You're Missing Out: A National Film Registry Podcast
Since 1989, the National Film Registry has selected 25 films each year that are deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In each episode, Mike Natale (Yahoo!) and Tom Lorenzo (Men's Journal) bring on a special guest to take a look at one of the films from the registry, to get to the heart of why these films matter.
Episodes
"It Will Make You a Better Southerner"- tagline from the Birmingham Age-Herald in 1916
We've now hit 100 National Film Registry titles covered on this podcast, and for this milestone episode, we decided to tackle the National Film Registry inductee that has most ominously loomed above this show since we began: D.W. Griffith's vile, hateful, and unfortunately influential 1915 blockbuster The Birth of a Nation.
Longtime friend of the...
"A story of the race with an ALL-COLORED CAST"
For our penultimate episode of the season, we provide a feature-length commentary for Oscar Micheaux's landmark proto-race film Within Our Gates (1920). To watch the film along with us, head to our YouTube page.
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Music by Mike Natale
"WHO WEARS THE PANTS?"
Tired of episodes where Mike and Tom bicker like a couple? Great news, for Adam's Rib, Mike's real-life significant other, editor Bella Zaydenberg, returns to the show to discuss Adam's Rib. Which of course means, she'll try and inject some well-researched facts into the mix, while Mike and Tom continue to bicker like a couple. This time, they'll talk Tracy, Hepburn, who was right in the courtroom, and whethe...
"Bruce Baillie makes avant-garde films with the gifts of a painter and the objectives of a sign painter."
This week, we sat down as just Tom and Mike to talk about Bruce Baillie's Castro Street. But more than that, we sat down to, in a sense, "How To Watch Experimental Films (If You Don't Like Experimental Films)". After Tom notably had no patience for Dog Star Man earlier this season, Mike was surprised to find Tom really resonate...
"Let the old buzzard flap his wings right over me. Till he comes down and gets me, I got a lotta livin' to do."
Our newest team member Amanda Rush joins us to talk about Otto Preminger's barrier-breaking Cinemascope musical Carmen Jones. We talk opera, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and a form of short film called "Soundies."
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"The only film to ever be blacklisted!"
Kyle Lampar steps out of the producer role to join us for a conversation about HUAC, the Hollywood Ten, and the only film to ever be blacklisted, Salt of the Earth (1954). Since this unique film was made by creatives caught up in the Red Scare, we begin our episode with a quick history of the Hollywood Blacklist, before getting into the merits, and the flaws, of this landmark work of cinema.
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"Never has the screen thrust so deeply into the guts of war!"
Screenwriter Michael H. Weber (500 Days of Summer, The Disaster Artist) returns to the show to talk about one of Stanley Kubrick's under-discussed masterworks, the stirring Kirk Douglas-led war film Paths of Glory (1957)! We'll talk pacifism, systemic failure, and how this anti-war film compares to Kubrick's own later film, Full Metal Jacket.
Hosts:
Michael Natale
"The strangest damned gang you ever heard of. They're young. They're in love. They rob banks."
This week, Mike Natale and Tom Lorenzo work as a duo to unpack one of the most controversial and game-changing American films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde (1967). They'll take a look at a tumultuous pre-production process, a titanic Oscar year, and tons of bullets taking down two of the most beautiful young stars of mid-century Hollywoo...
"Showdown in the High Sierra!"
Our two weary cowboy hosts form a posse with film critic Tom Augustine to journey into the world of Sam Peckinpah with what is perhaps a surprising pick for Bloody Sam's first entry into the National Film Registry, the Randolph Scott/Joel McCrea two-hander Ride the High Country (1962)
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"The story of a man who turned the other cheek- And got punched in the nose!"
Mike and Tom are all set to be joined by a surprise guest for their episode about the hijink filled buddy comedy Big Business (1929) from the iconic comedy duo of Laurel & Hardy. But just who booked the surprise guest, and when will they get there?
Hosts:
Michael Natale
Tom Lorenzo
Producer:
Kyle Lampar
Guest:
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"Who is this woman who scorns a hundred men...to give her love to a Devil-May-Care Soldier?"
Alonso Duralde, author of the new book Hollywood Pride, joins us to talk the lady in the tux who takes center stage on the cover of his book, as we dive into 1930's war-torn romance, Morocco. We examine the film's queer undertones (or, really, overtones), the iconography of Marlene Dietrich, and what the film shares in common with a Kevin S...
"Nothing like it since movies were created! 300 Girls, 1000 Surprises, 5 New Song Hits!"
The musical team of Hass & Swanton (Kyle Reid Hass & Jeremy Swanton) return to the show once again, this time for what is inarguably the greatest movie musical about putting on live prologues before movie screenings ever to hit the silver screen, Footlight Parade (1933)! We'll talk Cagney, Berkeley, and folks getting frisky at the "Honeymoon Ho...
"He will make you laugh, roar, scream- he'll make you choke back your tears. Ten reels of Chaplin as you like him. It's the Picture You've waited for!"
Editor Glenn Garthwaite returns to the show to discuss the Chaplin comedy so nice, he released it twice. Regarded as one of the Little Tramp's finest outings, the Klondike comedy The Gold Rush was a smash success when released as a silent in 1925. Then, in 1942, Chaplin rereleased i...
One of the first films to provide a realistic depiction of warfare and its effects on those both on and off the battlefield, King Vidor's 1925 epic The Big Parade became one of the highest-grossing films of the silent era, and MGM's biggest hit until another war epic, Gone With the Wind (1939).
For our episode on The Big Parade, we opted to forgo our usual roundtable discussion format in favor of a feature-length commentary track, t...
In this bonus episode, we give our audio-only listeners a taste of what Tom has been doing over on the You're Missing Out YouTube channel. If you like what you hear here, head on over and subscribe. Not only will that be the only place to find Tom's monthly exclusive livestreams, but next week, you'll be able to watch 1925's The Big Parade in full, with our feature-length commentary track playing along with it. So strap in, because...
"Don't be a luddy-duddy! Don't be a mooncalf! Don't be a jabbernowl! You're not those, are you?"
Ryan Luis Rodriguez (One Track Mind, Reels of Justice) joins the show once again, this time to tackle the tastefully tawdry comedy of the inimitable inebriate known as W.C. Fields in his 1940 absurdist masterpiece, The Bank Dick.
Hosts:
Michael Natale
Tom Lorenzo
Producer:
Kyle Lampar
"He went searching for love... but Fate forced a DETOUR to Revelry... Violence... Mystery!"
Writer Kenny Neibart returns to the show to untangle the complicated web that is 1945's Detour. We'll ask the big question: Is it obvious that the narrator is a lying murderer, or is it really, really painfully obvious that he's a lying murderer?
Watch Detour for free on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/ci820yvoraU
Hosts:
Michael Nata...
"A cosmological epic"
Producer and artist Ben Hosley (Black Check, Congratulations, Slow X-Mas) returns to the show, this time to discuss Stan Brakhage's historic series of experimental films, Dog Star Man. We take a cosmic journey through the snowy mountains of our minds to try to get to the heart of the elusive and evocative imagery.
See our full episode with Ben Hosley on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/kQVKj6IDv1g
" A nervous romance"
Actor Jae Kim returns to the show to dissect the romantic comedy that changed the genre forever, Woody Allen's totemic Annie Hall.
Watch the episode on our YouTube at: https://youtu.be/qkzgefDpLok
Hosts:
Michael Natale
Tom Lorenzo
Producer:
Kyle Lampar
Guest:
Jae Kim
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"Spread The Word"
Documentarian Amy Nicholson returns to the show for another totemic work of direct cinema, the Maysles Brothers & Charlotte Zwerin's profoundly bleak portrait of door to door Bible sellers, Salesman (1969). We'll talk The Beatles, acting careers, and the true star of Amy's most recent film, Happy Campers.
Hosts:
Michael Natale
Tom Lorenzo
Producer:
Kyle Lampar
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