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The Important Cinema Club

#33 - Everyone Wants a Friend Like Joe Dante

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7577 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Justin and Will discuss Joe Dante's first film Hollywood Boulevard (1976) and his last big theatrical release Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). Plus, a discussion about the joys of being a cinephile, doodling in the cinematic margins and the personal blockbuster.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with the great Will Sloan.

0:09.4

The Great Will Sloan.

0:10.8

Yeah.

0:12.5

What is the basis for the statement?

0:14.7

Come on.

0:15.4

Okay, yeah, you're right.

0:16.4

I'm looking at it.

0:17.0

I host two podcasts.

0:19.3

Wait, what's the other one if you want to Pimp it?

0:21.0

The other one is called Michael and Us, a nostalgic journey through the films of Michael Moore. Okay, but here we're here to talk about real movies, not those Michael Moore films. Yeah, they're terrible. We're talking about... Oh, what's our podcast called? Oh, crap. Yeah, you derailed me. I completely forgot. All I said was the Great Well Slough.

0:38.8

Listen, I have a strict guideline that I follow. We're the important cinema club, where we talk about important cinema. This is the first time you've ever, like, set up what the podcast is at the beginning. I mean, that's insane. Do I need some kind of tagline? I think we should

0:54.5

workshop it here? No, why should we? I'm just so shocked that just me saying the great Will Sloan

0:59.0

led to this like morass of confusion. Well, it was such a baffling pronouncement that I was like,

1:05.3

what did this happen? Listen, our listeners will hear it and they'll be like, he's right. He is the

1:10.2

great Will Sloan.

1:11.3

Kind of like the great Oz, like you're just a very pale imitation of what you say you are.

1:17.8

You know, words hurt.

1:19.5

Okay, I'm sorry, Will.

1:20.7

I'm sorry.

1:21.0

But what are we talking about on the podcast this week?

1:23.5

This week we're talking about the great Joe Dante.

1:26.7

The truly great Joe Dante.

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