Episode 626: After Hours (1985)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off a month of discussing comedy films with a look at Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. Released in 1985 the film was written by Joseph Minion and stars Griffin Dunne as Paul Hackett, a yuppie stuck in a Kafkaesque night in Soho.

Chris Stachiw and Tim Luz join Mike to discuss one of Scorsese's more unusual films.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	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.
0:20.0	Shut it off. Turn it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Why don't you just go home?
0:41.3	I've been asking myself that one all night long.
0:44.3	So what happened? Why can't you?
0:47.3	I met this girl tonight, okay, in a coffee shop.
0:49.3	I feel like something incredible was really going to happen here.
0:52.3	So when I got home, I gave her a call.
0:57.0	On the cab on the way down here, all my money flew out the window.
1:02.0	I didn't really get along with her that well.
1:05.0	What's the matter?
1:06.0	I said, I want to see a plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight.
1:09.0	Now cough it up. So I left.
1:12.2	Tiki!
1:14.2	So I haven't got enough money to get home.
1:16.3	Until I meet this bartender who wanted to lend me the money.
1:18.8	That's all right. That's all right. That's all right.
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