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Jake's 23-year-old coworker Zoomer Josh is back, and this time we made him watch UNFORGIVEN. We talk Westerns, Hackman, the anti-ICE demonstrations in LA, and Josh's journey as a young cinephile. Plus: a dumb game!

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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)

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In the aftermath of DIRTY HARRY, there were plenty of films looking to get in on the semi-legal vigilante craze. One of the most successful of these was Phil Karlson's WALKING TALL, starring the great, recently departed Joe Don Baker as real-life Tennessee lawman Buford Pusser, who was all too willing to tell the world how he beat the corruption out of McNairy County with a fencepost. Except that he was kind of full of hot air, and the whole thing is - at least for Ian - one of the most nakedly fascist films we've ever watched for the show! This episode was a long time coming, so we hope you enjoy.

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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)

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We return to our very slow trip through the films of Sergio Leone with 1971's DUCK, YOU SUCKER!, also known as A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, also known as GIÙ LA TESTA, a story of the Mexican Revolution starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn. It's a real humdinger of an episode, as Jake's allergies flare up while he tells a long story about some unpleasant men at the barbershop, Ian explains the Mexican Revolution, and we both read passages from Frantz Fanon. Enjoy!

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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)

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GET SHORTY and OUT OF SIGHT weren't the only high-profile Elmore Leonard adaptations of the 1990s. Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited follow up to PULP FICTION was a race- and setting-swapped adaptation of Rum Punch retitled JACKIE BROWN, starring exploitation icons Pam Grier and Robert Forster. Podcasting's preeminent Elmore Leonard discusser Jane Altoids returns to the show to talk race, class, and Ray Nicolet in what might be Tarantino's best film!

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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)

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