Has there ever been a more Jenna-themed podcast than Faust and 1960s movies? Do I reference Martin & Lewis, Phil Ochs, Jodorowsky, Monty Python and primordial consciousness in this podcast? Yes I do! Bart had the brilliant idea of including Seconds in our list, so you'll HAVE to listen to hear about all of the surprising parallels between Seconds and Goethe's Faust!
Seconds just blew me away so completely. Beautifully shot with deeply compelling acting by Rock Hudson and an infinitely…
I watched a later screening of this at Film Forum and it literally inspired the audience to physical violence and I don’t think I will ever top this Film Forum experience.
Like some guy in the back row spent the whole film rolling empty bottles around the back, while a man with disheveled hair and a suit two times too big stumbled in and out of the theater every half hour. Right before the last five minutes of the film,…
I kept reading about how 'jarring' this movie was, swapping from musical numbers to drama, but I found this to hardly be a musical as much as it was a movie about performers and therefore completely understandable and welcome in its musical breaks. To Scorsese's credit, all of those performance scenes add to the story being told anyhow–a story about an effortlessly talented woman being dragged down by a gifted but toxic man. De Niro's Jimmy is so addled by…
Supremely corny and obvious twist, but I can’t deny this movie was cute overall. I always like Paul Feig, I dunno why people are so nasty about him. It’s nice to have a romantic comedy that doesn’t end in marriage and instead focuses on bettering all of the main character’s relationships instead of just one manic pixie dream man. I also really appreciated the dialogue about learning to live unextrodinarily—what’s genuinely missing in so many romantic comedies or Hollywood dramas…
This isn't the story about people who drift apart because of politics, this is the story of a woman with convictions (whether you agree with them or not) and intelligence, and a wuss-ass (drop dead beautiful) white boy who has never had to care about or fight for anything in his life.
They're initially attracted to each other because they each have something the other wishes they could possess. For Redford, Streisand represents the exciting world of fringe living, of…
