Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, and welcome to the Movie Crush. Charles W.
Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. Here in our home studio Pont City Market, Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: And today I have me in the studio and Noel
Speaker 1: it's gonna chime in say hello, Nol, Hey Chuck. How's
Speaker 1: it going everybody? Well, he said, hey, Chuck. It was
Speaker 1: kind of a doubled up. It was like saying hey
Speaker 1: to you and then saying hey to to the listening public.
Speaker 1: And I responded for the listening public because I think
Speaker 1: they're doing fine. It's I'm gonna stick with that. Um.
Speaker 1: So this is the first, um, I guess many episode
Speaker 1: we're gonna call these. Uh. It was pretty clear from
Speaker 1: interacting with people on on Facebook and the Movie Crush
Speaker 1: page and the Super Super Movie Crush fan page, the
Speaker 1: Movie Crushers that uh folks wanted to interact a lot
Speaker 1: with this podcast, which is awesome, and that was kind
Speaker 1: of the idea to begin with. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: the idea behind these episodes. We're not going to feature
Speaker 1: interviews with people about their favorite movie, but a lot
Speaker 1: of it is going to be just hanging out virtually,
Speaker 1: hanging out with you guys and I'm sourcing emails from
Speaker 1: from Facebook and top tens and questions for you guys,
Speaker 1: and everyone's chiming in, so you're gonna play a big
Speaker 1: part in this, which is very cool, I think. So
Speaker 1: that's sort of the concept. We're gonna keep them kind
Speaker 1: of short and sweet, probably between twenty and thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have just some different segments here and there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a little bag of tricks that we
Speaker 1: come up with over time. And some of these were
Speaker 1: directly from from you guys who suggested that I do
Speaker 1: certain things. And I'm always looking for feedback, So if
Speaker 1: you have some more ideas for fun segments, please please
Speaker 1: let me know, because that's the whole idea here, is
Speaker 1: to make this about us, the movie Crush family community
Speaker 1: here that we have going so um. I think today
Speaker 1: we are gonna do a few different segments. And I
Speaker 1: gave these all goofy titles because that's just how my
Speaker 1: mind works. And maybe no one can come up with
Speaker 1: some fun little music stings. What do you think. I'll
Speaker 1: give it a go for sure. Man. Okay, well we'll
Speaker 1: know here in about three seconds. Because the first segment
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about is called social studies. So social
Speaker 1: studies is um a little play on words from social media.
Speaker 1: And this is when I have put out a call
Speaker 1: on Facebook for a question basically for for you folks
Speaker 1: to answer back. And I will read as many of
Speaker 1: them as I can. But um, I put a few
Speaker 1: of them mountain. We'll do one per episode here moving forward.
Speaker 1: And the question I threw out was for this one
Speaker 1: is what movies have actually inspired you in your personal
Speaker 1: life and why? And um, I'll go and start with
Speaker 1: mine just to get it going. Mine's kind of corny,
Speaker 1: I guess I had to think about it for a while. Um,
Speaker 1: But Dead Poets Society, it seems like a almost trite
Speaker 1: to say that movie inspired me, but it really did
Speaker 1: because I was trying to think back to that movie,
Speaker 1: and if I'm not mistaken, there was a direct through
Speaker 1: line from watching that movie to me becoming an English
Speaker 1: major in college. When I went to college, it didn't
Speaker 1: have a great idea of what I wanted to do,
Speaker 1: and Dead Poets Society had just really gotten me into
Speaker 1: um literature. I mean, I'd always read since I was
Speaker 1: a kid, but it really inspired me to start reading.
Speaker 1: Like obviously, poetry and some of the classics, and I
Speaker 1: remember thinking, hey, if I can read and write and
Speaker 1: college and that's my main jam, that I should probably
Speaker 1: pursue that. And it's sort of in the back of
Speaker 1: my head too. I I know everyone knows I always
Speaker 1: kind of thought about being a teacher because my parents
Speaker 1: are both teachers, and um, obviously Dead Poets Society is
Speaker 1: a love song for for inspiring teachers, So that one
Speaker 1: stuck with me. And I think that movie inspired me
Speaker 1: at least to do, uh, do what I did in college.
Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on the spot in
Speaker 1: old but well, first thing to follow up to that
Speaker 1: also kind of inspire, like a little bit of a
Speaker 1: rebellious streak. Did you stand on your desk in college? Oh?
Speaker 1: My god? And that's that's tough. I wish I would
Speaker 1: have had a little more time to think about, Like
Speaker 1: the stuff that comes to mind is mainly just like
Speaker 1: things that made me feel empathy and and the one
Speaker 1: that comes to mind is like stuff like the Lion
Speaker 1: King and things that I've been able to share with
Speaker 1: my daughter. So I guess in terms of inspiration, maybe
Speaker 1: that's not exactly the right answer, but it's certainly stuff
Speaker 1: that gives me an interesting nostalgia boost where I kind
Speaker 1: of can to where I was when I was a
Speaker 1: kid watching that and now watching them with my daughter.
Speaker 1: And actually I've got one now, Inside Out, Inside Out,
Speaker 1: the Pixar movie that's about mental health, and we handled
Speaker 1: this so delightfully. I saw that with my daughter when
Speaker 1: she was borderline not old enough to get all the messages,
Speaker 1: but like the way it's presented, you don't have to
Speaker 1: go full deep, fully deep into it um and I
Speaker 1: could tell that it resonated with her, and it really
Speaker 1: resonated with me, you know. And she looks over at me,
Speaker 1: and this happens every time we go to a movie
Speaker 1: like that, and she's like, Dad, you're crying again. That's
Speaker 1: a delightful music. That's that's kind of what comes to
Speaker 1: mind for me. That's good man, Emilian are succeps um poy.
Speaker 1: We cry a lot and I can't. I'm sure my
Speaker 1: daughter is gonna be like, what's wrong with mommy and
Speaker 1: daddy at some point. I caught her crying in a
Speaker 1: movie recently and that made me feel good. That is sweet.
Speaker 1: But it was actually the Greatest Showman, which is a
Speaker 1: little schmaltzy and it's this musical about P. T. Barn
Speaker 1: and he obviously wasn't the best dude, and they whitewashed
Speaker 1: it a good bit. But it's kind of a delightful
Speaker 1: Mulan rouge pop musical and she just adores it so
Speaker 1: much and more of the spectacle I think kind of
Speaker 1: brought her to tears because it's just very pop music
Speaker 1: driven and really makes you twist the fields on you
Speaker 1: a little bit. So I'm looking over at Herrick and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, we're in this together, kid.
Speaker 1: So it was manipulative, it's what yourself. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: in a way that I kind of enjoy. Um. All right, well,
Speaker 1: let's take through some of these on Facebook. Then, UM
Speaker 1: let me see here Alison Gallagher, she's very active on
Speaker 1: our page. Thanks Allison, um, she says, a league of
Speaker 1: their own. I love that the film uses America's favorite
Speaker 1: pastime to demonstrate the strength strengths of all women and
Speaker 1: their capabilities on and off the field. That's a great one, uh.
Speaker 1: Mark Germany says Sideways one of my favorites. Mark, that
Speaker 1: movie always made me want to be involved in the
Speaker 1: wine industry, and two years ago I left my career
Speaker 1: behind and started studying to become a winemaker. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: I would love to do that. Well, actually, I think
Speaker 1: i'd rather just strength of wine. Um Mark Palumbo says
Speaker 1: life is beautiful. Even in the world around you is
Speaker 1: horrific and sad, there's still humor, love, and uh joy
Speaker 1: hidden beneath the surface. Is huge. What a wonderful movie.
Speaker 1: I never saw that, man, It's it's great. That's one
Speaker 1: of those do you have shame movies that you're ashamed
Speaker 1: that you never saw? Yeah, I've never been taught. My
Speaker 1: girlfriend has a huge hole in her movie going experience.
Speaker 1: I've never seen The Godfather and stuff. But she gets
Speaker 1: mad at me when I say things like I've never
Speaker 1: seen hocus Pocus. Well, one person, Scott Father is another persons.
Speaker 1: Um Jennifer Adolph, Princess Pride living in a small town.
Speaker 1: It brought all of us outsiders together. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I like that. Um let me see here, Vanessa Lopez
Speaker 1: Shawshank Redemption reminds me that even though we fight for it,
Speaker 1: freedom can be frightening because in one way or another,
Speaker 1: we're all a little bit institutionalized like Brooks. But if
Speaker 1: we can make a mad dash toward that open door,
Speaker 1: and we find it, we might actually break free and
Speaker 1: get busy living. WHOA, that's a good deep one. A
Speaker 1: couple of people said Eternal Sunshine, The Spotless Mind. Here's
Speaker 1: one from Nina Lenore. It was the first movie that
Speaker 1: for me encompassed the way a heart can be broken
Speaker 1: and hopeful at the same time. I agree, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. Um Well, Dead Poet Society. Here's another fellow fan,
Speaker 1: Kristen Bits a guy growing up in a small, homogeneous
Speaker 1: conservative town, remember thinking that post society was an anthem
Speaker 1: for learning to find your passion uh and then live
Speaker 1: it at any cost. Totally. I think you mentioned in
Speaker 1: an interview before how like that was one where one
Speaker 1: of the first ones where you kind of saw suicide
Speaker 1: handled in such a frank way and you see that
Speaker 1: we at a real young age. Totally. That was kind
Speaker 1: of that one for me. I remember feeling that, man,
Speaker 1: if you don't like, if you're not crying at the
Speaker 1: end of that movie when all the boys stand upon
Speaker 1: the desk, then you're dead inside. Cee Lorimer says, difficult
Speaker 1: and very personal the hours. That was a heavy movie.
Speaker 1: Julian Moore explains why she leaves her husband and young
Speaker 1: children later in life. She says, it was death. I
Speaker 1: chose life. Although different reasons, this line resonated with me
Speaker 1: while leaving my marriage and fundamentalist Christianity. Wow, people are
Speaker 1: people are digging in here? This is a good question.
Speaker 1: Way to go, Chuck, Trish Lauder, Hoss gil Breath, great name,
Speaker 1: great hyphen NATed name. Frieda starring Salma Hayak. Frieda Kala's
Speaker 1: life story is fascinating and inspiring on its own, she
Speaker 1: was a unique and outspoken artist. Add to that, what
Speaker 1: Hyak went through to get the movie made totally. It
Speaker 1: was Hi's passion project and it shows that's one of
Speaker 1: my faiths. In that essays shearro recently about all that
Speaker 1: stuff with Weinstein that she went through to make that
Speaker 1: movie is crushing. Salma Hayak wrote that wrote like an
Speaker 1: op ed for Variety or something where she talked about
Speaker 1: how he held that movie over her head at every
Speaker 1: turn and was just as smarmie. You know, e o
Speaker 1: s what you can say, piece of ships, some army
Speaker 1: piece of ship just the worst. That's terrible and uh
Speaker 1: my wife, Emily Frieda Calo is one of her, if
Speaker 1: not her all time favorite um women in history. I'm
Speaker 1: even gonna beyond art. And we have lots of Frieda
Speaker 1: stuff in our household, including a bunch of freed to
Speaker 1: Carlo children's books. And I think I may have never
Speaker 1: seen Emily as happy in her life as when my
Speaker 1: daughter one night said, Mommy, can we weed Freida? Can
Speaker 1: we weed Freda A? So did you guys go to
Speaker 1: the Frieda and Diego exhibition at the high That was
Speaker 1: years ago? So cool? Yeah, we've seen her paintings at
Speaker 1: a bunch of museums, and one day we will most
Speaker 1: definitely go to the Casa Azul in Mexico. That's on
Speaker 1: the bucket list. Awesome, not even buckle list. I want
Speaker 1: to do that, just a list in the next few years.
Speaker 1: John Millsap, This is good answer. I can't think of
Speaker 1: a single film that has done this. Every movie I watch,
Speaker 1: I take something away that means something to me. That's
Speaker 1: why I love movies and I am inspiring to be
Speaker 1: an actor. All stories need to be told because you
Speaker 1: could never know what any one person will walk away
Speaker 1: with and how much it could help. It's a really
Speaker 1: good answer. Sarah Adams another for life is beautiful, Rex
Speaker 1: are emotionally to get through, and Guido's relentless commitment to
Speaker 1: making the world a beautiful place where his son is
Speaker 1: it wonderfully demonstrates how love is the most important and
Speaker 1: most powerful force in the world. What a bummer that
Speaker 1: his next movie was that horrible Pinocchio adaptation. I didn't
Speaker 1: see that either. I didn't see it, but I just
Speaker 1: saw clips and it's just like held up as one
Speaker 1: of the most tone deaf, weird awful movies. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was like a big passion project for him and
Speaker 1: totally fell flat. He plays Pinocchio. He's like this weird
Speaker 1: grown up man child looking Pinocchio. I think, I I
Speaker 1: think the only Roberto Bonini movies have seen her. The
Speaker 1: Jim Jarmish Ones was Down by Law, Down by Law,
Speaker 1: and then he was in The Night on Earth. See,
Speaker 1: I got a huge hole for Jarmish and my my catalog,
Speaker 1: you need to fill that hole. That sounds gross. Um.
Speaker 1: Robert lamb our own Robert lamb of stuff to blow
Speaker 1: your mind. He's active on this page, which makes me
Speaker 1: feel really good. Robert's awesome fear and loathing in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas for him actually, which is kind of funny, if
Speaker 1: you know. Robert doesn't seem like Fear and Loathing would
Speaker 1: be his movie, but he says it actually inspired me
Speaker 1: to go back to school and take some journalism classes
Speaker 1: rather than take the ls AT and go down that road.
Speaker 1: I watched the movie first, then read the book. Not
Speaker 1: that I expected the same Gonzo adventures or anything, but
Speaker 1: the movie and book ignited something in me. And then
Speaker 1: he procured a giant suitcase full of drugs and took
Speaker 1: a road no realizing. Oh k b O. Kelly Butler
Speaker 1: Olsen one of our old pals. Uh. The Secret Life
Speaker 1: of Walter Minnie has been a huge reminder to not
Speaker 1: get so caught up in plans and day dreams that
Speaker 1: I forget to actually experience life. That's a good one,
Speaker 1: all right. And finally we'll do one here one, Carlos
Speaker 1: Caranza says. Invictus, which I haven't seen yet. It's on
Speaker 1: the list. A great story of how after the apartheid,
Speaker 1: Mandela and the South African rugby team work together to
Speaker 1: give the nation the first win as a unified country.
Speaker 1: In order to go forward, we have to talk and
Speaker 1: work with the people that have completely different points of views. Man,
Speaker 1: that's a good one to finish up with, given what's
Speaker 1: going on in this country right now. Um, those are
Speaker 1: some good answers, and I think, I mean, I wish
Speaker 1: I could read them all everyone because these are all great,
Speaker 1: but we don't want an hour of just reading Facebook post.
Speaker 1: But I think this really shows that, like movies, and
Speaker 1: that's the sort of idea behind this show is there's
Speaker 1: a lot more going on than entertainment. Sometimes it can
Speaker 1: be just that, which is great, but movies can inspire
Speaker 1: and and really cause you to question things about yourself
Speaker 1: in the world around you and inspire you to do
Speaker 1: great things, which is pretty awesome. Alright, So move on
Speaker 1: from Social Studies two the highlight reel, and this is
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna put in every now and then. I
Speaker 1: think with a highlight reel, I'm going to highlight, um
Speaker 1: what kind of depends could be a writer, could be
Speaker 1: a director, or an actor. Um, it could be their
Speaker 1: entire career or maybe just a part of it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And generally though, these are gonna be people that I
Speaker 1: feel like you're a little under served. Um, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do a highlight reel on George Clooney, you know,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because everyone knows that that cloons is
Speaker 1: the best. So this week I'm gonna go with Hal Hartley,
Speaker 1: writer director Hal Hartley, who, Um, I'm not sure when
Speaker 1: this is gonna come out. Probably, in fact, I know
Speaker 1: this will come out pre my discussion with future guest
Speaker 1: Guy Brandham, which by the way, look out for that one.
Speaker 1: That's a fun one. But um, guy and I talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about how Hardley and when I was
Speaker 1: in college and the nineties is when I really and
Speaker 1: you've heard me talk about this before on the show,
Speaker 1: that's when I really got into independent film and stuff
Speaker 1: that was a little left of center, um, off the
Speaker 1: beaten path kind of stuff, less mainstream, and that's when
Speaker 1: my eyes were really open to the to the world
Speaker 1: of independent cinema and it was just a huge sea
Speaker 1: change in my life and what kind of movies I
Speaker 1: liked and what uh I mean, they actually all inspired
Speaker 1: me that, like, man, you can you can do this.
Speaker 1: These are small movies and you don't have to be
Speaker 1: some big Hollywood hot shot to go out there and
Speaker 1: tell a great story. So Hal Hartley was definitely one
Speaker 1: of those for me. Uh And for the Highlight reel.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna specifically talk about his first four feature films. Uh.
Speaker 1: He would go on later to do the fay Grim movies.
Speaker 1: I wanted to say trilogy, but are there four? Now?
Speaker 1: I just know Henry Fool isn't that part of it?
Speaker 1: Isn't like the first one? And then fay Graham was
Speaker 1: maybe the second one. Yeah, Henry Fool fay Grim. And
Speaker 1: there there was a new and many years later recently
Speaker 1: called ned Rifle with Aubrey Plaza picking up the baton.
Speaker 1: There may have been one in between there. I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Those are good movies. I did not love them like
Speaker 1: I loved his first four films so which were the
Speaker 1: Unbelievable Truth nine Trust in nineteen nine, Surviving Desire in Nino,
Speaker 1: and Simple Men in nineteen two. That's crazy to put
Speaker 1: out two movies in one year. These are totally new
Speaker 1: to me. Man, Well, you gotta check it out. All
Speaker 1: of these movies very much in his defining style, which
Speaker 1: which is to say, very highly stylized, um left of center.
Speaker 1: It borders on the melodrama at certain points, very deadpan
Speaker 1: black humor, kind of choppy, stilted dialogue, and sometimes what
Speaker 1: what feels like overacting, and that sounds like all the
Speaker 1: things you don't want to do as a writer director. Um,
Speaker 1: but it works somehow. They're definitely not for everybody. My
Speaker 1: brother hated Hal Hartley movies. Didn't get it. Well not
Speaker 1: he didn't get it, he just didn't like it. Is
Speaker 1: it like Wes Anderson, He kind of stilted acting. You
Speaker 1: gotta check it out. It's like sometimes it almost seems like, um,
Speaker 1: like a bad play. No, no, no. When I when
Speaker 1: I think of that, I think of David Lynch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of like purposefully over acted, kind of like scenery
Speaker 1: chewing soap opera kind of acting. Well, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of that, but this these feel like stage
Speaker 1: plays and they'll do weird thing I mean he did
Speaker 1: weird things, like in the middle of a scene on
Speaker 1: a rooftop, the characters would just break out in this
Speaker 1: like kind of Broadway style dance. Um. It's like I said,
Speaker 1: it's not everyone's cup of tea, but they just delighted
Speaker 1: me to no end. And he he really put a
Speaker 1: lot of I mean they're the indist of indie films
Speaker 1: and and feel and tone and uh, he's a New
Speaker 1: York guy and they he launched the careers of a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. Edie Falcon's first movies we're some of
Speaker 1: the How Hartley movies. Adrian Shelly very sadly, the late
Speaker 1: Adrian Shelly. Um, if you guys don't know who she is,
Speaker 1: she was in the movie Waitress that became the Broadway
Speaker 1: show I think Waitress, and um, she was murdered. It
Speaker 1: was very, very sad story. UM. I can't remember exactly when,
Speaker 1: but like within the last ten years. But Adrian Shelley
Speaker 1: is in some of these first movies. And the great
Speaker 1: Martin Donovan, UM was in a couple of these. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the first one Unbelievable truth. I guess you would
Speaker 1: call it a romantic comedy. Um, it's about a man
Speaker 1: who gets out of prison and I believe he was
Speaker 1: a convicted of homicide or maybe straight up murder and
Speaker 1: he has a relationship with Adrian Shelley. And um, it's
Speaker 1: just a romantic romantic comedy, only as how Hartley could
Speaker 1: do them. Uh. The next one, Trust the next year
Speaker 1: was another romance between two misfits. Surviving Desire was a
Speaker 1: story about a teacher who falls in love with his student. UM.
Speaker 1: Martin Donovan was a lead in that one as well,
Speaker 1: and then Simple Man in n Like I said, his
Speaker 1: second movie of nine was about two brothers that kind
Speaker 1: of come together to search for their they're missing father
Speaker 1: and Simple Man. It's great and these movies kind of
Speaker 1: progress unbelievable. Truth is really raw. And it's not like
Speaker 1: Simple Men got um flashy or seemed like a Hollywood
Speaker 1: type movie, because none of these do. But it definitely
Speaker 1: you saw his progression as a filmmaker through these four films.
Speaker 1: So how Hardly, I salute you, sir. I even reached
Speaker 1: out last night after after doing this, uh putting together
Speaker 1: this little piece to see I'm gonna be a New
Speaker 1: York in February to see if how Hartly would be
Speaker 1: a guest on the show because he seems like a
Speaker 1: gettable person because I think like you can kind of
Speaker 1: get in touch with how Hardly, I believe without going
Speaker 1: through a gazillion people. So fingers crossed there to get
Speaker 1: how Hardly on the show. And if if you see
Speaker 1: it happen, you know that as a dream come true
Speaker 1: for this guy. Um, so check it out and all
Speaker 1: start I would say start with maybe jump over to
Speaker 1: Simple Men and then work backwards pal turn me onto
Speaker 1: Henry fool just randomly. I knew nothing about it. I
Speaker 1: was just like, this is a movie I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 1: He didn't tell anything about the director. I didn't know
Speaker 1: him as like an on tour. So now I know
Speaker 1: there's a cool catalog to dig into, and that's always exciting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He also did a movie called Flirt, which was really good,
Speaker 1: interesting concept. I think it was, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: the same story told in three different countries. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then one called Amateur with Isabel Uper is that her name?
Speaker 1: That's a really good one too, all right, and Onto.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna do these every week. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: close with a segment called stream this and another one
Speaker 1: called comment Card, which we're gonna be listener mails and
Speaker 1: stream this is gonna be basically anything you can stream.
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of people on Facebook say, Hey,
Speaker 1: would it be too weird for you to go into
Speaker 1: TV shows because, as as everyone knows, we're in the
Speaker 1: golden Age of television as they call it, and I
Speaker 1: don't think I would want to interview someone about a
Speaker 1: TV show. I'm gonna stick with movies there, but for
Speaker 1: stream this, I will certainly talk about kind of what
Speaker 1: I've been watching lately and Emily and I just finished
Speaker 1: streaming The Marvelous Mrs Mazel on Amazon. Have you seen this?
Speaker 1: I have not, but I've heard good things. It is really,
Speaker 1: really great. It won the Golden Globe for Best Show,
Speaker 1: and I believe the lead actor she won the award
Speaker 1: for Best Actress at the Golden Globes. And it's just
Speaker 1: a delight. It's set in the nineteen fifties. It was
Speaker 1: created and show run by Amy Sherman Palladino, who, um,
Speaker 1: I think she did The Gilmore Girls is her big,
Speaker 1: big show, Yeah, which I didn't watch, but Emily was
Speaker 1: a was a nut for that show. But Marvelous Mrs
Speaker 1: Mazel set in the nineteen fifties New York City. It
Speaker 1: is about a woman who very I mean, there could
Speaker 1: be some spoilers ahead, so I'll give you three seconds
Speaker 1: to one. Uh not giving way too much though, because
Speaker 1: it happens very early in the in the first episode,
Speaker 1: a woman who gets uh separated and divorced from her husband.
Speaker 1: He's a businessman and he's but he's trying to be
Speaker 1: a stand up comic. In the early days of stand
Speaker 1: up comedy and he's not very good at it, uh,
Speaker 1: And through a sequence of weird things, his wife ends
Speaker 1: up Mrs Maisel gets thrown on stage at the Gaslight
Speaker 1: in the in the Greenwich Village, which was that's kind
Speaker 1: of one of the cool things about the show, as
Speaker 1: they have all these real uh nineteen fifties and sixties
Speaker 1: uh Greenwich Village haunts and Lenny Bruce plays a role
Speaker 1: and I think Bob Newhart is going to be on
Speaker 1: at some point, like people playing them obviously, And she
Speaker 1: ends up on stage at the Gaslight one night and
Speaker 1: does an accidental stand up set when she's basically just
Speaker 1: talking about her life and the fact that her her
Speaker 1: husband left her that day and she killed and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden she's befriends the the I guess she's
Speaker 1: the booker, uh, the wonderful wonderful Alex Borstein, who plays
Speaker 1: Lois on The Family Guy does the voice for Lois,
Speaker 1: but she's the booker and uh for the for the Gaslight,
Speaker 1: and she befriends her and she's like, you're really good,
Speaker 1: you should do this, and then the story kind of
Speaker 1: plays out over the season from there and she very
Speaker 1: improbably in the nineteen fifties pursues stand up comedy, also
Speaker 1: starring Michael Zegan as her husband, uh Marion Hinkel as
Speaker 1: her mother, and two guests on the show. The Great
Speaker 1: Kevin Pollock plays the husband's father. And it's just a
Speaker 1: meaty role. I was actually talking to him on the
Speaker 1: phone about this the other day, congratulating him. It's just
Speaker 1: a good, good role and uh for Kevin to dig into.
Speaker 1: And then Uh, Tony Shalub, who I have booked for
Speaker 1: New York, which I'm super excited about. Yeah, that's you
Speaker 1: didn't know that. I thought I told you that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a friend of mine his friends with Tony and he said, sure,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I think it helped that Kevin Pollock
Speaker 1: was on What's His what's his main backstory? And he
Speaker 1: did Monk and stuff right like later in his career,
Speaker 1: but he was what's his? Uh, well, I knew I
Speaker 1: knew his work mainly from Cohen Brothers movies. That's right.
Speaker 1: He was in he had some small parts. He was
Speaker 1: in Barton Fake, but very memorable Parton and Barton Fake
Speaker 1: and a couple of other Cohen Brothers movies, I think.
Speaker 1: And it's Tony's just the best. And I actually watch
Speaker 1: Monk though, which is weird because I love him so much.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll dig into that. I just know it was
Speaker 1: a big hit. I've never seen it either, but that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I associate with him in like more
Speaker 1: recent years. Yeah. Well actually he started many years ago
Speaker 1: on Wings, that sitcom from Yeah remember Wings. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was on Wings. I didn't watch Wings either, which is weird.
Speaker 1: I remember singing in like on USA when I was
Speaker 1: a kid in rewrite. Absolutely, but Tony's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the show and he plays the father of Mrs Mazel
Speaker 1: and he's great too, And it's just like the show
Speaker 1: looks amazing. The art direction is unbelievable. They clearly sunk
Speaker 1: a lot of money into it. Um. Kevin Pollock told
Speaker 1: me that they they greenlit two seasons right off the bat,
Speaker 1: which is really unusual. And I think they just really
Speaker 1: committed to the show and it paid off because, like
Speaker 1: I said, they won the best TV show. So my
Speaker 1: advice go out and stream Marvelous Mrs Mazel on Amazon.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's only seven or eight episodes.
Speaker 1: It's really just terrific. Have you seen a feudal and
Speaker 1: stupid gesture. Not yet. It's wonderful. Yeah, I saw the documentary.
Speaker 1: Did you see that? Yeah? I saw the doc on
Speaker 1: And if you guys don't know, we're talking about the
Speaker 1: story of the creation of National Lampoon or the Harvard
Speaker 1: Lampoon originally and specifically through the eyes of what was
Speaker 1: the guy's named Jim Kinny. His name is Doug Kenney
Speaker 1: and played by will Ford. They just reminded me of
Speaker 1: the show you were just talking about. It's very similar
Speaker 1: because like, um, you've got Joel McHale playing Chevy Chase
Speaker 1: and like all of these great comics that we love
Speaker 1: from now kind of playing these like old school dudes
Speaker 1: making a caddyshack and all that, and it's like just
Speaker 1: cocaine for days. It's just a total debauch. But it's
Speaker 1: it's a delightful movie. Like there's a lot of hard
Speaker 1: to it too. It's a really really cool, cool movie.
Speaker 1: E I can't wait to see it. I think, didn't
Speaker 1: David Wayne direct that? That's who? I also love? What
Speaker 1: hot American summer that stuff? Um, yeah, I gotta see that.
Speaker 1: And there's also a documentary about the lampoon called Drunk
Speaker 1: Stoned brilliant dead uh and that kind of kind of
Speaker 1: says it. All that really follows follows the through line
Speaker 1: of that story. Yeah, I gotta check that out alright.
Speaker 1: So two recommendations marvelous uses masl and uh what's the
Speaker 1: name of it again? A feudal and stupid gesture. And
Speaker 1: that's on Netflix. It is a Netflix original. I think
Speaker 1: it came out like a week ago or something fresh.
Speaker 1: I did see the trailer and that said something about, um,
Speaker 1: sure none of these people look like the people, but
Speaker 1: just go with it. Basically some of them do. Though.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool, like it's all over the place, but
Speaker 1: it's it really it hits. It's really cool. Well that's
Speaker 1: how you should cast, like, you don't have to cast
Speaker 1: someone that looks identical to somebody. It's like about capturing
Speaker 1: the spirit and be in the wheelhouse physically. When I
Speaker 1: think they probably gave Joel McHale chevy Chase because he
Speaker 1: was so terrorized by him on Community. Chevy Chase is
Speaker 1: apparently like a nightmare to work with the Community and
Speaker 1: that was a big part of between him and Dan
Speaker 1: Harmon why that show was just like a ship show.
Speaker 1: And I think they probably gave it to Joel McHale,
Speaker 1: so he got a chance a little. Yeah, I need
Speaker 1: to watch Community. I know that that's a great show. Um,
Speaker 1: that's on the list too. Life is short, though, people.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of stuff to watch, all right,
Speaker 1: And we're gonna finish up here with our first mini
Speaker 1: episode with comment card, which is our listener males that
Speaker 1: have called from Facebook. This one is from Joshua Hall.
Speaker 1: Who would you call your favorite director or maybe said better,
Speaker 1: whose body of work have you enjoyed the most as
Speaker 1: a movie? And this was tough, my friend. Uh So
Speaker 1: I went with my first instincts and I'm gonna name two,
Speaker 1: which are the Cohen Brothers and Alexander Payne. And I
Speaker 1: think I've talked about on the show before, but I
Speaker 1: have the percent club, which are directors who have to me,
Speaker 1: never made a bad movie. Uh In. The Cohen Brothers
Speaker 1: and Alexander Paine definitely are in that category for me.
Speaker 1: I know some people take issue with what I would
Speaker 1: call lesser Cohen's uh you know, the non Fargoes and
Speaker 1: the non lebowskis like intolerable cruelty and right, the Lady
Speaker 1: Killers is that another one? Yeah, Lady Killers is the
Speaker 1: only one that I really didn't love, but I loved
Speaker 1: Intolerable Cruelty. I love burn after reading and all these uh,
Speaker 1: I guess tier B Cohen Brothers movies. I just think
Speaker 1: they're great. Tier B. Cohen is like still Tier A
Speaker 1: most people. Most people. Yeah, absolutely. And then Alexander Payne,
Speaker 1: the dude hasn't made a bad movie. I love, love,
Speaker 1: love single one of them, including Downsizing, And I know
Speaker 1: Downsizing has gotten some bad reviews here and there. Um
Speaker 1: I loved it. I don't get it. I think it
Speaker 1: was great. Alexander Payne and his his writing partner Jim
Speaker 1: Taylor can do no wrong to me. So I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna tick through his movies really quickly so you will
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. His very first feature, Citizen Ruth, amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing satire. Election another great comedy and satire. He's very satirical.
Speaker 1: Now they think about it about Schmidt. Wonderful movie Sideways,
Speaker 1: one of the best of the descendants. I read that
Speaker 1: book before the movie, uh and loved it, and the
Speaker 1: sentence was great. Then he really kind of took a
Speaker 1: right turn with the wonderful film Nebraska, beautiful black and
Speaker 1: white movie with Will Forte and Bruce Dearn, and then,
Speaker 1: like I said, his new movie Downsizing. So I recommend
Speaker 1: all those And so, Joshua, those are my two picks.
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite director at all? I am a really
Speaker 1: huge fan of the combo of Michelle Andre, Spike Jones,
Speaker 1: and Charlie Kaufman, and I know they're you know, Spike
Speaker 1: and I don't know, Like they both started making like
Speaker 1: really cool music videos with like no budget, and I
Speaker 1: used to have all the directors series of both Spike
Speaker 1: and Michelle, like to the early daft punk videos. And
Speaker 1: my favorite one is um Chemical Brothers video for Let
Speaker 1: Forever Be, where he simulates bad video effects using cutouts
Speaker 1: and like set pieces and stuff. It's amazing to show
Speaker 1: it to you later, but it's so cool. But I
Speaker 1: love how both of those guys took that d I
Speaker 1: Y kind of you know ethic and made the most
Speaker 1: mind boy movies and then paired with Charlie Kaufman's mind
Speaker 1: bending script writing. And he's a great director in his
Speaker 1: own right, like uh senect to Key New York, total bummer,
Speaker 1: but just a mind blowers. Yeah, I watched that movie
Speaker 1: that was um that was a challenging movie. It's almost
Speaker 1: too much because it's so real, I mean, like it
Speaker 1: it really twists the knife you know about feeling, you know,
Speaker 1: aging and just like relationships and how ephemeral and fleeting
Speaker 1: everything can be, you know. But it's a great film.
Speaker 1: That's those are my picks. I would say that's a
Speaker 1: good one. I would really love the Nomal Lisa Oh
Speaker 1: Yeah movie, which was if you guys haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: it's Charlie Kaufman doing as a stop motion animation feature,
Speaker 1: which is one of the most real, like human stories
Speaker 1: I've seen in a long time. And there are these
Speaker 1: stop motion figures, which is kind of a brilliant choice.
Speaker 1: Really good movie, really really wonderful, and and it actually
Speaker 1: has a similar um aesthetic, almost like too synectic key.
Speaker 1: And then it really dells down into those issues of
Speaker 1: like mortality and like getting older and like what's my legacy,
Speaker 1: you know, my relationship with my family and my kids,
Speaker 1: but in a kind of a dark and yet really
Speaker 1: funny and kind of touching way. Ultimately they're they're both
Speaker 1: very heavy movies, but delightful in their own ways too.
Speaker 1: He's an interesting guy, Charlie Kaufman. Yeah, and weirdly Anmalisa
Speaker 1: as a stop motion animation feature has maybe the most
Speaker 1: realistic sex scenes tender just like that I've ever is
Speaker 1: just so real and like how how it is in
Speaker 1: real life? It wasn't you know how movie sex scenes
Speaker 1: Like it's really fantastic, all right. And then finally one
Speaker 1: more comic card from Lee Olsen. Hey, Chuck, love the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks dude. What sequels do you think are better than
Speaker 1: the first films? Good question, and I'm gonna rattle off
Speaker 1: four or five here. Spiderman two much better than the first,
Speaker 1: Although I thought the first was good, It's not gonna
Speaker 1: knock it, but Spiderman two was great. That was the
Speaker 1: one with Doc Doc right, Yes, yeah, that was awesome,
Speaker 1: Like the best spider Man movie of all of them, um,
Speaker 1: even though it really did, like the most recent parts
Speaker 1: of it felt like an evil Dead spider Man movie
Speaker 1: to me. It had that like yeah, but it had
Speaker 1: that like energy that is just like really spastic camera
Speaker 1: when when there's that scene on the train and Dot
Speaker 1: Cox just like scraping along the sides of it and stuff,
Speaker 1: it's like super yeah, And there has never been a
Speaker 1: more non evil Dead movie. Sam Ray Amy scene than
Speaker 1: when Doc wakes up in the or when they he
Speaker 1: wakes up in the surgical room or whatever. That's the
Speaker 1: one total evil Dead exact. Yeah, when his he it
Speaker 1: comes alive and like he starts smashing everything, like I
Speaker 1: hadn't thought about that in years. That's really really good. Uh,
Speaker 1: Terminator too, I'm gonna go with over the original Terminator.
Speaker 1: I loved the first Terminator, but T two just really
Speaker 1: took it to the next level. Amazing. Empire strikes back
Speaker 1: kind of Bobbyous love Star Wars. Empire was better. The
Speaker 1: Road Warrior greater than Mad Max to me. Even though
Speaker 1: I do love the indie gritty, indie nous of Mad Max,
Speaker 1: the Road Warrior definitely kicked it up a nudge. Well,
Speaker 1: the first Man Max didn't even have quite the same
Speaker 1: post apocalyptic vibe as the subsequent ones, right, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it was just such a lower budget in a
Speaker 1: smaller story. Um, they did have that, you know, the
Speaker 1: the Gang of Toughs, but Road Warrior like like that's
Speaker 1: what we know and love like Mad Max. And then finally,
Speaker 1: speaking of Sam Rami, Evil Dead too, um better to
Speaker 1: me than Evil Dead one and geez, Army of Darkness
Speaker 1: they have been better than Evil Dead too. That was
Speaker 1: when he kind of embraced that it was funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first one is like they were kind of trying
Speaker 1: to make a scary movie. Yeah, it's like, what am
Speaker 1: I doing? And then people laughed. I'm sure it was
Speaker 1: part of the plan, all al right. So that's it, folks.
Speaker 1: Episode one of the many episodes. We need to think
Speaker 1: of a name for these. It's in the can. And
Speaker 1: thanks to everyone for interacting on Facebook. Keep an eye
Speaker 1: out like the Facebook page if you want to interact,
Speaker 1: get your stuff right here on the show. And also
Speaker 1: want to announce what we're gonna do with the end
Speaker 1: of EE shows. Announced the interview guests on Friday and
Speaker 1: the movie to give everyone a big heads up on
Speaker 1: what to watch. Um, Like I say on Facebook, brush
Speaker 1: up so you can crush out. How clever is that? Um? Alright?
Speaker 1: So this week is actually the the live movie crush
Speaker 1: episode I did at sketch Fest, my very first live show,
Speaker 1: which was great and so much fun and I really
Speaker 1: really think I want to thank everyone who came out
Speaker 1: to that in the Bay Area. And I had Mr
Speaker 1: Tony Hale a veep and arrested development and seriously, legit
Speaker 1: nicest guy I've ever met in the entertainment industry. No, lie,
Speaker 1: and I met some good people, but Tony is the
Speaker 1: nicest guy ever. Buster and Arrested Development is probably my
Speaker 1: favorite character, and like almost all of comedy, he's all right,
Speaker 1: so cool. People to watch that show, get that joke.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Tony and I talked about Punch Drunk Love
Speaker 1: and that will be coming out this Friday, and it
Speaker 1: was wonderful talking to him, so look forward to that,
Speaker 1: and uh, salutations everyone, thanks for chiming in there and all.
Speaker 1: I think this is a thing now right, I love it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it awesome, all right, we'll see everybody next week.