Episodes
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
#45: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Werner Herzog’s BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, or BL:POCNO as we like to call it (no one calls it that), is a very weird movie. It is also a pretty good movie. A good-weird film that somehow Dave missed despite his film school education and fondness for New German Cinema directors. There is plenty for us to unpack here from the highs and lows of Nicolas Cage’s varied career to Herzog’s unique talent for portraying the darkness and folly of the human condition with a relatively light touch. All that, plus iguana cam (patent pending).
Links:
- Of Walking in Ice (1978) by Werner Herzog.
- Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014) by Paul Cronin.
- Herzog by Ebert (2017) by Roger Ebert
- Goodnight Moon Narrated by Werner Herzog (YouTube) - Ron Lechler
Subscribe in iTunes, Android, or Spotify.
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Visit our site: shutupwatchthis.wordpress.com
Send your feedback to shutupwatchthis@gmail.com
Please consider leaving a review or a star rating on iTunes, so other folks can find us.
© 2020 Ashley Carr & Dave Wilson
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
#44: Paris, Texas (1984)
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Take almost any state highway in Texas and you’ll find a trail of little towns, each with a square of brick buildings arranged around a courthouse, or just a row of storefronts in older towns. Towns like Goldwaithe, Zephyr, Santa Ana, Archer City, Paris, and the roads between them. Wim Wender’s 1984 film PARIS, TEXAS explores what is lost and found in these little places and the spaces between; what is between a man and woman, father and son, mother and child. Dave and Ashley are along for the ride to discuss loneliness, redemption, and what it all means.
Book: Motel Chronicles (1982) by Sam Shepard.
Subscribe in iTunes, Android, or Spotify.
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Visit our site: shutupwatchthis.wordpress.com
Send your feedback to shutupwatchthis@gmail.com
Please consider leaving a review or a star rating on iTunes, so other folks can find us.
© 2020 Ashley Carr & Dave Wilson