Author: ccradio
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Reel 49: Female Thieves
First and foremost, Sean and Claude are celebrating their adjacent birthdays this week. That’s something that neither knew about the other until after they’d started on this project. So, Happy Birthdays to us! Second, Claude really wanted to call this episode “Girls Kicking Ass,” but he chickened out and didn’t petition Sean to change it.…
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Reel 48: A Fan’s Eye View
Strap in, kids, this is going to be a long one. It took forever for Sean and I to get to this particular episode, and both of us have been dying—DYING, I tells ya—to talk about Almost Famous. It may be Sean’s favorite film that doesn’t involve music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It’s certainly one…
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Reel 47: Concept Album Musicals
At last! The last of our “lost” episodes. It’s also almost the end of our run of music-based episodes. This time around we’re sitting in the screening room and looking at a pair of films based on concept rock albums. First up is 1979’s Quadrophenia, based on the 1973 album of the same name by…
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SHORT SUBJECT: The BFI/Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films Ever (2022)
Not long ago, Sight and Sound, the magazine dedicated to film that’s run by the British Film Institute (BFI) published it’s eighth decennial list of the 100 Greatest Films Ever, as voted on by hundreds of film critics worldwide. It’s fun to contrast this with the American Film Institute’s list, especially inasmuch as they’re so…
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Reel 46: David Bowie Musicals
…in fact, I got the film titles backward. Absolute Beginners is first. But this looks a little better, graphically (he said, twisting himself to justify the goof). This is the second of our three “lost” episdoes, and it seems like we managed to cover all the same points we did the first time around. Unfortunately,…
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Reel 45: Before the Revolution
I know the matching doesn’t quite work but I still like the way the cover art for this one came out. We’re back on track, episode number-wise. And in this case we’re looking at a couple of periods in time that aren’t very far apart. Despite their relative closeness on the calendar, they each represent…
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Reel 43: Dublin Calling
It’s the Lost Episode! Sean and I went back and re-recorded this episode. Fortunately I store hardcopies of the film synopses, and Sean takes a ton of notes, and I do my usual blundering in between, and I’m pretty positive that we covered literally everything that we covered the first time around, with the exception…
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Reel 41: In the Record Store
With today’s episode drop, we’re moving into a new mini-block of themed episodes, all of which involve music in one way or another. And in this episode we start where most people did when it came to music back in the day: in the record shop. This despite the fact that by the time either…
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Reel 40: You Can Like Both, Part 5
War movies make for some pretty good drama, even when there’s a clear “right” side and a “wrong” side. Nazis are bad (they’re still bad, right? Recent politics gives me a headache); non-Nazis are good. That sort of thing. In fact, we’d argue that the drama ramps up a little bit more when there’s a…
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Reel 39: You Can Like Both, Part 4
Even if they haven’t seen it, most people know a little something about The Big Chill, the film released in 1983 that was directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan: a bunch of thirty-something types get together and stuff happens. And of course that’s true, but it’s also true that it goes a little deeper than…