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"Peter sellars when peter sellars was at his most manic and between the budget and the star the whole thing sunk. Shall we say and in a way sunk this guy's career but you see you know if you've seen peers yourselves you know he's a genius but this this is very unfortunate for medic. But it's nice. City gets to tell his story now. I thought that came out a couple of years ago. Did it not it might. It might have been one of those. Like banana split where it was like. Hey it was the two thousand eighteen but didn't right you know really availability thousand twenty k. The last year no mention is the painter and the thief. A crazy story directed by women re about an artist named barbara in europe and she has a show finally and her piece of art is stolen and the cameras are able to Kind of find out who stole the picture and she has. Name's karl and she goes to his trial and he goes to jail and she keeps visiting him in jail and they become good friends and when he gets out of jail. They become like entangled in this relationship. That's almost codependent. And i wonder you know. I know where it left off but i wonder what it is. Now you know we did it. Turn into something more. I think they're making a narrative version of this as well but pretty fascinating stuff. Yeah i still haven't watched that one. That was going to be the next doc. I watch before. We got to this. But i never got a chance to so. I'm i'm definitely looking forward to checking it out. I'll just say one one other one that just throw on the list. We we touched on it on our top narratives episode but we should mention it again Bloody nose empty pockets. Which isn't really a documentary but is going to you know end up. In many documentary talks for the year It kind of rides a strange line between documentary and narrative film because it's all baked but It's about the closing of a Las vegas bar. Although it's not really shot in las vegas and all of just the people who inhabit the bar and they're the regulars there and you just kind of spend all this time with them and it's a really interesting movie. It probably would be my number six on this list Did did you What'd you think of it. Like as a documentary feature blended thing. I didn't think anything of it. This documentary blended future because it's not a documentary. Yeah it's about a it was on my narrative line. No it's about a fake bar. That's closing and fake bar means fake patriots. They're calling it a documentary still. They're trying to get it away as documentary. I mean it's not a documentary. I wouldn't make my list but it did make my list of top narrative so there you go all right. Well i think that does it. I think this is fun. And hopefully yeah in. Hopefully in two thousand twenty one will will be able to squeeze in a couple of Documentary episodes in the traditional piecing it together format because you know does so many great documentaries every year definitely ones where the golden age for documentaries right now because of all these you know all these streaming platforms right so like you know the next three down on my list. One was like a netflix. mini series. One was bbc hour. Long thing and one was a wwe network five parter so there you go. You know like there's so many different ways you tell stories now and so many different outlets and you know like city hall which is like a five hour. Documentary is on top ten list this year tour. So yeah there's plenty of stuff out there man some well We wrap it up. Why don't you tell people about what's going on with awesome ouvriere awesome movie year is just finishing season. Six thousand nine hundred eighty four. Lots of big big movies. That still resonates today ghostbusters. Karate kid Beverly hills cop man. There's there's gremlins you know. A lot of these are finding new life and plenty new. We got some great special guests. Like joe esposito. Saying you're the best around. And some other guests like eric gladstone. Not a great no. I'm just kidding eric. He's a friend of mine. So i joke around and then you got What by the time. That season's over we're moving back into this current century for season seven not releasing the year yet but we got a lot of good stuff plan. Dave awesome movie year on facebook and instagram awesome. Movie pod on twitter awesome movie or dot com right on. What about you yourself jason. Where can people find you. Oh i'm still at jason harris comedy on facebook and instagram. Jay harris comedy on twitter. Go for jason. Dot com should get an upgrade in twenty twenty one. Let's hope so. We should make a documentary about the upgrade of your website. That should be fun so far. It would be really. I'm jesse i'm ryan and we're the hosts of not my type one couple to personalities and we're taking three million internet quizzes approximately for non serious conversations about serious phantoms. Check us out type each episode. We take buzzfeed. Stock was to explore a movie or book. As many as we can get our hands new episodes. Come out each wednesday if you want to find out more about the show not my type. Dot com everywhere. Stays all right so i hope you enjoyed that conversation with jason harris about the top five documentaries of two thousand and twenty. What did you think our picks if you think we left anything major out get in touch. I'd love to hear from you. you can. Of course just tweet at us at piecing pod or join our facebook group popcorn and puzzle pieces. Were we continue the conversation about all the movies we talk about here on the show or you could also get in touch on our website. Piecing pod dot com. Let us know what you think of the show. If you'd like to join me for a future episode. I posted a a tweet the week of new year's saying that i'm looking for new co host and holy crap. Did we get responses. So hopefully we'll get a lot of you on the show in the coming weeks and months and throughout the year. Lots of movies to cover. So i'm sure we'll find room for everybody but if you are listening and you've thought hey you know when i think of movies i think of puzzle pieces. You should get in touch with me. So let's talk but Yeah thank you so much. Everybody for listening. Make sure you're subscribed wherever it is you listen to podcasts and Following us on social media piecing pod and all that stuff also. Don't forget to check out our patriotic where we posed bonus content from piecing it together awesome movie year as well as from my music career. So lots of great content there and speaking of my music career. Let's close this thing out with a piece of music. Like i always do. And i am going to go with something from my latest album. David rosen just a self titled album and it's one of my favorite things i've ever put out and i'm going to go with the song the opening track it's called creation and yeah let's play this track. It's called creation. It's from my new album. David rosen which is available for sale on band camp and i tunes and all those services but also streaming on spotify and apple music and all that as well so this. Enjoy it and we'll be back. We've got one more special looking back at two thousand twenty episode coming up and then a whole lot of new movies to cover so lots piecing it together. Common your.
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"Peter sellars when peter sellars was at his most manic and between the budget and the star the whole thing sunk. Shall we say and in a way sunk this guy's career but you see you know if you've seen yourselves you know he's a genius but this this is very unfortunate for maddock but it's nice city gets to tell his story now. I thought that came out a couple of years ago. Did it not it might. It might have been one of those. Like banana split where it was like. Hey it was the two thousand eighteen but didn't right you know really availability thousand twenty k. The last one no mention is the painter and the thief. A crazy story directed by men re about an artist named barbara in europe and she has a show finally and her piece of art is stolen and the cameras are able to Kind of find out who stole the picture and she has. Name's karl and she goes to his trial and he goes to jail and she keeps visiting him in jail and they become good friends and when he gets out of jail. They become like entangled in this relationship. That's almost codependent. And i wonder you know. I know where it left off but i wonder what it is. Now you know we did it. Turn into something more. I think they're making a narrative version of this as well but pretty fascinating stuff. Yeah i still haven't watched that one. That was going to be the next doc. I watch before. We got to this. But i never got a chance to so. I'm i'm definitely looking forward to checking it out. I'll just say one one other one that just throw on the list. We we touched on it on our top narratives episode but we should mention it again Bloody nose empty pockets. Which isn't really a documentary but is going to you know end up. In many documentary talks for the year It kind of rides a strange line between documentary and narrative film because it's all baked but It's about the closing of a Las vegas bar. Although it's not really shot in las vegas and all of just the people who inhabit the bar and they're the regulars there and you just kind of spend all this time with them and it's a really interesting movie. It probably would be my number six on this list Did did you What'd you think of it. Like as a documentary feature blended thing. I didn't think anything of it. This documentary blended future because it's not a documentary. Yeah it's about a it was on my narrative line. No it's about a fake bar. That's closing and fake bar means fake patriots. They're calling it a documentary still. They're trying to get it away as documentary. I mean it's not a documentary. I wouldn't make my list but it did make my list of top narrative film so there you go all right. Well i think that does it. I think this is fun. And hopefully yeah in. Hopefully in two thousand twenty one will will be able to squeeze in a couple of Documentary episodes in the traditional piecing it together format because you know does so many great documentaries every year definitely ones where the golden age for documentaries right now because of all these you know all these streaming platforms right so like you know the next three down on my list. One was like a netflix. mini series. One was bbc hour. Long thing and one was a wwe network five parter so there you go. You know like there's so many different ways you tell stories now and so many different outlets and you know like city hall which is like a five hour. Documentary is on top ten list this year tour. So yeah there's plenty of stuff out there man some well We wrap it up. Why don't you tell people about what's going on with awesome ouvriere awesome movie year is just finishing season. Six thousand nine hundred eighty four. Lots of big big movies. That still resonates today ghostbusters. Karate kid Beverly hills cop man. There's there's gremlins lot of these are finding new life and plenty new. We got some great special guests. Like joe esposito. Saying you're the best around. And some other guests like eric gladstone. Not a great no. I'm just kidding eric. He's a friend of mine. So i joke around and then you got What by the time. That season's over we're moving back into this current century for season seven not releasing the year yet but we got a lot of good stuff plan. Dave awesome movie year on facebook and instagram awesome. Movie pod on twitter awesome movie or dot com right on. What about you yourself jason. Where can people find you. Oh i'm still at jason harris comedy on facebook and instagram. Jay harris comedy on twitter. Go for jason. Dot com should get an upgrade. Twenty twenty one. Let's hope so. We should make a documentary about the upgrade of your website. That should be fun so far it would be really boring. I'm jesse i'm ryan and we're the hosts of not my type one couple personalities and we're taking three million internet quizzes approximately for non serious conversations about serious phantoms. Check us out type each episode. We take buzzfeed. Stock was to explore a movie or book. As many as we can get our hands new episodes. Come out each wednesday if you want to find out more about the show not my type. Dot com everywhere. Stays all right so i hope you enjoyed that conversation with jason harris about the top five documentaries of two thousand and twenty what did you think of our picks if you think we left anything major out. Get in touch. I'd love to hear from you. You can of course. Just tweet at us at piecing pod or join our facebook group popcorn and puzzle pieces. Were we continue the conversation about all the movies we talk about here on the show or you could also get in touch on our website. Piecing pod dot com. Let us know what you think of the show. If you'd like to join me for a future episode. I posted a a tweet the week of new year's saying that i'm looking for new co host and holy crap. Did we get responses. So hopefully we'll get a lot of you on the show in the coming weeks and months and throughout the year. Lots of movies to cover. So i'm sure we'll find room for everybody but if you are listening and you've thought hey you know when i think of movies i think of puzzle pieces. You should get in touch with me. So let's talk but Yeah thank you so much. Everybody for listening. Make sure you're subscribed wherever it is you listen to podcasts and Following us on social media piecing pod and all that stuff also. Don't forget to check out our patriotic where we posed bonus content from piecing it together awesome movie year as well as from my music career. So lots of great content there and speaking of my music career. Let's close this thing out with a piece of music. Like i always do. And i am going to go with something from my latest album. David rosen just a self titled album and it's one of my favorite things i've ever put out and i'm going to go with the song the opening track it's called creation and yeah let's play this track. It's called creation. It's from my new album. David rosen which is available for sale on band camp and i tunes and all those services but also streaming on spotify and apple music and all that as well so this creation enjoy it and we'll be back got one more special looking back at two thousand twenty episode coming up and then a whole lot of new movies to cover so lots piecing it together. Common your.
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"Onion rings and basically set out to make a documentary about him because he just wanted to make a documentary and he loved this guy's onion rings and this i basically tries to force a bigger story out of the documentary. Whether or not larry wants any of that to happen or even understands exactly what's happening in this poor guy just gets this whole situation just kind of thrust upon them and it really turns into this documentary about kind of the responsibilities of a documentary maker and who gets to make a documentary. Which is something. I've never really thought about until this movie and like who should be allowed to follow someone around with a camera and try to tell that person's story and it's just absolutely fascinating and it's it's very just kind of fucked up and dark at times but also very funny and very just very what the fuck and it's a really unique movie. Let's just say that. Yeah man. I'm excited to watch that you ever really good list. And it's very different than what. I might have expected so i really like that. I don't know how much you know i was. I you know that. I was working on this documentary for a while and ran into a couple of technical issues but also like you're saying like The subject of mind was let's say Very big celebrity in the eighties and then she retired now. Mounting this comeback in you could tell. She's very careful about who she trusts. So just getting that ease with your subject is so important and i agree with you i can. I can see how that would make something interesting in the ringmaster and i love onion rings. Go right. absolutely what do you got number. Two number two for me is boy. State riveting political documentary that shows sadly the state of politics in america by looking at it through a lens of an event called. There's boy state and there's also girl state and it's a. I believe a sponsored event through whatever organizations and it takes a bunch of teenagers in different states and puts them in political camps the nationalists in the federal federal lists in this one which are basically conservatives versus liberals you know and they're allowed to vote on you know laws and referendums and they're electing people and this one takes place in texas and follows really three main characters. Stephen is a latino. His mom comes from mexico. I believe and he is kind of this like very Pure hearted liberal who is willing to make compromises with people and stand on his own. And then you have the to Political consultants stevens kinda campaign. Managers guy rene who's A bit larger than life and he rubbed some people the wrong way but he seems to be having good intentions with how he wants to run his campaign on the opposite. Side is ben who is not a person that i would ever want to spend a political time with a teenager. I'm that ripping on this guy. But he's super-conservative. He loves those kind of conservative. Playbook moves a lot of the trumpian moves and it's basically can you win running a fair campaign versus playing dirty tricks and you know. These kids are so savvy with social media. They put up you know Instagram accounts and memes. With all this stuff and it's as a it's it's like i said riveting an incredibly depressing and had the election got another way this year. It'd be even more depressing but highly recommend it boy state. I think they're working on a sequel to it. This is jessie mawson. Amanda mcbain so highly. Recommend there yeah boy states. One of my honorable mentions absolutely great We we did a Bird road crossover episode on it. Actually and had a guest elisa manley in the boy state program Few years back so he was able to shine a really interesting light on that You can find that on the the byrd road podcast or we also reported as a special episode of piecing it together But yeah yeah. Great documentary very depressing. Like you like you said but still so we haven't had any crossover so far. I'm shy but i'm curious if our number ones. That are going to be the same here. Because i happened to see your letterbox that you loved this movie. That is my number one. So i'm wondering if it might be the same one. My number one also is the only movie this year. I gave five stars so by that. I guess in a way. My favorite movie of the year overall It's feels good. Man from director. Arthur jones about pepe the frog and its creator matt furey and how this ridiculous little sweet cartoon was turned into a symbol of hate for all right and it's this just incredible incredible story. That's that's insane it's baffling. It's horrifying looks at so many different Worlds including that of like independent artists of the internet and Trolling culture and all that kind of stuff and then of course to the logical conclusion of white power and hate groups and autrey and all that stuff and of course the rise of trump is well and yeah it. It's just fascinating and you just so feel for this. Poor guy matt furey but even though it's so damn dark and just so fucked up. What happened to him there. There's definitely a through story of of hope of This guy kind of taking back control of his own and just continuing to be the artists that he really just set out to be in the first place and trying to rewrite his own story In pushing forward and so this movie is just. I think it's the movie of two thousand twenty. Got to agree with you dave. My number one also feels good man and like you said it in involves politics technology in co-opting image. Changing the message on something and you know really stuff that i didn't know about like you know i knew that the alright there's a very good episode basically of the podcast reply all and also deals with this subject matter and that is a great podcast. In general i highly recommended. I love the animation. This was another ninety three minutes. And every minute counts on this one and you know you mentioned a lot of the negatives because there are so many of them but there is definitely a redemptive that last third him fighting back to get his image back in Yeah it's it's it's it's nuts and these sometimes because there's so much that has to be explained it can get bogged down but this was light and entertaining interesting the hallway through so arthur jones. First time filmmaker one emerging documentary filmmaker. Add at sundance this year. Oh really. I didn't realize that. Yeah that absolutely deserved and Yeah i hope everybody sees this movie because aside from the main story being told also it really explains that whole internet subculture so well and like and how it works how it grows how it breeds and that's such an important thing to understand moving forward in this country yet. Real fast boy state won the grand jury prize for sunday and was case. You were wondering but it's interesting because those almost go together in a way right so but yeah this This feels good man which is like a weird name until you till you watch it and then learn what it's about and.
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"Last one was western stars. And what i would say is if you watch like any of the born theron darkness or even the river documentaries. That's those are retrospect. That's bruce telling. The story of twenty thirty years later. Western stars is kind of him telling the stories of the songs as they exist. Yeah and now. This is kind of a mix. This is that next iteration where he's telling the stories of the songs as the recording but the the life of the songs and also this kind of meditation on what they mean. These is beautiful imagery. Yeah so another black and white documentary on my list. But i Ah go watch it. Yeah i'm going to. I love that western stars on. So i'm definitely gonna watch this. My number two is a movie. I found out about rum Your awesome move year co host josh bell. It's called the ringmaster and is the finished version directed by dave newburgh but it started off as a project from this vegas. Filmmaker zachary cap Before it totally got out of hand on him It's about this. Guy larry laying who makes onion rings and basically set out to make a documentary about him because he just wanted to make a documentary and he loved this guy's onion rings and this i basically tries to force a bigger story out of the documentary. Whether or not larry wants any of that to happen or even understands exactly what's happening in this poor guy just gets this whole situation just kind of thrust upon them and it really turns into this documentary about kind of the responsibilities of a documentary maker and who gets to make a documentary. Which is something. I've never really thought about until this movie and like who should be allowed to follow someone around with a camera and try to tell that person's story and it's just absolutely fascinating and it's it's very just kind of fucked up and dark at times but also very funny and very just very what the fuck and it's a really unique movie. Let's just say that. Yeah man. I'm excited to watch that you ever really good list. And it's very different than what. I might have expected so i really like that. I don't know how much you know i was. I you know that. I was working on this documentary for awhile and ran into a couple of technical issues. But also like you're saying like The subject of mind was let's say Very big celebrity in the eighties and then she retired now. Mounting this comeback in you could tell. She's very careful about who she trusts. So just getting that ease with your subject is so important and i agree with you i can. I can see how that would make something interesting in the ringmaster and i love onion rings. Go right. absolutely what do you got number. Two number two for me is boy. State riveting political documentary that shows sadly the state of politics in america by looking at it through a lens of an event called. There's boy state and there's also girl state and it's a. I believe a sponsored event through whatever organizations and it takes a bunch of teenagers in different states and puts them in political camps the nationalists in the federalists in this one which are basically conservatives versus liberals you know and they're allowed to vote on you know laws and referendums and they're electing people and this one takes place in texas and follows really three main characters. Stephen who is a latino. His mom comes from mexico. I believe and he is kind of this like very Pure hearted liberal who is willing to make compromises with people and stand on his own. And then you have the two political consultants stevens kinda campaign. Managers guy rene who's A bit larger than life and he rubbed some people the wrong way but he seems to be having good intentions with how he wants to run his campaign on the opposite. Side is ben who is not a person that i would ever want to spend a political time with a teenager. I'm that ripping on this guy. But he's super-conservative he loves those. You know kinda conservative. Playbook moves a lot of the trumpian moves and it's basically can you win running a fair campaign versus playing dirty tricks and you know. These kids are so savvy with social media. They put up you know Instagram accounts and memes. With all this stuff and it's as a it's it's like i said riveting an incredibly depressing and had the election got another way this year. It'd be even more depressing but highly recommend it boy state. I think they're working on a sequel to it. This is jessie mawson. Amanda mcbain highly recommend. There yeah boy states. One of my honorable mentions absolutely great. we we did a Bird road crossover episode on it. Actually and had a guest elisa manley in the boy state program Few years back so he was able to shine a really interesting light on that You can find that on the the byrd road podcast or we also reported as a special episode of piecing it together But yeah yeah. Great documentary very depressing. Like you like you said but still so we haven't had any crossover so far. I'm shy but i'm curious if our number ones. That are going to be the same here. Because i happened to see your letterbox that you loved this movie. That is my number one. So i'm wondering if it might be the same one. My number one also is the only movie this year. I gave five stars so by that. I guess in a way. My favorite movie of the year overall It's feels good. Man from director. Arthur jones about pepe the frog and its creator matt furey and how this ridiculous little sweet cartoon was turned into a symbol of hate for all right and it's this just incredible incredible story. That's that's insane. It's baffling it horrifying. It looks at so many different Worlds including that of like independent artists of the internet and Trolling culture and all that kind of stuff and then of course to the logical conclusion of white power and hate groups and autrey and all that stuff and of course the rise of trump is well and yeah it. It's just fascinating and you just so feel for this. Poor guy matt furey but even though it's so damn dark and just so fucked up. What happened to him there. There's definitely a through story of of hope of This guy kind of taking back control of his own and just continuing to be the artists that he really just set out to be in the first place and trying to rewrite his own story In pushing forward and so this movie is just. I.
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"jason harris" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Yeah so another black and white documentary on my list. But i Ah go watch it. Yeah i'm going to. I love that western stars on. So i'm definitely gonna watch this. My number two is a movie. I found out about rum Your awesome move year co host josh bell. It's called the ringmaster and is the finished version directed by dave newburgh but it started off as a project from this vegas. Filmmaker zachary cap Before it totally got out of hand on him It's about this. Guy larry laying who makes onion rings and basically set out to make a documentary about him because he just wanted to make a documentary and he loved this guy's onion rings and this i basically tries to force a bigger story out of the documentary. Whether or not larry wants any of that to happen or even understands exactly what's happening in this poor guy just gets this whole situation just kind of thrust upon them and it really turns into this documentary about kind of the responsibilities of a documentary maker and who gets to make a documentary. Which is something. I've never really thought about until this movie and like who should be allowed to follow someone around with a camera and try to tell that person's story and it's just absolutely fascinating and it's it's very just kind of fucked up and dark at times but also very funny and very just very what the fuck and it's a really unique movie. Let's just say that. Yeah man. I'm excited to watch that you ever really good list. And it's very different than what. I might have expected so i really like that. I don't know how much you know i was. I you know that. I was working on this documentary for a while and ran into a couple of technical issues but also like you're saying like The subject of mind was let's say Very big celebrity in the eighties and then she retired now. Mounting this comeback in you could tell. She's very careful about who she trusts. So just getting that ease with your subject is so important and i agree with you i can. I can see how that would make something interesting in the ringmaster and i love onion rings. Go right. absolutely what do you got number. Two number two for me is boy. State riveting political documentary that shows sadly the state of politics in america by looking at it through a lens of an event called. There's boy state and there's also girl state and it's a. I believe a sponsored event through whatever organizations and it takes a bunch of teenagers in different states and puts them in political camps the nationalists in the federal federal lists in this one which are basically conservatives versus liberals you know and they're allowed to vote on you know laws and referendums and they're electing people and this one takes place in texas and follows really three main characters. Stephen is a latino. His mom comes from mexico. I believe and he is kind of this like very Pure hearted liberal who is willing to make compromises with people and stand on his own. And then you have the to Political consultants stevens kinda campaign. Managers guy rene who's A bit larger than life and he rubbed some people the wrong way but he seems to be having good intentions with how he wants to run his campaign on the opposite. Side is ben who is not a person that i would ever want to spend a political time with a teenager. I'm that ripping on this guy. But he's super-conservative. He loves those kind of conservative. Playbook moves a lot of the trumpian moves and it's basically can you win running a fair campaign versus playing dirty tricks and you know. These kids are so savvy with social media. They put up you know Instagram accounts and memes. With all this stuff and it's as a it's it's like i said riveting an incredibly depressing and had the election got another way this year. It'd be even more depressing but highly recommend it boy state. I think they're working on a sequel to it. This is jessie mawson. Amanda mcbain so highly. Recommend there yeah boy states. One of my honorable mentions absolutely great We we did a Bird road crossover episode on it. Actually and had a guest elisa manley in the boy state program Few years back so he was able to shine a really interesting light on that You can find that on the the byrd road podcast or we also reported as a special episode of piecing it together But yeah yeah. Great documentary very depressing. Like you like you said but still so we haven't had any crossover so far. I'm shy but i'm curious if our number ones. That are going to be the same here. Because i happened to see your letterbox that you loved this movie. That is my number one. So i'm wondering if it might be the same one. My number one also is the only movie this year. I gave five stars so by that. I guess in a way. My favorite movie of the year overall It's feels good. Man from director. Arthur jones about pepe the frog and its creator matt furey and how this ridiculous little sweet cartoon was turned into a symbol of hate for all right and it's this just incredible incredible story. That's that's insane it's baffling. It's horrifying looks at so many different Worlds including that of like independent artists of the internet and Trolling culture and all that kind of stuff and then of course to the logical conclusion of white power and hate groups and autrey and all that stuff and of course the rise of trump is well and yeah it. It's just fascinating and you just so feel for this. Poor guy matt furey but even though it's so damn dark and just so fucked up. What happened to him there. There's definitely a through story of of hope of This guy kind of taking back control of his own and just continuing to be the artists that he really just set out to be in the first place and trying to rewrite his own story In pushing forward and so this movie is just. I.
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"Played i went to the camps You know i was alright. Not not that. Great not horrible. But you know i could. I could play a little. This movie directed by a cudi simmons and cheek eos who have teamed up on a bunch of things. Some sports stuff before Does such a good job of imparting how much basketball especially at at time mentioned york city and how much high school basketball needs means to new york city. The legends of cross section of the nineties of new york hip hop and new york high school basketball. They nail it. It's it's just great. They do a great job. Wow yeah i it sounds like it's a lot of fun and like i like when when you hear that story someone who like goes and does like vastly different things that they could kind of track along with. That's definitely makes for interesting documentary. It really is. You know this is like i said you know. Usually these guys get run out of the league and they become like you know billons or whatnot but and he was just doing things differently. Maybe it was misunderstood. It was never about his ability on the court but yet they just got it right. This one awesome awesome well into my number three and this is one. I think a lot of people kind of just ignored because of everything surrounding the guy that it's Basically about happy happy joy joy the ren and stimpy story which of course rape before it was set to be released. Allegations came out about renaissance creator. Forget how to pronounce his name. John creek ski something like that. But you know lot of shitty stuff and they ended up addressing it in the documentary. They ended up going back and filming more and actually interviewing john himself and giving him kind of a platform to comment on the allegations. Which is a very you kind of risky thing to do. Because i think that's why a lot of people just kind of swept this documentary aside and just didn't look at it because i think especially for people in our age group you know. We grew up reynolds. Debbie just seriously one of the best you know cartoon shows ever and also like watching this documentary. You kind of are reminded. Just how influential was on. So many of the weird cartoon shows that kim since everything and like the adult swim era and all that kind of stuff so i mean really the subject matter is something we should all be kind of interested in. It's just this guy is unfortunately You know kind of a piece of shit. And he doesn't deny it at all in the segments with him. And i thought that was kind of interesting that he stood up facing allegations says look i. I'm not proud of what i did. It is what it is and kind of just shine a light on them and let that be the ending of the documentary. And yeah i mean it is what it is. Not a lot of people are going to be able to accept that but You know it is what it is. The show. Renaissance is the best and this documentary digging into the making of that show and some some of the best moments on the show and what went into creating some of that. Just weird weird weird stuff is just fascinating. And i kind of feel like they're really shouldn't be that big of a surprise that the main creative force that came up with this show had some demons. Let's just say so. Yes great documentary though. Okay i gotta watch that for sure you know i know it was it was i had seen previews and then it just kind of never came out of his like you're saying yeah I do you know you got to commend the filmmakers for you know sometimes you want you on all sides of the story and zack wanted. You want it from the source. And i haven't seen it and i'm certainly not defending him. But i think anyone who at least is willing to take responsibility for their actions like you ought to at least give them that you know. You're so that doesn't excuse the actions or anything else but yeah. That sounds very interesting. Very very interesting and They also show clip of an unreleased stimpy peace. And it's just so fucking funny. Well you think you know with all these kind of you know adult cartoons like that are out now and all these kind of nineties style shows coming back like ren and stimpy you know. I know they've talked about it. It seems like it would be ripe for a comeback. Oh yes definitely not going to happen though. Unfortunately so what do you got for number three number three. Dave is my favorite music documentary of the year. And look it's no secret. I'm a bruce springsteen fan. But i mean you don't have to be springsteen fan to know the this his thrill hill team knocks these documentaries out of the park like almost every one of them is a home run and this is the making of letter to you. It's called letter to you. It's on apple tv plus at the moment and it's fascinating because again and springsteen somehow is always just a little ahead of the time it seems like right now so he brought the whole band to record the holy street band for the first time since maybe late seventies early eighties to record together on Roy bidden suggestion at at his farmhouse at his home studio in the great state of new jersey. And it's great to watch one the band record in this manner. Because i think the east street band who are often known as the best bar band in the world are like one of the few bands that are still capable of doing this and should be doing this and i think you get some real cool glimpses into the process. That way of like. Hey here's how you build on a song as opposed to like everyone's going in solo you know you're just kind of laying down a part for something that's already kind of outlined for you you know. So there's that creative synergy there. A lot of this is about bruce and his time with his first band the custodians in him being the last member who still alive. So there's that there's a lot of songs about mortality and what it means to get older. And he also took three songs from the seventies that were kinda like for big springsteen fans And he remade them as like with the whole band which he never really did like they're always demo d- and they have such life to him and such vibrancy man. You could go back because he has so many things that are unreleased from that time period and just record that and it would be amazing house. So he's such a great storyteller he really gives you that insight of the motivation the inspiration on all this stuff and there's some really exciting new songs on there like burning train. And you know you go set stuff. Said those are all big singles stuff so I love this one. And i would recommend all the springsteen documentaries about the making of albums but this one i think really really Another home run. yeah. I haven't watched it yet but i do love the album and i'm looking forward to watching it and what what was the last one again is last album and.
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"Have the top five. I have my three documentary moments. Ready to go. So let's do it baby. Alright so i am going to go with number five which is now before i say it. I will preface it by saying that awesome movie here. This season nine hundred eighty four. We learned maybe for those that didn't know that a a concert film technically counts as documentary as it did with our documentary. Pick for nineteen eighty-four. Stop making sense and my number five is american. Utopia also david byrne directed by spike lee. And just an incredibly joyous fun movie. You know not a documentary in the traditional sense but i absolutely captures what this show must have been like that. I obviously did not get to see but The music is fantastic. All the new music is great. The classic talking heads songs that are brought into it are excellent. I think you and i talked a little bit that we even a little more possibly than stop making sense which is considered the best concert film ever. I just expect bring such a great energy to it and it's just it's just so infectious and so much fun and for such a weird year is twenty twenty. It was great to have that much fun watching something. Yeah a lot of people have this on their overall top tans. I've seen a number one in places and various spots throughout the top ten. I like it a good amount more than stop making sense. And it's interesting. That spike. Lee and david byrne team together because they're both so I as i like to say having their moments again but they never really stopped having their moments. They have long great careers just finding new audiences. Now which is which. I love to see right One thing i like better about this than about stop making sense is the in some eight cents. It's just a set list straight through. That's cool but this one burn is connecting pieces through dialogue and he's a whimsical storyteller. Very dry very witty. I agree with you. Spike lee again. Just taking some wild chances with the camera work and It's good it's as far as like a in concert movie You know it's the best best one of those this year i'd say so some. I think it's a good pick day. awesome awesome. Oh what do you got for your number five number. Five is the last documentary. I watched before recording this. Actually it's called time it's by garrett bradley in association with the new york times and she is an amazing filmmaker. I'm excited to see what she does. Next it's follows the story of civil fox. Richardson and her husband rob. They robbed a bank And they both went to jail. This is in louisiana. She took a plea bargain. He didn't one of the faults of the film is finding out what. Why didn't he take a plea bargain but These are two young black people who went and served their jail time She got out in three and a half years. He's scheduled to serve sixty years so it's about her fight to get him out but she also took a number of home movies like hundreds of hours or hundred hours of home movies over the years For herself for posterity for her husband was in jail she's raising At least four kids on her own maybe more and you know it's all about her and her fight to get her husband out. And what a good job you can tell. She's doing raising these kids. And the other element of it. That i wanted to mention with all these kind of home. Movie things is bradley. Does this amazing job. Putting these emotional montages together they give you a real feeling because jumps time periods throughout just a real feeling of the ups and downs the joys and horrors of you know love and trying to love and get someone out of the penal system especially minority in the united states. I can't recommend it enough. It's eighty two minutes. Every minute counts in this one. It sounds great. I've heard good things about it and it. I hadn't gotten a chance to watch. It was on my list of things. I was trying to get to but yeah i. It sounds great. Sounds like a really good story. I'll move onto number four and this one is called insert coin from joshua sway. Not sure if. I'm pronouncing that right. But technically i wouldn't say this is like the most envelope pushing documentary or particularly well made or anything like that but it's on a subject that's really close to my heart and so it was just. It was just awesome to see that subject explored in a way that i'd never really gotten a chance to see before and that's subject is the midway and bally's video games of the early nineties into the mid nineties. I should say not video games. Arcade games specifically From the early nineties smash tv and narc two Two then into mortal kombat and mba. Jam these are like the games that we grew up the same time. These are the games that we spent just hours and hours at the mall. Just pumping quarters into and just spending insane amounts of money on and they're just like kind of the backbone to the arcade experience which Much like my beloved movie theaters is pretty much Dying while an arcades already gone but movie theaters are dying now. But i certainly have my memories of just my favorite memories of growing up are spent in arcades playing these particular games The the one thing that's missing is a any access to ed boon for some reason who is one of the main co creators of mortal kombat and big presence at midway for whatever reason They weren't able to get to him but they did get to. Scott tobias in a lot of the other major players that were a part of making those games back then So yeah it just total nostalgia overload for some me who grew up in those arcades. Yeah that sounds super interesting. I don't know that one. But i like the sound of it and i like Movies like that and documentaries like that as you know in. Our second season of boston movie are documentary. Pick was the king of kong kind of goes deep into that arcade culture. I definitely grew up playing arcade games. Nba jam namely and skibo a lot of ski bone. So i would like to see this. Also there's a weird narrative film called ping pong summer. I don't know if you've ever seen. But i i recommend that. Tell out of it takes place in an arcade around that time. Nice so insert coin. Good pick i. I'm looking forward to that day right on. What are you deaf. Your number four number four for me. Dave is so look. There was a lot of hype on the last dance. The ten part michael jordan documentary which had like All the footage of his last run with the bulls and kind of first person interviews and it was like ten hours long. But guess what. I didn't even think it was the best basketball documentary. This number four for me as a kid from coney island about stefan marberry a basketball legend of the new york city streets the playgrounds and high school leagues Went to georgia tech became a lottery. Pick played in. The nba wasn't all star but had a reputation of being a bad teammate. And then basically was ran out of the nba and remade himself redefined himself in china as both the basketball player in has and has a businessman. And now he's a legend in chinese retired. But as far as i know he's still lives out there and runs his business empire.
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"jason harris" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Year year. This is something we haven't done before we always do our top ten lists like we did. Last week we've done various other top tens and other rankings and stuff like that. We've never done a documentaries documentaries aren't something that we typically cover here in piecing it together just because it can be kinda hard to look at a documentary through that lens of things Being inspired by other things like other movies and stuff like that but ranking we could do it so that's nice and easy we are. You know. I've been watching you all year. You have for documentary episodes. You know there are some where i thought we could do. Piecing it together on but since we haven't done that maybe we'll do that in the coming year. But i definitely am happy that we're doing a top documentary list. We're gonna do five each right. Yes is that correct. That is correct. Well here's what i was thinking dave. I wanted to throw a little curveball at okay on the last episode on the top narratives. I went first and we did have some crossover since we only have five each think. And i've seen more documentaries than you. You should go first. And if i have that one on my list than i will tell you where i will comment on it but then in its place i will put the next one down on my list so whether six or eight or whatever like that so we can get a little more few more documentaries out there. A few more names beautiful. I like it that is this is an ever evolving top five list for you. I like that. That's yeah no. I have the top five. I have my three documentary moments. Ready to go. So let's do it baby. Alright so i am going to go with number five which is now before i say it. I will preface it by saying that awesome movie here. This season nine hundred eighty four. We learned maybe for those that didn't know that a a concert film technically counts as documentary as it did with our documentary. Pick for nineteen eighty-four. Stop making sense and my number five is american. Utopia also david byrne directed by spike lee. And just an incredibly joyous fun movie. You know not a documentary in the traditional sense but i absolutely captures what this show must have been like that. I obviously did not get to see but The music is fantastic. All the new music is great. The classic talking heads songs that are brought into it are excellent. I think you and i talked a little bit that we even a little more possibly than stop making sense which is considered the best concert film ever. I just expect bring such a great energy to it and it's just it's just so infectious and so much fun and for such a weird year is twenty twenty. It was great to have that much fun watching something. Yeah a lot of people have this on their overall top tans. I've seen a number one in places and various spots throughout the top ten. I like it a good amount more than stop making sense. And it's interesting. That spike. Lee and david byrne team together because they're both so I as i like to say having their moments again but they never really stopped having their moments. They have long great careers just finding new audiences. Now which is which. I love to see right One thing i like better about this than about stop making sense is the in some eight cents. It's just a set list straight through. That's cool but this one burn is connecting pieces through dialogue and he's a whimsical storyteller. Very dry very witty. I agree with you. Spike lee again. Just taking some wild chances with the camera work and It's good it's as far as like a in concert movie You know it's the best best one of those this year i'd say so some. I think it's a good pick day. awesome awesome. Oh what do you got for your number five number. Five is the last documentary. I watched before recording this. Actually it's called time it's by garrett bradley in association with the new york times and she is an amazing filmmaker. I'm excited to see what she does. Next it's follows the story of civil fox. Richardson and her husband rob. They robbed a bank And they both went to jail. This is in louisiana. She took a plea bargain. He didn't one of the faults of the film is finding out what. Why didn't he take a plea bargain but These are two young black people who went and served their jail time She got out in three and a half years. He's scheduled to serve sixty years so it's about her fight to get him out but she also took a number of home movies like hundreds of hours or hundred hours of home movies over the years For herself for posterity for her husband was in jail she's raising At least four kids on her own maybe more and you know it's all about her and her fight to get her husband out. And what a good job you can tell. She's doing raising these kids. And the other element of it. That i wanted to mention all these kind of home. Movie things is bradley. Does this amazing job. Putting these emotional montages together they give you a real feeling because jumps time periods throughout just a real feeling of the ups and downs the joys and horrors of you know love and trying to love and get someone out of the penal system especially minority in the united states. I can't recommend it enough. It's eighty two minutes. Every minute counts in this one. It sounds great. I've heard good things about it and it. I hadn't gotten a chance to watch. It was on my list of things. I was trying to get to but yeah i. It sounds great. Sounds like a really good story. I'll move onto number four and this one is called insert coin from the sway. Not sure if. I'm pronouncing that right. But technically i wouldn't say this is like the most envelope pushing documentary or particularly well made or anything like that but it's on a subject that's really close to my heart and so it was just. It was just to see that subject explored in a way that i'd never really gotten a chance to see before and that's subject is the midway and bally's video games of the early nineties into the mid nineties. I should say not. Video games. Arcade games specifically From the early nineties smash tv and narc to to then into mortal kombat and mba jam. These are like the games that we grew up the same time. These are the games that we spent just hours and hours at the mall. Just pumping quarters into and just spending insane amounts of money on and they're just like kind of the backbone to the arcade experience which Much like my beloved movie theaters is pretty much Dying while an arcades already gone but movie theaters are dying now. But i certainly have my memories of our just. My favorite memories of growing up are spent in arcades playing these particular games The the one thing that's missing is a any access to ed boon for some reason who is one of the main co creators of mortal kombat and big presence at midway for whatever reason They weren't able to get to him but they did get to scott tobias in a lot of the other major players that were a part of making those games back then So yeah it just total nostalgia for some me who grew up in those arcades. Yeah that sounds super interesting. I don't know that one. But i like the sound of it and i like Movies like that and documentaries like that as you know in. Our second season of boston movie are documentary. Pick was the king of kong kind of goes deep into that arcade culture. I definitely grew up playing arcade games. Nba jam namely and skibo a lot of ski bone. So i would like to see this. Also there's a weird narrative film called ping pong summer. I don't know if you've ever seen. But i i recommend that. Tell out of it takes place in an arcade around that time. Nice so insert coin. Good pick i. I'm looking forward to.
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"So hopefully that won't affect her opportunity to make something and you know like a lot of these first time filmmakers. We see and we look back. And you're like oh you could see you know the building blocks of putting something together. That is more of a complete picture. So yeah i hope so. Too just stein. Sorry buddy just this one not for me. That's okay if we all if we all agreed we just have one list and it would be very boring. that's right that's absolutely right. So i'll go with my number two and that is sound of metal from daria smarter which starts out as a story about a drummer from an experimental heavy metal noise band. Who begins to lose his hearing and has to deal with the consequences of that and it does show that very beautiful is incredible performance by resume. Ed but ends up becoming about so much more about this. This guy who has been able to like get through anything in his life. He's you know kind of quote unquote beaten addiction in the past and everything else that his life is thrown at them. But now there's something that's coming. His way that he simply cannot be any has to learn some kind of acceptance for for what's going on with them learning how to live and how to have be this new person that he's going to be and To me this movie is such a parallel to everything going on in this like insane year of the fact that even after a vaccine and everything. There's no telling that we're going back to any kind of normalcy anytime soon or even ever and i think this movie captures that even though as obviously made before any any of this happens. It's still just such a perfect parallel to that That idea and aside from that though. Also back to the performances. libya cook. Who was amazing in. Thoroughbreds is just fantastic in this and paul resi is just. Maybe the best supporting performances. Sierra think is the rehabilitation center. Counselor his just just such a beautiful like very real feeling performance. Yeah i think. I'm the only person didn't like this movie. I wanna see it. I didn't see josh. I'm sorry i didn't mean to cut you off there. No that's just got to the end of the year and it's like how many more serious movies can watch in a row. So but i will watch it. There is a star on the rise for sure. Yeah i think is talented. But i had forgotten before watching this movie that this was. It was originally before darius smarter took it over. It was derek france project that he'd been a pet project that he'd been trying to make for a long time and i think he actually made or shot a large portion of his version of it with different actors and i don't know if that exists anywhere but he's still credited as a co Writer on this movie and a producer..
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"Sure. Yeah i mean that. Sounds like an enjoyable activity. So i don't know maybe i'll get an arm movies now that i know i. Can you share so my number. Three is a movie called. I'm thinking of any things from charlie kaufman movie. I've been waiting for for many years. And of course. I got to give credit where credit is due to net flicks for finally giving charlie kaufman some money to make another movie after a decade fucking ridiculous that he can't get a movie made in hollywood but that's another story. It's just a a great weird right. What you would want from charlie kaufman after all these years. I it's certainly not my favorite charlie kaufman movie. Maybe after repeated viewings. I'll have to see where it lands on that list. But for now i loved. I think jessie buckley fantastic jesse plans is great. Toni collette and david is maybe even better than the two leads or just so fun. It's about this guy who brings his new girlfriend to his parents to meet them to their parents house and things. Just kind of weird and weird and weird. And it's you know like many charlie kaufman movies. It's it's something that's open to interpretation. There's wildly different reads that you can get on the movie from scene to scene or from just the overall entirety of the whole thing and it's also beautifully shot great score there's just so much going for it But at the same time. It is really kalfa movie. And i know. A lot of people think charlie. Kaufman's you know. So far up zone asked this one especially that it's really not for them. So that's fine but i loved it. Yeah i think. There's some charlie kaufman stuff. I think i prefer him when he's not the director. And there's a sort of another voice in there in another vision that can tin sort of mitigate that being up his own ass definitely how i felt about this movie especially the third activate which just goes completely into self referential nonsense. But dave surprised that this wasn't your number one through ten pick. Because right. Here's charlie kaufman fan boy. Or maybe put charlie. Kaufman's novel on on this list. Somewhere i was going to mention that actually that is another thing to add to this year. It was a weird and terrible year overall. Great for being a. Charlie didn't get a theatrical release. Dave was pretty distant. God no. I agree with everything josh said. Just i get it. Dave i get it while you liked it. I watched it a didn't compute for me. But i know why it does for a lot of people and i'm glad you enjoyed it. Dave you go. that's what it is. At least i got my charlie calvin movie and supposedly as a whole bunch of projects in the works now but he's had products on the works forever. That never got finished. Make like we said we'd like them. It's just it. Seems like when someone can distill. That voice really works out better. 'cause like josh..
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"You're like the this character has suffered The sydney flanagan character has suffered some type of abuse that we're not lead onto but you can tell it's there and has kind of informed olive her decisions that leonard to this moment right. Yeah no really really good movie Not on my list. But excellent and like josh said i mean i think this is probably the most raved about movie of the year overall especially now that i put it on the top ten guys that this really seals the deal if there wasn't quite the most acclaimed movie of the year now is lamb. Josh number. four number four pick is another movie that i got to see in the theater. It's the invisible man by leeann. Al and i think this is one of those movies. I liked it. But i did wonder slightly if i wouldn't have liked it as much if i had. I watched it at home because it's very tense horror movie. That is a great thing to see in a big group of people who are all really into it and you can sense the sort of intimidation in the in the audience for what's going to happen next when the shocking things happen. Or when there's suspenseful moments but i think either way it's a very well constructed film A twist on the universal monster formula where the invisible man here is essentially the villain and he's this abusive rich guy whose girlfriend played by elizabeth. Moss is trying to escape from him and his invisibility is a way to continue to abuse and torment her. Even after she escaped. And of course. Elizabeth moss is an amazing actor. She's getting all this acclaim for surely this year which i have not seen but i have no doubt. She's amazing there but she's really good here as well and really sells what could be an incredibly silly premise of this character. Being so deathly afraid of what looks like nothing and when l. to sells it. So well where he he immerses you in this world so effectively that he can just kind of pan the camera over to a corner of the room. That is empty. And you're just scared as hell because you know what's gonna what's there and is a great way to save on your budget too but this is a movie that didn't necessarily anticipate that much. I thought his first or his previous movie as a director upgrade which a lot of people thought liked. I thought was incredibly stupid but this movie is is it straight faced. It's not campy but it's done really well so i liked it. I liked it a lot. It didn't make my list. It was on my list at the midway point but as the year continued to move on to me. I think the thing you were talking about their about seeing this with a crowd in a theater. I mean really really hits home for me there. You know because. I don't picture myself watching this again at home. You know it's not. It's not a movie i feel like would would kind of stay as as exciting and his fresh in a home. Viewing i just don't think it could really hold up that way. That's why it dropped off my top ten but it's still very well made and yeah elizabeth mazdas great. I did watch it at home. Is that a surprise as a horror movie. I watched at home guys past scared. It was scared the scares were good and it was like man..
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"jason harris" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"I think i. I didn't like it quite as much as you did It's it's got a lot of what seemed to be the maybe like kind of extraneous plots but the central relationships of it are really well done and yeah it was. It was a nice coming of age movie and it was good to see elsewhere. I remember liking saving face and she just kind of disappeared. I think she had trouble getting another movie off the ground but hopefully thanks to net flix. She'll be able to make another movie sooner. And i i look forward to that. I think she's already working on something and xxx y. But i meant saving face there but I like the subplots. I think they all came together. I have not seen this. I actually missed it when it came out just recently seen a lot of people talking about it so maybe i'll have to check it out. You know the great thing about netflix. Dave is that if you miss this movie in the theater you wouldn't have been able to catch up with it in the theater. But it's just on netflix. You could go watch it right now. You can come back and give the rest of this podcast and after you check it out. I sense a theme this episode so number. Seven for josh. Well as i alluded to my number seven is that education And dave i really like finley. I had thoroughbreds is my number one movie of the year in. I think it was twenty eighteen or seventeen whenever that was And this is a very different movie. And it's one that he didn't right as opposed to thoroughbreds which he did. But i think it's also excellent. We've mentioned hugh jackman definitely his best performance. And you jackman is one of actors that i feel like can kind of coast on charisma. Allow the time and this movie really shows that he has a depth of talent they are beyond that and he uses his charisma really well because the character here is a guy who also coasts on charisma who gets away with so much because he's so beloved and friendly and well liked and he can just embezzle millions of dollars without anyone paying attention So yeah i love that. I feel like these ripped from the headlines movies. This could have easily been. You know what we think of in negative terms as like a tv movie that could have been just kind of sensationalized but it reminded me of something. I mean with. Allison janney involves something like i. Tanya for example which takes this scandal the real-life scandal and does something clever with it and uses it to make a commentary beyond just like. Hey here's these crazy people who did some crazy stuff so yeah bad education Also geraldine viswanathan gonna want to mention her as well who plays the student journalists. Who breaks the scandal wide open and She's a another big rising star. She had a good year also with the broken hearts gallery which was a fun. Little romcom in talking of sort of coming of age stuff jason. I don't know if you saw that but you might. It might fit in your in that genre. I'll have to check that one because she's very good in blockers. Also yes i as as you both know..
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"jason harris" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Think it's amazing debut for this very young filmmaker who's the writer and the director and the star and made this on a tiny budget and basically manage to make this movie. Bigest do brothers saying like hey dude check me out so you know quite a success story on that front but i mean he. He proved i think he proved worthy of the support from the do classes on on very little evidence at i. It's it's certainly a familiar kind of story. Jason mentioned richard linklater and those before movies are obviously a big influence here. But i think it's specific enough to these characters and especially that kind of time of life where you have the main character who is away at college and really has having a tough time being away from his family. And i like showing the teenage dude. Who is really really close to his mom and his sister I think that's something you don't see that often in films and i liked that about it Dylan gula who i know. Mainly from unbreakable kimmy schmidt as xanthi the Disaffected teen who also has a nice ark about going to college on that show. If you ever watch a unbreakable kimmy schmidt. I think she's just as good. I mean it doesn't work if it's just all about him Jason talked about tonal. Shifts is not a tonal shift as much but just kind of a plot shifted that occurs in the last third of this movie that made it. It was like way high on my list that brought it down a little. But i still think overall is really good and i can't wait to see what he does next year that it worked for me that kind of plot shift but i wanted to bring up. You're talking about kind of these character. Tropes that are reversed. Right like like dylan. Glue like so they hook up and you know. Obviously that's what it's building two and then you you know a lot of the time we see the guy jus just a hookup like i'm going to move on with my life and girl becomes attached and then this way it's the complete opposite and she's like dude move on and everything like this. You know so shout out to my boy jinadu comic. I work with in. La who is in. This movie does a good job in it so nice. Is he the terrible roommate who tries to know. He's the guy who he keeps trying to like. Get into the house. The basketball house. He's like the freshmen. And they keep like just tormenting him over like you know. It's not act cooper raves. Best moment as a as a person on there and then he gets. He chases him for blocks at a time so. Yeah oh the door doorman party. Yeah okay. cool cool that's awesome. Well i'll go onto my number nine. She's a movie. I know a lot of people didn't like but i loved and that is black. Bear from director lawrence. Michael levine starts out as this increasingly just tense..
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"jason harris" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Welcome to another episode of piecing it together the podcast where we take a look at a new movie and try to figure out what movies inspired it but today is a special episode is the new year happy new year. Everybody and we are looking back at the previous year. Very very very strange year for both the world itself and movies But we're looking at the top ten movies of twenty twenty and as we've done in the last couple of years. I have both josh bell. And jason harris from awesome movie. You're joining me so we are getting all three of our top ten list as well as any crossover between the three of them and we have a great conversation coming up for you so before we get into that the long ones. I'm just gonna very quickly remind you to make sure your subscribe to piecing it together wherever you listen to podcasts. And wherever it is you. Listen to podcasts. You can also find also move here. You can also follow us on social media at piecing pod join our facebook group popcorn a puzzle pieces. Check out the patriot. Produced by david rosen. Which has great content from piecing it together awesome movie here and my music and other than that. Let's just get into it because we got a lot of movies..
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"jason harris" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Welcome to another episode of piecing it together the podcast where we take a look at a new movie and try to figure out what movies inspired it but today is a special episode is the new year happy new year. Everybody and we are looking back at the previous year. Very very very strange year for both the world itself and movies But we're looking at the top ten movies of twenty twenty and as we've done in the last couple of years. I have both josh bell. And jason harris from awesome movie. You're joining me so we are getting all three of our top ten list as well as any crossover between the three of them and we have a great conversation coming up for you so before we get into that the long ones. I'm just gonna very quickly remind you to make sure your subscribe to piecing it together wherever you listen to podcasts. And wherever it is you. Listen to podcasts. You can also find also move here. You can also follow us on social media at piecing pod join our facebook group popcorn a puzzle pieces. Check out the patriot. Produced by david rosen. Which has great content from piecing it together awesome movie here and my music and other than that. Let's just get into it because we got a lot of movies..
