Episode 586: The Night Porter (1974)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

We’re looking at Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). Set in 1957 Vienna, Max Aldorfer (Dirk Bogard) is the titular night porter. When a conductor and his wife, Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) check in to Max's motel, he is thrown into a tizzy. He’s been living a quiet life and trying to stay under the radar as he’s a war criminal who has just been confronted with one of his victims... who was also his sex slave.

Professor Gaetana Marrone (author of The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani) joins us to discuss Cavani's work while Emma Westwood and Kat Ellinger discuss the film.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:26.8	The night, porter. The Knight Porter. A strong man.
0:43.3	A weak man.
0:46.3	Tell me what to do.
0:49.3	Tell me what to do.
0:51.3	A clever man.
0:52.3	If I were rich, I'd hire you to do everything for me.
0:56.0	Would you?
0:57.0	No.
0:58.0	You were always insane, and you still are.
1:02.0	Sane insane then.
1:04.0	Who's to judge?
1:07.0	A desperate man.
1:09.0	So they can't take you away.
1:11.6	The night porter.
1:13.6	His world.
1:15.6	His friends.
	...

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