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The Projector: Catching Up With Old Friends Edition (Patreon)

Published:
2022-05-27 20:12:37
Edited:
2022-05-27 22:03:29
Imported:
2022-05

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by Keith Phipps

Hi, Patreon supporters. After a pause due to a lot going on at once, I think we're ready to pick up where we left off with this newsletter. Sorry for the interruption in service.

This week, we're mostly going to address some podcast business and catch up with some recent work. Let's start with the podcast stuff first. Two questions:

• Do you miss our reading and replying to listener feedback on the show?

• Do you miss hearing our Your Next Picture show recommendations in the episode?

We've tried moving both over to the Patreon feed, but a) we're not getting that much of a response, and b) we kind of miss doing these segments, though we're likely to look for a more streamlined way of dealing with them on the show.

As for recent work, we've all been pretty busy. Here are some selected pieces we wrote, edited, or just liked. Enjoy, and we'll be back next week, possibly with pet photos.

Over at Polygon, Tasha wrote about one of her favorite things in 2022 horror: the hideous, heavily symbolic monster from Hannah Bergholm's Hatching. Tasha talked to Bergholm about how a first-time Finnish horror director managed to land a Star Wars animatronics team and the man behind Heath Ledger's Joker makeup in The Dark Knight to handle the effects on her film — and how the puppet they made self-destructed on the final day of shooting.

Also at Polygon, Tasha talked to Men writer-director Alex Garland about the short explanatory scene he shot and then cut from the end of Men, and about why he doesn't think his opinion of what happens in the film, or what it means, is particularly important. And she spoke with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness writer Michael Waldron about what impact the film might have on season 2 of his series Loki, and why Sam Raimi was leery about putting undead in the film.

Finally, Tasha has been curating an ongoing series of essays on what writers want from the future of the troubled Star Wars movie franchise, from her own thoughts on why Star Wars needs to focus on new characters to other people's opinion pieces on making Star Wars cheap again, letting the writers learn from a long-running anime franchise, and more.

At The Reveal, Keith and Scott have been conducting an ongoing conversation about the films of David Cronenberg.

Scott's revived New Cult Canon column tackled Darren Aronofsky's Mother!

Keith launched a one-quarter-at-a-time journey though '80s film and '80s culture that's so far looked at 1980's Little Darlings and Urban Cowboy.

Genevieve's been busy editing behind the scenes at Vulture, too. Here's some recent favorites of hers that touch, however tangentially, on film:

Roxana Hadadi has some choice words for the self-congratulatory The Offer, which turns the making of The Godfather into “an incurious bit of mid-century nostalgia bait.”

Jen Chaney asked the filmmakers behind Better Call Saul to unpack its season-opening montage, which is packed with series Easter eggs and nods to Citizen Kane, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and Sunset Boulevard.

Finally, Kathryn VanArendonk issues a hilarious warning about HBO’s new Steven Moffat-led adaptation The Time Traveler’s Wife, which manages to be an even less successful adaptation than the 2009 film.

And that's it for us for now. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

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Comments

Josh Mauthe

Personally, I really miss the “Your Next Picture Show” segments. For one thing, I often skip new release episodes if I haven’t seen the movie and plan to, so having them allows me to still enjoy some of the content for the week. But on a bigger level, doing them on their own in small episodes removes some of the interactivity of the recommendations. I liked hearing others chime in with questions or comments, or second the recommendations, and when they’re small segments on their own, I think they fundamentally miss some of the enthusiasm and engagement of the main episode recommendations. I’m glad to still have them, but I also like hearing from all of the hosts, given the range of interests; as the segments stand right now, it’s more like hearing from one or two people, cutting the range down a ton. (You can second most of this for the listener feedback as well.)

Sojan Yadav

Agree with Josh and Sunil. During the weeks' I do listen to the new release episodes (like other listeners, I wait until I have watched the movie more often than not) the YNPS and the upcoming pairing are a nice way of finishing the episode. I especially enjoy responses to listener feedback not specific to a particular movie but more when they are about movies and moviegoing in general. And to hear all of the hosts opinions and discussions is a treat. Whatever you folks decide to do, I am sure it will be great!

Zef Wagner

I miss the Your Next Picture Show segment because it always gave me interesting ideas for other things to check out, and because it offers another window into what the hosts are getting excited about beyond the film pairing of the week. The listener feedback is less important to me, but it can be fun to have a little of that included once in a while.

Adam Wells

I greatly miss the Your Next Picture Show segment on the pod. I do appreciate the occasional brief recommendation we get on the side--it led me to watch "Miami Blues" when Scott brought it up after Fred Ward's death. A treat, that movie is! But I also like regular check ins on what everyone is watching. I probably wouldn't have watched Happy Death Day if not for Keith recommending it a few years back. There are several other gems and personal favorites I've stumbled upon based on the YNP recs. I don't mind feedback in written form on Patreon, but it did work better on the show because it opened up a little more room for discussion among the group.

Alberto Manuel Lamoso

I’m gonna agree with everyone else and say that YNP is better on the a actual show. I think posting the listener feedback as text works just fine - I always read it and don’t mind doing so instead of listening to it read out

Alasdair Montgomery

Much prefer YNPS integrated with the show, otherwise it's yet one more thing to have to get around to listening to. Same for the feedback. And agree with all the others who've said they miss the group responses to the comments & recommendations. Glad to see the end of the opening skits, tho.

Jeffrey Boyle

I always enjoyed YNPS as part of the show proper and was bummed that it was relegated to the newsletter. It felt very organic to the discussion didn’t feel like it was ever an extra thing padding out the show. Even if it’s not always film recs I’m always curious as to what smart people I like hearing talk are excited about.

Matthew ''from New Zealand'' Louwrens

I miss YNPS - just as a way of drawing my attention to something interesting I may have missed. I understand the concerns about people feeling under pressure to have something for YNPS - but I think you can just give yourself permission to only go to those people that have something.

Matthew ''from New Zealand'' Louwrens

I also miss the feedback discussions - I much prefer the conversation between everyone rather than one person writing a response. BUT I do think the feedback would be better in a separate podcast episode, rather than at the end of an episode. As someone who lives outside the US, my local release schedule can vary from the schedule for the podcast, so I usually have episodes in a backlog waiting for the relevant film to be released. If I haven't listened to one pairing but can listen to the next, I'll usually skip the feedback for fear of spoilers. But if the feedback is in a standalone podcast, I can easily save it until I get to watch the relevant films.

Ed C.

I agree with much of what has been said above. Here's a suggestion: record YNPS at the group recording, but post it as a separate episode. That we we get the interactive conversation from the group, but we also get to listen to it separately.

Mark

Count me amongst the people who enjoyed having the episodes wrap up on YNPS. The one thing I was going to suggest, which has already been suggested, is to have the expectation that not everyone has to give a recommendation every week so they don't feel the pressure to recommend "something." Admittedly though, while the repeated Tasha YNPS recs of "Bunny Lake is Missing" hasn't yet gotten me to watch it, it has elevated it from "oh that sounds interesting" in my consciousness to the level of, "oh yeah, that's definitely a movie I should watch *at some point*." For listener feedback, I'm split, I prefer hearing the group response, but on the other hand, it does mean having to actually read out loud the listener feedback (sometimes abbreviated as needed for time, audible attention capacity, and lung capacity), and that part feels like it gets clunky in the episode, compared to how it'd work as text, or as someone else suggested, potentially split apart as a separate episode.

Jesse

I really miss both of the segments, but I understand that you record both paired eps back to back and that is a serious time commitment. If I had to only pick one to bring back, it would be Your Next Picture Show. Just hearing one person at a time for a minute or two isn't the same as hearing the rest of the crew react and give thoughts about the movies they've seen. I've learned about so many interesting movies from YNPS, so cutting the flow down to just a couple recs per month feels noticeable.

Jason B.

Just in general I kind of like when podcasts have distinct segments so I enjoyed having the YNPS and 'Feedback" additions. That said, I'd rank YNPS ahead of feedback because the feedback quality varies and the YNPS suggestions are always something I'm interested in hearing from you fine folk. I did always feel like the new film of a given pairing gets short shrift though because it needs to share space with the comparison segment. So if eliminating the additional stuff makes more room for that then I find that a worthy exchange.