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"tammy faye" Discussed on Look Behind The Look
"I'm with justin raleigh right now. I always forget to properly introduce I'm with justin raleigh. And what brought us together today. Was tammy the eyes of tammy faye and your extraordinary work on the is tammy bay. But i am stealing time with you. Obviously you've been doing press for this because it's extraordinary and you're in the middle of working. Are you working on something right now. No it's already out i'm watching. It is impeachment. you've been working on impeachment. Is your latest project. That people might also be watching right now. You can watch impeachment mid just think of what came out this year for us. Peach meant midnight. Mass which is also On netflix ex. Army of the dead lease story. This year Sweet tooth came out this year. So yeah we've had some some big ones this year. Yeah it's it's really exciting. Because i i was blown away by the is tammy faye i breach out to you right away because i the second that i saw it i was crying for twenty minutes straight after watching it and then i said who made this happen and of course had to talk to you about the transformation that you were so important to. I wanted to talk to you about how you came to the project i. I'm wondering let's talk about tammy faye first and then we'll talk about you How did you find yourself on this piece with the michael showalter as the director so i was actually contacted by friend and mentor greg. Canham who's a multi academy award winning makeup artist. greg somewhat retired now for the most part you know so he came to me he had been offered the job he couldn't do it at least not all of it but he wanted to be involved and he wanted to know if i wanted to be involved in this sort of really heavy character-driven show not necessarily big budget movie by any means and You know just a huge challenge So we gotta shut down. We had a good chat. And i remembered you know tammy faye When i was a kid acquires star on tv all the time when grown up in the eighties. My family was definitely interested in televangelists. At the time. So i thought i have a lot of memories of of tammy faye in all of that drama. That sort of happened during that time as well so after a conversation and reading the script. i was. I was very interested. I it was definitely a hard challenge. You know to I didn't know where just going to go with. Tammy yet okay. So you knew he came to you with the project. Knowing that jessica was going to be playing tammy yeah so just. She owns the property. She's been involved developing it for over ten years. Wow and She had kind of started down another avenue. I think early on in development and then the show fell apart at that time and got postponed so when it came back around she had already had a life cast on. She already kind of knew she wanted to do. Prosthetics originally kazuhiro. Cg was going to do. The makeup and a causey was no longer available for the show. So it came to greg and myself To decide if we wanted to make it happen Which we both did. I mean we knew it was a huge challenge. It was it was a challenge that i was willing to take on and and he was willing to take on at the time..
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Megan kelly and bombshell yeah. That's interesting I don't often often jerk that al. I remember seeing trailers for it then completely fell off my radar. Yeah it's definitely worth checking out. I i mean like i said if nothing else performances really great but what do you got for your next piece. Sure of this is kind of a combination of films. Basically stephen king Or films like from the eighty s and the many kind of Knockoffs that that were created based on one his style. I remember growing up seeing a lot of them and often they would. They would feature a minister or preacher. Who was either this you know. Traveling evangelists were Small town preacher. Who often is just plainly interested in in you know power. Her wealth influence Going back to that brief little conversation. We we see in the in the film between andrew garfield and and vincent donna frio about You know trying to one up each other. On how big of a reach they add. Sure and i think. Certainly when i when i was growing up watching a lot of these horror films having grown up in a pentecostal christian poem and environment when i saw these films Often they would have these small town preachers in the same sort of setting and it it felt to me. You know as a kid. Like this was almost an attack on mike. What i know and who i my family who i grew up with sure. And we actually see at the beginning of this film. tammy faye child and this kind of Super pentecostal environment Which which hearkens back. I think to a lot of these kind of horror films that that featured is solid shady Pastors and ministers. Some of them were just incompetent. Somewhere more you know clearly viciously evil. Sure you know think about Films like needful things children in the corn And a lot of them had small small bit parts a senior to you know the preacher would have but i think what those films were doing was was speaking metaphorically about kind of the dark underbelly Of a lot of You know this Traveling evangelists and Often often christian of faith which you know this film takes a look at. It's not so much a horror film right unless you l. Existential angst is horror. Which i think it can be or yeah and i i could. I could imagine that must be you know. Come 'cause i'm completely a non religious person and i was you know brought up jewish and like i can just imagine like seeing those kinds of characters in of in that is such like you know those kinds of characters have such power over the the people who believe in them so for that to be the place to find that horror must must be kind of a powerful thing i would imagine. Yeah definitely and that's something we don't see a whole lot in this film But but there are definitely a few like montage. Bits and scenes where we see jabeen and And tammy faye Broadcasting and Easy there's one shot of you know this row of phone banks and for a time they really did have a lot of influence over. You know people whether it was you know as we were talking about before more entertaining. They still had that influence you know and they still choate in tons of money from from people who you know are honestly being taken advantage of the elderly in or You know people who who wanted some sort of whole been an think that they're you know contributing b. m. and you know there there's of course the question you know. Did they do some good things right. You know the film makes a point to feature Tammy faye interviewing a homosexual man who who had gotten aids which was a huge deal of sure absolutely -servative christian and in the eighties. It was that was very much against the grain. See you know nothing's ever really black and white. Exactly you know those. Those kind of films were definitely moving and asking questions that were counter. The conservative religious culture You know. And i think to this film continues to do that in in a different genre And by looking at you know a real life event and story But i think it it picks up on some of those those threads sure absolutely well for my next piece. I'm gonna go with one so this this actually could've went well with your citizen kane piece but this is a little bit of a cheap because i actually did see an interview where michael shaw kind of mentioned this one But i'm gonna use it anyway Is paul thomas anderson's boogie. You know this really is a story about somebody you know coming up a particular you know aspect of the world of entertainment and getting everything. They thought they wanted and all of that. Success kind of destroying them basically. And you know it's a very similar character arc To what happens a boogie nights and again like you talked about with citizen kane Just you know the total rocket to the top of your particular industry and still being unfulfilled and of course all of that success being the thing that brings you break back down So yeah Boogie nights is my next piece. Which is you know. I find that comes up quite a bit on this show because it it. Is you know. Paul thomas anderson in general is such an influential filmmaker of the last thirty years..
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Megan kelly and bombshell yeah. That's interesting I don't often often jerk that al. I remember seeing trailers for it then completely fell off my radar. Yeah it's definitely worth checking out. I i mean like i said if nothing else performances really great but what do you got for your next piece. Sure of this is kind of a combination of films. Basically stephen king Or films like from the eighty s and the many kind of Knockoffs that that were created based on one his style. I remember growing up seeing a lot of them and often they would. They would feature a minister or preacher. Who was either this you know. Traveling evangelists were Small town preacher. Who often is just plainly interested in in you know power. Her wealth influence Going back to that brief little conversation. We we see in the in the film between andrew garfield and and vincent donna frio about You know trying to one up each other. On how big of a reach they add. Sure and i think. Certainly when i when i was growing up watching a lot of these horror films having grown up in a pentecostal christian poem and environment when i saw these films Often they would have these small town preachers in the same sort of setting and it it felt to me. You know as a kid. Like this was almost an attack on mike. What i know and who i my family who i grew up with sure. And we actually see at the beginning of this film. tammy faye child and this kind of Super pentecostal environment Which which hearkens back. I think to a lot of these Kind of horror films that that featured is solid shady pastors and ministers. Some of them were just incompetent. Somewhere more you know clearly viciously evil. Sure you know think about Films like needful things children in the corn And a lot of them had small small bit parts a senior to you know the preacher would have but i think what those films were doing was was speaking metaphorically about kind of the dark underbelly Of a lot of You know this Traveling evangelists and Often often christian of faith which you know this film takes a look at. It's not so much a horror film right unless you l. Existential angst is horror. Which i think it can be or yeah and i could. I could imagine that must be you know. Come 'cause i'm completely a non religious person and i was you know brought up jewish and like i can just imagine like seeing those kinds of characters in of in that is such like you know those kinds of characters have such power over the the people who believe in them so for that to be the place to find that horror must must be kind of a powerful thing i would imagine. Yeah definitely and that's something we don't see a whole lot in this film But but there are definitely a few like montage. Bits and scenes where we see jabeen and And tammy faye Broadcasting and Easy there's one shot of you know this row of phone banks you know and for a time they really did have a lot of influence over you know people whether it was you know as we were talking about before more entertaining they still had that influence you know and they still choate in tons of money from from people who you know are honestly being taken advantage of the elderly in or You know people who who wanted some sort of whole been an think that they're you know contributing b. m. and you know there there is of course the question you know. Did they do some good things right. You know the film makes a point to feature Tammy faye interviewing a homosexual man who who had gotten aids which was a huge deal of sure absolutely -servative christian and in the eighties. It was that was very much against the grain. See you know nothing's ever really black and white. Exactly you know those. Those kind of think horror films were definitely moving and asking questions that were counter the conservative religious culture You know and i think to this film continues to do that in in a different genre And by looking at you know a real life event and story But i think it it picks up on some of those those threads sure absolutely well for my next piece. I'm gonna go with one so this this actually could've went well with your citizen kane piece but this is a little bit of a cheap because i actually did see an interview where michael shaw kind of mentioned this one But i'm gonna use it anyway Is paul thomas anderson's boogie. You know this really is a story about somebody you know coming up a particular you know aspect of the world of entertainment and getting everything. They thought they wanted and all of that. Success kind of destroying them basically. And you know it's a very similar character arc To what happens a boogie nights and again like you talked about with citizen kane Just you know the total rocket to the top of your particular industry and still being unfulfilled and of course all of that success being the thing that brings you break back down So yeah Boogie nights is my next piece. Which is you know. I find that comes up quite a bit on this show because it it. Is you know. Paul thomas anderson in general is such an influential filmmaker of the last thirty years..
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Of piecing it together. The podcast where we take a look at a new movie and try to figure out what movies inspired it and today on the show we are talking about the eyes of tammy faye of course about infamous televangelists. Jim and tammy faye bakker This is going to be an interesting conversation to have for sure Joining me to talk about it. Is daryl armstrong returning to the show. And i've been looking forward to this one. You know michael. Showalter is kind of a personal hero of mine. I just have absolutely loved him ever since the state back on. Mtv and then wet hot american summer and stella stuff. Some of my favorite of all time. Honestly and i've been following of course everything he's been doing recently you know. Hello my name is doris. And the big sick Let's not talk about the lovebirds. But you know i. I'm really excited anytime. I see that. Michael showalter has something coming out and you know. Hopefully this is a big success for as a longtime fan i. I'm always excited to see him growing in doing new things as a filmmaker. So i'm looking forward to talking about this. So before we get to the conversation i do and remind you as always to make sure subscribe to piecing it together or wherever. You listen to podcasts. Whether that's apple podcasts. Or podcast spotify. Wherever make sure subscribe. And of course you can rate and review us on apple podcasts or pod chaser or good pods or if there's another app that has a five star button you can hit it that one also share the show with your friends. Follow us on social media at piecing pod and don't forget to join our facebook group popcorn and puzzle pieces where we continue the conversation about all the movies. We talk about here on the show. So let's talk about the eyes of tammy faye all right. So we got daryl armstrong back with us to talk about the eyes of tammy faye darryl. How is it going pretty well david. Thanks for having me back. Yeah i am very happy to have you back on the show and of course you know just last month. We had a couple of winners from your film festival on the show which was a cool episode. That was like a first time kind of thing and that that all worked out well and You know that that movie. The empty man is a movie that seems to continue to Be a part of the conversation. Even months and months and months later people are still talking about the still see pop up on twitter and one line from it people just as else still. Hopefully they Check out our old episodes but today this is a much different movie from from the mt man. We're going to talk about with the. Is it dami fe first thing before we start getting into some puzzle. Pieces was this big heavily. Awaited movie for you. That's a bit of a complicated question. Actually yes and no I grew up in a household. My parents watched jim. And tammy faye's programmed. Pto club religiously every day it was like literally religiously or religiously as a lot. Yes actually the first real vacation. I remember when i was maybe four or five years old Was going to their Theme park that they had bill. Wow i believe it was in north carolina. Don't remember a whole lot. I remember going. I remember my parents being super excited about it having a christian beating park To go to and vacation at so. I grew up very familiar with You know the real. Jim and tammy faye at least from their public personas on on television. Sure so yeah i. I was kind of interested in seeing what what the filmmakers would do in in telling their story It's not usually the type of bill might gravitates you normally but Yeah it was. It was a very interesting watch. Yeah i wasn't sure going into this. Because you know i. I love michael showalter who directed this and mostly for very off the wall. Wacky comedy stuff like wet hot american summer the state and some of the stuff that he was involved with over the years so i really wasn't sure the tone was going to be here going into if it was going to be just a total farce. Just you know completely making fun of these characters these people or if it was going to kind of you know try to tell their story but with some humor added into it or or where exactly it was going to go so that was definitely a question. I had going into testing which Which turns out mostly. I think you know we'll get into this as we're going through pieces and what we thought of the movie but I think mostly it's a performance show pieces. What i think is what we ended up. Ultimately i agree. Jessica chastain is amazing. I think in. And i think andrew garfield actually did really bang-up job to yeah absolutely and i. I really like him a lot. He has been in some really interesting rolls over the last couple of years and Yeah i mean jessica chastain is like that's the standout for sure but i think he's great in this as well but you know we will. We will lay on the praise to those two along the way through the conversation Let's start getting into some puzzle. Pieces here what do you have your first piece. My first piece. And i realized when i was writing out my notes for this i think i actually put them in basically chronological order. So i'm going all the way back to citizen gate okay. I i'm not sure how directly influenced the film other them. You know it's it's been a building block for hundreds of thousands of films over the years. just A pillar at now of of hollywood But there was You know a couple of things. The the story being told of of someone who had rated This giant empire and ultimately is left kind of unfulfilled. At the end i think is is similar in tone At and there was also especially in one scene in the baker's home At all is about two thirds of the way through the film Some of the camera angles chew walter. Used reminded me of Camera angles that orson welles and used and Citizen kane is that slayton tilting It just makes you feel like things are a little off You know in this enormous mansion. you know. The the the baker's had they were living in you know absolutely beautiful but just telling the camera a little bit gives you that Feeling of unease shore that that sense even though everything is so like seemingly perfect did huge and beautiful that it. But it's off. Kill exactly exactly so that really just popped out to me. I should be better about Talking about some of the mechanics of filmmaking like camera angles and whatnot But it's. It's not something i i. I usually focus on story more Especially when i'm.
The Big Picture
"tammy faye" Discussed on The Big Picture
"And when what should we put our heart into i mean think about the next five years of the podcast. What are we doing house of gucci. That's coming out in the month and we're going to talk about it again. I will continue talking about it. At least two oscars come on. Ben affleck's you know forty fifth career. Transformation why is bed affleck not in the last duel trailer. I know why because he is a small character in the film. But do you understand how to market movies. You do not just put the photos from the venice film festival in the last duel trailer. Jesus christ how hard is this. I don't know that's happening glass duel. That's coming out soon. i now. It's really scott season. i'm open to it. Feels like it's being buried a little bit from being i mean. I don't really think that it's going to be a hugely transformative experience. But whatever just put put ben affleck in the trailer. Let us have our movie stars. We have like five movie stars left. I think from a purely on paper perspective. That movie has more going forward than any movie. I can think of in the last couple years. Affleck damon cole road. Along with nicole khaw center right whom we love directed by ridley scott and jodi comber who now after free guy is a movie star so on paper now after free is star. It's true though. I mean. I decided about movies and now i just have to walk into the ocean. Well it'll be a very different performance at a performance and let me just say jodi comber is not the problem free guy. I thought she was great in it. Just like i thought she was great and killing eve. So there's weirdly a lot to look forward to their. We'll see what happens. I found more things to be excited about. Okay tap into if we ever see it. Sure we're gonna be dead comes out. I know related mission impossible movies. Have you been following just now. Paparazzi a tabloid staple in the uk. Is tom cruise. Parachuted into someone's backyard. And because they're filming mission impossible and every week he's surprising some hikers because he's finishing the stein or you'd like to use like some random british person's backyard for a helipad like every week. My guy is just out there doing his own stunts and glad handing the british people. He's he's trying to win something totally. No it's going to be just the heart of nostalgia probably what he's after but we shall see. Let's let's talk just a little bit. More about transformations chastain transforms entirely into You mentioned incredible makeup work. This film will be nominated for best makeup and hairstyling because of the work that is done on her that it seems like it was a huge investment of time for chastain since look like a lot of time in the chair to get that look going. She does transform. I would say physically in a meaningful way into that character kind of regardless of what you think about the movie. It's really impressive. And over time in the context of the movie because as you said it unnecessarily starts when she's like five years old yes and then he doesn't play the break. I mean it shows her like nineteen being like. Yeah jesus or whatever and credible i thought you know considering. She's like in her mid thirty s. I thought she pulled off. I've only lived. She looked great. And then all the way through tammy faye bakker's at just like embrace of permanent eyeliner and lip liner and an and permanent eyebrows. I believe as well truly truly a you know. I don't want to be mean spirited but quite a freakish look that she had by the end of her life actor. Transformations are tried and true.
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"tammy faye" Discussed on The Big Picture
"What's going on with respect to. Hbo matt's didn't click on it. It's it's interesting. It's of course based on the ingmar bergman tv sort of frankly miniseries before there were mini. Series is There were of course. Big mini is in america. But it was eventually like edited down to a film version one of bergman's mo- celebrated works so harrowing movie about what. It's really like to be a complicated marriage. I think anybody who is in a marriage which is to say all marriages will relate to certain aspects of the story the adaptation on. Hbo is a bit confusing to me. Thus far Last night's episode was the chastain centerpiece the showcase episode. She's wonderful in the movie. i think she's a very i wouldn't see. She's a subtle actor which he's an actor capable of subtlety and it's it's apart that requires big moments of loud expression and also small moments of vulnerability weakness frustration with her her lot in life so very confined setting for the film basically takes place in a house between her oscar isaac and their daughter. It's very tony. Incredible and polished and respectable. And it's an interesting pivot away from some of these disreputable x-men movies that she's been making. I'm not totally sure that it's working. I'd like for you to watch it. I'd like to know what you think of it. There is some things about it. That are a little mannered for me. Do you remember the movie. Jessica chastain made with james mcevoy like almost ten years. Now it's like the is the disappearance of eleanor rigby. Yes it is it. I mean. I don't want to put it in the same sentence as bergman but it was about a couple that goes through some tragic event and then it's his side and her side and that people just really going for it and love both as actors. It didn't work for her. Then i would be surprised if it works for her now. Yeah that was an interesting piece of work. Because that movie was written and directed by ned benson who had been in a relationship for chastain for many years. They broke up an after they broke up. They made this film it. Was this two part movie from her perspective and told from his perspective. Chastain is sort of returning to that story in scenes from a marriage and it's obviously like subject matter that i'm interested in is the sort of like the unknow ability of your partner and the the possibility of truly coming to terms with everything in your emotional life at all times. There's something very deepen note. Noble i think about that pursuit but i'm trying to think of what's really holding me back here. There's this something a little hysterical about it. You know just like there's something a little hysterical about the of tammy faye it can't help but be big and fearlessness required to do that work but there's also kind of like something a little embarrassing about it you know. Yeah and i think something like is tammy faye is supposed to be big. Not just because of the person that she's playing but because we're conditioned in these roles as you said to watch actors who are going for it capital g. capital f. capital i and so that's part of the bargain. You really expect her to unravel a little and be like a little too much. And but when it's in the context of first of all in the context of a mini series. I got very nervous. When movie stars just go full losing it on tv which seems to be the trend. Now they're all like making their prestige shows and then they're doing they're really big movie star thing in the context episode five and i'm like we got rain this in like no one told you about pacing on a mini series. You know what. I mean if your editor denied do right by you..
TIME's Top Stories
"tammy faye" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"Though movie is cryptically unspecific about the former perhaps for legal reasons he becomes consumed with making money for his expanding empire. Garfield plays the older graying version of jim as a half conniving half distracted striker. Meanwhile the increasingly miserable tammy faye succumbs to an almost affair with nashville record. Producer gary paxton mark weis struck gets hooked on outta van and is eventually coerced into making a tearful confession of her sins on television. This is potentially moving dramatic stuff or at least bracing mellow dramatic stuff. But showalter's dramatization has a glazed glassy-eyed surface like a peewee. Herman movie without any of paul. Reubens surreptitiously sophisticated kindergarten wit the eyes of tammy faye was adapted by writer. Abe sylvia from fenton bailey and randy barbados two thousand documentary of the same name which was anchored by interviews with the fall and tammy faye that painted her as a rather sweet remorseful soul. She died in two thousand seven and to the degree that fairness matters. Show wolter director of twenty teens. The big sick is fair to tammy faye dramatizing her heartfelt nineteen eighty five interview with pastor and aids patient. Steve peters played by randy havens significant. Because in doing so she not only courted the wrath of falwell and increasingly powerful conservative evangelist bully played with creepy accuracy by vincent onofrio but also risked alienating millions of hardcore bible thumpers. Who sincerely believed aids was god's way of wiping homosexuals off the face of his earth but mostly showalter's movie wavers between parody and pathos never certain wear at wants to land and no matter what you think about the real tammy faye and no matter how much pity you might feel for her. After the baker's kingdom crashed around her she was still culpable in bilking detail club partners as donors were called out of millions. The movie shows her buying multiple fur coats for herself and for others. She never asks where the money is coming from. What's more she was. Also a complicit cog in the politically ambitious evangelical machine of the nineteen eighties whose influence over american government spreads. Its ugly shadow to this day. A great movie can make you feel empathy for a seemingly unredeemable character but the eyes of tammy faye succeeds only in presenting it subject as a camp curiosity a one woman pep rally for the lord. Linebacker shoulder pads misunderstood and in need of redemption. She seemed more human back in the old days when we were allowed to make fun of her and didn't have to apologize for it in the days before she became her own many church of the almighty eyelash..
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"tammy faye" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"The eyes of tammy faye turns the fallen televangelist into camp curiosity by stephanie's mccarrick in the grand scheme of christian forgiveness. Maybe it's a nice idea to try to reclaim the honor or at least the humanity of the late evangelist. Tv personality tammy faye bakker one half of the nineteen eighties prayer and praise. power couple. jim and tammy bakker. that's the goal. Apparently of michael showalter's cartoonish lee sincere bio-pic. The eyes of tammy faye in which jessica chastain plays the chirpy entertain journalist as a sympathetic countries sweet pea largely a victim of her husband's ambition and an only semi willing accomplice in the greed and corruption. That eventually brought the couple to ruin and also robbed countless regular working people of their hard earned money in the nineteen eighties. Tammy faye and jim baker husband and wife chipmunks united in the service of the lord ruled the christian television airwaves with their cheesy but unapologetically celebratory show designed to fund their ever-growing p. t. l. club operation folksy apple faced. Jim spreads the word of god like margarine greasing the wheels to entice the folks at home to call in with their donations. Tammy faye with her. Helium speaking voice and peppy gospel tune belting not to mention her clown on the town makeup which became more garish and extreme as the duo became richer was lively and sugary and fun to mock of all the eighties tv evangelists among them pat robertson and moral majority leader. Jerry falwell both of whom played roles in the baker's rise and fall jim and tammy faye seemed the most benign if you could apply that word to any peddler of rigid religious ideologies. Who's also in love with the almighty dollar. These two certainly seem harmless at the start of the eyes of tammy faye. The movie follows the baker's pious trail from their meet cute in bible college through the early years of their marriage in which they took to. The road is traveling preachers to their first taste of success as the hosts of a tv show that used puppets to teach kids. About god's love andrew garfield plays jim baker as an. Aw shucks charmer. Who's honest is money making goals. He's convinced the lord doesn't want him to be poor. Though it turns out that tammy faye is the one who comes up with. The puppet idea a hint that everything they built might have begun with her chastain plays. Tammy faye with a feral eagerness. That's poignant until it turns greeting in the movies early scenes she's a saucy seductress. A good girl who wants to have fun within the bounds of holy matrimony of course her eyes are wide. And unblinking like a dulls. Her skin is brushed with porcelain innocence. This is a far cry. From the older tammy faye we see in the movies. Preamble who reveals to an unseen makeup artist that her harsh eyebrows and lip liner are tattooed on and her black dagger. Eyelash fringe is non-negotiable. Each her trademark she insists and people wouldn't know her without it but even though chastain as clearly studied tammy faye's mannerisms and vocal tics and runs through them admirably. The movies candy colored varnish seems to have waterproof did against anything so messy as real feeling or judicious assessment. Tammy faye suffers all manner of hardships and rejections. Jim loses interest in her sexually and engages in dalliances with both men and women..
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Homophilia
"Matthew hello david are you So good so good. Were safe from angeline. And or larry elder at caitlyn jenner. You're in in california and caitlyn jenner. Yeah i got that news. Walking out of a screening of the eyes of tammy faye was pretty intense moment of california queer joy. So you were already on a high and then you've got the great news. How i'm so excited to see the movie Limit love. it's it's fantastic. She is she's perfect. She's great prepare for a lot of arguments about whether she does her justice or not Forty found myself in a lot of arguments about whether it's like a clownish performance but it is a little bit but it can't be it's tammy faye i mean the the trailer alone like i. It's got me. I'm very excited and is excellent. The documentary i know is supposed to be excellent and i've never seen that in that the documentaries made by our father figures Random fenton of world wonder day also produced. This movie is directed by michael showalter of the state and wet hot american. The screenwriter a sylvia. We should have him on the podcast. And let's get yeah he did Just an excellent job. Andrew garfield giving us a sexy. Jim baker which i was not fully prepared for vincent off rio as jerry. Falwell is terrifying throughout. Its tammy faye pronounces jessica chastain as tammy faye pronounces the word kids like oil. Of god's all we got to think about the yards That's gonna sweep the announcing next year for sure. It's it's just it's outstanding. I'm very into it. Go see the eyes of danny does a really good recommendation. I i don't you will i. I guess i do have okay. We went to a lotta movies actually over labor day weekend and the surrounding.
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Filmspotting
"In the same universes fred astaire but at least he's nodding to master while gingerly stepping downstairs during this number. Then let's go to the nightmares. We heard it again at the top of the show. That tunnel of terraced sequence. It's kinda like this. Speaking of kubrick up pip squeak version of two thousand one stargate trip. I mean i don't know if jessica had seen this at the same age which might have been what i had seen it. She would have been much less terrified than a clockwork orange. I mean this was really traumatic. The first time. I went through the tunnel of terror with gene wilder. Would like are those moments though. Where he combines these two these two elements. Let's go back to pure magic. He sweetly plays at one point with one of the kids hair. Kind of tossing the hair affectionately and then at the very end he yanks out that causes the kid to flint. And that's it. That is his willy. Wonka you know you. He's he's scary. He's unpredictable now as a film overall aside from wilder. This is my favorite kind of children's movie. It's unpatriotic ising. It's a little bit dangerous It leaves kids not so much having learned a lesson though. Yeah i mean to your point atom about it not being that complicated it takes broad swipe at baratz and shows them. You better behave but really. It's mostly an introduction for kids to how delightfully weird. The movies can be so for me. It's the best movie of nineteen seventy one. I love adam absolutely love that you've got it at number two. I would not have guessed this. So i can't wait to hear why well i mean other than the wizard of oz. I don't know that there's a movie. I've seen more times and i'm just going kid being a kid. It coming on tv or having early vhs tapes taped off the tv and just watching it constantly as a family and also on my own. I am going to share this comment though from patrick in our poll question. Who said i can't say that these selections are wrong. Sir wrong. I vote since i've not seen them all. But i know that people ravon about mcdowell singing in the rain etc etc and gene hackman's amazing performances cetera et cetera or. The last picture shows perfect score on rotten tomatoes etc etc. But i suggest you revise your film spotting contracts to include section thirty-seven b. Which should stay that any best movie list. From nine hundred seventy one would include one with the lead performance with the different gene. It's all their black and white actually color clear as crystal. If you wanna view paradise willie wonka and the chocolate factory would be the one from nineteen seventy one to watch. Good day sir. That was good. You get you finally got to. While they're the on there so i did. I got a little bit of it in a little bit of it. But i just thought that was too good not to share. Here's also listener. Darren gun he says. I believe it's one of the best book to movie adaptations one of the best musicals and one of the best examples of fantasy within a reality. It's funny it's magical scary and it's sweet and it's got a brilliantly maniacal gene wilder at its centre backing up your point josh. It's easily the movie. I've seen more times than any other. It was on repeat as a kid. And it's likely the movie. I quote most frequently. It's not a guilty pleasure and it's not nostalgia it's the best movie of nineteen seventy-one and i love that because it does make me think about how new viewers take two willie wonka and the chocolate factory. I don't know that i've ever had a conversation with someone who was our age josh or even in their twenties or thirties who just saw it recently for the first time that said i don't think it's greatness is tied to nostalgia for me nor do i see it as a guilty pleasure. Every time i have revisited maybe watched it with my kids. It's absolutely held up because of wilders performance because even that production design where if you think about the bar they had to clear where they had to bring this magical place to live. It had to seem to us as kids and even to us now. Believably like paradise like a place that we could only imagine and we would wanna stay forever. I think they absolutely pull it off. The songs are all really good. Yeah that tunnel of terror. That's that's maybe croupier. Then anything in a clockwork orange. And i'm going say jessica really ra might be. It really terrified me as a kid. But in a good way and i liked that it confounded me a little bit there. It can foundered me a little bit too even as a kid and this is something i like about it now is adult when i look back on that whole sequence with charlie in the end of the film and how it seems like. He's not going to win the prize but then eventually does. I like that charlie screws up. He does break the rules then that he does the same wrong thing. That all the other kids do of course. There is a significant difference in the nature of his transgression versus theirs and that there's something very uplifting sentimental about uplifting no pun intended in them taking the fizzy lifting drinks sort of elevate themselves above their position. Grandpa joe and charlie just kind of want of experience life kind of floating above it all for a little bit right. That makes sense. We'd get the the kind of metaphor there whereas all the other kids are just about their own personal satisfaction and gratification. But what really matters isn't that he is perfectly obedient and authority abiding. How would that make any sense. Where would want a be if that's how he was. That's how he went through. It's it's that he wasn't corruptible. And i think that i think that that the fact that he does make a mistake but that he can't be bought that his his soul is intact to quote al pacino from san of a woman is. What makes charlie such an interesting figure and someone who as a kid whether we really knew it or not was someone we probably felt like. We wanted to emulate a little bit but again he was human. You know he. He had disappointment when he when he doesn't get. The golden ticket is humble and sweden z. Might be i think we we all probably kids ourself in him a little bit and just like him. There's no way we would have been able to avoid at some point not indulging in the fantasy opportunities that walkers factory provided yet and think about going back to the production design you know almost all of that had to be entirely practical sorts of checks and sats and it it just it holds up in that wonderfully tactile way that you know we. Just don't get any more in so many of our movies Those are our top films of nineteen seventy-one. I'm guessing you have the few honorable mentions josh. What would you like to name here. Yeah i can. I can round out my top ten I this might be a cheat you know. Tv movie but spielberg's duel is fantastic. And i have it at number six. Ah jacques tati film that. I watched this was part of homework for the first time. Traffic really thought oh. This is going to bump. I'm such a fan of his. This is going to bump up into my top five and it's great. I mean i've got at number seven here on my list but couldn't quite knock out any of the others that i had up there lucas's thx. Eleven thirty eight. I haven't number eight. Two lane blacktop. More homework here monte. Helman's film what an experience. I mean so pure just the you know the the pure experience of the road trip there And then the beguiled starring eastwood. Dirty harry don siegel in this. Yet don siegel again. I think they they pulled this off.
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Why should you think of anything being wrong. If you'll be doing something luna's just a matter of space. Yeah but it's just a matter of speech from y'all come active advisor to you that you watch out alex because next time. It's not going to be the connective school anymore. Time it's going to be the body place in all night work ruined. If you've new respects the themselves you at least method for me who sweated olivio big black everyone we did reclaim of failure. Every well of you who ends up in the stripe doing nothing. I shouldn't say the minnesota nothing on me brother sir. We get back to our top five films of nineteen seventy-one countdown with that clip from a clockwork orange before we get to our file toothpicks. We want to share your picks for the best of seventy one. We asked you a couple of weeks ago. What is the best film of that year. Your options were Orange harold and maude. The french connection to films from my list. Peter bogdanovich is the last picture. Show a film. That almost made my top five. Robert altman's mccabe and mrs miller which did make josh's top five or other. You could write in literally any other film that came out fifty years ago josh. How did this poll and up others in last place. With eight percent in fifth place was my number five choice. Robert altman's mccabe and mrs miller that received fourteen percent of the vote. Hell ashby's harold. And maude receive fifteen percent. Then jumping up here for peter. Bogdanovich is the last picture show which got eighteen percent of the vote winfried gins the french connection got nineteen percent of the vote but winning this poll probably not a surprise kubrick's a clockwork orange receiving twenty six percent of the vote. Here's kent in detroit. He said dirty. Harry carnal knowledge. Sweet sweet backs bananas. Clute straw dogs dual lots of great films that year. It came down to clockwork versus french. Connection for me. I gave the nod to kubrick. The movie impacted me in a way that few others had up to that point. Here's rick taylor from kalona. British columbia clockwork will win this easily and rightly so however i almost voted for other in the form of the andromeda strain surely ah sci-fi classic but in mulling things over before cast my vote. I checked the reviews and shocking learned that it had a sixty seven percent on rotten tomatoes and a sixty percent on metacritic. I can only presume that josh's parents were movie reviewers back in nineteen seventy-one. No they were rick. I'm afraid they were fire. Kinder people yeah. I like the andromeda strain. A lot of movie reviewed here on the show as part of a marathon. I believe a seventy sifi marathon. Good movie not gonna make the cut for me. Andrew in alton illinois says the last picture show is what i'm going with. Maybe because it's the most recent one i've seen. Maybe because i've been reading a lot of larry mcmurtry and maybe because it actually is the best. It kind of reminds me of a west texas version of a one car. Why movie these characters are a longing for something and none of them find it. Maybe because it never existed or that it no longer can exist. Bogdonovich films that like a movie from the nineteen fifties. It was so thrilling to see the different ways. This movie ape. The style of the films that is characters would have been watching in that picture house. Well said andrew yeah connection. Here's peter coders. I feel. I feel like kevin might be dutch. I feel like i should know this one. Sorry peter i apologize. Herald and maude is rollicking. Existential wrap all at once. Darkened funny heartfelt and heartbreaking. It is worth a spot on this list. Just due to cat stevens soundtrack. Alone and ruth. Gordon gives the performance of a lifetime. It gets my vote as the best film of nineteen seventy-one. Thank you peter for supporting my number five choice. Rachel gorleben here. Says mccabe. And mrs miller is an amazing american frontier tail and has lost nothing in the fifty years since to release its origin story of one washington state town is resonant funny horrifying haunting the leonard cohen score is one of the most effective marriages of image to music in film history. Support there for josh's number five. Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll. Thank you to everyone. Who left a comment and that brings us josh. To our top two picks as it turns out we have the same one and two picks. We just have them in a slightly different order. Of course go ahead and do the honors. What's your number two. Which happens to be my number one film of seventy-one a clockwork orange listeners. Right what else is there to say about this movie. We already said it. All i think in our july sacred cow review. That was a pretty thorough conversation. I really enjoyed digging into it. Maybe what i'll add here is that Another seventy one film. I've caught up. With sense has helped me appreciate kubrick's satire slash social commentary slash provocation. All the more. We've been batting back and forth at him about dirty harry. Last few shows a little bit on twitter. How basically i find despicable. You see it as something more sophisticated. And i do. I think a clockwork orange is one of those films playing in the same sandbox. And what i mean by that is depicting acts of violence. In a way that might be open to various sorts of interpretations. I just think clockwork threads. That needle really really difficult needle in a way. That dirty harry really doesn't manage Before that recent revisit of clockwork. I thought it might. I was a little worried. It might be one that. I couldn't get behind even though i'd seen it before and wrestled with it a little bit before i was afraid i'd look at it now and find it to be clumsy. Find it to be irresponsible. Those are words. I'd i'd applied to dirty harry but kubrick's consistently bleak vision of humanity. Actually what made this work for me. It just has the artistic control to be able to play in the sandbox. He's not playing any games here. I mean based on this. And i know i differ with other kubrick fans on this interpretation i. I think that he thinks humans are drew's at heart and in clockwork. He's making that as clear as can be now. I can't say that i see humanity. The same way kubrick does. But i can't say for me. He made the number two film of nineteen seventy-one. Yeah and for me. It's the number one again. My top three have kind of been in flux for the past two days. But ultimately i went with at number one just because it is a film that features imagery that is so iconic instantly recognisable identifiable back to this movie and kubrick the political humor of it the sociopolitical commentary those elements that you touched on and how open ultimately to interpretation it. All is we talked about the ending of the film and we see it ultimately very differently even though it doesn't really affect overall our takes on the movie all the stuff about redemption reformation and free will that i'd totally forgotten was such a key part of that movie. That of course is all there and actually the dirty harry. Comparison is pretty smart. The movies couldn't be more different in so many obvious ways. And i will say real quick because i almost brought it up earlier in this everything i was saying about popeye doyle in the french connection i think almost all of it could apply to the way we see harry callahan depict. Yeah i was thinking about that as you're talking. It sounded like what dirty harry wanted to be. You know. and and how. I see dirty. Harry how don siegel and broussard teased. Cinematographer do ultimately render. Harry as someone that i think were intended to have some ambivalent feelings about but both dirty harry and a clockwork orange pose a really interesting question about our civil liberties and what we're willing to compromise. Perhaps when faced with violence when when face with sort of unspeakable horror or something in society that we can't completely wrap our heads around and we feel like we have to stamp it out by whatever means necessary. What are the consequences of that type of response. I really do think both movies are dealing with that question clockwork orange. Maybe i'll give you josh a little bit more. Thoughtfully we got this response to our recent fiftieth anniversary. Sacred cow. discussion of o'clock range from jessica chow. Who said i was born in seventy two. My family didn't get cable..
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Or did you do hello mother. This is jim baker. My husband jessica chastain there as tammy faye bakker in the eyes of tammy faye which opens nationwide this weekend. Andrew garfield co stars as jim baker. Tammy's husband who people of a certain age like us josh. Remember as one of the most prominent televangelists of nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty. Nine baker was sentenced to forty five years in prison for fraud. This movie is directed by michael showalter. Who made the very good two. Seventeen rom com. The big sick. The eyes of tammy faye came up a couple of weeks ago. During our fall movie preview. You have seen the movie and as i alluded to. We lived through the eighties. The bakers were inescapable in popular culture. At seem does the movie convinced that there is more there was more to jim. Tammy faye than we remember or what we saw in parodies from the time i mean it had to for me because my only point of reference was jan hooks portraying. Tammy faye bakker. On saturday night. Live visiting the church lady. I think phil hartmann was was jim baker. Actually so i didn't really know much beyond that of the story. I mean would have been a little kid at that time. And so yeah this was interesting to get some of the background info a lot of it drawn from the two thousand or two thousand two documentary of the same name. The eyes of tammy faye haven't seen that one. But from what. I understand both at end this i can attest to very much rehabilitation projects. You know to to say that there was more and of course there was more to to this woman than what we saw on saturday night. Live or in news. Reports jessica chastain as tammy faye is going to make you believe that no matter what. She is the powerhouse force in this film. The reason why i liked it. I think overall as a movie. It's it's a little strange. It's both really obvious like hitting its themes and points very underlying them like she on like her makeup his underlying. You know but at the same time it's also kind of thinly developed. There are things we wish. It explored further or more deeply. So the material isn't great. Here but chastain is tammy faye does something. It's curious adam you you know. I've talked about this. How this is the sort of performance that i normally would bristle at where it's it's it's really big. It's an actor going through a physical transformation. It's geared for oscar attention right but but why it works here is because that all lines up from what i understand of the real life. Tammy faye bakker this. This is someone who had a peppy. Cheerful bright public presents the entire movie. Adopts that and chastain does to. This is almost like you're you're experiencing this movie. What it would have been like to live through the fame and the failure of this ministry through her is how she would have seen it and how she sees herself. So it's really a galvanizing performance. I couldn't help but admire at the end. I even started thinking that it it kind of reminded me of. We've been going through a various sort of loose joan crawford marathon at home. Maybe you know movie every month or so here with the family and it did remind me of the ways crawford could kind of just takeover a film that dared caster and a lot of times. These were films about women who were at their wit's ends or or facing societal expectations that they wanted to upend and so it was interesting to see chastain. Do something similar here just grabbing this movie by the throat giving it a fierceness that kind of aligned with what you understand tammy faye bakker might have had underneath all that niceness that she presented so so. I think it's definitely worth seeing for chest pains performance which i think is probably what intrigued both of us about the project to begin with. I hope to catch up with it soon. The of tammy faye opens wide this weekend next week on film spotting we kick off our twenty twenty one who've review last year. It was christopher nolan. This year we consider the entire filmography of new zealand director. Jane campion with a series devoted to all eight of her feature films including her latest the power of the dog which comes theaters late november and then to net flicks in december. So that was really the impetus besides for me wanting to catch up with these films. Most of them blind spots for me. It seemed to set us up well to consider her new film which has gotten all sorts of acclaim coming out of various film festivals including benedict. Cumberbatch is performance. Our first campion will be sweetie from nineteen thousand nine which is one of those blind spot for me. I know it's not a blind spot for you. It's made a least one or two top five louis over the years including i recall top-five female directed debuts. I think you had it at number five. So you must think sweetie is a pretty good start absolutely. I think i probably went on a bit of a campion kick after the piano. I'm trying to remember when i would have. I seen it. It definitely would not have been in eighty nine. So that's probably when. I first saw it but cannot wait to revisit it. As part of this who've view sweetie is currently available. I love the way you say that. On the criterion channel and available for digital rental more information about the campion oeuvre view is film spotting dot net slash campion. Also next week we prepare ourselves. Vialli some fun josh. We prepare ourselves for the end of the daniel. Craig bond era by revisiting. His first outing as 007. Two thousand six's casino royale for its fifteenth anniversary. You telling me you don't consider the card counter fun. i'm saying. It's a little more grueling. Josh just just a little tougher sit. Maybe then casino royale. This also helps prepare us for daniel craig's fifth and final bond. No time to die coming out here in a couple of weeks. I've already done my homework. I was inspired to rewatch casino. Royale for the first time since two thousand six when it was reviewed here on the show by our recent film spotting family bonus content. Discussion of sean. Connery's second feature as bonn from russia with love. And i even then followed it up with quantum of solace which i now think. I was too hard on back when that came out. I'm all in on craig as bond you are and i've mentioned i just don't know how you could argue. There's a better bond at least a better bond than the one we get in two thousand six casino royale so i look forward to watching it again here in preparation for this discussion will see what you think of it. I mean i know you haven't revisited. Timothy dalton or pierce brosnan so. I don't know how you can be so presumptuous. Such claim craig bob until you do that homework. Adam yeah yeah. You got me there josh. That brings us to our latest deeply. Flawed film spotting pull. That is trademark. Don't worry it's registered. We couldn't help ourselves with daniel. Craig going into bond retirement. We had to join the cacophony of voices posing this question. Who should be the next bond now. Before we share the options we provided a few things. We consider him by we. I mean mostly our producer. Sam i think he spent about three days on this full question so tortured. Poor sam was so tortured and yet and yet for all the thinking that went into it he still got hit with all the accusations of who overlooked all the mistakes he made. That just comes with the territory. Sim sim knew that when he took the job that he would be in peril. Not unlike bond himself. So i we did go with all brits. It just seemed. It seemed like a bridge too far to me. Josh to be throwing an american into the mix as james bond call me. Call me a purist. Nobody wants that no. We did also try to keep age in mind. We're not going to see another bond movie for what three or four years. Most first-time bonds have been in their early. mid thirties. connery was thirty. Three craig was thirty. Eight roger moore sixty seven. I think the joke goes. We did however include a couple of actors in their early to mid forties so again flaws abound a name. We left off our list. Someone long disgust as perfect bond. Material interests elba. He turns fifty this year. No yeah we decided to old. Wow good for idris. Elba a just here on film spotting would james come after it's a beat our atlas. Yeah well you know that he will and that he certainly could so there were a lot. More considerations will jump ahead here to the options we gave you the idris elba less options we gave you for. Who should be the next bond josh. Those options are -rism ed..
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"tammy faye" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Faye or did you do hello mother. This is jim baker. My husband jessica chastain there as tammy faye bakker in the eyes of tammy faye which opens nationwide this weekend. Andrew garfield co stars as jim baker. Tammy's husband who people of a certain age like us josh. Remember as one of the most prominent televangelists of nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty. Nine baker was sentenced to forty five years in prison for fraud. This movie is directed by michael showalter. Who made the very good two. Seventeen rom com. The big sick. The eyes of tammy faye came up a couple of weeks ago. During our fall movie preview. You have seen the movie and as i alluded to. We lived through the eighties. The bakers were inescapable in popular culture. At seem does the movie convinced that there is more there was more to jim. Tammy faye than we remember or what we saw in parodies from the time i mean it had to for me because my only point of reference was jan hooks portraying. Tammy faye bakker. On saturday night. Live visiting the church lady. I think phil hartmann was was jim baker. Actually so i didn't really know much beyond that of the story. I mean would have been a little kid at that time. And so yeah this was interesting to get some of the background info a lot of it drawn from the two thousand or two thousand two documentary of the same name. The eyes of tammy faye haven't seen that one. But from what. I understand both at end this i can attest to very much rehabilitation projects. You know to to say that there was more and of course there was more to to this woman than what we saw on saturday night. Live or in news. Reports jessica chastain as tammy faye is going to make you believe that no matter what. She is the powerhouse force in this film. The reason why i liked it. I think overall as a movie. It's it's a little strange. It's both really obvious like hitting its themes and points very underlying them like she on like her makeup his underlying. You know
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Jessica Chastain Is Riveting in 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye'
"Mother. This is jim baker. My husband jessica chastain there as tammy faye bakker in the eyes of tammy faye which opens nationwide this weekend. Andrew garfield co stars as jim baker. Tammy's husband who people of a certain age like us josh. Remember as one of the most prominent televangelists of nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty. Nine baker was sentenced to forty five years in prison for fraud. This movie is directed by michael showalter. Who made the very good two. Seventeen rom com. The big sick. The eyes of tammy faye came up a couple of weeks ago. During our fall movie preview. You have seen the movie and as i alluded to. We lived through the eighties. The bakers were inescapable in popular culture. At seem does the movie convinced that there is more there was more to jim. Tammy faye than we remember or what we saw in parodies from the time i mean it had to for me because my only point of reference was jan hooks portraying. Tammy faye bakker. On saturday night. Live visiting the church lady. I think phil hartmann was was jim baker. Actually so i didn't really know much beyond that of the story. I mean would have been a little kid at that time. And so yeah this was interesting to get some of the background info a lot of it drawn from the two thousand or two thousand two documentary of the same name. The eyes of tammy faye haven't seen that one. But from what. I understand both at end this i can attest to very much rehabilitation projects. You know to to say that there was more and of course there was more to to this woman than what we saw on saturday night. Live or in news. Reports jessica chastain as tammy faye is going to make you believe that no matter what. She is the powerhouse force in this film. The reason why i liked it. I think overall as a movie. It's it's a little strange. It's both really obvious like hitting its themes and points very underlying them like she on like her makeup his underlying. You know
Filmspotting
"tammy faye" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Now. I haven't got a lot of time to sit around and talk to manage to dump. The proposition is put to him doing so. In addition to these interesting gender dynamics at play aesthetically mccabe. And mrs miller just a wonder altman and cinematographer vilmos zygmunt emphasized the harshness of the period setting in a way that you know some western do but not all of them do a lot of the classic western. You can tell her on a studio back lot right a not so here. This is the feeling of of life being lived on the edge of survival. So a lot of things to love about mccabe. And mrs miller one of my favorite oltmans and my number five of seventy one. Yeah one of the great western's or anti westerns perhaps of all time discussed here on film spotting before you joined the show. Josh and i think maybe it was even a case. It wasn't a marathon. I think it was maybe an after hours where it was. Kind of a listener's choice pick. It was a little bonus for our audience and it was one that i had not seen before. Despite being someone who appreciated a lot of altman's films. At least all the ones that i had seen in looking back at a few notes here i noted zygmunt. Cinematography is well. I remember the glow that you get in a lot of the lighting contrast against kind of the grumpiness of it. And the squalor. Yeah and this is a place that still sometimes looks beautiful in these indoor spaces despite the fact that outside it seems like it's constantly raining mud everywhere and i remember that we don't really get introduced to a lot of the supporting characters or the people who inhabit the town. But we we just know these characters. And i think altman knows that we know these characters and of course badie in cristea together as they were in shampoo are really wonderful. There's just a comfort level that they have unscreened together. That helps explain why they stand out in this place together and actually feel like they belong together. There is something unique about each of them individually that you sort of understand why they gravitate to each other. I love the word grubby to describe this movie. That's exactly yeah. That's good mine. Number five follows fairly neatly off of your number five josh because it is directed by the man who made shampoo as referenced in your last pick. And it's hal ashby's harold and maude. I'm just gonna come clean here and say this moment right here. Where i'm trying to intellectually. Explain why i so appreciate herald. Mod is what. I was hoping to avoid when i said here on the show and told you and our producer sam that i really wanted to get in a fiftieth anniversary sacred cow review of this movie. It's not a nostalgic for me again. Not quite our generation. In fact i sought much later. I think even after i started film spotting may be one of those movies that i remember sort of flipping channels and seeing most scenes of but never watched in its entirety until i would say at least the two thousands but i haven't seen it in so long. I am here mostly going off of my appreciation for ashby as a filmmaker. We already mentioned shampoo. And you think about being there movie. We caught up with fairly recently. Of course the last detail and others i think about its unique. Blend of dark humor and absurdity cat stevens on the soundtrack i think to songs written for the movie. Otherwise just making such brilliant use of some of his best songs. Ruth gordon of course being ruth gordon and i guess here's what it came down to because there really are seven or eight movies that i had contending for this spot. Feel very strongly about my top four choices. This one was a little bit more of a crap shoot. It came down to a little bit of the death. Match approach josh. Where if you imagine all the other movies from nineteen seventy-one are being put in the incinerator. And what do you want to save. That's why herald the modest here at number five. I think it's the movie. I wanna make sure i save. And that's because i think of all the films from nineteen seventy-one. We're going to talk about where we considered. It's the one. I most want to show my kids. I can't wait for sophie. Holden quin conner. Someday i think they're ready. Three of 'em right now are really ready to see this movie and to embrace this movie. And i think it's because of that sense of humor. It's because of the way it manages to be a movie that is truly about embracing life despite the the sadness and the darkness at its core rewatch today. The scene where herald maud meet which is at a funeral for someone. Neither of them know funerals. And you know. You talk about your. Your meat and herald is so kind of stunned by her for a second that someone at this affair is even talking to him. And he thinks he's the quirkiest store weirdest person in any space and then he comes up against someone who truly he is. Met his match in with ruth. Gordon's mod. what is your name herald. How jason how. How did you.
KQED Radio
"tammy faye" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Chastain. Tammy Faye, What do you do? Hello, Mother. This is Jim Baker, my husband. She sang, he preached if everyone watching to double their pledge just for one month. God loves you. He really does. And evangelism was their oyster until We're not doing anything wrong, though. That a question also based on real life, Kristen Stewart playing Princess Diana in Spencer, and in King Richard will Smith is a tenacious California father. Who, despite what everyone tells him just knows his girls are going to be great at tennis, the chances of achieving the kind of success that you're talking about. It's just very, very unlikely. Okay, You're making a mistake, but I'm gonna let you make it. Watch him hit a few balls. All right, So tell me your names again. I'm Venus. I'm Serena. So they hit a few balls. So what do you think Documentaries will chronicle other real lives from one called Julia. This is through the Charles. On a pity to fabled authors in the Capote tapes and Kurt Vonnegut unstuck in Time. Also the Swedish teenager who played Tadzio in death in Venice, then spent decades trying to live down headlines that had called him the most beautiful boy in the world. Enough reality, you say, Well, how about some animated kid flicks? Ones about a buddy robot high insert registered name? I am your Sure. Or it's called runs gone wrong..
Popcorn with Peter Travers
What’s Next for Fall Film Releases?
"I out of the gate for this fall is a movie called shang. She and the legend of the ten rings. It's a marvel movie and marvel finally deciding to have an asian hero in its movie. That's a long time coming. And when you see it you're going to see a story that is modern touch because this guy on plagued by smooth lou. He is in really fierce fighting form but his father was played by the great. Tome lung is an immortal and he doesn't want him to do it. He's doing which is parking cars in a san francisco hotel talent hanging out with akwa. Seen you get what i mean. It's the martial arts that makes this must sit okay. next up. Is the power of the dog as everybody knows especially critic which is may that september is the month where their film festivals everywhere from venison telluride to toronto in new york and the one film to rule them. All is the power of the dark. It's a western set in nineteen twenty five montana and new zealand. Filmmaker jane campion. Who did the piano is the director sir. First movie in twelve years. Expect real awards bus around benedict cumberbatch. She's playing a brutal acid tongue rancher who gets tensions going in ablaze when his brother brings home a new bride and everything goes crazy and deserve this film is sets nature's beauty against toxic masculinity. These are two things that are really updates days next step. The eyes of tammy faye jessica chastain goes all in this. She's backwards on the eyelashes end. The make up to play tammy faye bakker the late televangelist who turned her christian news program into a profitable industry until a sex scandal involving her first husband. Jim baker played by entry. Barfield just brought the whole house card. Sam