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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Star 80 with Julie Klausner

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Oof - this is a tough one. Incredibly divisive, is “STAR 80” a darkly cynical triumph about the perils of Hollywood and the failings of men? Or is it a too-sympathetic “Portrait of An Incel as a who cares?!” per our guest Julie Klausner? Join us for a very spirited discussion about Fosse’s difficult last film, where we touch upon the dangers of the true crime genre, the tendency for male creatives to prioritize the male perspective, and the ways in which this film complicates the fascinating legacy of Fosse’s collaborative relationships with women. Plus, we offer our final Fosse rankings, and we ponder several tantalizing “what ifs?” about the unrealized projects lost to history after his death in 1987.

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0:00.0

I can take a bragging podcast. I can take a conniving podcast. I just can't stomach

0:28.4

a sentimental podcast. Oh, very nice. Thank you. I mean, I was also think, uh, things

0:34.8

changed. I'm not the same podcast. I wasn't think Hoover. That is good. That one's funny

0:40.1

too. Maybe I should have gone with that. I give you both options. Yeah. But you had

0:44.0

a little air grabber to do. Well, that, I mean, that's actually right. Right. That's

0:49.4

the, uh, the doctor character. I'm worried about doing air grabber. It's like, I feel like

0:54.2

if you do even an impression of Snyder in this movie, you maybe never come back from that.

1:00.5

Right. You get evil. What did this movie make him evil? Is he evil? Is Eric Robert

1:04.6

evil or just he just look evil and please weigh in. I think he's at the very least broken.

1:08.9

Is that fair? Can I weigh in on this? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:13.5

Cause like, this is what his, this is like one of his first ever movie. Like he's only like

1:17.2

three movies in. Yeah. Has public credit. Yeah. That's the next. Okay. He had to be persuaded

1:23.9

to take this role. Yes. So he was bright enough to know this is not a sympathetic one. Yes.

1:28.9

But based on what I've read about him, he's bad news. And then I would even say in this

1:33.5

movie, I, I found myself thinking on the way over here, it would have been interesting

1:38.6

if this was sort of like more influenced by Travis Bickle as a performance choice.

1:44.1

See, I think it's an unbelievable performance. But I do, I do. I do. I think it's incredible

1:48.8

performance. But I think it's the kind of performance that's like ruinous for a career.

1:53.8

And I think, you know, there's all the dumb, hand-wringing that happens over like when

1:57.7

people play the joke or they never come back from that. And I'm like, it's a fucking clown

2:01.1

with face paint. Like even as extreme as you're going to make him, people know what movie

2:04.9

they're in. Right. And this is a performance I watch where I'm like, I don't know how you

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