Episode 25 - "America!" (Season Three Premiere)

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

Movies, Elric, Critics, Arts, Rupertpupkinspeaks, Horror, Cinema, Saur, Visual Arts, Film, Brian, Tv & Film

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2018

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Elric and Brian return for Season Three of Pure Cinema with a special announcement (their new partnership with the film website The Pink Smoke) and to discuss films that make them think of America (for better or worse). Some iconic movies discussed here and some that are more off the beaten path. The show will be coming out every two weeks this season so if you are looking for more episodes, check out our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/purecinemapod

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm not going to listen to this.
0:02.3	Ray, you're chanting.
0:03.0	I'm not going to clear this now. Film is a disease, Frank Kappra said.
0:31.6	When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone.
0:35.8	It plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote
0:40.3	to film is more film. Very nice. Now, as early as I can remember, the key issue for me was,
0:46.3	what did it take to be a filmmaker in Hollywood? Even today, I still wonder, what does it
0:49.8	take to be a professional or maybe even an artist in Hollywood? Now, how do you survive the
0:54.1	constant,
0:54.9	the tug-of-war between personal expression and commercial imperatives? What is the price you
0:59.1	pay to work in Hollywood? Do you end up with a split personality? Do you make one for them,
1:03.4	one for yourself? How about making ants in your plants of 1941? You can have Bob Hope, Mary
1:08.4	Martin. Maybe Bing Cross. Maybe the dancers. Maybe Jack Benny and Rochester.
1:11.4	A big name band.
1:12.5	What?
1:13.4	Oh, no.
1:14.1	I want to make old brother where I'm out, though.
1:16.7	When we talk about personal expression, I'm often reminded of Kazan's film, America, America.
1:23.1	The story of his uncle's journey from Anatolia to America.
1:27.3	The story of so many immigrants who came to this country from a very, very foreign land.
1:32.2	Come on now, yes, you were moving along. Let's go.
1:34.9	And I kind of identified with it.
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