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01:00 Don't just take action, sit there 03:00 Jewish and black confidence 04:30 Does Trump plan before taking action? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLbpnOmImhY 18:00 Trump slashes Education department, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j5VNj9_ZWw 19:00 NYT: Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff: The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-education-department-firings.html 24:00 WSJ: Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat - Executive orders against Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have chilled industry, https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fear-of-trump-has-elite-law-firms-in-retreat-6f251dec 30:00 NYT: ‘‘People Are Going Silent': Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves', https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159342 43:20 Elliott Blatt loves DOGE but fears the chaos disrupting the economy 45:30 What if gay marriage were invalidated? 46:45 The Elon Factor frightens Elliott 52:00 What happens when the illegals are deported? 56:00 AI improves my writing 1:01:00 The musicality of KMG, https://rumble.com/v6qhzim-the-kmg-show-r84-4pm-pt7-pm-et-king-charles-gets-jiggy-with-it.html?e9s=src_v1_upp 1:03:00 Atlantic: Coaching Is the New ‘Asking Your Friends for Help': Lifestyle coaches offer help with vacation planning, decision making, meditation, and more—for a price. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/03/lifestyle-coaches-cost-reasons/681915/ 1:16:00 I'm in a prison of my poor choices creating isolation 1:23:00 Public radio in San Francisco is left 1:28:45 Talk show host Michael Krasny, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Krasny_(talk_show_host) 1:30:00 KQED has long been the number one radio station in SF, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQED-FM 1:33:00 Oh Lucky Man, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Lucky_Man! 1:40:00 Joe Frank, transcendent radio storyteller, https://www.joefrank.com/about/ 1:43:30 WSJ: Blocked From Reaching the U.S., Migrants Begin the Reverse Journey South - As President Trump's migration policy begins to bite, growing numbers of people are heading back through Panama and Colombia. ‘What else can you do?', https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-border-immigration-reverse-migration-150854c4?mod=hp_lead_pos5 1:44:50 FT: Trump crackdown forces Latin America's migrant flows into reverse: A Colombian town adapted its economy to Darién Gap travellers. Now only a few are travelling — and in the opposite direction. https://www.ft.com/content/112b7d98-ccbe-49c6-9021-7abe01328f8f 1:46:00 Kamala Harris's latest unbearable public performance 1:49:00 Jim Goad says he's near the end of his life, https://x.com/NobleAtlas88/status/1686539573650915335 1:52:00 Eric Kaufman critiques Trump II 1:54:00 John Podhoretz suggests that Elon Musk deserves to get punched in the face, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcrVpqGTyL8 1:56:00 The irony of YT incentives, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-supplementary-material-two-psychologists-one-anthropologist-three-beers https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://rumble.com/lukeford, https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford, Best videos: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746 Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Book an online Alexander Technique lesson with Luke: https://alexander90210.com Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.
Mick Travis is back in O LUCKY MAN!, at least some version of Mick Travis. Join him on an epic journey through the hellish and bizarre landscape of 70s Britain. From coffee salesman to superstar, and many stops along the way. This is a sprawling state-of-the-nation film akin to SOUTHLAND TALES or maybe I'm just making that comparison to get you to watch it, it's hard to tell. We also take a look at what appear to be some pretty boring Oscar nominations and talk about some other movies we've been watching.Join us next for the conclusion of Lindsay Anderson's MickTril, BRITANNIA HOSPITALFollow us @thefranchisees on Instagram and Twitter and email us at thefranchiseespod@gmail.com
wow jeez sorry it's late again ahh jeez guys I'm really running out of excuses here!please enjoy this episode on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film IF...., not to be confused with the disgusting John Krasinski's IF (2024) and the even more disgusting Marvel's WHAT IF... ?we also take time to talk about the life and work of our beloved David Lynch who passed away earlier this week. sometime soon we promise we'll do a full David Lynch episode where we needlessly rank his entire filmography.join us next week for the 2nd film in the Mick Travis trilogy, O LUCKY MAN!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: comic cons, Dan Parent / Archie Comics, the Spider-man 1970s tv show, movie serials, Walton Goggins, Happy Days, The Truth About Charlie, Repo Man, Pogs, Borderlands, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 30 - Thursday September 5: Thelma, Longlegs, Charade, O Lucky Man!, Saturday Night Sinema, and The Time Masters! They neglect to mention Firebrand, and Widow Clicquot, which got booked after the recording of this episode. But, you can always check up to the moment listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
Having survived the apocalypse, Andrew and Dave have decided to pursue a far more meaningful goal: selling coffee in the northern parts of the UK! Okay, maybe they aren't selling coffee in the north, but Mick Travis, the protagonist of director Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man!, certainly is. What do the podcasting duo make of Anderson's not-exactly-a-sequel-to-If.... epic comedy? Is this the most likeable Malcolm McDowell has ever been on screen? And just how stellar is Alan Price's score to the film? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: Before Jackson, there was... BAKSHI!All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.
In the twenty-sixth episode of Season 7 (Fantastical Realities) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and novelist Alex Buda to discuss the surreal depiction of capitalist hierarchy and the fantasy of hard work equating success in the pseudo-musical satire of Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973).
Chris retrofits Grindstone into his top 100 - a puzzle game described as having game feel and feedback almost sexual in its satisfaction. How high will Capybara Games early Apple Arcade standout rank on Chrissy D's list?At third time of asking, Jonathan finally finishes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Minty climbs a Welsh mountain but finds time for a little R&R with Slime Rancher and Quake. Chris gets absorbed by the Square Enix live service combo of Babylon's Fall and Chocobo GP's second racing season.O Lucky Man!Visit o3c.games for more!———Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Alex Dunn, Nathan Bain, Sam Roberts, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe and Thomas Duncan!Reach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_booSupport us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here.
PRETTY AS A PICARESQUE: Join me and filmmaker Steve Herold (Death of an Umbrella Salesman, Walmea) while we talk two films inspired by Voltaire's Candide, The Jerk and O Lucky Man! “I was born a poor black child”: It's a tale as old as the Spanish Golden Age and made perhaps most famous in the west by Voltaire's Candide. Take a somewhat naïve innocent, usually of lower social class, thrust him out in the world, and have him navigate the slings and arrows he encounters, trying to survive in an essentially corrupt society. Or as I call it, Episode 80 of Pop Art, where I and my guest find the pop culture in art and the art in pop culture. It's the podcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture, and I'll select a film from the more art/classic/indie side of cinema with a connection to it. For this episode, I am happy to welcome as my guest, filmmaker Steve Herold, who has chosen as his film the Steve Martin vehicle, Carl Reiner's The Jerk, while I have chosen Lindsay Anderson's cult favorite, O Lucky Man!, both picaresque films with a naïve innocent having to go out on his own to discover the world. And in this episode we answer such questions as: Quentin Tarantino's The Jerk? Reactive, active or passive? What is white male protestant comedy? What are the problematic aspects of both films? How does Stanley Kubrick fit in? How many slaps did McDowell endure in the final scene? What is Steve Martin's favorite line? What is the French title of O Lucky Man!? Where was Hartounian's gas station located? How does Star Wars fit in and what does it have to do with Pig Man? Where does Rob Reiner appear in the film? And don't forget to check out Steve Herold and his films. His IMDB page is at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003750/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0#director Hs film Death of an Umbrella Salesman can be found on Amazon Prime and his newest film Walmea is making the festival rounds. Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/ My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader, The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howard-casner/support
Faces [00:33] "Miss Judy's Farm" A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse Warner Bros. Records BS 2574 1971 The lads at peak form, produced by none other than Glyn Johns. Soft Cell [04:09] "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Sire SRK 3647 1981 Excellent low-key groove from these Leeds lads. There's fun cover of this by Japanese duo Salon Music and Russell Mael of Sparks (https://youtu.be/s6M69rLUMfE). Aidan Baker & Karen Williams [09:37] "Meeting in the Dark" Nonland Gizeh Records GZH74 2017 Guitarscapes by Aidan Baker and percussion by Karen Willems. Atari Teenage Riot [15:03] "Atari Teenage Riot" Not Your Business EP 1996 Grand Royal GR039/Digital Hardcore Recordings DHR US 12.1 Yup, digital hardcore was a thing. The Partridge Family presentado a Shirly Jones y David Cassidy [20:26] "Nadie Desea Ser Amada (Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted)" Al Dia (Up to Date) Bell Records 2308 004 1971 Jeez leweez, never trust a kid to refile records correctly. Why is there a copy of The Partridge Family's Up to Date in the sleeve for The Partridge Family Notebook? And why is the label in Spanish but none of the songs are in Spanish. Oh well. Herb Ellis [23:07] "Big Red's Boogie Woogie" Nothing but the Blues Verve Records MG V-8252 1957 Hot! Featuring Stan Levey on drums, Ray Brown on bass, Stan Getz on tenor sax, and Roy Eldridge on trumpet. Big Star [28:46] "When My Baby's Beside Me" No. 1 Record Big Beat Records WIK 53 1986 (original release: Ardent Records DS-2083 1972) Every day someone is born who has never heard Big Star. If you are one of those people, enjoy! The Number Ones [32:09] "Sharon Shouldn't" The Numbers Static Shock Records SSR024 2014 Hot mid-teens power pop punk from Dublin. Iron Maiden [35:56] "The Prisoner" The Number of the Beast Harvest ST-12202 1982 Bruce Dickinson's debut outing with Maiden. This album loomed large in my adolescence. Evidently Mr. Dickinson is touring with a spoken word show? (https://youtu.be/R9jfm-9L0q4) TacocaT [41:59] "Psychedlic Quinceañera" NVM Hardly Art HAR-079 2014 So many awesome songs on this album that it's hard to pick just one, but really... This Is the One! From the lyrics to the trumpets, what's not to love? Romeo Void [44:10] "Never Say Never" Never Say Never Columbia/415 Records 5C 38178 1981 Every day someone is born who has never heard "Never Say Never". If one of those people is you, enjoy! Thank goodness for the early days of MTV otherwise I would have had no idea this sound existed. Alan Price [50:16] "O Lucky Man!" O Lucky Man! Original Sountrack Warner Bros. Records BS 2710 1973 I've been obsessed with this Alan Price soundtrack since I first heard it in this over-long shaggy dog of a film by Lindsay Anderson. L.A. Witch [54:44] "Heart of Darkness" Octubre Suicide Squeeze SSQ166 2019 Mellow down spooky. Bobbie Gentry [57:12] "Mississippi Delta" Ode to Billie Joe Captiol Records ST-2830 1967 One of the hottest track one side ones you could ask for. Mulatu Astatke [01:00:22] "Munaye" Mulatu of Ethiopia Worthy Records W-1020 1972 (2003 reissue) Putting the funk in Ethiopian jazz. The Cramps [01:03:54] "I Can't Hardly Stand It" ...Off the Bone Illegal Records ILPIC 012 1985 The Cramps give this Charlie Feathers number (https://youtu.be/8h_O6U1xMlc) a fine take. There's some great local television footage of Alex Chilton helping The Cramps record at Sun Studios if you shake the internet. Music behind the DJ: "Goldfinger" by Mantovani
Those intrepid weirdos we call the Dom Deluise Club have done it yet again. And by 'it', we mean they've picked three very different cult flicks for us to review, as is their monthly ritual. Up first! It's Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters, one of them sleazy pinky violence flicks from Japan (via patreon pal Steve M), coming early in the genre's history with its 1970 release date. In fact, it just might be the earliest movie we've seen in which bare boobs are deployed as a mid-fight distraction tactic. Next up! Oh no, a 3-hour British flick? O! Lucky Man (from 1973 & picked by Justin D) seems like a surefire way to piss off at least two of your three charming JFD hosts. But can the presence of Malcolm McDowell alleviate the misery? The only way to know is to listen (or check the replay on the evening news). Finally! Of course, it's 1983's The Man with Two Brains, our long-awaited dissection of this important entry in the series of films Carl Reiner made with Steve Martin. And since it's got both boobs and brains, how the hell did it take all three of us this long to finally see it? (picked by Ricky O) All this plus strugglin' with Skype, Parker's Wynorski binge, the brittle bones of a 70-year old Gene Kelly, surprising physical media news, the Dinklage Report co-starring Sean, no junkmails, Kevin picks his "trash-art beserker" of the week, boobies floppin' everywhere, nerd news and even more! Recorded live-to-tape on National Dimpled Chad Day, 2021!! Direct Donloyd HereGot a movie suggestion for the show, or better yet an opinion on next week's movies? Drop us a line at JFDPodcast@gmail.com. Or leave us a voicemail: 347-746-JUNK (5865). Add it to your telephone now! JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Also, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We'll watch nearly any three hour British flick for your love and support. With picks like these, you GOTTA #DonloydNow and listen in!
"CAPTAIN BILLY’S MAGIC 8 BALL" - " MY POLITICAL EDUCATION" - FEATURING THE ALBUM "O LUCKY MAN" By ALAN PRICE IN HIGH DEFINITION WITH NARRATIVE - EPISODE # 44 - THE CAPTAIN DELIGHTS WITH INSIGHTS OF HIS 8 TRACK TREASURES!
Malcolm McDowell has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Growing up in Liverpool in the early ‘60s, he took his girlfriend to see The “Silver” Beatles at the Cavern Club. By the end of the decade, he was one of the beautiful people swingin' through London as the star of Lindsay Anderson's “If….” and "O Lucky Man." In 1971, he drew raves for his electric performance in Stanley Kubrick's “A Clockwork Orange.”Fifty years later, he feels like a "Lucky Man" all over again for landing in Canada on CBC's breakout comedy hit, “Son of a Critch.”McDowell loved shooting in Newfoundland and immediately bonded with his young British co-star, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. He praises the scripts along with the book the series was spun off from: Mark Critch's memoir about growing up eccentric on Canada's East Coast.And what a life he has led in-between. Listen as McDowell tells story after story about the famous stage and film folk he has known, including three Sirs: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and John Guilgud. Other names dropped include Peter Sellers, Robert Altman, Robert Mitchum, Michael Caine and George Harrison. At 78, he's never been busier, having just finished shooting a movie with two actors he adores: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.He's got stories about them, too. This is a podcast you don't want to miss.
3:38:41 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Rice cake stepping stones, world history, comic strips, Jeeps, Annette (2021), Holy Motors (2012), O Lucky Man! (1973), The Dark Backward (1991), Neil Hamburger, nihilistic comedy, Thinkabout, Zarephath, past-editing paranoia, Eagle Mall Eddie, Duke Fightmaster, Nevermind baby suing Nirvana, Caldor Fire, Soba Noodles, Moonbyul’s Studio […]
3:38:41 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Rice cake stepping stones, world history, comic strips, Jeeps, Annette (2021), Holy Motors (2012), O Lucky Man! (1973), The Dark Backward (1991), Neil Hamburger, nihilistic comedy, Thinkabout, Zarephath, past-editing paranoia, Eagle Mall Eddie, Duke Fightmaster, Nevermind baby suing Nirvana, Caldor Fire, Soba Noodles, Moonbyul’s Studio […]
This week we finally put on our tuxes and cut you a piece of pure cinema that we've been waiting to serve you for oh so long. It's O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson's follow-up to if... which we reviewed in our first year at CRM.---Find Cathode Ray Mission on Letterboxd at crmpodOr on Instagram at cathoderaymissionpodEmails us at cathoderaymissionpodcast@gmail.comFind Randy & Will on Letterboxd at Raygun Busch & Wolf DakotaOr on Instagram @raygun_busch and @will.scovillSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Urodzeni: Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), Wojciech Gąssowski (foto), Ann Murray, Lionel Richie, “O Lucky Man”, “Zakręcona”.Zmarli: Lawrence Payton (Four Tops).Nagranie z roku 2021.
Few performances on the big screen are as memorable as Malcolm McDowell's portrayal of ultraviolent Alex, who terrorizes the night with his Droogs. The film catapulted McDowell to international stardom and firmly entrenched Stanley Kubrick in the pantheon of world's most interesting and innovative directors. An endless repository of fascinating stories, we learn from Malcolm about the serendipitous collaborations that made the film come alive, the futuristic design and eccentric costumes that brought sharp relief to the movie's dystopian message. Malcolm also says that what made Alex such a compelling villain was "his joie de vivre. He really enjoyed life." McDowell also talks about how the fascist subtext and corrupt authorities make the film seem so timeless, and how after a half century it speaks so directly to our present moment. Besides gem-like observations about working so closely with Kubrick, a director known to be difficult with actors, we also spend a fair bit of time talking about director Lindsay Anderson, "If," and "O Lucky Man." Anderson was a director known to be fond of his actors, so the contrast gave the young actor the resiliency and durability for which he is justly famous. We also talk about current projects of McDowell's, his case of Covid, living in Ojai and Kubrick's "Napoleon," known as the "Greatest Movie Never Made." We did not talk about McDowell's passion for golf, blood diamonds or Rupert Murdoch.
Career Q&A with Malcolm McDowell, starring on Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle, on May 10, 2017. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Malcolm McDowell has created a gallery of iconic characters since catapulting to the screen as Mick Travis, the rebellious upperclassman in Lindsay Anderson’s prize-winning sensation, If... His place in movie history was subsequently secured when Stanley Kubrick found the actor he was searching for to play the gleefully amoral Alex in A Clockwork Orange; when McDowell himself conceived the idea for Mick Travis’ further adventures in Anderson’s Candide-like masterpiece, O Lucky Man!; and when he wooed Mary Steenburgen and defeated Jack the Ripper as the romantically inquisitive H.G. Wells in Time After Time. For his motion picture work, the American Cinematheque honored him with a retrospective in June 2001, highlighted by showings of his electrifying performances in two major works. The first is Paul McGuigan’s Gangster No. 1, in which McDowell and Paul Bettany portray the consumed, driven title character and which affords McDowell the chance to create a character both on screen and through nuanced voice-over. The second is Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov’s acclaimed and rarely seen Assassin of the Tsar, which Vincent Canby called “a remarkable mystical and psychological exploration of the murder of the Romanov family.” McDowell’s distinctive motion picture characterizations include: Richard Lester’s Royal Flash, Paul Schrader’s Cat People, Rachel Talalay’s Tank Girl, Joseph Losey’s Figures in a Landscape, Bryan Forbes’ The Raging Moon and the Chaplinesque studio boss in Blake Edwards’ Sunset. His film credits are further highlighted by his compellingly sinister Caligula; the brilliant literary editor Maxwell Perkins in Martin Ritt’s Cross Creek; his cameo in Robert Altman’s The Player; and his final incarnation of Mick Travis in Britannia Hospital, the third film in Anderson’s trilogy marking the disintegration of British culture. McDowell’s film work also includes Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, In Good Company, I Spy, Robert Altman’s The Company, Robert Downey Sr.’s Hugo Pool with Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr. and Cathy Moriarty; Just Visiting, Mr. Magoo, Hugh Hudson’s My Life So Far, BlueThunder, Neil Marshall’s Doomsday in 2007, Rob Zombie’s Halloween I & II, and the voice of villain Dr. Calico in Disney’s 2008 boxoffice hit, Bolt. In late 2011, McDowell was seen in the Academy Award-winning silent film sensation, The Artist. In addition to recurring appearances on Heroes, CSI: Miami, and The Mentalist, McDowell starred in TNT’s Franklin & Bash as Stanton Infeld. The series lasted for four seasons.
A monumental episode. As you know we’ve been discussing the “Before Trilogy,” written and directed by the wonderful Richard Linklater. And this week we are so lucky to be joined by the man himself – Richard Linklater. He chats with Ify, Drea, and Alonso about the inspiration behind Before Sunrise, working with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and what he’s been doing to kill time during quarantine. Plus, he expresses his feelings about the possibility of making another “Before” film and why he considers Before Midnight a bit of a horror movie. We also do a thorough examination of the previously stated Before Midnight. And, as always, we’ve got ‘Staff Picks.’Please consider supporting the production of Who Shot Ya? by becoming a monthly member at Maximumfun.org/joinStaff Picks:Ify – Color Out of SpaceDrea – Lingua FrancaAlonso – The Last Five YearsRichard – if…, O Lucky Man!, and Britannia HospitalWith Ify Nwadiwe, Drea Clark, Alonso Duralde, and Richard Linklater
Russ and Zach make a trip to the cinema for Sorry To Bother You, the first feature film from Boots Riley, who pretty clearly stands out as a Talent You Should Be Watching. We talk a lot about film theory, about the importance of indepdendent cinema, and other theoretical and quasi-academic stuff that we don't get into with most of the big blockbusters and schlock horror movies we watch. But fear not: we find a way to tie it back to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. For those of you relatively new to the show, the New Release Wall episodes differ from other episodes in one important way: we are talking about a new-in-theaters or BRAND-new-to-video movie, which typically means we do no (or at least minimal) spoilers and there is no second film discussed in the episode. This time around, though, there are a few particular films (O Lucky Man and Idiocracy, for instance) that come up again and again. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.
Movie Meltdown - Episode 425 This is an episode years in the making... we sit down for not only a group discussion of Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man!, but we also talk with the star of the movie – MALCOLM McDOWELL! We get his thoughts on this often over-looked film as well as his role in creating the project and his relationship with the director. Plus we feature a bonus segment with one of the co-stars of the film Jeremy Bulloch (aka Boba Fett). And as we finally come to terms with just how you lose the spirit of life, we also mention... Ladybird, The Florida Project, Easy, Mother!, Judex, The Boxtrolls, If…, Alan Price, Greta Gerwig, Whiplash, the aspect ratio set wrong, If…, movies should be more like American short stories, Patton Oswalt, Holy Mountain, it’s a wonder my wife hasn’t murdered me, Brooklyn, trash on the streets, majestic feel… picaresque quality, trying to interpret a dream, the word spiffy…, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, after we won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Robert McKee, it’s creating this unnatural look, Jerry Maguire kicked you right out, so personal and so dense, Putney Swope, Ghost World, fictional brothers, a city of zero waste people, Voltaire's Candide… Heaven is my Destination by Thornton Wilder and Kafka's Amerika, I Heart Huckabees, I feel like he ruined a whole generation of screenwriters, it’s a spectrum of guys, it’s sort of that first short story everybody writes, the It Follows toothpaste, Willem Dafoe, people used to say my name with three syllables, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, taking on different aspects of things he’s shoved into, Peter Greenaway, just a voyeur, The President's Analyst, a blunt-faced British guy… with wry expressions, Terry Gilliam, stylistic for the sake of it, Philip Stone, the role of you, Mike Birbiglia did that one time at a La Quinta hotel, he was teaching ballroom dance to dwarf inner city kids, you’re not lost in the dream of it, Monty Python films, this weird hierarchy of society based on the color hat you wear… and cheese tasting, it’s almost like too much my kind of thing… for me, he’s like the human sloth, Ramsay Bolton, a passive observer, a half-human half-pig… dinosaur, the old American hobo symbol for crazy kids, encoded meaning, our day-to-day lives are just filled with absurdity, Warren Clarke, I had lots of strange things going through my mind, seeing a different perception, Don’t Look Back, it’s a document of the process of making a movie, Ken Russell, what a weird world, you can have tea but you’ve gotta pay me for the biscuits, the gold shiny suit and post-apocalyptic world, after my break-up with the movies, getting performances out of non-actors, his voice always reminds me of wearing a shirt that’s just slightly too small, Never Apologize, a totem for you to react through, are pigs just fleshy dinosaurs, we are very fortunate, detritus, Brechtian artifice and alternate egos. Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for the 1973 film O Lucky Man!, so watch it before you listen. “…that scene, that and a couple of others, you just stop and you’re like - ‘What the hell am I watching? Like this is… so bizarre.' "
The Dudes discuss 1973's "O Lucky Man!", directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell. This surrealistic, satirical jab at capitalism will leave you with more questions than answers, and several catchy tunes to hum. Other Movies Discussed A Face in the Crowd (1957) – Directed by Elia Kazan The Wave (2015) – Directed by Roar Uthaug www.dudesonmovies.com www.facebook.com/dudesonmovies www.twitter.com/dudesonmovies www.instagram.com/dudesonmovies www.soundcloud.com/dudesonmovies dudesonmovies@gmail.com
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World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award winning author James Morrow and Morrow superfan Andrew Wollman join Jen to talk about Morrow's body of work. From his first books in the science fiction genre to his latest book, the historical fiction novel Galapagos Regained, Jim's passion for telling stories over the years seems to have been rivaled only by his passion for ideological discourse. He shares this love for entertaining along with his Nontological Proof as he discusses his works and career. If you're enjoying PrePopCulture, please rate/review it on iTunes, and like it on Facebook! You can also follow PrePopCulture on Twitter. Want to suggest a topic for an episode? Email prepopculture@gmail.com! Show notes: Find out more about James Morrow and his work at his website. You can also find ebooks of his out of print work at Open Road Media Galapagos Regained Towing Jehovah Follow Andrew on Twitter and see him and Jen in Doctor Who Live! at iO West at 10pm on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. Jim's recommendations: the work of playwright Peter Barnes, and the movie O Lucky Man! Andrew's recommendation: Gene Wolfe's novel Peace Theme song Alps by Motorama is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License.
When reality comes crashing in to call, you've got to be prepared for a re-think. It's what happens to 'Billy Liar', in another dazzling English rose, the movie "Billy Liar" from 1963. It's based on a novel then a play, but the visuals bring it home. A man of 19, who flees from his life, for his life, into a fantasy world, begins to falter, then crumble, in the face of reality. (O Lucky Man! -- at age 19, to begin to see.) Like the English city in which he lives, in which every building seems to be being bulldozed in service of urban renewal, 'Billy Fisher' -- Billy Liar -- is watching "everything go". "Not one stone" (of his plummeting life) "will be left on stone". There's help, however, in the form of a girl, a precious girl, who is able to care and not care. She's the hope! She knows something Billy doesn't, and few do. Can she save our phantastic hero? Could she save you? Listen to "Twisterella". Or rather, see "Billy Liar", and SEE.
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