Episode 277: Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Special Guests: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mary Wiles
Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Chris Stachiw

Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) tells a story of friendship, adventure, and magic between two women (Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier) in Paris.

Interviews this week include Jonathan Rosenbaum (Rivette: Texts and Interviews) and Mary Wiles (Contemporary Film Directors: Jacques Rivette).

Heather Drain (Mondo-Heather.com) and Chris Stachiw (Kulturecast) join Mike to unwrap the candy that is Celine and Julie Go Boating.

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Links:
Buy Celine and Julie Go Boating on Blu-Ray
Buy Jacques Rivette by Mary Wiles
Buy Rivette Text and Interviews by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Ask New Yorker Films to release Celine and Julie on Blu-Ray / DVD
Read Desperately Seeking Celine and Julie by Reid Rosefelt
Read Mirror, mirror: Jacques Rivette, the Marx Brothers and the plays we game by Brad Stevens
Listen to Let Us Now Praise Jacques Rivette by The Cinephiliacs
Read Jacques Rivette on Out 1 and Céline and Julie Go Boating on BFI.org
Read Exploring the Haunted Grounds of Sérail by Imran Khan
Read Celine and Julia Go Boating Subversive fantasy by Julia Lesage
Read Celine and Julie: The Typeface by Pat Graham
Read about The Personal is Political
Visit the official Jonathan Rosenbaum website
Visit the official Mondo Heather website
Visit the Kulture Shocked website for more of Chris Stachiw

Music:
"Donald and Julie go Boating" - Techno Twins
"I'll Be You" - The Replacements

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Episode 245: Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Special Guest: Nathan Southern & Jack Chambers
Guest Co-Host: Jedidiah Ayres

Noirvember continues as we consider Louis Malle's debut feature film, Elevator to the Gallows AKA Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, which stars Jeanne Moreau as Florence and Maurice Ronet as Julien. Shot in beautiful black and white and featuring a legendary improved jazz score by the great Miles Davis, Elevator to the Gallows questions the nature of self, love, and life as only Louis Malle could.

Our guests this week include Nathan Southern, author of The Films of Louis Malle: A Critical Analysis and Jack Chambers, author of Milestones: The Music And Times Of Miles Davis. Our guest co-host, Jedidiah Ayres, is a writer for page and screen.

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Buy Elevator to the Gallows on DVD
Buy the Lift to the Scaffold soundtrack by Miles Davis
Buy The Films of Louis Malle: A Critical Analysis by Nathan Southern
Buy Milestones: The Music And Times Of Miles Davis by Jack Chambers
Buy Jewish Noir edited by Kenneth Wishnia
Visit Jedidiah Ayres's website
Buy some of Jedidiah Ayres's books
Follow Jedidiah Ayres on Twitter

Music:
"Love in an Elevator" - Aerosmith

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Episode 244: Alphaville (1965)

Special Guest: David Sterritt
Guest Co-Host: Cullen Gallagher

Noirvember continues as we look at crime and detective films with a foreign accent. We're looking at Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 sci-fi philosophical noir starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina, Alphaville.

We're joined by David Sterritt, the author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible, and Pulp Serenade's Cullen Gallagher.

Links:
Buy Alphaville on DVD
Buy The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible by David Sterritt
Visit the official David J. Sterritt website
Read a very different opinion of Germany Year 90 Nine Zero by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Keep up with Cullen Gallagher at Pulp Serenade

Music:
"Big in Japan" - Alphaville
"F*ck the World" - Insane Clown Posse

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Episode 88: Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Edouard Saroyan plays piano in a rinky dink honky tonk in Paris when he used to tickle the ivories in the best concert halls. We see his fall from grace and into the icy hands of fate in this adaptation of David Goodis's Down There by François Truffaut.

Joining us from the streets of Philadelphia this week is Professor Richard Edwards who discusses the French New Wave, Goodis, and the nature of film noir.

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Links:
Buy The Maltese Touch of Evil by Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards
Listen to Clute & Edwards's podcast, Out of the Past
Buy David Goodis's Shoot the Piano Player
Buy François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player
Buy Larry Withers's David Goodis: To A Pulp
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