#909: Mean Streets and Badlands Turn 50, plus '60s Madness Play-Ins

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Coming on the heels of the era-defining “The Godfather” in ’72, the 1973 movie year had a lot to live up to. But if Adam and Josh’s Top 5 of 1973 (02:56) is any indication, it more than delivered. Featuring early-career masterpieces from Terrence Malick, Martin Scorsese and, yes, George Lucas, plus the decade’s most terrifying horror film, influential films from abroad, and so much more, ’73 not only met the standard set a year earlier, but makes a claim as one of the best of the decade. Also on the show, the return of Filmspotting Madness (47:53), which this year has us determining the best film of the ’60s. Then, Adam and Josh share Best of ’73 poll results (01:08:14), before returning to the Top 5 for their final two picks (01:14:18). Time codes may not be precise due to dynamically-inserted ads. Click here to Ask Us Anything and we might answer your question in Filmspotting Family bonus content. Learn more about Filmspotting Family benefits. 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	We'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.
0:15.0	I'm Josh Larson, and I'm Adam Kempanar.
0:17.6	Well, it's a symptom of a type of disturbance
0:23.0	in the chemical, electrical activity of the brain.
0:26.0	In case of your daughter in the temporal lobe,
0:27.8	it's up here in the lateral part of the brain.
0:30.8	It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations,
0:33.8	and usually just before a convulsion.
0:35.8	A totally reasonable explanation
0:37.8	for speaking in tongues, projectile vomiting,
0:40.3	and levitating forefeet in the air.
0:42.3	That's from the number one film with the box office
0:44.3	in 1973, William Friedkins, the exorcist.
0:47.3	This week, we celebrate the 50th anniversary
0:49.8	of that great movie year with our top five of 73.
0:53.3	Altman, Malix, Corsese, so many more.
0:56.8	Pretty good year.
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