Quentin Tarantino's Tribute to Michael Madsen

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

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4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 223 minutes

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Summary

This very special episode of the podcast is dedicated to the late great Michael Madsen who passed away recently. We are Joined by Quentin Tarantino and Jules McLean to talk about Madsen and for this show Quentin prepared a list of 10 performances from Madsen (film and TV) that he loves (and that don't come from any of his own films). We talk about all of them and what made Michael so special. A wonderful tribute to an incredible actor that we will all miss.

If you haven't heard it, we recommend listening to this wonderful interview we were lucky enough to get with Madsen back in 2020: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IAQTMGOVtCtyWiQ8mlkUr?si=Fj2Cqs0tQJmqMQWskSF0fA

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0:00.0	Are you going to bark all day, little doggy?
0:06.7	Or are you going to bite?
0:16.9	The new Beverly Cinema presents the pure cinema podcast.
0:20.3	My name's Brian Sauer. I'm joined, as always, by the delightful Mr. Albert Kane. Joining us also on this episode, returning favorite guest, Jules McLean from the New Beverly. Hello, Jules. Greetings. Wonderful to have you back. Thank you. And another one of our favorite returning guests, Mr. Quentin Tarantino, joining us today.
0:44.1	And actually in the room, not in a men's room toilet and a gas station.
0:46.3	I love it.
0:47.0	I love it.
0:48.9	Yes, we are recording in the video archives room.
0:49.8	I love this space.
0:50.5	The mics are great.
0:51.7	We sound really good in here.
0:56.6	So anyway, Quentin, so we lost a great actor recently. And we wanted to help you out with a lovely tribute that you had come up with. Now, what was your
1:03.8	idea for this episode that we're doing? We're talking about Mr. Michael Madsen, of course.
1:07.8	Yes. I wanted to,
1:14.3	a lot of people were making announcements about him, and I'm not on social media,
1:16.1	and it's just kind of also not my thing to kind of play out poignancy publicly.
1:21.4	But the loss of Michael really, really hits hard.
1:26.2	And I'm actually, you know, I'm one of those people that's actually
1:29.3	quite stoic about people dying. I mean, people die, you know, that's just what happens, you know?
1:35.0	It's like, what matters is what you did while you were here, you know? And especially when old people
1:39.7	die. It's like, hey, well, hey, they had a good life. They had a long life. You know, how long you're supposed to live anyway.
1:45.8	But this is hitting me harder than, than I'm just used to.
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