Mike talked to producer Randall Emmett about his career (Narc, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Lone Survivor) and the long journey Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016) took to get to the silver screen.
Special Guest: Daniel Bird Guest Co-Host: Carol Borden, Travis Crawford
Based on a book by the Strugatsky Brothers, Hard to Be a God is a three hour medieval sci-fi film from Aleksei German wherein the inhumanity of man comes to the fore.
The material was also the source of Peter Fleischmann's 1989 film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein. Both films inform the discussion this week with Travis Crawford and The Cultural Gutter's Carol Borden.
Special Guests: Edward Pressman, William M. Finkelstein Guest Co-host: Patrick Bromley
This week we're talking about Bad Lieutenant - the original and the sort of loose re-make by filmmakers Abel Ferrara and Werner Herzog. The 1992 original stars Harvey Keitel as the Bad Lieutenant in question who gets in over his head with drugs, prostitutes and a gambling debt. The 2009 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans stars Nicolas Cage as the Bad Lieutenant in the days around and after Hurricane Katrina. He plays a cop who gets in over his head with drugs, prostitutes and a gambling debt.
Our guests are producer of both films – Edward Pressman and the screenwriter of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, William Finkelstein
Guest co-host this week is Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast.
Thanks to Filip Önell for the Werner Herzog impersonation!
Music:
"Pledging My Love" - Johnny Ace
"Signifying Rapper" - Schooly-D
"Old Lost John" - Sonny Terry
"Release Me" - Johnny Adams
Special Guest: Randall Emmett
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