TbP, Ep 05: What makes a good film good?

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This episode on Talking bout Practice : Billy Ray Stupendous and I watch a gross movie while recording th show; I say "@ any rate" @ least 100 times; Billy says "in that regard" perhaps 6 or 7 times; teenage memories are unearthed; rich people and poor people are vilified or speculated upon; people who use their phones @ th movies are sentenced to hard labour; if you've got bionic ears you can hear wine being poured and bacon being fried; we disagree on 2 movies and agree on @ least 3; I assume (wrongly) that McLintock! preceded The Searchers; you are invited to e-mail me if you want to watch a retarded Canadian comedy w/ a heart of gold; and we begin to formulate th answer to a question you have already answered in yr head.

Table of contents:

00:00  "Leaning" performed by Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish
01:38  "If I seem distracted ..." / Andrzej Żuławski
03:51  Recap: Billy's cinema therapy
05:03  "What's your favorite way to experience a film?"
07:11  "You hate rich people"
10:11  Disgusting thing on screen
11:33  "They don't need that money"
13:49  Metropolitan (Whit Stillman 1990)
20:42  Web 1.0 / flickyoucrew
23:24  Downloading a canon / record stores / nostalgia
31:53  McLintock! (Andrew V. McLaglen 1963) vs The Searchers (John Ford 1956)
38:33  Cinema as communal experience / idiots on their phones / Shotgun Cinema (New Orleans)
49:16  Crime Wave (John Paizs 1985)
57:13  How many e-mail addresses we've got
58:40  "What makes a film good?"
1:03:16  Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn 2014)
1:05:21  Unfamiliar world, failed film? / The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang 2005)
1:11:04  Loveable films nobody has seen
1:14:56  "Opening" performed by Bruce Langhorne

Talking bout Practice, Ep 03: Cinema Therapy

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What would possess a person to watch 800 movies in one year? Let's ask Billy Ray Stupendous.

Table of contents:

00:00  "The Movies" by th Statler Bros
02:59  Th tale of a livejournal movie discussion community
06:33  Billy Ray's project parameters / a cinematic canon
08:55  Kaylie's story / a post-suicide coping strategy
11:16  A movie a day
12:33  Billy's #1 movie: Sátántangó (Béla Tarr 1994)
15:20  "Hungary is linguistically isolated"
16:59  Suicide scenes in two films (Sátántangó, 47 Ronin)
19:06  Kaylie's story / "... to enjoy life again"
22:06  Kaylie's story / "... a muse quality to our relationship"
24:21  Kaylie's story / "... bus to Seattle"
27:00  Kaylie's story / a prediction of doom
28:16  Kaylie's story / "... into a park that turned out to be owned by the NSA"
29:49  Plunging into something wholly engrossing
34:58  Ringo Starr
39:55  From passivity to engagement (Rear Window, Red Beard, Jeanne Dielman)
41:33  "There are a lot of long movies on yr list" / long takes
47:10  "When I worked at the Prytania Theater ..."
48:33  http://letterboxd.com/glazomaniac/list/aov/
50:27  L'ange (Patrick Bokanowski 1983)
54:07  Billy talks smack bout Buñuel & shouts out lesser-known avant-gardists
56:53  "How would you describe yr relationship to film before th project started?"
58:40  "You hate child actors, right?" / Ten (Abbas Kiarostami 2002) / Iranian cinema
1:03:37  Billy admires political filmmaking & does not love Jess Franco or anal porn
1:07:00  Skimming th list
1:08:33  Top 5 directors
1:11:24  Distinguishing features of this list
1:12:24  "What's yr favourite Hitchcock?"
1:13:47  Billy's favourites that aren't on th list
1:15:50  "Have you seen a lot of film noir?" / armchair feminist
1:19:49  "What have you discovered about yrself from watching 1,000 movies in a year?"
1:24:24  Political lens versus non-political lens
1:25:42  To be continued?
1:27:42  "Bubamara" by Goran Bregović