MidCenturyCinema
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60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context. Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight 70s Movie Podcast [NB: Antifascist] Much more here:
Day Job Alert - Again with the Thucydides? Yes! We talk Mr. T (and the ruins of contemporary American Foreign Policy) with Demetri Kofinas on the Hidden Forces podcast - and it's a great listen: hiddenforces.io/podcasts/the... We now return this station to its regularly scheduled programming
John Waters interviewed by Conor Williams for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/john...
It was a bit of a kerfuffle on That '70s Movie Podcast as we had a bit of an, um, modest disagreement about the (almost) universally beloved Jaws: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j... open.spotify.com/episode/3kYy... Let's go to a live shot of that discussion ⬇️
New on That 70s Movie Podcast, we debate - vigorously - Steven Spielberg's much-beloved mega-blockbuster Jaws, w/Scheider, Shaw, Dreyfuss (and, of course, Bruce) Tune in and find out what I have in common with Jimmy Carter . . . open.spotify.com/episode/3kYy... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
7/10/69: Robert Downey Sr's Putney Swope w/Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Antonio Fargas + Allen Garfield More RDS w/PTA: www.criterion.com/current/post... Loaded @vinsyn.bsky.social SE: vinegarsyndrome.com/products/put... @projectionbooth.bsky.social: www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2012/03/epis...
A bloodbath on That '70s Movie Podcast - we go toe to toe on Jaws If you love this movie, you can root for M as he goes after me like the shark wrecking Dreyfuss' steel cage! If you're one of the few who don't... I'm there for you! open.spotify.com/episode/3kYy... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
7/9/75: Michael Ritchie's Smile [DP Conrad Hall, W Jerry Belson] w/Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon Hits mid-70s US zeitgeist More: @kimmorgan.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2017/06... @thestopbutton.bsky.social: thestopbutton.com/2013/10/11/s... @meheuck.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2019/04...
Coming soon from That '70s Movie Podcast! open.spotify.com/show/7bTN0NQ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
BOTD Shirley Knight!! MCCT5 highlights her #60sfilm: 5)Dutchman (Harvey) 4)Sweet Bird of Youth 3)The Group (Lumet) 2)Petulia (Lester) 1)Rain People (Coppola) From us: Petulia: midcenturycinema.org/2018/06/05/5... Rain: midcenturycinema.org/2019/08/28/5... NYT Obit: www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/t...
7/5/70: The Man Who Haunted Himself Basil Dearden curio notable as Roger Moore's favorite Roger Moore performance More: @thedigitalbits.bsky.social: thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item... @denofgeek.bsky.social: www.denofgeek.com/movies/a-tri... @smershpod.com: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
BOTD Mr. Warren. Oates. MCCT5: 5)Stripes 4)Wild Bunch 3)The Shooting 2)2Two Lane Blacktop 1)Hired Hand More: @petersob13.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/features/bad... @moviemattsirois.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/cm/podcast/a... @kimmorgan.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2016/10...
In the latest from That '70s Movie Podcast, we walk through Woody Allen's "Early Funny Ones," culminating with Love and Death, a key transitional film for the emerging auteur We also debate our contrasting favorite EFOs . . . open.spotify.com/episode/7m1f... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
7/3/49: Too Late For Tears w/Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea SE via @noirfoundation.bsky.social & @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social: flickeralley.com/products/593... More: @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social: www.filmcomment.com/late-tears-1... @railoftomorrow.bsky.social: criterioncast.com/reviews/blu-...
In the latest from That '70s Movie Podcast, we walk through Woody Allen's "Early Funny Ones," culminating with Love and Death, a key transitional film for the emerging auteur We also debate our contrasting favorite EFOs . . . open.spotify.com/episode/7m1f... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
7/3/44: ATG #Filmnoir Double Indemnity (D Billy Wilder, W Wilder w/Chandler) w/US premiere in Baltimore w/Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson "Billy Wilder's greatest film; practically anybody's greatest film" -Woody Allen Our take, via Cineaste: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
7/2/59: Otto Preminger's PCA-subverting Anatomy of a Murder w/Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, George C. Scott More: @noelmu.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/jimmy-stewar... @cinephiliabeyond.org: cinephiliabeyond.org/anatomy-of-a... @scotttobias.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/anatomy-of-a...
7/2/46: Orson Welles' The Stranger w/Edward G Robinson, Loretta Young, OW Unloved by many, incl Bazin, Rosenbaum More: Our revisionist take + what it might have been (but for studio mutilation), via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
7/1/71: John Schlesinger's deeply personal Sunday Bloody Sunday w/Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson [W: Penelope Gilliatt] Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/102 More: Ian Buruma: www.criterion.com/current/post... Todd Haynes: www.kcrw.com/shows/the-tr... Lucy Scholes: www.the-tls.com/arts/film/ra...
7/1/59: Hitchcock's North by Northwest w/Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Mr. James Mason & Martin Landau From Us: Hitch in the 50s: midcenturycinema.org/2022/02/06/n... More: @theamynicholson.bsky.social & @paulscheer.com: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/n... @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
BOTD Karen Black!!! Stunning 20+ #70s MCCT5 5)Fam Plot (Hitch) 4)Born to Win (Passer) 3)Drive He Said (Nicholson) 2)Nashville (Altman) 1)5 Easy Pieces (Rafelson) Special in Jimmy Dean (Altman) More Us: midcenturycinema.org/2021/09/02/n... @andrewmale.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/music/2021/j...
6/30/71: Mike Nichols' brilliant Carnal Knowledge (W Jules Feiffer) w/Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret More: Us: midcenturycinema.org/2016/11/06/n... @moiraweigel.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @cinephiliabeyond.org: cinephiliabeyond.org/carnal-knowl...
BOTD Bernard Hermann!!! Scores incl Kane, Ambersons (Welles x2); Wrong Man, Vertigo, Psycho (Hitchcock x3), Bride Wore Black (Truffaut) Taxi Driver (Scorsese) More: @simonsweetman.bsky.social: simonsweetman.substack.com/p/bernard-he... @screenrant.bsky.social: screenrant.com/bernard-herr...
Coming soon from That '70s Movie Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/7bTN0NQ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
6/28/29: Hitchcock's Blackmail More: @markravenhill.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/f... @silentlondon.bsky.social: silentlondon.co.uk/2019/03/04/b... Hitch (1937) on losing the structure of Blackmail; the murder in Sabotage, commercial compromises + : www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
6/27/55: Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin Our take: It's an experience, man. Bizarre and essential. Some stunning shots. More: @craigtimes.bsky.social: crimereads.com/orson-welles... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... @artforum.com: www.artforum.com/features/bri...
The gang from that '70s Movie Podcast took a guest turn on the The Thinking Mind/Thinking Films podcast - complete with video (!!) We had a great time talking about Woody Allen's Another Woman - Thanks much to host Alex Curmi for reaching out and having us on! podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
BOTD Krzysztof Kieslowski!!!! Grandmaster From Us: Kieslowski for Completists: midcenturycinema.org/node/98 Three Colors, via Cineaste: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... More @shattenstone.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2011/no... @cinephiliabeyond.org: cinephiliabeyond.org/krzysztof-ki...
BOTD Peter Lorre!!! MCCT5: 5)Mask of Dimitrios (Negulesco) 4)Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitch) 3)The Lost One (Lorre) 2)Maltese Falcon (Huston) 1)M (Lang) More @keithroysdon.bsky.social: crimereads.com/peter-lorre-... @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social: selfstyledsiren.substack.com/p/the-lost-o...
HBD Paul Thomas Anderson!! MCCT5 Vice/8/Battle/Magnolia/Boogie More Us on Battle: brightlightsfilm.com/one-battle-a... @mattsinger.bsky.social: www.indiewire.com/news/general... @jasondashbailey.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/m... @vincemancini.bsky.social: vincemancini.substack.com/p/updated-pa...