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Movie Mindset 08 - God Lancaster

🕑 Added 2023-06-14 11:00:06 +0000 UTC

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Max Fennig

I like to think Mickey Rourke’s character in Eureka is Jordan Calphus Sr.

Michael Austin

I'll be anything you want, anything at all. I'll be your guardian angel.

Tenley

They need to do a whole Lina Wurtmiller episode, she made incredible movies worth talking about.

Rohmer Simpson

Solidarity!

Peter T.

You guys HAVE to watch Love and Anarchy, the Italian movie about a man who is going to kill Mussolini but gets distracted when he falls in love due to his heroism... one of the best films ever made.

J.W.

I SAW IT, Rohmer, and now have MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT on The List. You are SEEN, movie brother.

Rohmer Simpson

Some misc notes about Sweet Smell - not sure if anyone's going to see this but whatever: the cruel police lieutenant Kello is played by the workhorse character actor Emile Meyer; the very same year he played the priest in PATHS OF GLORY, where he's last seen speaking comforting words to Timothy Carey as he's being marched up to face the firing squad I believe Will meant to say THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT - a great comedy movie about labor and class; it's the one where Alec Guinness invents an indestructible textile material that throws the industry into turmoil. Other great Mackendrick movies include WHISKEY GALORE! - a comedy about a Scottish island community that's brought together to come to the rescue of 50k cases of booze. And two '60s adventure movies, A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA and A BOY TEN FEET TALL.

Seth Feinberg

Cowardice to not choose THE TRAIN, especially when considering Lancaster’s physicality

I am become reply guy

Uhh if you like your goat you can fuck it

Nolan

The most respected guy in your town typically looks more like a Walter Matthau, Burt Lancaster is a unicorn, it’s the movies.

Nolan

Yea I’m like if Burt Lancaster smoked weed and was the coolest guy

Frederick Von Drasek

...as the Cold War was re-heating in '78, Lancaster narrated a 20-hour, internationally syndicated series on the Soviet Union in WW II called _The Unknown War_. This came five years after _The World at War_ kind of broke the media silence in the NATO west regarding the Soviet War, but still, that took something on Lancaster's part. I watched some a long time ago, and now I want to give it another look...

John Leavitt

Burt was the Daniel Craig of his era in every way

Scot Forsythe

I thought “Tough Guys” with Kirk was pretty good

Poppy Chulo

Just get a VPN, for like twelve bucks a month you can watch anything you want.

Equality State Of Mind

Not that you all read these, but you keep queuing up pictures I can't stream on Android, and I'm too much of a Luddite to torrent shit. Had to order Insignificance from the Laramie library, other side of the state. Also, three hours of dubbed-over English with sort of matching subtitles made me fuckin homicidal. Liked the ep. Cool series.

etienne

imo the whole trauma angle of that movie was wholly unnecessary and a huge waste of almost hour. imo the opening should have been "hi you're a humanities student, wanna come hang out in a village that's more socially rigid than an ant colony?" "hi yes I just had a break up and I want to change my mind, let's go right now"

Rohmer Simpson

It’s definitely my favorite of the three (low bar) but I think it’s quitsville. I really strongly feel that he spent his whole cache on Beau

J.P. McD.

Nah I don’t think it’s meant that way, it was dumb peak 2019 online feminism where the Warren supporters would post about how Midsommar helped them process their trauma from a 6 month relationship where the guy had an avoidant attachment style, and they all genuinely thought the bf was a monster. (I dislike the movie itself just for the normal reasons)

Rohmer Simpson

well, I could go one of two ways about it: if he really meant it like that, yeah then, fuck that movie. but I think there's a "deserve's got nothin' to do with it" angle and I'm okay with that. I don't mind a sadist, but I can't abide a moralizing one.

J.P. McD.

I’m just mad about Twitter thinking Midsommar was about “female empowerment” and that a boyfriend trapped in a crappy relationship should be killed

NoPrefect

And for anyone who still doesn't think Burt Lancaster is God, watch Elmer Gantry.

J.P. McD.

Lol at the “people also watched” on Amazon for Bright Future including every prior Movie Mindset pick

Rohmer Simpson

oh hell yeah. that one's bonkers city. he really made a lot of CHOICES in there

John Marshall

Also listening back to the Eastwood ep - has anyone recently watched the Eiger Sanction? It's deranged in ways I never remembered

John Williams

Man, I have to watch that one

John Marshall

Thank you for the rec

Rohmer Simpson

Same director - Housekeeping (1987) is a masterpiece

Garth Hillsborough

Brute Force is like a classic movie which to me is 100% about America as the Fourth Reich that came out just two years after the war was over

M.R. Alchemist

Yeah at first it seemed like Will was forcing himself to do something similar to Matt but I think he's found his groove and Hesse is the right partner for the job.

HarshMalarkey

Hesse is so great I can forgive her for being Italian

(Noah J)

First episode of Movie Mindset I've listened to. Didn't think I'd care for it much. The chemistry between Will and Hesse alone are enough to make this really entertaining. They perfectly compliment each other. Great commentary. Very much enjoyed this.

Folks,,

Great ep

David James

Brute Force and The Killers are two early career noirs(noir-ish in the case of Brute Force) that Lancaster is excellent in

Rohmer Simpson

Gotta weigh in: Beau is Afraid is bootleg. It’s become increasingly clear that Ari Aster is the kind of huckster who’s spent his life trying to make six dumb ideas look like three good ones. Lock him up at Apple TV where he belongs.

SF

So stoked to here that Hesse liked Shin Kamen Rider!

John Marshall

Love the local hero recommendation - such a gentle but hilarious film

Michael Polacheck

Steve Dallas played by Martin Milner who went on to star in the TV series Route 66 and as the lead cop in Adam 12 (Jack Webb's love song to the cop on the beat).

Adam

i love movie mindset 📽️🍿

THEKILLERWHALE

{Sees Alain Delon in the Leopard} "I'm gay!" {Sees Claudia Cardinale 30 minutes later} "I'm straight!"

Brad Plumb

I can't think of Burt anymore without hearing Bill Hader saying "oyster crackers" in his accent.

Brad Plumb

You know you're a GOAT when you're on Nixon's enemies list. Every name on that thing should be enshrined.

George Mitri

“The Swimmer”: incredible. I can’t see how “Easy Rider” could’ve been made without it.

SJ

Can't believe you didn't choose Executive Action (1973).

Diet Mountain Dew is Reichist

You claim to be movie connoisseurs and yet you refuse - ( j'accuse! ) flatly refuse to address what Jimmy McGinty did to Big Box Office Jim's boy in Terminator Salivation.

Brady

Stopped partway through to go watch Sweet Smell, and goddamn, what a solid watch. Hunsecker is an all time villain in that

Nimbly Bimbly As FUCK

The Swimmer is a pretty good flick, with a nice twist at the end.

Bloggystyle

Great episode. Burt is a underrated Hollywood super nova. Like Holden had his own production company. And his career had long legs: Flame and the Arrow to Atlantic City. What a career.

Shauna Seroquel

😹😹😹

Zach H.

Valdez is Coming is a good one from the same period

Jon

First time watching these movies ahead of time. Greatly increased enjoyment of the episode. Would recommend.

Brian Taulbee

Charade.

Jack Hume

I just looked at this guys credits and I have no clue who he is. I thought Lee Marvin was burt lambaster

Claire Casey

Haven't seen it but I briefly thought of then other "The Rainmaker" and briefly imagined a movie that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Mackey Rourke, Virginia Madsen, Claire Danes, and somehow fucking Burt Lancaster?! Then I realized that wasn't possible but god the Coppola Rainmaker is so stacked I have to revisit it soon even if it turns out mid

etienne

last recommendation sounds kinda rad, I could see how the interplay would go lancaster: now I might just be a uh smawwl taaawn oil lawyer but uhhh, pray tell, how much uhh this here cottage? might be sold? capaldi: now ye fat american cunt ye gonna take yer bloody petrodollars an oil reiffeinery an ram it up so far up ye bum ol' winnine redraws the national border of ye meind ye daft twat

JD

Depalma suggestions: dressed to kill v blow out, or carrie/body double

JD

You can talk about “the swimmer” when you do your Frank Perry episode, paired with “man on a swing” or maybe “mommie dearest”

Rohmer Simpson

it might be mentioned in the ep (I've only just started) but a footnote regarding JJ being based on Walter Winchell, his first child was a daughter that he named Walda and (Wikipedia) she spent a fair share of time in the nuthouse. Walda Winchell.

Nathan Explosion

i also thought SSOS was some kind of comedy or musical. now that i know it’s about a demonic gossip king trying to fuck his sister, i’m definitely gonna check it out!

Leebos

I just watched Sweet Smell of Success with my dad, and Wong's cinematography is Something else.

stop watcherman

to say excruciating is u being dramatic

Jeff Popp

Incredible episode too

Corey Reynolds

The first hour of Beau is Afraid has some very funny moments. The next 2 hours were excruciating.

Zach H.

For Matthau Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) The Laughing Policeman (1973) Or Charlie Varrick (1973)

Nathan Explosion

i used to watch TOUGH GUYS (1985) constantly as a kid. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play convicted train robbers that re-enter LA society after thirty years in the clink. Dana Carvey, Eli Wallach, and Charles Durning co-star. rough gem of 80s cinema looking back on the 1950s. it’s hilarious.

Modokk

I can't believe nobody recognized Martin Milner as Steve Dallas who later on had the starring role as a cop in Adam-12

Aram Fingal

The good ol days when movies about journalists were all about how corrupt and evil they are

Rohmer Simpson

JJ would tell Tom to drown himself in a toilet and Tom would do it.

Rohmer Simpson

A great line from the OG Bad News Bears is the black kid stepping up to bat and announcing “this one’s going out to Allah, suckas”

Seamus

Your young audience has no clue of the movies you speak of. Old farts.

Yairo Martis

Hey Will, thoughts on Peter Riegert in The Mask, and that one episode of The Sopranos?

SlowTrickle

JJ and Sidney = Tom and Gregg

etienne

gonna start talking like that IRL. my boss is gonna ask me if the 2024 version is compiled and im gonna tell him "It's all uptight and buttoned up. Signed sealed delivered"

Adam Skorupskas

you are an idiot.

Robert Granniss

My pitch for Predator 3 would be an out of shape predator who hunts a group of off duty oathkeeper types doing a lame militia training in the woods. Lots of sweaty off duty cops getting merc'd left and right and the one soy boy brother-in-law is the one who takes the predator out by outrunning him and luring him to a bbq to take it out with the twin logs trap again. But this time 4 logs. Also this predator smokes/vapes. Pulls a cig from his hand device after clicking alien runes into it that you think he's gonna use as a bomb.

Will

Hesse is thinking of Martin Landau on Columbo

Julie Baxter

Caught "The Rainmaker" on one of the free streaming networks a few days ago. Had never heard of it before, but Lancaster was fucking on fire.

Claire Casey

Hideaki Anno talk right off the bat, ty Hesse. 🙏

Yairo Martis

Looking forward to the Charley Varrick-The Friends of Eddie Coyle episode.

gonzopitcher

It’s worth it for the “grape orgy” alone.

Rohmer Simpson

You ever see Seconds? Kind of a B minus C plus movie overall but Howe’s cinematography on it will rip your face off.

gonzopitcher

That’s wild I was just studying Dolphy’s “Synthetic Formations” this morning.

Michael S. Judge

Chico Hamilton's band was real important, too – early into some Third Stream ideas about more elaborate composition in jazz, and they were the first major job for Eric Dolphy, one of the greatest musicians of any kind who ever lived

Skip scrambler

The Leopard is my favorite movie of all times. Visconti has some other good ones, but this is excellent. Book is very good too. But I think it’s like Jurassic Park, the book is good, add depth, but the spectacle of the film makes it. Perfect ending, too. Anticlimactic but fitting.