#127: (Pt 2) The Rider / Close-Up

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Chloe Zhao’s THE RIDER’s naturalistic synthesis of documentary and narrative has some roots in Abbas Kiarostami’s 1990 Iranian classic CLOSE-UP, but with a very different story to tell, about a very different part of the world. After discussing what made The Rider one of our favorite films of the year so far, we look at how these two films both dance on the line separating fact and fiction, through their use of non-actors, their respective sense of place, and their preoccupation with identity. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about CLOSE-UP, THE RIDER, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Genevieve: Kay Cannon’s BLOCKERS • Scott: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s THE ENDLESS • Keith: Francois Truffaut’s TWO ENGLISH GIRLS and MISSISSIPPI MERMAID Outro Music: Woody Guthrie, “Gamblin’ Man” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:29.3	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:36.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:48.7	Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie The Week podcast,
0:51.6	a video video, the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here again with. Genevieve Koski and Scott Tobias. Tasha Robinson
0:59.0	cannot be with us this week, having abandoned the Tribeca Film Festival to pursue her love of the rodeo.
1:04.1	On the first half of this episode, we discussed Abyskirist Domini's 1990 film Closeup, which blends
1:08.9	fact and fiction and recreation to depict an odd
1:12.1	incident in Tehran. In this episode, we turn our eyes back to America, albeit a slice of America
1:17.3	that most of us will rarely get to see, the sprawling, unspoiled modern day west of South Dakota,
1:22.5	and the horse culture that still thrives there. It's home to Brady Blackburn, a young radio
1:26.6	writer and horse trainer who we first see tending to a vicious head wound. Blackburn's home to Brady Blackburn, a young radio writer and horse trainer
1:27.5	who we first see tending to a vicious head wound. Blackburn's played by Brady Jandrow,
1:31.5	a real-life radio writer, director Chloe Zhao, met while filming her directorial debut,
1:35.9	songs my brothers taught me. He also shares more than her first name with the film's
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