The B.E.E. Podcast - 3/21/21 - Lance Oppenheim - SILVER
Added 2021-03-22 01:01:23 +0000 UTCBret embraces a radical new approach to distract his mind from its menacing dread in Part 15 of The Shards. Filmmaker Lance Oppenheim and Bret discuss documenting life in the margins of manufactured paradise in Some Kind of Heaven, making persistence pay off with Darren Aronofsky and the cut-throat competition for distribution at Sundance.
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Ryan Ward
2023-11-04 18:09:17 +0000 UTCIt’s painfully obvious it’s fiction, but I’m enjoying the story.
Chris Heifner
2021-10-15 22:43:59 +0000 UTCI enjoyed Lance's description of reading about movies on message boards long before he was able to watch the movies themselves. I had a similar experience early in high school in rural Iowa, where I went down the path of reading everything I could find about modernist art music (Schoenberg, Stravinsky, etc.), all before I had the chance to get some CDs and find out that I hated it.
David Kordahl
2021-04-03 22:25:09 +0000 UTCTenet mentioned at 2:04
Christy A
2021-03-31 15:22:44 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Really itching to get to what Robert Mallory has done though.
Mark DeCaro
2021-03-31 00:22:42 +0000 UTCSome Kind Of Heaven is absolutely tremendous... definitely worth seeking out.
Matt Markwalder
2021-03-28 08:00:15 +0000 UTCI'm totally with you, I miss the movie discussions too. However, there was a bit at least and if you add the great Shards sequence and the best guest of the year it did make for an excellent episode.
Dan Zilic
2021-03-27 15:47:54 +0000 UTCAnother wonderful chapter and interview. I know the monologues are on pause, but would you consider speaking about the 2021 Oscars, either prior or following what I suspect will be one of the most absurd and low-rated ceremonies in movie history?
Christopher Webster
2021-03-26 19:25:11 +0000 UTCVanilla Sky is my favorite Cameron Crowe movie. I agree with Bret's old comments that the relationship between Cruise and Cruz is wince inducing. It never feels heat and is kind of embarrassing to watch. Yet the movie has bigger things to explore and so I don't mind that aspect not quite working. The movie is really about the aftermath anyway. Vanilla Sky deserves better overall.
bpvalentine
2021-03-26 15:20:36 +0000 UTCDid they talk about Mank and Tenet? Or did I somehow miss that.
Billy Vega
2021-03-26 12:12:37 +0000 UTCGreat interview. Great documentary. Regarding the visual “look” of Safe by Todd Haynes....before shooting Haynes had his DP and crew watch Jeanne Dielman by Chantal Ackerman and 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Darren Ankenman
2021-03-26 04:57:44 +0000 UTCYeah, pets are usually goners in these types of stories.
Billy Schafer
2021-03-26 04:01:47 +0000 UTCWill Bret get Quentin back on when Q's book is released soon?
Andrew Hannaker
2021-03-26 03:11:59 +0000 UTCGreat episode! Very sharp guest
Andrew Hannaker
2021-03-26 03:09:23 +0000 UTCBret mentioned a doc about him, which he didn’t think was very good (“Sorry fellas”). I assume he meant ‘This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis (1999)’ - or is there another BEE doc out there?
Kovitch
2021-03-25 23:00:59 +0000 UTCGreat episode but Lance sounded very uncomfortable with the zillennial label. Also good on Lance for copping to getting a lot of his movie education via Torrents !
Bazayer
2021-03-25 20:09:31 +0000 UTCGreat interview. I watched the film earlier this year and it was very cool to get the anecdotes of the process in terms of the production, especially the great story on getting Aranofsky attached! Loving The Shards and young up-and-coming guests like this. Great Ep all around.
Brendan Geraghty
2021-03-25 19:31:20 +0000 UTCYeah, Bret is misinformed. The final year for millennials is 1996
Chase
2021-03-24 21:35:49 +0000 UTCLance was a really great guest
Chase
2021-03-24 21:34:41 +0000 UTCAwesome! Love Vanilla Sky
Alex Waller
2021-03-24 16:59:49 +0000 UTCThe Shards continues to be engrossing- Am always happy when a filmmaker guests inspires in depth movie discussion. This podcast reminded me how much I miss Bret's 30-40 min opening monologue discussing a couple new movies. Hoping after the Shards ends/theatres open up more we get more of that again.
Charlie C
2021-03-24 16:25:58 +0000 UTCI like plot.
Tom Davidson
2021-03-24 10:09:57 +0000 UTCI feel like he’s not long for this world in-story. Going the way of Alex the cat.
Andrew Grassi
2021-03-23 23:33:28 +0000 UTCNice one, Kim Masters
Marresmarre2
2021-03-23 17:30:30 +0000 UTCLove Vanilla Sky. Was spellbound by it.
Kristeen
2021-03-23 12:57:37 +0000 UTCForget bloody Chingi, I'm more worried where Bret's sisters are. In Greece with their mum? In Century City with their Dad? Is Rosa making making them scrambled eggs too? It all seems so unfair. In all seriousness, really enjoyed this instalment. The 'new routine' section was brilliant. Great guest too - an impressive young man. Being a bourgeois middle aged gen x er with small children, I don't spend much time with this age group but does give me hope for the future with chaps like this.
James__
2021-03-23 12:50:28 +0000 UTCCheck out Lances documentaries. Great stuff.
Knokkel knokkel
2021-03-23 09:36:07 +0000 UTCYes! I didn't appreciate Bret saying Chingi was "mindlessly" playing though. How does Bret know what goes on in the complex minds of dogs? I'm joking with this comment, but I did notice it. Maybe that was Chingi's personality. I have a dog who I would never describe as behaving mindlessly.
BUtterfield8
2021-03-23 06:49:33 +0000 UTCNot that it really matters though lol
Adam Dugger
2021-03-23 04:43:43 +0000 UTCI’m 25 also but I’m pretty sure my age is still considered a Millennial and not Gen Z.
Adam Dugger
2021-03-23 04:41:52 +0000 UTCIs anyone else worried for Chingi?
Andrew Grassi
2021-03-23 03:19:29 +0000 UTC“And for a while it made everything fake and good.” Great line.
Daniel Hoye
2021-03-22 20:04:29 +0000 UTCReally good conversation this week. Never boring. Not sure why but it seemed like it helped big time to have a younger guest on the show. I never have a problem with Bret talking about this subject matter but whenever an LA Gen Xer guest comes on and starts the 'millennials suck, modern movies suck, the old days etc' it can be pretty unbearable, and for whatever reason we seemed to have a lot more of that in its last year to 18 months of the podcast, where it didn't really seem present in the 2018 shows. Lance had his opinions but never came off bitter or over the top, and it was nice someone actually had an answer when asked what movies they had liked lately. Regardless of what generation they're from, I hope future episodes are more like this one, definitely a step in the right direction. Props to Lance for going to bat for Vanilla Sky.
Alex Waller
2021-03-22 16:57:47 +0000 UTCI reckon 'The Shards' has the best narrative out of all BEE's books. And surely the best prose - even allowing for the fact that audio elevates writing. How far away from the end are we now?
JEREMY ROBERTS
2021-03-22 16:42:06 +0000 UTCI am loving "The Shards" but it is coming across more and more as fiction. A super wealthy white kid goes missing and shows up dead and mutilated and the cops brush it off as an "accident"? Bret is the only one who gets weirded out by this new kid and plays detective and follows him even though he had been spotted before doing the same thing?
David Martignetti
2021-03-22 15:49:06 +0000 UTCJust streamed Some Kind of Heaven, best doc I've watched in a long time. Totally dreamy and engrossing.
Alex Bielovich
2021-03-22 14:31:13 +0000 UTC
