Podcast appearances and mentions of Matt Zoller Seitz

Wes Anderson's latest film has no shortage of charts and plans. Our guest, Matt Zoller Seitz, helps guide us through THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, and warns us about emotional land mines (which, in fact, we might actually want to step on? It'll make sense in context.) Then we nominate our favorite filmed father/daughter dynamics to the Hall of Excellence.What's GoodAlonso - bitching about the new season of AND JUST LIKE THAT…Drea - your friends meetingMatt - The Life of ChuckKevin - The Traitors AustraliaITIDICDisney delaying next two Avengers filmsParamount Plans Celebrations for 30th Anniversary of ‘Clueless'2025's Domestic Box Office ChatStaff PicksAlonso - MountainheadMatt - Deaf President Now & Sharp CornerDrea - Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux)Kevin - Mazes & MonstersVisit the arts bookstore at  Mzs.press Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, or InstagramWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

1965. Sam et Suzie ont 12 ans et s'apprêtent à vivre la plus grande des aventures : l'amour. Je suis Céleste Durante, et dans cet épisode en partenariat avec la Cinémathèque Française, je vais vous raconter l'histoire de la tenue d'aventurière de Suzy, le personnage principal de Moonrise Kingdom, un film de Wes Anderson.L'exposition Wes Anderson vous attend à la Cinémathèque Française, à Paris, jusqu'au 27 juillet. Plus d'informations ici. Sources et extraits :

  Notes and Links to Jason Bailey's Work        Jason Bailey is a film critic, author, and podcaster. His work has appeared in The Playlist, The New York Times, Vulture, Vice, Rolling Stone, and Slate, among others. He is the editor-in-chief of Crooked Marquee, the former film editor at Flavorwire, and the author of six books-the most recent is Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and two daughters. Buy Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend   Jason's Website   NPR Interview Re: Gandolfini     At about 2:25, Jason talks about book events and good places to buy his book, included Matt Zoller Seitz's dynamic website  At about 4:00, Jason talks about the incomparable Edoardo Ballerini as his audiobook narrator At about 7:05, Jason talks about his cinematic and reading influences since childhood; he tells a story of seeing “At the Movies” and becoming a cinephile and movie criticism fan At about 12:10, Jason responds to Pete's question about career thoughts in his adolescent years revolving around moviemaking/writing about movies At about 15:10, Jason talks about his approach in watching movies and whether or not he can watch a movie while “cleansing his mind” and not watching for “work” At about 16:40, Pete asks Jason about him going to movie theaters often At about 19:15, Jason responds to Pete's question about favorite movie(s)/movies that explain his aesthetic, and the two discuss The Godfather Part I and Part II (and Part III!) At about 23:35, Jason talks about being “sympathetic and empathetic and complex” in his depiction of James Gandolfini At about 27:30, Jason shares feedback he received from Sopranos crew members and Drea DeMatteo in particular about James Gandolfini's complicated legacy At about 29:50, Jason talks about how his moviemaking history makes him more sympathetic in reviewing movies   At about 33:45, Jason explains his background as a fan of James Gandolfini in connection to his earlier roles and his Sopranos role At about 38:50, Jason and Pete talk about post-Sopranos roles for James Gandolfini, typecasting, and delivery for iconic and moving lines At about 40:35, Jason gives background on James Gandolfini's view of the acting life and the importance of actors At about 43:30, Jason responds to Pete's questions about James Gandolfini's Italian identity At about 44:40, Pete and Jason discuss James Gandolfini's real-life and lack of real-life organized crime connections and Tony Soprano-esque accent At about 46:10, Jason tells an interesting, seemingly untold, story about James Gandolfini and dropping out of a Mafia movie At about 47:50, Pete shares a Sammy “The Bull” Gravano story and Jason talks about James Gandolfini choosing roles to “put the last nail in that Tony Soprano coffin” At about 50:15, The two discuss the haunting of James Gandolfini balanced with the great role of Tony Soprano At about 53:20, Pete uses a supposed “jump the shark” moment to ask Jason about James Gandolfini being incredibly hard on himself  At about 55:25, Jason comments on the dichotomy between James Gandolfini's incredibly selfless, and sometimes selfish, behavior At about 58:00, The two reflect on a sense of seeming-contentment and fading health At about 1:00:00, Jason responds to Pete's questions about “treading lightly” regarding revelations and sympathetic coverage of such a beloved figure At about 1:02:00, The two discuss revisiting The Sopranos dream scenes and the famous last scene after James Gandolfini's death At about 1:03:00, the two discuss the last scene(s) shot for The Sopranos At about 1:04:00, Enough Said and its poignancy is discussed in terms of the potential of James Gandolfini's acting range At about 1:07:15, Jason describes the “gift” that is the final quote in the book, from Robert Iler At about 1:08:00, Jason shares contact info and buying info for his book, from Abrams Books        You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow Pete on IG, where he's @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and the podcast while you're checking out this episode.       Pete is very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. His conversation with Episode 270 guest Jason De León is up on the website this week. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl      Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting his one-man show, his DIY podcast and his extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    This month's Patreon bonus episode will feature an exploration of the wonderful poetry of Khalil Gibran.    Pete has added a $1 a month tier for “Well-Wishers” and Cheerleaders of the Show.    This is a passion project, a DIY operation, and Pete would love for your help in promoting what he's convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 284 with Vanessa Saunders, a Professor of Practice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her writing has appeared in Sycamore Review, Los Angeles Review, Stockholm Review of Literature and other journals. Her novel, The Flat Woman, won FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.    The episode airs on May 6.

It's Die Hard in a simulation!This week, hosts Phil and Liam are following the white rabbit into one of the most prophetic and influential movie of the 90s - The Matrix (1999) - with special guest Matt Zoller Seitz, the renowned Editor at Large of rogerebert.com. He is a Features Writer at New York Magazine, and is the author of many books, including books on Wes Anderson, Mad Men, The Sopranos, and many more. Matt not only loves this movie, but talks eloquently about how it changed his life. Released in the banner year of 1999, The Matrix follows Thomas Anderson, a mild-mannered software engineer who moonlights as a notorious hacker known as Neo, discovers to his horror that the world he lives in is actually an elaborate simulated reality created by intelligent machines who have subjugated humanity. Guided by the enigmatic resistance leader Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and the skilled warrior Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Neo learns the truth about the Matrix and his potential role as "The One," a prophesied savior who can bend, and perhaps break, its rules. As he battles powerful Agents led by the ruthless Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), Neo must embrace his destiny and free his mind to prevent the machines' enslavement of humanity.We talk about the film's unexpected connections to Die Hard (Kinda blowing Matt's mind), the movie's philosophical complexity (Plato! Descartes! Baurdrillard!), it's appropriation by both the right and left-wing, and if it can be seen, 26 years on, as being somewhat optimistic. We also talk about the culture-chaning action, the amazing performances by Reeves, Moss, Fishburne, and Weaving, and how the movie's style hasn't aged a day. So call your operator and strap in for one of our most mind-blowing episodes yet!Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After more than a decade of living in an entertainment golden age... Filled with more and better options, with less advertising, than ever before in human history... Are the good times over? Almost every major streaming service has recently begun inserting advertising into its programming. And it's NOT your imagination... the ads really are more disruptive and obnoxious than traditional television commercials. So what's driving the sudden advertising stampede in the streaming services that we used to love? How much worse is it going to get? And who in their right mind still thinks that intrusive advertising, inserted into something we'd rather be watching, is a way to win hearts and minds in the year 2025? We'll discuss all this and more with world-renowned film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz, the editor at large of RogerEbert.com (where he authored this barnburner https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/streaming-ads-worst ) Matt is a Pulitzer finalist who writes as well for New York magazine and Vulture.com. He's the founder of MZS.press, the arts bookstore of the internet, and appears in print in The New York Times, Salon, and Rolling Stone. And he's the author of a handful of New York Times bestsellers, including the Wes Anderson Collection, The Sopranos Sessions, and Mad Men Carousel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer, bookseller, and Malick fanatic, Matt Zoller Seitz joins me to talk A Hidden Life. Visit Matt's online shop here. The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is now available from all good book shops and online sources, including here. Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan Orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. Composed 1886; recorded c. 1980. Source The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio.org. Used under the license. Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to dip our toes into some more fun timeline things. Dare to ask the question “What if my friend was an actor with a drinking problem?” or even “what if a meteor caused all of us to change reality?”Matt Zoller Seitz's review for Roger Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/coherence-2014Follow us on social media!https://bsky.app/profile/casualhorrorpod.comhttps://www.tumblr.com/casualhorrorpodhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/casual-obsessionOur website!https://www.casualhorrorpod.comFollow the hosts on their individual accountsEmma (They/Them)https://bsky.app/profile/jellyfwitch.bsky.socialhttps://letterboxd.com/emmapanadaNina (She/They)https://bsky.app/profile/ninawolverina.bsky.socialhttps://www.tumblr.com/ninawolv3rinaNoah (He/They)https://letterboxd.com/Bubbadabadhttps://bsky.app/profile/bubbadabad.bsky.socialhttps://www.tumblr.com/bubbadabadJade (They/Them)https://www.tumblr.com/whatisityouprayforhttps://letterboxd.com/thefakestfan

The singular filmmaker David Lynch died on January 15, days before what would have been his 79th birthday. Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz joins us to reflect on Lynch's career and legacy with listeners' calls.This segment is guest-hosted by David Furst

Robert Eggers' remake of NOSFERATU will be stalking movie theaters on Christmas Day 2024, so Bob and Greg sit down with movie critic Matthew Zoller Seitz of Vulture/New York Magazine and www.RogerEbert.com to discuss the previous versions of the defining vampire classic. But before we get into that, Matt talks about his love of Robert Eggers as a filmmaker, and takes a deep dive into THE NORTHMAN (2022), Eggers' retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a bloody and ironic Viking tale. We also talk about Eggers' THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) as slapstick comedy, and different takes on DRACULA, as NOSFERATU started as an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic horror novel. As the only one of us who's seen the new NOSFERATU, Matt dishes about that as well without any giving any spoilers, and talks about interviewing WILLEM DAFOE who plays the vampire hunter in the upcoming vampire epic. Dafoe is definitely a guy who's been in a lot of movies to get stoned to. For our old movies--or the classic films if you prefer--we pair cannabis with the film that started it all, F.W. Murnau's original NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR from 1922, a film that continues to impact horror movies today despite being over 100 years old. And then we pivot to 1979 with Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU THE VAMPIRE with KLAUS KINSKY as the bald and brooding bloodsucker in a movie that is incredibly faithful to its source material while still being pure Herzog. This is a brisk episode at just over an hour long, so Bob didn't get the chance to ask Matt and Greg who would win in an UNDEAD HELL IN A CELL MATCH between Max Schreck (1922), Klaus Kinski (79) and Bill Skarsgård (2022), although Bob did have that question in his notes at taping time. Hosts: Bob Calhoun and Greg Franklin Cory Sklar is on assignment and Philena Franklin called in sick but arranged for her dad (Greg, duh) to sub for her. Get well soon Philena. Special guest: MATT ZOLLER SEITZ. Please check out Matt's cinema and arts bookstore, www.MZS.press. You will not regret it. "O Nosferatu: A Christmas Carol of Horror:" vocal by Rosemary Picado set to "O Come All Ye Faithful" performed by DJ Williams. Lyrics by Calhoun and Picado. Movie trailer and archival audio courtesy of Archive.org. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

As shoppers are sacrificing themselves at America's remaining retail stores and half-closed shopping malls in their holy quest for suspect bargains, Bob and Greg celebrate another BLACK FRIDAY by smoking lots of weed and watching BLACK FRIDAY (1940) in this surprise mini-episode. BLACK FRIDAY is a batshit cross between a Universal monster movie and a Warner Bros gangster flick. It stars BORIS KARLOFF as a well-meaning but appropriately mad scientist who transfers the brain of a mobster into the body of a kindly English professor from an upstate New York college (Stanley Ridges??? in a dual role). BELA LUGOSI is underused as a Hungarian mob boss, but a little bit of Bela is better than no Bela at all. Don't try to make too much sense of this one. Just vape and enjoy the craziness from Curt Siodmak, who wrote the Universal monster classic THE WOLF MAN the very next year. Bob and Greg also talk about the new SALEM'S LOT on Max, as well as A RETURN TO SALEM'S LOT (1987) where iconoclastic director SAM FULLER (40 GUNS) stars as a Nazi/vampire hunter--or I should say "NAZI KILLER." Yeah, Sam Fuller, staking Nazi vampires and shooting them with a Luger he took off a slain SS officer. Four stars. This episode was recorded totally spur of the moment, so we couldn't round up the full cast. Please let us know if you want us to do more of these mini-eps. Come back next month for our NOSFERA-TWO CHRISTMAS where MATT ZOLLER SEITZ joins us to pair weed with the 1922 and 1979 versions of the vampire epic in anticipation of the release of Robert Eggers' new version CHRISTMAS DAY. Trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): @OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

AP Mike from THE BEST SHOW joins us once again for our #Noirvember episode and he's bringing Humphrey Bogart with him. Mike has chosen two wildly different takes on the Bogart persona from two of Hollywood greatest directors. First, it's the classic mystery that made Bogie a star with THE MALTESE FALCON from first-time director John Huston in 1941. Bogart is San Francisco private dick Sam Spade in this veritable blueprint for all the detective noir that followed it. Bogie is backed by an amazing cast with Mary Astor as femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy; Petter Lorre as Joel Cairo; Sydney Greenstreet making his film debut at 62 years old as Kaspar Guttman; and Elisha Cook, Jr. playing shifty thug Wilmer Cook. All of these characters are on an existential quest the big, black bird--the stuff that dreams are made of--and several of them will do anything to get it. Then, Bogart goes grim dark in Nicholas Ray's IN A LONELY PLACE (1950). Bogie plays Dixon "Dix" Steele, a hasbeen Hollywood script writer with severe anger management issues. Dix is dragged in for questioning after Mildred, the hat-check girl he took back to his apartment, turns up murdered, and Bogie's wise-cracking ways take on an air of extreme menace as he jokes his way through the police interrogation. His neighbor, Laurel Gray played by Noir princess Gloria Grahame, falls for him despite the allegations because she saw that he didn't leave with the victim. But as Dix grows more violent and domineering, she, and the audience, start to question all that we've seen. Mike details the differences between the movie and the novel that it's based on. Eddie Muller's favorite film of all time. In our opening segment, we attempt to sort out the wreckage of our society, and our world, post-election before the conversation devolves into more recent movie recommendations. Cory really wants everyone to see CONCLAVE, while Bob says to get really high and watch HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS on Fandor or tubi. Meanwhile, Philena is plotting her escape to Ireland. With Robert Eggers' remake of NOSFERATU hitting theaters next month,OMFYS will be back next month for NOSFERATU CHRISTMAS. Movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz of MZS.press will join us to pair weed with FW Murray's original expressionist vampire epic from 1922 and Werner Herzog's 1979 remake with Klaus Kinski. Please subscribe so you don't miss it. Hosts: Cory Sklar, Philena Franklin and Bob Calhoun Greg Franklin is on assignment Old Movies for Young Stoners and TikTok Report themes by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Hard Times" by Mike Lisk & Chaki the Funk Wizard with additional dialog by George C. Scott "Smoke Jacket Blues" by TrackTribe and "The Black Cat" by Aaron Kenny courtesy of YouTube Audio Library Trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): @OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

We're not known for blowing smoke on Mad Men Men, but I guess we can make an exception for this penultimate episode of the season! That's right, we're back to discuss Season 4, Episode 12, titled "Blowing Smoke." Which finds the old gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce scrambling in the fog of losing Lucky Strike. As usual, we recap the episode, give our analysis, and reference the director/writer/actors' commentaries as well as Mad Men Carousel by Matt Zoller Seitz.  In case this is your first time digging into our podcast, we recap Mad Men from the perspective of a first-time watcher, someone who only watched the show once while it was airing, and a superfan who watches excessively instead of having a functional social life. “Blowing Smoke” Discussion Points:  What can we make of the dynamic between Sally and Glen in this episode? How can we connect Don's American Cancer pitch to the "kids" in "Blowing Smoke"? Does this really feel like a penultimate episode? Is the Midge subplot all that believable? What is the current state of Don and Faye's relationship? Extra credits: Matthew Weiner created Mad Men, which aired on AMC from 2007 to 2015. John Slattery directed “Blowing Smoke” and Andre Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton wrote the script. The show stars Jon Hamm, January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Robert Morse, and many more. Our intro music is “Mad Men Men” by Tom Davidson, which is an original remix of the show's opening theme “A Beautiful Mine” by RJD2. Podcast illustration is by Jon Negroni. Our podcast hosts include Jon Negroni (Podcast Editor of InBetweenDrafts), Will Ashton (cohost of the Cinemaholics podcast), and Michael Overhulse (a guy who's addicted to working at startups).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're joined by Matt Zoller Seitz (Roger Ebert, author of Sopranos Session, The Wes Anderson Collection) to revisit Rogue One and its place in the Disney Star Wars era. Together we look back at the movie's faults, the cast performances, unfair criticisms, the daring ending, and how the movie improves with the existence of Andor --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exitingthroughthe2010s/support

The Chinese Walls are coming down for Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce this week as we dig into Season 4, Episode 11. That's right, Mad Men Men is back for another dive into how Don Draper is the absolute worst at balancing professional and personal relationships, plus how desperation truly drives all of us. As usual, we recap the episode, give our analysis, and reference the director/writer/actors' commentaries as well as Mad Men Carousel by Matt Zoller Seitz. In case this is your first time digging into our podcast, we recap Mad Men from the perspective of a first-time watcher, someone who only watched the show once while it was airing, and a superfan who watches excessively instead of having a functional social life. Discussion Points:  What IS a Chinese Wall in the workplace? Should we read Sterling's Gold? Does the episode still work even when it's this on the nose? How does SCDP come back from this major shakeup? Can you relate to a workplace crisis like this? What does Peggy's pitch remind you of? How has Peggy grown as a character since Season 1? What is really going on between Don and Megan? Is this it for Joan and Roger? Extra credits: Matthew Weiner created Mad Men, which aired on AMC from 2007 to 2015. Phil Abraham directed “Chinese Wall” and Erin Levy wrote the script. The show stars Jon Hamm, January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Robert Morse, and many more. Our intro music is “Mad Men Men” by Tom Davidson, which is an original remix of the show's opening theme “A Beautiful Mine” by RJD2. Podcast illustration is by Jon Negroni. Our podcast hosts include Jon Negroni (Podcast Editor of InBetweenDrafts), Will Ashton (cohost of the Cinemaholics podcast), and Michael Overhulse (a guy who's addicted to working at startups).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fittingly enough, we're on our hands and knees begging you to give Mad Men Men a chance. Just don't hit us over the head for it. That's right, this week we're talking about Season 4 Episode 10 of Mad Men, titled "Hands and Knees." As usual, we recap the episode, give our analysis, and reference the director/writer/actors' commentaries as well as Mad Men Carousel by Matt Zoller Seitz. In case this is your first time digging into our podcast, we recap Mad Men from the perspective of a first-time watcher, someone who only watched the show once while it was airing, and a superfan who watches excessively instead of having a functional social life. Discussion Points:  Thematically, is "Hands and Knees" a little clunky? How does the late/great Lynn Shelton do as director with this episode? What do you make of Don and Pete's changing dynamic since Season 1? Why do you think Betty bails Don out with the government guys? What can we glean about Lane after such a strained storyline concerning his father and estranged family? If this episode is all about secrets, then how can we relay that to each storyline? What is Joan's perspective on Roger at this point, and what might be going through her mind in the clinic scene? What makes this episode so bold in terms of the actors' performances? Extra credits: Matthew Weiner created Mad Men, which aired on AMC from 2007 to 2015. Lynn Shelton directed “Hands and Knees” and Matthew Weiner co-wrote the script with Jonathan Abrahams. The show stars Jon Hamm, January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Robert Morse, and many more. Our intro music is “Mad Men Men” by Tom Davidson, which is an original remix of the show's opening theme “A Beautiful Mine” by RJD2. Podcast illustration is by Jon Negroni. Our podcast hosts include Jon Negroni (Podcast Editor of InBetweenDrafts), Will Ashton (cohost of the Cinemaholics podcast), and Michael Overhulse (a guy who's addicted to working at startups).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boston Globe movie critic ODIE HENDERSON joins us to talk about his new book, BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION. For this, Odie has programmed two equally stony but very different examples of the film movement that further funkified the 1970s. First, Shakespearean actor William Marshall brings dignity and pathos to the title character of the horror classic, BLACULA from American International Pictures in 1972. (Where would this podcast be without AIP???) We debate how to pronounce the name of BLACULA costar Thalmus Rasulala and Odie explains why Count Dracula is a redneck. Blaxploitation musical interludes, cool Los Angeles locations, and just how scary this classical horror movie really is are also discussed at length. Then Odie chooses the strangest and trippiest Blaxploitation movie of all time for our B-feature with DARKTOWN STRUTTERS (1975), and yes, Bob concedes that it's even weirder than HUMAN TORNADO!!! Which means is pretty f--in weird, stoners. You will want to be high AF for this sci-fi, funk, disco, biker-babe slapstick comedy all mixed together with subversive social satire. It melted all of our minds so bad that we don't even know what movies are going to be in our next episode! The ancestors were definitely telling the filmmakers how much spice to put into this one, and it was a lot. We went long for this episode so it violates our unwritten rule that no episode of OMFYS should be longer than a b-movie, but Odie has a lot to say and all of it was terrific and deep. What do you cut out? NOTHING! In our extended opening segment, Odie explains his personal connection to Blaxploitation and recalls trips to the grind houses of New York's 42nd Street (the Deuce) during his childhood. We also got a great fan letter from Larry Clow and Cory and Odie give him awesome ideas of things to do during his upcoming trip to Los Angeles. Thank you writing to us Larry! Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar Greg Franklin and Philena Franklin are on assignment Guest: Odie Henderson Get your SIGNED copy of his book, "Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras" at Matt Zoller Seitz's bookstore. It's ON SALE!!! https://mzs.press/SIGNED-Black-Caesars-and-Foxy-Cleopatras-Hardcover-NEW-p618328058 OMFYS theme by Chaki the Funk Wizard used with permission "Groove Tube" by Audio Hertz courtesy of YouTube Audio Library Trailer audio courtesy of Archive dot org BREAKING: Ngaio Bealum and Ajax Green will be joining us for our next episode. Movies TBD. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): @OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Film critic and broadcaster Hanna Flint joins us to talk about her cinematic memoir, “Strong Female Character.” Also, film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz and fellow film critic Walter […]

We were super-excited to welcome Meredith Scardino, the brilliant writer of a billion comedy things, but most recently the creator and showrunner of the hilarious Girls5Eva. If you haven't watched, please ask yourself what you've been doing with your life, then run over to Netflix to correct your error. We'll wait. Once you're done, you'll be all the MORE excited to hear her discuss 1994's Disclosure, a film that (in the words of Dan's Letterboxd) "Begins as a dumb and offensive sexual harassment thriller, then wisely pivots into an offensively dumb techno-thriller." But what do the other Peaches think? Listen and find out!Also, this episode is about a film featuring the iconic Donald Sutherland, who was still with us at the time of this recording, but who died just recently at the age of 88. We had nothing but good things to say about Mr. Sutherland, even in this silly movie, but for a more full-throated and lovely remembrance, check out this article by the great Matt Zoller Seitz.Disclaimer: we had some unfortunate tech issues at the top of the show, resulting in some worse than normal audio. DO NOT FRET — it clears up around minute 12, and producer Alex made it listenable, if not up to our usual standard. We've gotten some new equipment that will prevent similar issues in the future.Wikipedia page for DisclosureIn-person tickets for our July 26th Boston show are SOLD OUT, but WBUR City Space is set up to livestream shows, and they're offering inexpensive tickets to watch the show LIVE online! Please note that unlike FlopTV or our fully-produced Stage Pilot shows, this stream can only be watched LIVE, without a larger viewing window, and plan accordingly!Recommended in this episode:Asparagus (1979)Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)Fireworks (1997)Meredith: Satisfied (2024)Go to Squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you're ready to launch, go to https://www.squarespace.com/FLOP  to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.

A LOT OF SPOILERS HEREINAll The President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. To celebrate the forthcoming 50th Anniversary of The Parallax View, the Editor at Large for Roger Ebert Dot Com | T.V and Film critic at Vulture | bookstore owner Matt Zoller Seitz joins me to talk about what he considers to be the very best exemplar of paranoia cinema.Matt is also hosting an upcoming screening of THE PARALLAX VIEW on June 29 at The Texas Theatre. ABOUT MATT ZOLLER SEITZMatt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and television has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Sight and Sound. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the co-founder and original editor of Press Play, an IndieWire blog of film and TV criticism and video essays.A Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker, Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours' worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers. Other Seitz books include Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion, The Oliver Stone Experience, and TV (The Book). He is currently working on a novel, a children's film, and a book about the history of horror, co-authored with RogerEbert.com contributor Simon Abrams.Dealer in new & used books about the arts: Full inventory here.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt do their best menacing slow walk as they check out ‘In A Violent Nature', the latest horror film to flip the horror script by asking "What if we just follow the bad guy?" They give you the big releases on physical media, the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris wrap it up by trying on different personalities and answering some questions with Who Dat? In A Violent Nature interview.Matt Zoller Seitz article.00:00-12:05: Intro/In a Violent Nature12:06-22:46: Physical Media Picks22:47-54:17: Who Dat?54:18-56:34: Wrap UpTheme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

With nothing new of note in theaters this week, and a cacophony of doomsayers predicting the death of cinema (again), it's time for Earth's Mightiest Critics to assess the landscape and offer some hope--tentative as it may be--for our beloved art form.Join us for a round table discussion about the current state of blockbusters, indies, movie theaters, and streaming services--and our best guesses for the future.We also take your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksAs a launching point, we look at Matt Zoller Seitz's recent piece for rogerebert.com, in which he proposes ways to get people back to the movies.And catch up with some of our earlier takes on this subject:Looking at 2020's blockbuster slate and their streaming prospects.And the quaint little time capsule that was "Inbreak", where the panel talked about their favorite movies to watch during a pandemic (which, at the time, was limited to "2 weeks to slow the spread")!Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.Get seated with The Blonde in Front!Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...And Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics....and MoviewebAnd stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.

Comedian Gary Gulman on what it was like growing up awkward in the ‘80s. TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz takes us behind the scenes of Wes Anderson's 2021 film, “The French Dispatch.” And artist Steacy Easton makes the case for why country singer Tammy Wynette matters.

S3E4 Kaiju Unite w/ Son of Godzilla (1967) and Destroy All Monsters (1968) With GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE upon us, we salute the Big G himself, GODZILLA, with a pair of his movies made a year apart from each other, that show his tremendous range. First, the radioactive mutant dinosaur tackles family comedy in SON OF GODZILLA (1967), the "Courtship of Eddie's Father" of kaiju movies. But unlike so many movie and TV single dads, Godzilla has to rear young Minya while battling overgrown mantises and a freaky-assed spider called Kumonga. I'd like to see Dustin Hoffman do that in "Kramer vs. Kramer!" Then, Godzilla shows his serious side in the greatest monster mash of them all, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS! All the kaiju are here--Godzilla! Rodan! Mother! Gorosaurus! Anguirus! Ghidorah!--and they are smashing cities! This was supposed to be the final Godzilla film, so GOJIRA (1954) director and OMFYS GOAT Ishiro Honda directs it with a poignant tone. Movie and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz was booked for this episode but he had to reschedule. We hope to have him back soon. Greg Franklin and Philena Franklin also couldn't make it so it's just Bob and Cory this time, and they still managed to gab for over an hour. AMAZING! Besides the Kaiju Classics, Bob and Cory discuss the new remake of ROAD HOUSE with Jake Gyllenhaal. One host is Yeh, and the other is Meh on Prime's big streaming release, so it's like Siskel and Ebert for people who smoked too much Super Silver Haze. They also talk about the Netflix documentary AMERICAN CONSPIRACY: THE OCTOPUS MURDERS and what to see THIS SATURDAY at Noir City Hollywood. There's something for everyone here. SON OF GODZILLA and DESTROY ALL MONSTERS are streaming on Criterion Channel, Max, Tubi, and the Pluto Godzilla channel. Hosts: Cory Sklar and Bob Calhoun The Franklins are on assignment "Enemy" by Whipping Boy from the Third Secret of Fatima album courtesy of Eugene Robinson. Steve Shaugnessy RIP. "How it Began" by Silent Partner and "Tropical Thunder" by RKVC courtesy of YouTube Audio Library Trailer and commercial audio via Archive.Org Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com THE PHILENAPOCALYPSE IS COMING!

There are lots of bonkers classics on Criterion Channel right now and we wanted to pair pot with them before they show up on that "Leaving Criterion Channel" list in an episode we call "WHAT THE FUCK CRITERION." First up is THE DEVILS (1971), Ken Russell's masterpiece of blasphemy, demonic possession and religious persecution in 17th Century France. Oliver Reed is Urbain Grandier, an impossibly hot Jesuit priest, and Vanessa Redgrave is Sister Jeanne des Anges, a delusional nun who claims that she is possessed by the devil, and that devil works with Grandier. It's a gut-wrenching work that may be Russell's best. Continuing with the theme, our second feature is THE UNKNOWN (1927), a bizarre circus tale from FREAKS director Tod Browning. Lon Chaney, Sr. is Alonso, an armless knife-thrower who longs for Nanon, his fetching assistant played by a very young Joan Crawford. Nanon can't bear to be held in men's arms, so she should be perfect for Alonso, right? Well, all is not what it seems in this carnie world of deception, which motivates Alonso to go to sadistic and even masochistic extremes. What the fuck Criterion??? Man, we could've added a third feature here because PEEPING TOM is on the channel as well. Hopefully we'll get to that one soon. In the opener, Cory asks if it's even possible to create a cult movie these days where streaming has flattened everything out. Greg, Bob, and Philena all hold out hope. Hosts: Philena Franklin, Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin Music: OMFYS Theme Song by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Black as the West" by "The Kiss and Crash Collective, courtesy of Kiss and Crash Collective and Sean Heskett "A Witches Sabbath" from Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" performed by the United States Marine Band, courtesy of Archive.org "Minor Lament for Solo Bass" by John Ptitucci courtesy of YouTube Audio Library BIRDEMIC trailer audio courtesy of archive.org. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com Coming soon: Matt Zoller Seitz joins us again for Crazy for Kaiju with SON OF GODZILLA. Subscribe so you don't miss it.

Paul Scheer, an LA-based actor, writer, comedian, and podcaster, grew up in New York Knicks territory, but now loves the L.A. Clippers. He joined Leah to talk about his memoir Joyful Recollections of Trauma (available for pre-order now, shipping on May 21, 2024), picking the right sports team for your family, and the inherent drama of NBA basketball. Keep up with Paul Scheer online How Did This Get Made Unspooled The Friendzone on Twitch Follow Paul Scheer on Substack Pre-order Joyful Recollections of Trauma (and Paul will send you a postcard) @paulscheer on Instagram (Are you impressed by how calm, cool and collected I've been so far? Paul is one of the hosts of my favorite podcast and he's on MY podcast and that is very cool and I am not collected. I'm so uncollected, that I'm releasing this episode a week early! After the show notes, I'll link to a few episodes that include some links to related episodes of Finding Favorites). Show Notes “Hook” by Blues Traveler Hamilton Tour Miguel Cervantes on Saying Good-Bye to Hamilton After 2,013 Performances The Book of Mormon Tour  The Curse: The Colorful & Chaotic History of the LA Clippers by Mick Minas and Jim Lynam 30 for 30: 30 for 30 on ESPN HDTGM adjacent episodes of Finding Favorites Kevin Alves loves Letterkenny and Pirates - solid 20 minute tangent about the Halloween HDTGM in Chicago that I wore a 6 foot vinyl banner movie poster as a costume Pam Rose loves Jason Mantzoukas, HDTGM and very bad movies (Pam is a second opinion super star and friend from the HDTGM fan community) Poet Dan O'Brien loves British comedies (Dan is Jessica St. Claire's husband, fair warning - lots of cancer talk between the two of us) Matt Zoller Seitz and The Deadwood Bible Kevin T Porter loves Bruce Springsteen - Kevin's podcast Gilmore Guys was how I got to HDTGM Finding Favorites is edited and mixed by Rob Abrazado. Follow Finding Favorites on Instagram at @FindingFavsPod and leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts, GoodPods or Spotify. Got a question or want to suggest a guest? email Leah at FindingFavoritesPodcast@gmail.com Support Finding Favorites by shopping for books by guests or recommended by guests on Bookshop.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 18, 2023 is: raconteur • ra-kahn-TER • noun A raconteur is someone who excels in telling anecdotes. // A bona fide raconteur, Paola can turn even mundane experiences into hilariously entertaining stories. See the entry > Examples: “He [filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger] lit and shot and cut images so that no matter how beautiful each was on its own, you had to ingest the totality like a potion and let it do its work if you wanted to get anything out of it. Most viewers weren't interested in his kind of visual poetry, recognizing him mainly as a raconteur.” — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 27 May 2023 Did you know? If you're a sage of sagas, a bard of ballads, or a pro in prose, you may have lost count of the accounts you've recounted. Some might call you a recounter, but as a master of narrative form you may find that recounter lacks a certain je ne sais quoi. Sure, it has a cool story—it traces back to the Latin verb computere, meaning “to count”—but so do many words: compute and computer, count and account, and neither last nor least, raconteur, a singsong title better fit for a whimsical storyteller. English speakers borrowed raconteur from French in the early 19th century.

Comedian Gary Gulman on what it was like growing up awkward in the ‘80s. TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz takes us behind the scenes of Wes Anderson's 2021 film, “The French Dispatch.” And artist Steacy Easton makes the case for why country singer Tammy Wynette matters.

Ian and David take on the forces of darkness with a double-feature review of The Pope's Exorcist and The Devil and Father Amorth!The first is a horror movie from earlier this year, in which Russell Crowe plays Father Gabriele Amorth, an Italian priest who served as the Vatican's designated exorcist from 1986 until his death in 2016. Amorth must vanquish a demon tormenting an American family who has just moved into an inherited Abbey in Spain--one which holds dark secrets that could shake the Church (and Christianity) to its core.The second film is a documentary by The Exorcist director William Friedkin, who passed away recently. It follows the real-life Father Amorth, and claims to capture a bona fide exorcism on camera. The results are...curious, to say the least.In this spoilerific episode, they guys dig into both movies, looking them as entries in the "possession movies" genre; as horror movies; and as examinations of faith. They also talk about Crowe's oddball performance, and imagine what a "Further Adventures of Father Amorth" series might look like!Show LinksWatch the Pope's Exorcist trailer.Watch the Devil and Father Amorth trailer.We referenced a couple of Matt Zoller Seitz's written reviews for RogerEbert.com in this discussion. Both are magnificent and worth checking out:The Pope's ExorcistThe Devil and Father AmorthFollow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.And join David next month (Monday, 9/11) at the Tivoli Theater in Downers Grove, IL, where he'll host an After Hours Film Society screening of Kelly Reichhardt's Showing Up (including a film discussion afterward!).Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

Tony interviews filmmaker Reed Harkness, the film Sam Now's director and co-star. From reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz, “Sam Now" is a gentle, empathetic movie that will be unbearably intense for viewers who fear abandonment. However, that might prove to be healing or enlightening if they can stick with it to the end. Constructed of home movies and family interviews spanning 24 years, director Reed Harkness' documentary tells a painful and complicated story from his own life: his stepmother Jois (pronounced "Joyce") disappeared one day in 2000 without warning or any further contact or explanation. Even though they were separated, her leaving shocked her husband Randy; their sons Sam and Jared, who were in elementary school then; and Reed, then a teenager.” https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sam-now-movie-review-2023 Tony and Reed explore the lifelong impacts of childhood abandonment, manifesting in Sam and Reed's adult lives. Jois' absence, and the subsequent revelation that it was her choice, left them wrestling with emotional wounds and damaged family dynamics. Tony explores about their Jois' behavior, considering whether her actions might be symptomatic of extreme emotional immaturity or narcissistic tendencies. Reed shares how each family member's different reactions and coping mechanisms further complicate the dynamics and negatively impact their relationships. Reed and Tony continue to come back to the topic of what we do with our discomfort as individuals and within a family system. Reid emphasized his interest in exploring these family dynamics and the importance of addressing uncomfortable issues, a theme deeply ingrained in his films. Despite the potential divisions it might have caused, Reid highlighted filmmaking's pivotal role in bridging the gap between him and Sam. The conversation concluded with a nod towards the therapeutic potential of open dialogue and the shared goal of effecting positive change through their respective fields. Use coupon code CRAIG to receive $100 off The Path Back for a limited time. You can sign up directly here https://www.thepathback.org/offers/zF7ogLZZ?coupon_code=CRAIG Use the following code to purchase the 2023 Sex Summit for only $35 featuring Tony's presentation: Relationship Tools You Don't Know You Need - Tips and Tools Born From 15 Years of Practice w/1500 Couples. https://thedatingdivas.myshopify.com/discount/TONY23?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Fsex-seminar-2023 Or use the following code to purchase 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024 seminars for only $80: https://thedatingdivas.myshopify.com/discount/TONYBUNDLE23?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Fsex-seminar-2023-bundle Find all the latest links to podcasts, courses, Tony's newsletter, and more at https://linktr.ee/virtualcouch Inside ACT for Anxiety Disorder Course is Open! Visit https://praxiscet.com/virtualcouch Inside ACT for Anxiety Disorders, Dr. Michael Twohig will teach you the industry-standard treatment used by anxiety-treatment experts around the world. Through 6 modules of clear instruction and clinical demonstrations, you will learn how to create opportunities for clients to practice psychological flexibility in the presence of anxiety. After completing the course material, you'll have a new, highly effective anxiety treatment tool that can be used with every anxiety-related disorder, from OCD to panic disorder to generalized anxiety disorder. And follow Tony on the Virtual Couch YouTube channel for a sneak preview of his upcoming podcast "Murder on the Couch," where True Crime meets therapy, co-hosted with his daughter Sydney. You can watch a pre-release clip here https://youtu.be/-RkRq8SrQy0 Subscribe to Tony's latest podcast, "Waking Up to Narcissism Q&A - Premium Podcast," on the Apple Podcast App. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-to-narcissism-q-a/id1667287384 Go to http://tonyoverbay.com/workshop to sign up for Tony's "Magnetize Your Marriage" virtual workshop. The cost is only $19, and you'll learn the top 3 things you can do NOW to create a Magnetic Marriage. You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com And visit http://tonyoverbay.com and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs and podcasts. Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript, click here https://descript.com?lmref=bSWcEQ

On this episode of The Hatchards Podcast we were joined by writer/director Wes Anderson - Parisian, Texan, filmmaker and cinephile - who spoke to Ryan & Matt about his latest film, 'Asteroid City', and the accompanying book, 'Do Not Detonate Without Presidential Approval,' edited by Jake Perlin. A collection of essays, articles and stories that inspired the movie, Do Not Detonate features pieces from some of the twentieth century's most revered journalists and critics (Lilian Ross, Pauline Kael), contemporary writers on film and culture (Matt Zoller Seitz, K. Austin Collins), novelists (Georges Simenon), actors (Bob Balaban) and directors (Francois Truffaut) - and concludes with 'Wild to the Wild', a short story by Sam Shepard, whose life and work had a profound influence on the movie.Wes spoke to us about the art of film criticism, his favourite film literature, the joy of rewatching movies and the wide array of influences - including mid-century American theatre, noir and science fiction - that fed into the making of his latest masterpiece, 'Asteroid City.' The film was released in the U.K. on June 23 and the book is available from Hatchards' bookshops in Piccadilly, St. Pancras and Cheltenham, as well as Hatchards.co.uk. With thanks to Wes, Focus Features, and Adam at Pushkin for arranging this interview.

Jim Colvill is an editor based in New York City. He is also the publisher who along with Jake Perlin established Film Desk Books, a NYC based small press and online bookseller dedicated to books on cinema. He also edited The Press Gang, a collection of work from New York Press, with critics Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz and Armond White. Here's a link to the site of Film Desk. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Zoller Seitz, the hardest working man in movie criticism, joins us for the long-awaited GORILLA EPISODE! In addition to covering film and TV for New York Magazine, serving as editor-at-large for RogerEbert.com, and running a bookstore and publishing company out of his house with MZS.press, Matt is a bit of a gorilla movie enthusiast going back to the 1976 KING KONG and an episode of WONDER WOMAN with a sci-fi Nazi gorilla. You'll hear all about it here plus some insights into what's up with HBO, his editorial process and watching TAXI DRIVER while stoned. Of course we start it all of with the granddaddy of all gorilla movies, the 8th Wonder of the World, KING KONG from 1933! And then we go from the heights of Hollywood movie making to the depths of poverty row with THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST (1958). Scripted by Edward D. Wood, Jr. a year after his schlock triumph with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, this simian reincarnation epic has plenty of Ed Wood's trademark angora kink. You can find out more about Matt Zoller Seitz at https://mzs.press/ or follow him on Twitter AT mattzollerseitz Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin and Greg Franklin Special Guest: Matt Zoller Seitz Cory Sklar is on assignment Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard Primate sounds courtesy of freesound.org Trailer audio: Archive.org Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Mastadon: oldmoviesforyoungstoners@mstdn.social Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com Next episode will be the PhilApocalypse. Yes, Philena's choosing the movies and she's chosen MIDNIGHT MADNESS (1980) and MIAMI CONNECTION (1987), so be here in a week or three.

This month, Ian and Sujewa welcome special guests filmmaker Raphael Sbarge and subjects Greg and Tish Laemmle to discuss their documentary, Only In Theaters!This eye-opening roller coaster of a movie traces the history of L.A.'s most prominent independent theater chain back to the very origin of the film industry--and charts the Laemmle family's ups and downs in the face of streaming services and a global pandemic that brought an entire industry to its knees.Here, Sbarge and the Laemmles talk about how the project came together; how it evolved during several extremely challenging developments; and how things have continued to change since the film's release last year.Plus: Sujewa shares updates on his upcoming film, Cosmic Disco Detective Rene, and the Laemmle's involvement with its premiere!Chicagoans! This Saturday (4/8/23) you can catch Only In Theaters at the Music Box Theatre! As an added bonus, Greg and Tish Laemmle will be on hand after the 4:30pm show for a Q&A! More info below. Show Links:Watch the Only In Theaters trailer.Get info and tickets for this Saturday's special Music Box Theatre screening of Only In Theaters--featuring a Q&A w/ Greg and Tish Laemmle! Watch Sujewa and Matt Zoller Seitz's discussion with Raphael Sbarge and The Laemmles.Learn more about Sujewa's upcoming series, "Indie Discovery L.A."Rent Sujewa's latest movie, The Secret Society for Slow Romance.Find clips, making-of videos, and other cool info about Sujewa's upcoming film, The Secret Society for Slow Romance.Follow the production of Sujewa's Slow Romance sequel, Cosmic Disco Rene.Keep up with all of Sujewa's projects.Follow Sujewa on Twitter.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and television has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Sight and Sound. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the co-founder and original editor of Press Play, an IndieWire blog of film and TV criticism and video essays.A Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker, Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours' worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers. Other Seitz books include Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion, The Oliver Stone Experience, and TV (The Book). He is currently working on a novel, a children's film, and a book about the history of horror, co-authored with RogerEbert.com contributor Simon Abrams.Visit his online book store HERE.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Film critic and broadcaster Hanna Flint joins us to talk about her cinematic memoir, “Strong Female Character." Also, film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz and fellow film critic Walter Chaw share the legacy behind David Milch's groundbreaking HBO series, “Deadwood.” And Vancouver punk rock pioneer John Armstrong on the Modernettes.

S2E2 Psychedelic Kaiju w/ War of the Gargantuas (1966) & Matango (1963) Kevin Moss from the Junk Food Dinner podcast joins Cory and Bob for the most wigged-out Japanese monster movies ever to come out of Toho Studios. First, it's the good Brown Gargantua vs. the evil Green Gargantua in a battle of land and sea elemental forces in the appropriately titled WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966), an epic that rattled the minds of everyone from Guillermo del Toro to Tim Burton to friggin' Brad Pitt (who gushed about it once during The Oscars). It's also a favorite of Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO, who used to close out their set with "The Words Get Stuck in My Throat," the baffling-yet-catchy pop song that's ruined by Green Gargantua in the middle of the movie. Watch for it. The Gargantuas are about half the size of Godzilla or Rodan, and they don't have tails, so they move fast and hurl tanks like they're baseballs. Starring a decidedly unimpressed Russ Tamblyn from the original WEST SIDE STORY and the lovely Kumi Mizuno. Things get even weirder with our second feature, MATANGO (1963) aka ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE. Seven stranded castaways (or maybe a few more) are shipwrecked on an island where the only thing to eat are mutated mushrooms with the power to transform you into creepy toadstool creatures. It's kaiju meets full-on body horror. Kumi Mizuno is back for this one along with Yoshio Tsuchiya and Akira Kubo. Both of our films also feature the artistry of Gojira director Ishiro Honda and special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, which makes Honda the most featured director on OLD MOVIES FOR YOUNG STONERS of all time, since we profiled his ALL MONSTERS ATTACK (1969) in Season One, Episode Six. We haven't even done Orson Welles or Fritz Lang movies yet, but we've featured three Ishiro Honda movies. Priorities! Big thanks to Kevin Moss for joining us. His indispensable JUNK FOOD DINNER podcast is streaming on Apple Podcasts and your favorite podcast app. You can learn more about it at junkfooddinner.com. All of Bob's Ishiro Honda knowledge in this ep comes from the excellent book, "Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film from Godzilla to Kurosawa" by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski. Bob purchased the book from MZS.press, the bookstore run by movie and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz out of his home. Highly recommended. Join us in March for our International Women's Day Episode with Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) and The Hitch-Hiker (1953) by Ida Lupino. Rog Franklin, Rest-in-Power. Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun & Cory Sklar. Greg Franklin and Philena Franklin are on assignment. Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

Tom and Julie are joined by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz to celebrate the best in Dump Month cinema and honor the movies that the studios don't care if you see or not... it's the January Oscars! Nominees include Cabin Boy, M3GAN, Waiting for Guffman, Bio-dome, Scanners, Tremors, and other movies theatrically released in the month of January! Plus hot takes on this year's actual Oscar nominations! MZS.PRESS: THE ARTS BOOKSTORE OF THE INTERNET https://mzs.press JOIN FOREVER DOG PLUS FOR VIDEO EPISODES, AD-FREE EPISODES, & BONUS CONTENT: http://foreverdog.plus JOIN THE DOUBLE THREAT FAN GROUPS: *Discord https://discord.com/invite/PrcwsbuaJx *Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/doublethreatfriends *Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/doublethreatfriends DOUBLE THREAT MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/double-threat TOTALLY EFFED UP T-SHIRTS https://www.teepublic.com/user/dttfu SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: DoubleThreatPod@gmail.com FOLLOW DOUBLE THREAT: https://twitter.com/doublethreatpod https://www.instagram.com/doublethreatpod DOUBLE THREAT IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/double-threat Theme song by Mike Krol Artwork by Michael Kupperman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Walter Hill Film is the first critical biography of Walter Hill, the legendary writer-director producer whose filmography includes 48 HRS. films, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, Geronimo, Streets of Fire, Wild Bill, Broken Trail, the Alien films, and the pilot for Deadwood.The author is Walter Chaw, film critic for Film Freak Central and a contributor to The New York Times, Vulture, NPR and many other publications. The James Joyce of crime fiction James Ellroy wrote the introduction. The foreword is by Larry Gross, Hill's writing partner on 48 HRS. The book also includes a note from Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Last Night in Soho.From the author: "A Walter Hill Film is a 400-page critical study of Walter Hill's films and early screenplays that began, as a lot of these projects do, with a question. I had recently gotten the opportunity to watch The Warriors and Streets of Fire on 35mm archival prints and even though I had seen them before, revisiting them at this time, in that format, was… visceral? Kinetic? Exhilarating. All of those things in a way almost physical, and I wanted to know what it was about these pictures - and their director, Walter Hill, that could inspire so specific a response. I felt like I was on fire. Along with a couple hundred devotees, I floated out of the auditorium. Who the hell was this guy?So I looked for books about Hill and discovered that there was one - but it was in Italian. There might be another in German, I'm not sure. But there had been no serious critical studies of him in English. Charles Taylor wrote an incredible essay about Robert Culp's Hickey & Boggs, Hill's first produced screenplay, but aside from a few rich interviews and archival videos, there wasn't much scholarship. Part of that has to do I think with Hill's own aversion to dwelling too much on his own work; but mostly, I think Hill's films are seen as merely action movies, ‘guy flicks' easily digestible and just as easily disposable. The more I watched his movies, though, the more I saw Hill as continuing in the tradition of filmmakers like Nicholas Ray, Sam Peckinpah, Howard Hawks and, especially, Robert Aldrich. Aldrich who, born to wealth and privilege, gave it all up to make ‘guy flicks' that were nonetheless rooted in social awareness and protest.I'm not an archivist, not a historian, really, and though I enjoy interviewing my heroes, I wouldn't say I have a particular gift nor interest in it. What I can do, though, is watch a body of work and identify throughlines in it that speak to me. I can, in other words, write about myself. I think that's what good critics do. A Walter Hill Film is a study of a career that has revealed itself to me as extraordinarily sensitive to issues around race and gender; a “man's man” director actually brave enough to show things as they really are in our world: broken, hostile towards culturally-proscribed underclasses. with pieces consistent through what is now a seventh decade. Of course James Ellroy wrote the introduction for it.I spoke with Hill throughout the long, four-year process of this volume, and to a few of his collaborators as well, but this isn'ta “behind-the-scenes” or 'making of' memoir. It's a process of unpacking the life's work of an important American artist. It's a book about figuring out something about these movies that set me on fire."A Walter Hill Film is being published by MZS Press, Matt Zoller Seitz's arts books imprint. The store is offering a limited number of these hardcovers signed by the author.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jared, Oriana and Ned continue our own epic trilogy with a look at our collective choice of topic: Peter Jackson's version of The Two Towers. Turning 20 years old this month, The Two Towers built on the success of the previous year's The Fellowship of the Ring, becoming another holiday blockbuster and continuing the overall story, as well as introducing the wider world to a variety of striking performances, among them Bernard Hill as Theoden, Miranda Otto as Eowyn and most famously and indelibly, Andy Serkis's compelling performance as Gollum, further interpreted by the Weta digital effects team to bring the character to life as an animation. All three of us have our own distinct memories and experiences of watching it for the first time and we've seen it any number of times since, but returning to it as a standalone film – as with our previous Fellowship episode, we went back to the original theatrical cut – made something clear to us: it's not all that great. Many different moments are absolutely indelible as already noted and there's no way something like The Rings of Power can even come close to it, but compared to the absolute triumph of Jackson's Fellowship, his Two Towers is the odd one out of the series as a whole. What about the structure of the story as adapted, filmed and edited meant that this might have always been the weak center of the sequence? What moments in particular are absolutely perfect – and what decisions are baffling then and now? Exactly how much Helm's Deep did there have to be in the first place – and do all the decisions that go into the making of that sequence as being central rest on the best foundation? And how great does Serkis's performance and the realization of Gollum as a character remain overall? (Answer: utterly.)SHOW NOTES.Jared's doodle. If that seems familiar, look back a year…Follow the HarperCollins Union Twitter feed for strike news.Andy Serkis reading the Silmarillion? We are intrigued, we are. Hail and farewell to Jules Bass.We do recommend relistening to our Fellowship episode; plenty of relevant show notes too.The Frodo Franchise is a very good read for sure.The original teaser trailer attached to the end of The Fellowship of the Ring at the conclusion of that film's theatrical run.The first official trailer is good, no question, but the second one with the Requiem for a Dream music? Man oh man. Kazaa! Ah Internet nostalgia. Phew, that opening scene. What a way to start up again.We do miss the Huorns, even if they showed up a little bit in the extended version – but not by name.It's a mix of perfect moments and ‘hmmm' bits but the whole start to the Helm's Deep battle definitely is key to the film.Arwen was indeed filmed at being at Helm's Deep and there are background images of her here and there. (Lindsay Ellis's essay the other month has a bit more about that.)Zulu, the British film from 1964 that inspired Jackson's take on Helm's Deep, is…a caution. (As stated, Zulu Dawn is more interesting in comparison.)The look on Theoden's face after he takes in the explosion – that's good acting.Edoras, an absolute triumph of set design, construction, visual effects and cinematography – so it was, so it remains. (Here's a visit to the set area on Mt. Sunday from a couple of years ago.)Feel free to pick up a copy of The Deadwood Bible by Matt Zoller Seitz if you like, and appreciate Oriana's work helping make it happen!Brad Dourif's tear (and the scene overall). Wormtongue's confrontation scene with Eowyn is in the Edoras clip linked above.The Eowyn/Aragorn blade clash/confrontation scene? Good, good stuff. (The warg attack scene, less so.)Where to begin with Gollum? Frustratingly the extended Two Towers documentary segment on Gollum doesn't appear to be on YouTube but Serkis's book on working on the character is easily available and a very good read.Do you really want to know about the monkey from the 1997 Lost in Space? Do you? Fine. Enjoy a video tribute. Now Gollum does act like a cat here, true. And the ‘yeees?!?' moment remains awesome.The self-confrontation scene. You know it.“PO-TA-TOES.”The buildup to Gollum snarling “My PRECIOUS!” at Faramir is truly striking.David Wenham dealing with Van Helsing. The film that is. (And yeah yeah 300.)Gandalf returns and Ian McKellen's hair levels up.The whole “give up the weapons/wink/'I TOLD you to take the WIZARD'S STAFF'” sequence – just a treat.The meat was always on the menu, really.“The Riders of Rohan” is one of Howard Shore's most gripping pieces, still.“Gollum's Song” is really good if you haven't heard it in a bit. (Emiliana Torrini's website will be back soon, it seems.)Sheila Chandra = next level. As is “Breath of Life.”Isabel Bayrakdarian = also next level, and so is “Evenstar.”“The Last March of the Ents” is another remarkable moment of music. “Release the RIVER!”Support By-The-Bywater and our network, Megaphonic, on Patreon and you can hang out with us on a friendly Discord!

Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz discusses his favorite movie musical, All That Jazz.

This week, I was so pleased to welcome back a very dear friend to the podcast. A senior film critic who writes the most soulful, insightful, and humanistic pieces at FilmFreakCentral.net, Walter Chaw's bylines have also appeared in LA Weekly, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post, Criterion, New York Magazine, and more. Additionally, the author of a book about the film MIRACLE MILE, Walter's in-depth critical study of Walter Hill is scheduled to be published by Matt Zoller Seitz's MZS Press before the end of the year.After serving up an extended behind-the-scenes look at his book on Hill and the discoveries that he made writing it along the way, we spend the rest of this fast-paced roughly hour-long episode dissecting and celebrating the SCREAM franchise, which was launched by director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson in 1996. Releasing it early this week to coincide with the brand new 4K edition of SCREAM 2, it's the perfect listen to get you in the mood for Halloween. (And don't miss last year's episodes on Horror Remakes with Scott Weinberg, Sex, Gender, & Final Girls of Horror with Elizabeth Cantwell, and/or my conversation about the first SCREAM film on the first Adventures in Physical Media episode from Season 2 with Kate Gabrielle.)Logo: Kate Gabrielle at KateGabrielle.comTheme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music ArchiveOriginally Posted on Patreon (10/10/22) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/73124925

"Once the buzz from the ending fades, you may find yourself resenting WELCOME HOME for not figuring out that it could've been a classic until it was too late to be one." Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com perhaps had more confidence in the monthly selection of STARZ than we did but we aspire to get to that level of film enthusiasm. Especially for this reverse home invasion movie which has your hosts welcoming each other back to podcasting with text messages that went without a response, movies unwatched (next week, WAIT UNTIL DARK) and the discovery that one host still uses TV GUIDE in his quest for cinema. Consider this our first housewarming gift for our returning listener(s)! Support what we do on Patreon with early access and bonus episodes! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Google Podcasts/Amazon Music Twitter @offscreendeath Instagram @theoffscreendeath Letterboxd: @daveagiannini and @projectingfilm Find out more at https://offscreendeath.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Today's guest, Roberta Lipp, is the cohost and producer of the widely successful "They Coined It, A Mad Men" podcast. Roberta has always been passionate about creating content and talking about the things she loves. After dropping so many ideas, she began writing the blog on the famous American television show Mad Men; it became a widely successful blog about the show at that time.  Her journey doesn't end there. After a successful blog, she evolved it into a podcast, which has become equally successful. They spoke to the actors and creators of the show. They had fans involved. They got an opportunity to go on the show set and even got invited to do a book tour after co-authoring a book about Mad Men.  When Roberta started her journey, she didn't have any fancy plans. She just had a strong why; she knew what she wanted to discuss and create. It all began when she would watch an episode, call her sister and then re-watch the VHS of the same episode and call her sister, and the cycle continued.  She revealed that they don't make significant revenue from the podcast, but they enjoy the process and all opportunities it comes along with.  She has shared so much wisdom from her journey. We discuss how to structure a podcast episode carefully, and she is very particular about it. We talk about engagement strategies to grow your audience. We discuss whether Patreon is extra stress on your podcast and how passion is a content creator's superpower.  There are so many stories and ideas in this episode, I am sure you will love it.  Listen to this episode on your favourite podcasting platform, and if you enjoy it, give us a review on Podchaser; please clickhttps://www.podchaser.com/TheKultCreatorExperience ( https://www.podchaser.com/TheKultCreatorExperience).  It can really help others discover the Podcast.   Here are some quick highlights from this episode:[03:05] -Roberta Lipp's introduction and the inspiration behind her Mad Men fan podcast [06:32]-How does she measure success for her podcast when she doesn't have thousands of followers or big money? [07:42]-Why she chose Mad Men Show for creating content? [13:54]- How does she structure her podcast to make it more engaging? [17:52]- Roberta almost stopped her podcast after finding out a sad news [20:26]- Let's see Roberta Lipp's production process for the podcast [25: 26] - Discussing how much time should be devoted to audio editing [28:30] Promoting your podcast through Twitter, Instagram, and Tik Tok [31:49]-Does having a Patreon make sense, or is it all stress? [37:27]- Roberta shared how she brought the show's cast to podcasts. [48:05]-What advice would you give a new content creator [50:41]- My final question is, what do you think makes a good leader? GUEST BIO Roberta Lipp (she/her) is the co-host and producer of "They Coined It, a Mad Men Podcast." She has written extensively about the show as the founder of "Basket of Kisses," the premier Mad Men blog, and contributor to the book "Mad Men Carousel" by film/tv critic Matt Zoller Seitz. As a feminist and defender of democratic norms, and with a background in copywriting, marketing, radio, and entertainment, podcasting was an obvious next step. Roberta is passionate about being on the mic and podcast editing. She believes anyone with something to say can have their podcast and launched a coaching program "The Podcast Approach: You Can Podcast" to prove it.  Roberta lives in Jersey City with her ungrateful cat, Maggie.    You may also enjoy the previous episodes:https://player.captivate.fm/episode/bdaa6c87-f27b-4a57-8498-d5edf126595a (Mentoring Through Podcasts: How To Teach Technology To The Next Generation-Jamie Taylor) https://player.captivate.fm/episode/4df9930d-e3be-4e79-9a20-ac6cb9c47ba1 (How To Produce An Audio Drama Podcast And Fulfil A Creative Dream-- Melissa Del Toro Schaffner)...

This episode of Books for Men features The Sopranos Sessions by Alan Sepinwall & Matt Zoller Seitz. A book that breaks down the greatest TV show of all-time—episode by episode. What? You don't agree? Oh, please. Listen for more!If you enjoyed this episode, please consider showing your support for the podcast. Any of the three things below will help to provide awareness for the initiative—inspiring (more) men to read and bringing together men who do. (Ladies, of course, you're always welcome!)Share with a friend or on social mediaSubscribe or follow on your favorite podcast platformLeave a rating or reviewVisit BooksforMen.org to sign up for the Books for Men newsletter, a monthly round-up of all the books and authors featured on the podcast that month.

Matt Zoller Seitz, Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, joins the VCW hall to talk about "The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon", his new book on the HBO series Deadwood, as well as its fascinating and complex creator David Milch. We talk about grief, addiction, recovery, certainty, Terrence Malick, and Matt shares his changing thoughts on spirituality and faith while having experienced unimaginable loss. Toward the end, Matt talks a bit about encountering Wes Anderson at the beginning of his career, including being on set during the filming of Bottle Rocket. Buy "The Deadwood Bible" right here: https://mzs.press/Deadwood-Collection-c136338555 Connect with MZS on Twitter: @mattzollerseitz Read MZS's film reviews here: https://www.rogerebert.com/contributors/matt-zoller-seitz -Check out Zach's music by going to: https://muzach.bandcamp.com -Buy VCW merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/VCWHall Twitter: Twitter: @vcwpod Zach- @muzach Dave- @Davejlester Podcast music by Zach Malm Logo by Zach Malm

Matt Zoller Seitz, an author, filmmaker and TV critic, loves the acclaimed David Milch HBO drama - Deadwood. Together with 130 contributers, Matt recently published The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon, which includes critical essays on every episode, original illustrations, a complete account of David Milch's life and so much more. He also shares some of the backstory of how Shopify stole the thunder and celebration of pub week by trapping his team in a Kafkaesque puzzle. Follow Matt on Twitter and buy The Deadwood Bible on MZS.press Follow @findingfavspod on Instagram and Twitter. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts Leah's Caringbridge has full updates. Show Notes Reviews about Shopify (look at the 1 star reviews) ACLU: asset forfeiture abuse Ecwid Without a Net Dayton Callie Hooplehead McCabe & Mrs. Miller My Darling Clementine The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Lynching of George Ward Hill Street Blues Regina Corrado Nichole Beattie Shotgun Stories Neal Stephenson Kubrick on Disney

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**THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS** We're taking a break from our regularly scheduled recaps to bring you a very special episode! Jenna and Caroline interview renowned television and film critic Matt Zoller Seitz, whose books include TV: The Book, The Sopranos Sessions, Mad Men Carousel, and The Deadwood Bible (available now, only on Matt's website!) If this is your first time watching Six Feet Under, skip this one and come back to it later—spoilers for the end of the show abound. 

Chauncey is joined by film/tv critic and author Matt Zoller Seitz to discuss his new book "The Deadwood Bible". They discuss the complicated process of the book coming together, the lyrical profanity "Deadwood" brought to television, the life of creator David Milch, and why the show's actors and creators feel they'll never have a better experience. They also talk about Matt's independent book store, Bob Fosse, and more.  LA PODFIDENTIAL is brought to you by BetOnline and is part of the LAFB Podcast Network.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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