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We're going back to Vegas for one more job...it's the thrilling conclusion to the trilogy, OCEAN'S THIRTEEN! Well, maybe "thrilling" is arguable. But the episode sure is! We're talking Oprah, Steve Wynn, Mexican labor action, Five Diamond status - it's all here, folks. Further Reading: "Steve Wynn's Biggest Gamble" by Nina Munk Meet The AAA Diamond Rating Experts Further Viewing: DOWN BY LAW (Jarmusch, 1986) SEA OF LOVE (Becker, 1989) HARD EIGHT (Anderson, 1996) SHREK THE THIRD (Miller, 2007) THE TURIN HORSE (Tarr & Hranitzky, 2011) MANK (Fincher, 2020) BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Ross brothers, 2020) Steve Wynn's 1983 Golden Nugget commercial   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

After 2005's digital day-and-date experiment BUBBLE, Soderbergh swung hard in the other direction with a Golden Age Hollywood pastiche: his (loose) adaptation of Joseph Kanon's postwar Berlin mystery THE GOOD GERMAN. Joining us is film writer and literal historian Peter Raleigh! We talk adaptation, aesthetic imitation, Denazification, CASABLANCA, and much more. Check it out! Further Reading: The Good German by Joseph Kanon Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt Commemorating Hell: The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora by Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong "Fighting Men" by Anthony Lane "Style Wars: Steven Soderbergh's 'The Good German'" by Michael Koresky Further Viewing: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Hitchcock, 1940) CASABLANCA (Curtiz, 1942) TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Wilder, 1948) THE THIRD MAN (Reed, 1949) JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (Kramer, 1961) EUROPA (Von Trier, 1991) BARB WIRE (Hogan, 1996) PHOENIX (Petzold, 2014) TRANSIT (Petzold, 2018)   Follow Peter Raleigh: https://x.com/PetreRaleigh https://peterraleigh.substack.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

Another Pod Casty For Me Experience: we're talking Steven Soderbergh's 2005 experiment BUBBLE - day-and-date release experiment, digital cinematography experiment, first-time actor experiment, improvised script experiment - with our buddy Evan from Left of the Projector! And this one's set at a factory, so you know we go crazy on it. We get into film distribution economics, working people on film, first-time actors, naturalism, digital cinema, eastern Ohio accents, and much more. Really tremendous film and tremendous conversation. It's also Jake's dang birthday, so you better enjoy this episode!!! Further Reading: "Eight Hours Are Not A Day" by Matthew Ross "An Interview with Steven Soderbergh" by Scott Indrisek Further Viewing: Interview with Debbie Doebereiner HARLAN COUNTY USA (Kopple, 1976) STROSZEK (Herzog, 1977) BLUE COLLAR (Schrader, 1978) SLACKER (Linklater, 1990) CLERKS (Smith, 1994) CITY OF GOD (Meirelles and Lund, 2002) ELEPHANT (Van Sant, 2003) FISH TANK (Arnold, 2009) WESTERN (Grisebach, 2017) THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Eastwood, 2018) BAD TRIP (Sakurai, 2021)   Follow Left of the Projector: https://leftoftheprojector.com/   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

A little something different this week: we're looking at two Soderbergh-scripted adaptations of international genre films! First, Soderbergh adapted Ole Bornedal's 1994 NATTEVAGTEN as 1997's NIGHTWATCH, also directed by Bornedal, starring post-TRAINSPOTTING, pre-PHANTOM MENACE Ewan McGregor as a night watchman at a spooky morgue. Next, Soderbergh turned Fabián Bielinsky's 2000 Argentine heist smash NUEVA REINAS (NINE QUEENS) into 2004's CRIMINAL, the directorial debut of Gregory Jacobs starring John C. Reilly and Diego Luna. Why did Sodey do this? Is there anything of the man in these adaptations? Do you need to watch four films before you listen to this episode? The answer to the last question is no! Fun ep, please enjoy. Further Reading: Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman Further Viewing: LOCAL HERO (Forsyth, 1983) THE KINGDOM (Von Trier et al, 1994) HARD EIGHT (Anderson, 1996) PUSHER (Refn, 1996) FUNNY GAMES (Haneke, 1997/2007) FIGHT CLUB (Fincher, 1999) LA CIENAGA (Martel, 2001) BORGEN (Price et al, 2010) ZAMA (Martel, 2017) LA FLOR (Llinás, 2018)   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

OCEAN'S ELEVEN was a monster hit, and so naturally Steven Soderbergh made a sequel. An extremely normal sequel that didn't confuse or piss off almost everyone who saw it. We're getting silly today talking about OCEAN'S TWELVE - a very silly movie - with writer and film critic Rory Doherty! We're both sick right now so that's all the episode description you get, sorry! Good movie, good ep - check it out. Further Reading: "Why OCEAN'S 12 Is Actually A Good Movie" by Matt Goldberg Further Viewing: TO CATCH A THIEF (Hitchcock, 1955) THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (Nolfi, 2011)   Follow Rory Doherty: https://x.com/roryhasopinions https://letterboxd.com/roryjdoherty/   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

Steven Soderbergh's second release of 2002, after FULL FRONTAL, was another very odd move: a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS (well, more of a new adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel). Underappreciated at the time, Soderbergh's SOLARIS has grown in reputation as one of the great science fiction films of the 2000s - so we brought on a bonafide science fiction expert, Aaron Thorpe, to talk about it! Join us for a thoughtful and wide-ranging conversation about the purpose of science fiction, comprehending the vastness of space, grief, blackness in sci-fi, and OSMOSIS JONES. Don't worry, it's plenty stupid, too. Further Reading: Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects by Graham Harman Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard Further Viewing: SOLARIS (Tarkovsky, 1972) CONTACT (Zemeckis, 1997) EVENT HORIZON (Anderson, 1997) OSMOSIS JONES (Farrelly, 2001)  STAR TREK: NEMESIS (Baird, 2002) Follow Aaron Thorpe: https://x.com/afrocosmist https://x.com/thetrillbillies https://substack.com/@spacelight Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

Yeah, like we weren't going to go over two and a half hours on FULL FRONTAL. Following the generational run of OUT OF SIGHT, THE LIMEY, ERIN BROCKOVICH, TRAFFIC, and OCEAN'S ELEVEN, Steven Soderbergh did what anyone would do: he shot a semi-improvised ensemble Hollywood satire on a consumer grade digital camera. The result, FULL FRONTAL, is a fascinating film about connection, mediation, performance, and the film industry, so who better to talk about it with than our Hollywood bigwig buddy, filmmaker and producer Chadd Harbold? This is a really good one, folks - don't sleep on it! Further Reading: "Digital Release: Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal" by Lawrence Garcia "Just Like A Movie: Full Frontal As Postmodern Love Story" by Daniel McKleinfeld "Soderbergh Lets It All Hang Out: Full Frontal at 20" by Craig J. Clark Further Viewing: BAMBOOZLED (Lee, 2000) STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002)   Follow Chadd Harbold: https://x.com/chaddwithtwoDs https://vimeo.com/chaddharbold   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

Ante up, listener! It's the OCEAN'S ELEVEN episode. After the unbelievable one-two punch of BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC, Steven Soderbergh took a victory lap by remaking a dull Rat Pack movie into one of the most entertaining films ever made - and it made a bunch of money and everyone loves it. Including our guest, filmmaker and YouTuber Patrick Willems! We talk heists, movie stars, Vegas, pleasure - this is a real fun one, folks. Enjoy. Further Reading: Rebels on the Backlot by Sharon Waxman The BFI Companion to Crime, ed. Phil Hardy Further Viewing: GIDGET (Wendkos, 1959) OCEAN'S 11 (Milestone, 1960) THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (Dearden, 1960) THE GREAT ESCAPE (Sturges, 1963) THE DIRTY DOZEN (Aldrich, 1967) THE HOT ROCK (Yates, 1972) ROUNDERS (Dahl, 1998) TERRIERS (Griffin, 2010) NOW YOU SEE ME (Leterrier, 2013) Follow Patrick Willems: https://www.youtube.com/@patrickhwillems    Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

The second half of Soderbergh's unbelievable year 2000 was TRAFFIC, his sprawling adaptation of the 1989 Channel 4 miniseries about the many sides of the drug trade. At the time, it was hailed as a highly nuanced and humane look at narcotics. But how does it look from 2025? Joining us to discuss is professor and author of our much-cited Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, Benjamin Y. Fong! We talk macroeconomics, "Mexico filter," drug movies, Benicio Del Toro's accent, and a whole lot more. Really fascinating episode, we hope you enjoy! Further Reading: Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge by Benjamin Y. Fong Rebels on the Backlot by Sharon Waxman In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman Further Viewing: "No, Mexico isn't actually that orange. Hollywood is just racist." from Mashable MIKEY AND NICKY (May, 1976) TRAFFIK (Reid, 1989) HIGHWAY PATROLMAN (Cox, 1991) LEAVING LAS VEGAS (Figgis, 1995) ENTER THE VOID (Noe, 2009) THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Jarecki, 2012) THE SPECTACULAR NOW (Ponsoldt, 2013) EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Guerra, 2015) MONOS (Landes, 2019) BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Ross brothers, 2020)   Follow Benjamin Y. Fong: https://benfong.com/   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

Soderbergh finally hit a box-office home run in 2000 with ERIN BROCKOVICH, a Julia Roberts-starring biopic about a paralegal with a big personality and a nose for corporate environmental malfeasance, and the one-two punch of BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC in a single year cemented him as a truly major filmmaker. This is one of the big ones, so we brought in our friend Carlee from Hit Factory to talk about basically everything: capitalism, the climate, gender, fashion, interpassivity, Todd Haynes, and Sheryl Crow. Great ep! Don't use ChatGPT even as a joke! Further Reading: Superman's Not Coming by Erin Brockovich "Digging For The Truth" by Robert B. Welkos "Ordinary Heroes vs. Failed Lawyers: Public Interest Litigation in 'Erin Brockovich' and Other Contemporary Films" by Michael McCann and William Haltom "Erin Brockovich, 20 Years Later: 'I See So Many of Us Finding That Courage to Stand Up'" by Susan King Further Viewing: A CIVIL ACTION (Zaillian, 1998) LEGALLY BLONDE (Luketic, 2001) FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017) DARK WATERS (Haynes, 2019) EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, 2023)   Follow Carlee: https://x.com/deepimpactcrier https://x.com/HitFactoryPod Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart    

In 1999, Steven Soderbergh pushed his formal experimentation even further, rendering a straightforward revenge tale into a modernist masterpiece. In the process, the Terence Stamp/Peter Fonda joint THE LIMEY examines memory, the legacy of the 60s, and inaugurates Sodie's obsession with Cockney rhyming slang. Film writer and podcaster and UK resident Elena Lazic joins us to get limey! Good ep! Further Reading: Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis & Jon Wiener Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood "Steven Soderbergh on the 20th anniversary of The Limey" by David Fear Commentary track with Steven Soderbergh and Lem Dobbs Further Viewing: POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967) POOR COW (Loach, 1967) EASY RIDER (Hopper, 1969) GET CARTER (Hodges, 1971) VANISHING POINT (Sarafian, 1971) APRÈS MAI (Assayas, 2012)   Follow Elena: https://x.com/elazic https://linktr.ee/Animus_mag Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode, and our guest is Bilge Ebiri. Do we need to sell you on this? OK, fine: in 1998 Steven Soderbergh took a job for hire directing an Elmore Leonard adaptation and ended up finding the style that would define much of his career, minting George Clooney as a movie star, capturing Jennifer Lopez's best-ever performance, working with Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman and a bunch of other people for the first time, and making one of the most watchable films of the 1990s. Jake also read the whole book. We talk about Leonard's moral universe, prison stuff, cop stuff, crime fiction stuff. I mean, come on. It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode with Bilge. Further Reading: Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman "Louisiana's Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism" by W. T. Whitney, Jr.   Further Viewing: POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967) DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg, 1973) GET SHORTY (Sonnenfeld, 1995) JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997) THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (Garbus, Rideau & Stack, 1998) "Karen Sisco" (2003) "Justified" (2010)   Follow Bilge Ebiri: https://x.com/BilgeEbiri https://www.vulture.com/author/bilge-ebiri/   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

What the hell is going on with Steven Soderbergh's 1996 super-low-budget labor of love comedy SCHIZOPOLIS? Our returning guests, the filmmakers and all-around handsome devils Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori of the To The White Sea Podcast, help us get to the bottom of it. Is this quietly a devastating analysis of a failed marriage starring the director and his real-life ex-wife Betsy Brantley? Or is all that drowned out by too much proto-Random Humor and OK Cola-style 90s disaffection? Is Jake even capable of being nice about this movie? Listen to find out!   Further Reading: Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" by David Foster Wallace "David Lynch Keeps His Head" by David Foster Wallace   Further Viewing: A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Lester, 1964) MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS (McNaughton/Davies, 1969) PUTNEY SWOPE (Downey, 1969) THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (Landis, 1977) GRAY'S ANATOMY (Soderbergh, 1996) LOST HIGHWAY (Lynch, 1997)   Follow Jordan and Ray: https://linktr.ee/tothewhitesea   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart    

In 1989, Steven Soderbergh was on top of the world. By 1995, he was underneath...THE UNDERNEATH, that is! We're talking Sodie's very loose remake of the 1949 Robert Siodmak film noir CRISS-CROSS (and the 1934 novel on which it was based), noir in the 1990s, armored cars, and Soderbergh's evolving film language as he becomes the director we all know and love. Nobody's favorite Sodie movie, but maybe somebody's favorite ep? Remains to be seen! Further Reading: Criss Cross by Don Tracy Steven Soderbergh: Interviews ed. Anthony Kaufman Reinventing Hollywood by David Bordwell "Neither Noir" by Jonathan Rosenbaum Further Viewing: THE KILLERS (Siodmak, 1946) KISS OF DEATH (Hathaway, 1947) CRISS CROSS (Siodmak, 1949) THE KILLING (Kubrick, 1956) BLOOD SIMPLE (Coen, 1984) PULP FICTION (Tarantino, 1994)   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

What to do next after KAFKA doesn't quite hit...how about adapting a boyhood memoir by the guy who helped Paul Newman bottle his salad dressing? We continue Soderbergh's less-remembered beginnings with 1993's KING OF THE HILL, a subtly brutal Depression-era bildungsroman in which a boy gets so hungry he eats pictures of food - and joining us is film writer Jason Miller! Listen along for a discussion of cinematographer careers, macroeconomics, proper marbles technique, and Spalding Gray. Good ep, even without Boomhauer and all the rest of those guys! Further Reading: King of the Hill: A Memoir by A.E. Hotchner "King of the Hill: Alone Again" by Peter Tonguette "A Multi-Storied Life" by Susan Wooleyhan Caine Further Viewing: EMPIRE OF THE SUN (Spielberg, 1987) HOPE AND GLORY (Boorman, 1987) THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Davies, 1992)   Follow Jason Miller: https://linktr.ee/millerjeremyjason   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

How do you follow an industry-shaking debut like SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE? If you're Steven Soderbergh, the answer is obvious: a weird, downer sort-of-biopic of Franz Kafka shot in black and white. We're joined by filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell (MISS ME YET, THE WINDS THAT SCATTER) to talk 1991's KAFKA, Soderbergh's influence, and Chris's outstanding new film FAILED STATE. Great ep! Further Reading: "In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka The Trial by Franz Kafka The Castle by Franz Kafka Los Angeles Times article by David Gritten Further Viewing: THE THIRD MAN (Reed, 1949) THE TRIAL (Welles, 1962) AMERICAN GIGOLO (Schrader, 1980) BRAZIL (Gilliam, 1985)   Follow Chris: https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell Watch the trailer for FAILED STATE   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

Steven Soderbergh's first feature, sex, lies, and videotape put him on the map hard. It won the Palme d'Or, made the Sundance Film Festival into an industry unto itself, and helped turn Miramax into a major player - to say nothing of its actual content. Join us as we dig into the film that made Soderbergh an overnight sensation and try to act normal about intimacy. Good ep!   Further Reading: Sex, Lies, and Videotape by Steven Soderbergh Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind Rebels on the Backlot by Sharon Waxman Further Viewing: FIVE EASY PIECES (Rafelson, 1970) CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Nichols, 1971)   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

And Sode it berghins! We're kicking off our career retrospective of director Steven Soderbergh with an overview of his early life, career so far, and major thematic concerns. We'll also meet a new voice joining us on our journey... Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

Pull up a chair, folks - it's time for our episode on Paul Schrader's "first post-mortem film," the Russell Banks adaptation OH, CANADA, fresh from the cinema. Joining us to unpack it is Final Boss of the podcast and real-life Canadian person Will Sloan! We talk about what we expect of the personal morality of political artists, Canada's relationship to her neighbor to the south, and the film's place in Schrader's filmography. We also got Will's thoughts on JUROR #2 while we had him on mic, because of course we did. Great conversation, great movie, great ep! Soderbergh episodes coming soon. Further Reading: Foregone by Russell Banks "Paul Schrader Thought He Was Dying. So He Made a Movie About It." by Bilge Ebiri "A Remembered World: On Russell Banks’s 'Foregone'" by Rob Latham "Russell Banks, The Art of Fiction No. 152" by Robert Faggen Harry Knowles's review of HOLLYWOOD ENDING Further Viewing: AMERICAN GIGOLO (Schrader, 1980) AFFLICTION (Schrader, 1997) 24 HOURS OR MORE (Groulx, 1973) KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE (Obomsawin, 1993) Follow Will Sloan: https://x.com/WillSloanEsq https://www.willsloan.ca/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

We did it, folks. We sat down with filmmaker Paul Schrader for a discussion of his new film OH, CANADA (spoiler-free), political readings of his films, never-made projects, and even a few thoughts on Clint Eastwood. Afterward, the Pod Casty boys talk about the experience. Join us in a few weeks for a full episode on OH, CANADA, which opens December 6th in New York and expands to LA and nationwide on December 13th. Paul Schrader will be doing Q&As in New York and LA. Click here for theaters and showtimes. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart