Episode 704: Army of Shadows (1969)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We conclude Art House August with a look at Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows. Ostensibly a film about the French Resistance in World War II, the film stars Lino Ventura as Phillipe Gerbier, one of four main Resistance fighters we meet as we travel through the underworld, striking out at the German occupiers and those loyal to the Vichy government.

Andrew Leavold and Samm Dieghan join Mike for an insightful conversation while special guest Ginette Vincendeau discusses Melville's career at the time and the reaction to 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	Shut it off.
0:25.7	Turn it off.
0:26.8	I don't know.
0:31.5	I'm not.
0:40.7	I can't believe that the stories
0:41.6	don't know the people
0:42.3	were engorged
0:43.3	but these
0:46.3	these people have
0:47.6	only existed
0:48.8	are they only existed.
0:57.0	Are they imagineer? Are you imaginer? Are they are they dead?
1:13.6	Are they more?
1:30.3	Are they more?
1:32.3	Can they still?
1:38.3	Can they still tell their history? Is it a story?
1:46.0	Is it a story?
1:53.0	Is it a story of RELMAN. RIN
	...

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