Episode 331: The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Guest Co-Hosts: Ken Stanley, Samm Deighan

Peter Greenaway's The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989) tells the tale of Albert Spica (Michael Gambon), a monstrous gangster putting on airs as a gourmand. This loutish brute is the co-owner of a restaurant where he, his wife Georgina (Helen Mirren) and his crew are regulars. Also a frequent patron at the restaurant is Michael (Alan Howard), a book dealer who is secretly Georgina’s lover.

Samm Deighan and Ken Stanley join Mike to discuss this controversial film as well as Greenaway's other work.

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Links:
Buy The Cook, Cook The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover on Blu-Ray
Buy Peter Greenaway's Postmodern / Poststructuralist Cinema Paperback edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi and Mary Alemany-Galway
Buy Peter Greenaway: Interviews edited by Vernon Gras and Marguerite Gras
Buy Peter Greenaway: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover by Peter Greenaway
Visit The Cinematic Endeavors of Peter Greenaway
Visit Luperpedia Foundation
Hear more from Samm Deighan at Daughters of Darkness
Hear more from Ken at Ken's Loud Band

Music:
"Book Depository" - Michael Nyman
"I Eat Cannibals" - Total Coelo

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Episode 183: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Special Guest: Jim Hunter
Guest Co-Host: Ed Pettit

Shakespeare September continues with the 1990 film from writer/director Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Based upon Stoppard’s own award-winning mid-sixties play, the film tells the tale of Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Roth), two supporting characters from Hamlet. We see them as characters in their own right as they interact with the goings-on of the melancholy Dane, questioning the meaning of life and their own existence. Sounds like pretty heady stuff but the play, and the film, are clever, witty, existential and amusing.

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Links:
Buy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead on DVD
Buy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Buy Tom Stoppard: A Faber Critical Guide: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia by Jim Hunter
Buy About Stoppard by Jim Hunter
Buy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: The Film by Tom Stoppard
Buy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern by William Schwenck Gilbert

Music:
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - Elvis Presley
"Hamlet" - ABBA
"Spirit" - Bauhaus
"Dang Me" - Roger Miller
"Money" - Sweet Little Band

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Episode 101: Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Special Guests: Paul Zimmerman, Monte Hellman
Guest Co-Hosts: Jamie Jenkins

We look at the influences on and of Reservoir Dogs (1992), the seminal crime film, along with other works from director Quentin Tarantino.

We interview journalist Paul Zimmerman who wrote the first U.S. magazine cover story on Quentin Tarantino and Monte Hellman, the Executive Producer of Reservoir Dogs.

Joining us is Jamie Jenkins from Devour the Podcast, Evil Episodes, and The Skeleton Crew.

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Links:
Get all of Jamie Jenkins's podcasts at horrorphilia.com
Get Paul Zimmerman's Virgin Noir
Read How Quentin Tarantino Steals from Other Movies by Nathaniel Lee
Listen to our earlier interview with Monte Hellman
Buy Reservoir Dogs on Blu-Ray
Buy the Reservoir Dogs screenplay
Read more about Mike's short film, Who Do You Think You're Fooling in the Impossibly Funky collection

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