Episode 351: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

Special Guests: Rudy Wurlitzer, David Wolf, Paul Seydor
Guest Co-Hosts: David Lambert, Mike Faloon

Released in 1973 in a truncated form, Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid has had a long, contentious history. We’ll be talking about that as well as the film itself in which Kris Kristofferson plays the titular Billy the Kid. He’s the friend and eventual enemy of James Coburn as Pat Garrett. The film stars a host of familiar faces and character actors with this speaking to the passing of the torch from one generation of Westerns to the next... Or perhaps snuffing that flame.

Author Mike Faloon and artist David Lambert join Mike discuss Peckinpah's film. Interviews include screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer (Two Lane Blacktop), Bob Dylan scholar David Wolf, and author/editor Paul Seydor (The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah's Last Western Film).

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Episode 256: Looker (1981)

Guest Co-Hosts: Marjorie Conrad, Heather Drain

In Looker, writer/director Michael Crichton examined the allure of advertising. Plastic surgeon Dr. Larry Roberts (Albert Finney) has been performing millimeter-specific procedures on models including Cindy Fairmont (Susan Dey). When his patients start dying under suspicious circumstances, the trail leads to mogul John Reston (James Coburn).

Model/filmmaker Marjorie Conrad and writer Heather Drain join Mike in discussing digitized images, beauty standards, subliminal messages, and mustaches. Also, Marjorie Conrad gives us the scoop about her film, Chemical Cut and its Slam Dance premiere.

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Buy Looker on DVD
Buy Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key
Visit the Michael Crichton website
Visit the official Mondo Heather website
Visit the official Chemical Cut website

Music:
"Hall of Mirrors" - Siouxsie & The Banshees
"Looker" - Sue Saad

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CHEMICAL CUT - World Premiere 2016 Slamdance Film Festival from Marjorie Conrad on Vimeo.

Episode 255: Hudson Hawk (1991)

Special Guest: Daniel Waters
Guest Co-Host: Stephen Scarlata, Jamey Duvall

Catch the Excitement! Catch the Adventure! Catch the Hawk! Hudson Hawk, that is. Directed by Michael Lehmann, the 1991 Bruce Willis vanity project was considered by many at the time to be a disaster. Is that a little harsh? Was the film really a subversive parody of action films?

Stephen Scarlata and Jamey Duvall join Mike this week to examine Hudson Hawk. The episode features an interview with the film's writer, Daniel Waters, who gives us the inside scoop on the making of the film.

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Buy Hudson Hawk on DVD
Buy Hudson Hawk: The Novelization! by Geoffrey Marsh
Buy With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant by Richard E. Grant
Read the Hudson Hawk Screenplay
Read Bruce Willis defends ‘Hudson Hawk’ for twenty-nine goddamn minutes by Martin Schneider
Read My Year Of Flops Case File #67 Hudson Hawk by Nathan Rabin
Read The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Hudson Hawk by Gabe Delahaye
Read Daniel Waters on Hudson Hawk by Paul Rowlands
Read Looking back at Hudson Hawk by Simon Brew
Hear more of Jamey Duvall at Movie Geeks United
Follow Stephen Scarlata on Twitter

Music:
"Swing on a Star" - Bing Crosby
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" - The Pixies

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