Bonus Episode: Documentarians Bill and Turner Ross!

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Documentarians Bill and Turner Ross have been painting portraits of American life for over a decade. Their latest film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, marks a step in a bold, new direction, blurring the line between fact and fiction. Now available through Film at Lincoln Center, the movie unfolds during the final 24hrs. of a Las Vegas dive-bar. Regulars regale one another with memories of the shuttering institution– a home away from home. It's a story of a surrogate family, bound together by this bar, forced to confront the end of an era. This week's bonus episode with Bill and Turner get into how and why this breathtaking piece of work was made.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San For Goso. Welcome to the show I am pleased to have on some old friends of mine, Bill and Turner Ross. They are some of my
0:45.6	favorite working documentarians. These folks have been crafting deeply
0:50.5	human portraits of American life since 2009 in their first film titled
0:56.4	4.5.
0:59.1	In the intervening 11 years, they've directed several other documentaries, including Chappatoulis, River, Western,
1:07.0	Contemporary Color, and their most recent film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.
1:13.0	That film will be opening in virtual cinemas tomorrow, July 10th,
1:18.0	with film at Lincoln Center,
1:20.0	and then eventually expanding virtually to theaters nationwide through July.
1:26.0	Before we get into it, here's a bit from the trailer.
1:29.0	You're just in time for the NOT party, we're not having fun in celebration of not closing.
1:35.0	Here are the real things that's really happening.
1:40.0	20s. I'm doing great. Thank you for asking how I'm doing first person today.
1:47.0	Anybody want to drink, a shot, tell a story.
1:51.0	You're making me realize I haven't smelled that smell in a long time.
1:54.4	What kind of a party is if an Australian guy doesn't take his pants off? I've been saying that for you.
1:59.2	You know? The simple logline on this film is this.
2:05.0	Patrons and staff celebrate their last night together
2:08.0	at a soon-to-close Las Vegas dive bar.
2:12.0	That is the bare bones explanation of what's going on in this film and at the risk of jeopardizing the artistic integrity of this movie. I'm going to leave it at that. There's been a lot of dialogue
2:26.3	around whether Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets is a piece of fiction or non-fiction work.
2:32.8	If you'd like to know my two sense,
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