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Reel 89: Backstage Adaptations
Hey there! Long time no see! That’s actually my (Claude) fault. I’d completed post-production on this episode of the show and somehow failed to post it to our host. Fortunately I corrected that a couple of nights ago, so it should already be in your podcast feed. But if you’re catching up here, you have…
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Short Subject: Sean Looks Back at the Sundance Film Festival
As you no doubt know, actor/director/producer Robert Redford died last week at the age of 89. Now, lots and lots of people took the time to look back at his film career, so Sean and Claude took a different tack and reviewed a different aspect of Redford’s legacy: the Sundance Film Festival. Redford wasn’t one…
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In Memoriam – Robert Redford
Early in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman, there’s a blackjack game happening in a bar between a couple of players. The man dealing the cards, a blond-haired man with a mustache, has been winning hands, and one of the players, Macon, accuses the other man…
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Reel 88: Backstage Drama II
Where have we been? Fair question. Not to get into too many details, but we decided to take a short break and then we each had our own little medical misadventures. Nevertheless, we’re back on our respective feet and ready to go! In another day or two we’ll be providing you with our tribute to…
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Top 10 (well, 11) Movies Of The 21st Century
This past week, The New York Times published a list of what their critics consider the 100 best movies of the 21st Century, with Parasite topping the list. At a cursory glance, I’ve seen 97 of the 100 on the list, and probably agree with a number of them. I myself did not participate in…
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Reel 87: Semi-Autobiographical Movies
Some directors like to look to their own lives, or to their hometowns, for material for their films. And few are more prolific at it than Martin Scorsese (New York) and Barry Levinson (Baltimore). Come to think of it, we could have stayed in Baltimore and covered Levinson and John Waters. Missed opportunity, dangit. At…
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