https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-super-70-podcast--6463438enTV & FilmCopyright Dylan Davishttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3d0bbb4641b6eb4134f7717319738490.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-super-70-podcast--6463438Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:33:24 +0000Dylan DavisDylan Davisfeeds@spreaker.comThe Super 70 Podcast is a commentary you play along with the film for scene by scene analysis, or you can just listen in your car. Dylan Davis is the author of "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine, and Threshold. He is a reader, listener, and...trueepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/39-2-one-conversation-after-another--73063062tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2364134831Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:05:10 +0000Dylan DavisDave Anderson and I had three or four conversations about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another which took the cinemas by storm last fall and the awards season this spring. One Battle After Another was a juggernaut. It garnered 506...10791truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/39-1-our-4k-projections--69391114tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2245587119Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:02:42 +0000Dylan DavisDave A and I have not zoomed in a while. I reminisce about watching Turner Classic movies during a hospital visit. We ramble on about Badlands, Dogma, and One Battle After Another. After we’ve had our coffee, we take on Netflix and Reifenstahl’s Berg...4872truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/39-ms-45-1981--68584366tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2213244932Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:15:14 +0000Dylan DavisAbel Ferrara shocked the exploitation world with his feminist statement Ms. .45 (1981). Starring the incomparable Zoe Lund as a mute, submissive fashion designer in New York City, Ms. .45 exposes the everyday experience of women as a slugfest of...5229truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-11-the-best-needle-drops--68374348tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2203830811Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:24:22 +0000Dylan DavisWe try to keep the Tarantino and Scorsese mentions at a minimum in this episode. The Super 70 Podcast is wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. I am @thatdylandavis on Letterbxd, Threads, and...5297truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-10-the-redfordcast--68110287tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2188656651Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:02:16 +0000Dylan DavisWhat else can you say but that the man was great. He was great with Jane Fonda. He was great with Faye Dunaway. He was great with Debra Winger and Demi Moore. He was even great with guys like Sidney Poitier and of course his long friendship with Paul...4987truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-9-assassination-cinema--68008198tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2182089031Sat, 04 Oct 2025 04:24:58 +0000Dylan DavisHey, folks, things got a bit serious in the States lately. We’ve had a spate of assassinations and assassination attempts the past few years. Trump’s been shot at twice. He's been hit once. Josh Shapiro’s governor’s mansion was burnt down. Melissa and...6670truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-8-the-multiverse-conversation--67832631tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2173867767Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:44:35 +0000Dylan DavisLuke fled, as Will Patton said in the Fishbourne movie. Wren stayed to list praises and grievances with the MCU, specifically the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. The conversation is a keen eye into the target demographic of the Disney / Marvel...4078truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-7-the-mcu-conversation--67665296tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2166486876Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:34:46 +0000Dylan DavisWell, we had to get to it sooner or later, and since the Fantastic Four: First Steps was released, I guess now was a good time as any. I asked my Gen Z kids Luke and Wren to come onto the pod to talk about what it was like to grow up with the MCU as...4020truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-6-interview-with-danny-gaylord-with-film-is-lit-podcast--67397921tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2154469461Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:04:40 +0000Dylan DavisDanny Gaylord from Film is Lit came on the pod a few weeks ago to talk about Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning. I had so much material on that I decided to cut some out and present it here. Literature and film go together, and Film is Lit is catered...1790truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-5-mission-implausible--67039568tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2133004503Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:32:51 +0000Dylan DavisWhat can we say that hasn’t already been said about the last Mission Impossible film? And why can’t we just go through it all again? Just because we love cinema, love Tom Cruise, and every tangent in between. Danny Gaylord joins us from the Film is...6753truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-4-80-s-movie-weekends--66869091tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2125092348Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:09:22 +0000Dylan DavisIt started on our first Kino Day of 2025. I slipped in an 80’s movie while we camped out and did fuck all but watch films for as long as we could. That movie was Turk182!, and it led to us watching an 80’s movie every weekend. Luke sat down with me...4516truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-3-tightwad-tuesday--66786710tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2121130260Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:22:58 +0000Dylan DavisI don’t know what you savages do in the rest of the world, but here in the fourth largest city in America, most theatres discount movie tickets on Tuesday night. The result, the Davis family has butts in seats, usually by five thirty, watching...7290truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-2-sinners-is-so-good--66035485tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2093703093Sun, 11 May 2025 04:56:04 +0000Dylan DavisMy friend and frequent guest on the show, Dave Anderson, went to go see Sinners opening weekend. I saw it that following Tightwad Tuesday. Dave messaged me and it read ‘let’s try that zoom thing because Sinners is so good.’ And that’s what this is. On...5375truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-1-dice-dice-baby--65893621tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2089687695Sun, 04 May 2025 03:53:25 +0000Dylan DavisAfter recording the Adventures of Ford Fairlane Commentary, Paul Emig, Warren Hayes, and myself discussed misogyny, jingoism, comedy, cinema, and the comedian trends in Hollywood.3101truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-the-adventures-of-ford-fairlane-1990--65561463tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2077935928Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:19:05 +0000Dylan DavisMega-controversial comedian Andrew Clay Silverstein got his big break on Rodney Dangerfield’s 1988 HBO special and soon thereafter was playing arenas. His comedy album The Diceman Cometh went gold and following a live set on MTV, he was banned from...6410truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/37-2-kino-in-deutschland--65053128tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2061448784Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000Dylan DavisIf any of you have been following along then you know that my son Luke spent his fall semester in Berlin. In between trips to European capitals, taste testing the continent’s best beer, and understanding the dangers of the AfD, he also took a German...2836truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/37-1-hitch-and-2024--64396346tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2035365560Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:56:48 +0000Dylan DavisAfter Rear Window, Dave and I decided to find out how long into the night we could go drinking beer, talking about Hitchcock, and discussing his 2024 Letterbxd, David Lynch, Beavers, the nature of God, the duality of man. The meaning of life. Is...5502truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/37-rear-window-1954--64065481tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2022398801Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:41:59 +0000Dylan DavisIn one of the most magnificent careers in cinema history, Alfred Hitchcock outdid himself with a run from 1951 to 1960 that encapsulated not only some of the best Hollywood films of the decade, but of all time. In the middle of this impressive flex is...7256truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-4-don-t-google-roy-cohn-s-bedroom--63503209tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1996133683Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000Dylan DavisLuke and I start off by discussing Ali Abbassi’s controversial biopic “The Apprentice.” We try to talk about the President Elect’s record as a rapist, his friendship with Roy Cohn, and well... at least we tried. Meander we did through our cinema...2722truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-3-beetlejuice-squared--63503218tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1992374647Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000Dylan DavisWe’re running a few weeks late due to the release schedule in Deutchland, but here is Luke and I talking about experiencing Tim Burton’s latest big hit and how it played out down in the Potsdammer Platz. Find Rozalind MacPhail’s music at...1376truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-2-joker-2-wahnsinn-fur-zwei--63503220tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1956771971Sun, 24 Nov 2024 02:00:31 +0000Dylan DavisLuke is going to school in Berlin this semester and there’s no good reason why he can’t keep up with the release schedule. In between Brewmaster classes, history classes, and yes, a true to form Deutch Kino Class, Luke has been streaming Prime and...1490truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-1-batman-schmatman--63503222tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1954678555Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:00:59 +0000Dylan DavisOnce again we are faced with the fact that sometimes the best conversations are the meandering ones we have after the commentary is over. I asked Warren Hayes and Paul Emig to stay over a little loner, have a couple of beers, and talk about our...5795truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-batman-1989--63503214tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1938313985Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:04:58 +0000Dylan DavisIn one of the bravest acts of Cinema History, Warner Brothers decided to give Tim Burton, a former Disney animator with a whopping two directing credits to his name, the keys to the Batcave. One of Burton’s most controversial decisions, casting...7826truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/35-1-the-phantom-bonus--63503216tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1921419911Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:30:12 +0000Dylan DavisAfter we recorded The Phantom Menace Commentary, Warren and Paul and I pontificated on the many reasons the film did not succeed even though it had tons of pluses to it. We discuss the action figure market, the genius of Carrie Fisher, and that thing...6563truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/35-the-phantom-menace-1999--63503226tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1902468960Fri, 23 Aug 2024 02:20:43 +0000Dylan DavisAfter sixteen years of a fanbase growing into adulthood, George Lucas dropped fifty millon dollars of Lucasfilm Limited’s money into the surest bet in Hollywood history: The first film in a new trilogy of Star Wars films. Though distributed by Fox and...8204truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-12-hannibal-and-hannibal--63503211tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1859979456Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:32:59 +0000Dylan DavisAs will be explained in the subsequent conversation, Luke and I came across two very different films called Hannibal and decided to do a double feature in a day. The result... was very dour.3093truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-11-wild-movie-weekend--63503210tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1851550062Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:43:53 +0000Dylan DavisWe had a helluva weekend folks. Friday night, the boy and an caught The Phantom Menace for the 25th anniversary re-release. Saturday, we caught Jeanne du Barry with Johnny Depp. Starring Johnny Depp, I mean we didn’t go see the movie with him. And...3677truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-10-the-james-bond-theme-song-bracket--63503225tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1825256676Sun, 19 May 2024 02:51:08 +0000Dylan DavisJust after we finished the bracket for the best James Bond film, Luke and I kept on going, using the same bracket and the same faulty feeders to determine the best James Bond theme song. Just like the film bracket, the results here might surprise you....3347truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-9-the-james-bond-bracket--63503224tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1804895580Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:35:52 +0000Dylan DavisA couple of months ago, Luke and I had a short discussion on March Madness. I showed him an NCAA bracket and he instantly said, ‘we should do one for James Bond.’ I duly put one together, grouping the bonds together and facing them off basically using...5545truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-8-you-did-nazi-this-episode-coming--63503215tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1730575719Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:32:48 +0000Dylan DavisMy son took a course in Fascist Cinema in college. I was aware of his workload since that was an area of my study in grad school. Join us as we talked about the fucked-up values of National Socialist films and why their beauty makes them so dangerous....4087truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-7-king-kahn-and-bollywood-in-2023--63503217tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1724044446Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:49:12 +0000Dylan DavisOne year ago, I saw a trailer on YouTube, showed it to my son, and he said hell yes! Let’s see Pathaan! We were blown away by this action powerhouse with Hindustan’s most famous actor Shah Ruh Khan and Deepika Padukone. Since then we’ve seen a handful...4160truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-6-2023-year-in-review--63503234tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1716904770Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:49:02 +0000Dylan DavisDave and I go over the biggest releases in 2023 and hit our letterbxd to see what worked, what didn’t, and why we keep going back to the theatre. We also discuss the most important topics of the day, such as watching Fincher’s The Killer with no...10705truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-5-godzilla-and-trauma--63503212tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1703324925Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:46:54 +0000Dylan DavisTakeshi Yamazaki shook the American movie market last month when Godzilla Minus One became the highest earning Japanese film in history. The lizard has always been popular but placed against the backdrop of the tragedy of the Second World War and...3371truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-4-the-holdovers-holiday-special-part-deux--63503233tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1698137106Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:36:44 +0000Dylan DavisMy good friend Dave Anderson went to go see the Holdovers on my recommendation and he listened to my last podcast episode with great envy. Jealous that he could not participate, he texted me, begged me, pleaded with me, to come back into the Hacienda...1458truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-3-the-holdovers-holiday-special--63503213tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1686847047Sun, 10 Dec 2023 04:52:15 +0000Dylan DavisAlexander Payne had not made a single film that I like until I went to see The Holdovers for Tightwad Tuesday. Masked by the period piece setting, the story is more about how broken people find peace than it’s outward image as a Christmas film....2661truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-2-ridley-and-napoleon--63503232tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1680948318Sun, 03 Dec 2023 17:24:51 +0000Dylan Davis34.2 Ridley And Napoleon by Dylan Davis7138truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-1-freakin-friedkin--63503237tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1667183649Fri, 17 Nov 2023 05:11:06 +0000Dylan DavisAfter wrapping up the Sorcerer commentary, Dave and I sat around, consumed mass quantities, and as much as we tried to focus on Hurricane Billy Friedkin and his work, we quickly descended into how we consume cinema, soundtracks, and Friedkin’s fellow...6589truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-sorcerer-1977--63503239tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1641281358Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:49:46 +0000Dylan DavisHot off the success of the ninth highest grossing movie of all time, William Friedkin abandoned a film about the Bermuda Triangle to focus on a re-interpretation of the George Arnaud novel “The Wages of Fear.” Every possible thing went wrong during...7563truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/33-2-the-specialist-hannah-arendt-and-the-banality-of-evil--63503227tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1617585606Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:39:35 +0000Dylan DavisI sent my friend Dave Kinnaman Hanna Arendt’s famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Study in the Banality of Evil. Dave became so engrossed in Arendt’s history of the Holocaust and her philosophy of murder that I then sent him an Israeli documentary...5999truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/33-1-anzac-cinema--63503246tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1594107627Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:39:25 +0000Dylan DavisA few months ago I asked a friend of mine, Paul Emig to pick a movie, any movie, for the Super 70 Podcast. He chose Peter Jackson’s Braindead and needless to say this was not my cup of tea. But we don’t care about bad taste at the Super 70 Podcast. We...5963truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/33-braindead-1987--63503240tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1568766475Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:36:36 +0000Dylan DavisPeter Jackson had already spent most of his own money developing his third film Braindead when his producer closed a deal to bring in a quarter million dollars to finish the project. Avalon Studios of Wellington, New Zealand had to spend thousands of...6189truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/32-1-film-literature-and-kinnaman--63503228tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1540225543Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:12:17 +0000Dylan DavisI keep in touch with my friend Dave Kinnaman over Zoom. We talk carpentry, history, and literature. Things got pretty wild when I dove in deep discussing two famous documentaries: Ken Burns’ Vietnam and The Last Days of Vietnam on PBS. Both of these...7538truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/32-pathaan-2023--63503247tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1515774391Wed, 17 May 2023 02:47:01 +0000Dylan DavisShah Rukh Kahn was already one of the biggest stars in the world when he returned after a four-year hiatus to take the lead in Pathaan, the fourth film in Yash Raj Films’s Spy Universe. Ostensibly about a retired Indian Intelligence agent teaming up...9018truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/31-1-all-quiet-with-dave-kinnaman--63503235tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1501828876Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:26:24 +0000Dylan DavisDave Kinnaman and I used to teach across the hall from one another. He taught American History, which I thought was boring. I taught World History, which he really never gave a shit about. I was a conservative Republican. He was a liberal Democrat....7336truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/31-code-46-2003--63503242tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1476975736Sat, 25 Mar 2023 02:19:02 +0000Dylan DavisMichael Winterbottom might be the Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the UK with a shocking 48 directing credits, both in film and television, since 1988. Known for jumping from genre to genre, he landed in Science Fiction in 2003 when he directed Tim...5668truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/s70p-podcast-update--63503238tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1472206420Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:18:16 +0000Dylan DavisPlease listen for an update on The Super 70 Podcast.232truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-edition-sight-and-sound-100-with-dave-anderson--63503230tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1440338359Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:27:15 +0000Dylan DavisDave Anderson sat down with me after FURY ROAD and we discussed the future, fascism, and femininity. Then we went through the Sight and Sound 100 list to sort out what was interesting, what was surprising, and what was a tall, stinking pile of Jeanne...9639truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep30-mad-max-fury-road--63503245tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1428992512Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:59:01 +0000Dylan DavisAustralian Auteur George Miller, MD, had already cranked out ten films and earned the top golden man for animation when Warner Brothers finally approved his 3,500 storyboarded idea for a fourth Mad Max Franchise installment. At the age of 70, Miller...7137truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-bruce-willis-celebration--63503252tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1281133573Sat, 04 Jun 2022 19:42:32 +0000Dylan DavisThe last forty years of Hollywood has been dominated by a handful of stars that stayed in the A List. Join us as we go through the impressive career of Bruce Willis, American Wunderkind who managed to turn his television career into an impressive...6092truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep29-bend-it-like-beckham--63503236tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1265430433Tue, 10 May 2022 03:45:20 +0000Dylan DavisBritish Director Gurninder Chadha dominated the UK theaters for three weeks in 2002 with a story about an Indian girl who just wanted to play soccer. When the audience turned out, though, they saw a multi-layered critique of modern British society...6744truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-decades-rematch--63503248tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1247500237Sat, 09 Apr 2022 23:13:54 +0000Dylan DavisOkay fan boys and girls, you know the drill. Once upon a time I bet any year of film in the 1980’s would beat any film from any other year in any other decade. I flippantly told Dave 1984 would beat 1924, 1934 and do on. And he roundly proved me...9546truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-on-godard--63503250tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1227034603Sat, 05 Mar 2022 16:48:22 +0000Dylan DavisOk, fanboys and girls, what we have here is two recordings. The first recording is my son and I after we recorded the Breathless podcast chatting about Godard. That’s about 20 minutes. And the second recording is me and Dave Anderson chatting about...9095truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-with-teresa-van-hoy--63503253tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1210623346Sun, 06 Feb 2022 01:50:46 +0000Dylan DavisLast episode I asked Dr. Teresa Van Hoy from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, to go scene by scene with me through Maria Louise Bemberg’s Immortal story about Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz titled “I the Worst of All.” We had such a stimulating...7660truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep28-i-the-worst-of-all--63503221tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1192862212Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:33:33 +0000Dylan DavisMaria Louisa Bemberg, the granddaughter of German immigrants to Argentina, was 48 years old and the mother of four when she moved from Franco’s Spain back to Peronist Argentina to pursue a film career. At 68, she moved her critical eye to the Church...6732truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-with-film-is-lit--63503256tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1172122144Sun, 05 Dec 2021 02:09:02 +0000Dylan DavisKatsushiro Otomo’s Akira Commentarycast guest starring Laura Seiling and Danny Gaylord from the Film is Lit Podcast and their friend and self appointed Manga enthusiast Ryan Burns was a blast. We had so much fun doing that we decided to do this...9126truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep27-akira--63503258tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1155511777Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:05:16 +0000Dylan DavisKatsuhiro Otomo was 34 years old and had only directed a short film when he dished out the most important Japanese anime film of all time. Based on his own massively popular Manga, AKIRA takes western influences and filters them through eastern...7656truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-with-mike-white--63503261tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1138881259Sat, 09 Oct 2021 13:59:43 +0000Dylan DavisMike White of the Projection Booth Podcast was nice enough to sit for a Special Report for the Super 70 Podcast. We discuss the career and possible future of Bruce Lee, the importance of Cinema in our lives, and I ask him when the hell does he have...3539truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep26-enter-the-dragon--63503223tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1122687595Sat, 11 Sep 2021 04:08:06 +0000Dylan DavisMartial artist and Hollywood actor Bruce Lee passed away a mere month before the release of his breakthrough Gung Fu film Enter the Dragon. Easily dismissed as a remake of Doctor No that rehashed a famous scene from Orson Welles’ The Lady From...6289truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep25-breathless--63503231tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1098378178Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:44:46 +0000Dylan Davis“There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless.” So begins the description of Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film on the back of the Criterion Collection’s Blu Ray edition. Godard became the prime mover in what has been called by film...5691truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep24-the-seventh-seal--63503257tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1015817965Thu, 25 Mar 2021 01:46:35 +0000Dylan DavisIngmar Bergman was 27 years old with a decade of film and stage credits when he had an international hit with the fun loving and light hearted Swedish Musical Smiles of Summer Night. Riding the wave of that success, he swore on a stack of bibles he...6084truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-decades-with-dave-anderson--63503259tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/947000587Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:34:15 +0000Dylan DavisTake a year, any year, and match it with any year from the 80’s, and I’m willing to bet the 80’s win. Dave Anderson thought that was a crock of Ed Wood, and took me to task on the year 1984. Is it really better than 1974’s auteur boom and 1994’s Indie...9667truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep23-the-49th-parallel--63503262tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/925266676Sun, 08 Nov 2020 01:44:17 +0000Dylan DavisMichael Powell was thirty-four when the Second World War broke out and changed the trajectory of his career. By then he had already collaborated with Emeric Pressburger, a Hungarian Jew who had UFA screenwriting experience before the Nuremberg Laws...7566truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-oh-galveston-with-dave-anderson--63503264tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/914281606Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:26:41 +0000Dylan DavisJoin Dave Anderson and I as we spend the weekend on Galveston Island pontificating on the two most controversial films of the 1980’s, why films with problematic racism should be protected as time capsules, we celebrate the release of Bruce Lee’s...6909truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-edition-with-paul-emig-star-wars-part-ii--63503243tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/895204969Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:28:19 +0000Dylan DavisPaul Emig came back into the Hacienda to talk about our favorite topic. We find the droids we’re looking for in Felicity Jones and Emelia Clarke. We marvel at the behind the scenes drama that infected both movies, thanking both Gareth Edwards and Tony...6825truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-edition-with-paul-emig-star-wars-part-i--63503229tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/880694878Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:08:21 +0000Dylan DavisPaul Emig is an acquaintance of mine and I saw a Facebook post he wrote about a year ago on the Star Wars Prequels and I was really impressed by how he broke down those three films and pointed out why they don’t work as a narrative. I ran into Paul...9672truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-corona-cinema-with-dave-anderson--63503241tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/868274269Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:20:42 +0000Dylan DavisJoin Dave Anderson and I as we wax intellectual after the M podcast. We take a deep dive into the career of Clint Eastwood, go on the rollercoaster of quality that is the James Bond franchise, and discuss the varying success of the Game of Thrones...7256truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep22-m--63503244tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/849382222Tue, 30 Jun 2020 04:10:15 +0000Dylan DavisFritz Lang was already considered one of the leading filmmakers not just in Germany but in the world when he took a script by his wife Thea von Harbou to Nero Film and made perhaps the greatest crime film of all time. Considered a ‘Zeitfilm’ that...7237truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep21-battleship-potemkin--63503249tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/820079218Thu, 14 May 2020 04:13:53 +0000Dylan DavisSergei Eisenstein was 27 years old when the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party decided to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1905 Revolution with literary, stage, and screen commissions. Assigned to make a film about the mutiny that...4662truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-joking-with-dave-anderson--63503265tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/745074079Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:34:11 +0000Dylan DavisDave and I hung out in the Hacienda after the Social Network podcast to talk about a myriad of issues concerning the present and future of cinema. For instance, why are cinephiles increasingly turning away from spoilers? What value is there in Anna...9880truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep20-the-social-network--63503255tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/727631017Sat, 14 Dec 2019 04:48:58 +0000Dylan DavisWhen David Fincher put Aaron Sorkin’s words into Jesse Eisenberg’s mouth, he just may have made the most important movie of the 21st Century. Paired with his trademark visual style and stunningly invisible special effects, a legal drama regarding the...7273truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-once-upon-a-time-with-dave-anderson--63503254tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/699366817Mon, 21 Oct 2019 02:18:00 +0000Dylan DavisDave and I sat down again after the Kingdom of Heaven Podcast, to forget about the horrible ordeal that was that three hour marathon podcast, and instead drank ourselves to an area where we tried to understand the talent of Denzel Washington, the...6737truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep19-kingdom-of-heaven-director-s-cut--63503260tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/677005572Fri, 06 Sep 2019 02:22:05 +0000Dylan DavisRidley Scott was on a run when he handed down Kingdom of Heaven, a Crusader Epic that seemed ambitious and ballsy so soon after 9/11. A bomb that was initially torn to shreds by critics and panned by the audience, Kingdom of Heaven’s Director’s Cut...11652truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep18-pulp-fiction--63503267tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/595118352Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:50:44 +0000Dylan DavisMike White of The Projection Booth Podcast takes the reigns of The Super 70 Podcast as he guides you through one of the most successful independent films ever made, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palm...9469truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-report-with-dave-anderson--63503272tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/584350260Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:16:43 +0000Dylan DavisLast month I asked a friend of mine, Dave Anderson, to come onto the show and watch The Terminator with me. We had so much fun that Dave recommended I turn the mikes on while we shot the shit for a couple of hours. This special report is the result of...5447truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep17-the-terminator--63503275tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/573376587Mon, 11 Feb 2019 01:47:25 +0000Dylan DavisFellow Film Aficionado Dave Anderson joins me as we watch James Cameron’s seminal 1984 B-Movie Masterpiece, The Terminator. On the surface there seems to be something bold and original going on. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a role you can understand,...6868truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep16-super-fly-1972--63503251tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/554576115Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:13:26 +0000Dylan DavisGordon Parks, Jr. was a photographer from Minneapolis who had trained as a cinematographer under his father when he convinced a group of African American investors from Harlem to pool their money into a Blaxploitation movie. Using a cast and crew that...5730truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep15-the-graduate--63503270tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/528455967Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:09:20 +0000Dylan DavisEveryone loves The Graduate, except me. Screenwriter Buck Henry and Director Mike Nichols hit the ball out of the park with this biting commentary on American society at the height of the 1960s. But underneath the nods and smiles to the counterculture...6714truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep14-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956--63503274tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/497634939Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:46:21 +0000Dylan DavisWalter Wanger was a convicted criminal rebuilding his career when he collaborated with television director Don Siegel and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring to make a film of Jack Finney’s science fiction serial. What they were going for was a cheap...5106truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep13-mildred-pierce--63503263tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/481580574Sun, 05 Aug 2018 22:08:36 +0000Dylan DavisMichael Curtiz was already one of the most successful directors in Hollywood when Warner Brothers practically forced him to cast Joan Crawford in one of the most famous melodramas ever made. Crawford, an American household name who was recognized as...6982truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep12-golddiggers-of-1933--63503279tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/433292667Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000Dylan DavisMelvin LeRoy and Busby Berkeley both direct Golddiggers of 1933. The second incarnation of a popular broadway hit, Golddiggers of 1933 is a tangled tale of love, sex, and money. Well, actually it’s just about sex and money, right? Or is it about...6168truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep11-the-general--63503273tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/339789320Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:24:21 +0000Dylan DavisBuster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman crossed two unlikely themes when they made The General for United Artists: the Southern Lost Cause in popular culture and Keaton’s vaudeville straight man act. The result is a tale all too well told in Hollywood: an...5037truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep10-heathers--63503281tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/324037046Tue, 23 May 2017 02:59:25 +0000Dylan DavisWe wrap up the 1980's by looking at Michael Lehmann's 1988 pop bubble gum suicide film tome Heathers. With a screenplay by Daniel Waters and starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers is an unlikely black comedy that threw glitter on the...6211truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep09-to-be-or-not-to-be-1983--63503276tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/318010218Mon, 17 Apr 2017 01:28:44 +0000Dylan DavisMel Brooks took on a huge challenge when he decided to Produce and star in a remake of the classic Ernst Lubitsch black comedy To Be or Not To Be from 1941. Critical opinion was mixed at the time with most saying it would have been better if Brooks...6426truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep08-gallipoli--63503266tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/298171701Fri, 16 Dec 2016 06:26:07 +0000Dylan DavisOur second foreign film is Peter Weir’s Gallipoli. Released in 1981 and starring a very young Mel Gibson, Gallipoli is a First World War Saga that traces the facts and fallacies of Australia’s involvement in a horrible battle that literally changed...7964truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep07-they-live--63503278tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/294016196Mon, 21 Nov 2016 03:55:53 +0000Dylan DavisStarring wrestling superstar “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and the amazing veteran David Keith, we watch John Carpenter’s master commentary on capitalism: 1988’s THEY LIVE. Released the Friday before the federal election, THEY LIVE is an overt criticism of...5656truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep06-ghostbusters-1984--63503280tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/288891355Tue, 18 Oct 2016 22:00:32 +0000Dylan DavisThis month we will be digging deep into Ghostbusters 1984. In fact, most of the time I will be paraphrasing or directly quoting Adam Bertocci and his online essay Overthinking Ghostbusters posted on his website www.runleiarun.com. I found that I had...6398truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep05-back-to-the-future--63503277tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/283678676Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000Dylan DavisThis month we look at the eternal cross-genre classic Back to the Future. Seemingly about a time-traveling teenager, this blockbuster from 1985 showcased Robert Zemeckis as a Hollywood directing powerhouse capable of complex cinematographic techniques...6999truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep04-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind--63503269tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/277707688Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:21:30 +0000Dylan DavisThis month we take a look at Hiyao Miyazaki's Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind. This Manga from 1984 gives us a peak into what Japan was thinking of in the '80's: environmentalism, violence, and pacifism. Layered over this is a female protagonist...7449truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep03-looker--63503268tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273840491Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:22:00 +0000Dylan DavisThis month we take a look at Looker, the 1981 science fiction thriller by author-director Michael Crichton. Starring Albert Finney, James Coburn and Susan Dey, Looker peers into the uncomfortable and uninviting industry of advertising and marketing....5834truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep02-head-office--63503271tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/268346904Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:53:27 +0000Dylan DavisThe cultural gem we will be watching this month is Writer-Director Ken Finkleman's 1985 comedy Head Office. With a star studded cast and endless delivery of jokes it is easy to dismiss this very important commentary on corporate America that is just...5936truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep01-blade-runner-final-cut--63503282tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/263980393Fri, 13 May 2016 18:24:27 +0000Dylan DavisI know this is rather ambitious of me to choose such a complicated film for my first podcast, but I couldn't help it. Blade Runner is multi-layered, endlessly fascinating, but not perfect. Join me by turning the podcast on while you watch Blade Runner...7212truefull