Podcasts about Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin tells a very complete story in only about 70 minutes. The black-and-white, silent flick is based on a real-life mutiny aboard a ship in the waters of the Black Sea near Ukraine. Of course, the incredibly influential Odessa Steps sequence is what people remember best...and it's the extremely violent result of this "war" against your own oppressive rulers. Eisenstein made one of the greatest Russian motion pictures ever here, but the storytelling and modern-feeling technical achievements (especially the editing) make this far more than just a old Communist propaganda film. So don't just hang out in your hammock below-deck and starve on a government boat. No, rise up, comrades, and devour the 664th edition of Have You Ever Seen, the one about Battleship Potemkin. Canadians and Americans (not Russian or Ukrainian residents, unfortunately) can order Sparkplug Coffee and get a onetime 20% discount. Use our "HYES" promo code to achieve that. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Subscribe to Have You Ever Seen for weekly classic movie reviews. Rate our show and write a review about it in your app too. And look for us on YouTube (@hyesellis in the search bar). Communication options? One is email (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). Another is social media: ryan-ellis and @bevellisellis on Bluesky...@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis on Twi-X.

This week we review and rate the Grateful Dead's album Workingman's Dead. Consumption: Mr. Pold - Timecop, Death Masks St. Jimmy - Blood Feast, Battleship Potemkin, Die Alone, Blackout D'Viddy - Black Moon Rising, The Dark Side of the Moon, Dark Angel: The Ascent, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars Music Provided By: Greg Gibbs / Most Guitars Are Made of Trees Bidibop / Water

Following up on our Battleship Potemkin bonus, we are staying in the mutinous mood with this two-part series on the whaleship Globe, and the enigmatic boatsteerer Samuel Comstock who would cast her into infamy.gazafunds.comSources: Couper, Alastair. “Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law.” Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples.” University of Hawai'i PressGibson, Gregory. Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.Heffernan, Thomas Farel. The Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Norton, 2002. Hoyt, Edwin P. The Mutiny on the Globe. Random House, 1975. Woodman, Richard. A Brief History of Mutiny. Carroll & Graf, 2005. Support the show

ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ!**this is a short preview of a much longer bonus episode we did on Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, available for $3 and $5 patrons** Religious symbolism plays a major role in the works of Sergei Eisenstein, so we found ourselves discussing it quite a bit during our episode on Battleship Potemkin. For Easter, we've cut those sections of the episode together in one concentrated mini-episode. Support the show

Both Patrick Leo Burdock and Ivan Beshoff were revolutionaries, though in very different circumstances. These two names remain stalwarts of the Dublin chipper landscape, but did you know a branch of Leo Burdock's was raided in 1941, or that Ivan Beshoff lived to be over 100? From the Battleship Potemkin to a tramway strike in Dublin, this is the story of two remarkable men.

Battleship Potemkin,  The Gold Rush,  The Big Parade,  The Lost World,  among others.  

Sven Helbig hat das „Requiem A“ für Chor, Orchester, Elektronik und Solostimme geschrieben. Am 9. Februar 2025 bringen es Dresdner Kreuzchor und Sächsische Staatskapelle zur Uraufführung.

We'll be covering the 1st Academy Awards in two weeks, so we thought now was a good time for a special episode where we take a look at some films that were released before the Academy Awards.We review the films in chronological order.Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.Timestamps are approximate: 1:50 - A Trip to the Moon (1902)5:40 - Nosferatu (1922)11:55 - Safety Last! (1923)17:30 - The Gold Rush (1925)25:00 - Body and Soul (1925)33:35 - Battleship Potemkin (1925)43:20 - The General (1926)49:45 - Metropolis (1927)1:01:25 - Conclusions1:02:45 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner1:06:05 - Favorites and Least Favorites1:10:15 - Next Time--------------------------Want to know what episode we're currently prepping and suggest non-nominees that we should watch? Check us out on instagram at oscarswrongpod

There's a plethora of "eat the rich" films these days, films that relish in showing the wealthy suffer without, god forbid, rocking the status quo. My guest today is Tosha R. Taylor is quite skeptical of the trend. Tosha R. Taylor is a writer, former academic, and regularly publishes and presents on horror, extremity, and queerness. We talk about the history of class in cinema, the invisibility of class issues in the majority of films, hillbilly horror, and Tosha picks some of her favorite class-conscious horror films. Show Notes: Tosha R. Taylor's twitter Tosha R. Taylor on academia.edu Films: Lumiere Brothers – Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) Battleship Potemkin (available on YouTube) (1925) Man With A Movie Camera (available on YouTube) (1929) Bicycle Thieves (available on YouTube) (1948) American Hollow (available on YouTube) (1999) Harlan County USA (available on YouTube) (1978) Blood on the Mountain (available on YouTube) (2016) Saltburn (2023) Triangle of Sadness (2022) The White Lotus (2021-2025) The Menu (2022) The Hunger Games (2012) Parasite (2019) The Wicker Man (1973) Calvaire (2004) Eden Lake (2008) Wake in Fright (1971) Attack the Block (2011) Funny Games US (2007) Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) His House (2020) Take Shelter (2011) Wrong Turn (2003) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Figures Dardenne Brothers Maysles Brothers Ken Loach Bong Joon-ho Kimberly Crenshaw on Intersectionality Follow Somebody's Watching here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter: @somebodyspod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: @somebodyswatchingpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: somebodywatchingpod@gmail.com

Ally Pitts announces a screening of Lev Kuleshov's By the Law; 3pm on Sunday 24th November '24 at the Barbican Cinema, and a screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin at the Winter Gardens in Morecambe in Lancashire on at 7.15pm on Saturday 30th November '24. Links mentioned/alluded to in the episode: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/silent-film-live-music-by-the-law  https://www.northernsilents.com/whats-on/battleship-potemkin-morecambe  https://www.northernsilents.com/silents-by-the-sea  Ally Pitts on The Top 100 podcast with Tim Coleman: Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov; 1929) Contact us/socials: All the links for a Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast you're ever likely to want or need: linktr.ee/russiansovietmoviepodcast We've changed the name of the show, but the social handles/contacts are a bit of a mishmash. Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com Twitter (or 'X', if you really insist): @RussophilesU Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Ally_Pitts/ https://letterboxd.com/ally_pitts/films/reviews/  https://letterboxd.com/ally_pitts/list/enjoy-the-silents-my-silent-film-recommendations/  https://letterboxd.com/ally_pitts/list/silent-films-with-scores-by-juliet-merchant/  Listen to Ally's other podcast appearances on Podchaser

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run, PACCTS' sixth season will focus its sights on “the greatest films of all time” (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that are considered great, and why that may be the case.   Ranked 54, Sergei Eisentstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) is one of the rare films on the list to have appeared on every Sight and Sound Poll since its creation in 1952. Eisenstein was one of a collection of Soviet filmmakers who studied and theorized over this new artistic medium of cinema in order to unlock its singular potential for communication. Eisenstein himself was a proponent of montage, which Paul and Corey discuss in terms of its impact on the film and on all films that followed. They also dive deep into the historical events that surrounded the Russian Revolution of 1905 (the subject of the film), which Vladimir Lenin famously referred to as the October Revolution of 1917's "Great Dress Rehearsal."

Filmmaker Michael Mann joins Letterboxd in conversation about his favorite films, on the occasion of the launch of the Michael Mann Archives — Directing Ferrari. Links: Michael Mann's Letterboxd Films talked about in this conversation Michael Mann's list of his 14 favorite films Michael Mann Archives — Directing Ferrari Mia Lee Vicino's Letterboxd Video version of this conversation on our YouTube channel Credits: The conversation was recorded by Eileen Ruiz and edited by Shannon Keirce. Theme music: “Vampiros Danceoteque” by Moniker. Producers: Brian Formo and Gemma Gracewood. The Letterboxd Show is a TAPEDECK production. Chapters: (00:01:15) Ferrari and the Michael Mann Archives — Directing Ferrari⁠ (00:09:37) Turbo (00:10:58) Battleship Potemkin, Heat, and Last of the Mohicans (00:14:31) Apocalypse Now (00:16:14) The Conformist (00:17:01) From Here to Eternity and The Jericho Mile (00:18:32) The Hurt Locker (00:19:57) Dr. Strangelove and Heat (00:21:35) The Loved One (00:22:13) Poor Things (00:23:39) L'Atalante (00:24:36) The Sweet Smell of Success and The Insider (00:26:37) I Am Cuba and Ali (00:30:22) Raging Bull (00:31:18) Miami Vice, Heat, and the theatrical experience (00:33:00) Biutiful (00:34:04) Incendies (00:34:29) Pan's Labyrinth (00:35:02) The Passion of Joan of Arc and The Insider (00:36:54) The Asphalt Jungle (00:38:54) Out of the Past (00:40:53) Memories of Murder, Manhunter, and serial killers (00:45:45) Pale Flower and Bicycle Thieves (00:46:57) Manhattan Melodrama and Public Enemies

On this episode of What a Picture, instead of eating the most disgusting borscht imaginable, Bryan and Hannah discuss Battleship Potemkin, the 1925 movie directed by Sergei Eisenstein that ranks #54 on Sight and Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time Critics' Poll. Email us at podcast@whatapicturepod.com What a Picture website: https://whatapicturepod.com Bryan's Bluesky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/bryanwhatapic.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bryan's Letterboxd: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/bryan_whatapic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bryan's Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/bryan_whatapic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music is "Phaser" by Static in Verona.

Nick and Roger take on our first banned film (not certified in the UK until 1954, "X"/"18" certificate until 1987) with 1925's Battleship Potemkin) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Welcome to our 27th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1920s.To close off this round/season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers have been going back and looking at each decade of cinema and listing their 10 favourite films of each decade (we won't be doing an episode of the 1910s).On this final episode, they are going to be looking at the 1920s.The 1920s was the silent movie era. Sound films, talkies, would dominate cinema in the next decade after the first talkie The Jazz Singer was released in 1927. There was a vast expansion of Hollywood movie making. Actors like Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish and Charlie Chaplin were household names. Romantic comedies, adventure films and horror were popular genres of this decade. German Expressionism and Soviet Montage Editing stylistically and aesthetically influenced and inspired films for years to come. A very artistic and surreal approach to filmmaking was happening over the Atlantic in Europe. Where will films like Nosferatu, The Battleship Potemkin and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari end up on their respected lists? Follow here to find out.We hope you have been enjoying these Top 10 Episodes. Stay Tuned for what we have got planned. We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20.Follow us on our Twitter and Instagram pages to stay tuned about updates.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we have been recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic:Follow Anders on twitter.Follow Adam on twitter.Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdamHere is Anders's full list on Letterboxd showing his favourite films of the 1920s!Read recent film reviews by Anders Holmes here:Dune: Part 2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 5 Battleship Potemkin (1925; Dir.: Sergei Eisenstein) Daniel and Corky talk montages, meat, maggots, mutinies and more in their review of the iconic Soviet silent masterpiece Battleship Potemkin. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN  FACTS & FIGURES Theatrical debut: Dec. 21, 1925 Sight & Sound […] The post Battleship Potemkin – Canon Fodder Episode 5 appeared first on Dare Daniel & Canon Fodder Podcasts.

1.Intro  2.Mutiny through the ages  3.Naval Mutiny  4.Army Mutiny  5.Air Force Mutiny  ps The Wagner GroupThere is always an underlying grievance.  Jamie and Tom dive into the history of Mutiny.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

We all hate homework and you might think watching The Battleship Potemkin is going to be akin to doing the times table. It's not. It's a great action film that is also a timely reminder not to take any crap of the powers that be and you should watch it right now.

Unfolding amid an atmosphere of profound anxiety and disillusionment, the new American war film demonstrates a breakdown of the prevailing cultural narratives that had come to characterize conflict in the previous century. In the wake of 9/11, both the nature of military conflict and the symbolic frameworks that surround it have been dramatically reshaped.  The New American War Film charts society's shifting attitudes toward violent conflict and what is broadly considered to be its acceptable repercussions. Drawing attention to changes in gender dynamics and the focus on war's lasting psychological effects within films such as The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Eye in the Sky, American Sniper, and others, author Robert Burgoyne analyzes how cinema both reflects and reveals the makeup of the national imaginary.Robert Burgoyne taught film studies for several decades at Wayne State University and at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is author of seven books including The New American War Film and Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. Kim Nelson is the Director of the Humanities Research Group and an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Canada. Her films have been screened internationally at film festivals and by broadcasters in Canada and the US. She is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image and author of Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film.FILM REFERENCES:The Hurt Locker (2008)Saving Private Ryan (1998)Spanish–American War films of Thomas Edison's 1898-99 seriesEye in the Sky (2015)Restrepo (2010)American Sniper (2014)Zero Dark Thirty (2012)A Private War (2018)Platoon (1986)Full Metal Jacket (1987)Born on the Fourth of July (1989)Battleship Potemkin (1925)DOCUMENTARY REFERENCES:Restrepo (2010 film)Infidel (2010 photo series)Into the Korengal (2010 photo series)Sleeping Soldiers—single screen (2009 short video, Tim Hetherington)OTHER REFERENCES:Fredric JamesonHomer/The IliadThomas Elsaesser on “productive pathology”-Robert Burgoyne's The New American War Film and Film Nation are available from University of Minnesota Press.

We start off with Christine's Old Timey Movie Corner, including Battleship Potemkin. Then we move on to cover the United Auto Workers potential strike, hypotheticals on Pop Tarts, healthcare for jerks, and more tech woes.   Check us out on social media: Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teach-me-communism?ref_id=10068 Instagram: @teachmecommunism Twitter: @teachcommunism Gmail: teachmecommunism@gmail.com Patreon: Patreon.com/teachmecommunism  And like and subscribe to us at Teach Me Communism on YouTube!   Solidarity forever!

Seven of the ship's eighteen officers, including Giliarovsky and the Captain, were killed in the mutiny before the Tsar's forces launched a crackdown at the Odessa ...

In this episode of "Theater Cleaners," Todd and Dom revisit the classic 1925 silent film "Battleship Potemkin," directed by Sergei Eisenstein.The film tells the story of a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905, and the subsequent events as the crew attempts to spread their revolutionary ideals to the people of Odessa.Todd and Dom analyze the film's innovative use of montage, a groundbreaking editing technique that Eisenstein pioneered, to create powerful and emotionally charged sequences. They discuss the film's themes of revolution, social justice, and the power of the people to effect change. They also explore the film's historical context, including the events of the Russian Revolution and the censorship battles that "Battleship Potemkin" faced upon release. They discuss the film's impact on cinema history, as well as its lasting influence on filmmakers around the world.Join Todd and Dom as they reflect on the legacy of "Battleship Potemkin" and explore why it remains a landmark in the history of cinema nearly a century after its release

On Today's Show Vince will Rate and Review: Battleship Potemkin (1925),  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),  Swingers (1996),  Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018),  The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)   If you'd like to become a Producer or see more content, check out thedailyratings.com   TimeCodes: Sergei Eisenstein:  5:00 Battleship Potemkin:  9:35 The Bridge on the River Kwai:  25:32 Swingers:  41:10 Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot:  55:55 The Super Mario Bros. Movie:  1:14:27   Executive Producer:  - Matt D.        

Big year of big movies! Sergei Eisenstein pushes narrative filmmaking forward in a big way with the thrilling Battleship Potemkin, Charlie Chaplin further refines his balance of comedy and drama, Lon Chaney terrifies as the Phantom of the Opera, and dinosaurs cause mayhem in The Lost World!  You can watch along with our video version of the episode here on Youtube! You can check out our Instagram, Twitter, and other social media crap here: http://linktr.ee/1w1y And you can watch and form your own opinions from our 1925 Films Discussed playlist right here! See you next year!  

Welcome to the third Fresh Air Award! Four cinephiles continue a Fourwind Films tradition of awarding a film that pushed cinema forward the most as an artform during a particular decade. To be nominated, a motion picture has to have changed movies in some way and made a lasting impression on how movies are made today. This episode delves into the decade that saw the beginning of successful commercial sound in cinema: 1920-1929. Before getting into the nominations with the panelists, our host Justin Joseph Hall goes through a quick history lesson on what was happening in the decade businesswise and technology-wise.  The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Elizabeth Chatelain, Tracey Goessel, Justin Joseph Hall, and Kevin Hinman. If the piece has moving images and came out in the appropriate decade, it is eligible for nomination. This group chose an array of documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films, including films with the first synchronized score with animation, the first montage, a commercially successful duo tone color film, and the first soundtrack synched on the film strip. Nominations by each panelist: Elizabeth Chatelain nominees Battleship Potemkin (1925) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Un Chien Andalou (1929) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Tracey Goessel nominees Nanook of the North (1922) Don Juan (1926) Steamboat Willie (1928) The Play House (1921) The Toll of the Sea (1922) Justin Joseph Hall nominees Un Chien Andalou (1929) Nosferatu (1922) Battleship Potemkin (1925) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Kevin Hinman nominees Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Drifters (1929) Un Chien Andalou (1929) Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) The Gold Rush (1924) To find the 1920's Fresh Air Award winner click on this link! We hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We're on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Thanks for listening, Season 7 to come shortly! Thank you to our panelists who did joined this out of their passion for cinema. Credits for podcast: Production Company - Fourwind Films Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1900s Decade - Elizabeth Chatelain, Tracey Goessel, Justin Joseph Hall, & Kevin Hinman Host - Justin Joseph Hall Editor - Billie Jo Laitinen Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger Additional Sound Recordist - Elizabeth Chatelain, Kevin Hinman, Ricky Rosario The theme song of Season 6 is Getting It Done by Kevin MacLeod. Additional Music MOMFG & The Drums! provided by Kevin Hinman & Magnum Opus for interludes. Music in the public domain used in this podcast: Deep Blue Sea - Clara Smith One of Battleship Potemkin's Scores - Eisenstein wanted the scores to be updated about every decade. Don Juan Soundtrack - Context on who wrote it “William Axt used two pieces that owned by Robbins-Engel, "The Fire Agitato" and "In Gloomy Forest," along with several pieces of European classical music including compositions by Richard Strauss.

NSFW Smack My Pitch Up 95 - Red Heat: Republican Mustache Transcript at the bottom of show notes Hobbit and Thandi start a new cold war as they fire of remakes and reimaginings of the 80's action classic Red Heat starring Jim Belushi and Arnold Schwarzenegger. 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And with me as always, my fateful companion into the realms of remakes. We got Thandi Woodard here. Thandi: How do, Hobbit: How Thandi: I wanted to say hello and Russian, but I could not remember what Hello and Russian is,  Hobbit: Yeah. I think I have was it nine? No, that's German. I don't know any Russian, actually.  Thandi: we all know Das Vidanya. Hobbit: Yeah. Sag. Yeah. There we go. That's all I've got and that's about as close to Russian as Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this next movie that we are talking about, I'll smack my pitch up. I was about to say, he does his best. He doesn't even try. Thandi: Can I tell you that I I chose this movie and I'm sorry, like it's not it's not. I [00:01:00] remembered it being fun and it's not unfun, but it's not good. It's not like eighties movies have their own vibe or whatever, and this is like the ultimate mediocre representation of mediocre eighties. Hobbit: I know a lot of stuff happens in this movie, but it does feel like nothing happens in this movie. It's just like they, they walk from point A to Thandi: said, everybody's. Just doing eighties. The Walter Hill's you know what guys? Just do just be eighties guys. Just be eighties guys and that'll be the movie that we put out as you guys being eighties guys. Just do that. Hobbit: It should have been understood just by the casting that they had the lesser belu. In this movie, and that should have been enough to know that, okay, we're just phoning this in. This is not nobody needs to really go for it on this one. Cuz Belushi, he's clearly the comic relief character like the smart ass, grizzled cop from Chicago character. But there's nothing funny about him at all. Like he's just he, it's not, he's not even annoying. He's just a [00:02:00] non-existent Thandi: And he's supposed to be funny because he's supposed to be like ably charming or whatever, but he's n he's just irritating and it is yeah. You feel what they're going for with this as an eighties movie, and it just, it doesn't all the way work. It's not bad. It's not terrible. It's just a wet fart of an eighties action. Hobbit: I will say the best part of this movie for. Has to be hands down. Not that there's a really big competition here, but when they're playing chicken with buses, that was really, I'm like, okay, you know what? That's new. I'm, I've not seen that there's a whole movie about a bus driving fast. Didn't go against another bus. It was just one bus. Thandi: sure. Why not? Yeah. Everybody should die here, but they're not or whatever, and it doesn't matter. Like I feel like the climax is really anti-climactic it, even though it's a big set piece. It doesn't go hard. It doesn't feel hard enough when it ends, and Schwartzenegger just ends the movie. He just ends [00:03:00] the Oh, the guy. Okay. You're gone. Needs a fight or something like schwartzenegger and Belushi fighting like 50 guys or something. Hobbit: That's the thing. Schwarzenegger doesn't even really fight a lot of people in this. He shoots a couple folks, but there's not a whole lot of hand to hand. Yeah. And Thandi: The naked fight in the snow, which is, it's fun. That's fun. Hobbit: That's fun. That is fun. Yeah, definitely. But we are talking about, if you didn't realize from the title of this episode we're talking about the movie Red Heat some classic eighties, Arnold Schwartzenegger. Buddy cop movie from Russia meets Chicago, I guess was the Thandi: What are the most eighties that ever aided with the lesser belu? Hobbit: also, this is like the tail end of the Cold War. This movie's coming out and you're rooting for the Russian operative this whole time, which is, that's a weird, that's a weird choice. There's No. [00:04:00] So it's not about rooting for the Russian operative. It's about rooting for the police. He's the police and you're supporting the, it's the, because even he's ah, we are not politicians. It's okay for us to be to like each other. Whatever. It's about respecting the police and supporting the police. Thandi: The working man basically. It's the work, it's the respect for the working man, whether they're Russian or American or whatever. And the heroic eighties style police that don't do anything wrong, it's just they're fighting against a corrupt world no matter what country they're in. Hobbit: I had a rollercoaster of emotion at one moment in this movie where they're talking about drugs in their countries Thandi: Yeah. Miami with, they're turning into Miami. Yeah. Hobbit: And Arnold is like in. Our country, we, you our country, I'm not gonna do it. Aye. Aye. Aye. They were having issues with like drugs coming in from China. So they rounded up all of all the drug Addicts, [00:05:00] all of the drug dealers and took them to the square and sh killed them. Like just shot 'em. And Belushi's response to that wasn't like, oh fuck, that's hardcore. He was like, yeah, they won't let us do that here. It's unfortunate. Like the politicians won't let us do that. And Schwarzenegger's then you tie them up and shoot them first. And she's huh. And so first he's talking rounding up the drug dealers and the drug addicts and like shooting. And I'm like, fuck, that's hardcore. And then he is like, just murder the politicians. I'm like, That Thandi: Yeah. And Belushi's no we. We gotta kind of follow the law and it they make light of the American justice system as it stands to protect the citizenry. I, in this movie, basically it's super hardcore like pro police state, Hobbit: It really is. Thandi: The, they're like the world's on fire because of darkies and foreigners, or, And the only way they're protect it is to have this hardcore, [00:06:00] no rules, no holds barred. Police state, Hobbit: and everybody's on board like that. That is, I really didn't dive that deep into the thought process between the Chicago police and these Russians that are showing up that are the enemy of the country. But they're all cops, so they're like, oh, you kill innocence too. Cool. Great. Okay. We're like, That is Buck Wild. What is nice about a movie? Yeah. . With a movie like this though, there is so much room to build from it that it does make for an interesting choice, for a smack my pitch up. Because Thandi: does because it you, you don't have to respect the movie. There's nothing to hold sacrosanct in this circumstance. You can go hog wild. Hobbit: And one thing that I really wanted to dig into more with mine is That Russia and the states aren't on the best of terms like that just kind of gets glazed over. If anything, it was more of they acted almost like they were buddies, but you still gotta be careful about your state [00:07:00] secrets. That was the kind of energy that they were playing with each other. It was like don't trust Americans don't trust the Russians. And that's it. I really want to inject a little bit more of. Cold War Energy back into this. Although my version is a modern take, it takes place in the modern day. But I just, there's so many weird choices in this movie for it to come out as just like a perfectly fine, mediocre movie. Tom or Jim Belushi, Jim Belushi and and Arnold. Hanging out together. It was like the Kmart version of True Lies with Tom Arnold. Got the the kind of like rubenesque like cop and then the the hardcore badass dude working together. But True lies worked. Thandi: Yeah. Yeah. The it's interesting because Walter Hill has directed some of our favorite movies, including a movie we've done a pitch on before. He was the director of the [00:08:00] Warriors. Hobbit: Oh, wow. This is so far removed from from the whimsy of the warrior. Thandi: Yeah it's so different from the Warriors. He was director of Streets of Fire. It's different from that. He directed both 48 hours, which are actually pretty decent. But tonally are very similar to this. They just the stars, they work better. They have better synchronicity maybe, I don't Because Arnold Schwarzenegger is a big freaking movie star. And actually Jim Belushi can be okay, as I remembered, cuz I saw this in the theater back in the day. I thought he was okay in this. But yeah, this is a little bit obnoxious. Maybe it's just a product of so much time having passed, but. Hobbit: I don't know, but I am interested to see how we decide to build upon this this very simple structure. Basic gist is there is a Russian former operative or current operative that goes to the states to work out a drug deal to move Koch into [00:09:00] Russia. And Arnold is tapped to go get Thandi: Oh, he's a career criminal. He's a career Hobbit: oh, career criminal. Yeah. And he's mother Russia doesn't wanna look bad in the face of the Americans and the rest of the world by having drugs like brought into their country. Arnold goes to stop him basically to get him without airing the dirty laundry of what he gets stopped for. Cuz he's gets stopped for like an unregistered gun. Right. Is that the Thandi: Arnold goes after him because he killed his partner. Hobbit: Sure. That's why he gets, that's why he gets tapped basically. Is that yeah you're gonna do a good job here going after this guy. And and he kind of does. I like this. Injecting a little more plot into this. Mine is a modern day take it has a stylized action kind of vibe to it where everybody is able everybody looks good, nobody's tripping over themselves. It's not like a it's not so much comedic [00:10:00] as it is kind of fun and it's approach. Some comedic moments, but definitely more of a just straight up, like over like stylized action kind of movie. For me, I, Ivan Danco was a very hard casting choice. I needed somebody that was, if not Russian, able to do a decent Russian accent. So that required a little bit of research. I decided to go with a kind of a, you think of him like he would be an action star and he is done some action movies, but he is done more dramas than he's done action movies is Tom. Thandi: Oh, yeah, Tom Hardy is an action star and he's a great dramatic actor. He's both things. Hobbit: And I think there's a stoic sense that he has, especially if you saw Lawless. He's really good in that that I think would lend itself to playing an Ivan Danco kind of character. And he was in a movie called Child 44, where he had a Russian accent and it was good. It was a decent Russian accent. It wasn't too over the [00:11:00] top. It. My favorite Russian accent, which is clearly John Malkovich and Rounders. That is definitely Thandi: still made fun of today. Yeah. Hobbit: I need to find the shirt. I found a shirt that it says on the shirt. I need that shirt. It's brilliant. If you haven't seen rounders, the movies, whatever it's a fine movie, I guess, but Thandi: Was it you that No, it was a YouTube video I saw recently. Who was in that movie with him? One of his co-stars. Hobbit: There was oh, who was in it? Matt. Matt Damon was in it, I think. And it was Matt Damon. So. Malkovich is doing the pee Him he's doing the horrible Russian accent or whatever, and everybody's oh, yay, John Malkovich and Matt Damon's what the fuck is this guy doing? And then there's a they, this, there's a scene break and Malkovich sees the confusion on Matt Damon's face and he looks across the table at him and he is I'll tell you a secret. [00:12:00] I'm a terrible actor. That's it. That's incredible. That is incredible. Oh, that's so good. Yeah. I thoroughly suggest, if you haven't seen Rounders is worth it just for. Malkovich is bits in it, it's so fucking good. But yeah, Tom Hardy can actually do a Russian accent play. Ivan Donk. This version of the film Ivan is drafted to go after a former military asset Victor Rust roti that, yeah, former former Ukrainian. Picked up by the, by Russia to do cyber warfare. Basically, he's a hacker type person. He, his estranged daughter and not wife. The Gina Ghan character, I switched from wife because they never even have any moments of chemistry or anything. And it doesn't matter. I feel like a daughter has a little bit more like ooph [00:13:00] to it, and their relationship are a little different here. He's a strange daughter is young adult living in the America, is doing her thing. He really just has been absent from her life, wants to do stuff best by her, and is seeing this vast amount of corruption that's happening within his country and also within the United States. Partly a cocaine shipment that is getting ready to be shipped to Russia courtesy of the CIA as a means of trying to like they did with KRA in. In the in the eighties destabilization. Yeah. what they don't realize is that Russia's already got crocodile. So Coke doesn't do dick for them. Like coke, cocaine is like a cup of coffee. But Thandi: could you sprinkle some bath salts on this? Hobbit: right? But he decides since there's this large amount of cocaine and money being exchanged between governments in a super secret way, that he has access to the information on where it. He can steal it or, and use [00:14:00] that as a means of getting money from both governments, pitting them against each other and getting out a dodge with his daughter while they go fighting one another. He's basically setting up the governments to blame each other for the disappearing coke and u and using the money that he gets from extorting to basically disappear off the map of his daughter. That's his. And it goes awry. It does not work. Ivan NCO gets sent out by the Russian government to stop him because if he gets caught by the Americans, he has a ton of Russian secrets that he would probably very handily hand over exchange for his freedom. So he's a danger to the Russian military. And the CIA is doing something super fucking underhanded and he knows about it. And so they want to quiet him before the word gets out that the c a is trafficking cocaine to Russia. So both governments are after him. Ivan Danco is kind of in the middle, not realizing after he gets to America that this is some dirty pool that's being played. And Victor [00:15:00] Lev is a unhinged weirdo that he has to basically track down and try to get the information from without everybody dying. So Ivan NKOs, Tom Hardy his partner played by Jim Pucci in the original Art Riddick. I'm gonna go ahead and do Chris Pratt for this one. He is married to Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter. And I thought it would be kind of fun to cast him in this and just him putting on like a shitty mustache like he had in one of the Guardians movies. He had a mustache for two. In one of the Avengers movies or something give 'em a shitty mustache, make them like a grizzled Chicago cop that's trying to do one-liners, but they don't land very well against Tom Hardy, who's stoic and just not having any of it. And I think the uncomfortable nature of that relationship would make for actually really funny moments. Thandi: That would be a man Tom Hardy would eat Prat alive, Hobbit: Would eat him a [00:16:00] lot. Absolutely. Pratt would be like, stupidity, dude dance or something, and Tom Hardy would just stare through him be incredible. In the meantime, they're trying to chase down Victor Roli, who is played by the incomparable Peter Stormeyer. Thandi: Oh, perfect. That's basically Peter Stormeyer of his career is playing that guy. Hobbit: He is playing the big old weirdo like Eastern European guy. Don't even give him fucking lines. Let him just make them up and it will be a better movie. Honestly. Peter Stormer, if you're not familiar, he was one of the nihilists in the Big Lebowski. He's, he was the devil in Constantine. He did the, was it the VW commercials for a little bit, right? I. Thandi: Did he Hobbit: I think, yeah, he's, he is done everything. He is incredible. He is such a blast to watch on screen. He'll steal every moment. Then Lieutenant Stops played by Lawrence Fishburne in a horribly underutilized role. They didn't do shit with him in this movie. Thandi: He was just there to be that [00:17:00] guy. wasn't lo, he wasn't Larry Fishburn yet. So But I wanted to give, I wanted to give the little more gravitas to the lieutenant in the fishburn can do don't get me wrong, but I wanted to give the role a little bit more gravitas and still have an actor that can have that kind of intensity that you want from a lieutenant so Denzel all day make him like angry lieutenant. Hobbit: And then the daughter, Kat Manetti is, her mother's name was Manetti. She took her mother's name the daughter of Victor Rostovetti. I went with Mia Kunis, who is actually fluent in Russian and is part Thandi: has the. Hobbit: and she has the look. So I think she would make for a good estranged daughter character to Peter store. Mayor would Thandi: Definitely I could a hundred percent see that, that relationship. Hobbit: And with Chris Pratt with Denzel Washington stylized action movie. I [00:18:00] went with the director Anton Fuqua to set this up and hit it outta the park. Oh, that'd be a good time. And. It's interesting cuz Anton Fuqua, I don't think has ever made like a movie that has fun energy. I think his movies do have lots of energy, but it's all threatening. It's all a little bit more intense, but he has done the straight ahead action film that doesn't have a lot of depth to it, and he's also done the really good. Thoughtful like borderline artistic action film as well. So I think him being able to play with the full speed ahead action film, but have an awkward comedic tone to it, I think would be, he got close with Magnificent seven, like he did almost get there just because of the kind of actors that he had in those roles. This casting, I think he would be impossible not to get some funny moments between Tom Hardy and Chris Pratt, Peter store Mayer, [00:19:00] talking to Mia Kuni Mia Kuni talking to Chris Pratt and Tom Hardy and Chris Pratt flirting a bit, and Tom Hardy being very, not okay with it. And just their, all the relationships I think would be very fun to see on. Thandi: Now, there'd be some fun energy to see them play off of each other. Hobbit: Yeah. Thandi: little intensity there too. Anybody with Tom Hardy? There's gonna be some some intensity. Hobbit: absolutely, and that's why I wanted Tom Hardy is to be the anchor of this, because with those other actors, there is a good chance that this would just get away from the director. But Tom Hardy, he's a really good actor and he is able to play that intense character. And if he. Holds that down. It keeps everybody at a level where the fun can still be there, but it's still held down as a straight ahead action film. So yeah, that is my pitch for for red heat. Thandi: I would enjoy seeing that. I only have one beef, which is that you made old ass Denzel, a lieutenant. [00:20:00] He should be the police captain. Hobbit: That's okay. That is a fair assessment, but also police captains not going out and getting shotgun shot at him on the street. So yeah, he's in the office asking for guns and badges for cops that do things their own way. Thandi: turn in your badge. Hobbit: turn Thandi: You're the best we got. It's a damn shade. But we have rules in this department. Hobbit: I don't like, I don't like how you do things, but Damnit you get results. Yeah. Thandi: Oh, eighties. Captain you're a treasure Hobbit: why isn't there a parody movie just called eighties Police Captain and it's just this like wide open, disgruntled police captain would be fucking incredible. I'd be there for Thandi: because not enough people still smoke cigars maybe. I don't know. But yes, that would be a lot of fun. Hobbit: Because Tom Sellek has retired his mustache and Thandi: I don't know if you've ever watched Blue Bloods, but Tom Sellek is awesome. Tom Sellek makes you want to be Republican. [00:21:00] That's how Hobbit: Oh wow. Thandi: is like a, is like an old like state and respectable white man. You're like, man, you guys have some really good ideas. Tom Sellek is good. He is good at his. If you watched him on Magnum PI and you saw him now, you'd be like, wow, that is quite a transformation. But he is, he's a joy to watch as like the respected you remember back when John McCain was running for president, you saw John McCain. You were like, you know what, I wouldn't, I'm not gonna vote for you, but I respect you, John McCain. I almost felt the same way about Romney. also, like guys who present respectability. Even if I don't agree with their policies, I'm like, oh, you won't be a monster. Especially now in retrospect when actual monsters have taken over the landscape of the right of American politics and yeah. Tom Sellek as a human being, as a callback to a different time. [00:22:00] You only use the N word at home in Tom Sellek's world. It's just you don't take it out into public. Hobbit: I pictured old Tom Sellek as living in a log cabin near a creek with his dog, and he wears like one of those puffy vests on Dewey, slightly chilly mornings as he's out there fishing. Thandi: Yeah. And then he comes down the street and he is you got some problems with your house. I see your roof needs some work. Let's get up there. But I'm sleeping. I'm tired, Tom Sellek. I'll be up on the roof. I'll meet you up there when you get up and Tom Sellek like fixes your roof cuz he's that kind of neighbor that's the kind of Tom Sellek that lives in my mind. Hobbit: That's the one that, those Hallmark movies where there's like the racist neighbor, but he's not actually racist. He just he like treats everybody with respect, but he just doesn't like, like blacks or something. But there's no example of him being shitty at any point to anyone. But that's just like a thrown in character thing. That doesn't make sense. That's [00:23:00] Tom Selleck where. Thandi: Yeah he is Clint Eastwood. If Clint East Wood's characters didn't actually actively complain about yellow people and black people Hobbit: Oh man. Whew. I'm just thinking of grand Torino and some of the moments in that movie were, whew a lot. Thandi: Man it's kind of a shame, this is a little tangent, but it's kind of a shame that all of our our grizzled like old school actors have been become monsters over the course of time. You can be that person. You're old, of course you're that person. That's fine. Just shut the fuck up. Just shut the fuck up and be awesome. You know who I think of all the time because I'm like, man, you are just a treasure on screen and you should be in real movies and not these things produced directly by like conservative interests. James Woods. James Woods is a, an incredible screen presence and the dude's a monster. It's okay to be a [00:24:00] monster. Just be a monster silently and get your paper and continue to entertain us. Hobbit: I don't, I think he kind of showed his hand a little bit in John Carpenter's vampires, cuz he was such a prick in that movie and you're like, he's doing this too. Like James Wood is a good actor, but he's not, that he's not that good of an actor. That was just him. Killing the vampires. That wasn't, he wasn't playing a character at that point. He was like saying racist shit. Like he just smoking a cigar and just being an asshole at everybody. You're like, that's the, that's actually the most real James Wood has ever been on screen Thandi: incredible asshole. He's an incredible asshole, but all right, tangent over my pitch. Hobbit: Okay. All right. So Thandi: got lost in the Hobbit: doing the serious take. The remix is all on you. Thandi: remix. Hobbit: Wiki. Thandi: So my inspiration for this pitch came from Schwarzenegger's line that I mentioned earlier where he is it's okay to like each other. We are not to politicians. And I'm like, but what if they were politicians? And so the angle I'm coming [00:25:00] at this from is because it's not a good movie. I don't have to respect anything. I'm going batshit crazy balls to the wall. My movie takes place in a world where, what if they were politicians? But in this world, politicians are, they're all Chuck Norris. Basically. Every poli every world leader is like Teddy Roosevelt or like Vladimir Putin. They're like, oh, you could probably kill a guy with your bare hands. And in this world, they come into direct conflict. So there's like fisticuffs and tough, everybody's like an eighties tough. With eighties tough guy interactions, direct conflict, like old white dudes and old white ladies beating each other up directly because that's just the tone of this world, that the leader is the strongest person basically. Hobbit: Like Sunday Church every week is the church scene from the Kingsmen. That's okay. Cool. Thandi: Whipping some ass. Yes. So in my skew of this movie what [00:26:00] if they were. Politicians. Basically what happens is that the premier of Russia who is played by John Cena and he is Russian premiere Victor Resta Rust is involved in a situation where he's basically trying to get access to some crypto, and In that conflict, he comes into direct conflict with Mickey Rourke, who is the president of Belarus. Yuri Oga Carav, which was the partner of Schwarzenegger who got killed. And he kills him. He kills him with his bare hands and his best friend, the president of Poland, is out for revenge and what they find out is that the crypto keys are actually in America. The physical keys are in America. They're stored on a server somewhere in America. That's the information he has. So he does like what is kind of disguised as a a [00:27:00] political visit to America. John Cena's character, the Russian Premier does, and the Polish president, Ivan Danko, who is played by. Not doing a Russian accident or a Polish accident at all. Gerard Butler is Ivan Danko. Hobbit: Yes. Thandi: follows the Russian Premier to America and has a coming together scene with a former American president, former president, art Riddick. You son of a bitch. I need help. And they do the predator handshake, that kind of thing. And art Riddick is played by will. Who is doing a very thinly veiled, basically Barack Obama Will Smith is playing action Barack Obama. Hobbit: Yes, Thandi: So they they come. Hobbit: Because just to have a sidequel where it's just a UN meetup and it's just a royal rumble, like that's all it is. It's just royal rumble. Every time the UN gets [00:28:00] together, it's just them in a ring beating the shit out of each other. Thandi: Perfect for the world stage that I have set here. But so they meet in America, do the muscle handshake they bring in the former Secretary of State, Maxine Gallagher, who was Ridley's partner in the first movie, Maxine Gallagher's, played by Charlene Theron, and she's basically doing Hillary Clinton.  Hobbit: Bill wishes  Thandi: They bring in this third to help huge action scene. She is killed by the premiere of Russia. So they get in a huge set peace fight, and he beats the shadow of her and kills her. And then that murder necessitates the involvement of the current presidential administration. Which is as President Lou Donnelly, who is the captain president. Lou Donnelly is Liam Neeson. Basically Liam Neeson doing Joe Biden And he can't help directly, he can't be involved directly. So he gets his vp, his lieutenant to oversee [00:29:00] the the operation of these two world leaders coming together to, to try to take down the Russian premiere in America cover. His vice president Louise Stubs is Aisha, Tyler Hobbit: Yes. Thandi: So they have they have action scenes through DC into some other parts of the country back to dc in their little game of cat and mouse. Ross has American allies his American allies taking the place of the black nationalists or whatever they were in the original movie . Ultranationalist Whites known as the hard lads, and their uh, congressional ally is a person known as Porsche Adams Veld. And so that's their congresswoman that's helping the Ultranationalist Hard lads help Raeli kills ve because she can't actually help him. She fails in, when you fail a Russian, you get murdered. So he, she kills Veed or he kills. And the game of Cat and Mouse [00:30:00] continues, and then it ends with a big ass fight on the steps of the Lincoln Monument with Danko and Riddick tag teaming to beat the shit out of the bigger, stronger rust. And they beat the Russian to premiere to death in front of the Lincoln Monument and And then Not enough. Not enough people get beaten to death in front of the Lincoln Monument. Really like I what I'm saying. So the movie's almost over and, but basically they're like, oh, but what happened to the crypto keys? And then Danko finds out that former President Ridic had the keys all along. He passes them off to the Polish president, who then takes the crypto keys and the money that comes with that back to his country and scene. Hobbit: Yes, I'm here for just, I want. A series of movies to exist in this world that you've created. You can just take whatever eighties action movie and just do a version of it in [00:31:00] this eighties action, hero politician world that you've created. I wanna see it.  Thandi: It would be big fun. And so my directors for this a lot of their brand is just like paring eighties action. Iconography, it drives a lot of what they find humorous. Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I'm thinking like a Team America vibe going through this movie and I was like, man the idea itself is very Trey Parker and Matt Stone. So those are my directors for this project. Hobbit: I am now realizing that the thing that the world has missed is them doing an action movie. They've done Team America with puppets, but I mean like a live action movie. I think the world is ready. I think we're ready for it. Thandi: Yeah, I would love to see, because it'd be a good time. They I don't think they would do a straight action move. They'd still try to parody something and it would be a good. Hobbit: Hell yeah. I'm here for it. Sweet. Red heat. I don't know man, like this could be paired with basically any eighties action movie, especially buddy cop thing. I was thinking like running Scared [00:32:00] Oh, definitely. They could go on vacation. They could go on vacation for 40 minutes with the fellas in the middle of the movie. I've always wanted to see that action movie where you just have two separate movies that come out around the same time and there's just one scene that is in both movies where like they kind of enter into each other. Thandi: kinda walked by each other. How you doing? Hobbit: Or they're chasing their own bad guys, but they end up driving next to each other during a car chase or something and looking at each other like, huh. And then they just trail off into different directions and then the movies continue. But there's just that one shared moment in both movies would be incredible. Thandi: Yeah, that would be incredible. That'd be incredible. I feel like that is the kind of thing that would take place probably in the past 20 years. I feel like there could easily have been a scene like that with the mocking of pop culture generally and also the crossover culture because crossovers bring money. So, yeah, Hobbit: Yeah, true. Very true. Hell yeah. We've got one last little bit to do here, and that is our trailer. [00:33:00] Some people's favorites, some people's least favorite from from the show. I'm gonna get some music together and we'll get that going From Visionary Director Anton Fuqua comes anew. Cold War this summer. Ivan Danko, played by Tom Hardy teams up with Hardened Chicago, detective Art Riddick, played by Chris Pratt as they try to stop the world from being handed a Coke this summer, Peter Storm Air plays Victor Roli, a broken man. Just trying to find a way to. Insert himself into his daughter's life and one big secret Coke deal could be the answer. Watch as Russia and America team up to fight the drug trade and that they also are facilitating a bit. It's kind of a problem this summer. Red heat. Thandi: Iran Contra, Hobbit: [00:34:00] Yeah, part two. Thandi: That is that is good times. I'm not ready for this at all. You know how I used to write all my trailers? I haven't written a trailer in a while, so I am wing it yet again. Hobbit: You wing it a little better than me though. So I still have faith. I used to say that I did the Justin Rowland thing, but I don't think that is a phrase that I can use anymore.  Thandi: Ooh. Yeah. You should probably not say that out loud. Hobbit: that loud . What I mean Thandi: people will start looking at your text messages if you Hobbit: Yeah, right. what I mean is that I just go and then stuff happens. So let's see. So you're doing your wackadoo eighties action hero politician. Version here with Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Thandi: That is correct. Hobbit: Excellent. All right, let me cue up the music. Thandi: The 44 Magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world. No, the most powerful hand weapons in the world are these four fists. [00:35:00] Let's get him from the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone coming at you. President Will Smith President. Oh God. Scottish guy, other president. Brain farting and Premier John Cena, Andrew R. Butler are in a three-way conflict to make the world safe for cryptocurrency as they bring the red heat Hobbit: You'll the Scottish guy. I love it. I love it. That's great. all. You have, you've done Russia proud with that retelling of their national movie red heat. Thandi: Yeah, it is a national treasure. It's like the Battleship Potemkin, and then red heat is a [00:36:00] close Hobbit: Yep. Exactly. So that was a really good time. I think we, not that the bar was very high, but I think we actually outdid the original, much like John Carpenter's the Thing. The, sometimes the remake is better than the original. We're Thandi: Yeah, I think we did. Hobbit: jumping rope Thandi: we should do more shitty movies I think. I think we should stop doing these darlings and just start picking stuff from the 99 cent bin. And that's what we do. The pitch max on 90 site, 99 cent bin movies. Hobbit: I don't think that's a bad call, but you do know that path leads to, at some point, doing battlefield Earth.  Thandi: Oh I don't wanna do the Scientologist movie. Hobbit: don't either. But I think honestly there are a few movies where  the premise is decent, but the execution was terrible that we could possibly have a lot of fun putting our own little spin on. So I think we're gonna dig in a little bit deeper into this territory for future episodes. Thandi: It's a new podcast. Hobbit: Woo. Thandi, thank you so much again for [00:37:00] joining me on this adventure through Chicago's Mean Streets This time. Although not Mean Streets, that's a far superior movie. But yeah. Make sure to rate, review, subscribe, all the things you do for podcasts for this show. We are gonna be releasing regularly, so you can definitely expect a lot more weird and fun content coming your way from smack my pitch up. Make sure to check out all the other shows on the network at guipodcast.com. Make sure to check out Thandi's other show. Thandi: My handle is Jonathan Blade. It's about the musings of internet citizen Jonathan Blade, who happens to be me. Me, Hobbit: Me. So check all that stuff out and we'll find you next time for another episode. I'm Michael Hobbit Thandi: and I'm Thandi. Hobbit: and uh, you just got this pitch smacked out of ya. Thandi: Yeah, just like your communism bitches. Hobbit: Get to the remake. Now that was terrible.

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-three-exemplars-of-indian-cinema-in-2022-rrr-the-kashmir-files-and-kantara-11940742.html2022 was a watershed year for Indian cinema and cinephiles. At long last, the formulaic Hindi/Urdu cinema that has dominated both mindshare and box office took a beating, for it appears to no longer appeal to the consuming public. It has long been accused of lack of originality; its anti-Indian slant, and especially its overt anti-Hindu stance, have now begun to annoy large numbers of viewers. They voted with their wallets, as per BookMyShow.The yeoman efforts by @GemsofBollywood to demonstrate bad faith on the part of the industry have had an impact, as can be seen from the number of expensive flops: Lal Singh Chaddha, Shamshera, Raksha Bandhan, Cirkus, Dobaara, Liger. They should change course, though given the current crop of agenda-ridden poseurs and nepo-kids, it's not clear they can.As a direct consequence of the arrival a few years ago of high-bandwidth fiber-to-the-home, many cinema viewers have also become accustomed to a wide range of offerings on OTT like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. This has made them aware of cinema from around the world that frankly shows that Bollywood has always been inferior in content and form, except for the film music (at least in earlier days). I was at one time a cineaste, enjoying the 20th century works of Kurosawa, Ray, Eisenstein, the Italian and French masters, Bergman, and the Indian New Wave. It was easy to dismiss the cinematic quality of the Mumbai film industry; but it has always been influential, and has set the narrative about India both internally and in the developing world, as well as Russia and Japan. For a variety of reasons (including simple prejudice), the Mumbai film industry has not been able to make a mark on Western audiences, and RRR is the first Indian film to make waves in the US market. In a positive write-up about why RRR deserves an Oscar, perhaps for Best Picture (yes, not for Best International Feature), Douglas Laman suggests that Indian films have been unfairly ignored (h/t Hari G).Thank you for reading Shadow Warrior. This post is public so feel free to share it.The fact is that all three of the films that became visible successes in 2022 (along with other big box-office successes KGF 2, Ponniyin Selvan, Pushpa) have origins outside the formulaic Mumbai industry, and it may well be the beginning of a trend. The three are distinctive and different, and it is arguable that they are archetypes of three types or even three genres of cinema. Cinema as spectacleRRR is cinema as spectacle (harking back to the big Hollywood productions whose intent it was to awe); The Kashmir Files is realistic, almost documentary in tone; and Kantara, the most difficult to precisely pigeonhole, is impressionistic, a cultural phenomenon immersing you in a world that you must be an insider to fully appreciate. RRR is the easiest for audiences to appreciate, because it compels suspension of disbelief, and draws you into its make-believe world with its fantastic stunts and subtle theme of rebellion against authority and cruel white colonialism (which appeals to the newly woke sentiment of film fans especially in the US). It is cinema as entertainment; the dances and the swashbuckling take center stage with the buddy story while the freedom struggle is sort of in the background.In a sense this kind of cinema is the lineal descendant of the story-tellers and bards of old. In India we had the katha-kalakshepam artists and traveling theater troupes telling/performing stories from the Puranas. Similarly, in many places there were shadow-puppet shows, again with heroic stories from the epics (like the wayang kulit of Java). Children would sit breathless often in dim lamplight, entranced by tales of brave warriors and fair maidens. SS Rajamouli, the director of RRR, is in that tradition: he tells tall tales, and he does it well. In fact, his two Baahubali films were masterpieces of the art, and they were among the very best Indian films in decades. Gorgeous sets, glorious set-piece battles, beautiful princesses, treachery, stalwart warriors, noble companions, fearsome villains – the works. And they were entirely believable because they were epics set in the (distant) mythical past, fables. Hollywood used to specialize in these too: remember Ben Hur and the like? Or even Kurosawa's Ran, Seven Samurai and Kagemusha. Therein lies my small gripe about RRR: since it is set in the recent past, I found it hard to engage with the superhuman stunts and the dance sequences, which were quite appropriate in the Baahubali films. Okay, that's just me.This also probably means that Rajamouli will be snatched away by Hollywood's rich ecosystem, as has happened to talented Hong Kong and Australian directors, who moved on to bigger and better things and global fame after relocating. That would be good for him, but bad for Indian film. Realist cinema, including cinema verite I am a fan of the understated and realistic school, having always preferred the low-key off-Bollywood film, such as Charulata, Pather Panchali, Bhuvan Shome, Chomana Dudi and in particular in Malayalam Uttarayanam, Thampu, Elippathayam. There is a subset of this realism, the class of historical film that does not veer into propaganda, for instance the Soviet masterpiece Battleship Potemkin or the Jewish-holocaust epic Schindler's List.Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, who created The Kashmir Files, is known for his powerful and hard-hitting contemporary portrayals of Indian culture. His Buddha in a Traffic Jam was an indictment of the ‘Urban Naxal' phenomenon that seems to have infiltrated academia and media, and which, one could cogently argue, is a grave and existential threat to the nation. All of us who lived through the dark days of the 1990s and remember the newspaper headlines about Jammu and Kashmir then knew terrible things happened there to the minority population: a violent, religion-motivated ethnic cleansing. But much of this was swept under the carpet in the interest of some Nehruvian-Stalinist secularism. Unlike for other peoples who were targeted and exterminated, there has been no truth and reconciliation for Kashmiri Hindus.The Kashmir Files is almost entirely based on actual, well-documented atrocities against a defenseless civilian population, slightly fictionalized, and it is a damning indictment of the fecklessness of the Indian State, and in particular of the mindset that allowed the murders, rapes, and ethnic cleansing of Indian citizens by foreign-funded terrorists. [Note the Jammu attacks on Jan 2, 2023 as well: Hindus targeted and shot, and IEDs left in the house].That an Israeli leftist film-maker dared to deride TKF as ‘vulgar propaganda' as the head of the jury of the government-sponsored International Film Festival of India 2022 shows that the pusillanimity of the Indian State continues to this day. (I was also reminded of the powerful Malayalam Piravi, about one of the young men who ‘disappeared' during the Emergency.) But nothing takes away from the reality of the Kashmir holocaust; TKF is as chilling, and as accurate, a portrait as the Killing Fields was of Pol Pot's Cambodian holocaust of the 1970s. Thanks for reading Shadow Warrior! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Cultural and spiritual phenomenonKantara is a difficult-to-define film, because it doesn't fit into a neat category. I wish I could say it was like Kurasawa's works, for example Rashomon, which immerse you into medieval Japan without apology or explanation. But Kurosawa was deeply influenced not only by traditional Japanese literature and theater, but also by Western film and theater traditions, and therefore his work is pretty much immediately understandable to a Western audience. Not so with Kantara. It is hard enough for many Indians to relate to the film; I imagine it would be well-nigh impossible for those from a non-Hindu frame of mind to do so. Even among Hindus, quite a few were baffled and could not relate to it. I was induced to see it by a wonderful review by the photographer Gowri Subramanya, and my expectations were sky-high.I could immediately understand and relate to the idea that there are spirits all around, a typically Hindu view. Thinking about it later, I remembered O V Vijayan's Little Ones, about benign family spirits that appeared as little dancing points of light, always there in times of trouble. But many Hindus might find it hard to relate to.I too had a bit of a hard time relating to the protagonist Siva's (played by director Rishab Shetty himself) wayward life: all the drinking and boar-hunting and the ‘bro' life irritated me because I wanted him to be the bhoota kola spirit dancer that he avoided becoming. (Spoiler alert) But in the end, he cannot evade his destiny, and in a glorious apotheosis he does become the fearsome Guliga. I later realized he had to go through his Hero's Journey (as Nambi did in Rocketry): that was what the story was all about. Maybe I was primed to appreciate Kantara, as Malabar's theyyams are almost identical to the bhoota kola in neighboring Tulunadu. I have watched, at dusk, the awe-inspiring appearance of the thee-poti, or the Devi with fire; and the Gulikan, the fierce guardian deity. They appeal to me, for I believe in this land and its ancient autochthonic deities. And here's an interesting dance interpretation of varaharoopam by two Kerala women. Varaha Roopam|Dance choreography |Pooja and Mariya |KantaraBut a lot of Hindus have been gaslighted and taught in school to disdain the gods of their ancestors; they have picked up half-baked Western, Abrahamic prejudices, which in the final analysis are based on blind faith that is doctrinally defined to be unquestionable. They are apologetic, and may try to ‘explain' the Hindu world-view to those who are programmed to not comprehend. If you will pardon my introducing a personal note, this is very much like what happened when the late Varsha Bhosle and I started writing unapologetic Hindu nationalist columns on rediff.com around 1995. They resonated with many; but others, nurtured on standard leftie fare, fulminated against us as though we violated their deeply held beliefs. Well, actually, yes. I have seen innumerable films that either demonize Hinduism (almost the entire oeuvre of Urduwood) or try to present a sanitized face for Western consumption. Kantara is the first film I have seen that presents Hindu beliefs as itihasa (iti-hasa, thus it is and was). This is the way things are. Deal with it. The fact that these three films of three different genres were successful – and the intensely patriotic Rocketry: The Nambi Effect was a hit too – is a tremendous boost for India. It's time to move away from self-flagellating mediocrity to proudly present Indian cinema as part of a cultural renaissance, as Japan, Hong Kong and Korea have done in the past. 1750 words, 1 Jan 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

To mark the 5th anniversary of the release of the pilot episode one for this show, we're taking you to where it all began...our host Ally Pitts's podcasting debut! Classic Schmassic was an amazing comedy podcast about movies from before 1980. For this episode, Ally joined hosts Chris Mead & Owen Choules to discuss Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and whether it lives up to its reputation. You can find more about Chris and his work as an improv performer and teacher at chrismead.co. Owen has been a guest on shows including As If: A Minute-by-Minute Clueless podcast and the Four Weddings and a Funeral episode of the brilliant Falling in Love Montage. Some Ways You Can Support the Show: First of all, please subscribe on your podcast app of choice, if you haven't already! You can make a one-off donation at ko-fi-com/russophilesunite If you're listening from the UK, you can pick up a book from our uk.bookshop.org affiliate store; 10% of the sale will go towards the running of the show, and another 10% will go towards supporting independent bookshops around the country. There's also our www.rusandsov.com affiliate store where you can get t-shirts, wall posters, coffee mugs, and more with a Russian and or Soviet theme. If you use the promo code RUSSOPHILESUNITE at check out, you'll get 10% off, and they ship locally in the US, the EU, and Australia. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow and rate us on Podchaser: www.podchaser.com/russophilesunitemoviepodcast Contact Us: Twitter: @RussophilesU Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/russophilesunite Instagram: www.instagram.com/russophiles_unite/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Ally_ Find Ally's other podcast appearances at: https://www.podchaser.com/creators/alistair-pitts-107ZzmUqmI

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 627, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: It's A Girl! 1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl. To Kill a Mockingbird. 2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf. (Little) Red Riding Hood. 3: In this 1900 book a farm girl encounters some rough weather and ends up, well, not in Kansas anymore. The Wizard of Oz. 4: Proving once again that pig's blood and proms just don't mix, this Stephen King title girl puts mind over matter. Carrie. 5: This 9-year-old novel heroine has superhuman strength and lives in Sweden in her house, Villa Villekulla. Pippi Longstocking. Round 2. Category: Kids' Songs 1: "I'm a little" one of these "short and stout, here is my handle, here is my spout". a teapot. 2: According to the song title, it "helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way". a spoonful of sugar. 3: He "lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee". Puff the Magic Dragon. 4: It includes the lines "Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow your horn?". "Working On The Railroad". 5: It's the question that precedes "do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow". "Do your ears hang low?". Round 3. Category: Steven Spielberg 1: As a child, the first film Steven ever saw was this Cecil B. DeMille circus extravaganza. The Greatest Show on Earth. 2: Vilmos Zsigmond won an Oscar as Steven's cinematographer on this 1977 sci-fi hit. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 3: A critic once compared the panic on the beach scene in "Jaws" to this film's "Odessa Steps" sequence. Battleship Potemkin. 4: Steven directed Joan Crawford in the pilot for this innovative Rod Serling anthology. Night Gallery. 5: This 22-minute Spielberg film about 2 people who hitchhike west lends its name to one of his companies. Amblin'. Round 4. Category: Shakespeare's Tragic Cast 1: Duncan, Banquo, Macduff. Macbeth. 2: Bianca, Iago, Desdemona. Othello. 3: Cinna, Cassius, Cicero. Julius Caesar. 4: Goneril, Regan, Cordelia. King Lear. 5: Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt. Romeo and Juliet. Round 5. Category: Colorful Geography 1: Contrary to name, this world's largest island is primarily icecap. Greenland. 2: The city of Santa Ana is the seat of this southern California county. Orange County. 3: No rivers flow into this sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Red Sea. 4: A 1951 agreement with Denmark gave the U.S. rights to military bases on this island. Greenland. 5: Dijon is the largest city in this historic French region famous for its grapes and wine. Burgundy. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

EVERYBODY OUT! For this week's show Tyler and comedian & writer Meryl O'Rourke downed tools and refused to record a podcast until their demands were met! To pass the time they chatted about the cracking 1959 film I'm All Right Jack, starring Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Sam Kydd, Victor Maddern and many others. They ascribed superlatives aplenty to Irene Handl and Liz Fraser and proposed a motion to officially acknowledge that Esma Cannon was criminally underused! The film is still strikingly relevant in many aspects and they were able to draw parallels between some of its themes & issues and current events some 60+ years later. Has the world really moved on all that much? As well as talking about the film itself there were many conversational meanderings via The Young Ones, Battleship Potemkin, Frankie Boyle, Mick Lynch and what is likely to be the first and last reference to Little Mix ever on Goon Pod! Check out Meryl: https://watch.nextupcomedy.com/videos/merylorovanilla0

June 27, 1905. It's the last morning of Ippolit Gilyarovsky's life. He wakes up in a battleship on the Black Sea. The Potemkin. He's a despised Russian naval officer who doesn't care that his sailors are refusing to eat their lunch of rotten borscht. They'll do it because he says so. And if they don't, he'll hang them. Why did these sailors, many of them peasants accustomed to abuse from high-born men like him, decide on this day to rise up instead and mutiny? And how would their rebellion help take down the Czar of Russia? Special thanks to our guests; Neal Bascomb, author of Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin and Russian Revolution; and historian Dr. Mark Steinberg of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book is Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched ‘Battleship Potemkin' (1925), Eisenstein's epochal Soviet propaganda, and ‘Battleship' (2012), Berg's eh-pochal Hasbro propaganda. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Phil and John continue their journey through their 100 favorite films of all time, tonight discussing the oldest movie on either list and Phil's favorite World War 2 movie.  Next up: #37 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Ordinary People (1980) #Film #BattleshipPotemkin #RomanPolanski

Jackie and Greg take on Sergei Eisenstein's landmark silent film from 1925. Topics of discussion include Eisenstein's montage theory, the Kuleshov effect, the film's origins as a piece of Soviet propaganda, and how the Odessa Steps sequence is probably the most iconic in all of cinema.#11 on Sight & Sound's "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time" list.https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-timeCheck us out at our official website: https://www.sceneandheardpod.comJoin our weekly film club: https://www.instagram.com/arroyofilmclubJP Instagram/Twitter: jacpostajGK Instagram: gkleinschmidtPhotography: Matt AraquistainMusic: Andrew Cox

Phil and John continue their journey through their 100 favorite films of all time, tonight discussing Roman Polanski's first English language film and one of the greatest love stories ever filmed. Next up: #38 Battleship Potemkin (1925) and The Pianist (2002) #Film #BeforeTrilogy #RomanPolanski

The divisional finals continue as Paul, Chris and Larra fight it out for Ubu bragging rights. Round one will make you hungry as we visited pop culture-ified chain restaurants and round two will feed that juicy chess club brain of yours with etymological clues to movies, TV, actors and more. Plus we got the lightning round, The Threequalizer and we even find time to slam evil like all good phantoms do.Support Us On Patreon

The divisional finals continue as Paul, Chris and Larra fight it out for Ubu bragging rights. Round one will make you hungry as we visited pop culture-ified chain restaurants and round two will feed that juicy chess club brain of yours with etymological clues to movies, TV, actors and more. Plus we got the lightning round, The Threequalizer and we even find time to slam evil like all good phantoms. NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

On this episode we open our ears to the sounds of silent films with an audio documentary about musicians who compose new scores to movies from a century ago. These composers are smitten with the works of Sergei Eisenstein, Buster Keaton, early Alfred Hitchcock and others. Before the doc, we open with one man's obsession with the Odessa Steps in Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin."

Segei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin is often hailed as one of the best films ever made. It tells the story (based on a real-life incident) of the crew of a Russian battleship mutinying in 1905, leading to a bloody confrontation in the streets of Odessa.CinePunked gather to assess its value to a modern audience and pick apart the propeganda from the truth.

It took 11 episodes but Hunter blew the scoring wide open by achieving his impossible movie before anybody else. Also there was that thing with the baby on the staircase. Next up: Alex resets to a Kevin Bacon movie with In The Cut (2003)

We watched this movie in Russian and have very little idea what's going on. And you can too! Next up: Hunter scores some points! We're climbing aboard the Battleship Potemkin.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 362, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 30 Years' War Call-In 1: (Alex: To start us off in this category, here's a "caller" from Saxony) If Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II keeps trying to impose this religion on everyone, there'll be hell to pay. Catholicism. 2: (Alex: Ah, some strange news from Turin now) It's crazy -- the Citadel is under this, similar to a blockade, from an army that's also under this from another army. siege. 3: (Alex: Well, on the line right now is General Albrecht von Wallenstein) Hey, King Christian IV of this Scandinavian country give me your best shot, pal. You got nothing!. Denmark. 4: (Alex: Ah, a prediction from Antwerp.) I say the Dutch are going to stick it to this country's fleet just like England did back in 1588. Spain. 5: (Alex: For our last clue, we have a caller from Italy.) If you think this French cardinal really cares for Mantua's welfare, I have some land in Picardy to sell you. Cardinal Richelieu. Round 2. Category: George And Ringo 1: Ringo and this Beatle joined George on the single "All Those Years Ago". Paul McCartney. 2: Ringo Starr was born with this name on July 7, 1940 in Liverpool. Richard Starkey. 3: George said this song was inspired by "O Happy Day", but others suggest "He's So Fine". My Sweet Lord. 4: For Ringo, it was Ring-O; for George, Dark Horse. Names of their respective record labels. 5: George and Ringo co-wrote this song that Ringo took to No. 1 in 1973. Photograph. Round 3. Category: Steven Spielberg 1: As a child, the first film Steven ever saw was this Cecil B. DeMille circus extravaganza. The Greatest Show on Earth. 2: Vilmos Zsigmond won an Oscar as Steven's cinematographer on this 1977 sci-fi hit. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 3: A critic once compared the panic on the beach scene in "Jaws" to this film's "Odessa Steps" sequence. Battleship Potemkin. 4: Steven directed Joan Crawford in the pilot for this innovative Rod Serling anthology. Night Gallery. 5: This 22-minute Spielberg film about 2 people who hitchhike west lends its name to one of his companies. Amblin'. Round 4. Category: Our Government 1: This group that meets in the Capitol started in 1789 with 22 members and now has 100. Senate. 2: Instead of a president, each of the states has this chief executive. Governor. 3: The U.S. Constitution has 7 articles and 27 of these additions. Amendments. 4: NASA, which was created in 1958, stands for National Aeronautics and this Administration. Space. 5: Justice Department head Janet Reno isn't called the Secretary of Justice, but this. Attorney General. Round 5. Category: Steam 1: They're the two chemical elements that make up steam. hydrogen and oxygen. 2: In central heating systems using steam, this is the equivalent of a furnace. boiler. 3: Steam well above the temperature where it condenses into liquid isn't just heated, it's this. superheated. 4: Most of the world's electriic power comes from steam turning the wheels of this type of machine. turbine. 5: One of this Scotsman's big ideas was using the expansion of steam to complete a piston stroke. James Watt. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #9: Are You Terrified Yet? Along the way, they discuss Battleship Potemkin, the meaning of bravery, crushing, strange bets, Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, changing schools, There's Something Inside Your House, runaway babies, The Witches, Louise Erdrich's "I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy," being caught up in someone else's bet, the Rocky movies,The Phantom Menace, faking scares, Extremity, the big giant head, Imposter Syndrome, Galaxy Quest, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Ken Liu's "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King," heroism, maintaining your reputation on the middle school junk heap, the relationship between reality TV and torture porn, "The Girl Who Stood on a Grave," Truth or Dare, funeral home horror, Six Feet Under, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, the importance of communication, Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," haunted masks, the significance of B-movies, meet cutes, genre, and Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Brett and Brice dive into what makes Battleship Potemkin one of the greatest films of all time.

In this snacky episode we breeze past the great Russian revolutionary filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein who gave us great cinema with - Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the terrible. You can find his complete films on Youtube. Email id: metaphysicallab@gmail.com/ whats app - 9324431451   Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media.   DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Bax, the other half of the Battleship Potemkin podcast, joins us just days after having read his first H.P. Lovecraft short story to discuss Stuart Gordon's adaptation of it, "Dreams in the Witch-House"! You'll have to wade through roughly 19 minutes of nostalgia for Showtime's short-lived Masters of Horror, but after that, there's plenty of discussion of the 3 biggest things wrong with Gordon's last foray into Lovecraft adaptations: 1. Ezra Godden 2. Stripping the source text of its most menacing and interesting elements to fit an hour-long runtime 3. Ezra Godden Listen to and read David at Battleship Pretension Follow him on Twitter @daveypretension

Revolution is afoot when comrades Jana, Nick, and Dylan delve back 100 years ago to the Bolshevik Revolution in Sergei Eisenstein's prolific feature Battleship Potemkin and discuss the filmmaking and art that the film contains.

The Moorside, which airs on BBC1 at 9pm tonight, is a drama about events surrounding the disappearance of nine year old Shannon Matthews in 2008. Starring Sheridan Smith as Julie Bushby, the woman who orchestrated the hunt for Shannon and Gemma Whelan as Shannon's mother Karen, who was eventually found guilty of the kidnap and false imprisonment of her daughter, the programme has been criticised by some as inappropriate subject matter for a TV show. Executive producer Jeff Pope defends the making of The Moorside and discusses the ethics and challenges of turning real-life events into drama.In 20th Century Women, Annette Bening stars as a freethinking Santa Barbara mother who enlists the help of two young women in raising her adolescent son during a period of cultural and social turmoil. Film critic Jenny McCartney reviews.To mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Front Row has asked figures from the arts world to champion their favourite work, inspired by events in 1917. Today, film director Peter Greenaway makes the case for Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.As a new contemporary staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion opens at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Samira met the team behind the production - director Sam Pritchard, sound designer Max Ringham, lead actors Alex Beckett and Natalie Gavin- to discover why they think Shaw's ideas about language and accent as a repository of class and power remain just as relevant in 2017 as they were when the play premiered just over a century ago.Presenter : Samira Ahmed Producer : Ella-mai Robey.

Anne McElvoy investigates the role of culture within historic Soviet expansionism and current Russian geopolitics. She talks to Charles Clover, author of Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism about Eurasianism, an old idea with considerable traction in Putin's Russia and why bad ideas tend to win out over good ones . Historian Polly Jones, author of Myth Memory Trauma: Rethinking the Soviet past, 1953-70 and Clem Cecil, in-coming Director of Pushkin House, are in the studio to discuss the extent of Soviet interest in soft power alongside Mark Nash, curator of Red Africa and Ian Christie, co-curator of Unexpected Eisenstein, two new exhibitions in London. The continuing cultural legacy of Cold War relations between the Soviet Union and Africa is the subject of Red Africa, a season of film, art exhibition, talks and events, runs at Calvert 22 in London while at the same time Unexpected Eisenstein, a new exhibition at GRAD gallery in London, tells the story of the anglophile tendencies of a the great Soviet film-maker, Sergei Eisenstein. Eisenstein, whose epic and patriotic films Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, together constitute a visual retrospective of Russian power, was himself hugely influenced by British writers from Shakespeare to Dickins. But as Anne McElvoy hears, the director went on to influence generations of British artists and film-makers, one legacy of his six-week sojourn in London in 1929. It was, as Christie explains, a trip ordered but not precisely sponsored, by Stalin. Producer: Jacqueline Smith