Ep. 546 - The Irishman (GUEST: Melissa Tamminga from Seattle Screen Scene)
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Read more about worst of the year lists in this Twitter thread. Read Martin Scorsese's interview with Empire here. Read about the de-aging technology in The Irishman here.
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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we’ve been watching (~09:25)
David - Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Silicon Valley Series Finale
Devindra - The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Jeff - Good Liar, Season 1 of Morning Show
The Irishman
Spoilers (~1:10:00)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Film Festival. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm David Channing joining me are, Divendra Hardwar and Jeff Kinnata. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to the show everyone. |
| 0:27.9 | What we're going to do here on today's podcast is we're going to discuss some what we've |
| 0:31.7 | been watching and then move on into an in-depth review of the Irishman. |
| 0:36.4 | We got Melissa Taminga joining us for that review. |
| 0:39.3 | It's going to be a good one. |
| 0:40.7 | You can find more episodes of the Slash Film Cast, Slash Film Cast.com, email us at slash Filmcast.gmail.com |
| 0:47.1 | and email us as well. |
| 0:48.1 | A lot of people do every single week. |
| 0:49.4 | I wanted to read this email from Logan from Atlanta this week who writes into slash Filmcast.gmail.com |
| 0:53.9 | with a very good question. |
| 0:56.0 | He writes in quote, long time listener here, I have a topic that I'd love to hear your |
| 0:58.8 | thoughts on. |
| 0:59.8 | I've seen a couple of worst of lists pop up on Twitter recently and I'm curious where you |
| 1:03.6 | three stand on lists like that. |
| 1:05.6 | Personally, I think there are a waste of time and completely unnecessary. |
| 1:08.8 | I think it's so much more valuable to discuss why good things are good and giving attention |
| 1:12.4 | to the art that you think deserves the attention. |
| 1:15.4 | Worst of lists seem to do the opposite. |
| 1:17.2 | That's not to say I don't think criticism is okay and most definitely is. |
| 1:20.3 | I simply feel like some people think discussing film is to discuss what is wrong with the film |
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