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#886: Bodies Bodies Bodies / Meet John Doe (Stanwyck #4)

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Filmspotting

Film History, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

If Dutch director Halina Reijn's BODIES BODIES BODIES doesn't remain the definitive snapshot of Zillennial life in the early 2020s, that won't be the fault of the ace ensemble, featuring standout performances from Rachel Sennott ("Shiva Baby"), Maria Bakalova ("Borat Subsequent Movifilm"), or Amandla Stenberg ("The Hate You Give"). Josh and guest critic Marya E. Gates praise the cast along with the film itself for its incisive observations about the chronically online generation. Later in the show, Josh is joined by the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips to talk about Frank Capra's surprisingly bleak MEET JOHN DOE (1941), with Gary Cooper as a down-on-his-luck ballplayer who becomes a populist hero and current marathon subject Barbara Stanwyck as the conflicted newspaper columnist who created him—and maybe loves him. 0:00 - Billboard 1:07 - Review: “Bodies Bodies Bodies” (w/Marya E. Gates) 36:21 - Next Week / Notes 40:05 - Massacre Theatre 48:02 - Stanwyck #4: “Meet John Doe” (w/Michael Phillips) 1:16:43 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What kind of a show you guys put not here today?

0:06.4

You're not interested in art?

0:07.6

No.

0:08.1

Well look, we're going to do this thing.

0:09.4

We're going to have a conversation.

0:13.0

From Chicago, this is Film Spotting.

0:14.9

I'm Josh Larson.

0:16.2

First of all, a podcast takes a lot of work, okay?

0:19.9

You have to organize the guests.

0:21.6

You have to do a Google Calendar.

0:23.2

And you build up following.

0:25.5

It takes a lot of time.

0:27.2

And I've been working on it for a while.

0:29.2

That's a clip from the new horror satire,

0:31.7

bodies, bodies, bodies.

0:33.2

A film that takes deadly aim at many of the defining features

0:36.2

of contemporary life, like the rapidly evolving language

0:39.2

of progressive politics.

0:40.7

And yeah, podcasts.

0:42.7

Adam has the week off.

0:44.2

So joining me to talk bodies, bodies, bodies is

0:47.2

fellow Chicago critic, Mariah Gates.

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