348: He's Way Better Than Fonzie

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2017

⏱️ 104 minutes

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A bunch of people born in the 1970s discuss two films from that decade about young people coming of age: 1973’s “American Graffiti” and 1979’s “Breaking Away.” The first is a film (set in 1962) featuring young people driving around a northern California town on the last night of summer before reality sets in; the second is about young people riding bikes (and swimming in a quarry) in Indiana. The first comes from the future director of “Star Wars”; the second comes from the future director of “Krull”. Both are full of faces you will recognize. And both have interesting things to say about being young and the prospect of growing up.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 348, April 2017.
0:11.2	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.3	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.5	We are convening another edition of Old Movie Club.
0:18.9	Old Movie Club!
0:21.5	These movies are so old old they're from kids.
0:23.7	Sit down.
0:24.3	They're from the 1970s.
0:26.6	Wow, is that before light bulbs?
0:28.3	Yes.
0:29.3	Old time.
0:29.9	They had to set up, a very large fire had to be set in order to project the film.
0:34.9	It was a long, long time ago.
0:37.7	Oh, it's movies.
0:38.7	In this edition, we're going to be talking about two coming of age movies from the 70s,
0:44.9	one set in the 70s and one set in the early 60s.
0:49.2	It feels like the 50s, but it's the early 60s.
0:52.1	Although by the time it's over, it feels like the 80s.
0:54.0	Hmm. Interesting. We'll get there. Joining us to talk about this, first off, the person who
0:58.9	selected the films, uh, as he usually does on old movie club, Mr. Philip Michaels. Hi, Phil.
1:03.8	You know, I, I would like to point out, the, the most recent of these movies breaking away
1:09.6	is 38 damn years old.
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