Hello, Friend:
Still with us? I hope so. We’ve been having some ridiculous technical issues that have us rethinking our podcasting host, but those seem to be straightened out for the time being and we’ll be back on track with a new episode tomorrow evening. I hope we’re still cool.
In the meantime, Sean offers up a little contrition for you. See, he’s good enough at this that he can correct me in real time, but he has to go back and fix HIMSELF later on. He writes:
This is your other co-host, Sean. I discovered a couple of errors I’d like to correct, as well as apologize for. Both of them are from our podcast on the first two Godfather movies.
The first is, when I talked about the films Gordon Willis shot in the 70’s, I mentioned All the President’s Men, but incorrectly said it won Best Picture, when it was only nominated for it (it lost to Rocky).
Secondly, when talking about how directors of the late 60’s/early 70’s sometimes quarreled with cinematographers of the studio system about how to light particular scenes, I mentioned Bonnie & Clyde, but misidentified the cinematographer; it was actually Burnett Guffey, not Robert Surtees (Surtees served as the cinematographer on the other major “new Hollywood” movie of that year, The Graduate, and unlike Guffey, was happy to comply with the director’s wish to try out new things, including using less light).
I apologize for both errors; I should have known better.
We were going to have Sean severely beaten, but he’s already taken to wearing a haircoat and self-flagellating, so there’s not much else we can throw on the pile.
See you tomorrow!