#888: Three Thousand Years of Longing / Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul / Ball of Fire (Stanwyck #5)

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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When George Miller's THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year, it was met with some pans, some shrugs, and some raves (including a six-minute standing ovation). Most agreed, however, that it was an unexpected departure from a director whose previous film was "Mad Max: Fury Road." An intimate and intellectual dialogue-driven drama between stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba for much of its runtime, it occasionally blossoms into a fantastic, millennia-spanning tale. While both Adam and Josh admired much of what Miller was attempting, only one of them managed to get and stay on the director's eccentric wavelength. That review, plus Josh's review of the new comedy HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL, and the fifth film in the Summer of Stanwyck Marathon, Howard Hawks' BALL OF FIRE (1941), with Barbara Stanwyck as a worldly showgirl who goes into hiding with eight buttoned-up bachelor academics (including Gary Cooper). 0:00 - Billboard 1:11 - Review: "Three Thousand Years of Longing" 28:32 - Review (JL): "Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul." 32:11 - Next Week / Notes 39:36 - Massacre Theatre 45:22 - Stanwyck Marathon #5: "Ball of Fire" (1941) 1:08:27 - 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? No.
0:08.0	Well, look, we're going to do this thing. We're going to have a conversation.
0:12.8	From Chicago, this is Film Spotting. I'm Josh Larson.
0:16.0	And I met him, Kimpanar.
0:17.2	I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely because I cried out my heart's desire only by
0:22.5	granted you. Yours may I earn my release. Yes, well, I appreciate the symmetry, but the thing is this.
0:27.5	I cannot for the life of me someone up one eligible wish. And you're asking me for three.
0:32.1	Is that any life in you? That's till the Swinton with Idris Elba in 3000 years of longing.
0:37.4	The ambitious new film from Mad Max Fury Road director George Miller.
0:41.2	With Swinton as an accomplished narratologist and Elba as a gin who offers her three wishes.
0:47.8	I now know what a narratologist is, but I may need a little help with the rest of the film,
0:53.2	Adam. Aladdin, this is not. We will together fulfill your wish, Josh.
0:58.0	Our review of 3000 years of longing plus Barbara Stanwick and Gary Cooper and Howard Hawks
1:03.1	ball of fire ahead on Film Spotting.
1:10.9	Welcome to Film Spotting. Sam, our producer pointed this out, Josh, but we do have a nice
1:16.1	bit of coincidence spotting with this week's show. Randomly turns out that these two films are
1:22.6	being discussed together, 1941's, ball of fire and George Miller's new one 3000 years of longing.
1:30.1	In that one, we've got Idris Elba emerging from a bottle to help cure till the Swinton's
1:34.8	academic of a loveless life. We'll go with that. And we've got Barbara Stanwick pulling a
1:39.7	similar trick on Gary Cooper in the Howard Hawks film. Of course, he doesn't pop out of a bottle.
1:45.6	She just forces her way into his temple of higher learning. So things work out for a reason.
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