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Speaker 2: latest episode of The Quest Love Show, Jamie Lee Curtis
Speaker 2: told you how you jarred her with manifesting her oscar
Speaker 2: win with four words, dust off your mantle. Earlier this season,
Speaker 2: on the second episode of The Quest Love Show, you
Speaker 2: also told Autumn durald Archipa from Cinems that she should
Speaker 2: be prepared for her own award tour. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 2: say that to everyone for everything. So can you speak
Speaker 2: on your meter for knowing when something is truly award worthy?
Speaker 1: I know that I have this rep as a music savant,
Speaker 1: you know, like with music, I'll get the occasional you know, hey,
Speaker 1: do you think like Steve gadd uses a process the
Speaker 1: fifty seven short of mic or does he use fifty
Speaker 1: eight or does he use a you know, Ribbon Royer,
Speaker 1: you know, like talking shop. But I've been in this
Speaker 1: this short six year journey of mine. In the world
Speaker 1: of film. There is nothing more attimidating than knowing a
Speaker 1: movie buff. And it's so intimidating. So that said, I mean,
Speaker 1: I watched way more movies than I probably should, and
Speaker 1: I think i'm it's probably the over compensatory nature of
Speaker 1: wanting to really master the art of filmmaking having not
Speaker 1: went to film school. So that said, I think I
Speaker 1: have this really good rhythm and knowing like when a
Speaker 1: person's moment is one. It's not even just judging the work,
Speaker 1: but it's just like, well for starters. With Jamie Lee one,
Speaker 1: it took me six minutes like wait, that's Jamie Lee Curtis,
Speaker 1: even though I knew she was in the movie. Once
Speaker 1: I started watching it, I lost myself And if you
Speaker 1: can fool me for six minutes. This also happened the
Speaker 1: first time I saw Good Time, I had no clue
Speaker 1: I was watching Robert Pattinson, which is strange because he's
Speaker 1: the star of Good Time. But when I see movies,
Speaker 1: i'm more or less I'm I'm a director head and
Speaker 1: I'm an editor head. So to me, it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Saftie Brothers had this new film out called Good Time.
Speaker 1: Let me go see that. And it wasn't until you know.
Speaker 1: I was like walking and leaving the movie theater and
Speaker 1: there are people talking about Twilight and Robert Pattison, Robert
Speaker 1: Patterson's and I went back to the poster and I
Speaker 1: actually went back to see it a second time. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like when a person loses themselves
Speaker 1: in a character, I just immediately know. The one time
Speaker 1: I didn't call it, and I don't think it's my
Speaker 1: fault was when Mickey Rourke lost to Sean Penn for
Speaker 1: Best Actor Ystler and the wrestler, Yeah versus Milk. And
Speaker 1: once I did the research, I realize that I didn't
Speaker 1: see Mickey Rourke's accepting speech at the Golden Clothes kind
Speaker 1: of maybe Ben is shallow may moment of where you
Speaker 1: talk yourself out of your own award or whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he like dedicated to it to his dead
Speaker 1: dog or whatever. Like he just freak people out a
Speaker 1: little bit. And I wish I'd known that because there
Speaker 1: was a period where there was this, uh, this kind
Speaker 1: of underground. I'm not a gambler at all, but the
Speaker 1: one thing that I used to bet on were award shows,
Speaker 1: and like I won great the year that Halle Berry
Speaker 1: and Denzel Washington won the same year, Like no one
Speaker 1: called a double wind for black people. So I mean
Speaker 1: like money and I lost so much money. I just
Speaker 1: knew Mickey Rourke was gonna take it home. And people
Speaker 1: were like, nah, man, it's gonna be showing pan. I'm like, no, man,
Speaker 1: Like I cried at the wrestler, you know. So that's
Speaker 1: the one time I failed at calling something. But I'm
Speaker 1: I'm pretty accurate and spot on for what I think
Speaker 1: the Academy will award someone.
Speaker 2: So from Questlove Supreme in the Quest Love Show, it's
Speaker 2: very curated. I mean there are so many times where
Speaker 2: there's somebody will say you want to speak to or
Speaker 2: you'll run into somebody, and why haven't we had a conversation?
Speaker 2: I have to say in my four years running with
Speaker 2: this team. When we brought Autumn's name to you, it
Speaker 2: was one of the fastest resounding yeses. And not only
Speaker 2: did you say yes, you said I dream of working
Speaker 2: with her one day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm just very curious because in your
Speaker 2: space so far, you know, cinematography is very different. But
Speaker 2: in seeing the film as many times as you did,
Speaker 2: what really stood out to you that was so amazing
Speaker 2: in the camera work.
Speaker 1: I was in la and there was a meeting I
Speaker 1: was supposed to have and I knew that Sinners was
Speaker 1: going to be shown in seventy milimeter at one of
Speaker 1: my two favorite destinations of all time is both of
Speaker 1: Tarantino's the movie theaters. He has the New Beverly and
Speaker 1: he also has the L Ray. Yeah, I knew it
Speaker 1: was going to play at the L Ray. And I
Speaker 1: know this is like real nerd shit, but if like,
Speaker 1: there's something I've been dying to see on film in
Speaker 1: thirty five millimeter in a way that I know in
Speaker 1: movie snob will come in and curate the sound and
Speaker 1: make sure even down to the butter used on the popcorn,
Speaker 1: Like when you go to the New Beverly. Tarantino's whole
Speaker 1: structure is trying to bring you into what a Grindhouse
Speaker 1: was like back in nineteen seventy eight, seventy nine. Like
Speaker 1: everything he shows cartoons and previews very much like the
Speaker 1: Grindhouse movie. I won't hesitate for a second to just
Speaker 1: hop on a plane to go out there just to
Speaker 1: watch it and catch the Red Eye and come back home.
Speaker 1: I know it's like weird FLEXI shit to say, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to experience Centers on seventy millimeter in its prime,
Speaker 1: like when audiences are like packed and whatnot. And it
Speaker 1: just so happened that I had a major career breakthrough
Speaker 1: that day news. So I was already in my feelings
Speaker 1: with like, you know, oh my god, you know, so
Speaker 1: the news that I got had hit me in mo
Speaker 1: like I had to sit in my car and cry
Speaker 1: for like a half hour. You know. It's like I
Speaker 1: got the roller or whatever, like no, no, no, no happened.
Speaker 1: And so I was already in my feelings about the
Speaker 1: breakthrough that just happened, and I just sat there in
Speaker 1: a movie theater still. It was like I was subconsciously
Speaker 1: watching the film because I was just thinking of, like
Speaker 1: I can't believe this is about to happen. I can't
Speaker 1: believe this is about to happen. And so I saw it,
Speaker 1: but I didn't experience, but I'm still the visuals were
Speaker 1: just keeping me ground.
Speaker 2: The thing you paid attention to the most that first time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I sat like, this is a project I've
Speaker 1: been dying to do for like twelve years, and so
Speaker 1: when I finally got the green light, I just sat
Speaker 1: in the back of that theater like I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's happening. It happened. So I really
Speaker 1: didn't consciously pay attention to the film because I just
Speaker 1: sat there like in the daze. But I'm still like
Speaker 1: still aware of the visuals and whatnot. And then I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I have just stay and see it.
Speaker 1: I wound up sitting there for three showings in a
Speaker 1: row froday. Yes, from the first showing, I think it
Speaker 1: was like eleven I left there and it was like
Speaker 1: ten eleven PM. Before I was making movies, I was
Speaker 1: just seeing movies and see movies. But now I am
Speaker 1: aware of sound and lighting and film stock. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at every aspect of so I almost have to see
Speaker 1: a film like three or four times once as a
Speaker 1: film and then like, okay, see what the editing is, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me see. And I was just really really impressed
Speaker 1: because oftentimes, like period pieces might get it wrong. And
Speaker 1: I literally had no notes of well why did they
Speaker 1: do it? And is too the film stocks too clean
Speaker 1: and whatever? Like, I had no notes whatsoever. So I
Speaker 1: was just in love with the look of it, like
Speaker 1: I'm with her. I was that way with Ernest Dickerson
Speaker 1: with Spike films, like I love Spike, but I love
Speaker 1: Ernest Dickerson, you know what I mean. So like, for me,
Speaker 1: cinematography and the look of a film is what gives
Speaker 1: you the feels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean Autumn, Ernest had the fish eye
Speaker 2: up here Autumn. It seems like it's a lot about motion.
Speaker 2: And she talked to you about building her own lenses. Yeah,
Speaker 2: anamorphic structure of it all. I'm curious when you drive
Speaker 2: the point home of seeing on seventy is it correct
Speaker 2: to say that you really capture the difference in the motion.
Speaker 2: Is it like how the film dances? What about seventy
Speaker 2: millimeter makes that experience enhanced? Well?
Speaker 1: One being born in seventy one is really just I
Speaker 1: mean there's so many invisible timelines between what was life
Speaker 1: before nineteen seventy one and what life is in the future, socially, musically, entertainment,
Speaker 1: all those things. I think the first movie that I
Speaker 1: consciously remember seeing as a kid, I think my sister
Speaker 1: took me to go see King Kong. And it's only
Speaker 1: because of a particular movie theater we were in. I
Speaker 1: found an old advertisement and I saw that, oh seventy milimeter.
Speaker 1: Someone schooled me to the difference between seventy and thirty
Speaker 1: five millimeter, and so you know, since then, especially in
Speaker 1: those eighteen years of touring with the Roots, I became
Speaker 1: my own ze guide for every vintage movie house. So
Speaker 1: I meant pretty much the one thing that like I
Speaker 1: spent the most time doing, besides record shopping, my number
Speaker 1: one priority was driving movie theaters. And this way before
Speaker 1: the pandemic, like I was going to if we go
Speaker 1: to LA I might on a day off. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: like two hours and twenty minute drive, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ceet at, you know. So I love driving movie theaters.
Speaker 1: I like second run movie theaters where they'll you know,
Speaker 1: shows space aliens, you know, attack my father and you know,
Speaker 1: they'll always show like a cowboy film, science fiction film,
Speaker 1: really bad you know b film. I mean, I'm in
Speaker 1: New York right now. There's a couple of niche spots.
Speaker 1: There's there's a someone turned their house in Brooklyn into
Speaker 1: this like niche movie theater where they show like Italian cinema.
Speaker 1: This is how I learned about what Dogma ninety five
Speaker 1: was like, even if I'm not into the genre or whatever.
Speaker 2: Like I'll just go there just to Lars von Tree
Speaker 2: or all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, just to just to expand, you know. And yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes it might be mister Thompson. Oh, I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: two am. So I really really love I love going
Speaker 1: to movies.
Speaker 2: So this mini episode is just to show some love
Speaker 2: to sinners and also call back to the conversation with Autumn.
Speaker 2: I know there's other folks involved with that movie that
Speaker 2: that film that we were supposed to have on, that
Speaker 2: we will have on, but just leaving it with a
Speaker 2: blanket statement. You referenced the film a lot in conversations
Speaker 2: with different guests this season. How would you say today
Speaker 2: that film has affected you.
Speaker 1: I love the art of the Hail Mary throw. The
Speaker 1: four seconds left in the game and you gotta fe
Speaker 1: this thing for ninety nine yards and pray to guy
Speaker 1: that someone catches it in the end zone to win
Speaker 1: the game. I think all the odds were against it.
Speaker 1: I read that Variety review and like, ah, man, damn.
Speaker 1: Variety is sort of like the first the first voice
Speaker 1: in the direction or the temperature of what a film's
Speaker 1: going to do, the first review that most people go.
Speaker 2: To, or Canary in the coal mine.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean even dude, even during Sly Lives,
Speaker 1: like the second the credits went up, Zarah's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, look and I'm like, wait, are they reviewing
Speaker 1: Live on the spot? Like as we show this thing?
Speaker 1: And sure enough, like the person was in the back.
Speaker 1: But you know, for me, I just the odds were
Speaker 1: against it. And you know, I'm not big on the
Speaker 1: horror genre. I like thrillers, Like for me, seven is
Speaker 1: the type of thriller I like, or Silence of the Lambs,
Speaker 1: you know, and if you're going to go into like
Speaker 1: even with Beyond Centers, what was the film that Robert
Speaker 1: Rodriguez and oh Dussell Dorn like those sort of things
Speaker 1: where you might turn into a vampire. I was never
Speaker 1: into that, So like I mean, the odds were working
Speaker 1: against them. And even when I saw the first scene,
Speaker 1: I had one snark where they're inside the juke joint.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, why why is he putting an
Speaker 1: eight to eight inside of the song? It's not twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six? And I sat there like what the fuck?
Speaker 1: And I was about to get my phone out, like yo, dog,
Speaker 1: like why are you doing? Trap me? Oh shit? And
Speaker 1: then like once that scene to me, that entire music sequence.
Speaker 1: The last time I saw a sequence that jarring to
Speaker 1: me or that was when Ernest and Spike did the
Speaker 1: seven minute taj Mahal Cracks for under Stevie Wonders, Living
Speaker 1: for the City for Jungle Fever, which until recently just
Speaker 1: started you know, in iTunes and you know you can
Speaker 1: see it now, but previously that was the one Spike
Speaker 1: Lee film you couldn't see. I don't know, like for me,
Speaker 1: I just think that it's felt like the odds were
Speaker 1: against it, and I think it was expected to just like,
Speaker 1: you know, accept the seat of the table, like at
Speaker 1: least you got here whatever. I don't know, I got
Speaker 1: personally invested in that entire journey and and I'm a
Speaker 1: board for whatever happens next with for anyone from mikeel
Speaker 1: to literally anyone inside of that whole film experience, Like
Speaker 1: I'm emotionally invested in now.
Speaker 2: One last thought, because I've never heard you speak on
Speaker 2: this since it's Sinners related, what is your favorite blue
Speaker 2: song or blues album? Give us something from that genre.
Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm taking this back to one of the
Speaker 1: last conversations with DiAngelo. We were talking about him first
Speaker 1: starting out like he thought he was going to be
Speaker 1: a beat maker. You know. I was like, well, your
Speaker 1: beat maker just happened to lead like your church choir
Speaker 1: at the age of four. Like, were you're going to
Speaker 1: sing on your beats or whatever? He says, Nah, man,
Speaker 1: I just you know, I wanted to make some beats.
Speaker 1: I was like, so, what's the first thing you sampled?
Speaker 1: And he said that. You know, him and his cousin
Speaker 1: Marlon had a copy of bb Kings Live at Cook
Speaker 1: County and I was like really, and He's like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: so much like that entire record we took from Dad.
Speaker 1: And you know, the last night I saw him on
Speaker 1: the drive home, I happened to have that record queued
Speaker 1: up because I never heard it. I have this thing
Speaker 1: where like music sounds way different to me when death
Speaker 1: is kind of on the horizon, Like when someone dies,
Speaker 1: their music sounds different to me when I'm in a
Speaker 1: mournful state. Maybe it's just me not wanting to hear
Speaker 1: the silence of the natural silence of this music just
Speaker 1: speaks to me way different that way, And so I
Speaker 1: decided to put it on to see if I get
Speaker 1: to hear it as a ten year old Michael Archer
Speaker 1: hearing it for the first time in his household. And
Speaker 1: so that's kind of how It's almost like I have
Speaker 1: to ask for travel ask someone to hear music the
Speaker 1: way they hear it. That's kind of how I receive it.
Speaker 1: I know it's a weird answer, but that's how it is. Guys,
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