178. Frame Rate: Synecdoche, NY (Feat. Brooks Brown)

Small Beans

Comedy

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Kaufman's devastating tale of life, death, and ham-fisted direction shows a side of Phillip Seymour Hoffman that is actually thirty sides. Michael, Brooks and Abe try in vain to unpack a movie that is both representative of less and more than the movie represents. SHIT. GETS. META.

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0:00.0	That's such a great stance rolling by the way for a film
0:18.0	podcast where we like pride ourselves on deeper analysis. We're like
0:21.6	Lawrence of Arabia it's good it's no Lord of the Rings.
0:25.0	I mean, I've seen Lord of the Rings.
0:28.0	Welcome to Frame Rate the show where we rape frames.
0:31.0	You go first this time, sir.
0:34.0	Who are you?
0:35.0	I'm Abe Epperson, one of the hosts here.
0:37.0	Me also, Michael Swaim.
0:39.0	And with us a very special guest, please introduce yourself.
0:41.0	My name's Brooks Brown. Thank you for being here. Just a fan of Michael and Abe.
0:45.6	Oh, yeah, that's if you are a fan of us, reach out and we will have you on the show instantly.
0:52.8	No questions.
0:53.8	Well yeah, Brooks was just hanging out in the alley outside.
0:57.5	Yeah, we're just like, come on over here boy.
0:59.5	We got a podcast for you.
1:01.5	We've got an incredibly difficult film. Have you been watching it? Yeah, it's I basically been living off it in this alley for the last two weeks. Anyway, have you seen Senectady New York? Senectady New York. Schenectady, New York.
1:14.4	A very great Charlie Kaufman film written and directed by
1:18.7	the year is, I believe, 2008, that's right. Incredibly dense so let's just get into it I'll try and
1:28.8	too dense is my thought okay I want maybe it should go first because I want to hear that unless you were just joking.
1:34.7	No, no, I think it, well yes, I think it's too dense.
1:37.3	I also.
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