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The Important Cinema Club

#302 - You Can't Con David Mamet

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We explore David Mamet's directorial work. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie) as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin the clue, and I'm here today with Will Slown.

0:08.6

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

0:10.7

This is a podcast that you're listening to, The Important Cinema Club, where we're going to be talking about David Mamet.

0:15.9

A guy, we're going to talk about it.

0:17.3

Fuck you.

0:17.9

Fuck you.

0:18.6

Fuck you, Justin.

0:19.5

Yes, that's right.

0:20.5

That is the dulcet tone.

0:22.5

No, no, listen, listen to me. Listen, listen to me. Fuck you. Of David Mamet, his particular style,

0:30.0

which me and Will just covered ourselves in like a toxic goo throughout this week watching his

0:35.8

movies. David Mamet has a multifaceted career.

0:38.6

First and foremost, of course,

0:40.0

he's one of the most famous and acclaimed American playwrights living today.

0:43.8

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glenn Gary Glenn Ross,

0:47.0

as well as Oleanah, Speed the Plow, American Buffalo, among others.

0:51.5

He defined American theater in a way. Like, he is one of the greats. He has

0:56.1

also, at this point in time, completely lost his marbles, which makes you reevaluate all the work

1:02.8

that he's done before. I'm sure we'll get to that because, you know, I saw a clip of him on

1:08.6

Fox News pretty recently where he was going off about the groomer panic, you know, that business.

1:15.2

And you think, how can this man be the same man who wrote Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross?

1:19.2

How can you be, in my personal opinion, so smart in one area and so, so silly in another area?

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