Intolerance

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Paul & Amy gawk at 1916's D.W. Griffith silent spectacle Intolerance! They praise the eternally cool Mountain Girl, ask if Griffith was the original 'troll' director, and marvel at the ambition on display in the oldest film on the AFI list. Plus: Unpacking your thoughts on Yankee Doodle Dandy. If you could kick just one film off the AFI list, which would it be? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.comand don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Also check out our live Spool Party episodes on youtube.com/earwolf! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 1916 and get ready for musketeers, mountain girls, and mayhem.
0:05.6	The movie? In tolerance.
0:07.6	Hello everybody and welcome to unspoooooood. I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:32.2	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where every week we watch one film from the AFI's
0:36.8	Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time List 2007 edition to see if they are really as good as
0:41.3	people say do they hold up and how have they influenced the films that we watch now.
0:46.4	Today we are talking about DW Griffith's second most famous film, Intolerance. But before
0:52.2	we get into that, we're going to look back on last week's episode which was of course,
0:58.0	Yankee Doodle Dandy. Now, you know, Amy, I've even forgotten a little bit about Yankee
1:02.8	Doodle Dandy because we also just did our third live unspooled show on Monday on YouTube
1:09.8	which is still up, it's still streaming. We got to do a house party, hashtag stay home house
1:15.4	party where we got to talk to some of the people behind house party and celebrate the 30th
1:21.6	anniversary of this great film. These have been so much fun to do. We've done house party
1:26.5	with Clueless and Big. You can see them all on the Earwolf YouTube page. They're all
1:31.4	up there for you and I would urge you if you've not listened, you could just, you don't
1:36.7	know, have to even watch us. Just turn up the volume and walk away from your computer.
1:40.0	It's fine. It'll be just like the podcast. Now that we are safely away from it, I can
1:44.3	say I was so nervous. Kid from Kid in Play is one of my favorite performers of all time.
1:49.5	I'm so cool of him to come by. I am so, so excited. And you know it and I hope we
1:54.6	raise some money that night and we are kind of continuing to raise money for this amazing
2:01.0	organization that the Criterion channel is backing. It's a GoFundMe for Independent
2:05.6	Theatre Chains. And we're doing that in a way by selling a t-shirt. So you can basically
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