S7E43: Cinema Speculating with Quentin Tarantino
Added 2023-12-12 04:34:32 +0000 UTCQuentin Tarantino and Bret discuss the frightening Legend of Boggy Creek, the elements of a perfect movie and the motivation behind Brian De Palma's desire to thrill. Part 2 of 2.
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He’s never seen Eyes Wide Shut
Mr.Pink1996
2024-01-23 19:34:26 +0000 UTCReservoir Dogs is better than any New Hollywood movie ever and that includes Godfather 2! I’m looking at the 1995 ARTFORUM issue that QT talked about in his first ep about Gary Indiana - and the blown up photos of pulp fiction and RDs in the magazine are still so absolutely astonishing and captivating and iconic.
Seneca Garcia
2023-12-29 23:26:34 +0000 UTCI like how when discussing Paul Schrader, Bret pronounces academic like anemic. Great discussion, but after two episodes of listening to Quentin, I feel like Altman at Cannes.
John Presnall
2023-12-23 22:52:57 +0000 UTCHow can I love this guy's movies so very much but and yet hate his speaking voice with an equal level of feeling?
Happyhead
2023-12-20 15:20:23 +0000 UTCYou might like this then. https://youtu.be/krQ3YfGX4AI
ALAN c BERRY
2023-12-20 11:32:18 +0000 UTCQT if you read this, your book, it’s one of the best endings ever written 💪❤️💯
Knokkel knokkel
2023-12-19 22:17:01 +0000 UTCCheers Alan!
Weaverwerx
2023-12-19 21:13:29 +0000 UTCHere is a video that goes deep on Cinema Speculation. https://youtu.be/krQ3YfGX4AI
ALAN c BERRY
2023-12-19 20:12:14 +0000 UTCRight on! Thanks for letting me know.
ALAN c BERRY
2023-12-19 10:48:10 +0000 UTCAdam will make a post saying it’s time for platinum Q & A and you can submit questions in the comments.
Ashley
2023-12-18 20:06:46 +0000 UTCThis two-part QT interview was a great early Xmas gift! Love to hear BEE talk in-depth about CINEMA SPECULATION and hear that QT is already working on a follow-up book!
Weaverwerx
2023-12-17 20:32:18 +0000 UTCDoes anyone know how you submit questions to Bret? I paid for that membership tier but don't see how to do it. Thanks!
ALAN c BERRY
2023-12-17 13:55:25 +0000 UTCI cannot believe Quentin hasn’t seen 3 women. Mainly, that I’ve seen a movie that he hasn’t!? What the heck! What else has he skipped?
TheRealAudreyHorne
2023-12-17 07:28:32 +0000 UTCGreat episode. I remain staggered Bret hasn’t mentioned Mr Inbetween on the podcast
GC
2023-12-16 23:59:34 +0000 UTCAs a teenager in the 90s I wrote Altman a fan letter, now knowing if the letter would ever get to him, and doubting the address I had managed to find. It was a real treat when a few months later he sent me a large signed photograph with a personal inscription. Was truly touched by that.
Christopher Ward
2023-12-16 16:10:28 +0000 UTCagree with alex
Collin Myers
2023-12-15 01:52:39 +0000 UTCHoldovers?
Collin Myers
2023-12-15 01:52:15 +0000 UTCrough way to end it
Collin Myers
2023-12-15 01:51:24 +0000 UTCeverything, dude
Collin Myers
2023-12-15 01:51:12 +0000 UTChttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Killer-Instinct-Young-Producers-Hollywood/dp/0767900758 Check this book out, Quentin features heavily…also features an unashamed Oliver stone
Lionel
2023-12-14 23:17:59 +0000 UTCBret asks who "The Movie Critic" is about and Quentin keeps mum. For anybody curious, the movie is based on a critic named Jim Sheldon who wrote mainstream movie reviews in the '70's and '80's for a porno paper in Los Angeles called "The Hollywood Press". His employment with "The Press" mysteriously ended in the mid '80's and he died in his 40's in the early '90's, due to complications from alchoholism. He was the paper's second-string critic, who pounded (into the ground) the exploitation, arthouse, and foreign market beat, and a guy named Bill Margold (more well-known as a pornographer than a film reviewer) was the first-string critic for the paper, and he reviewed most major releases. These guys are Quentin's jumping off point for the film. But James (Jim) Sheldon is the basis for the titular "movie critic" character that the movie is mainly about. If you want to read their reviews they're very cynical and funny and sarcastic (and in the case of Margold, bombastic) check out this archive on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jim_sheldon/ https://letterboxd.com/bill_margold/
Conor C
2023-12-14 22:19:47 +0000 UTCI saw it last night, it's not scary lol. Maybe if you're a small child I could understand being a little frightened but as an adult it's campy. The movie features soundtrack ballads about the sad lonely sasquatch, for christ sake. And the narrator sounds like Adam West in "A Christmas Story". Charles B. Pierce's "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" is much better and creepier, but even then it's spliced with downhome sheriff deputy scenes that come straight out of "The Andy Griffith Show".
Conor C
2023-12-14 22:06:17 +0000 UTCSeconded.
John Q. Thompson
2023-12-14 19:57:20 +0000 UTCThis Altmann story is fucking amazing.
Pp358
2023-12-14 15:14:57 +0000 UTCI really wish Bret would have Joe Bob Briggs on
Brent L. Smith
2023-12-14 03:35:01 +0000 UTCPure BS and just plain untrue. Box Office numbers were up for non IP films this year. Was it great? No. Was it considerably better than the last few years? Undoubtedly. Oppenheimer performed great. Scorsese had one of the best openings of his entire career. Napoleon's sales are way ahead of Scott's films from a couple of years ago and back to a decent number. Priscilla, No Hard Feelings, Asteroid City, and The Holdovers all had respectable showings and many surpassed their box office projections. Meanwhile Flash, Blue Beatle, Indiana Jones, and Captain Marvel all underperformed along with other mainstream IP films. There was a clear pattern of original projects trending upwards and the movies everyone gripes about trending down. Bret will never acknowledge that because he's dug in and clings to this fantasy that he experienced the greatness of cinema and subsequent generations won't. It's a weird comfort but it's not reality.
Alex Waller
2023-12-14 00:19:37 +0000 UTCDid not know Legend of Boggy Creek was actually scary- I’ve only seen it on MST3K
Patrick Crowley
2023-12-14 00:00:13 +0000 UTCIs Bret just fucking with us at this point with the Coppola mispronunciations? 😂
Vin Bravo
2023-12-13 22:42:01 +0000 UTCI loved this conversation, but I wish it didn't end with, "It's all over!" I understand the defeatist attitude of those who feel that cinema isn't the same as it once was, I can't help but think more hopefully about the future. I work at an old repertory cinema and I remember right before the pandemic there were lines around the block for "Parasite". I know that people are starving for some kind of renaissance of original movies to remedy the jadedness film lovers feel.
Andrew Lapointe
2023-12-13 22:18:37 +0000 UTC"If there's a demand Hollywood will make more" There's not
Richard Raymond
2023-12-13 22:00:01 +0000 UTCIt's been a so-so year for cinema at best. Outside of Oppenheimer, there were zero great 2023 movies. And the box office numbers for that were a social media driven fluke
Richard Raymond
2023-12-13 21:58:52 +0000 UTCGreat interview! I'm the exact same age as these guys , saw all those 70s classic movies they mentioned when they were 1st released. I'm not as pessimistic as them about the future of cinema, the kids will come through, they always have !
Michael Madonna
2023-12-13 21:50:05 +0000 UTCLoved the conversation but this whole mantra about everything being over, publishing, TV, movies, is a bit repetetive, and, to be honest, just good old nostalgia from a sentimental old man.
J.A.
2023-12-13 20:50:14 +0000 UTCWhat's all over? 😂
Dave Mason
2023-12-13 18:28:59 +0000 UTC1) During her interview on Late Night with David Letterman (August 11th, 1986), actress, singer, & comedienne Beverly D’Angelo A) wears a frizzy blonde hairdo swept off its haunches by a hot desert wind B) displays the quick, punchy timing of a scrawny cornered gangster C) covers The Rolling Stones on concertina, or D) sneezes on a candelabra from the séance kit that she keeps in her purse 2) D’Angelo enters Late Night from the green room. In Latin (Javanese, and Kurdish) “green room” means A) Land of Giant Vegetables B) Holographic jungle enclosure C) The “Whites Only” section of a gay bar, or D) subterranean cannabis plantation 3) Crossing the stage, D’Angelo’s A) entrance beckons the broad, sheepish glamour of a grown-up Prom Queen B) hips swivel like a seasoned catwalker leading up to the moment when she plants a tangy kiss on Letterman’s canned cornfed cheek C) applause quotient duplicates the sound of the perfect rain falling on a road designed for overcoming insomnia D) marriage to Duke Lorenzo is put to the test 4) As Miss Ponderosa Steakhouse (1973), Beverly D’Angelo A) toured India with bodyguards and a portable trap door B) protested the human condition C) played the part of a Bond girl starving on top of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Plaza D) was cursed to raise two seemingly very normal children 5) Awash in praise, the gobsmacked D’Angelo plunks down in Late Night’s guest chair and mouths “__________” to a throng of soused clergymen. A) Stop it B) Shoot me C) Do me D) All the Above
Sam Leuenberger
2023-12-13 18:18:40 +0000 UTCIf there’s a demand Hollywood will make more. What we do need is more directors who want to be respected by their audience more than their peers
Alex Waller
2023-12-13 17:54:20 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2023-12-13 17:22:51 +0000 UTCIt’s all over!?! The fuuuuuuck
JC
2023-12-13 14:15:12 +0000 UTCGod bless America. God bless Hollywood. And God bless these two. So good. Thank you!
Thomas Edwards
2023-12-13 08:06:17 +0000 UTCOnly in comparison with the last few years (which isn’t saying much). At no other time would Oppenheimer, let alone BARBIE, make a billion dollars. We are just so starved for anything halfway decent we’ll gobble up any scraps we can get 😂
Brian James
2023-12-13 05:04:50 +0000 UTCPER-FORM-A-TIVE. this has been a good year for the cinema both in terms of content and box office
Alex Waller
2023-12-13 02:10:37 +0000 UTCYeah, honestly, I am a little confused and taken a back by this. I can’t find any other information that says it was Friedkin who requested it. Seems out of character for him.
N.M. Janice.
2023-12-13 01:39:39 +0000 UTCI’m disappointed to hear Bret reveal that it was the late William Friedkin who decided to censor the slur in his own film. I assumed it had to do with Disney owning 20th Century Fox’s catalogue now. Friedkin gave zero fucks throughout his career, and I assumed there were absolutely none left in him towards the end of his life. He never placated the audience; he gave it to them straight. In his memoir The Friedkin Connection he writes: “When Popeye used the N-word, African American audiences laughed, because they saw it as an honest portrayal of police attitudes. The films of the 1970s started to depict the moral ambiguity we recognized in ourselves.” Morally ambiguous characters and pessimism were major features of many ‘70s New Hollywood films. They expressed an honesty about human nature and behavior, and filmmakers like Friedkin gave the audience credit to accept their films on those terms. Sad to think an old movie lion like Friedkin caved a little towards the end.
Billy Schafer
2023-12-13 01:18:52 +0000 UTCI love hearing the clink of what I only imagine (hope) are wine glasses hitting the table in between laughter and banter in this friendly, passionate open exchange of ideas, opinions, and memories. An all timer. 🙌
Patrick
2023-12-13 01:04:54 +0000 UTCThere’s a Lyotard quote about postmodernists being scroungers in the garbage-heap looking for left overs — and this surely fits the bill with Quentin with the Altman story - Always viewed Pulp Fiction as a postmodern document - Thank you for another astonishing episode!
Seneca Garcia
2023-12-12 22:37:56 +0000 UTCUplifting stuff, for sure. It does fit here though doesn’t it? One of the prevailing themes of the BEE podcast since the beginning seems to be that art and culture are over, and we are all just scrambling in the aftermath.
N.M. Janice.
2023-12-12 22:26:05 +0000 UTCI could listen to QT talk film all day. I loved Cinema Speculation and the Video Archives podcast. I love Q, even though I probably disagree with him about half the time. And boy, he’s got some hot takes here. I couldn’t disagree more about Altman. He’s one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. The story was funny though. Altman was always known as a prick. Also, I’m scratching my head at his list of “perfect” movies. I’m a fan of all of them listed, but “perfect?” I don’t even think they pass the test that he himself put forward.
N.M. Janice.
2023-12-12 22:18:07 +0000 UTCGreat episodes, coinciding with my reading of the book. That 2nd episode sure ended on a hopeful note! 💀
Brian James
2023-12-12 20:22:39 +0000 UTCThe Altman story was great! It would be cool to see a book or a podcast of just Tarantino celeb stories. I feel like he has hundreds of them.
Maxwell Rinehart
2023-12-12 16:36:29 +0000 UTCThe Altman anecdote is INSANE
Giovanni Loddo
2023-12-12 13:01:55 +0000 UTCFantastic stuff. That last sentence though...
Patrick Reinbott
2023-12-12 11:24:09 +0000 UTCSo good 😊
PETER GREER
2023-12-12 11:13:09 +0000 UTCBeen waiting all day!
Kerry
2023-12-12 04:52:25 +0000 UTCOh baby!
N.M. Janice.
2023-12-12 04:44:51 +0000 UTC
