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#603 - Hail, Coens! (Patreon)

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2025-03-05 04:49:19
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The Coen Brothers' BURN AFTER READING (2008) offers a jaundiced take on Washington and its institutions at the tail end of the Bush era. We were in a desperate need of a good time, and the Coen Brothers can always be depended on to deliver. PLUS: Chinese blockbusters vs. American blockbusters - who will own this century?

Open letter by Alan Reed declaring his anti-communist position, 1953 -  https://pepperdine.quartexcollections.com/Documents/Detail/open-letter-by-alan-reed-declaring-his-anti-communist-position-1953/435?item=454

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Jeremy Hawkins

The fun was definitely infectious on this episode. I really relate to the talk about just signing yourself up to have a good time. This year I've been really branching out on movies and running up dry and with a lot of stuff that interesting but not really good and do eventually allow myself easy wins too. 1. Inside Llewyn Davis 2. O Brother Where Art Thou

ChapoFan inParis

Brad was hilarious, but was way too old for the role. He seems like he should be in his early 20s.

Oliver Crane

I haven’t seen this since it came out, i remember having a good time watching it and being a little “that’s it?” once it ended, but it has amazing moments that have stayed with me. My impression was that people who lived in or knew DC thought this was a masterpiece, and i think the self-seriousness of everyone is part of that - when i first visited DC as an adult one of the things i found off-putting was that the sidewalks were filled with people walking very fast looking like they were doing something incredibly important.

Kramer O'Neill

jfc the birthday party story had me legit laughing out loud. I feel like this is on a very short list of comedies (the underappreciated series "Patriot" is another) that are probably more accurate depictions of how the real espionage bureaucracy works than most "serious" spy-themed movies/shows. Surely helps that they didn't seek the dubious assistance of the CIA's Hollywood liaison office.

Orn Pauldorf

can't tell you how many times my spouse & i have responsed to a gently interrogative question with: "THIS. *arms extend out on either side* IS A CRUCIFIXION."

Marshall Steinbaum

I like how the boys just repeated the phrase “Jack Astor’s” over and over again as though it were the name of a real restaurant chain and not a joke at Canadians’ expense.

Podcast subscriber 78

Not to kick another pod when it’s down, but the bants on this podcast have been beating out Chapo for weeks if not MONTHS at this point. You guys are so much fun to listen to, whether talking about some Toronto movie theatre or doing a deep dive into something I’ve never heard of. That birthday story and Laser Quest reference had me stifling laughter on the GO train.

emalco

Hail, Caesar! is excellent, esp for those interested in the classical Hollywood studio system. Its conceptualization of the characters as archetypes instead of “real people” is similar to what the Coens do in Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

Orn Pauldorf

nobody ever talks about the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There, starring BB Thornton, Frances McDormand & James Gandolfini, but I just saw it for the first time, about two months ago, and it is -- not surprisingly -- very funny and very bleak. I'd enthusiastically recommend giving it a watch, even if only for Frances McDormand's drunk-acting, which will knock you on your ass.

Orn Pauldorf
>>166789794

^ it also features my favorite performance by Jon Polito, the bald, always-mustache-wearing character actor who's in just about every Coen film.

10KBC

Now that you guys are finally changing your tune about Chinese state media i invite you sit down and watch the fantastic anime “the leader” about young and sexy Karl Marx

Sean

I really loved hail Caesar, I’d say give it another shot fellas

thickmoranis

My favorite part is when Ted tries to impress Linda with a picture of his younger self and it’s of him as a Greek Orthodox priest

Matt Crossin

This movie is perfect and it’s Pitt’s best performance.

B. Traven

No mention of Barton Fink??

Robin A

re: the feeling Luke mentioned that sometimes you want to put on a great movie that you know is great, I put on Heat this weekend for precisely that reason. Just wanted nearly 3 hours of being immersed in a great movie. As for Coens, I think No Country and O Brother Where Art Thou are my two favourites - the latter is endlessly rewatchable to me. Burn After Reading also held up way better than I remembered on my most recent viewing, particularly because I watched it like a week before all the stuff about Trump leaking state secrets came out

Alexander Wreford

I'll never forget gliding down the escalator at Yonge and Dundas after watching Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and seeing someone covered in blood and another grasping his knee after I guess they had tumbled down the escalator. A very Toronto moment. I made the mistake of turning left instead of right out the doors and had to walk through the street of crack casualties immediately after.

cody

Elizabeth Marvel, also on an episode of Otherworld talking about her experience going to an experimental psychic research facility (with Michael Stuhlbarg!) operated by Princeton University

Oliver Elliott

That shopping center sounds just like Hollywood and Highland. Do they happen to do the Canadian Oscars there?