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The Enforcer - 1976

Director - James Fargo

Writers - Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman

Music - Jerry Fielding

Stars:
Clint Eastwood
Tyne Daly
Harry Guardino
John Mitchum
Bradford Dillman
DeVeren Bookwalter
John Crawford
Albert Popwell

The "dirtiest" Harry of them all!

Let’s strap ourselves to the rocket and fly to the moon as the hosts fulfill their dreams of going to space, by reviewing the 2000 classic, Space Cowboys, starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner. The movie was produced and directed by Eastwood, has a star-studded cast, that many audiences believe brought unforgettable cinematic experience that has it’s own impact on the world of cinema. The hosts pair the film with the Ensure Cocktail. So join the hosts as they get ready for the final countdown with these legendary actors in the space adventure film.

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Magnum Force - 1973

Director - Ted Post

Writers - John Milius, Harry Julian Fink, Rita M Fink, Michael Cimino

Music - Lalo Schifrin

Stars:
Clint Eastwood
Hal Holbrook
Felton Perry
David Soul
Tim Matheson
Kip Niven
Robert Urich
Mitchell Ryan

A man's got to know his limitations.

Dirty Harry - 1971

Directors - Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood

Writers - Harry Julian Fink, Rita M Fink, Dean Riesner

Music - Lalo Schifrin

Stars:
Clinte Eastwood
Reni Santoni
Andrew Robinson
John Vernon
John Larch
Harry Guardino

Dirty Harry and the homicidal maniac. Harry's the one with the badge.

Our chat about the culmination of the film and its iconic shootout scene leads us to talk about the loose alliances of the three main characters in the film, and whether “The Good” (i.e. Blondie) was actually good? 

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Why is there so much killing in Westerns? We chat about the characters’ lack of morals and lawlessness in Westerns - why it exists and how it makes the film feel more masculine in nature.

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On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're back to the mid-2000s for Scorsese's only Oscar win for 'The Departed'.

We may have recorded this at Christmas time but there's little Christmas cheer on show as the films we're talking about cover war, suicide and death by car accident, but don't worry - we'll do our best to brighten things up!

Films included on this pod alongside 'The Departed' are the globe spanning drama 'Babel', the aftermath of Princess Diana's death in 'The Queen', Clint Eastwood's Japanese war drama 'Letters from Iwo Jima' and a little independent road trip movie in 'Little Miss Sunshine'.

All this and the usual nonsense, banter and fun facts!

Hit us up on our social media channels and let us know your thoughts on this episode!

2006 Best Picture Nominees
The Queen
Letters from Iwo Jima
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed

 *This podcast will contain some spoilers for these movies although we do try our best to signpost them!

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Clint Eastwood is one of the most iconic Western actor - but why? What do we look for in the Western protagonist? In this episode, we chat about the qualities and look of a Western protagonist and why certain actors seem better matched to portray these characters.

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One of our oldest and most challenging films we’ve watched on the podcast: Sergio Leone’s “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”. This episode, we chat about our impressions of the film and chat about the sub-genre, Spaghetti Westerns.

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With the holiday season in full swing, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry step away from the dinner table long enough to partake in an alternative pastime, cultivating our Film Listology season on Special Topics in Media. In this episode, the dialogic duo revisit the recently invoked "Dad Movie Hall of Fame" to inaugurate what many consider the apex entrant to the spaghetti western subgenre, director Sergio Leone's 1966 Spanish production The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. While universally associated with its rising star Clint Eastwood--once again portraying "the man with no name" (aka "Blondie")--Leone's epic picture splits time between three characters, with special emphasis placed on character actor Eli Wallach's performance as "Tuco".  The film functions as a capper to Leone's "Dollars trilogy", a deconstructive approach to antihero revisionist storytelling. Of note, the cultural placement primarily takes place south of the border, which joins a host of late westerns that shifted lenses to consider the intercultural tensions between Eastern American migrants, post-Civil War ex-militants, soldiers of fortune, and a confluence of Mexican and Mexican American LatinX players (often portrayed by Spaniard locals hired by the film's Italian director).  The result is a bit of film magic and a time capsule into an explosive age of masterful cult filmmaking.


Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we're saddling up and riding into the gritty world of Clint Eastwood's 1992 revisionist Western, Unforgiven.

Unforgiven is not your typical Western shoot-'em-up. It's a film that questions the myths of the Old West, presenting a tale steeped in moral complexity and the harsh truths of frontier justice. Eastwood directs and stars as William Munny, a notorious outlaw and killer who's left his violent past behind for a quiet life with his children on a farm. But when the promise of a bounty lures him back for one last job, we're taken on a journey that explores themes of redemption, the weight of legacy, and the inescapable nature of one's past.

With an outstanding supporting cast, including Morgan Freeman as Ned Logan, Gene Hackman as the brutal Sheriff Little Bill, and Richard Harris as English Bob, the performances are as sharp as the dialogue. The film delves into the psyche of its characters, painting a picture of men who are far removed from the gallant heroes of old Western lore.

Unforgiven earned critical acclaim upon its release, securing four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. It's a film that dismantled the glamorized image of gunslingers and showed the audience the gritty reality of life in the American West.

So Dads, let's talk about the impact of this film, its place in Eastwood's legendary career, and how it redefined the Western genre for modern audiences. And maybe we'll share a few stories about our own unforgiven dad moments along the way.

Pull up a stool, pour yourself a whiskey, and let's get ready to revisit the town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming. It's going to be a bumpy, introspective ride on this episode of Bad Dads Film Review. 🤠🎬🏆

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This week we're joined by our good friends Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin of the teriffic Clint Eastwood podcast Pod Casty For Me to discuss the Italian director Nanni Moretti and his 1993 personal essay/anthology film 'Caro Diario', awarded Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 when Clint served as the Jury President.

We discuss Moretti as subject within his own films, and how his arch and effacing tone offers perhaps a more palatable substitute to the films of a once-prominent filmmaker (now mired in controversy) known for his neurotic, self-referential films. Then, we discuss the film's stylistic markers that place it in conversation with not just the legacy of the Italian film industry, but with cinema as a whole. Finally, we talk about family planning and the wonderful world of vasectomies. (*Editor's Note* Aaron's procedure is in November, not Feburary as stated on the show. He's not sure why he said that, but wants listeners to know that he's not planning out his recovery watchlist 4 months in advance like a loser).

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Bo Winegard. Bo is the executive editor of Aporia Magazine. He received his PhD in social psychology from Florida State University. Bo was a professor teaching at Marietta College, before his controversial research area got him fired from academia.

Topics covered include; Bo's cancellation, academic freedom, the influence of blank-slate-theory on wokeism, differences in intelligence across populations, Clint Eastwood movies, the Sex & The City reboot AND more.

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Connor & Jon mosey on down to the ol' West/feudal Japan to consume one of the greatest spaghetti Westerns of all time: A Fistful of Dollars! Since there was a legal dispute over this film, does it automatically make it a rip off of Yojimbo? Connor gets way too worked up over a Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 list, Jon wants to propose to Morricone's score, and the two try to hold the show together through Covid and technical malfunctions.

WARNING: Major spoilers for A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo

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Films mentioned in this episode:

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• A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | Dir. Sergio Leone
• Yojimbo (1961) | Dir. Akira Kurosawa
• The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) | Dir. Sergio Leone
• Shane (1953) | Dir. George Stevens
• My Darling Clementine (1946) | Dir. John Ford
• For a Few Dollars More (1965) | Dir. Sergio Leone
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) | Dir. Sergio Leone
• Star Wars (1977) | Dir. George Lucas
• Sanjuro (1962) | Dir. Akira Kurosawa
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | Dir. Michael Curtiz & William Keighley
• Captain Blood (1935) | Dir. Michael Curtiz
• The Searchers (1956) | Dir. John Ford
• High Noon (1952) | Dir. Fred Zinnemann
• Joker (2019) | Dir. Todd Phillips
• Ad Astra (2019) | Dir. James Gray
• Rio Bravo (1959) | Dir. Howard Hawks
• Red River (1948) | Dir. Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson
• The Searchers (1956) | Dir. John Ford

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY  Book by Marsha Norman | Music & Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown  |  Based on the novel by Robert James Waller

Works Consulted & Reference :

• The Bridges of Madison County (Licensing Script) by  Marsha Norman & Jason Robert Brown
• "Tony Award Winning Duo Marsha Norman and Jason Robert Brown Discuss ‘Bridges of Madison County’" in American Theatre by Suzy Evans
• "Opening the Bridges Vault, Vol. 1" by Jason Robert Brown

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "Wondering" from The Bridges of Madison County (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown | Performed by  Steven Pasquale
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
• “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

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San Francisco-based Drafthouse programmer Jake Isgar stops by to discuss 'Dick Tracy', Warren Beatty's dazzling passion project released during a brief, bygone moment in big-budget filmmaking when artistic liberty and studio buy-in were wed.

We discuss the byzantine journey the film took to the big screen, which included several iterations under different directors and actors in the titular role. Then we discuss Warren Beatty as auteur, and how the character of Dick Tracy reflects his predilections, fears, and fetishes all in one. Finally, we look at Disney's ubiquitous promotional campaign for the film, which featured Dick Tracy iconography and songs from the soundtrack perfromed during Madonna's Blond Ambition Tour. 

Read Jeffrey Katzenberg's 1991 Memo 'The World Is Changing: Some Thoughts On Our Business' .

 Its film forensic Thursday. Every now and then on Thursday I look at a film or a series of films that are portrayed one way and most people agree on the consensus of what that movie means or is represented in the culture but upon closer examination, the film's deeper messages are actually quite different than the one digested by the public.

In past shows we've looked at the covert socialist "Magnificent Seven" masquerading as a western and :"Slapshot" widely regarded as one of the best and funniest sports movies of all time, when in actuality is feminist screed that depicts men as boorish, self-absorbed, adolescent losers.

Today, we'll look at the first three, "Dirty Harry" movies and show you that they're not what they appear to be.