385 M*A*S*H Part 1
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha begin their tribute to Donald Sutherland with Part 1o their discussion of Robert Altman's 1970 comedy classic M*A*S*H. The film stars Sutherland Elliot Gould, Tom Skerrit, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Rene Auberjonois and Sally Kellerman. Based on MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker, the film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It won the Palme d'Or, at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay. Steve and John discuss this classic comedy film and see if it holds up to 2024 eyes today!
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| 0:00.0 | I wonder how I had a generated person like that could have reached a position of responsibility in the Army Medical Corps. |
| 0:06.0 | He was drafted. Hello and welcome once again to the cinnophiles where each week we enter the world of a great film |
| 0:19.4 | and we explore its themes, the history, the filmmaking, and the influence it has on us today. My name is Steve Morris and I am a filmmaker and |
| 0:25.4 | directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello everyone, my name is John Rokke, a writer, producer and host here in |
| 0:31.5 | San Diego, California, voice over guy and former eight-year |
| 0:35.4 | member of the US Army. |
| 0:37.1 | Dada da da da da da. |
| 0:40.6 | One thing we always are trying to say at the beginning our show is that we have our incredible |
| 0:45.2 | supporters on Patreon.com slash the Cinophiles as well as Apple Podcasts and part of the reason we're doing |
| 0:50.7 | this right now is that we went to our cinephiles advisory board and |
| 0:55.1 | had a fantastic conversation about the life and career of Donald Sutherland who we lost a few weeks |
| 1:00.4 | ago and how best to honor him on the show and what their suggestion was and I think you and I kind of jumped on it right away was to do not one but two films of Donald Sutherland showcasing different moments in his career. |
| 1:13.8 | And the first one is what we're starting on today, |
| 1:15.7 | which is Mash, and the second one is a decade later |
| 1:18.8 | in the film directed by Robert Redford, ordinary people. |
| 1:21.6 | And I just thought their their suggestion was |
| 1:23.6 | absolutely fantastic and I'm very excited to be digging into this right now. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah, I mean I'm I am I'm how can I say this I am a Robert Altman respecter, but I don't know if I would ever buy a Robert Altman movie on criterion or otherwise. |
| 1:40.0 | So I have a healthy respect for him as a director, but I haven't necessarily run out to see a lot of his movies. |
| 1:47.0 | So this was a great way for me to see Mash for the first time. |
| 1:51.0 | I've never seen Mash, I loved the TV show, but I've never seen the movie because I don't know. I just never felt the inclination to watch the movie. I was in the play back in school, but I was never, never had the inclination to see the movie and |
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