Podcast appearances and mentions of Dirk Bogarde

In the latest dispatch from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer discuss deportations, Dr. Kildare and Dirk Bogarde.

Shane and Andrew discover the extraordinary 60s spy spoof Modesty Blaise, starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, and the very gay Dirk Bogarde.

Or Marsh Creature, Diederick Beauragardegarde, Famished Spectre.

Par Rafael Wolf et Thomas Lecuyer Babygirl de Halina Reijn, avec Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Harris Dickinson. Mémoires dʹun escargot film dʹanimation dʹAdam Elliot. Je suis toujours là (Iʹm still here) de Walter Salles. Les conseils : Portier de nuit (1974) de Liliana Cavani, avec Charlotte Rampling et Dirk Bogarde. (DVD/BluRay, et certaines plateformes) La crise (1992) de Coline Serreau. (DVD/BluRay, et certaines plateformes)

In today's episode we hear from a wonderful writer, Elizabeth Buchan. She's been at the top of her game for many years now, and has recently written two books that take the reader to post war France and Italy, with both countries dealing with the trauma of WW2. In the French case, collaboration, and with Italy, the rise of Communism. Elizabeth has been in publishing prior to her writing career, so we'll hear stories of her involvement with writers such as Dirk Bogarde and VS Naipaul. Links are below, including to her bestseller she talks about, the Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman, so what better name for the episode than that! Elizabeth Buchan Links Bonjour, Sophie Two Women in Rome Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman Books Elizabeth mentioned: Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, by Virginia Nicholson Bad Blood: A Memoir, by Lorna Sage Aspects of History Links Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99 Ollie on X Aspects of History on Instagram Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Description:Welcome back, Queernundrum listeners! Today, we're bringing you a special episode that highlights two incredible individuals from different eras, both of whom have left their marks on queer culture and art: Chappell Roan, the rising pop sensation with a flair for queer anthems, and Dirk Bogarde, a pioneering actor who used his career to challenge societal norms and expand LGBTQ+ representation in cinema. Though their stories come from different corners of the entertainment world, both are connected by their courage, creativity, and commitment to authenticity.Grab your favorite beverage, get comfy, and let's dive into the bold beats and boundary-breaking moments of Chappell Roan and Dirk Bogarde!Episode Highlights:Chappell Roan – Queer Pop Star in the Making:We explore Chappell Roan's rise as an independent queer pop artist and how she's used her platform to celebrate LGBTQ+ liberation.Her breakout single "Pink Pony Club" has become an anthem of queer joy and self-discovery, offering a safe space for young LGBTQ+ individuals to feel seen and accepted.Discuss her commitment to creating safe, inclusive environments at her concerts, where fans are encouraged to celebrate their identities and feel empowered.Highlight Chappell's activism and philanthropy, including her collaborations with LGBTQ+ organizations like The Trevor Project, focusing on mental health and queer youth support.Dirk Bogarde – The Original Boundary Breaker:We dive deep into Dirk Bogarde's extraordinary career, from his early roles in British comedies to his groundbreaking performances in socially conscious films like Victim (1961).Bogarde's portrayal of a barrister blackmailed for his homosexuality in Victim was revolutionary, as it tackled LGBTQ+ issues at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the UK.Explore his later work with directors like Joseph Losey and Luchino Visconti in films such as The Servant and Death in Venice, where he continued to push boundaries around sexuality, class, and human desire.Discuss how Bogarde's private life, including his close relationship with Anthony Forwood, reflected the complexities of being a gay man in a less accepting era, and how his courage paved the way for more honest portrayals of LGBTQ+ lives in cinema.Call to Action:Engage with Us: What do Chappell Roan and Dirk Bogarde mean to you as trailblazers for queer representation in their respective fields? Join the conversation on our social media platforms and share your thoughts!Support Queer Artists: Consider streaming Chappell Roan's latest music or revisiting some of Dirk Bogarde's most iconic films. Supporting queer art keeps the legacy of these boundary-breakers alive.Resources and Further Reading:Chappell Roan's: NBC New ArticleThe Trevor Project and LGBTQ+ Mental Health Resources: [Link]Intro music by Jahzzar “Please Listen Carefully” “Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com) CC BY-SA” and Outro music by Scott Holmes “Acoustic Indie Folk” @ scottianholmes@live.com.Editor: H. Greystone via FinalCut ProWriter: G. Thoren

The Dæmons is the final story in the eighth season of Doctor Who, with Jon Pertwee playing the eponymous hero (see episode 48 covering The House That Dripped Blood for some fantastic Pertrivia). It aired over five weeks on BBC1 from 22 May to 19 June 1971. In The Dæmons, the Master, played by Roger Delgado, awakens the ancient horned alien Azal, hoping to gain his immense power. Delgado, a close friend of Pertwee, worked extensively on stage, TV, film, and radio. His work included the BBC's Quatermass II, Battle of the River Plate, Hammer's The Mummy's Shroud, and English dubbing for The Horror Express (see episode 7). He often played villains in British action-adventure series like Danger Man, The Saint, The Champions, and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Tragically, Delgado died in a car accident in Turkey while filming a Franco-German mini-series. He was only 55 years old. The Dæmons began as an audition scene for Jo Grant, played by Katy Manning, and was later reworked into episode four. Manning attended Miss Dixon and Miss Wolfe's School for Girls, becoming close friends with Liza Minnelli. She socialized with stars like James Mason, Dirk Bogarde, and had tea with Noël Coward at The Savoy. As a teenager, she modeled for Biba and dated Jimi Hendrix, Richard Eyre, David Troughton, Derek Fowlds, Stewart Bevan, and Peter Bardens, Rod Stewart's keyboard player. Manning had a close bond with Pertwee, who would pick her up daily for filming, either in his car or on his motorbike, where she would ride pillion. They even raced with Dick Emery and Sir Ralph Richardson to see who could reach the BBC studios first. After three years on Doctor Who, Manning left to pursue other acting work. Pertwee was saddened by her departure, citing her exit and Delgado's death as two major reasons for leaving the show a year later. Producer Barry Letts wanted to write a story about black magic to tap into the zeitgeist of the Age of Aquarius and frighten young viewers. However, script editor Terrance Dicks had concerns it might be seen as Satanist. The story was revised to focus on a scientific threat with occult themes. Originally, the Master was to worship the demon in a church, but to avoid offending religious viewers, the scenes were moved to a crypt, later referred to as a cavern (though the set remained crypt-like). Letts co-wrote the script with playwright Robert Sloman under the pseudonym Guy Leopold, as the BBC frowned on production staff writing for their own shows. Much of the serial was filmed on location in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, with two weeks allocated for filming—more than double the usual time—leading to more outdoor scenes. The cast included comedy actress Damaris Hayman, who starred as Miss Hawthorne. Hayman had an interest in the supernatural and served as an unofficial adviser on the production. Her friend, a practicing witch, praised the accuracy of the scripts. Future Sooty puppeteer Matthew Corbett had a brief role in the final episode as a hooded coven member who objects to Jo's sacrifice. Corbett, whose great-uncle was Harry Ramsden of fish-and-chip fame, had to change his name when joining the actors' union Equity, as there was already a Peter Corbett registered.Studio taping for The Dæmons was completed on 16 May 1971, just weeks before the final episode aired. This episode included footage of a model church being blown up, which was so realistic that it prompted viewer complaints. If the clip of the Brigadier's helicopter crashing into the heat shield looks familiar, it was borrowed from the James Bond film From Russia with Love. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/general-witchfinders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elegant. That was the adjective used by Team Vintage Sand's own Michael Edmund to describe why the films of Joseph Losey are so important to him, and why he has been such a huge fan of Losey's for nearly all of his film-going life. Losey's was a name that seemed to keep popping up in a wide variety of contexts over the course of the podcast, so, after many delays, we are proud to present Episode 54—Director's Cut: Joseph Losey. Losey's is a unique career in the sense that it really was two distinct careers. After growing up in a life of privilege in Wisconsin (where he was a high school classmate of another pretty good director, Nicholas Ray) and an education at Harvard and Dartmouth, Losey made his way to Hollywood and directed a couple of interesting, low-budget films. Among these were the stilted but prescient "The Boy with Green Hair" (1948), and the rather senseless remake of Lang's "M" (1951), the latter replete with awful soundtrack music and LA sunshine. One possible reason that Losey might have gotten involved with this misguided effort might have been to give actors (Luther Adler, Martin Gabel) and other creatives (screenwriter Waldo Salt), who had been or were about to be blacklisted, a shot at getting some work. Losey himself, an unapologetic member of the Communist Party and an important creative associate of Bertolt Brecht, knew that when Brecht was called before HUAC, it was only a matter of time before he would meet the same fate. So before he could be summoned, he fled to London, and never again worked in the United States for the remaining three decades of his life. He began his English period with some low budget films, some of which, like 1954's "The Sleeping Tiger", still hold some interest. It was during this period, however, that he met two men who were going to help him create the reputation that he still carries to this day, that of a director of great style whose films, not surprisingly given his own life experience, were always political without ever dealing directly with politics: the actor Dirk Bogarde, and the legendary playwright Harold Pinter. Their first work together, 1963's "The Servant", is generally regarded as Losey's masterpiece. It is an absolute evisceration of a rotting class system that has yet to realize its time has passed and that the empire on which it was founded has disintegrated. The complex, ever-changing relationship between upper class twit Tony (the wonderful James Fox) and Barrett, the manservant Tony hires (Bogarde), is cold, chilling and surprising right to the very end. Losey continued his obsession with social class in the World War I drama "King and Country" (1964), a film with a setup similar to "Paths of Glory" that in some ways is an even more powerful anti-war statement than Kubrick's film. Losey teamed up again, somewhat less successfully, with Pinter and Bogarde for 1967's "Accident", and with Pinter for one more masterpiece, 1971's "The Go-Between", a gorgeous period piece featuring pitch-perfect performances by Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, newcomer Dominic Guard as the titular young man, and especially by the never-more-luminous Julie Christie. There are no easy answers when it comes to Losey, but two things come to mind. As John notes in the episode, had Losey not fled persecution and stayed in America, he probably would have been nothing more than a more-talented-than-average studio hack. Exile turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to him, and it may be a direct result of his outsider status that Losey was able to cast an even sharper eye on the follies and perils of the dying English class system more effectively even than the great native British directors of the 1960's. Whatever your thoughts on his work, in the end, it is that aforementioned elegance and intelligence that make Losey's best films worth watching today.

Released in 1977, A Bridge Too Far stands as the last grand-scale WWII film produced by the Hollywood studio system. The film ambitiously sought to bring to life Operation Market-Garden, the bold but ultimately doomed Allied campaign of September 1944, culminating in the failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge. Producer Joseph E. Levine gathered an incredible ensemble cast, featuring legends like Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Sean Connery, James Caan, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould, Dirk Bogarde, and Laurence Olivier. The movie was shot on location in Holland, with the town of Deventer doubling as Arnhem to recreate the intense and chaotic battle scenes. In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, I'm joined by Simon Lewis, author of Making 'A Bridge Too Far.'   patreon.com/ww2podcast  

This week Gary and Iain review and discuss, The Night Porter (1974) by Director, Liliana Cavani. Starring, Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling. For more Off The Shelf Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWxkAz-n2-5Nae-IDpxBZQ/join Podcasts: https://offtheshelfreviews.podbean.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/@OTSReviews Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OffTheShelfReviews Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OffTheShelfReviews Support us: http://www.patreon.com/offtheshelfreviews Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/offtheshelfreviews Discord: https://discord.gg/Dyw8ctf

This week, we discuss two films from English director Jack Clayton. The first is The Innocents (1961), a gothic psychological horror film starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave and Megs Jenkins. Based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by the American novelist Henry James, the screenplay was adapted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, who used Archibald's own 1950 stage play—also titled The Innocents—as a primary source text. The second is Our Mother's House (1967), a British drama film. It nominally stars Dirk Bogarde (who only appears in the film's second half) and principally features a cast of seven juvenile actors, including Pamela Franklin, Phoebe Nicholls and Mark Lester, with popular British actress Yootha Joyce in a supporting role. The screenplay was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Julian Gloag. Timestamps This podcast contains spoilers for the following films/TV shows: What we've been watching (00:01:04) – Longlegs, Liar Liar, Beverly Hills Cop Axel F, Barbie, Twister, Twisters, Rififi The Innocents (00:35:25) Our Mother's House (01:03:50) Coin toss (01:20:45)   Links Instagram - @callitfriendopodcast @munnywales @andyjayritchie   Letterboxd – @andycifpod @fat-tits mcmahon   Justwatch.com – streaming and rental links - https://www.justwatch.com

This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view sees Lilli in two small but crucial roles: Sebastian (1968), starring Dirk Bogarde as a Cold War cryptanalyst of divided political loyalties, and Oedipus Rex (1968), starring Christopher Plummer as Freud's favourite plaything of the gods. We discuss Cold War politics, the Swinging Sixties New Woman, free will, and the perils of adapting ancient Greek tragedy. And in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we briefly discuss the final Powell Pressburgers of TIFF cinematheque's retrospective, A Matter of Life and Death and Canadiana curiosity 49th Parallel, as well as Elise's first big-screen Cassavetes, A Woman Under the Influence, and how no one should ever have parties.  Time Codes: 0h 00m 30s:      SEBASTIAN (1968) [dir. David Greene] 0h 23m 17s:       OEDIPUS THE KING (1968) [dir. Philip Saville] 0h 44m 11s:      Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto:  A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and 49th Parallel (1941) by Powell & Pressburger; A Woman Under the Influence (1974) by John Cassavetes +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again” * Check out Dave's Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join! 

Vigo Mortensen nos presenta su segundo trabajo como director, Hasta el fin del mundo un western que produce y protagoniza junto a la actriz Vicky Krieps con la que también hemos charlado. Una historia de amor ambientada en los Estados Unidos de la década de 1860. Otro de los estrenos es Nina, escrita y dirigida por Andrea Jaurrieta. Ella y su protagonista, Patricia López Arnaiz nos presentan esta historia de venganza, que reflexiona sobre el daño irreparable que causa el abuso. Tuvimos la oportunidad de verla en el pasado Festival de Cine de Málaga, es la ópera prima de la actriz Sonia Méndez, una historia que nos lleva a una villa ficticia gallega, As Neves dónde tras una noche de carnaval y una gran nevada se despertarán con la desaparición de una de las jóvenes. Recordaremos lo que Sonia Méndez y una de sus protagonistas, nos contaron de esta película. Con un reparto totalmente renovado llega a las salas la nueva entrega de una de las míticas sagas de ciencia ficción, su título 'El reino del planeta de los simios'. José Fernández nos cuenta algunos detalles de la película Otro estreno esperado es Marisol, llámame Pepa, un documental desde que se convirtió en el personaje estrella de Manuel Goyanes hasta que decide apartarse en 1985.Todo esto además del resto de la cartelera, las mejores series con Pedro Calvo, Ana Vega Toscano nos recuerda al actor y escritor británico Dirk Bogarde y repasaremos el resto de la cartelera, así como algunas de las noticias cinematográficas de la semana.Escuchar audio

Vigo Mortensen nos presenta su segundo trabajo como director, 'Hasta el fin del mundo' un western que produce y protagoniza junto a la actriz Vicky Krieps con la que también hemos charlado. Una historia de amor ambientada en los Estados Unidos de la década de 1860. Otro de los estrenos es 'Nina', escrita y dirigida por Andrea Jaurrieta. Ella y su protagonista, Patricia López Arnaiz nos presentan esta historia de venganza, que reflexiona sobre el daño irreparable que causa el abuso. Tuvimos la oportunidad de verla en el pasado Festival de Cine de Málaga, es la ópera prima de la actriz Sonia Méndez, una historia que nos lleva a una villa ficticia gallega, As Neves dónde tras una noche de carnaval y una gran nevada se despertarán con la desaparición de una de las jóvenes. Recordaremos lo que Sonia Méndez y una de sus protagonistas, nos contaron de esta película. Con un reparto totalmente renovado llega a las salas la nueva entrega de una de las míticas sagas de ciencia ficción, su título 'El reino del planeta de los simios', José Fernández nos cuenta algunos detalles de la película. Otro estreno esperado es "Marisol, llámame Pepa", un documental desde que se convirtió en el personaje estrella de Manuel Goyanes hasta que decide apartarse en 1985. Todo esto además del resto de la cartelera, las mejores series con Pedro Calvo, Ana Vega Toscano nos recuerda al actor y escritor británico Dirk Bogarde y repasaremos el resto de la cartelera, así como algunas de las noticias cinematográficas de la semana .Escuchar audio

WTOQ?! Episode 65 - Spring Queens!Recorded Saturday 22nd March 2024In this podcast edit of the WTOQ?! Show - which has 10% more talk than the music edition.Spring is sprunging in the Throne Room and Tommy and Bernie are exploring Queer Spring celebrations in the cabinet of Qeeriousities, and some gay birthdays including Dirk Bogarde.Then the Old Queens are joined by the witty and wonderful poet Leilah King who talks about her new published collection of verse We are Hungry for Androgyny (available via the link below) how she gets inspiration for her work and dancing awkwardly in clubs.https://polari.press/shop/books/poetry/we-are-hungry-for-androgyny/ And of course, there are some taxing new Quandaries tackled with the usual wit over wisdom technique in the Queens of Agony section.If you'd like to listen to the original show including music, click the link below:https://www.mixcloud.com/WTOQ/what-that-old-queen-on-the-radio-ep3-spring-queens/And here's a link to the playlist for this episode:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2IjLEYIqCQp6ZyCeTIdhfJ?si=d8d19eb3fed94343Get WTOQ?! Without ads, early access and extra features via ACAST+https://plus.acast.com/s/what-that-old-queen Or you can support in other ways by making a donation via PayPal, buying some WTOQ?! Merchandise buying us a Kofi or by becoming a Patreon.Follow the links below:https://ko-fi.com/thatoldqueenhttps://teespring.com/stores/what-that-old-queen https://www.paypal.com/donate/hosted_button_id=ZUP5YXG874H4Qhttps://www.paypal.com/https://www.patreon.com/Wtoq Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/what-that-old-queen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Amirreza Tayebi, Author, “A Very British Revolution”, about the British Invasion About Harvey's guests: Today's guest, Amirreza Tayebi, has written a compelling and insightful book entitled, “A Very British Revolution” about an often misunderstood and sometimes unappreciated decade in the life of every baby boomer: the 60s – better known as the Swinging Sixties, which put London, England at the center of a cultural phenomenon.   The book discusses the genesis, development and global impact of the fashions, social attitudes, movies and music that became known as “the British Invasion”, which defined and exemplified 60's pop culture.  He writes about iconic music artists like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals and the Kinks.   He discusses the influence of groundbreaking movies like “The Servant”, “A Hard Day's Night”, “Alifie”, “Blow-Up” and “Georgy Girl”.  And he talks about trendsetting celebrities like Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Lulu, Twiggy, Marianne Faithful and Mick Jagger.  And of course, we can't forget those colourful psychedelic fashions coming out of Carnaby Street.    Our guest is a contemporary historian who studied politics and international relations, and is currently working in the broadcasting industry.   For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To see more about Amirreza Tayebi, go to:https://www.amazon.ca/Very-British-Revolution-Amirreza-Tayebi/dp/1803814934 #AmirrezaTayebi   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Dean fulfils a long-held ambition to introduce Ciara to his boys, director Joseph Losey and actor Dirk Bogarde, with their 1963 film The Servant. They talk about its homoeroticism, the class anxieties of 60s London and whether Dean hates James Fox. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠ Josephine Botting on The Servant for BFI: https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/servant-dirk-bogarde-joseph-losey-harold-pinter Colm Tóibín on The Servant for Criterion: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8180-the-servant-a-cruel-servility

Dean fulfils a long-held ambition to introduce Ciara to his boys, director Joseph Losey and actor Dirk Bogarde, with their 1963 film The Servant. They talk about its homoeroticism, the class anxieties of 60s London and whether Dean hates James Fox. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠ Josephine Botting on The Servant for BFI: https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/servant-dirk-bogarde-joseph-losey-harold-pinter Colm Tóibín on The Servant for Criterion: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8180-the-servant-a-cruel-servility

Based on the 1970 novella by Muriel Spark, with Elizabeth Taylor playing a woman in the middle of a nervous breakdown, constantly deflecting the attention of brutish men who mistake her for a prostitute whilst cruising for a man to kill her; a fragmentary film, a big-budget experiment in narration, with a now middle-aged but still astonishingly beautiful Elizabeth Taylor giving one of her greatest and most under-rated performances. In this podcast we discuss Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat, Vittorio Storaro's cinematography, the appearance of Andy Warhol as a badly-dubbed British aristocrat; Elizabeth Taylor's career in the late sixties/ early 70s and to what extent its reception has been coloured by sexism (in contrast to say Dirk Bogarde's) and American cultural imperialism (popular european cinema doesn't matter). We also mention Bruce La Bruce's appreciation of the film in an essay that accompanies the BFI blu-ray release and speculate on whether the film has a ‘gay gaze'. An exploratory discussion of a film that deserves much more attention.

Leaving behind the excellent (and disturbing) The Collector behind them, Andrew and Dave turn their attention to the much less excellent but absolutely bizarre Modesty Blaise, the spy comedy directed by Joseph Losey and starring Monica Vitti!How excellent is Dirk Bogarde in the film? Do Vitti and costar Terrence Stamp have chemistry together? Just what titan of Italian cinema was on the set? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: My name is Michael Caine.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Original Air Date: Monday 9 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week's Canadian Thanksgiving installment features follow-ups on several topics from past episodes: Are the most important pop culture figures of the last quarter of the 20th century all named "David"? Why is contemporary art so abundant with creativity and so full of joy? What are some of the most thrilling aspects of Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia? And speaking of Savannah, why is The Pirate House so darn haunting? In addition to those follow-ups, Phil has been researching "Trainee" programs offered by the Writer's Guild in the wake of their (tentative) deal with the producers. And a loyal listener has thoughts about the best/worst actors to play Hercule Poirot on the big screen. This last leads into Dean's thoughts about Kenneth Branagh's A Haunting in Venice before three films starring the great Dirk Bogarde, the soulfulness of Oliver Reed and a brilliant, unheralded masterpiece by the late William Friedkin all get discussed. Finally, in "Celebrity Deaths", a beloved star of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (and "NCIS") gets remembered.

This week's show covers a lot of ground thematically AND geographically! The death of João Donato takes us to Brasil and the era of bossa nova. The death of Dianne Feinstein takes us back to San Francisco of 1978. The death of Jane Birkin inspires discussion of her daughters, fashion, Hercule Poirot, Dirk Bogarde, and […]

Original Air Date: Monday 2 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week's show covers a lot of ground thematically AND geographically! The death of João Donato takes us to Brasil and the era of bossa nova. The death of Dianne Feinstein takes us back to San Francisco of 1978. The death of Jane Birkin inspires discussion of her daughters, fashion, Hercule Poirot, Dirk Bogarde, and Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania! And the death of Sir Michael Gambon inspires Phil to get up on his soapbox railing against those who think of the great actor as "Dumbledore"! The charms of Savannah, Dean's ongoing battle with Covid after-effects, the end of the Writer's Strike, and murder mystery dinners are all on the menu as well!

Random movie 101 on Metacritic's all time movie list was The Servant. Directed by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox, this film weaves a tantalizing tale of power dynamics, class struggle, and personal obsession. A layered character study wrapped in brilliant performances, 'The Servant' remains as poignant today as it was six decades ago. Let's unpack the artistry and the timeless themes that have solidified its place in film history…or just shout “Barretttt” at random times throughout.. Official Synopsis: The Servant looks at the decaying British class system through the relationship between an aristocrat and his scheming butler. Follow, rate, and review our podcast on all audio platforms here: https://linktr.ee/15krandommoviereviews  We are Colin and Niall, two movie enthusiasts from Ireland who wanted to take a different approach to movie watching and reviewing. So we came up with the idea to randomly choose a movie from Metacritic's all time movie list (which at the time of starting our podcast was over 15,000 movies, hence the title!). We take pleasure in bad movies as well as good! We hope you enjoy our podcast and follow us on Youtube or your favourite podcast platform. Follow, rate, and review our podcast on all audio platforms here: https://linktr.ee/15krandommoviereviews --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15krandommoviereviews/message

The dancer Moira Shearer starred in the 1948 film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger which reworks a Hans Christian Andersen story, mixed with elements of ballet history and the founding of the Ballet Russes by Diaghilev. The film, about the tangled relationships between a dancer, composer and ballet impresario, had a cast involving many professional dancers, and gained five Academy Award nominations including best score for Brian Easdale. As the BFI prepares a UK-wide season of Powell and Pressburger films running from 16th October to 31st December (including a re-release of The Red Shoes), Matthew Sweet is joined by film critics Lillian Crawford, Pamela Hutchinson, dance reviewer Sarah Crompton and New Generation Thinker and film lecturer Lisa Mullen. Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find Matthew Sweet presenting Radio 3's regular strand devoted to film and TV music Sound of Cinema on Saturday afternoons at 3pm and available on BBC Sounds and a whole host of Free Thinking episodes devoted to classics of cinema are in a collection on the programme website labelled Landmarks including: Jean Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave, Marlene Dietrich, Dirk Bogarde and the Servant, Bette Davis, Sidney Poitier, Asta Nielsen.

Thomas Mann was a German writer whose books explored themes around family, beauty and the creeping threat of fascism in Europe. Mann's best-known 'Death in Venice' revealed the author's attraction to young boys and it was turned into a film in 1971 starring Dirk Bogarde. Mann moved to Switzerland before the outbreak of the Second World War and lived in exile in Europe and the USA for the rest of his life. From his home in California he rubbed shoulders with the likes of Einstein and Brecht, and he recorded broadcasts for the BBC urging the German people to rise up and over throw Hitler. He was married and had six children, two of whom took their own lives. Lexicographer and word expert on 'Countdown' Susie Dent says German was her first love and she first-read Mann whilst studying at University. She loves the tension in his work between the pull of one's senses and the desire to stay aloof and detached. Susie and Matthew are joined by Karolina Watroba, Research fellow in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford. Karolina was born in Poland where Mann is a huge cultural icon and she first read 'The Magic Mountain' in the summer before she went to University. Future subjects in the series include Hattie Jacques and Stamford Raffles, founder of London Zoo and Singapore. Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Toby Field

Welcome to It's A Wonderful Podcast!! In celebration of Pride Month, Morgan and Jeannine are coming back over to British movies and talking a groundbreaking, outstanding and powerfully moving gay drama on this week's show, Basil Dearden's VICTIM (1961) starring Dirk Bogarde as a closeted lawyer in search of a blackmailer who is causing a great deal of trauma for the forcibly hidden gay community of London! Stylistically suspenseful and tense, it's boldness shines through at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the UK, with a great deal of authenticity, compassion, and a demand for real world reformation! Our Youtube Channel for Monday Madness on video, Watchalongs, Live Discussions & more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvACMX8jX1qQ5ClrGW53vow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The It's A Wonderful Podcast Theme by David B. Music. Donate: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ItsAWonderful1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join our Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST STORE:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://its-a-wonderful-podcast.creator-spring.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sub to the feed and download now on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Amazon Music & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!! Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Morgan: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jeannine: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

Back to the list for one more movie as the guys discuss the wartime musical Oh! What a Lovely War starring a bevy of British stars covered many times on this show. They talk about the use of real wartime songs, the way in which the film covers some truly dark material with a fake veneer of joy, Attenborough's criticisms directed at the ruling class and much more.   Next week: OUR FINAL BRITISH LIST BECOMES SELF-AWARE. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at forscreenandcountry@gmail.com   Full List: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-british-films/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Oh! What a Lovely War stars Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Maggie Smith, Susannah York and John Mills; directed by Richard Attenborough. Is It Streaming? USA: Hoopla and available to rent Canada: available to rent UK: available to rent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dirk Borgarde es una de las caras más reconocibles del cine del siglo XX. Británico, no hizo una gran carrera en Hollywood, pero ahí estuvo como uno de los galanes del cine con peliculones como "Víctima" y "Muerte en Venecia". Vivió armarizado toda la vida porque en Inglaterra ser homosexual era un delito, claro, pero tuvo una relación de casi 50 años con Tony Forwood, o sea, que no cabe duda de que era uno de los nuestros, para desgracia de nuestras madres y abuelas, que lo tenían como uno de los galanes de la pantalla grande, como otros actores de la época que también cosían para la calle. En fin, la música de esta semana esta aquí: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5S2UTtEITYHgAZjXefTJB2?si=7f73eeab89ed4a5d

On today's Queer as Fiction, we discuss the 1961 British noir film Victim. Join us for some dramatic performances, heavy-handed messaging and a surprising result from a government inquiry.  A link to the film's trailer: https://youtu.be/Ems3u2ZA9SA Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact.  If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. [Image Description: The poster for the movie Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. It features the face of a man wearing a pained expression, and the silhouette of another man. Text on the poster reads "A scorching drama of the most un-talked about subject of our time!"]

This week we trek across the Cretan mountains with Dirk Bogarde and co as we review 1957s 'Ill Met by Moonlight' from the illustrious filmmaking duo - Powell and Pressburger. Filmed in the golden era of the British War film the film follows the audacious kidnapping of a German general. Does the picture evoke the previous works of the famous directing duo or is this one undercooked? Follow us on Twitter @FightingOnFilm and on Facebook. For more check out our website www.fightingonfilm.com Thanks for listening!  

Welcome to A Pod Too Far, where authors Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon sit down each week to rewatch a classic war movie. Today, it's the big one: Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far. The big budget depiction of Operation Market Garden – the Allied forces' failed attempt to seize the bridges at Arnhem – had one of the great casts of cinema history. Sean Connery and Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford and Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Laurence Olivier, James Caan, the list goes on. But is it actually any good as a movie? Let us know what you think by tweeting @podtoofar. Next week we're watching Escape to Victory – please watch along too if you want to be in on the action! Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon. Executive produced by Nick Hilton. Produced by Ewan Cameron. A Pod Too Far is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising visit podotpods.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

60 years ago, when the movie Bond began, England's most popular actor was Dirk Bogarde, a closeted gay man. Dirk was even approached to play Bond. But big Bogarde fan Callum McKelvie is glad the matinee idol never donned 007's tux (although he would have looked great in it). Check out Callum's article at www.licencetoqueer.com

A smouldering gorilla suited man racing through London on a motorbike is one of many striking images from Karel Reisz's 1966 film that starred David Warner (who had just played Hamlet at the RSC) alongside Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Stephens. Matthew Sweet is joined by Stephen Frears who worked as assistant director on the film, the director's son Matthew Reisz and film historian Lucy Bolton to look back at the talents of both Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 - 25 November 2002) and David Warner (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022). Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find other episodes of Free Thinking focused on key films and TV programmes in a collection called Landmarks on the Free Thinking programme website including discussions of Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee, Asta Nielsen and a silent Hamlet, Dirk Bogarde and The Servant, Glenda Jackson and Sunday Bloody Sunday https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44

Welcome to the latest edition of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast  This week featuring movies starring Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Attenborough and Danny la Rue and with music from Cilla Black and Frank Sinatra. Who said variety was dead eh...?

In the eighteenth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by editor Kristi Shimek and screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss the implied homoeroticism and the mirror self in the social psychological battleground between servant and master that is Joseph Losey's kitchen sink realism drama The Servant (1963).

A motorbike adorned with a zebu skull is one of the central images of Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film, whose title translates as The Journey of the Hyena. Listed as one of the 100 greatest films of all time in the Sight and Sound magazine poll, it mixes West African oral traditions with influences from the French New Wave and Soviet cinema. Mory and Anta are two young people growing up in a newly independent Senegal who fantasise about leaving Dakar for a new life in France, but how can they realise those dreams and do they really want to leave? Matthew Sweet is joined by New Generation Thinker Sarah Jilani, Estrella Sendra Fernandez and Ashley Clark. Touki Bouki is being screened at the BFI London on July 27th as part of the Black Fantastic season of films drawing on science fiction, myth and Afrofuturism. The curator of that season Ekow Eshun joined Shahidha Bari in a recent Free Thinking episode which you can find on BBC Sounds and as the Arts and Ideas podcast. Sarah Jilani is a lecturer in English at City, University of London and has written on neocolonialism in Francophone West African cinema. Estrella Sendra Fernandez lectures in film and screen studies at SOAS, University of London. She directed the award-winning documentary film Témoignages de l'autre côté about migration in Senegal. Ashley Clark is curatorial director at the Criterion Collection. He is the author of the book Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's “Bamboozled” Producer: Torquil MacLeod In the Free Thinking archives you can find a series of programmes exploring silent film, star actors including Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlene Dietrich, Dirk Bogarde, and classics of cinema around the world including Kurosawa's Rashomon, Satyajit Ray's films, the films of Jacques Tati and Charlie Chaplin.

"Mort à venise" est un film sur la mélancolie, le brouillard, le chamboulement, lʹerrance intellectuelle, la fascination. On a dit beaucoup de choses sur ce film de Luchino Visconti, sorti en 1971. Ça a semblé scandaleux. Parce quʹil y a lʹhomosexualité refoulée de Thomas Mann lui-même, lʹauteur du livre, celle de Dirk Bogarde, lʹinterprète principale et celle du réalisateur. Parce quʹil y a de la pédophilie. Le personnage principal, Gustav von Aschenbach, tombe amoureux fou dʹun garçon de 14 ans. Il ne se passe rien. Il nʹempêche, il y a ce trouble qui provoque un certain malaise, et le regard du vieux sur le jeune. Et puis, on a évoqué la beauté plastique des images et la notion même de beauté interrogée au cœur du film. Car cʹest un film sur la beauté où chaque image est un tableau, pensé, construit comme tel.

---ARTICLES AND LINKS DISCUSSED"He chose me as well."Max Mon Amour [1986] Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyG5jvx2gg---Max Mon Amour – Chicago Reader:https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/max-mon-amour/---Max Mon Amour Review – Empire:https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/max-mon-amour-review/---FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION ON reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/sideboobcinema/---SUPPORT THE NEW FLESHPatreon:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=61455803Buy Me A Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thenewflesh---Instagram: @thenewfleshpodcast---Twitter: @TheNewFleshpod---Follow Ricky: @ricky_allpike on InstagramFollow Jon: @thejonastro on InstagramFollow AJ: @_aj_1985---SIDEBOOB CINEMA produced by Sheila EhksLogo Design by Made To Move: @made.tomoveTheme Song: Dreamdrive "Good In Red"

---ARTICLES AND LINKS DISCUSSEDThe Night Porter [1974] Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhcZLNnKMHI---The Night Porter - Director's Comments - YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALPCk5cyUes---The Night Porter review – descent into sex and Nazism still chills – The Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/27/the-night-porter-review-dirk-bogarde-charlotte-rampling-liliana-cavani---FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION ON reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/sideboobcinema/---SUPPORT THE NEW FLESHPatreon:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=61455803Buy Me A Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thenewflesh---Instagram: @thenewfleshpodcast---Twitter: @TheNewFleshpod---Follow Ricky: @ricky_allpike on InstagramFollow Jon: @thejonastro on InstagramFollow AJ: @_aj_1985---SIDEBOOB CINEMA produced by Sheila EhksLogo Design by Made To Move: @made.tomoveTheme Song: Dreamdrive "Good In Red"

An elder C.S. Lewis looks back on his remarkable journey from hard-boiled atheist to the most renowned Chrsitian writer of the past century. The Most Reluctant Convert features award-winning actor Max McLean as the older Lewis and Nicholas Ralph - breakout star of PBS Materpiece's All Creatures Great and Small - as young Lewis. Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford, this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years- old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenge his unbelief. Norman Stone Norman Stone began his professional career in television as the youngest producer/director to be working at the BBC, and soon established himself as a top film maker with his highly acclaimed film A Different Drummer about the blind and deaf Christian poet, Jack Clemo. Four years later, he created Shadowlands, the gripping film drama on the love and loss of C.S. Lewis, which earned two BAFTA awards, an International Emmy, and the coveted ‘Prague D'or' for Best Director. This film went on to be an award-winning stage play, as well as a Hollywood movie.Other dramas followed included Martin Luther – Heretic, starring Jonathan Pryce; New World with James Fox; The Vision starring Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick and Helena Bonham-Carter, and the award-winning Burston Rebellion with Eileen Atkins and Bernard Hill. Stone was also asked to direct the internationally acclaimed CBS co-production Pied Piper, starring Peter O'Toole. He then directed two of the famous BBC Miss Marples films, starring the iconic Joan Hickson in the title role, and also, The Black Velvet Gown, which earned him his second International Emmy. Always interested in experimenting with new forms of filmic storytelling, Stone went on to create and direct The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, which starred Jeremy Irons and was nominated for a prestigious ACE Award in the category of Best International Drama. This experience led directly to Tales from the Mad House, an award-winning series of one-man dramas, featuring such stars as Jonathan Pryce, Dame Eileen Atkins, Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, James Cosmo and Helen Baxendale, before making the gritty, Glasgow feature film, Man Dancin' which collected more international awards.A string of new dramas followed, including C.S. Lewis - Beyond Narnia, Florence Nightingale, The Narnia Code and KJB - The Book that Changed the World (winner of The Templeton, Movie Guide, Epiphany Prize).In 2020, Norman completed a major Feature Documentary narrated by Ewan McGregor, The Final Fix, exploring a remarkably effective new treatment for drug addiction, and in 2021, during lockdown, he wrote and directed a new, creative drama on C.S. Lewis called The Most Reluctant Convert. This film was cinema-premiered in over 500 American cities in November 2021 and has already been seen in over 120 countries around the world.Norman is currently preparing a dramatically challenging feature film, Raising Hell, the true story of the battle to beat child prostitution in Victorian England, and is also developing an exciting, new TV action series, ROK, set in Gibraltar and the Mediterranean.Website: https://cslewismovie.com/Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBd8bYTMoTKlUAk4IVyb16QFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CSLewisMovieInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fpa_theatre/IMDB: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBd8bYTMoTKlUAk4IVyb16Q

To kick off Pride month, the first film in our Pride series is Dirk Bogarde's 1961 film Victim. This film was written and directed for the purpose of social justice and awareness in the UK at a time when same sex relations between men was a criminal and jail-able offense. 90% of all blackmail cases before the decriminalization Act in 1967 pertained to extortion of Gay men. We highly recommend this film. You will find nuanced performances set against a noir--sequence setting. This was a great pick (Thanks, Beth!) for our first film of Pride, and it yielded a thoughtful discussion.

In March 1957 the Dirk Bogarde second world war film Ill Met By Moonlight was released and little over a week later the Goons successfully parodied it with their own version. The Goons relished doing send-ups of WWII movies and some of their greatest shows included The Man Who Never Was, I Was Monty's Treble, Rommel's Treasure and, of course, the episode we're covering today: Ill Met By Goonlight. Phil Cannon is co-host of the long-running Doctor Who podcast Who's He? and also a self-confessed Goon – and especially Spike – addict. He guests today to discuss Ill Met By Goonlight and remembers first hearing the show when it was included in a bunch of repeats on BBC radio in the early eighties. Among other things we big up the often overlooked Jim Spriggs, marvel at Sellers' vocal gymnastics, lift the lid on Sellers' connection with the director Michael Powell even briefly mention war memoirs, a topic which would later feature heavily in a very fondly-remembered Goon Show (see next week for more details!) Thanks to Phil - the Who's He? podcast is available here: https://www.whos-he-podcast.co.uk/ Follow the show on Twitter: @goonshowpod

Peter's been on the pod before talking about the Beatles and Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and he's just published a fascinating account of the ‘60s sexual revolution, a time when a new and unimaginable freedom collided spectacularly with the hand-wringing Victorian values of the media. We talked to him at the West Hampstead Arts Club about Mick Jagger v Mary Whitehouse, the Avengers, Jenny Fabian's Groupie, Bond movies, Germaine Greer, the Killing of Sister George, Dirk Bogarde, Cliff Richard as an unconvincing sex symbol, Jane Birkin, Michael Caine in Alfie, John & Yoko, the concept of ‘Kinkiness' and the pop records that sailed close to the wind. @Peter_Doggett Growing Up: Sex In The Sixties …https://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Up-Sixties-Peter-Doggett/dp/184792428XSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon and receive every future Word Podcast before the rest of the world - alongside Early Bird access to WIYE live tickets!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cinphomaniac visits the 1963 under-appreciated masterpiece, The Servant - written by Harold Pinter, directed by Joseph Losey, and starring Dirk Bogarde in an absolutely iconic tour de force performance. Marcus and Dana breakdown the film's highly transgressive, for the time, explorations of class, sex, drugs, power, and Jungian Psychology. Being one of Marcus's Top Five Films Of All-Time, he probes the deepest levels of its endless re-watchability, while Dana lends the perspective of a first time viewer to the film's many shocking twists and unconventional structure. They also discuss Dirk Bogarde's incredible body of work, including a brief breakdown of two of his other, far ahead of their time, classics, Accident (1967) and Cast A Dark Shadow (1955), as well as The Servant's other brilliant lead and supporting performances from James Fox, Sarah Miles, and Wendy Craig.From the archive: April 7th, 2021

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week the conversation starts with R.W. Fassbinder's serial drama Eight Hours Don't Make a Day. My guest is a regular on the show, critic Beatrice Loayza (The New York Times, Reverse Shot, A.V. Club). Beatrice's viewing leads us to two dramas with British star Dirk Bogarde and two comedies by the great Albert Brooks. We also take the measure of studio blockbuster filmmaking from recent months, including Godzilla vs. Kong and Nobody. You can support this podcast and read show notes with links at: rapold.substack.com Opening music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan discover that there's actually an antidote to getting punched really, really hard. The cultural divide proves too much for Ryan in this wild, fantastic, hallucinatory Kung Fu epic of many names. The story is incomprehensible, the fights are nonsensical, but Steve still finds it defensible, while Ryan finds the editing reprehensible. There's no reason for this rhyme. Kung Fu Cult Master (1993) d. Jing Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Starring: Jet Li Man Cheung Chingmy Yau Set during the Yuen Dynasty, many sects compete for possession of the two golden swords which contain the secret to dominance of the world of martial arts. The first faction, led by Shaolin, consists of Shaolin, Wu Tang, Ngo Mai, Kun Lun, Hung Tung and Wah Shan. The second is the Ming Sect, otherwise known as the Fire Sect or Evil Sect, led by branch leaders Queen of Purple Dragon, King of White Eagle, King of Gold Lion and King of Green Bat. A student of Wu Tang, befriends Gold Lion and marries the daughter of White Eagle. He is killed for the secret of the location of the missing sword. His infant son witnesses this and vows revenge on the heads of the sect. Unfortunately he has a jinx which prevents him from learning martial arts. Brian Rawnsley Things discussed in the show: Tom Clancy & Jack Ryan vs World War 3 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker) Wargames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Breakfast Club (John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy) The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy) Deutchland 83 (Anna Winger, Jörg Winger, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen) Operation Able Archer Wind of Change podcast (Patrick Radden Keefe, The Scorpions) Wong Kar-wai Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He) The Great Wall (Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe) American Factory (documentary, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke) Casino Royale (Texas Holdem, Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay), Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito) The Lookout (Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour) Godless (Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Scott Frank) Auteur Cinema The Witch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) The New Mutants (Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton) Love Actually (Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Leonard DiCaprio & Liam Hemsworth The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The Raid Redemption (Gareth Evans,  Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy) Kung Fu (NES video game) Double Dragon (video game) The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle) The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra) Apostle (Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Lovecraftian horror / Folk horror Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati) Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson) Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory) The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright) The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre The Shaw Brothers & Hong Kong Cinema Wu Tang Mountain Takashi Miike CINEphile Video Archive in Los Angeles (Shoutout to Paul!) Ghost Spy (Image Comics, Steve Albertson, Jacob Elijah aka Oh Oozi, Puppy Grenade) Tai Chi Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Siu-Ho Chin) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Dragon Ball Z ( Things discussed in the show: Tom Clancy & Jack Ryan vs World War 3 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker) Wargames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Breakfast Club (John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy) The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy) Deutchland 83 (Anna Winger, Jörg Winger, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen) Operation Able Archer Wind of Change podcast (Patrick Radden Keefe, The Scorpions) Wong Kar-wai Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He) The Great Wall (Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe) American Factory (documentary, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke) Casino Royale (Texas Holdem, Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay), Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito) The Lookout (Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour) Godless (Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Scott Frank) Auteur Cinema The Witch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) The New Mutants (Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton) Love Actually (Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Leonard DiCaprio & Liam Hemsworth The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The Raid Redemption (Gareth Evans,  Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy) Kung Fu (NES video game) Double Dragon (video game) The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle) The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra) Apostle (Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Lovecraftian horror / Folk horror Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati) Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson) Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory) The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright) The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre The Shaw Brothers & Hong Kong Cinema Wu Tang Mountain Takashi Miike CINEphile Video Archive in Los Angeles (Shoutout to Paul!) Ghost Spy (Image Comics, Steve Albertson, Jacob Elijah aka Oh Oozi, Puppy Grenade) Tai Chi Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Siu-Ho Chin) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Dragon Ball Z Game of Thrones (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Iain Glen, Gwendoline Christie) Chinese history The Evil Cult (Ming Dynasty) Quintin Tarantino Star Crossed Lovers The Golden Lion House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) Master of the Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu, Tien Wu Chu, Kang Chin) Crippled Masters (Chi Lo, Sung-Chuan Shen, Chao-Ming Kang, Chiu Ho) Riki Oh The Story of Ricky (Ngai Choi Lam, Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho) John Woo (director) Johnnie To (director) Exiled (Johnnie To, Nick Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng) Drug War (Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang) Dirty Gambler genre of Hong Kong crime cinema Jackie Chan Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris Willow vs. Wicket (Star Wars) vs. Leprechaun Mel Gibson vs. Cancel Culture Tom Cruise vs. Keith Raniere Zoroastrians (Persia) Cult of Mani (Manichaeism) - The Gospel of Mani aka the Book of Giants The Book of Enoch 300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham) Next week: Any Given Sunday

Socrates Podcasts ve FilmLoverss işbirliğiyle hazırlanan Sinema Var'ın 18. bölümünde Aras Keser ve Güvenç Atsüren, son olarak AH GÖZEL İSTANBUL'da kamera karşısına geçen Aykut Sezgi Mengi'yle oyunculuk etrafına kurulu kolektif bir seçki oluşturuyorlar. Sizin sinemaya bakışınızı değiştiren oyuncu performanslarını, Twitter'da @SocratesPods hesabından bizimle paylaşabilirsiniz. Uyarı: Bu sohbet, konuşulan filmlere dair can alıcı detayları veya sahneleri açık eden bölümler içerebilir. Aşağıdaki zaman kodlarını kullanarak ileri sarabilirsiniz… (10:20) Robert De Niro, RAGING BULL (Scorsese, 1980) (18:25) Adam Sandler, UNCUT GEMS (Safdies, 2019) (27:00) Gena Rowlands, A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (Cassavetes, 1974) (33:45) Cate Blanchett, CAROL (Haynes, 2015) (39:20) Anna Karina, VIVRE SA VIE (Godard, 1962) (45:20) River Phoenix, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (Van Sant, 1991) (49:15) Nina Hoss, PHOENIX (Petzold, 2014) (54:35) Macit Koper, ANAYURT OTELİ (Kavur, 1987) (58:20) Dirk Bogarde, THE SERVANT (Losey, 1963)

Thomas Mann's 1912 novella is about an esteemed artist suffering from writer's block who travels to Venice and becomes enamored with a beautiful Polish boy just as the city is falling prey to a cholera epidemic. It was made into a striking film in 1971 by Luchino Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde and then into an opera by Benjamin Britten as his last work. A simple story belies the torment of passion and disturbing feelings exposed by Mann, not only in his fiction but in his personal diaries, when our heart takes us down an unplanned path with unintended consequences. An episode kind to complicated humans.Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :)https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguideSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/discreetguideFollow the host on Twitter:@DiscreetGuideThe host on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/

Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy.As part of the BBC's Queer Icons series Philosopher Sophie-Grace Chappell discusses Plato's Symposium, and novelist Adam Mars-Jones talks about Bruce Bagemihl's book Biological Exuberance which explored homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Plus, we hear from the winner of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing. Queer Icons is a project to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in which 50 leading figures choose an LGBTQ artwork that is special to them. You can find more details on the Front Row website on BBC Radio 4. You can find the BBC's Gay Britannia season of programmes on radio and tv collected on the website. They include documentaries, Drama on 3 from Joe Orton and exploring Victim the 1961 film starring Dirk Bogarde, episodes of Words and Music and more editions of Free Thinking including Philip Hoare on Cecil Beaton, Jake Arnott on Joe Orton and Peggy Reynolds on Sappho. Producer: Luke Mulhall