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Unspooled

Midnight Cowboy

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy walk into 1969's New York hustler drama Midnight Cowboy! They look for meaning in the song "Everybody's Talkin'," ask whether Jon Voight's babyfaced features make him the perfect Joe Buck, and marvel at how modern the film still feels. Plus: More of your picks for horror films that could make the AFI list. For Toy Story week, help us come up with new catchphrases for Woody! Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your best one. Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall This episode is brought to you by Aladdin the Musical (www.aladdinthemusical.com), Betterhelp (www.betterhelp.com/unspooled), Sonos (www.sonos.com), and Turo (www.turo.com code: UNSPOOLED25). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The year is 1969 and Joe Buck is rated X for excellent the movie midnight cow

0:24.9

Hey everybody welcome to unspooled

0:27.6

I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheeran. There's the podcast for each week

0:31.0

We watch one film from the A.F.I's 100th greatest films of all time less 2007 edition to see if they really are as good as

0:36.8

People say do they hold up and how have they influenced the films we watch today

0:42.2

Later in the episode we'll be talking about midnight cowboy, but first let's go back to last episode where Amy and I did our first

0:49.9

Ever live episode about what horror films belong on the A.F.I. list

0:54.9

This was such a fun episode. We were joined by Phil Noble Jr

0:58.8

The new editor of Fangoria and also Sam's Armin of Shutter to brilliant brilliant horror people

1:03.6

They put forth two films Sam recommended putting Blair Witch into the A.F.I. top 100 and pretty much sold me a

1:10.0

Phil Noble recommended get out. I recommended not a living dead you recommended scream. Yes

1:15.1

It was such an interesting conversation. Well, you know

1:17.4

I think we all tried to pick different types of horror films that should go on that list

1:21.2

And you know, I think we left off a lot and it just goes to show you how

1:26.0

Passion people are about their horror films. You know the thing is a film that I really really love so so much and people talk about the

1:33.0

Shining is so many films to really get in there and there's so many reasons why they should be on this list

1:39.3

I want to also just take a moment to shout out Phil

1:42.1

You know as he's running Fangoria right now. There's a great piece in Fangoria. It's Paul Thompson Anderson interviewing

1:49.8

Jordan Peel about us. It's a great read. I got a copy on it down there

1:54.8

And I just love that article so if you want to kind of read about two filmmakers talking about process and again

1:59.6

Paul Thomas Anderson in Fangoria is a really fun kind of mix. Yeah, Phil is really killing it with what that magazine is and I think he's

2:07.2

Killing it because we're living in an era where we realize horror is serious business. It deserves serious

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