Spartacus

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Amy & Paul fight for 1960's Roman epic Spartacus! They discuss why Spartacus isn't usually considered part of director Stanley Kubrick's canon, learn about Kirk Douglas' heroic efforts to get the film made, and liken the movie to a good casserole. Plus: Thomas Doherty, author of Show Trial, talks about how screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was affected by the Hollywood Blacklist. Next week is Some Like It Hot week - help us come up with a better title for the film! Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer. 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 Sonos (www.sonos.com) and M&Ms Hazelnuts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The year is 1960, and whether you prefer snails or oysters, this might be the movie you're looking for.
0:07.4	The film is part of this.
0:09.1	Hello everybody and welcome to UnSpilled!
0:30.4	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:31.3	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we watch the films on the AFI top 100 list
0:36.8	from the 2007 edition to find out if they are as good as people say, do they hold up and how
0:41.7	have they inspired the films of now?
0:45.9	This week we're talking about Spartacus and before we get into that I want to go back and
0:51.8	talk a little bit about North by Northwest which a lot of people weighed in on.
0:55.8	I mean this is a film that people love ourselves included and let's get into what people are
1:01.8	saying.
1:02.8	The first thing that really caught my eye this week because I thought it was so so so so lovely
1:08.0	is that Pete Crooks at popcorn picks wrote about going to see a special screening of North by
1:12.8	Northwest at the Stanford Deeter and that even Marie Saint sat one row behind him to his right
1:17.8	and that during the scene when she's on the train and she's flirting with camera and blah blah blah blah
1:22.0	that he could see the light from the screen reflecting on her face as she watched herself kiss
1:25.7	Carrie Grant.
1:26.7	Can you imagine anything more beautiful to get to witness?
1:30.4	Oh my gosh it sounds amazing I love it and you know continuing our conversation about even
1:35.2	Marie Saint.
1:36.7	We talked about whether or not she was good in this film.
1:39.1	You had a little bit of our stronger opinion against it than I did but Chris Cordray says that
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