584: Window and Chill

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Old Movie Club likes to watch… old movies. And these are old movies about the price and perils of watching (and listening). We view the Hitchcock classic “Rear Window” and visit the smelly, greasy, fuzzy ’70s film for “The Conversation.” Also, we call back to the Summer of Spielberg with a discussion of how Francis Ford Coppola’s career making art films like “The Conversation” was derailed by fantastic commercial success....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 5004, October 2021.
0:10.6	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.5	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and this is an addition of what we like to call old movie club.
0:17.3	These are legitimately old movies, although one of them is from when I was
0:21.0	live and I don't like that, but that's just where we are now. We are here to discuss
0:25.8	1954's Rear Window and 1974's The Conversation, directed by, of course, famous directors.
0:36.0	It's Alfred Hitchcock and Francis Ford Coppola.
0:38.2	And what do these movies have in common? Well, I think if you're paying attention and you look
0:42.7	around your place where you're listening to this podcast, you may find somebody's watching
0:46.8	you right now. And that person is Philip Michaels, who joins me and who selected these movies.
0:51.4	Hello, Phil. Hi, I'm sorry. I agreed to only appear with the director.
0:56.1	Is the director here? I'm not appearing without the director. The director of the movie or the
1:02.5	director of the Embarcadero Center real estate complex. Yes, the director. He's just the director.
1:11.6	Well, let me see.
1:12.4	Fred director of the Connecticut directors.
1:14.4	It comes from a good family.
1:15.6	I have four candidates here who might be the director.
1:18.7	They are David J. Lour.
1:21.0	Not the director.
1:23.0	I'm thinking it's the director of Tender Mercies.
1:26.1	Erica Ensign.
1:27.3	I take direction. I don't direct. No way.'s the director of Tender Mercies. Erica Ensign? I take direction.
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