Soderbergh Ep. 6: Schizopolis (1996) with Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori

What the hell is going on with Steven Soderbergh's 1996 super-low-budget labor of love comedy SCHIZOPOLIS? Our returning guests, the filmmakers and all-around handsome devils Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori of the To The White Sea Podcast, help us get to the bottom of it. Is this quietly a devastating analysis of a failed marriage starring the director and his real-life ex-wife Betsy Brantley? Or is all that drowned out by too much proto-Random Humor and OK Cola-style 90s disaffection? Is Jake even capable of being nice about this movie? Listen to find out!

 

Further Reading:

Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

"E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" by David Foster Wallace

"David Lynch Keeps His Head" by David Foster Wallace

 

Further Viewing:

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Lester, 1964)

MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS (McNaughton/Davies, 1969)

PUTNEY SWOPE (Downey, 1969)

THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (Landis, 1977)

GRAY'S ANATOMY (Soderbergh, 1996)

LOST HIGHWAY (Lynch, 1997)

 

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