January 23, 2025 • 52 mins
This week, the season 1 hosts return for their top Letterboxd films. Be sure to follow Davey, Simona and Jeff to see what else floats their boats!
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HOSTS - Davey Parks, Simona Grigonis, Jeff Wallitsch
Production Sound Mixer - Angelica-Rose Keenum
Co-Producer/Editor - Lilly Richie
PRODUCERS - Tom Bjelic, Sam Decker
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY - Adam Paul, Roudi Boroumand
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This semester, The Film Department has teamed up with the mad geniuses of The Beverly Theater. Imagined by The Rogers Foundation, The Beverly Theater brings cinematic connectivity, novel collaborations, live happenings, cultural portals, and a zest for independent spirits to DTLV. With a mission to stage uncommon cinematic, literary, and live experiences, The Beverly Theater is Las Vegas’ first and only independent film house, storytelling arena, and live music venue.
For the latest screenings and events at The Beverly, visit thebeverlytheater.com
The Film Department Podcast is supported by UNLV Film. At the film department of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, every story has a beginning.With degree programs for undergraduates and graduates, state of the art equipment and facilities, incredible professional internships around the world, and expert guest speakers, students discover the power and potential of cinema as they prepare for the film and television industry… and beyond.
Learn more at UNLV.EDU/FILM UNLV Film. Find your voice. Tell your story.
Credits:
Email us: thefilmdeptpod@gmail.com
HOSTS - Davey Parks, Simona Grigonis, Jeff Wallitsch
Production Sound Mixer - Angelica-Rose Keenum
Co-Producer/Editor - Lilly Richie
PRODUCERS - Tom Bjelic, Sam Decker
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY - Adam Paul, Roudi Boroumand
To read the hosts' reviews, head over to substack.com/thefilmdeptpodcast
This semester, The Film Department has teamed up with the mad geniuses of The Beverly Theater. Imagined by The Rogers Foundation, The Beverly Theater brings cinematic connectivity, novel collaborations, live happenings, cultural portals, and a zest for independent spirits to DTLV. With a mission to stage uncommon cinematic, literary, and live experiences, The Beverly Theater is Las Vegas’ first and only independent film house, storytelling arena, and live music venue.
For the latest screenings and events at The Beverly, visit thebeverlytheater.com
The Film Department Podcast is supported by UNLV Film. At the film department of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, every story has a beginning.With degree programs for undergraduates and graduates, state of the art equipment and facilities, incredible professional internships around the world, and expert guest speakers, students discover the power and potential of cinema as they prepare for the film and television industry… and beyond.
Learn more at UNLV.EDU/FILM UNLV Film. Find your voice. Tell your story.
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The Film Department is supported by UNLV Film.
At the Film Department of the University of Nevada Las Vegas,
every story has a beginning.
With degree programs for undergraduates and graduates,
state-of-the-art equipment and facilities,
incredible professional internships around the world,
and expert guest speakers,
students discover the power and potential of cinema
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as they prepare for the film and television industry and beyond.
Learn more at unlv.edu/film.
UNLV Film. Find your voice, tell your story.
Welcome to the Film Department,
the official liver-of-view podcast to more of UNLV Film.
This semester, we discussed films screening at the Beverly Theatre.
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Las Vegas is only independent our house cinema and performance venue.
But this time, we're going to be discussing our personal favorite films.
I'm D.D. Parks, a fourth-year film major,
and graduate, we're looking at two weeks in counting.
And I am joined by...
Oh, and Jeff, I am third-year film major at UNLV.
I'm also the president of Bright Club, and I'm back.
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Congratulations on almost graduating, Davy, that's awesome.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Yes, yay, Davy.
And I'm Samona, I am also a third-year film major,
and I'm really excited to hear about your guys' favorites and share some of mine.
And you know, the "Goodbye," the "Dear Full Good Bives," we had last episode weren't in now.
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We needed to give you guys just one more episode,
running through some of our personal favorite films.
And before we get to that, though, I have you guys seen anything,
heard anything going on in the foam world recently that you guys want to talk about?
The most recent thing I've seen is Wicked.
I saw that at the theaters.
What they're going to, because I thought the trailers didn't look that great.
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Honestly, they didn't really sell me on it. I do like musicals.
I like around a Grande. I didn't really know too much about Cynthia Rivo,
but I was like, "Okay, you know, the trailers did it really wow me,
but I was hearing a lot of great things.
They got a lot of like really like good buzz."
Before it came out, I was like, "Okay, I have to go see it."
And I quite enjoyed it.
I think it was a little too long for a part one of a two-part story.
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It was two hours and 40 minutes, and I feel like it could have been easily two hours.
But I thought the music was great. I thought the acting was great.
It was funny. And I think the thing that I really appreciated the most about it was,
apparently there was a lot of like real sets that were used,
a lot of like practical effects, which I really appreciate.
I thought it was going to be a lot of CG, a lot of great screen,
and I was very pleased to see that it wasn't. So it's a great movie.
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Yeah, I wanted to go see it.
I was being, to be honest, I was really scared to go see in theaters.
I thought, kind of everything about it made it prime for just a really horrible,
just doing an experience. You know, it's a PG musical,
like a widely recognized IP with like a really big pop star attached to it.
But luckily my theater was very well respected and nobody sang during the screening.
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I really liked it too. Yeah, I thought it was really fun.
I was really interested in seeing how they were going to approach changing,
like the blocking and things for certain musical sequences throughout,
because you know, it's adapted from a stage play and how that sort of changes,
how the songs and the musicals go out.
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But I had a really good, the choreography was really fun.
And I thought Rene Grande did a pretty good job.
What about you, Jason? Have you seen anything as a flood?
Well, I haven't seen Wicked.
I don't immediately go to musicals when looking for something to watch.
I do appreciate a lot of really good musicals.
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But I don't know. It's not something that particularly piqued my interest.
But I've also made it my goal this year to watch new releases more consistently,
because I sometimes forget about new movies and just either revisit what I love
or something more adjacent to that.
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So yeah, maybe it's something new that I'll check out.
But I did watch Jaws for the first time.
Oh boy, what do you think?
I love Dead.
I think it's so ridiculous that I've seen The Meg and The Meg 2,
which terrible movie in the Panthenian is just not the best.
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I watched both on an airplane.
So yeah, I don't know. I thought I kind of liked the idea of like a shark movie.
And I mean, Jaws is a classic.
So I thought I have to watch it since I haven't seen a lot of classics.
What compel you to watch your Jaws?
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I just think race only have just been more interested in watching some classics
that I never like washed during my childhood.
I showed Jaws to a friend of mine who had never seen it.
And she expressed to me that she was shocked that Jaws is about only one shark
and not the perred of sharks because the word Jaws is plural.
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So she assumed that there were multiple sharks in the movie Jaws, but there's not.
So I just like to bring that up every time.
But yeah, so our goal with this episode today is to walk you guys through our top four letterbox pit
for those who may not be initiated into the very niche and cool sum culture of letterbox.
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Letterbox is a social media platform. I guess you would call it.
That essentially lets people catalog the movies that they've seen review them share them with friends,
make lists and things like that. And an essential part of any letterbox experience is choosing your top four.
So we'll be going through talking about each of our own picks.
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What they say about us. What do they say about our film tastes?
Let's do it. I am going to volunteer Jeff to start a thought.
I feel like a duty for me to go first because two of my top four are movies that we've already talked about.
The obvious one, I have them here with me, physical Halloween on 4K 1978.
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If you want to know my thoughts on you really can just kind of go back to those two episodes that we did and you'll hear it.
I mean, I think it's one of the greatest movies ever made.
I think it's such an influential horror movie. And I absolutely love it.
For me, like I said, I think I said this on the podcast, it's the equivalent of cinematic comfort food.
I know it's not the greatest movie ever made. I know it's not like perfect in any sense.
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But for me, it's like one of those movies that I can really just put on whenever I'd sort of see it as like a rainy day type movie.
Like if it's raining outside or if I'm sick and I'm in bed and I can't do anything, I can throw on Halloween.
And I know that I'll enjoy myself because it really is for me just like one of those types of movies.
So that would be my number one. And it's been that by the way, I think for years, like I think this became my like my number one on letterbox since probably since high school.
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I'm like, it's in the third year in college now. So it's been number one since like probably my junior year of high school honestly.
So it hasn't changed yet.
And because I guess I just absolutely I love it.
And then the other one that we also talked about as well on 4K criterion, fear and nothing in Las Vegas.
Again, there's not too much more I can say about it. However, I do have something that I do want to say about it because last time I listen to the podcast, actually I will see to the podcast we did on it like a few times because I really like it.
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I think it was a great conversations.
But there's something that I was like, oh, what a missed opportunity. I can't believe I wasn't prepared for that in this time.
I have the Wade speech and I'm going to recite it real quick. I'm going to quote it.
Because I think it is a great speech. It's a great piece of writing and I can't get completely encapsulates the theme and the thesis of both the book and the movie.
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So if you guys are mind I am going to do you can hear me for a second.
Go ahead.
Here we go.
You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right that we were winning.
And that I think was the handle that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil.
Not in any mean or military sense. We didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail.
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There was no point in fighting on our side of theirs. We had all the momentum.
We were writing the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now less than five years later you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west.
And with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
I feel like everything that needs to be said about that movie in that book is in that speech right there. So I'll just leave it at that.
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I know we're going to like kind of summarize this. I won't go to in depth.
The next one for me would be Pink Floyd the wall.
Since this is Andy a podcast that's endorsed or it's partly produced by the Beverly.
This is my own personal plea to the Beverly at the Beverly guys. Please show this movie.
This is a movie that I think absolutely should be shown in the theater. I think it would be amazing to see at the Beverly because it sounds amazing.
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It is one of the most amazing sounding movies I've ever heard in my entire life. Unfortunately it's all beyond DVD which kind of sucks because there's a lot of reasons for that.
The filmmakers don't really like it. It's a movie that's kind of hated by the people who made it.
And so because of that we haven't gone to Blu-ray released. We haven't gone to 4K release.
But also at the criterion collection I think you guys should do a release of this movie. Please remaster it in 4K or on Blu-ray.
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It is a great movie. It's an adaptation of an album by Pink Floyd called the Wall which came out in 1979.
It is a it's a rock opera concept album that tells this really epic story.
I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan there. My favorite band of all time. And I think this movie is awesome.
It is very weird and experimental and dark and creepy and it's a movie that I think stays with you long after you watch it.
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It has some really awesome animated sequences by Gerald Scarf who later went on to work with Disney in the late 90s.
So yeah it's just a great movie and it's a great sounding movie. The music is awesome.
And then finally my fourth on my list is another criterion and that's dazed and confused.
This is a movie that I was put on to actually both of these movies so Pink Floyd and Daisy confused on were both put on to me by my film teacher in high school.
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Mr. Paul was his name and he showed us a lot of movies and he showed us these two in those my first time watching both of them.
And they were both just life changing for me I really love both of these movies Daisy confused is Richard Link later second movie after slacker it's his first studio film.
It is the launching point for a lot of famous actors Matthew McConaughey obviously as Wooderson is amazing in this movie it is so funny also Ben Affleck or an a Zellweger are also in it as well.
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And it is just in my opinion I think it's arguably probably the greatest teen movie ever made.
It's sort of like a piece of anthropology where it's not really it's not story based it's not plot driven.
But you're sort of dropping in on these characters and you're just kind of living with them for this day following them around and yeah I think great movie I also think that it has the greatest movie soundtrack of all time which is really important to me because I love music and I love 70s rock and I think that in terms of 70s rock soundtrack it just doesn't get better than Dazed and confused so I'll stop rambling.
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But yeah those are my top four at the moment. Well it's I think it's so interesting that we started off this episode talking about musicals before we were talking.
You were like oh we like I don't know if people you know would see me as someone who's a big musical fan but like all horror movies you picked like very specifically have like really intense like musical cues and like have a to do with like the auditory experience of it as much as you will part love music I think music and movies is.
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But in that starts I think to from a very young age just like the movies that I love when I was younger like Star Wars and Indiana and jaws to obviously I mean you had John Williams I mean the greatest composer of all time and I was like a very I still do this to this day but I'm the type person who loves to just listen to movie scores I will listen to instrumentals I'll listen to soundtracks I think that movie the music go hand in hand I think they really do and they enhance it it's not just about the visuals it's also about the auditory experience as well.
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And so yeah I'm just a sucker for great music.
John Williams brought him up.
Yeah.
He does the on top of all the incredible.
He does her films.
He did the opening intro for NBC Nightly News which means I think he's only one away from Egot status because he now has an Emmy.
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Grammy and an Oscar so so he just needs a Tony I don't know if he's ever going to do anything Broadway related for the rest of his career but maybe hopefully that be great I'd be crazy those movies that you named as your favorites I was I've seen
three of them I have yet to see pink voice the wall but I I love pink Floyd so I don't know why I haven't seen it yet but but yeah I was really urged to watch those movies because of the musical experience related to the music.
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And I think the reason I think the reason pink Floyd the wall we actually watch the opening scene in our editing class notes really by the but but it's a hard movie to find it's not an easy movie to find.
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I ever saw it I remember my dad was watching it in the living room it was on TV and I was like really young I was like five years old and remember I like kind of came in and I was like what do you want not my top of the older that I don't know time time time is a
long time I went in and he was watching pink food the wall and it was like there's a scene where young pink goes into his mom's bedroom and he's trying to like wake her up and he just sees a skeleton in the bed and I remember as a kid that like really traumatized me.
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And so like for the longest time that movie really scared me and I remember when my film teacher did show it to us one day in class it was just like it starts with like that title pay for the wall of it all I know this like I kind of remember this for my childhood I knew pink Floyd a little bit I wasn't a big fan this movie really was sort of like what made me become a huge fan of them because I knew you know all in all it's just another brick in the wall like I knew that song and stuff but I didn't really know I didn't even know what the wall was.
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I didn't understand that the wall was like a metaphor I didn't really know that like in my mind I'm thinking like I guess it's an album about like an actual wall or something like I don't know but it's not it's like about trauma and sort of like these repressed the idea this wall is up there the bricks in the wall right there like a traumatic memories from your past that sort of shield you from other people and they kind of like you know shield you from the outside world in the sense but
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so yeah I just did this movie it made me fall it made me fall in love with pink Floyd and from then on I just I listened to the wall I listen to all their albums if you see on my water bottle I have only pink Floyd stickers because I'm number one diehard pink Floyd fan so also Jeff since you had the privilege of getting to review two of these movies on the podcast
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how would you say that like approaching them from like a critical standpoint has like changed or sort of deepened your love for these movies.
You know it was great to talk about them I it is hard for me to speak on that because I don't view myself as much of a critic I tried to approach this from a lens of like you know like what do I like what do I not like but without getting too deep into like a lot of the
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I don't know like subtext of them I like talking about movies in terms of like how I would try to talk about them with my friends so I'm like this is awesome this is cool I didn't really like this like I try to like keep it.
Free flowing so if you read my review they know they're not very like Roger eBirdie I some of them like some of them I do kind of go I like for the Halloween one I wrote like a six page tribute for that one but that was just me rambling honestly and just talking about stuff.
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So I don't know I don't it's hard for me to approach things from like a like an academic sense of like okay like let's really like try to think about like what's working here what's not I like to approach movies from like how did I feel while I was watching it what stuck out to me and even if it's something that's not like you know like plot or theme wise it's like oh this actor popped up I thought it was cool to see him or this song was there I really like that.
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And so in terms of like criticizing you know or analyzing these films I do like to analyze movies but I try to analyze it from more of like my own lens of like what works for me what does it without trying to be too like you know proper or professional if that makes sense.
I do I love Halloween I've always loved it so no matter what nothing would change that for me.
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Fear and loathing is actually one that I recently just put on my top for it used to be the shining was my fourth one but I was like I mean I love Cooperic I love the shining I think one of the greatest were movies ever made.
But I don't know very low think I've seen it like so many times and then with that podcast I even saw it again after that podcast with my dad because he listened to it and he was like okay I need to see this movie and I would like yes you do.
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And so we watched it and his take on it was that the movie was bad but Johnny Depp should have won an Oscar and I was like fair enough honestly I'll take it by bad works for me as long as somebody's acknowledged I think it's a great performance from Johnny Depp we don't need to get back into it again but yeah I don't know this movie it's it hasn't left me I've seen it a bunch of times but it's still in the back of my mind.
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I don't know it's one of these weird movies that's sort of like just broke through my subconscious and now it's just not leaving me so I was like I have to put it in my top four.
I'm so happy to have given you the opportunity to like go through at least two of your top four in such a depth.
I will go ahead and go next I am really excited to talk about my favorite movies. I will say I will note that my letter box top four are my current favorites so they're not my all time favorites I used to have like my top favorite movies listed there but then I just I don't know I was just watching so many good things and just wanted to
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to kind of recognize them in that way and not forget about them just to kind of keep them on my mind for a bit longer so my first movie is I would say it is my all time favorite movie but as of recent and that is lost highway to our company David Lynch I am a huge David Lynch fan I think he is a huge factor in in kind of me discovering all that film has to
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offer because I wasn't really interested in film before I started watching like I watched Twin Peaks and I was like who is this guy that came up with this and so then I started exploring his other movies and Mulholland Drive was my favorite for years I just really love that his films like have this very strong sense of ambiguity this very dream like state and it leaves gaps for your subconscious to fill and it is a
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lot of a lot of things and it's not like you're seeking kind of answers for his his intentions it's more of like an interactive experience with all that the films have to offer and so transitioning from Mulholland Drive being my favorite film for like years I think it's been like I named it as like my top favorite film for like the past five years but then I had watched the two Mulholland Drive and lost some of his
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films like Mulholland Drive and lost highway very close in time actually last month I watched Mulholland Drive at the Beverly and I had watched lost highway for my film theory class and kind of I don't know I just kind of relied on my feeling for both of those films and kind of what felt stronger in that moment and yeah it's kind of interesting to see like my transition for my love for
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Mulholland Drive although I still really love that movie like just seeing that transition and and seeing what film I've had more time I guess to to sit with and really think about and what I really tend to go back to.
But yeah besides just the fact that it's like a really crazy horror new noir film I just love the story the structures very engaging and I love that you don't know what's going on after the time.
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I don't know but yeah I'm also wearing my twin peak shirt today in honor of Dave and Bench but yeah I mean I could talk about my love for David Lynch for like ever he like going back to
to kind of getting into film I really didn't know all that film had to offer before watching some of his films but for the next film going back to kind of revisiting classics I put the thing as my second favorite
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I've only seen two Carpenter films so far but on my journey and revisiting classics because my childhood I didn't really grow up with classics like I said before my parents weren't really exposed to that like being with the way in
and they just showed me rushing cartoons when I was little there was no star wars no backs of the future and I love horror films and so I just have kind of been emphasizing going back and and visiting for the first time all these classic horror films like Halloween too I watch that for the first time just
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just a few years ago even though that's a film that so many people grew up with or watch at a younger age but yeah I love anything that is bloopy gory gnarly like I I think that's the main thing with the thing that you love is that it's just such an intense suspenseful experience and then it just has this these insane practical effects that are just
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so cool and I appreciate so much and again with a tinge of ambiguity like you don't really know the ending you kind of still have this very yeah ambiguous atmosphere this setting that really impacts the suspense so as well and it just leaves you with this like kind of desolate hopeless feeling I don't know that's what I get when watching it
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and and I mean I watch it for the first time at the Beverly honestly I think I've seen most of these films on yeah I've seen three out of four of my top four on letter box at the Beverly I just think the experience of watching them in a theater is just amazing but I do want to briefly go back to lost highway to
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because before the Beverly theater opened I didn't go to the movie theater as much as I would have liked and I have a very memorable experience of going to see lost highway the first few days after of the Beverly theater being open and it was the most amazing theater experience I have ever had the theater was filled the sound was like just I don't know just like
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I like assaulting my brain in the best way possible it was I don't know just seeing everyone's reactions being able to experience it with my friends and seeing all these people that also appreciate
like these movies as much as I do I just had an experience anything like that and so yeah I just love the Beverly theater for being around I mean I've had so many experiences like that ever since that first time seeing lost highway
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but the next movie on my letter box top four is Ron Lola Run also saw that saw that one at the Beverly and it is just an extremely stimulating experience both in structure and story
it's about this woman who gonna try not to spoil it too much but it's about this this woman who has to help her boyfriend with this money relate this difficult money relate
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this difficult money related thing and the movie ends up playing out with several different endings and her experience sys through them and yeah there are like so many movies where I've like kind of craved seeing a different
ending or like imagined it myself and this giving it in such a fun and exhilarating way is just instantly made it my favorite and then I mean the rhythm of the film as a whole
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the soundtrack is also so amazing I immediately went and bought it on CD luckily I found it at zero records like the text week but it is such a visual adventure and this again the soundtrack is so amazing and I absolutely adore it I'm really curious to hear if you guys have seen that movie as well
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I have and it's actually like that genre of like point eight point the movies is like one of my favorite is always like really high intensity you like yes full velocity my co-worker recommended to the team I was like does and it's like a Russian movie literally okay
but yeah that is a movie that like you you started and you finish it and you're like wow like that was an experience I had an error like so much energy for like the next week after that
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and I can like a lot of these movies I I name is like my favorites because they give me such an intense like like feeling after that I just can't ignore
and then the last movie is something that I watched in October again these are my current favorites so so a lot of them I did see recently or rewatched recently and that is slumber party massacre the second one I really enjoyed the first one
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it is just it's just such a classic I think I think everyone who loves worse should definitely check it out and I mean the most likely have it's just such can't be fun but the second one is just
even it's like absurd like to the extreme I think it's like you can tell that it was like directed by a woman and I absolutely love that too like it's ridiculous it's not typical at all
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and there is like symbolism there and it's it also has to do with surreal dream like experiences I'm always super interested in that I mean with my love for for David Lynch and and so so many other
films of surreal cinema this was just like a very like easy watch that is just so fun and entertaining I honestly could rewatch it like forever
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I'd and I also like there's this one part that I like absolutely guess me that kind of makes the movie like technically not the best but like it has such like weird transitions that go from like dream state to like supposed reality and then I don't know there's I don't want to spoil it because I really think you guys should watch it and experience it like freshly for your cells
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but there's this one part where the killer just just enters reality in the most absurd way and I love it so much it's so cheesy so campy and it's just an iconic teen horror comedy that I think everyone should
should watch at least once in their lives and and to build off that I do think to really understand the magic of silver pretty mask or two you do have to see the first one because there is a great of choice made involving the killer
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just incredible like the transformation this character is true between the first the second movie is on it's really magical is the best way to describe it.
No but I'm glad you you mentioned thing that I really related to what you said where like your favorite movies are the movies that really leave like a lasting impression on you and like whether it's like your fear with through like comedy or through just like weird cerebral.
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Kind of experience but yeah I think like before I had the ability to sort of articulate like how I felt about movies are like why I like to do is that I do.
The thing I would have just tell people is like yeah like if a movie like makes me forget that I'm watching a movie like I think that's good like that's like one of the highest marks a movie can kind of give.
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And that's kind of what just what you reminded me of when you said that.
Yeah that's exactly how I felt like watching all of these movies I just I know it's like so typical to say this of your favorite films but I just felt like so like in touch with that world I felt like I was there with all these movies like in summer party massacre too I thought I thought I was one of those teens in that in that condo party and
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being just and having all these dreams of this thriller killer who then later comes to life can I also just say so a couple things so the thing.
I have I have I've seen like a handful of John Carpenter movies the thing is a lot of people say it's his best movie again I'm like a Halloween person so I have to say that Halloween is better for me but it is probably the better movie with the.
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And really cool thing in Halloween they're watching the original the thing from another world on TV so John Carpenter was literally paying tribute to that movie yeah the Howard Hawks original one and then a few years later he ends up making the things and it was like this really big flop it was like a critical flop it was a financial flop and that was one of those movies kind of like
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in loading that sort of found his audience afterward bright like on the home video kind of market and I love the thing we actually just watched it in fry club not that long ago and it's it's just like and he's a master of atmosphere that's his thing he knows had to create the most tension and the most mood and atmosphere and he really pulls you into his movies and everything from the cinematography by Dean Condi the score by any
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on what I call it like it's the it's an awesome movie I will say they're just real quick as a small sign I wanted to ask you we were having this debate over what's the better alien horror classic movie the thing or alien I was just going to say I can't
though I haven't seen alien I know you got to see alien I'm calling you haven't seen so big classics I could name you a giant list I have a list on my letter box of late American classics that I have not and because I
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know what I don't know childhood well I think it's really cool about that those some of that not only have you not seen these classics but like a lot of them you don't know a lot about and I think that that is actually huge privilege because like I'll show people movies like like psycho and they'll already know like what happens
at the end of psycho so they're watching the whole movie with like you know 50 years of like cinema history knowing how the movie is going to end but you get to go back and watch like these movies like I would you know to see again for the first
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and you get to see them for the first time like unclouded I think that's really cool so yeah I think I definitely like feel that because like when I first started really getting into film my like immediately in like desire wasn't to go to
classics just because I never really understood them or like kind of felt any like connection to them I just immediately went for films that just were very adjacent to my interest or what I kind of already previously
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liked or saw that I was interested in film and and so I never yeah really like care to figure out what they were about so each time I watch a classic now I feel like it just be like I just get so fixated on it like it becomes my favorite for like a good few months like I definitely
might put jaws in my favorite or like I saw Rocky for the first time last year I am obsessed with Rocky like I love Rocky I just think it's such a great movie.
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I saw that wasn't that your that makes a little bit more sense like I saw your letter box review for jaws and it's something like I think Rocky should fight the shark or something and I was like wait what
it's with that but now that makes more sense to me. No I think I said I want to see Rocky catch a catch a shark or something I think a rocky jaws crossover would be absolutely amazing.
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Little would win the shark or Rocky. I want to see Rocky. Yeah it would be a good bite though. I think so. All right well you guys are still listening.
We'll be jumping into my top four which is probably I feel like one of the most just like a collected message of films.
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I gosh we're doing even sorry. Okay so to practice with this I have been switching up my letter box top four which is I found out this is what we're going to do for the
episode and up until about five minutes before we recorded the podcast I finally went to my final slot for my top four and so I'll start with probably one of my favorite like
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some of the most I'll see like cinema movies the towering in for you know 1970. Oh gosh if I remember I think it's 74 or 5.
It's like okay how do I it's in the name it's about a giant skyscraper that catches on fire and there's a bunch of people on the top four of the building and it has pretty much every actor from the 70s that you can think of Steve McQueen,
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Fate, Donowabe, Paul Newman just like all these like old like Hollywood like stars and legends. I guess what it really works for me is.
It's so melodramatic like it's like capital and just like drama like mello drama.
You know it's a lot of like people like with like ash and somewhere face like wiping it and like kissing each other and like holding each other in braces.
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I'm never going to let you go and then like the person dies immediately after it's just it's all it's all very chaotic but I really love it because it really harkens back to like the golden age of Hollywood in the 70s.
This movie was a nightmare to produce because it cost so much money all of the stars in it were fighting for who got top billing and in what order.
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And it actually fun fact invented the upside down Nike swoosh marketing tactic so if you ever seen a Marvel movie and you know Chris Evans and Robert Duney Jr.
And you know like all these different actors you'll notice their names will be arranged in an upside down Nike swoosh the reason being that if you're reading left to right.
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You know Robert any juniors they will come first and then Chris Hemsworth comes after but if you're reading it top to bottom it'll be Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. than whoever else.
So it's a very like weird kind of marketing thing that makes us so that nobody gets top building top billing but everyone gets a billing.
This movie invented that.
I don't know how to pitch people this movie because I think it's something that only I specifically like I'm not sure what the appetite is for a 1970s disaster movie.
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That is two and a half hours long when it came out in the 70s it was when movies had like intermissions like there's literally a part in the movie where it's like stop here for the intermission and then it continues back.
But I just love it because it's just such a campy mask.
And it makes a really good over feature with the beside adventure but that's for another day.
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My next pick is a 2018 film called climax which is probably the movie that I am most obsessed with.
I have a tattoo that is a quote from the film is directed by gas barn away.
So if you don't know who he is is a crazy little French guy who likes to make really violent and kind of disturbing movies that I use that like description with a dish claimer like he's not his films are very confrontational.
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And I think that's what I really like about them.
There's a lot of people who hate gas barn away and there's all the people who like gas barn away.
And I'm into camp that because he gets people talking about these conversations about you know what kind of violence what kind of depictions of bad things in cinema should be filmed I think that he's a director worse talking about I think he's a provocateur in a good way and back without his phones a lot of these discussions wouldn't be bad.
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And climax specifically really works for me because the moment I kind of let you were talking about it is like an experience of enough of you know like you watch it.
Yeah yeah you watch it and it kind of passes you by and by the end of the movie you're like oh my god like I just watch all of that and it really sticks with you the plot of the movie is essentially this trope of French dancers is rehearsing for show.
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In a demanding school and they're partying and they're drinking out of a bowl of punch or a sangria and they find out that somebody has laced the sangria where copious amounts of psychedelic drugs and the entire film is these dancers spiraling out of control.
And it's a race for them. You know it's your people hour and ten minutes or something like that completely off the battalion for an hour but the magic of the movie really exists.
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How was filmed most of the people in the film are not traditional actors their dancers who got sparring away hired to just kind of come on to set.
The film didn't really have a script to gas burn away kind of just would go around to people and say you know who do you want to fight you know who do you want to make out with you know what do you want to happen and based on what the actors and dancers would say he would write that into the into the screen and.
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The movies use of like color and movement is so frenetic that like when you watch it you just kind of become overtaken by it and it has I think my favorite dance sequence in like all of cinema it's like a 12 minute long unbroken single shot with a group choreography it's just it's incredible and I can't really.
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Hitch it without just saying like you have to be ready for it you have to be in the right state of mind for it but when you are check it out it's incredible the.
My next pick is a film by Peter walkins from 1971 called punishment park Peter walkins is a really interesting director he kind of invented the like mockumentary so he was initially.
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A commission by the bbc to create a documentary about the effects of nuclear war.
And he like made a documentary that was essentially say like oh this is what would happen if nuclear bomb went off and London and the bbc was like this is too upsetting we can't show this on TV.
Your fired and he said well this is a really effective way of making movies so he made a lot of fake documentaries in the nineteen seventies.
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And it's really interesting is when you hear the term mockumentary we kind of associate it with like comedy or like maybe found footage like horror films but these are like really.
Kind of grounded approaches to kind of far so goal ideas so punishment park.
And it came out during the height of like the counter Vietnam revolution you know people will really politically riled up following you know the late sixties and the those plot is the United States government has given people who were charged with seditious anti-American activities the opportunity to serve a full prison sentence or to go to a place called punishment park where they will be.
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Kind of use as training dolls for the US military and the national guard and it is a very bleak and scary movie but it's also been really influential it really influenced a lot of the filmmaking techniques they used in the heart locker.
And the most notably the MIA music video for born free which I really like and I remember when it came out because it was really controversial but if you watch that music video.
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It's really upsetting any you watch punishment park you kind of see a lot of where the camera movements and sort of color choices come from.
Totally recommend it you know someone again we're talking about movies that make you feel I think punishment park is a horror movie in the sense that like it's really scary but I think it's one of the only movies where I've ever felt.
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And I was actually like kind of see through the screen which I thought was really interesting like I've never had a movie that fell as angry as this one and I was it was just a really cool thing.
Experience like a filmmaker's anger and so I thought that was really cool and then my last pick is a 1988 movie called Miracle Mile which is my favorite movie to show at like a sleepover where like when I'm like.
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Showing a friend movie I show the Miracle Mile.
This movie as Anthony Edwards in it and marijuana ham.
And how do I even like it's it's a cult comedy classic action horror romance everything just kind of rolled up into one.
It was originally written to be the script for the Twilight Zone movie but the director was asked to change the ending.
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And he don't want to do that so he made it his own film and the plot is there's a sky who sort of just has never had good luck with women.
Never could find like a long term study girlfriend and then one day he meet the girl of his dreams and he sets up a late night date with her but he sleeps in he messes it.
He goes to the guy where they were supposed to meet and he gets a call on the phone booth the pay phone and he picks it up and somebody tells him nuclear bombs are on their way to Los Angeles and he is one hour to get out of the city or I'll sold I and then the phone hangs up.
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And the whole movie is just Anthony Edwards character kind of like going about this like crazy situation.
So when I think you would really like it because it has a lot of like dream logic to it which I really like.
Yeah everything you naming is like I'm like.
I'm a priority watch list is there only watch list but I just haven't really you know had that push to watch watch them yet.
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I was in the air come miles new miracle is the movie I could never get tired of because it has such like waking nightmare of a feel where but it's like it's it's all very colorful and beautiful so it's it's this weird thing like the plot is really dark but like it's played as a comedy and so it like you laugh also like it's really upsetting.
And just the blocking is insane every time I watch it I'll notice like a little thing that character who has like one line maybe we'll do in the background that makes me just like burst into laughter because it's so funny and it's such an interesting choice for their character they do.
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Jeff we were talking about like how hard it is to find.
Pinkfluest the wall anywhere except DVD Miracle Mile I think only exists on like DVD I don't know if there's a blu-ray copy of it.
The punishment park does exist in full on YouTube with no ads.
Peter Watkins uploaded all of his movies on the YouTube one day and just said yep if you want to watch them you can watch them here so if you're interested in watching from the show park you can watch it there.
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But yeah Beverly I would love it if you showed any of these movies bear hard to find and I would kill to see the towering inferno in full presentation with an intermission.
I think I just think I'll be a lot of fun but yeah those are mine for pics of your for pics like I said I'm so interested in seeing all of these because it just seems right up my alley it's just so difficult to figure out what.
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I think I want to watch each day but I have seen climax so is again one of those early films that I watched once I really started getting into film I mean I was like 15 years old just kind of crazy to watch climax at that age but I was like well this is a crazy experience.
I kind of love it like all time banger like movie soundtracks if you guys like techno music.
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Yes after just listen to the climax track.
I think that about wraps it up.
I'm walking away from this with studying urge to watch both days and confused and lost highway.
Oh, wrist-fired police so thank you for helping me figure out what I'm going to watch this weekend.
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Thank you guys too because because Jeff I have a few I need to watch the wall and there are some classics that you named that like days and confused that's one movie I love showing my friends and Davey like you just made my watch list for the next week also so thank you.
I need to see the slumber party massacre movies I haven't seen them I really want to I also want to tell you to I do love run low run I saw once again shadow Mister Jones he showed us that movie.
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Oh, it's a great techno soundtrack I remember to and just really cool editing so I do like run low run I will see the slumber party master movies Davey I haven't seen a single movie in your top for those hard for me to comment I will say I've heard the towering in for now I do love those kind of bulls bull 70s is that movie so I will see that one.
For sure in terms of what you said about the intermission at the Beverly all I can say to that is I want to see two dozen one space obviously there and they did it do the intermission because there is an intermission there but they like like it's like a two minute thing in the movie but like they just kept it as it is so they don't like actually do like intermission
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mission so if they do show your film I hope they do actually do the intermission because it is kind of adds to the whole experience of it and then the last thing I want to say to real quick climax I haven't seen it I honestly I actually the poster for quite a bit seen it on quite a few people stop for us on on letterbox I haven't seen a single movie by gasp for no it but based on how you were describing it you were kind of saying it's sort of like this feverish psychodelic Odyssey and it deals with drugs it kind of sounds to me like fear low
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there is a lot of the lights fear low the loss of a gas ran so climax could walk that maybe that's an inspiration there of the crawl so climax could one of the walls through a bathtub of the school and throw up absolutely well or we go all the line a little on an extent about the time and that what that is when I was working as a golf caddy at I'm named golf course here in the last day I had the place
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I had the pleasure question mark of being o jason's personal caddy for six months and the first thing I ever said to him to break a conversation was hey mr. sson I really loved you in the towering inferno to which he responded I was in that yes you were he said sorry a lot has happened in the sense I made that movie
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and that is a two bodies yeah that's how I started my professional relationship with o jason's and wish what ended a lot pretty abruptly so yeah that's all I have to say I guess at that point but you know I guess this means goodbye for real now so thank you guys so much for listening it has been a complete blast I'm so glad you guys tune in to hear what our top four favorites
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This semester, we discussed films screening at the Beverly Theatre.
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Las Vegas is only independent our house cinema and performance venue.
But this time, we're going to be discussing our personal favorite films.
I'm D.D. Parks, a fourth-year film major,
and graduate, we're looking at two weeks in counting.
And I am joined by...
Oh, and Jeff, I am third-year film major at UNLV.
I'm also the president of Bright Club, and I'm back.
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Congratulations on almost graduating, Davy, that's awesome.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Yes, yay, Davy.
And I'm Samona, I am also a third-year film major,
and I'm really excited to hear about your guys' favorites and share some of mine.
And you know, the "Goodbye," the "Dear Full Good Bives," we had last episode weren't in now.
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We needed to give you guys just one more episode,
running through some of our personal favorite films.
And before we get to that, though, I have you guys seen anything,
heard anything going on in the foam world recently that you guys want to talk about?
The most recent thing I've seen is Wicked.
I saw that at the theaters.
What they're going to, because I thought the trailers didn't look that great.
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Honestly, they didn't really sell me on it. I do like musicals.
I like around a Grande. I didn't really know too much about Cynthia Rivo,
but I was like, "Okay, you know, the trailers did it really wow me,
but I was hearing a lot of great things.
They got a lot of like really like good buzz."
Before it came out, I was like, "Okay, I have to go see it."
And I quite enjoyed it.
I think it was a little too long for a part one of a two-part story.
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It was two hours and 40 minutes, and I feel like it could have been easily two hours.
But I thought the music was great. I thought the acting was great.
It was funny. And I think the thing that I really appreciated the most about it was,
apparently there was a lot of like real sets that were used,
a lot of like practical effects, which I really appreciate.
I thought it was going to be a lot of CG, a lot of great screen,
and I was very pleased to see that it wasn't. So it's a great movie.
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Yeah, I wanted to go see it.
I was being, to be honest, I was really scared to go see in theaters.
I thought, kind of everything about it made it prime for just a really horrible,
just doing an experience. You know, it's a PG musical,
like a widely recognized IP with like a really big pop star attached to it.
But luckily my theater was very well respected and nobody sang during the screening.
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I really liked it too. Yeah, I thought it was really fun.
I was really interested in seeing how they were going to approach changing,
like the blocking and things for certain musical sequences throughout,
because you know, it's adapted from a stage play and how that sort of changes,
how the songs and the musicals go out.
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But I had a really good, the choreography was really fun.
And I thought Rene Grande did a pretty good job.
What about you, Jason? Have you seen anything as a flood?
Well, I haven't seen Wicked.
I don't immediately go to musicals when looking for something to watch.
I do appreciate a lot of really good musicals.
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But I don't know. It's not something that particularly piqued my interest.
But I've also made it my goal this year to watch new releases more consistently,
because I sometimes forget about new movies and just either revisit what I love
or something more adjacent to that.
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So yeah, maybe it's something new that I'll check out.
But I did watch Jaws for the first time.
Oh boy, what do you think?
I love Dead.
I think it's so ridiculous that I've seen The Meg and The Meg 2,
which terrible movie in the Panthenian is just not the best.
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I watched both on an airplane.
So yeah, I don't know. I thought I kind of liked the idea of like a shark movie.
And I mean, Jaws is a classic.
So I thought I have to watch it since I haven't seen a lot of classics.
What compel you to watch your Jaws?
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I just think race only have just been more interested in watching some classics
that I never like washed during my childhood.
I showed Jaws to a friend of mine who had never seen it.
And she expressed to me that she was shocked that Jaws is about only one shark
and not the perred of sharks because the word Jaws is plural.
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So she assumed that there were multiple sharks in the movie Jaws, but there's not.
So I just like to bring that up every time.
But yeah, so our goal with this episode today is to walk you guys through our top four letterbox pit
for those who may not be initiated into the very niche and cool sum culture of letterbox.
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Letterbox is a social media platform. I guess you would call it.
That essentially lets people catalog the movies that they've seen review them share them with friends,
make lists and things like that. And an essential part of any letterbox experience is choosing your top four.
So we'll be going through talking about each of our own picks.
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What they say about us. What do they say about our film tastes?
Let's do it. I am going to volunteer Jeff to start a thought.
I feel like a duty for me to go first because two of my top four are movies that we've already talked about.
The obvious one, I have them here with me, physical Halloween on 4K 1978.
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If you want to know my thoughts on you really can just kind of go back to those two episodes that we did and you'll hear it.
I mean, I think it's one of the greatest movies ever made.
I think it's such an influential horror movie. And I absolutely love it.
For me, like I said, I think I said this on the podcast, it's the equivalent of cinematic comfort food.
I know it's not the greatest movie ever made. I know it's not like perfect in any sense.
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But for me, it's like one of those movies that I can really just put on whenever I'd sort of see it as like a rainy day type movie.
Like if it's raining outside or if I'm sick and I'm in bed and I can't do anything, I can throw on Halloween.
And I know that I'll enjoy myself because it really is for me just like one of those types of movies.
So that would be my number one. And it's been that by the way, I think for years, like I think this became my like my number one on letterbox since probably since high school.
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I'm like, it's in the third year in college now. So it's been number one since like probably my junior year of high school honestly.
So it hasn't changed yet.
And because I guess I just absolutely I love it.
And then the other one that we also talked about as well on 4K criterion, fear and nothing in Las Vegas.
Again, there's not too much more I can say about it. However, I do have something that I do want to say about it because last time I listen to the podcast, actually I will see to the podcast we did on it like a few times because I really like it.
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I think it was a great conversations.
But there's something that I was like, oh, what a missed opportunity. I can't believe I wasn't prepared for that in this time.
I have the Wade speech and I'm going to recite it real quick. I'm going to quote it.
Because I think it is a great speech. It's a great piece of writing and I can't get completely encapsulates the theme and the thesis of both the book and the movie.
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So if you guys are mind I am going to do you can hear me for a second.
Go ahead.
Here we go.
You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right that we were winning.
And that I think was the handle that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil.
Not in any mean or military sense. We didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail.
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There was no point in fighting on our side of theirs. We had all the momentum.
We were writing the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now less than five years later you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west.
And with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
I feel like everything that needs to be said about that movie in that book is in that speech right there. So I'll just leave it at that.
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I know we're going to like kind of summarize this. I won't go to in depth.
The next one for me would be Pink Floyd the wall.
Since this is Andy a podcast that's endorsed or it's partly produced by the Beverly.
This is my own personal plea to the Beverly at the Beverly guys. Please show this movie.
This is a movie that I think absolutely should be shown in the theater. I think it would be amazing to see at the Beverly because it sounds amazing.
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It is one of the most amazing sounding movies I've ever heard in my entire life. Unfortunately it's all beyond DVD which kind of sucks because there's a lot of reasons for that.
The filmmakers don't really like it. It's a movie that's kind of hated by the people who made it.
And so because of that we haven't gone to Blu-ray released. We haven't gone to 4K release.
But also at the criterion collection I think you guys should do a release of this movie. Please remaster it in 4K or on Blu-ray.
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It is a great movie. It's an adaptation of an album by Pink Floyd called the Wall which came out in 1979.
It is a it's a rock opera concept album that tells this really epic story.
I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan there. My favorite band of all time. And I think this movie is awesome.
It is very weird and experimental and dark and creepy and it's a movie that I think stays with you long after you watch it.
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It has some really awesome animated sequences by Gerald Scarf who later went on to work with Disney in the late 90s.
So yeah it's just a great movie and it's a great sounding movie. The music is awesome.
And then finally my fourth on my list is another criterion and that's dazed and confused.
This is a movie that I was put on to actually both of these movies so Pink Floyd and Daisy confused on were both put on to me by my film teacher in high school.
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Mr. Paul was his name and he showed us a lot of movies and he showed us these two in those my first time watching both of them.
And they were both just life changing for me I really love both of these movies Daisy confused is Richard Link later second movie after slacker it's his first studio film.
It is the launching point for a lot of famous actors Matthew McConaughey obviously as Wooderson is amazing in this movie it is so funny also Ben Affleck or an a Zellweger are also in it as well.
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And it is just in my opinion I think it's arguably probably the greatest teen movie ever made.
It's sort of like a piece of anthropology where it's not really it's not story based it's not plot driven.
But you're sort of dropping in on these characters and you're just kind of living with them for this day following them around and yeah I think great movie I also think that it has the greatest movie soundtrack of all time which is really important to me because I love music and I love 70s rock and I think that in terms of 70s rock soundtrack it just doesn't get better than Dazed and confused so I'll stop rambling.
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But yeah those are my top four at the moment. Well it's I think it's so interesting that we started off this episode talking about musicals before we were talking.
You were like oh we like I don't know if people you know would see me as someone who's a big musical fan but like all horror movies you picked like very specifically have like really intense like musical cues and like have a to do with like the auditory experience of it as much as you will part love music I think music and movies is.
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But in that starts I think to from a very young age just like the movies that I love when I was younger like Star Wars and Indiana and jaws to obviously I mean you had John Williams I mean the greatest composer of all time and I was like a very I still do this to this day but I'm the type person who loves to just listen to movie scores I will listen to instrumentals I'll listen to soundtracks I think that movie the music go hand in hand I think they really do and they enhance it it's not just about the visuals it's also about the auditory experience as well.
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And so yeah I'm just a sucker for great music.
John Williams brought him up.
Yeah.
He does the on top of all the incredible.
He does her films.
He did the opening intro for NBC Nightly News which means I think he's only one away from Egot status because he now has an Emmy.
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Grammy and an Oscar so so he just needs a Tony I don't know if he's ever going to do anything Broadway related for the rest of his career but maybe hopefully that be great I'd be crazy those movies that you named as your favorites I was I've seen
three of them I have yet to see pink voice the wall but I I love pink Floyd so I don't know why I haven't seen it yet but but yeah I was really urged to watch those movies because of the musical experience related to the music.
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And I think the reason I think the reason pink Floyd the wall we actually watch the opening scene in our editing class notes really by the but but it's a hard movie to find it's not an easy movie to find.
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I ever saw it I remember my dad was watching it in the living room it was on TV and I was like really young I was like five years old and remember I like kind of came in and I was like what do you want not my top of the older that I don't know time time time is a
long time I went in and he was watching pink food the wall and it was like there's a scene where young pink goes into his mom's bedroom and he's trying to like wake her up and he just sees a skeleton in the bed and I remember as a kid that like really traumatized me.
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And so like for the longest time that movie really scared me and I remember when my film teacher did show it to us one day in class it was just like it starts with like that title pay for the wall of it all I know this like I kind of remember this for my childhood I knew pink Floyd a little bit I wasn't a big fan this movie really was sort of like what made me become a huge fan of them because I knew you know all in all it's just another brick in the wall like I knew that song and stuff but I didn't really know I didn't even know what the wall was.
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I didn't understand that the wall was like a metaphor I didn't really know that like in my mind I'm thinking like I guess it's an album about like an actual wall or something like I don't know but it's not it's like about trauma and sort of like these repressed the idea this wall is up there the bricks in the wall right there like a traumatic memories from your past that sort of shield you from other people and they kind of like you know shield you from the outside world in the sense but
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so yeah I just did this movie it made me fall it made me fall in love with pink Floyd and from then on I just I listened to the wall I listen to all their albums if you see on my water bottle I have only pink Floyd stickers because I'm number one diehard pink Floyd fan so also Jeff since you had the privilege of getting to review two of these movies on the podcast
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how would you say that like approaching them from like a critical standpoint has like changed or sort of deepened your love for these movies.
You know it was great to talk about them I it is hard for me to speak on that because I don't view myself as much of a critic I tried to approach this from a lens of like you know like what do I like what do I not like but without getting too deep into like a lot of the
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I don't know like subtext of them I like talking about movies in terms of like how I would try to talk about them with my friends so I'm like this is awesome this is cool I didn't really like this like I try to like keep it.
Free flowing so if you read my review they know they're not very like Roger eBirdie I some of them like some of them I do kind of go I like for the Halloween one I wrote like a six page tribute for that one but that was just me rambling honestly and just talking about stuff.
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So I don't know I don't it's hard for me to approach things from like a like an academic sense of like okay like let's really like try to think about like what's working here what's not I like to approach movies from like how did I feel while I was watching it what stuck out to me and even if it's something that's not like you know like plot or theme wise it's like oh this actor popped up I thought it was cool to see him or this song was there I really like that.
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And so in terms of like criticizing you know or analyzing these films I do like to analyze movies but I try to analyze it from more of like my own lens of like what works for me what does it without trying to be too like you know proper or professional if that makes sense.
I do I love Halloween I've always loved it so no matter what nothing would change that for me.
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Fear and loathing is actually one that I recently just put on my top for it used to be the shining was my fourth one but I was like I mean I love Cooperic I love the shining I think one of the greatest were movies ever made.
But I don't know very low think I've seen it like so many times and then with that podcast I even saw it again after that podcast with my dad because he listened to it and he was like okay I need to see this movie and I would like yes you do.
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And so we watched it and his take on it was that the movie was bad but Johnny Depp should have won an Oscar and I was like fair enough honestly I'll take it by bad works for me as long as somebody's acknowledged I think it's a great performance from Johnny Depp we don't need to get back into it again but yeah I don't know this movie it's it hasn't left me I've seen it a bunch of times but it's still in the back of my mind.
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I don't know it's one of these weird movies that's sort of like just broke through my subconscious and now it's just not leaving me so I was like I have to put it in my top four.
I'm so happy to have given you the opportunity to like go through at least two of your top four in such a depth.
I will go ahead and go next I am really excited to talk about my favorite movies. I will say I will note that my letter box top four are my current favorites so they're not my all time favorites I used to have like my top favorite movies listed there but then I just I don't know I was just watching so many good things and just wanted to
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to kind of recognize them in that way and not forget about them just to kind of keep them on my mind for a bit longer so my first movie is I would say it is my all time favorite movie but as of recent and that is lost highway to our company David Lynch I am a huge David Lynch fan I think he is a huge factor in in kind of me discovering all that film has to
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offer because I wasn't really interested in film before I started watching like I watched Twin Peaks and I was like who is this guy that came up with this and so then I started exploring his other movies and Mulholland Drive was my favorite for years I just really love that his films like have this very strong sense of ambiguity this very dream like state and it leaves gaps for your subconscious to fill and it is a
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lot of a lot of things and it's not like you're seeking kind of answers for his his intentions it's more of like an interactive experience with all that the films have to offer and so transitioning from Mulholland Drive being my favorite film for like years I think it's been like I named it as like my top favorite film for like the past five years but then I had watched the two Mulholland Drive and lost some of his
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films like Mulholland Drive and lost highway very close in time actually last month I watched Mulholland Drive at the Beverly and I had watched lost highway for my film theory class and kind of I don't know I just kind of relied on my feeling for both of those films and kind of what felt stronger in that moment and yeah it's kind of interesting to see like my transition for my love for
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Mulholland Drive although I still really love that movie like just seeing that transition and and seeing what film I've had more time I guess to to sit with and really think about and what I really tend to go back to.
But yeah besides just the fact that it's like a really crazy horror new noir film I just love the story the structures very engaging and I love that you don't know what's going on after the time.
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I don't know but yeah I'm also wearing my twin peak shirt today in honor of Dave and Bench but yeah I mean I could talk about my love for David Lynch for like ever he like going back to
to kind of getting into film I really didn't know all that film had to offer before watching some of his films but for the next film going back to kind of revisiting classics I put the thing as my second favorite
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I've only seen two Carpenter films so far but on my journey and revisiting classics because my childhood I didn't really grow up with classics like I said before my parents weren't really exposed to that like being with the way in
and they just showed me rushing cartoons when I was little there was no star wars no backs of the future and I love horror films and so I just have kind of been emphasizing going back and and visiting for the first time all these classic horror films like Halloween too I watch that for the first time just
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just a few years ago even though that's a film that so many people grew up with or watch at a younger age but yeah I love anything that is bloopy gory gnarly like I I think that's the main thing with the thing that you love is that it's just such an intense suspenseful experience and then it just has this these insane practical effects that are just
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so cool and I appreciate so much and again with a tinge of ambiguity like you don't really know the ending you kind of still have this very yeah ambiguous atmosphere this setting that really impacts the suspense so as well and it just leaves you with this like kind of desolate hopeless feeling I don't know that's what I get when watching it
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and and I mean I watch it for the first time at the Beverly honestly I think I've seen most of these films on yeah I've seen three out of four of my top four on letter box at the Beverly I just think the experience of watching them in a theater is just amazing but I do want to briefly go back to lost highway to
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because before the Beverly theater opened I didn't go to the movie theater as much as I would have liked and I have a very memorable experience of going to see lost highway the first few days after of the Beverly theater being open and it was the most amazing theater experience I have ever had the theater was filled the sound was like just I don't know just like
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I like assaulting my brain in the best way possible it was I don't know just seeing everyone's reactions being able to experience it with my friends and seeing all these people that also appreciate
like these movies as much as I do I just had an experience anything like that and so yeah I just love the Beverly theater for being around I mean I've had so many experiences like that ever since that first time seeing lost highway
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but the next movie on my letter box top four is Ron Lola Run also saw that saw that one at the Beverly and it is just an extremely stimulating experience both in structure and story
it's about this woman who gonna try not to spoil it too much but it's about this this woman who has to help her boyfriend with this money relate this difficult money relate
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this difficult money related thing and the movie ends up playing out with several different endings and her experience sys through them and yeah there are like so many movies where I've like kind of craved seeing a different
ending or like imagined it myself and this giving it in such a fun and exhilarating way is just instantly made it my favorite and then I mean the rhythm of the film as a whole
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the soundtrack is also so amazing I immediately went and bought it on CD luckily I found it at zero records like the text week but it is such a visual adventure and this again the soundtrack is so amazing and I absolutely adore it I'm really curious to hear if you guys have seen that movie as well
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I have and it's actually like that genre of like point eight point the movies is like one of my favorite is always like really high intensity you like yes full velocity my co-worker recommended to the team I was like does and it's like a Russian movie literally okay
but yeah that is a movie that like you you started and you finish it and you're like wow like that was an experience I had an error like so much energy for like the next week after that
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and I can like a lot of these movies I I name is like my favorites because they give me such an intense like like feeling after that I just can't ignore
and then the last movie is something that I watched in October again these are my current favorites so so a lot of them I did see recently or rewatched recently and that is slumber party massacre the second one I really enjoyed the first one
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it is just it's just such a classic I think I think everyone who loves worse should definitely check it out and I mean the most likely have it's just such can't be fun but the second one is just
even it's like absurd like to the extreme I think it's like you can tell that it was like directed by a woman and I absolutely love that too like it's ridiculous it's not typical at all
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and there is like symbolism there and it's it also has to do with surreal dream like experiences I'm always super interested in that I mean with my love for for David Lynch and and so so many other
films of surreal cinema this was just like a very like easy watch that is just so fun and entertaining I honestly could rewatch it like forever
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I'd and I also like there's this one part that I like absolutely guess me that kind of makes the movie like technically not the best but like it has such like weird transitions that go from like dream state to like supposed reality and then I don't know there's I don't want to spoil it because I really think you guys should watch it and experience it like freshly for your cells
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but there's this one part where the killer just just enters reality in the most absurd way and I love it so much it's so cheesy so campy and it's just an iconic teen horror comedy that I think everyone should
should watch at least once in their lives and and to build off that I do think to really understand the magic of silver pretty mask or two you do have to see the first one because there is a great of choice made involving the killer
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just incredible like the transformation this character is true between the first the second movie is on it's really magical is the best way to describe it.
No but I'm glad you you mentioned thing that I really related to what you said where like your favorite movies are the movies that really leave like a lasting impression on you and like whether it's like your fear with through like comedy or through just like weird cerebral.
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Kind of experience but yeah I think like before I had the ability to sort of articulate like how I felt about movies are like why I like to do is that I do.
The thing I would have just tell people is like yeah like if a movie like makes me forget that I'm watching a movie like I think that's good like that's like one of the highest marks a movie can kind of give.
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And that's kind of what just what you reminded me of when you said that.
Yeah that's exactly how I felt like watching all of these movies I just I know it's like so typical to say this of your favorite films but I just felt like so like in touch with that world I felt like I was there with all these movies like in summer party massacre too I thought I thought I was one of those teens in that in that condo party and
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being just and having all these dreams of this thriller killer who then later comes to life can I also just say so a couple things so the thing.
I have I have I've seen like a handful of John Carpenter movies the thing is a lot of people say it's his best movie again I'm like a Halloween person so I have to say that Halloween is better for me but it is probably the better movie with the.
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And really cool thing in Halloween they're watching the original the thing from another world on TV so John Carpenter was literally paying tribute to that movie yeah the Howard Hawks original one and then a few years later he ends up making the things and it was like this really big flop it was like a critical flop it was a financial flop and that was one of those movies kind of like
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in loading that sort of found his audience afterward bright like on the home video kind of market and I love the thing we actually just watched it in fry club not that long ago and it's it's just like and he's a master of atmosphere that's his thing he knows had to create the most tension and the most mood and atmosphere and he really pulls you into his movies and everything from the cinematography by Dean Condi the score by any
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on what I call it like it's the it's an awesome movie I will say they're just real quick as a small sign I wanted to ask you we were having this debate over what's the better alien horror classic movie the thing or alien I was just going to say I can't
though I haven't seen alien I know you got to see alien I'm calling you haven't seen so big classics I could name you a giant list I have a list on my letter box of late American classics that I have not and because I
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know what I don't know childhood well I think it's really cool about that those some of that not only have you not seen these classics but like a lot of them you don't know a lot about and I think that that is actually huge privilege because like I'll show people movies like like psycho and they'll already know like what happens
at the end of psycho so they're watching the whole movie with like you know 50 years of like cinema history knowing how the movie is going to end but you get to go back and watch like these movies like I would you know to see again for the first
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and you get to see them for the first time like unclouded I think that's really cool so yeah I think I definitely like feel that because like when I first started really getting into film my like immediately in like desire wasn't to go to
classics just because I never really understood them or like kind of felt any like connection to them I just immediately went for films that just were very adjacent to my interest or what I kind of already previously
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liked or saw that I was interested in film and and so I never yeah really like care to figure out what they were about so each time I watch a classic now I feel like it just be like I just get so fixated on it like it becomes my favorite for like a good few months like I definitely
might put jaws in my favorite or like I saw Rocky for the first time last year I am obsessed with Rocky like I love Rocky I just think it's such a great movie.
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I saw that wasn't that your that makes a little bit more sense like I saw your letter box review for jaws and it's something like I think Rocky should fight the shark or something and I was like wait what
it's with that but now that makes more sense to me. No I think I said I want to see Rocky catch a catch a shark or something I think a rocky jaws crossover would be absolutely amazing.
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Little would win the shark or Rocky. I want to see Rocky. Yeah it would be a good bite though. I think so. All right well you guys are still listening.
We'll be jumping into my top four which is probably I feel like one of the most just like a collected message of films.
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I gosh we're doing even sorry. Okay so to practice with this I have been switching up my letter box top four which is I found out this is what we're going to do for the
episode and up until about five minutes before we recorded the podcast I finally went to my final slot for my top four and so I'll start with probably one of my favorite like
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some of the most I'll see like cinema movies the towering in for you know 1970. Oh gosh if I remember I think it's 74 or 5.
It's like okay how do I it's in the name it's about a giant skyscraper that catches on fire and there's a bunch of people on the top four of the building and it has pretty much every actor from the 70s that you can think of Steve McQueen,
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Fate, Donowabe, Paul Newman just like all these like old like Hollywood like stars and legends. I guess what it really works for me is.
It's so melodramatic like it's like capital and just like drama like mello drama.
You know it's a lot of like people like with like ash and somewhere face like wiping it and like kissing each other and like holding each other in braces.
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I'm never going to let you go and then like the person dies immediately after it's just it's all it's all very chaotic but I really love it because it really harkens back to like the golden age of Hollywood in the 70s.
This movie was a nightmare to produce because it cost so much money all of the stars in it were fighting for who got top billing and in what order.
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And it actually fun fact invented the upside down Nike swoosh marketing tactic so if you ever seen a Marvel movie and you know Chris Evans and Robert Duney Jr.
And you know like all these different actors you'll notice their names will be arranged in an upside down Nike swoosh the reason being that if you're reading left to right.
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You know Robert any juniors they will come first and then Chris Hemsworth comes after but if you're reading it top to bottom it'll be Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. than whoever else.
So it's a very like weird kind of marketing thing that makes us so that nobody gets top building top billing but everyone gets a billing.
This movie invented that.
I don't know how to pitch people this movie because I think it's something that only I specifically like I'm not sure what the appetite is for a 1970s disaster movie.
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That is two and a half hours long when it came out in the 70s it was when movies had like intermissions like there's literally a part in the movie where it's like stop here for the intermission and then it continues back.
But I just love it because it's just such a campy mask.
And it makes a really good over feature with the beside adventure but that's for another day.
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My next pick is a 2018 film called climax which is probably the movie that I am most obsessed with.
I have a tattoo that is a quote from the film is directed by gas barn away.
So if you don't know who he is is a crazy little French guy who likes to make really violent and kind of disturbing movies that I use that like description with a dish claimer like he's not his films are very confrontational.
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And I think that's what I really like about them.
There's a lot of people who hate gas barn away and there's all the people who like gas barn away.
And I'm into camp that because he gets people talking about these conversations about you know what kind of violence what kind of depictions of bad things in cinema should be filmed I think that he's a director worse talking about I think he's a provocateur in a good way and back without his phones a lot of these discussions wouldn't be bad.
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And climax specifically really works for me because the moment I kind of let you were talking about it is like an experience of enough of you know like you watch it.
Yeah yeah you watch it and it kind of passes you by and by the end of the movie you're like oh my god like I just watch all of that and it really sticks with you the plot of the movie is essentially this trope of French dancers is rehearsing for show.
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In a demanding school and they're partying and they're drinking out of a bowl of punch or a sangria and they find out that somebody has laced the sangria where copious amounts of psychedelic drugs and the entire film is these dancers spiraling out of control.
And it's a race for them. You know it's your people hour and ten minutes or something like that completely off the battalion for an hour but the magic of the movie really exists.
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How was filmed most of the people in the film are not traditional actors their dancers who got sparring away hired to just kind of come on to set.
The film didn't really have a script to gas burn away kind of just would go around to people and say you know who do you want to fight you know who do you want to make out with you know what do you want to happen and based on what the actors and dancers would say he would write that into the into the screen and.
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The movies use of like color and movement is so frenetic that like when you watch it you just kind of become overtaken by it and it has I think my favorite dance sequence in like all of cinema it's like a 12 minute long unbroken single shot with a group choreography it's just it's incredible and I can't really.
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Hitch it without just saying like you have to be ready for it you have to be in the right state of mind for it but when you are check it out it's incredible the.
My next pick is a film by Peter walkins from 1971 called punishment park Peter walkins is a really interesting director he kind of invented the like mockumentary so he was initially.
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A commission by the bbc to create a documentary about the effects of nuclear war.
And he like made a documentary that was essentially say like oh this is what would happen if nuclear bomb went off and London and the bbc was like this is too upsetting we can't show this on TV.
Your fired and he said well this is a really effective way of making movies so he made a lot of fake documentaries in the nineteen seventies.
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And it's really interesting is when you hear the term mockumentary we kind of associate it with like comedy or like maybe found footage like horror films but these are like really.
Kind of grounded approaches to kind of far so goal ideas so punishment park.
And it came out during the height of like the counter Vietnam revolution you know people will really politically riled up following you know the late sixties and the those plot is the United States government has given people who were charged with seditious anti-American activities the opportunity to serve a full prison sentence or to go to a place called punishment park where they will be.
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Kind of use as training dolls for the US military and the national guard and it is a very bleak and scary movie but it's also been really influential it really influenced a lot of the filmmaking techniques they used in the heart locker.
And the most notably the MIA music video for born free which I really like and I remember when it came out because it was really controversial but if you watch that music video.
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It's really upsetting any you watch punishment park you kind of see a lot of where the camera movements and sort of color choices come from.
Totally recommend it you know someone again we're talking about movies that make you feel I think punishment park is a horror movie in the sense that like it's really scary but I think it's one of the only movies where I've ever felt.
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And I was actually like kind of see through the screen which I thought was really interesting like I've never had a movie that fell as angry as this one and I was it was just a really cool thing.
Experience like a filmmaker's anger and so I thought that was really cool and then my last pick is a 1988 movie called Miracle Mile which is my favorite movie to show at like a sleepover where like when I'm like.
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Showing a friend movie I show the Miracle Mile.
This movie as Anthony Edwards in it and marijuana ham.
And how do I even like it's it's a cult comedy classic action horror romance everything just kind of rolled up into one.
It was originally written to be the script for the Twilight Zone movie but the director was asked to change the ending.
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And he don't want to do that so he made it his own film and the plot is there's a sky who sort of just has never had good luck with women.
Never could find like a long term study girlfriend and then one day he meet the girl of his dreams and he sets up a late night date with her but he sleeps in he messes it.
He goes to the guy where they were supposed to meet and he gets a call on the phone booth the pay phone and he picks it up and somebody tells him nuclear bombs are on their way to Los Angeles and he is one hour to get out of the city or I'll sold I and then the phone hangs up.
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And the whole movie is just Anthony Edwards character kind of like going about this like crazy situation.
So when I think you would really like it because it has a lot of like dream logic to it which I really like.
Yeah everything you naming is like I'm like.
I'm a priority watch list is there only watch list but I just haven't really you know had that push to watch watch them yet.
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I was in the air come miles new miracle is the movie I could never get tired of because it has such like waking nightmare of a feel where but it's like it's it's all very colorful and beautiful so it's it's this weird thing like the plot is really dark but like it's played as a comedy and so it like you laugh also like it's really upsetting.
And just the blocking is insane every time I watch it I'll notice like a little thing that character who has like one line maybe we'll do in the background that makes me just like burst into laughter because it's so funny and it's such an interesting choice for their character they do.
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Jeff we were talking about like how hard it is to find.
Pinkfluest the wall anywhere except DVD Miracle Mile I think only exists on like DVD I don't know if there's a blu-ray copy of it.
The punishment park does exist in full on YouTube with no ads.
Peter Watkins uploaded all of his movies on the YouTube one day and just said yep if you want to watch them you can watch them here so if you're interested in watching from the show park you can watch it there.
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But yeah Beverly I would love it if you showed any of these movies bear hard to find and I would kill to see the towering inferno in full presentation with an intermission.
I think I just think I'll be a lot of fun but yeah those are mine for pics of your for pics like I said I'm so interested in seeing all of these because it just seems right up my alley it's just so difficult to figure out what.
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I think I want to watch each day but I have seen climax so is again one of those early films that I watched once I really started getting into film I mean I was like 15 years old just kind of crazy to watch climax at that age but I was like well this is a crazy experience.
I kind of love it like all time banger like movie soundtracks if you guys like techno music.
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Yes after just listen to the climax track.
I think that about wraps it up.
I'm walking away from this with studying urge to watch both days and confused and lost highway.
Oh, wrist-fired police so thank you for helping me figure out what I'm going to watch this weekend.
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Thank you guys too because because Jeff I have a few I need to watch the wall and there are some classics that you named that like days and confused that's one movie I love showing my friends and Davey like you just made my watch list for the next week also so thank you.
I need to see the slumber party massacre movies I haven't seen them I really want to I also want to tell you to I do love run low run I saw once again shadow Mister Jones he showed us that movie.
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Oh, it's a great techno soundtrack I remember to and just really cool editing so I do like run low run I will see the slumber party master movies Davey I haven't seen a single movie in your top for those hard for me to comment I will say I've heard the towering in for now I do love those kind of bulls bull 70s is that movie so I will see that one.
For sure in terms of what you said about the intermission at the Beverly all I can say to that is I want to see two dozen one space obviously there and they did it do the intermission because there is an intermission there but they like like it's like a two minute thing in the movie but like they just kept it as it is so they don't like actually do like intermission
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mission so if they do show your film I hope they do actually do the intermission because it is kind of adds to the whole experience of it and then the last thing I want to say to real quick climax I haven't seen it I honestly I actually the poster for quite a bit seen it on quite a few people stop for us on on letterbox I haven't seen a single movie by gasp for no it but based on how you were describing it you were kind of saying it's sort of like this feverish psychodelic Odyssey and it deals with drugs it kind of sounds to me like fear low
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there is a lot of the lights fear low the loss of a gas ran so climax could walk that maybe that's an inspiration there of the crawl so climax could one of the walls through a bathtub of the school and throw up absolutely well or we go all the line a little on an extent about the time and that what that is when I was working as a golf caddy at I'm named golf course here in the last day I had the place
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I had the pleasure question mark of being o jason's personal caddy for six months and the first thing I ever said to him to break a conversation was hey mr. sson I really loved you in the towering inferno to which he responded I was in that yes you were he said sorry a lot has happened in the sense I made that movie
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and that is a two bodies yeah that's how I started my professional relationship with o jason's and wish what ended a lot pretty abruptly so yeah that's all I have to say I guess at that point but you know I guess this means goodbye for real now so thank you guys so much for listening it has been a complete blast I'm so glad you guys tune in to hear what our top four favorites
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Cold Case Files: Miami
Joyce Sapp, 76; Bryan Herrera, 16; and Laurance Webb, 32—three Miami residents whose lives were stolen in brutal, unsolved homicides. Cold Case Files: Miami follows award‑winning radio host and City of Miami Police reserve officer Enrique Santos as he partners with the department’s Cold Case Homicide Unit, determined family members, and the advocates who spend their lives fighting for justice for the victims who can no longer fight for themselves.