Oeuvre Busters presents...

TENETheimer with Bilge Ebiri

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:36:44 GMT

Despite making $360 million dollars and being loved and reviled in equal measure, sometimes I feel like Christopher Nolan’s spy-meets-time-travel hard sci-fi epic TENET doesn’t exist. The movie came out in the deepest of COVID, and even among those who saw it, more than half were put off by its (at times) unintelligible dialogue and convoluted plot. It has had a few returns to movie theaters since, and is available on physical and digital media, but isn't among his most celebrated or most visible works.

But at this moment, in the summer of 2023, it feels like it exists now more than ever. With OPPENHEIMER in movie theaters and enjoying massive success, more and more people seem to be talking about TENET. I'm a big fan. And I wanted to talk about it with another big fan.

On this episode, I'm talking to NYMag film critic Bilge Ebiri. Bilge has spent the summer writing and talking about OPPENHEIMER, and his work really brings us into the world of the making of a new classic.

We talk about TENET, OPPENHEIMER, and how they are speaking to each other. We also talk about Kenneth Branaugh (the best), the anxiety of parenting, Turkish history, how every scene in TENET is the best scene in the movie, and a lot more. We also reveal the secret agenda of this podcast episode: to get TENET re-released in 70mm iMax.

Oh, yea, and DARK KNIGHT RISES. It rules.

If you want more Bilge on this feed, scroll back to our episode on Akira Kurosawa's masterful HIGH AND LOW.

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Season 2 Wrap Up!

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:07:05 GMT

Welcome to the SEASON TWO FINALE of RohmerCast: the podcast about Eric Rohmer, his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Eric Rohmer.

In our eighth episode we discuss Rohmer’s production methods via LA COLLECTIONNEUSE, PERCEVAL, and THE GREEN RAY. This leads to the following tangents: monster trucks named after Rohmer movies, post-dubbing naturalism, sound recording as a practical AND aesthetic choice, functional light, different approaches to working with actors, and connections to Dogme 95.

At the time of this episode’s release, La Collectionneuse and The Green Ray are on The Criterion Channel; Perceval is on Tubi.

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com).

#ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast @filmforum @screenslate #explore #arthouse #filmproduction

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The Green Ray

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:00:17 GMT

Welcome to RohmerCast; the podcast about Eric Rohmer, his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Eric Rohmer.

In our seventh episode we discuss Le rayon vert (The Green Ray), his entirely improvised film from 1986. This leads to the following tangents: summertime sadness, different kinds of holidays, traveling alone, the feeling of a documentary, premiering on television, The Worst Person in the World, personal superstitions, others dictating your life choices, tv interviews as the basis for improvisation, weird titles, poetic ideals, feeling invisible, and White Stripes vs Dashboard Confessional.

At the time of release, you can stream the movie on The Criterion Channel.

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com).

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Perceval

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:22:26 GMT

Welcome to the second episode of season two of RohmerCast, the podcast about Éric Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.

In this episode, we discuss Perceval, his period adaptation of a 12th century poem. This leads to the following tangents: authenticity to period art and the language of the text, realistic (awkward) battles, theater in the round, artificiality in mise-en-scene, Bressonian acting, and the theme of youth and figuring yourself out.

At the time of release, this movie can be streamed on Tubi @tubi.

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com).

Senses of Cinema article referenced in the episode: https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2017/cteq/perceval-le-gallois/

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Season Two Premiere: La Collectionneuse

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:08:51 GMT

Welcome to the SEASON TWO PREMIERE of RohmerCast, the podcast about Éric Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.

In our fifth episode we discuss La Collectionneuse (1967), his (second) first feature. This leads to the following tangents: coming up with a theme song for the show, the idea of a fictionalized documentary, the sound of the birds, direct sound as an aesthetic choice, intentionally with shooting ratio, Rohmer in relation to the Nouvelle Vague, comparisons to Bresson, the cognitive dissonance between image and voiceover, the objectification of Haydee, and achieving perfection in a single bound.

At the time of release, this movie can be streamed on the Criterion Channel @criterioncollection (and is generally fairly accessible).

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com).

#ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast @filmforum

Clip from 'Magnolia (1999)' property of New Line Cinema.

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ANNOUNCING OUR SECOND SEASON!

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:05:03 GMT

Hello everybody! And welcome to RohmerCast, a podcast about Eric Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Eric Rohmer.

Listen to our trailer to hear about the films we're going to talk about in season two!

Primary Sources:

Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

Eric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque

#ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograp

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BONUS: White Elephant Art Vs. Termite Art!

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:40:16 GMT

Hi!

While you all eagerly await the announcement of our second season, we thought we'd re-share Shaun's appearance on Oeuvre Busters, the podcast that launched this feed and got some fun attention last week.

On the ep, Shaun goes into full 'cool teacher' mode, taking us through Manny Farber's theory. It's a fun listen, and we hope you enjoy it!

We'll be back in soon with announcements about season 2!

This week, based on a question from a listener, we sat down with filmmaker pal Shaun Seneviratne to talk about Manny Farber's influential theory of White Elephant Art and Termite Art. We talk about what the theory means, whether one type is good or bad, and whether Batman films are an elephant or termite. Finally, we discuss Liam's solo record, Neon Elephant.

Shaun Seneviratne is a Sri Lankan-American filmmaker and educator in Brooklyn, NY. His past work has screened at festivals such as Nantucket, Montclair, CAAM, and San Diego Asian Film Festival. Currently, Shaun is developing his first feature film and teaches film production at the Brooklyn STEAM Center, as well as film history and visual storytelling at Pace University.

Follow Shaun on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebrownshaun/?hl=en

Check out Shaun's work: https://www.shaunseneviratne.com/

Read more about Manny Farber here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Farber

Here's a link to Farber's essay: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/mannyfarber-termiteart-annotated.html

You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support.

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So... about that Vulture Article: HIGH AND LOW with Bilge Ebiri (an Oeuvre Busters re-release!)

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:58:12 GMT

Hi everybody!

We were thrilled and honored to be included in today's 13 Great Film Podcasts, According to a Film Critic article published by Vulture. On this list, Bilge Ebiri highlighted some of the film podcasts he enjoys and has been on. We are in such wonderful company. Having Bilge on was a real highlight for us, and so we thought we'd re-release the episode for you to check it out. The entire back catalog of Oeuvre Busters is available! Check it out below! Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy this episode about one of the great masterpieces of cinema.

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: LISTEN TO OUR FIRST SEASON NOW!

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:50:59 GMT

HI!

The films that we talked about this season that are on Metrograph's at home app are leaving September 28, 2022! Though they are available on Archive.org, Metrograph's versions are beautiful! Go watch and listen before we start our second season!

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Season 1 Finale: What is Rohmerian? (or, The Rohmerian Cinematic Universe!)

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:31:18 GMT

Welcome to RohmerCast, the podcast about Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.

In finale of season one, we ask ourselves, “What is Rohmerian?” and explore the “Rohmer Cinematic Universe” through The Aviator’s Wife (1981), Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987), and Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) -- the three films programmed by Metrograph in their Summer of Rohmer series. This leads to the following tangents: what makes someone an auteur, the qualities of a Rohmerian performance, “reasonable” characters, testing one’s own philosophies and principles, the use of dramatic irony and planting and payoff in his narratives, location setting, his direct visual style, and the role of coincidence in our lives.

All the films discussed in this season are available as part of the Metrograph’s Summer of Rohmer series and can be streamed via Metrograph at Home (membership required). The films are also available on Archive.org.

Music note: the music in this week's episode comes from the Summer of Rohmer trailer on Metrograph's site.

You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun.

Primary Sources:

Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

Eric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque

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RohmerCast: Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:26:21 GMT

Welcome to RohmerCast, the podcast about Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.

In our third episode, hosts Liam Billingham and Shaun Seneviratne discuss Boyfriends & Girlfriends (1987), the final film in his Comedies & Proverbs cycle. This leads to the following tangents:

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the Screwball Comedy, streamlined production methods, location sound as sound aesthetic, the suburbs as a location, setting up webs of relationships, sympathy for the youth, Blanche as a character, jobs decentered, color blocking, and assessing the most accurate title translation.

In this episode, Liam is wearing a ScreenSlate NYC hat and Shaun is drinking absinthe at two in the afternoon.

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts!

Boyfriends and Girlfriends is screening as part of the Summer of Rohmer series at Metrograph and can be streamed at Metrograph at Home.

You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun.

Special thanks to our buddy George Fragopoulos, who you'll hear on the show soon!

Primary Sources:

Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

Eric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque

#ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast

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RohmerCast: The Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:21:09 GMT

Welcome to RohmerCast, the podcast about Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.

In our second episode, hosts Liam Billingham and Shaun Seneviratne discuss Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987), a semi-improvised film made during a production break on The Green Ray (1986). This leads to following tangents: production crews, the difference between improvisation and scripted moments, episodic construction, naïveté vs popular common sense, how we watch things, compression vs expansion, and what we can learn about our own personal philosophies.

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts!

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle is screening as part of the Summer of Rohmer series at Metrograph and can be streamed at Metrograph at Home).

You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun.

Special thanks to our buddy George Fragopoulos, who you'll hear on the show soon!

Sources:

Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

Eric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque

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RohmerCast: The Aviator's Wife

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:53:41 GMT

Welcome to RohmerCast, a new podcast from one of the guys who brought you Oeuvre Busters and his much smarter friend! In this inaugural episode, hosts Liam Billingham and Shaun Seneviratne discuss The Aviator’s Wife, which marked the beginning of Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs cycle. This leads to some of the following tangents: growing into Rohmer as an adult; the superficial qualities one associates with Rohmer; the film as Verite Romantic Comedy, an Action Movie, and an Existential Detective Story; desire and reason; seeing someone listen; patterns, plotting, and twists; performance, and more.

Though you can’t see it, we were “styled” in Human Boy Worldwide and their awesome Rohmer merch.

The Aviator's Wife is screening as part of the Summer of Rohmer series at Metrograph (and can be streamed at Metrograph At Home).

You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun.

Special thanks to our buddy George Fragopoulos, who you'll hear on the show soon!

Sources:

Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

Eric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque

Interview with Marie Rivière (via Metrograph)

Interview with Mary Stephan (via Metrograph)

Q&A with Marie Riviere, Mary Stephan, and Matias Pineiro (via Metrograph)

Meet the Rohmer Guy (via GQ)

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This month on Patreon: ANOTHER ROUND (2020)

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:01:48 GMT

This month on Patreon, the boys go deep on Thomas Vinterberg's ANOTHER ROUND, which is currently on HULU in the US of A and is pretty damn great.

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Talking about Red Beard (1965)!

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:01:31 GMT

On this reddish episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965), starring Toshiro Mifune, Yūzō Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano and Kyōko Kagawa. Topics discussed: endings and beginnings; Green Day albums; beard dye; Henry Cavill's 'stache; horribly racist James Bond films. Also, the Pacino reset!

Topics not discussed? Kierkegaard and the leap of faith.

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Talking about Ran (1985) with Jessica Chiba!

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:01:40 GMT

On this Learesque episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Jessica Chiba to discuss Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985), starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu and Mieko Harada. We recorded this episode a few months back and were going to release it a little later, but Ran is currently on Amazon Prime, so what better time to celebrate this film than now? Topics discussed: must we mean what we say?; the purpose of fools; utter hopelessness; love. Plus, we briefly imagine what an Akira Kurosawa Shakespearean comedy might look like.

Topics not discussed: The films of Alexander Kluge. Sigh. Maybe one day . . .

Dr. Jessica Chiba is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute. More about her fascinating research on Shakespeare, philosophy and translation (and untranslatability!) can be found here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/shakespeare/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=179549

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High and Low (1963) with Bilge Ebiri!

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:01:00 GMT

On this up and down episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Bilge Ebiri to discuss High and Low (1963), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa and Tatsuya Mihashi. Topics discussed: pink smoke; the Criterion closet, again; Steve Martin, serious actor; Mifune's great cheekbones. Also, utopianism!

Topics not discussed? Goethe's Theory of Colors.

Bilge Ebiri is an editor and film critic at Vulture. Here's some of his recent writing we discuss in the episode:

Bilge's interview with Paul Greengrass

Bilge's review of Barb and Star

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Sanjuro (1962) with Jose Rodriguez!

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:01:52 GMT

On this sequel to our episode on Yojimbo, Liam and George welcome back Jose Rodriguez to discuss Sanjuro (1962), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi and Yūzō Kayama. Topics discussed: Roborat; explosive violence; pounds and pence; keeping your sword sheathed; Demolition Man; ronins with hearts of gold. Also, faxes! Remember those?!

Topics not discussed? Terfs! They suck.

Jose's wonderful and beautiful Adolescencia and other works can be found here: https://vimeo.com/user5285910

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Yojimbo (1961) with Bryan Cogman!

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:01:00 GMT

On this yolo of an episode, Liam and George welcome Bryan Cogman to discuss Yojimbo (1961), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: correct samurai slashing techniques; Al Pacino in Star Wars; how to properly hold a gun; Tony Scott; and, of course, capitalism. Plus, Sergio Leone, put that letter down!

Topics not discussed: The symbolism of the parrot in Gustave Flaubert’s A Simple Heart.

Bryan Cogman is a screenwriter, producer and once and future actor. He spent ten years and eight seasons working on the HBO series Game of Thrones, finishing up its run as co-executive producer and wrote eleven episodes of the series. He is a consulting producer on Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series and has written the screenplay for Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of The Sword in the Stone. Currently, Bryan is developing a number of new original TV series for eOne including a contemporary reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo.

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The Bad Sleep Well (1960) with Inkoo Kang!

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT

On this well-rested episode, Liam and George invite Inkoo Kang on to discuss The Bad Sleep Well (1960) directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Topics discussed: Hamlet, of course; bustiers; eating cake at the DMV; Halloween traumas; Parasite. Also, as usual, capitalism! Folks, it's still bad.

Topics not discussed: Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine.

Inkoo's great podcast on Pedro Almodovar can be found here: All About Almovodar Podcast And some of her recent writing can be found here: Inkoo Kang: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020

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Talking about 'The Hidden Fortress!' (1958)

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 08:01:00 GMT

On this hidden (?) episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam welcome back filmmaker and friend of the pod Randy Wilkins to discuss The Hidden Fortress (1958) directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, and Kamatari Fujiwara.

Topics discussed: NYU, the Star Wars of colleges; obnoxious film professors; working in triangles; burying corpses; the intimate and the epical; sublime poets stealing; Mifune’s legs. Also, please hire us Disney!

Topics not discussed: The Spanish Civil War, thankfully.

More about Randy and his superlative work can be found here http://www.pamsson.com/about including his most recent Pepsi ad: http://www.pamsson.com/pepsi-bodega-giveback

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Talking about The Lower Depths (1957)!

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 08:01:00 GMT

On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George plumb the depths to discuss Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths, starring, of course, the studly Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: Maxim Gorky, wookie lookalike; fuck Richard Crenna; 24-hour TangoMan; Stalin and how he murked a few folks; Maxim Gorky, time traveler. Also, be obnoxious, go ahead!

Topics not discussed? Wilson Harris's sublime Guyana Quartet, essential texts of the post-colonial canon.

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Talking about Throne of Blood (1957) with Isaac Butler!

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:01:18 GMT

On this bloody great episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Isaac Butler on to discuss Throne of Blood (1957), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada and Takashi Shimura.

Topics discussed: Ghost of Tsushima; doomed prophecies; that one Julius Caesar in the park; Hour of the Wolf; very English things to say; horses eating horses; wonderlands. Also, some lingo from those of us in the critical trade.

Topic not discussed: Battlestar Galactica and all those Cylons and shit.

Isaac Butler is a writer and theatre director. He is most recently the writer/director of Real Enemies, an experimental documentary exploring conspiracy theories in the American psyche, co-created with the composer Darcy James Argue and the Media Designer Peter Nigrini. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vulture, New York Magazine, Entrepreneur, The Village Voice, and he is a frequent contributor to Slate.com. For Slate, he created and hosted the podcast Lend me Your Ears, a podcast about Shakespeare and Politics, and currently co-hosts Working, a podcast about the creative process. He’s currently writing THE METHOD, a history of American acting, for Bloomsbury.

You can also check out his co-authored book, The World Only Spins Forward, here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-world-only-spins-forward-9781635572988/

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Talking about Ikiru (1952)!

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:01:50 GMT

On this cancerous episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam discuss Ikiru (1952), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Takashi Shimura. Topics discussed: Squid-and-the-Whale vibes; drunk salarymen; bad dads; Kid A; all the rabbits we made along the way. Also, Tolstoy.

Topics not discussed: lobster humanoids.

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Talking about I Live In Fear (1954)!

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:01:33 GMT

On this fearful episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss I Live in Fear (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: Vigo the Carpathian; the anxiety of modern life; the late, great James Gandolfini does Shakespeare; radioactive rainstorms; erotic Liam. Also, so many good people are dead!

Topics not discussed: The Tarnac 9.

Make sure to listen and subscribe to Michael Carroll's excellent podcast, Judgement Day: T2 Vs Cinema! It can be found here: https://shows.acast.com/judgement-day/

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The Seven Samurai (1954) with Blake Howard!

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:01:36 GMT

On this seventh-heaven of an episode, Liam and George welcome Blake Howard, the hardest-working man in podcasting, to discuss The Seven Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Keio Tsushima.

Topics discussed: Michael Mann Google alerts; Pauline Kael; high school Liam, film nerd; living French philosophers. Also, Radioactive Man, the Movie!

Topic not discussed? The invention of the number zero.

More about Blake Howard and his amazing stable of podcasts can be found here: https://oneheatminute.com/about

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October Patreon - The Ben Affleck Oeuvre!

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:01:00 GMT

This month we welcome Ben Affleck lover, Bostonian, and Liam's sister-in-law Rebecca Weiss to talk about all things Ben Affleck! It's a fun, chatty episode. Witness Liam and Rebecca's amazing Boston accents! Roll your eyes as George keeps trying to make Tarkovsky jokes. Be mildly annoyed that no one has ever seen the movies we're talking about!

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Talking about The Idiot (1951) with AS Hamrah!

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:01:26 GMT

On this non-idiotic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome A.S. Hamrah to the podcast to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s The Idiot (1951), starring Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, and Takashi Shimura. Topics discussed: America’s crumbling infrastructure; Draculaesque interiors; snow; human extremes. Also, Christ attacks the money lenders!

Topics not discussed: Throwing the I Ching.

A.S. Hamrah was n+1’s film critic from 2008 to 2019, and was the editor of the magazine’s film review supplement. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist, a semiotic brand analyst, a political pollster, a football cinematographer, a zine writer, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz. He lives in New York. His book, The Earth Dies Streaming, can be purchased here: https://shop.nplusonemag.com/collections/featured/products/the-earth-dies-streaming-by-a-s-hamrah

His recent article for The Baffler, “New Centuries Are Rare,” can be found here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/new-centuries-are-rare-hamrah

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Talking about Rashomon (1950), with special guest Alissa Wilkinson!

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:01:13 GMT

On this memory-laden episode, Liam and George welcome Alissa Wilkinson on to discuss Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori. Topics discussed: faith in humanity; deus ex baby; postmodern theories of narrative; deep fakes; the politics of the 60s. Also, you guys should kill each other!

Topics not covered? Robert Frost’s genteel New England poetry.

Alissa is Vox.com’s film critic and an associate professor of English and humanities at the King’s College in New York City. She’s also a member of the NY Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.

More about the wonderful Alissa Wilkinson can be found here: http://www.alissawilkinson.com/

And please listen to her amazing podcast, Young Adult Movie Ministry here: https://yammpod.substack.com/

They did an episode on The Maltese Falcon that also covers Michael Mann's Miami Vice and Kurosawa's Stray Dog and The Idiot. Perfect episode? Yes.

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Talking about Scandal (1950!)

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:01:49 GMT

On this scandalous episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Scandal (1950) starring Toshiro Mifune and directed, of course, by Akira Kurosawa. Topics discussed: Weezer, as always; amour; old-doddering dudes; Martin Jay’s glasses; snarky booksellers. Also, congrats to Mifune on the wedding!

Topic not discussed? The monstrous waves of Nazaré, Portugal, where extreme surfers go to test their mettle.

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Now on Patreon: The Dirty Dozen (1967!)

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:04:55 GMT

A sneak peek look into our episode on the Dirty Dozen. Greek-American action cinema! The lie of Sleepless in Seattle! War sucks, Bronson rules.

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Join us. We love you. Well, George does. Liam likes you.

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Talking about Stray Dog (1949) with special guest Joyce Wu

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:00:49 GMT

On this doggish episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite Joyce Wu to discuss Stray Dog (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring, of course, Toshiro Mifune. Topics discuss? Horniness; isolation, alienation, AND ennui; the shadow-self; people are bad; ACAB, have a beer; sucking popsicles. Also, Kurosawa can direct the shit out of anything.

Topics not discussed? The origins of the bicameral mind.

Joyce Wu is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. She was an inaugural member of the Made in NY Writers Room, a fellowship developed by the WGA East in partnership with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, where she developed and wrote a half-hour comedy pilot based on her web series Mr. Right. Her first feature film She Lights Up Well is currently available on iTunes.

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Bonus: Talking about No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) with Nancy Schwartzman!

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 07:01:56 GMT

On this not-at-all regrettable episode Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Nancy Schwartzman to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), starring Setsuko Hara.

Topics discussed? Swingers; heroic university professors; bending the knee; fast-asleep cops; ignorant villagers. Also, proper farmer etiquette!

Topics not discussed? Nothing. This episode is incredibly ambitious, and we pretty much cover everything there is to cover in a tight 1:02:31. You’re welcome!

Nancy Schwartzman is a Peabody Award nominated documentary film director, producer, and media strategist who uses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls. Roll Red Roll is her feature film debut, and goes beyond the headlines of the notorious Steubenville, Ohio high school sexual assault case to uncover the social-media fueled “boys will be boys” culture that let it happen. Roll Red Roll premiered in 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs, and has screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide and garnered 7 best documentary awards. The film opened theatrically at the Film Forum in New York City and the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Los Angeles to uniformly positive reviews with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a Critic’s Pick in The New York Times and reviewed in The New Yorker, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times amongst others. Nancy appeared on CNN’s Amanpour, BBC Women’s Hour and People TV. The film opened the 32nd season of the acclaimed PBS documentary series POV, broadcast on BBC Storyville in the U.K., and is now streaming in 190 countries on Netflix.

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Talking about The Quiet Duel (1949)

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 07:01:04 GMT

On this dueling-banjos episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss The Quiet Duel (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: syphilis; fuck around and find out; Avengers: Endgame; Liam’s wicked sophistry. Also, can’t fuck, wanna fuck.

Topics not discussed: The Situationists and the beach beneath the streets.

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Patreon Bonus bytes: Talking about ‘Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007!)’

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 07:01:44 GMT

Here's a little taste of this month's Patreon on BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD. Our guests are Joe and Michael Ranghelli. For $3 a month, you get one additional episode AND a little essay writen by George.

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Talking about Drunken Angel with Stuart Galbraith IV!

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 07:01:49 GMT

On this angelic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Stuart Galbraith IV, the man who literally wrote the book on the Kurosawa/Mifune relationship, The Emperor and the Wolf. Topics discussed: cynicism and hopefulness; curmudgeonly doctors; Yakuza feudalism; spiritual sickness. Also, Clint Eastwood is just a watered down version of Mifune, really.

Topics not discussed: How Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin lead to the ending of his friendship with Edmund Wilson.

Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian, writer, and publisher-editor of World Cinema Paradise. He is the author of seven books, including The Emperor and the Wolf (Faber & Faber, 2002), the joint-biography of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune hailed by Martin Scorsese as "a must read." Within the home video field, Galbraith has written essays for Criterion's three-disc Seven Samurai DVD and Blu-ray, Optimum's Rashomon, BCI Eclipse's The Quiet Duel and Subkultur's The Long Good Friday. In 2015, Galbraith recorded an audio commentary and wrote and produced a new short documentary, Rashomon at 65, for the British Film Institute's Blu-ray of Kurosawa's 1950 classic. Concurrently, he served as an consultant on Oscar-winning director Steven Okazaki's documentary feature, Mifune - Last Samurai (2015). Holding a Master's Degree from the University of Southern California's prestigious School of Cinema-Television, Galbraith worked as an archivist and researcher at both Warner Bros. and M-G-M. At Warner Bros., Galbraith implemented preservation projects and procedures at both its USC-Warner Bros. Archives and the Warner Bros. Corporate Image Archives. At M-G-M, Galbraith worked as a "film detective," tracking down the original camera negatives to more than three dozen "lost" films. Since 2003 he has lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife, Yukiyo, and their daughter, Sadie. He is currently at work on a new act of preservation, which he’ll tell us all about.

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Talking about early Kurosawa and Mifune!

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:01:24 GMT

On this dialectically-enhanced episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss two films for the price of one: Sanshiro Sugata (1943), directed by Akira Kurosawa, and Snow Trail (1947), starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed on this episode: alpha and beta males; Babar, the colonialist; the shit and the mire; middle-brow literature. Plus, my god, that sandal! So quintessentially Kurosawa.

Topics not discussed: anemones.

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Season Four Premier!

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:01:48 GMT

On this, the season-four premier of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George return to their art-house roots to discuss the collaborative relationship between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune! Topics discussed: double-decker VHS tapes; small republican towns; libraries, oases of culture; world cinema; men in crisis. Also, what the fuck is up with Grimace? Seriously?!

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RE-RELEASE: Cassavetes and Company on the Dick Cavett Show

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:01:16 GMT

*Note:To celebrate HUSBANDS being available on the Criterion Channel, we’re re-releasing all of our HUSBANDS content. Believe it or not, this show started because of HUSBANDS.

The Dick Cavett episode is available below, as well as on the Criterion Channel. Watch, listen, and cringe!*

Welcome to this bonus episode (you're welcome, America!) of Oeuvre Busters! On September 18, 1970, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk appeared on the Dick Cavett Show to promote Husbands. The recording was, to say the least, rather eventful, what with Cassavetes, Gazzara and Falk more interested in ragin' on stage than in answering Cavett's questions. The encounter needs to be seen to be believed! To commemorate this shitshow, and to further our discussion of Husbands, Liam and George have recorded an audio commentary to accompany the show. Topics covered: How drunk are these guys really? Who does the better pratfall, Cassavetes or Gazzara? Also, feet, feet and more feet! (Links below to the show itself and to Cavett reminiscing about the experience in The New Yorker.) Topics not covered: The serious plot hole in Love Actually (2003): how the hell does that annoyingly precocious kid both learn to play the drums in the span of a week AND find himself playing in the school pageant? We don't even see him try out for the band! Who's running this pageant?! It doesn't make any sense, and the movie, otherwise a masterpiece, suffers greatly for it.

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZ6IOJ5ovw

Dick Cavett's Worst show: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dick-cavetts-worst-show

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Bye Batman! Bye!

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 07:01:36 GMT

On this, the final episode of season three of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George recap and rank ALL the Batman movies and Batmen. Topics discussed: stink lines; silence as the apotheosis of art; the Reagan administration; the funkiest man you've ever seen; RIP Joel Schumacher. Also, lots of Colin Farrell talk.

Katie Stebbin's piece on 'Product as Synergy' can be found here: https://cinenthusiast.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/the-product-as-synergy-era-begins-hollywood-in-1990/

Topics not discussed? The role of the lightning-scene and its significance in classical Arabic poetry.

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Talking about Joker (2019) with Mark Pagan and Randy Wilkins!

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:01:20 GMT

On this jokers-are-wild episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Mark Pagan and Randy Wilkins to discuss Joker (2019), directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy. Topics discussed: Sopranos avatars; cathartic dancing; Thomas Wayne: major asshole; anticomedy. Also, Logan!

Topics not discussed: Edward Said’s controversial lecture, Freud and the non-European, a talk actually banned by the Freud institute in Vienna. Those Freudians sure are sensitive.

For more info on our amazing guests, please follow the links below:

Dear Spike Lee

Other Men Need Help

Randy on Twitter

Mark Pagan on Twitter

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RE-RELEASE: Talking about Husbands (1970)!

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:46:47 GMT

Terrible! Unreal! No passion!

Husbands is back, baby! Recently released by Criterion, available TODAY on The Criterion Channel, and selected as Indiewire's streamer of the day, what better time to release our episode on the movie that inspired this entire podcast!

Cassavetes' film on toxic men features one of the all-time great performances from Ben Gazzara. This movie is painful, long, incredible, and an essential film. We hope you enjoy this early episode from the show!

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Talking about Lego Batman (2017) with Matthew Krol!

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:05:13 GMT

On this legotastic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite good friend Matthew Krol, from The Only Podcast About Movies, to discuss Lego Batman, starring Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson and Ralph Fiennes, and is directed by Chris McKay.

Topics discussed: kissing cousins; Batman: angry dude and tax dodger; Platonic friends; the politics of vigilantism; and fuck Clayface. Also, Dunkirk! Where are the fascists?!?

Topics not discussed: Allen Ginsberg’s attempt in 1967 to levitate the Pentagon into space using Tibetan prayer.

Matt and Shahir's excellent podcast can be found here: http://www.onlymoviepodcast.com/

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Talking about Justice League (2017)

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:01:01 GMT

On this justifiably awesome episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2017’s Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, and Jason Momoa. Topics discussed: mother boxes; Armond White: to troll or not to troll?; brown cinematic sludge; manly men. And the worse people in the world got what they wanted! Topics not discussed? C.L.R James’s revolutionary reappraisal of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins. A must read, especially now! Read him!

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Talking about Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) with Michael Carroll!

Wed, 20 May 2020 10:01:21 GMT

On this very antagonistic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Michael Carroll to discuss Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), directed by Zach Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, and Gal Gadot. Topics discussed: corporate art vs. non-corporate art; Ben Affleck’s body vs. Henry Cavill’s body vs. Gal Gadot's body; visionary style vs. style style; studio product vs. Cassavetes product; Schumacher vs. Snyder. Also, crisis mismanagement!

Topics not discussed: The canzoni of Arnaut Daniel, 12th century troubadour.

Michael Carroll is the host of the forthcoming podcast "Judgement Day: T2 Vs Cinema." Follow him on Instagram at @judgementdaypod and if you're interested in pitting your favorite films against Terminator 2 email him at judgementdaypod@gmail.com

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BONUS! White Elephant Art Vs. Termite Art! (with updated link to essay!)

Wed, 13 May 2020 07:01:09 GMT

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Read more about Manny Farber here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Farber

Here's a link to Farber's essay: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/mannyfarber-termiteart-annotated.html

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Talking about "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012)! with special guests Nicole Solomon and Shawn Setaro

Wed, 06 May 2020 07:01:47 GMT

On this raisable episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome friends Nicole and Shawn to discuss the final instalment of the Nolan trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises," starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, and Gary Oldman. Topics discussed: Marcel Proust, secret fascist; blood transfusions; Bruce Wayne in rehab; the political imaginary. Also, by the grace of god, more show trials and executions! And so many Bane impressions!

Topics not discussed? Engels's contributions to theories of evolution in his monumental "The Dialectics of Nature."

Nicole Solomon is a filmmaker, educator and Co-Founder of media services company 4MileCircus. Her short film “Small Talk” screened at festivals around the world winning numerous honors including the Golden Kleene Award from the Arse Electronika Festival on Sex and Tech, the first film to do so. Her antifascist vampire allegory “It’s Normal” recently wrapped up its festival run and is now available exclusively through Patreon -- visit patreon.com/4milecircus for information and to see more of her stuff. Please support Nicole's work here:https://www.patreon.com/4milecircus

Shawn Setaro is an Associate Editor at Complex and the writer and reporter of Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story, a Complex and Spotify podcast about the controversial rapper. He is also the former editor-in-chief of Rap Genius and the creator and host of The Cipher, a critically acclaimed hip-hop podcast. He has written about music and culture for Forbes, The Atlantic, Vibe, The Source, GQ, Esquire, The Sondheim Review, and more. Shaw's work can be found here: https://www.complex.com/author/shawn-setaro. Infamous can be heard here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1261155488

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Message to a Buster Episode 1: Batman, the Adventure Continues!

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:01:38 GMT

WHAT? ANOTHER EPISODE! YOU GUYS ARE SO PROLIFIC - you, talking to us.

Liam and George grace your feeds with a new podcast within a podcast called Message to a Buster! The premise is simple. One of us records a message. The other responds.

This week, we've decided to talk about the inaugural issue of the new series, Batman The Adventure Continues. This new series, written by Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, dropped in early April. You can learn more here: https://www.dccomics.com/comics/batman-the-adventures-continue-2020/batman-the-adventures-continue-1

If you'd like to be included in a future edition of Message to a Buster, find us on twitter (@OeuvreBusters), Instagram (@OeuvreBusters), or email us at OeuvreBusters@gmail.com. We'd like to hear from someone who knows a bit about the state of the comic industry (George will say more in the episode!).

Enjoy!

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Talking about 'The Dark Knight (2008!)'

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 10:01:39 GMT

On this knightish episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam invite Blake Howard from the One Heat Minute podcast to discuss 2008’s The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Topics discussed: David Fincher’s movies for children; the three Batmen; 24-hour Zodiac; Jim Gordon is Brutus; Bane tattoos.

Plus, who is the better villain: the Joker or Bruce, the shark from Jaws?

Topics not discussed: Ezra Pound’s stay at St. Elizabeths hospital directly after World War II and how his time there prevented him from being found guilty for treason.

The article Blake mentions regarding Dark Horizons can be found here:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/what-re-the-most-acclaimed-comic-book-films/

And Blake’s amazing podcast work can be found here: https://oneheatminute.com/podcast

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Talking about Batman Begins (2005)!

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:01:21 GMT

On this beginning-ish (oof, that's terrible, we know) episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2005’s Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, and Gary Oldman. (What a cast!)

Topics discussed: Tax exemptions; orientalism; flirting with fascism; psychological depth, Batman's slightly-pudgy face. Also, military hardware is bad! Topics not discussed? John Keats’ notion of negative capability and how essential the concept is in understanding Keats’ late odes.

Today we have a voicemail from Nicole Solomon and Shawn Setaro.

Nicole Solomon is a filmmaker, podcaster, and educator. Her work can be found at www.4milecircus.com. Watch her short film, Small Talk, on Amazon Prime. Fun fact: it features a vocal performance by one the hosts of this podcast!

Shawn Setaro is an associate editor at Complex and a podcaster. He recently produced Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story now on Spotify.

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Talking about Batman: Mask of The Phantasm (1993)

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:01:59 GMT

On this phantasmic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George delve into animated territory with Mask of the Phantasm (1993), directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm, and starring Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill and Dana Delany. Topics discussed: dead-parent trauma; Bruce Brain; Fuck, Marry, Kill: Kilmer, Clooney, Keaton. Plus, who has a better jawline: animated Batman or Robert Pattinson?

Topics not discussed? The importance of the Aeolian Harp to Romantic poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notorious opium fiend and all around sick poet.

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Sick (Pandemic?) Day Movies

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 03:30:38 GMT

With social isolation in place, Liam and George discuss movies they love, like, and plan to revisit during this period of social isolation.

The name of Eliza Hittman's new film is "Never Rarely Sometimes Always.' Liam blew the title and is sorry.

Goodfellas, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Groundhog Day, A Most Violent Year, and Burning are available on Netflix.

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Black Narcissus, and A Brighter Summer Day are available on The Criterion Channel.

Beach Rats and River of Grass are on Hulu.

Criterion is featuring lots of stuff on Kelly Reichardt. Check it out.

Please stay safe. Please stay home, if you can.

If you have questions for us, we'd love to hear them. Oeuvre Busters on social and OeuvreBusters@gmail.com.

More soon.

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Talking about Batman (1966) with special guest host Kel Karpinski!

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:01:22 GMT

On this Batusi inspired episode, George Fragopoulos and Kel Karpinski (what, no Liam?!?) discuss Batman 1966, directed by Leslie Martinson, and starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin (what a list!). Topics discussed in this episode? Phalluses, just so many phalluses; camp and pop art; Dick Grayson, voyeur-in-chief. Also, Cold War politics!

Topics not discussed? The Elgin Marbles, which, if we are all being honest, should be returned to Greece because they were stolen and fuck the British Museum and British government for not giving them back. For real.

Kel's awesome Zines can be found at https://www.etsy.com/shop/hellotheresailor/

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BONUS: Talking about Movies We Love!

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:01:55 GMT

Last week, a listener reached out to us to talk about films we love! So we decided to talk about them. Enjoy!

We had a lot of fun doing this one. If you have a question for us, send it in. We'll answer it!

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Talking about Batman & Robin (1997)

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 05:01:21 GMT

On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, recorded on location in lovely Burbank, Liam and George discuss Batman and Robin (1997), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Uma Thurman, and Chris O’ Donnell, directed by Joel Schumacher. Topics discussed: Poison Ivy’s love juice; terrible puns; eco-terrorism as a good thing; checked-out Clooney. Plus, some Bong love!

Topics not discussed? That as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

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THE BATMAN: THE UPDATE

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:44:29 GMT

On this bonus-ful(?) episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George talk briefly about what we know about THE BATMAN, the new Batman movie coming out in 13 months! GET EXCITED!

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Talking about Batman Forever (1995)

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:01:43 GMT

On this enigmatic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George tackle Batman Forever (1995), directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Val Kilmer, Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones. Topics discussed: what it’s like to be kissed by a rose; Jim Carrey, insufferable fool; the masks make it better. Also, who would you rather date, Batman or Bruce Wayne? And why not both? Topics not covered: Marx’s theories of the circulation of capital as theorized in the Grundrisse, and how such theories prefigure the more “mature” Marx of Capital.

If you have any Bat-thoughts or Bat-musings about our talks on Batman, Batman Returns, or anything Bat-related, please send us an e-mail or voicemail at oeuvrebusters@gmail.com

Hollywood Reporter Oral History: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-forever-story-behind-surprise-802804

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Talking about Batman Returns (1992)

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:01:46 GMT

Or, This Penguin Wants to Fuck!

On this kittenish episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Batman Returns (1992), directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito and Christopher Walken. Topics discussed: the dislocation of time and space; the erotics of being a superhero; class rage; Jesus songs. Also, sweet, sweet boning.

Topics not discussed: Theodor Dreyer’s cinema of devotion and how it greatly influenced filmmakers as diverse as Paul Schrader, Terrence Malick, and Theo Angelopoulos.

You can, of course, find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail recording, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners during the show itself, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support.

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Talking about Superman (1978)

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:01:56 GMT

On this super (groan) episode of Oeuvre Busters, George welcomes special guest host Sean Mannion to discuss Richard Donner's Superman (1978), starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, and Margot Kidder. Topics discussed: the origins of Kryptonite; Marlon Brando giving zero fucks; the death (and resurrection!) of Superman; shape-shifting aliens; Lex Luthor, Australian; the fall of Saigon. Also, Superman and heteronormativity. Topics not discussed? The rise of autofiction: neoliberal genre or subversive antidote to the bourgeois novel? You decide!

Besides being an excellent person, Sean Mannion is an incredibly talented filmmaker. His film, Meme, can be found on Amazon Prime. More about Sean can be found here:https://www.sean-mannion.com/

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Talking about Batman! (1989)

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:01:04 GMT

On this bat-tacular episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Tim Burton's Batman (1989), starring Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger. Topics discussed: Tim Burton: overrated or not? Joker, working class hero; the weirdness of Michael Keaton; German expressionist cinema (have we discussed this one before?). Also, the pig lady of Detroit!

Topics not discussed: Giotto di Bondone's Padua frescos and how they reflect a radical change in the course of Western art.

You can find more about the wonderful work of Sean Mannion at his website, http://www.sean-mannion.com/.

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Talking about Season 3 - Batman!

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 05:01:15 GMT

On this Bat-tacular episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George kick off season three by discussing Batman: the man, the myth, the movies. Topics discussed: vigilantism; the great comic book wars; Moldova; Hamlet and murdered parents; Rey and Yoda boning. Also, let’s shall do that! Topics not discussed: Picasso’s “The Fall of Icarus” and its relationship to his earlier foundational work, “Guernica.”

You can find more about the wonderful work of Sean Mannion at his website, http://www.sean-mannion.com/.

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Christmas With The Joker: A Batman Miracle!

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 05:01:41 GMT

Happy Holidays! Grab a glass of (spiked!) eggnog, turn on the lights, and relax with some classic Oeuvre Busters banter! We talk about 'Christmas With The Joker!', the second episode of season one of Batman: The Animated Series. Topics include: Favorite Christmas stuff, Mark Hamill, Wine cave vs. Bat cave, and a live reading of Twas The Night Before Christmas.

Our season 3 art is by Sean Mannion! He's a rad filmmaker, teacher, and artist. Check out his film Meme @ http://www.memethemovie.com/ and follow him on twitter @unclesean!

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Liam is on Girls, Guts, and Giallo!

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:58:22 GMT

Hi Busters,

Can I call you busters? No? Got it.

This week Liam is on Girls, Guts, and Giallo talking about Antichrist (2009), directed by Lars Von Trier.

Girls, Guts, and Giallo is a podcast about subversive and controversial cinema hosted by Lesbian Vampire, Annie Rose and featuring various guests. A celebration of trash and feminine perversion.

Come listen to us talk about this really great, really troubling movie.

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PSH Wrap Up!

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 05:01:04 GMT

On this, the final episode of our Philip Seymour Hoffman deep dive, Liam and George discuss their favourite Philip Seymour Hoffman performances, in part by looking once again at "Alpha" Phil and "Beta" Phil roles. Topics discussed: Beguiling Phil; Republican mediocrities; regrets and tragedies and lack of space in the world. Topics not discussed? How Gustave Caillebotte's Les Raboteurs de Parquet was one of the first representations of the Parisian working classes.

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Talking about 'A Most Wanted Man' (2014)

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:06:25 GMT

On this most-wanted episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film (sniffle), A Most Wanted Man (2014), starring Willem Defoe, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, and Nina Hoss. (What a cast!) Topics dicussed: Goats; the ghoulish Henry Kissinger; whiskey; post-9/11 cinema. And, of course, David Hasselhoff.

Topics not discussed? Baby Yoda, thankfully

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SEASON 3 ANNOUNCEMENT

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:01:56 GMT

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ANNOUNCEMENT!

(We'll be back later this week with our regular episode on 'A Most Wanted Man.')

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George was on another podcast. It's fine.

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:32:11 GMT

Hey, Georgeheads -

Not a new episode this week. Instead, we're here to tell you that George got invited on another podcast. It's called The Only Podcast About Movies, and it's totally fine George did another podcast. No, seriously, I don't mind. It's fine.

Here's a link to the episode on their website:http://www.onlymoviepodcast.com/home/2019/11/25/244-the-lighthouse

Otherwise, search The Only Podcast About Movies wherever you get your podcasts. They're good guys, and their show is great. And it's totally fine that George did it. Totally. Fine.

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Talkin' about The Master (2012), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and Starring PSH

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 05:01:43 GMT

On this masterful episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam discuss The Master (2012), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams. Topics discussed? Our first R-rated movies. Sex with sand sculptures. Capitalism and theology. And, of course, scientology. Topics not discussed? Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.

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Bridge! The Episode.

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 05:00:47 GMT

In this bridging episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam take a break from talking films to discuss a recent voice mail from Shahir Daud, as well as the article 'The Epic Uncool of Phillip Seymour Hoffman.' We'll back in two weeks with our take on 'The Master.'

See you soon!

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Talking about Jack Goes Boating (2010), with Special Guest Adam Schartoff

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:01:03 GMT

On this out-to-sea episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio fame to discuss Jack Goes Boating (2010), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Amy Ryan, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Topics discussed: dramaturgy; porno parodies; directorial debuts; reggae-loving dudes. Also, who goes boating in Central Park?!

Topics not discussed: How the Panama Canal radically changed shipping routes in the twentieth-century.

Episodes of Adam’s great podcast can be found here: http://www.filmwaxradio.com

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Talking about Doubt (2008) with Caitlin Mae Burke

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:01:58 GMT

On this no doubt about it excellent episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Caitlin Mae Burke to discuss Doubt (2008), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. Topics discussed: devotional candles; Vatican II: The Revenge; Creaster Christians; the boogie down Bronx. Also, oof, dads!

Topics not covered? The great Christian Schism of 1054 that gave us the Catholic and Orthodox churches as we know them today.

Friend of the podcast, Mark Pagan of the Other Men Need Help podcast, will be having an event on October 8: https://www.google.com/search?q=other+men+need+help+caveatt&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS821US821&oq=other+men+need+help+caveatt&aqs=chrome..69i57.7423j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Please show up and support Mark, Caitlin and their awesome podcast.

Event listing at BRIC: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/brooklyn-media-maker-weekend-2019-redefining-media-mogul

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Talking about Synecdoche, New York (2008) with guest co-host Shahir Daud!

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:01:08 GMT

On this synecdochal episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite Shahir Daud on to discuss 2008’s Synecdoche, New York, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, and Catherine Keener. The film is written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Topics discussed: Cotard syndrome; existentialist filmmaking; houses on fire; anonymous actor T. Cruise; also, what happens when you combine Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Her? Well, listen and find out! Topics not discussed: Bertolt Brecht’s journals and what they can teach us about the rise of fascism.

Shahir Daud is a filmmaker and podcaster. Find his work at https://shahirdaud.com/ He also co-hosts a podcast with Matthew Krol, The Only Podcast About Movies. Give it a listen if you have not already!

Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support.

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Talking about Charlie WIlson's War (2007), featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman!

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 04:01:22 GMT

This week, join dialectical materialist and frequent-swearer George Fragopoulos as he discusses 2007's Charlie Wilson's War, featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Topics include: Where the f*ck is Liam?; Big Phil, Little Phil; Recent contemporary Greek History; Julia Roberts not respecting Papa F's 8 hours of recreation.

Topics not covered: Is anyone worried about Liam? This isn't like him.

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Talking about 25th Hour, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and featuring Michael Ranghelli!

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 04:01:19 GMT

On this not-the-25th episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome onboard Michael Ranghelli to discuss Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, starring Ed Norton, Rosario Dawson and, yes, of course, the one and only Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics discussed on this episode: Liam crying at work; the oddity that is Oldboy; the differences between dragons and dogs; tone poems. Also, rent in New York City is truly obscene.

Topics not covered: John Ashbery’s radical verse experimentation in 1962's The Tennis Court Oath.

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BONUS: Phillip Seymour Hoffman's queer roles with Annie Rose Malamet

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:41:18 GMT

George is on vacation, so Liam hijacked the podcast to speak with Annie Malamet about the queer roles of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Films covered: Flawless, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Capote, Boogie Nights, and The Master. Also, Annie legit teaches us like 3 new words.

Annie Rose Malamet is an Educator, Artist, and Podcast Host. Her podcast, @girlsgutsgiallo, can be found wherever you get podcasts. Help support her work at https://www.patreon.com/girlsgutsgiallo

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Talking about Mission Impossible 3 (2006), featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and co-hosted by Jose Rodriguez!

Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:01:22 GMT

On this impossible episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam welcome guest host Jose Rodriguez to discuss 2006's Mission Impossible Three, starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, and, of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics covered: fulcrums vs. pendulums; Tom Cruise's thetan count; Liam's recent religious conversion; spy franchises, ranked! Plus: Ethan Hunt fucks the flag.

Topics not covered: The biographical masterpieces of the one and only Hermione Lee. As the Guardian recently said in regards to her recent biography of Penelope Fitzgerald: "Lee is a master of that most neglected of literary genres: the literary biography. It is essential that she be read."

Our guest host, Jose Rodriguez, is a brilliant filmmaker. Find his work below!

DEAD-END (fiction short)

https://vimeo.com/140514161

ADOLESCENCIA (documentary short)

https://vimeo.com/180646107

Film Force (film collective run by Jose Rodriguez & Tim Noble)

https://www.thisisfilmforce.com

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Talking about Capote (2005), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 04:01:12 GMT

On this week’s capotesque episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2005’s Capote, starring (no, really) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Clifton Collins Jr., and directed by Bennett Miller. Topics covered: our favorite communist novels; Gore Vidal’s Wildean wit; the origin of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie; trips to Spain. And Weekend at Bernie’s relationship to the American avant-garde.

Topics not covered? How Stendhal’s experiences during the Napoleonic Wars were foundational to his novels, in particular The Charterhouse of Parma, his last work.

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BONUS: Philip Seymour Hoffman on Arthur, with special guest Michael Caroll

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:01:18 GMT

On this A is for aardvark episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and special guest Michael Carroll chat about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s appearance on the animated series, Arthur! Topics discuss: What kind of animal, exactly, is Fern; cringeworthy cartoons; the embrace of lukewarm showers; real people existing, making art. Finally, Liam watches PSH eat a hot dog!

Topics not covered: Voltaire’s very famous claim that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Discuss, please.

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Talking about Along Came Polly (2004), with guest host Mark Pagan!

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 04:01:56 GMT

On this pollyannaish episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam welcome guest host Mark Pagán to discuss 2004’s Along Came Polly, starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston and, yes, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics discussed? Hunk Azaria; manic pixie dream girls; student-film versions of Fight Club; the philological history of sharting. Also, Jennifer Aniston: indie-film muse.

Topics not discussed: How Franz Kafka’s parables are allegorical reflections about the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Mark's amazing podcast, Other Men Need Help, can be found here: https://othermenneedhelp.com/

Please also consider supporting Mark and Other Men Need Help on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/othermenneedhelp

Please support your local podcasts and podcasters any way you can!

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Talking about Red Dragon (2002), barely featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman!

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 04:01:18 GMT

On this reddish episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite Brett Ratner expert Paul Molinari on to discuss 2002’s disastrous Red Dragon, starring Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, and featuring, of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics discussed: the aesthetics of scrapbooking; the orgy of evidence; Edward Norton’s terrible dye job; the amazing anti-aging technology used on Anthony Hopkins; also, Bela Tarr has some thoughts! Topics not discussed: the sublime beauty of Arundhati Roy’s Booker-prize winning masterpiece, The God of Small Things. Read. That. Novel!

You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com! Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail recording, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners during the show itself, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast.

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Talking about Love Liza (2002), starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:01:15 GMT

On this Liza-esque (?) episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2002's Love Liza, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates and directed by Todd Louiso. Topics discussed: American consumption of petrol in all its varied forms; Magic: The Gathering; hobby enthusiasts; sad white guys and the people who love their stories. Also, we find out that George is a Pasolini poser. Quelle surprise. Finally, please listen to the very end for a special message from our good friend Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio fame.

Topics not discussed: The aesthetic provocations of the feminist art-group The Guerrilla Girls and their critique of august art institutions, such as the MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com! Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail recording, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com We are looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners during the show itself, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast.

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Match That Hoff, Man! A new game show from Oeuvre Busters!

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 04:01:33 GMT

Welcome to Match That Hoff, Man!

Match That Hoff, Man! is a new game show where we match characters played by celebrated American actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman to his lesser-known films! Our first contestant is George, an educator from Queens, New York! Welcome to the show, George!

Descriptions for the films starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman came from this article by Nathan Rabin.

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Talking about The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman AND with special guest hosts Kel Karpinski and Lars von Trier!

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 04:01:19 GMT

On this talent-filled episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam, George, and guest hosts Kel Karpinski and Lars von Trier discuss 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Jude Law, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics discussed: the literary works of Patricia Highsmith; one-hour photo stores; Jude Law’s glorious, glorious ass cheeks; Matt Damon's sultry voice; also, listen to Lars von Trier say terrible things about Apple Paltrow! He is such an enfant terrible, that Lars. Something we don’t discuss on this podcast? How Pinochet’s coup of 1974 opened Chile for the neoliberal economics of the Chicago Boys, economists who trained under Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago. Man, those guys were not good people!

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Talking about Twister with Kat Rodriguez!

Wed, 29 May 2019 04:01:30 GMT

On this twisted episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George (but mostly Liam) welcome special guest Kat Rodriguez to discuss 1996’s Twister, starring Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, and featuring, of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty. Topics covered: what everyone had for breakfast; the hotness of Bill Paxton; Philip Seymour Hoffman’s testicles; and is PSH a human golden retriever? Ya know, like Mr. Peanutbutter? Also, divorce! It’s painful. Topics not covered: Gertrude Stein’s a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Is it, Stein? Is it?

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Talking about Happiness (1998), featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Wed, 22 May 2019 04:01:29 GMT

On this not-so-happy episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Todd Solondz's Happiness (1998), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Jane Adams and Lara Flynn Boyle. Topics discussed? The End of History! The effervescent and joyous Jane Adams; the sucky Jay Leno; also, attractive people! They're the worst, aren't they? And George's dog makes a subtle cameo, can you figure out when, exactly? Topics not discussed? The rediscovery of Lucretius's poem On the Nature of Things and how that great work was essential in establishing a materialist outlook to the world, thus leading to modernity. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support.

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NO-STAGRAM! Episode 1

Wed, 15 May 2019 04:01:13 GMT

Here's the deal. George doesn't have Instagram. Liam does. So Liam sat George down and caught him up on all things OBIG. Hilarity (?) ensued!

Plus, Schartoff Rises.

We're @OeuvreBusters on Instagram and Twitter. Get at us.

Shahir Daud's amazing short film La Loteria.

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Talking about The Big Lebowski (1998), featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Wed, 08 May 2019 04:01:09 GMT

On this Lebowskiesque episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski, from the Clinton-era year of 1998, and starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, and, of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Topics discussed: the failures of the New Left; Manifest Destiny; the first, and surprisingly not the worst, Gulf War; and, of course, bowling. Topics not discussed? The feminist ethos of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. They are great! Read them! But we ain't discussing them here, sorry. You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com! Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail recording, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com We are looking to include more feedback from our listeners during the show itself, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast.

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Also, Liam and George recently appeared on an episode of Filmwax Radio, an amazing podcast hosted by the one and only Adam Shartoff. Our episode can be found here http://www.filmwaxradio.com/podcasts/episode-551/ and please make sure to listen and subscribe to Adam's podcast as well.

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BONUS: Talking about Barbara Loden's Wanda (1970) and her appearance on Dick Cavett!

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:00:23 GMT

On this wanderful (groan) episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam discuss Barbara Loden's foundational film, Wanda, from the so-so year of 1970. Your podcast hosts also take a look at Loden's appearance on the Dick Cavett show of the same year and what turns out to be a rather awkward interview. Topics discussed in this episode: George's creaking chair; genre hopping; the necessary drug that is coffee; the proper way to eat pasta; and class politics in America. Also, we beg the Criterion collection to let us in the closet, because we love free shit.

Also, for more on Wanda, please take a look at these amazing essays on the film and on its legacy as a feminist classic: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5811-wanda-now-reflections-on-barbara-loden-s-feminist-masterpiece

Wanda is now available on the new Criterion channel for streaming, so check it out when you can!

Topics not discussed: the fascist radio broadcasts of American poet Ezra Pound, and how these radio appearances led to Pound being charged with treason at the end of World War 2.

Once again, thank you for rating, reviewing and subscribing whenever and wherever you can! We appreciate all the love!

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Talking and Drafting Phillip Seymour Hoffman!

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:01:44 GMT

On this drafty episode, the very first of Season Two, Liam and George talk (and select) Philip Seymour Hoffman movies for the upcoming season of Oeuvre Busters! Listen to Liam groan and groan and groan as George selects movies he can't stand! Listen to George try, and fail, to do a Keith Richards impersonation! Also, please stay tuned to the very end for a very important message from friend of the podcast, Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio. Topics not covered in this episode of Oeuvre Busters? The myths and legends surrounding New York City's very own Pizza Rat! Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can, we appreciate all the love and attention.

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Talking About All the Cassavetes!

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 04:02:44 GMT

In the season one finale of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George take a drip down (very recent) memory lane and spend some time reconsidering the entire John Cassavetes oeuvre. Topics discussed: Keith Richards's cockney (?) accent; the glorious taste of pistachios; the discography of Sarah McLachlan; and the proper order in which one should watch these films. Also, our first fan mail! Topics not discussed? Hegelian dialectics. No, wait, actually, that's discussed, but only in a superficial manner. Clearly Liam and George have not spent much time reading the primary texts, but rather crude summaries. They truly are philistines of the highest order. Please don't forget to rate, review and subscribe whenever you can. We appreciate all the support!

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Talking About John Cassavetes's Big Trouble (1986)

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 04:01:31 GMT

On this big episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome guest host Kel Karpinski to discuss John Cassavetes's final film, Big Trouble, starring Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, and Beverly D'Angelo. Topics discussed: safari Columbo; why the American dream is actually an American nightmare; why Yale is terrible; how Big Trouble is both a Die Hard prequel and a Face/Off prequel; and why you can't imagine a world without The Simpsons. Topics not discussed: string theory! Will it or will it not resolve the tensions that exist between Einstenian astrophysics and quantum mechanics? How the fuck should we know? We just make a stupid podcast. But please do rate and review and subscribe whenever and wherever you can. We greatly appreciate all the support! Please also support Kel's amazing zine work! More info at hellotheresailor.etsy.com Kel also has a new kickstarter going at: http://kck.st/2D2E0Pq Support your local artists!

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Talking about John Cassavetes's Love Streams (1984)

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:01:45 GMT

On this streamy (you thought we were gonna say lovely, didn’t you?) episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, starring Gena Rowlands and Cassavetes himself, from the Orwellian year 1984. A few of the topics discussed on this episode: Adorno/Benjamin 2020; John McLane is Christ; we rank the Lethal Weapon films (and the Hamlet films as well); also, where does one go, exactly, when looking for the sex? Topics not covered: How the 1848 revolutions that swept through Europe influenced and informed Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Please don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the support!

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Talking about John Cassavetes's Gloria (1980)

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 04:01:47 GMT

On this glorious episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 1980’s Gloria, starring Gena Rowlands, John Adames, and Julie Carmen. Things you’ll learn listening to this podcast: how truly majestic doughnuts are; that a $100 dollars in 1980 is $33,000 dollars in 2019, when adjusted for inflation; how utterly cheap human life truly is, to Gloria that is; how the rise of enclosure laws fucked the peasantry. Also, George meets Hip-Hop royalty! Finally, an important public service announcement: true friends don’t shit on their friend’s cars. Topics not covered: I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum. Please subscribe and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate it!

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Talking about John Cassavetes' Opening Night (1977)

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 05:01:06 GMT

On this theatrical episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam discuss John Cassavetes’s Opening Night, starring Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, and Ben Gazzara, from the blockbuster-studded year 1977. Listen to the guys break out some terrible impersonations! Bono for Liam, Arnold for George. Other topics covered? Eugene O’Neill’s KFC addiction. (Ironically, this episode is brought to you by Popeyes! Looking to punish your colon?! Eat Popeyes!) Is this a film about alcoholism or the grim specter of death? Why not both? And surrealism! Topics not covered: how British enclosure laws in the 17th and 18th centuries and the creation of what Robert Brenner has called “politically constituted property” gave rise to modern capitalism as we know it today. Please make sure to review and subscribe wherever you can! We would greatly appreciate it.

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Talking about John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 05:01:17 GMT

On this killer episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss John Cassavetes’s The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, starring Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey and Aziz Johari, from the long-forgotten year of 1976. Topics covered: the nature of Aristotelian tragedy; the ennui of being a mobster; American imperialism. Also, the guys chime in on the long-standing controversy that has plagued Britney Spears’s fandom for over a decade now: which, exactly, is the best Britney song of them all: Toxic or Email My Heart? Also, make sure to listen to the end for some topical humor regarding the Reagan administration. Topics not covered: the essential role of the phallus in Jacques Lacan’s famous interpretation of the Freudian unconscious as being structured “like a language.” As Lacan himself would say, très bien! Please don’t forget to subscribe and review wherever and whenever you can!

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Keith, are you coming to LOVE STREAMS?

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:35:36 GMT

Dear Keith,

We will be at BAM's screening of LOVE STREAMS this Sunday, February 17, at 7pm. Will you?

Here's the BAM description to get you excited:

Part of Film series Programmers’ Notebook: On Love

Directed by John Cassavetes | 1984

With Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott

John Cassavetes’ penultimate film—and final masterwork—stars his greatest on- and offscreen collaborator, Gena Rowlands, as a recently divorced woman who, her life in tatters, moves in with her alcoholic brother. What ensues is a searing journey of pain and reconciliation and as the siblings lay bare their hurt, loneliness, and desperate search of understanding, rendered by Cassavetes with wrecking ball emotional intensity.

See you there, Keith!

Love,

Liam and George

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BONUS Episode: Talking about Mikey and Nicky (1976)

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:23:17 GMT

Fresh off being the film of the week on Criterion's new streaming channel, Liam and George talk Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976), in which May out-Cassavetes Cassavetes. Will our heroes get this episode out before the film disappears from the streaming service? No. They didn't.

But here's the episode for you to enjoy!

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Talking about John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 05:01:22 GMT

On this very touching episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence, from the magical year 1974, starring Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk. A couple of questions to consider: Who eats that much pasta at 9 in the morning? Is Peter Falk a modern-day Fred Flintstone or what? Is there an infinity gem (trademark Marvel Studios) in that rock quarry? Is Tina's ass really that big? How old, exactly, is Thanos Cassavetes? And is Good Will Hunting really the Boston Bible? Also, a quick game of Fuck,Marry, Kill. A topic not covered in this episode? The asinine presidential run of one Howard Schultz, better known as the guy who made a fortune peddling shitty coffee to people and destroying tons of local businesses. Yeah, that guy. He sucks.

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Talking about John Cassamovies's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:01:43 GMT

On this big-hearted episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George examine John Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz, starring Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel. Topics covered in this episode: the manic madness of one Seymour Moskowitz; the nature of loneliness; the true meaning of the term butthurt, or arsehurt if you're English; Marty Scorsese's back massage technique; and why lunch dates go bad. Topics not covered: January 16. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 push-ups each morning, 50 pull-ups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on, it will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight. And so forth!

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BONUS AUDIO COMMENTARY! Cassavetes and Company on the Dick Cavett Show

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 05:01:25 GMT

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZ6IOJ5ovw

Dick Cavett's Worst show: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dick-cavetts-worst-show

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Talking about John Cassavetes's Husbands (1970)

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 05:01:09 GMT

On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss John Cassavetes's Husbands, starring Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, and Cassvetes himself. First and foremost, do these guys know how to rage! But boy do things get cringe worthy really fast in this film, the first half of which is a masterpiece and the second half of which just won't end. Things you will discover while listening to this episode: the title of James Franco's next short story collection; the age at which your legs go; all the sports that Peter Falk loves; proper funeral etiquette; the meaning of Bahama underwear; and why LaCroix is the champagne of seltzer. Also, it's book report time! Topics not discussed in this episode: Virginia Woolf's use of free indirect discourse in Mrs Dalloway (1925) as a formal response to James Joyce's use of stream of consciousness in Ulysses (1922).

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Talking about John Cassavetes's Faces (1968)

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 06:00:37 GMT

We are back on the Cassavetes train! (But did we ever really get off it in the first place? Hmmm?) On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, and after taking a look at his two studio films, George and Liam discuss Cassavetes's Faces, from the turbulent year 1968. The film stars the magnetic Gena Rowlands, the senescent John Marley, the incandescent Lynn Carlin, and the Herculean Seymour Cassel. Things to consider: first and foremost, who knew that this film was a secret Mad Men prequel? My god, does Liam love Honey I Shrunk the Kids! Can George STFU about Johnny Staccato? Also, did Vin Diesel rip off Seymour Cassel? And welcome our new podcast hosts, Bird and Drill! Topics not covered in this podcast: Thomas Hobbes's critique of Robert Boyle's air pump experiments of 1659, and how these experiments gave rise to new and modern epistemological forms that we today recognise as "science."

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Talking about John Cassavetes's A Child is Waiting (1963)

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:00:24 GMT

In this episode of Ouevre Busters, George and Liam discuss John Cassavetes's last studio film, 1963's A Child is Waiting, starring the rugged Burt Lancaster and the immortal Judy Garland. Listen to George and Liam constantly mispronouncing Gena Rowlands's name! Gasp in horror as your hosts describe the most terrifying opening-credits sequence ever committed to celluloid! Shake your head in disgust as these two jackanapes discuss the theological implications of which artists might be in hell! Also, does Michael Bay really have all that firepower at his disposal? All this and more in this episode of Ouevre Busters, the podcast that talks about a director's entire body of work, one film at a time. Topics not covered in this episode: the regional and local conflicts within the Eastern Bloc nations during the early 1980s which eventually influenced Gorbachev's championing of "Glasnost," that is, a policy of "transparency" and "openness" to the world at large.

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Talking about Johnny Staccato (1959) and Too Late Blues (1961)

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:00:17 GMT

Welcome to episode 2 of Oeuvre Busters! In the first part of the episode, George and Liam discuss the ridiculously awesome (at least according to George; Liam is a bit more agnostic) Johnny Staccato, a TV show Cassavetes starred in and occasionally directed from 1959-1960 in order to pay the bills. Listen to Liam ruin George’s Blade Runner “joke.” Listen to George clearly having a road-to-Damascus moment as he discusses his love for this terrible show. Liam and George then discuss 1961’s Too Late Blues, Cassavetes’s first studio film starring the immortal Bobby Darin. Topics covered: Greek-American stereotypes, baseball-playing musicians, and bar fights. Also, Rupert’s back! Topics not covered: the intense epistolary bromance between German philosophers Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. Have a listen!

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Talking about John Cassavetes's Shadows (1959)

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:00:14 GMT

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Oeuvre Busters! George and Liam talk about what the hell they think they're doing (they have no idea), and discuss John Cassavetes’s first film, Shadows. Listen to George mispronounce the title Goodfellas! Listen to Liam curse the corpse of Rudy Giuliani! Also, why is Marty Scorsese so damn quiet? And the guys are clearly in love with Rupert, and can you blame them? All this and more in what is the first, and most likely the last, episode of this all new podcast!

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