508: But Who Would That Woman Be?

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

By the end of this episode we will sell several copies of “The Three E.P.s” by The Beta Band. It’s time to put on that horrible Cosby sweater and rearrange your record collection autobiographically. On the 20th anniversary of its release, we’re here to discuss one of our All-Time Top 5 movies featuring Lisa Bonet coming alive like Frampton, “High Fidelity.” Based on Nick Hornby’s novel, this film stars John Cusack as a bad boyfriend with a glimmer of hope at finding a clue, features a career-making performance from Jack Black as a gatekeeper fan with a surprising singing voice, and still resonates with us after two decades.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 5008, March 2020.
0:11.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.5	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.8	And on this episode, we're going to be talking about a film that was released, as we record
0:19.5	this, as we release this, 20 years ago, exactly in
0:24.7	March of 2000, the movie High Fidelity was released, directed by Stephen Frears, based on
0:30.9	the novel by Nick Hornby, starring John Cusack, along with a bunch of other interesting
0:37.3	people, but he's the star. And, you know, a romantic
0:42.3	comedy drama film, as Wikipedia lovingly describes it, is a little, you'd think it was a
0:49.5	little afield for The Incomparable, but I like this movie a lot, and it also, I find it very thought-provoking.
0:55.4	I have affection for it while also thinking about it a lot. I loved the novel from 1995 by Nick Hornby,
1:02.0	who was one of my favorite writers. I think it is similarly thought-provoking. It was just also
1:07.9	turned into a Hulu television series with uh so that there once again there's
1:14.3	another version of it that's out there right now but we're going to focus on the movie from
1:19.4	the year 2000 here in this episode joining me to talk about high fidelity are three people who
1:25.7	are sure to be on my all-time top five favorite panelists.
1:30.5	The other two I'll leave to your imagination.
1:32.5	And yes, it's the two you're thinking of.
1:34.5	Andy Anato is here.
1:35.5	Hi.
1:36.4	Hello, Jason.
1:37.4	I'm very, I was very glad to double check and find out that we were going to be talking about the movie instead of the TV series of which I have not seen any episode.
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