Episode 770: The Driver (1978)

Guest Co-Hosts: Beth Accomando, Walter Chaw

Noirvember 2025 roars to life with Walter Hill's sleek, existential chase film The Driver (1978). Ryan O’Neal plays the nameless getaway specialist who moves through Los Angeles like a ghost, pursued by Bruce Dern’s manic lawman hell-bent on taking him down. It’s a lean, hypnotic duel between predator and prey where style is substance and silence is power.

Mike rides shotgun with Beth Accomando and Walter Chaw to unpack Hill’s minimalist approach, his homage to Melville’s Le Samouraï, and the cold precision that makes The Driver a high-octane hymn to professionalism and control.

Addendum: Big apologies to Ms. Adjani. Re-reading her Wikipedia, it looks like she's not anti-immmigrant but actually speaks out against anti-immigration!



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Music:
"Finis" - Michael Small

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Episode 696: Latitude Zero (1969)

Guest Co-Hosts: Carol Borden, Walter Chaw

Sci-Fi July continues with Ishiro Honda's Latitude Zero (1969). Written by Ted Sherdeman and based on his and his wife Anne’s NBC radio serial of the same name, the film stars Joseph Cotten as a Captain Nemo-like commander of a submarine on it's way to... Latitude Zero, an underwater Utopia populated by scientists from the world over. Their enemy, Malic (Cesar Romero), will stop at nothing to destroy them, even if it means making a manticore with pieces of his crew.

Walter Chaw and Carol Borden join Mike to discuss this under-seen kaiju classic and its fascinating origin.

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Music:
"Latitude Zero" - Akira Ifukube

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