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The B.E.E. Podcast - 5/2/21 - Tim Hunter - SILVER
🕑 Added 2021-05-03 03:53:49 +0000 UTCSusan Reynolds throws her party for Robert Mallory and a late night of tension and revelation ensues in Part 18 of The Shards. Director Tim Hunter and Bret discuss growing up in the darkness of the Hollywood blacklist, the teenage bleakness of River's Edge and working with each other on The Smiley Face Killers.
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Gloie
The pool raft scene π₯΅
Antonio Primavera
Both <i>River's Edge</i> and <i>Over the Edge</i> were huge influences on me and friends growing up in the 80s.
BUtterfield8
I've listened since the beginning, but I often used to skip the podcasts with the musicians. Eventually, I ran out of episodes and started listening to the musician interviews, even though I usually didn't know their music. To my surprise, the musician interviews were some of the most interesting ones.
Jorge Espinha
He's not looking for a fight. Maybe if he had a more intimate relationship with the guest he would push back.
AshSebash
I thought it was funny that BEE mentioned that so many people had issues with the Terry Schafer scene in last weeks episode. Growing up here, I feel like that scene is just sort of an inevitable right of passage that everyone young gay guy goes through for better or worse. I find BEEβs voice very calming so I will listen to anything, but I donβt find myself rushing to the new Shards content. It feels too much like real life, familiar people, a more vanilla rehash of Less Than Zero. I always enjoy listening to each reading, but Iβm not gripped by it. The tension and the stakes feel minimal. This feels like something that is perhaps a therapeutic exercise instead of a creative pursuit but how does one judge the difference. Iβll keep listening regardless. Iβm going to PodcastOne to listen to all of BEEβs interviews. I am really enjoying them and think I slightly prefer that format. Mission accomplished on both podcasts. I am being introduced to new people, new content (music, books, movies) that I might not have explored or thought to look for prior. Opening minds to art, artists, thoughts, and incredible works is what it is all about. Keep up the great work!
Mike Hogan
Iβve thought for a month or two now that releasing Shards like this is a great test run and a solid editorial incubation period. That feels true now for sure, and it seems a lot of people agree that it feels like itβs dragging lately. Hoping that Bret will be able to reflect on this release and use it to edit things down into what would make a good story if tightened considerably, that is if there are plans for a subsequent and more public release of The Shards. Thatβs not to say Iβm not enjoying it, I actually thought the last two weeks were great entries. Loved Tim as a guest, it was illuminating hearing from him versus just perusing his creditsβit gives you a greater appreciation of him and his point of view. And the candid conversation about their film was refreshing, too often people fellate the process of making their films. As an indie filmmaker, I found what they had to share to be incredibly accurate about the process and how things can go wrong even with all the best intentions and ingredients going into production.
Arch Friend
When it comes to party stories Bret has no equal. Thoroughly enjoyed this chapter.
Knokkel knokkel
Huge fan of BEE but this Shards nonsense has to top!! No disrespect to TimHunter but I prefer guests with a tad more sparkling personality!
Billy Schafer
For those complaining about Shards fatigue, I get it. I'm a bit restless with it, too. However, I think I'd enjoy it better if I could *read* it. I was never a big fan of audiobooks, especially fiction, even if they're read by the author. Same reason I can't stand public readings. Reading a book and listening to it being read to you are different experiences. That being said, let's not get too snotty. Shards is a Patreon exclusive for BEE fans. Wherever Bret takes it, this work-in-progress is reaching our ears first. We're a lucky group.
Billy Vega
Yeah it started good but it's become bloated. It was building to something but it feels like it has fizzled out. That one a few weeks ago that had Mallory working on the float for the parade was just silly to me. The first one I could have not listened to at all. The wild sex with the producer guy was fine. More random partying in this one and random impulsive sex with only really the last sentence moving the overall plot forward. For me, Mallory falling in the pool drunk just took out a lot of the calculating menace of his character. He's become too silly and over the top to find truly scary, at least for me.
Sophia Gold
Totally agree: Marnie is a masterpiece and perhaps the most underrated of Hitchcockβs.
Oleg
tired of shards already, it seems it drags on forever. school kids in armani sweaters snorting coke and driving porsches is the most boring subject in the world, sorry. and started skipping straight to the interviews. miss the monologues.
Benjamin Terpstra
How into self-improvement are you? California seems like the place, aye.
Billy Schafer
Bret's response to Tim Hunter liking First Cow and Never Rarely Sometimes Always was expectedly restrained, but I wonder what was really going through his mind when he heard those titles.
Seneca Garcia
Iβm fully into Shards - with what began as casual listening, Iβm closely following and anticipating every other week - The Beverley Hills Hotel chapter with Terry last week took guts and was pretty lucid writing - a lot of good lines and subtle observations and decent dialogue - really like how weβve been listening to this for months - seems like the literary event Imperial Bedrooms claimed to be - probably the best work (and this was after not being into White) - really unexpected how much Iβm enjoying this. Serious. Well done !
Alex Waller
Cool Show. Really hoping we'll get a detailed recap of the Oscars on the next podcast. I wonder what Terence Malick was like in his film school days.
Billy Vega
I feel the Shards might have been grinding it's gears a bit last few weeks. Still enjoying it but I've felt for a while it's time to amp the tension up a bit. It always ends in a decent cliff hanger though.
Kensington
Can you note the time when the Shards excerpt ends? I prefer to skip that since I missed the earlier excerpts, but there's no easily found audio clue.
Alan Kollins
good interview. i much prefer insights from old hollywood stock than new upstarts. perhaps because holllywood culutre is currently in a state of denial of its own implosion. as is the case here historical reflection make for some rich conversation. revisiting river's edge always a pleasure. did not know harry dean stanton was offered a role in the film. i'm left imagining what a softer feck would have brought to the film. hollywood blacklist insights are always fascinating, especially first person accounts. thanks for this interview. one of the most enjoyable in recent memory.
Thomas G
Please, please, add chapter functionality to the podcast. You can look to the Accidental Tech Podcast for a well implemented example of this.
