WEBVTT - Mini Crush #1 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.720 Hey, everybody, and welcome to the Movie Crush. Charles W. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:31.320 Chuck Bryant. Here in our home studio Pont City Market, Atlanta, Georgia. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.720 And today I have me in the studio and Noel 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.640 it's gonna chime in say hello, Nol, Hey Chuck. How's 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.760 it going everybody? Well, he said, hey, Chuck. It was 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.400 kind of a doubled up. It was like saying hey 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.760 to you and then saying hey to to the listening public. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.839 And I responded for the listening public because I think 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.560 they're doing fine. It's I'm gonna stick with that. Um. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.360 So this is the first, um, I guess many episode 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.319 we're gonna call these. Uh. It was pretty clear from 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.160 interacting with people on on Facebook and the Movie Crush 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.280 page and the Super Super Movie Crush fan page, the 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:12.559 Movie Crushers that uh folks wanted to interact a lot 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.800 with this podcast, which is awesome, and that was kind 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.800 of the idea to begin with. So that's kind of 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.679 the idea behind these episodes. We're not going to feature 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.040 interviews with people about their favorite movie, but a lot 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.520 of it is going to be just hanging out virtually, 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.240 hanging out with you guys and I'm sourcing emails from 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:38.200 from Facebook and top tens and questions for you guys, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.640 and everyone's chiming in, so you're gonna play a big 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.880 part in this, which is very cool, I think. So 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:45.960 that's sort of the concept. We're gonna keep them kind 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.279 of short and sweet, probably between twenty and thirty minutes, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.720 and we're gonna have just some different segments here and there. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.080 I'm gonna have a little bag of tricks that we 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.280 come up with over time. And some of these were 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.800 directly from from you guys who suggested that I do 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.280 certain things. And I'm always looking for feedback, So if 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.240 you have some more ideas for fun segments, please please 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.720 let me know, because that's the whole idea here, is 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.880 to make this about us, the movie Crush family community 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.720 here that we have going so um. I think today 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.640 we are gonna do a few different segments. And I 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.080 gave these all goofy titles because that's just how my 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.040 mind works. And maybe no one can come up with 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.480 some fun little music stings. What do you think. I'll 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.799 give it a go for sure. Man. Okay, well we'll 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.079 know here in about three seconds. Because the first segment 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:41.320 we're gonna talk about is called social studies. So social 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.919 studies is um a little play on words from social media. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.160 And this is when I have put out a call 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:52.280 on Facebook for a question basically for for you folks 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.480 to answer back. And I will read as many of 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.800 them as I can. But um, I put a few 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.959 of them mountain. We'll do one per episode here moving forward. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.639 And the question I threw out was for this one 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.800 is what movies have actually inspired you in your personal 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.960 life and why? And um, I'll go and start with 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.239 mine just to get it going. Mine's kind of corny, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.200 I guess I had to think about it for a while. Um, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:22.200 But Dead Poets Society, it seems like a almost trite 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.040 to say that movie inspired me, but it really did 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.880 because I was trying to think back to that movie, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.080 and if I'm not mistaken, there was a direct through 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.600 line from watching that movie to me becoming an English 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.360 major in college. When I went to college, it didn't 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.400 have a great idea of what I wanted to do, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.880 and Dead Poets Society had just really gotten me into 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.240 um literature. I mean, I'd always read since I was 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.120 a kid, but it really inspired me to start reading. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.000 Like obviously, poetry and some of the classics, and I 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.720 remember thinking, hey, if I can read and write and 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.800 college and that's my main jam, that I should probably 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.120 pursue that. And it's sort of in the back of 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.280 my head too. I I know everyone knows I always 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.360 kind of thought about being a teacher because my parents 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.640 are both teachers, and um, obviously Dead Poets Society is 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:17.159 a love song for for inspiring teachers, So that one 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.279 stuck with me. And I think that movie inspired me 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.120 at least to do, uh, do what I did in college. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:23.720 I don't want to put you on the spot in 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.360 old but well, first thing to follow up to that 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.120 also kind of inspire, like a little bit of a 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:33.560 rebellious streak. Did you stand on your desk in college? Oh? 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.400 My god? And that's that's tough. I wish I would 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.880 have had a little more time to think about, Like 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:42.120 the stuff that comes to mind is mainly just like 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.200 things that made me feel empathy and and the one 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.960 that comes to mind is like stuff like the Lion 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.520 King and things that I've been able to share with 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.839 my daughter. So I guess in terms of inspiration, maybe 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.640 that's not exactly the right answer, but it's certainly stuff 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.600 that gives me an interesting nostalgia boost where I kind 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:00.960 of can to where I was when I was a 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.200 kid watching that and now watching them with my daughter. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.280 And actually I've got one now, Inside Out, Inside Out, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.480 the Pixar movie that's about mental health, and we handled 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.720 this so delightfully. I saw that with my daughter when 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.240 she was borderline not old enough to get all the messages, 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.440 but like the way it's presented, you don't have to 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.440 go full deep, fully deep into it um and I 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.120 could tell that it resonated with her, and it really 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.159 resonated with me, you know. And she looks over at me, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.640 and this happens every time we go to a movie 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.960 like that, and she's like, Dad, you're crying again. That's 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.880 a delightful music. That's that's kind of what comes to 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.160 mind for me. That's good man, Emilian are succeps um poy. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.599 We cry a lot and I can't. I'm sure my 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.120 daughter is gonna be like, what's wrong with mommy and 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.159 daddy at some point. I caught her crying in a 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.719 movie recently and that made me feel good. That is sweet. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.039 But it was actually the Greatest Showman, which is a 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.960 little schmaltzy and it's this musical about P. T. Barn 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.720 and he obviously wasn't the best dude, and they whitewashed 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.880 it a good bit. But it's kind of a delightful 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.120 Mulan rouge pop musical and she just adores it so 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.560 much and more of the spectacle I think kind of 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.239 brought her to tears because it's just very pop music 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.880 driven and really makes you twist the fields on you 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.560 a little bit. So I'm looking over at Herrick and 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.320 I was like, all right, we're in this together, kid. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.920 So it was manipulative, it's what yourself. Yeah, yeah, but 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.200 in a way that I kind of enjoy. Um. All right, well, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.120 let's take through some of these on Facebook. Then, UM 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.960 let me see here Alison Gallagher, she's very active on 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.040 our page. Thanks Allison, um, she says, a league of 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.720 their own. I love that the film uses America's favorite 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.600 pastime to demonstrate the strength strengths of all women and 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.760 their capabilities on and off the field. That's a great one, uh. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.039 Mark Germany says Sideways one of my favorites. Mark, that 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.599 movie always made me want to be involved in the 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.960 wine industry, and two years ago I left my career 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:47.440 behind and started studying to become a winemaker. That's awesome. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:49.920 I would love to do that. Well, actually, I think 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.680 i'd rather just strength of wine. Um Mark Palumbo says 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.120 life is beautiful. Even in the world around you is 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.320 horrific and sad, there's still humor, love, and uh joy 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.600 hidden beneath the surface. Is huge. What a wonderful movie. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.480 I never saw that, man, It's it's great. That's one 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.000 of those do you have shame movies that you're ashamed 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.040 that you never saw? Yeah, I've never been taught. My 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.120 girlfriend has a huge hole in her movie going experience. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.560 I've never seen The Godfather and stuff. But she gets 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.080 mad at me when I say things like I've never 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:23.720 seen hocus Pocus. Well, one person, Scott Father is another persons. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.000 Um Jennifer Adolph, Princess Pride living in a small town. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.480 It brought all of us outsiders together. That's pretty cool. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.920 I like that. Um let me see here, Vanessa Lopez 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.000 Shawshank Redemption reminds me that even though we fight for it, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.760 freedom can be frightening because in one way or another, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.240 we're all a little bit institutionalized like Brooks. But if 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:46.760 we can make a mad dash toward that open door, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.920 and we find it, we might actually break free and 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.280 get busy living. WHOA, that's a good deep one. A 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.600 couple of people said Eternal Sunshine, The Spotless Mind. Here's 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.840 one from Nina Lenore. It was the first movie that 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.360 for me encompassed the way a heart can be broken 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.680 and hopeful at the same time. I agree, that's a 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:11.240 good one. Um Well, Dead Poet Society. Here's another fellow fan, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.720 Kristen Bits a guy growing up in a small, homogeneous 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.480 conservative town, remember thinking that post society was an anthem 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.800 for learning to find your passion uh and then live 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.080 it at any cost. Totally. I think you mentioned in 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.920 an interview before how like that was one where one 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.800 of the first ones where you kind of saw suicide 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.840 handled in such a frank way and you see that 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.080 we at a real young age. Totally. That was kind 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.480 of that one for me. I remember feeling that, man, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.679 if you don't like, if you're not crying at the 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.760 end of that movie when all the boys stand upon 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:53.680 the desk, then you're dead inside. Cee Lorimer says, difficult 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.400 and very personal the hours. That was a heavy movie. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.200 Julian Moore explains why she leaves her husband and young 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.360 children later in life. She says, it was death. I 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.320 chose life. Although different reasons, this line resonated with me 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:12.800 while leaving my marriage and fundamentalist Christianity. Wow, people are 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.280 people are digging in here? This is a good question. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:22.880 Way to go, Chuck, Trish Lauder, Hoss gil Breath, great name, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.199 great hyphen NATed name. Frieda starring Salma Hayak. Frieda Kala's 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.800 life story is fascinating and inspiring on its own, she 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.439 was a unique and outspoken artist. Add to that, what 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.240 Hyak went through to get the movie made totally. It 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.560 was Hi's passion project and it shows that's one of 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.160 my faiths. In that essays shearro recently about all that 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.320 stuff with Weinstein that she went through to make that 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.960 movie is crushing. Salma Hayak wrote that wrote like an 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.120 op ed for Variety or something where she talked about 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.960 how he held that movie over her head at every 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.480 turn and was just as smarmie. You know, e o 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.440 s what you can say, piece of ships, some army 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:05.000 piece of ship just the worst. That's terrible and uh 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.000 my wife, Emily Frieda Calo is one of her, if 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.600 not her all time favorite um women in history. I'm 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.839 even gonna beyond art. And we have lots of Frieda 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.520 stuff in our household, including a bunch of freed to 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.760 Carlo children's books. And I think I may have never 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.280 seen Emily as happy in her life as when my 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.040 daughter one night said, Mommy, can we weed Freida? Can 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.640 we weed Freda A? So did you guys go to 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.560 the Frieda and Diego exhibition at the high That was 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.200 years ago? So cool? Yeah, we've seen her paintings at 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.760 a bunch of museums, and one day we will most 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.680 definitely go to the Casa Azul in Mexico. That's on 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.079 the bucket list. Awesome, not even buckle list. I want 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.760 to do that, just a list in the next few years. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.840 John Millsap, This is good answer. I can't think of 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.720 a single film that has done this. Every movie I watch, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.240 I take something away that means something to me. That's 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.559 why I love movies and I am inspiring to be 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.800 an actor. All stories need to be told because you 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.360 could never know what any one person will walk away 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.959 with and how much it could help. It's a really 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:15.160 good answer. Sarah Adams another for life is beautiful, Rex 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.600 are emotionally to get through, and Guido's relentless commitment to 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.400 making the world a beautiful place where his son is 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.760 it wonderfully demonstrates how love is the most important and 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.440 most powerful force in the world. What a bummer that 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.840 his next movie was that horrible Pinocchio adaptation. I didn't 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.320 see that either. I didn't see it, but I just 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.800 saw clips and it's just like held up as one 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.360 of the most tone deaf, weird awful movies. Yeah, and 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.160 it was like a big passion project for him and 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.319 totally fell flat. He plays Pinocchio. He's like this weird 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:49.440 grown up man child looking Pinocchio. I think, I I 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.560 think the only Roberto Bonini movies have seen her. The 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.560 Jim Jarmish Ones was Down by Law, Down by Law, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.040 and then he was in The Night on Earth. See, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.680 I got a huge hole for Jarmish and my my catalog, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.080 you need to fill that hole. That sounds gross. Um. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.320 Robert lamb our own Robert lamb of stuff to blow 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.320 your mind. He's active on this page, which makes me 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.120 feel really good. Robert's awesome fear and loathing in Las 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.120 Vegas for him actually, which is kind of funny, if 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.000 you know. Robert doesn't seem like Fear and Loathing would 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.720 be his movie, but he says it actually inspired me 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.559 to go back to school and take some journalism classes 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.920 rather than take the ls AT and go down that road. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.600 I watched the movie first, then read the book. Not 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.680 that I expected the same Gonzo adventures or anything, but 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.120 the movie and book ignited something in me. And then 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.520 he procured a giant suitcase full of drugs and took 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:45.000 a road no realizing. Oh k b O. Kelly Butler 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.280 Olsen one of our old pals. Uh. The Secret Life 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.960 of Walter Minnie has been a huge reminder to not 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.840 get so caught up in plans and day dreams that 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.680 I forget to actually experience life. That's a good one, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.119 all right. And finally we'll do one here one, Carlos 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.520 Caranza says. Invictus, which I haven't seen yet. It's on 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.000 the list. A great story of how after the apartheid, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.600 Mandela and the South African rugby team work together to 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.200 give the nation the first win as a unified country. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.839 In order to go forward, we have to talk and 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.920 work with the people that have completely different points of views. Man, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.440 that's a good one to finish up with, given what's 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.600 going on in this country right now. Um, those are 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.320 some good answers, and I think, I mean, I wish 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.480 I could read them all everyone because these are all great, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.720 but we don't want an hour of just reading Facebook post. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.560 But I think this really shows that, like movies, and 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.520 that's the sort of idea behind this show is there's 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.439 a lot more going on than entertainment. Sometimes it can 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.160 be just that, which is great, but movies can inspire 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.800 and and really cause you to question things about yourself 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.480 in the world around you and inspire you to do 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.280 great things, which is pretty awesome. Alright, So move on 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:06.360 from Social Studies two the highlight reel, and this is 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:07.880 what I'm gonna put in every now and then. I 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.720 think with a highlight reel, I'm going to highlight, um 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.360 what kind of depends could be a writer, could be 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.760 a director, or an actor. Um, it could be their 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.680 entire career or maybe just a part of it. Uh. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.360 And generally though, these are gonna be people that I 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.560 feel like you're a little under served. Um, I'm not 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.240 going to do a highlight reel on George Clooney, you know, 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.760 what I'm saying, because everyone knows that that cloons is 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.920 the best. So this week I'm gonna go with Hal Hartley, 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.760 writer director Hal Hartley, who, Um, I'm not sure when 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.160 this is gonna come out. Probably, in fact, I know 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.480 this will come out pre my discussion with future guest 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.480 Guy Brandham, which by the way, look out for that one. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.920 That's a fun one. But um, guy and I talked 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.440 a little bit about how Hardley and when I was 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.480 in college and the nineties is when I really and 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.240 you've heard me talk about this before on the show, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.560 that's when I really got into independent film and stuff 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.760 that was a little left of center, um, off the 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.360 beaten path kind of stuff, less mainstream, and that's when 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.200 my eyes were really open to the to the world 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.520 of independent cinema and it was just a huge sea 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.720 change in my life and what kind of movies I 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.800 liked and what uh I mean, they actually all inspired 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.480 me that, like, man, you can you can do this. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.120 These are small movies and you don't have to be 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.720 some big Hollywood hot shot to go out there and 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.160 tell a great story. So Hal Hartley was definitely one 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.600 of those for me. Uh And for the Highlight reel. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.560 I'm gonna specifically talk about his first four feature films. Uh. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.120 He would go on later to do the fay Grim movies. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.920 I wanted to say trilogy, but are there four? Now? 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.800 I just know Henry Fool isn't that part of it? 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.400 Isn't like the first one? And then fay Graham was 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.440 maybe the second one. Yeah, Henry Fool fay Grim. And 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.680 there there was a new and many years later recently 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.640 called ned Rifle with Aubrey Plaza picking up the baton. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.440 There may have been one in between there. I can't remember. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.880 Those are good movies. I did not love them like 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.960 I loved his first four films so which were the 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:12.960 Unbelievable Truth nine Trust in nineteen nine, Surviving Desire in Nino, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.800 and Simple Men in nineteen two. That's crazy to put 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.080 out two movies in one year. These are totally new 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.800 to me. Man, Well, you gotta check it out. All 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.000 of these movies very much in his defining style, which 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:31.160 which is to say, very highly stylized, um left of center. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.880 It borders on the melodrama at certain points, very deadpan 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:41.520 black humor, kind of choppy, stilted dialogue, and sometimes what 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.040 what feels like overacting, and that sounds like all the 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.040 things you don't want to do as a writer director. Um, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.520 but it works somehow. They're definitely not for everybody. My 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.200 brother hated Hal Hartley movies. Didn't get it. Well not 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.920 he didn't get it, he just didn't like it. Is 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.120 it like Wes Anderson, He kind of stilted acting. You 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.840 gotta check it out. It's like sometimes it almost seems like, um, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:11.360 like a bad play. No, no, no. When I when 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.000 I think of that, I think of David Lynch. Yeah, 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.160 kind of like purposefully over acted, kind of like scenery 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.760 chewing soap opera kind of acting. Well, yeah, there's a 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.840 little bit of that, but this these feel like stage 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.280 plays and they'll do weird thing I mean he did 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.600 weird things, like in the middle of a scene on 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.639 a rooftop, the characters would just break out in this 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:35.640 like kind of Broadway style dance. Um. It's like I said, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.440 it's not everyone's cup of tea, but they just delighted 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.600 me to no end. And he he really put a 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.199 lot of I mean they're the indist of indie films 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.000 and and feel and tone and uh, he's a New 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.320 York guy and they he launched the careers of a 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.199 bunch of people. Edie Falcon's first movies we're some of 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.120 the How Hartley movies. Adrian Shelly very sadly, the late 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.879 Adrian Shelly. Um, if you guys don't know who she is, 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.160 she was in the movie Waitress that became the Broadway 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.560 show I think Waitress, and um, she was murdered. It 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.840 was very, very sad story. UM. I can't remember exactly when, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.840 but like within the last ten years. But Adrian Shelley 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.400 is in some of these first movies. And the great 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.959 Martin Donovan, UM was in a couple of these. Uh. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.000 And the first one Unbelievable truth. I guess you would 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.280 call it a romantic comedy. Um, it's about a man 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.639 who gets out of prison and I believe he was 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.960 a convicted of homicide or maybe straight up murder and 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:38.640 he has a relationship with Adrian Shelley. And um, it's 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.800 just a romantic romantic comedy, only as how Hartley could 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.160 do them. Uh. The next one, Trust the next year 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.359 was another romance between two misfits. Surviving Desire was a 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.080 story about a teacher who falls in love with his student. UM. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.360 Martin Donovan was a lead in that one as well, 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.520 and then Simple Man in n Like I said, his 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.800 second movie of nine was about two brothers that kind 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.760 of come together to search for their they're missing father 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.960 and Simple Man. It's great and these movies kind of 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.240 progress unbelievable. Truth is really raw. And it's not like 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:16.800 Simple Men got um flashy or seemed like a Hollywood 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.439 type movie, because none of these do. But it definitely 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.640 you saw his progression as a filmmaker through these four films. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.720 So how Hardly, I salute you, sir. I even reached 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.520 out last night after after doing this, uh putting together 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.280 this little piece to see I'm gonna be a New 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.320 York in February to see if how Hartly would be 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.040 a guest on the show because he seems like a 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.520 gettable person because I think like you can kind of 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.600 get in touch with how Hardly, I believe without going 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.600 through a gazillion people. So fingers crossed there to get 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.320 how Hardly on the show. And if if you see 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.400 it happen, you know that as a dream come true 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.000 for this guy. Um, so check it out and all 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.119 start I would say start with maybe jump over to 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.320 Simple Men and then work backwards pal turn me onto 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.679 Henry fool just randomly. I knew nothing about it. I 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:07.760 was just like, this is a movie I'm gonna show you. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:09.520 He didn't tell anything about the director. I didn't know 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.600 him as like an on tour. So now I know 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.000 there's a cool catalog to dig into, and that's always exciting. Yeah. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.040 He also did a movie called Flirt, which was really good, 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.160 interesting concept. I think it was, if I remember correctly, 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:23.760 the same story told in three different countries. Uh. And 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:29.360 then one called Amateur with Isabel Uper is that her name? 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:39.480 That's a really good one too, all right, and Onto. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.200 I think I'm gonna do these every week. I'm gonna 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:46.320 close with a segment called stream this and another one 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.199 called comment Card, which we're gonna be listener mails and 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.399 stream this is gonna be basically anything you can stream. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.600 I had a bunch of people on Facebook say, Hey, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:58.760 would it be too weird for you to go into 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.240 TV shows because, as as everyone knows, we're in the 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.680 golden Age of television as they call it, and I 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.800 don't think I would want to interview someone about a 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.919 TV show. I'm gonna stick with movies there, but for 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.840 stream this, I will certainly talk about kind of what 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.920 I've been watching lately and Emily and I just finished 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:23.280 streaming The Marvelous Mrs Mazel on Amazon. Have you seen this? 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.960 I have not, but I've heard good things. It is really, 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.080 really great. It won the Golden Globe for Best Show, 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:34.040 and I believe the lead actor she won the award 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.359 for Best Actress at the Golden Globes. And it's just 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.600 a delight. It's set in the nineteen fifties. It was 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:44.000 created and show run by Amy Sherman Palladino, who, um, 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.160 I think she did The Gilmore Girls is her big, 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.560 big show, Yeah, which I didn't watch, but Emily was 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.280 a was a nut for that show. But Marvelous Mrs 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.600