all of our friends who have written in, your positivity to both our show and to the films of Altman helped reassure us that that legacy is carrying on and the Bob Mindset is always there. Thank you all for encouraging us with your kindness and for taking the time to listen to us chat for a couple hours a week about movies. Shoutouts to those who wrote in to us: Naomi, Jorge Torres, Joe (@punk_turns_puke), and our lovely pal Michael H. Smith. Additional thanks to everyone who came by and spent time with us on the show, including: Valerie Keaton, Chris Woodward, Kurt Schiller, Jake and Ian from Pod Casty, Carlee and Aaron from Hit Factory, Dante, Reilly, Gigi, Adam Slusar. You were all wonderful, kind guests and NOW friends of Bob and of us! We will see you all September 6th (that's Este's birthday!) for the premiere of "Friends of Bob". It's gonna be a blast!   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Altmania Everything else: https://linktr.ee/altmania

We snuck in one last bonus episode before we wrap up this season of Altmania! It's Tim Robbins' directorial debut, a horrifying-but-prescient look at American politics. We talk new Altman releases, the OIympics, Republicans wanting to be cool, folk music, gentrification. It's a good one, so tune in!   The article Ryan mentioned: "Cities are branding themselves into predictably unique products" David Banks, 2023 https://www.dezeen.com/2023/07/21/city-authentic-david-a-banks-opinion/   ----Follow Altmania---- https://linktr.ee/altmania

Well everyone, we've made it to the finish line! It's time to talk about Robert Altman's final film, released just four months before his passing. Our friend Adam comes by for emotional support to talk about radio plays, elegiac movies, the film's commentary on life and death, where we go when we die. We also talk about Bob's honorary Oscar, as well as his planned film Hands on a Hard Body, before we share some stories and quotes from his collaborators after his passing. What a wonderful journey it's been going through these films with you all, and we hope you tune in next week for our FINALE, where we sum up our journey and talk about what lies in store for Altmania! Thank you everybody    ----Follow Altmania---- https://linktr.ee/altmania https://twitter.com/altmaniapod

Well look what the cat dragged in, old Jack Tanner is back and this time he means business. We visit Bob's only ever sequel(?) - TANNER ON TANNER, sorry folks we're gonna get political on this one! Set in the 2004 election, we have a lot to talk about and see a lot of familiar faces. We talk Michael Moore, the Daily Show, our political experiences growing up, Scorsese, Buscemi, and we once again chase away Chris Matthews. It's a long one but a good one, enjoy!   ----Follow Altmania---- https://linktr.ee/altmania https://twitter.com/altmaniapod

We're dancing ourselves clean this episode, it's THE COMPANY, Bob's second to last movie. He gets very zen in this one, to the point where it's almost difficult to discuss - but that hasn't stopped us in the past! We get into the writing of this movie by Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner, talk a little bit about news that happened the day we recorded (sorry!), the movie's digital photography and some technical talk on lenses and aspect ratios (also sorry). It's a good episode! Sorry if we seem a little down in these later eps, hard to say goodbye to Bob! Thank you all   ---- Our Stuff! ---- Altmania Mailbag -> https://forms.gle/BWGV829G44jdNui76 https://linktr.ee/altmania https://linktr.ee/estebzilla

We finally (for real this time) check out Bob's 1985 HBO movie THE LAUNDROMAT! We also share a loving tribute to Shelley Duvall, revisit some '80s Bob, his work with comedic actors, see our old friend Carol Burnett, cleaning your laundry (literally, metaphorically), the death of the movie star. All kinds of stuff to discuss! Join us   ----Altmania stuff---- Mailbag! https://forms.gle/vB8Dg6Z5z5QSiTXk8 Everything else: https://linktr.ee/altmania

Este and Ryan take a trip over to jolly old England, and who else do we run into but the Hit Factory folks themselves, Carlee and Aaron! We get into both of their histories with this movie, how it ties into their own lives, 2000s movies, Downton Abbey, being nerds as children, Bob Balaban, Bob (Altman's) comments on 9/11, this incredible cast of dames and knights, and we close out with an article on Bob that is sure to make you laugh AND get really mad! All that and more on ALTMANIA   ----Check out Hit Factory!---- https://twitter.com/HitFactoryPod https://twitter.com/deepimpactcrier https://www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod/ ----Plus our stuff!---- https://linktr.ee/altmania Mailbag here --> https://forms.gle/f8WWnud4gfN2rfu47

That's right folks, we're back for another one. Live from the Dolby theater in Hollywood, CA: it's the THIRD annual BOB AWARDS. We look back at this decade, talk about Bob's changes creatively, physically, emotionally; we also talk Randy Newman, our favorite types of beverages, Bob and writers over the decades, getting old, and a whole bunch of other silly bits that we do on these episodes. We also hand out some new awards and pick some of our favorite stuff from the decade! So, we hope you have as much fun listening as we had making it ----Our Stuff---- Altmania Finale Mailbag! https://forms.gle/fQP2GiHyieCxmoMu5   Everything else: https://linktr.ee/altmania

The doctors are IN! Our lovely friend Gigi, Girl Woman (@thenamesgirl) joins us to talk about Dr. T, the Yonic Wizard. We talk about Richard Gere, sex symbols, what makes this movie so fascinating, the death of the sex comedy, vagina magic, loving your wife too damn much, and why women are simply the coolest. All of that and more on ALTMANIA! ----Follow our friend Gigi!!---- twitter.com/TheNamesGirl And check out some recommendations she shared this episode: Veronica Phillips - The Daily Beast Veronica Phillips, Author at Bright Wall/Dark Room Veronica Phillips – Film Daze ----Our stuff---- Altmania Finale Mailbag: forms.gle/h2ujDm7sQFreV99W7 Everything else: https://linktr.ee/altmania

It's our final Altman movie of the 1990s and joining us to help close it all out is our new friend, a fellow Bobblehead, and all-around lovely guy - Reilly! He shares his experiences first getting into Bob, and the conversation sorta just goes from there. We talk about this lovely movie and Charles S. Dutton's great performance, the post-racial world Bob creates of Holly Springs, the different "targets" of Altman movies, Lyle Lovett Joker, how much we all hate catfish, the power of fishing. We also introduce a brand-new game that will probably only be played once, THE COOKIE GAME. Join us for all of this and more on this wonderful episode! Go follow Reilly!   https://twitter.com/GoodPostReilly   https://letterboxd.com/goodpostreilly/ All our stuff is here!   https://linktr.ee/altmania

We get silly with it and talk Altman's episode of the 1997 show GUN. Topics include celebrity sex tapes, Bob loving beautiful women, the Short Cuts sequel, LBJ. Plus, a new segment called The Sicko Game. Super fun episode! Check out the new BOB COMPENDIUM and hang out in the discord! Everything's in the link:   https://linktr.ee/altmania