Culture Gabfest - Sex and Violence in the City
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🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dana Stevens and Stephen Metcalf are joined by Isaac Butler to discuss Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of West Side Story. Then Slate staff writer Heather Schwedel stops by to talk about And Just Like That, the “next chapter” in the lives of the characters from Sex and the City. And finally, they debate Vulture’s list of the “101 Best New York Movies Set in the Greatest City in the World” and add their own.
Dana’s list:
After Hours
The Cameraman
The Crowd
Do the Right Thing
Hester Street
Metropolitan
The Naked City
Rosemary's Baby
Shadows
The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3
Steve’s list:
The Apartment
Annie Hall
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dog Day Afternoon
Do the Right Thing
King of Comedy
Saturday Night Fever
Sweet Smell of Success
Wild Style
In the Slate Plus segment, Steve and Dana answer a question from listener Colin, via his friend Ezra: Which city block would you take to a desert island, and why?
Endorsements:
Dana: Two books about New York City and the movies: Fun City Cinema, by Jason Bailey, and Celluloid Skyline, by James Sanders.
Steve: The song “Watercolors,” from Between the Lines, by Janis Ian; and “Digging for Utopia,” Kwame Anthony Appiah’s review of David Graebner and David Wengrow’s recently published book The Dawn of Everything, in the New York Review of Books.
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Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music is “Bloody Hunter” by Paisley Pink.
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