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122 – Gothic

Natasha Richardson and Kiran Shah in Gothic (1986) — this is what happens when you buy from MyPillow

Jen welcomes Julie once again to talk about the historical background of a phantasmagoric Ken Russell favorite, Gothic!

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The movie Jen fails to identify is, of course, Catherine Breillat’s 2004 Anatomy of Hell, starring Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi.

Thomas Dolby enlisted vocalist Timothy Spall (!) for a song inspired by the film Gothic, “The Devil is an Englishman”

Hear Steve Hackett’s cover of “The Devil is an Englishman” from his 2003 album, To Watch the Storms.

Stephen Volk, the screenwriter of Gothic, has a page devoted to the film on his website. Lots of cool photos, videos, and other reminisces to be had there.

Speaking of, we also discussed another work by Stephen Volk, the controversial BBC special Ghostwatch. Give it a listen!

121 – Fight Club

LEGO Fight Club soap by Tim Heiderich (timtoonstudio on Instagram)

Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!

Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard.

‘The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, retrieving “the richest cream fat in the world”, that’s been siphoned out of the obese, and rendering it into red soap tablets they then flog to exclusive boutiques. It’s unbelievable any film would dare use, even as such a sick gag, a sequence reminiscent of that chapter of the Holocaust in which Nazi thoroughness rendered the Jews down into similar, no doubt less pricy soap bars. But Fight Club has no reticence, no memory, no shame.’
Alexander Walker on Fight Club

The artist Tim evoked but couldn’t name while discussing performance art is Tehching Hsieh. Watch his reminiscence on his remarkable work One Year Performance 1980 – 1981 (Time Clock Piece) on Vimeo.

Also, don’t miss our recent discussion of the unloved Aykroyd joint Nothing But Trouble with Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman!

120 – Nothing But Trouble with Matt Christman

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Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble! Hear the whole fuckin’ thing at our Patreon!

Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Factory.

You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Mike Rosen aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter!

119 – Siesta

Jen welcomes Julie (@ chimericalgirl1 on Twitter) to celebrate an almost entirely forgotten erotic thriller with art house ambitions, Siesta, from 1987. This one’s quite overlooked in spite of a stacked cast that includes Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Grace Jones, and Alexei Sayle.

Hear the whole episode at Patreon!

We admit, this one’s hard to track down unless you’re willing to hunt for PAL and/or bootleg DVDs, but you can hear some of the sultry Miles Davis/Marcus Miller soundtrack!

If you love Julie as much as we do, listen to our episode on Yes concert film 9012Live!

118 – Martin

John Amplas in the titular role of George Romero's Martin (1976)

Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Mike Rosen (@ bitterkarella on Twitter) to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin.

Read a 2020 interview with lead actor John Amplas, in which he reminisces about Romero and working on Martin.

Some exciting news that broke the day we recorded this episode— the 3-hour black-and-white director’s cut of Martin has been found!

Info on Martin (1976) found director's cut

Check out Mike’s satirical horror microfiction account Midnight Pals on Twitter, as well!

117 – The Town That Dreaded Sundown

The killer claims another victim in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Jen and Tim discover two Arkansas originals: The Town That Dreaded Sundown from 1976, and indie film pioneer Charles B. Pierce!

Hear the entire episode over at our Patreon!

Amanda Squitiero, daughter of Charles B. Pierce, corrects some misconceptions about him in this fine article from Filmmaker magazine.

116 – Faces of Death

Tim and Jen confront the most infamous mondo film of all time, Faces of Death! Hear the entire episode over at our Patreon!

Faces of Death may be viewed in its entirety on Tubi.

Echoing Jen’s experience in high school auto safety, two students were traumatized after their math teacher showed the film in class in 1985:

“The people at the table,” says Forget today, “beat this monkey over the head with a hammer until it died. Then they cut the top of its head off and ate its brains.” As an animal-lover, she found the film deeply disturbing and asked to leave. Mr Schwartz said no and when Feese also tried to go, he forced her to sit down, grabbing her chair and spinning it aggressively towards the screen.
via The Guardian

Schwarz was disciplined, but with only a 15-day suspension without pay.

For more upsetting reenacted violence, check out our episode on Farewell Uncle Tom! OR if ambiguously fake snuff is more your speed, try our episode on Trent Reznor’s Broken movie!

115 – Vampire’s Kiss

Nicolas Cage in Vampire's Kiss (1988) — king

Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss!

Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours at Andrew Hearst’s blog.

Listen to our Bright Lights, Big City episode here.

114 – Loose Change

Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration.

Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!

View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.

Watch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at YouTube.

For more cogent commentary on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East, listen to our episode with special guest Felix Biederman on Valley of the Wolves: Iraq.

113 – The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

Jen and Tim revisit the greatest unfairly-cancelled single-season sci-fi western TV series of all time: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.! If you thought we were going to say “Firefly” you have obviously never listened to our show before. Also Jen is finally able to air her feelings about Dixie for a mass audience. Spicy!