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Unspooled

Concert Films

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul take the stage for a closer look at concert movies! Inspired by the recent release of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” and the rerelease of Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense,” they dig into what separates a good concert film from a great one, survey the many ways musicians make their films feel like a true event, and learn about Flavor Flav’s Swift fandom. Plus: how David Byrne is like Oppenheimer. Next week, Paul and Amy are talking about Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World! You can join the conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Check out this week's spotlight episode from the archives, Jackass: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/jackass/ Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0

Ladies and this is on school concert petition. And the Hello everyone and welcome to

0:28.0

and welcome to and welcome to

0:31.0

Bons spoons! to joined by Amy Nicholson who I've heard can really tear it up in a karaoke room.

0:44.3

I could really empty a karaoke room when I start singing that's my gifts.

0:49.1

And Eda we're sitting down today to do something that I like to do from time to time on the show

0:53.8

which is just kind of look at what culturally is going on in the cinemas in the

0:58.9

multiplexes and you know I've had this thought lately about why we are seeing more and more

1:06.3

concert movies, but more importantly why they are working. Amy I think the

1:10.6

story of the year has been Taylor Swift bringing movie theaters back.

1:17.2

We've been looking for a savior.

1:20.5

Marvel movies are not it. Every week we're kind of surprised at what is it.

1:25.6

Five Night at Freddie's? That's a hit? Great, we don't know.

1:29.4

Then we have like killers of the Flower Moon. Not a hit. We are confused, but Taylor Swift comes in with her big lush concert movie and it creates a sensation people are going to the show, they're dressing up, and all of a sudden we start talking about concert movies. And we start getting excited about what's the next one and it's Beyoncé's movie is

1:54.4

going to be like Taylor's movie Beyonce goes with Taylor to her own

1:57.4

premiere our minds are being blown this talk about eventizing movies is kind of moving away from this

2:06.2

traditional model and it's going into creating not only a special moment

2:11.9

within the theater but capturing a unique moment that you may not

2:16.8

have been able to see. Like Taylor Swiss Erris Tour, I was there and the amount of people that were outside the stadium was gigantic.

2:25.0

People just wanted to be around it and this movie brought you inside and I loved that when kids were there

2:32.4

they were enjoying the movie like they were actually at the

2:36.2

concert.

2:37.2

And it made me think like, what is the best concert movie?

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