#151: A Star Is Born, Pt. 2 - Bradley Cooper (2018)

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Bradley Cooper’s debut directorial feature A STAR IS BORN is the fourth film to bear that title, and the second to translate this Hollywood tale of rising and falling fame to the music industry. And much like George Cukor’s 1954 version starring Judy Garland, it’s a fantastic showcase for its leading lady, played this time around by Lady Gaga as an aspiring songwriter to Bradley Cooper’s fading rock god. In bringing this oft-told tale to the screen, Cooper’s version follows most of of the broad strokes of its predecessors — but does it do enough to distinguish itself among its lineage? We talk it over before getting into the connections between Cooper and Cukor’s STARS, from their respective approaches to musical performance to their messy gender dynamics. 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 any and all versions of A STAR IS BORN by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. *Show Notes* Works Cited • “How the Media Would Have Covered the Events of A Star Is Born,” by Nate Jones (Vulture.com) • “A Star Is Born Makes a Romance of Rock’s Most Damaging Myths,” by Sam Adams (Slate.com) Your Next Picture Show: • Genevieve: George Cukor’s WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? • Keith: Elizabeth Chomko’s WHAT THEY HAD • Tasha: Joseph Kahn’s BODIED • Scott: Ol Parker’s MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Outro Music: Lady Gaga, “La Vie En Rose” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombole, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.7	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	It's very difficult to keep the line
0:34.5	between the past and the present
0:36.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:50.1	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson here again with Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, and Genevieve Koski. In our last episode, we discussed the classic 1954 George Cucor version of A Star is Born, which is a remake of the 1937 film, which was remade again in 1976, and now has been remade again in
1:12.3	2018. In each case, the film was obviously redesigned for its specific era. A lot of the details
1:18.0	stay the same, including the overall arc and the central relationship. But the details of
1:22.1	performance and what it takes to be a star change with every decade, and so do the ideas of what
1:26.3	it means to compromise yourself for fame.
1:28.4	The 1954 version was reportedly influenced by the real-life marriage of Barbara Stanwick to Frank
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