Loose Canons Ep. 29 Black Book
Friday, July 25, 2014
Loose Canons Ep. 29 Black Book
Loose Canons Ep. 29 Black Book
Loose Canons Ep. 28 Come Drink With Me
This time we get drunk and bust out some kung fu. Michael, our resident Kung Fu Master, fills in for Patrick.
Loose Canons Ep. 28 Come Drink With Me
Loose Canons Ep. 28 Come Drink With Me
Friday, July 18, 2014
Loose Canons Ep. 27 Nostalgia Films
This time we take a trip down memory lane to find out if we were complete idiots when we were younger.
Loose Canons Ep. 27 Nostalgia Films
Loose Canons Ep. 27 Nostalgia Films
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Loose Canons Ep. 26 Beau Travail
This time we do some good work, or make a good catch, or a nice find, or whatever beau travail is supposed to mean. Also, Marcia joins us to play games!
Loose Canons Ep. 26 Beau Travail
00:00-01:05 Marcia joins the Podcast! (Ilya is away)
01:05-09:10 Let’s Play a Game!
09:10-11:30 Brief Plot Recap: Reuben (who used to hate this movie)
11:30-19:30 Loved It (Reuben), Liked It (Marcia, Patrick liked it OK), On The Fence (Basil)
19:30-22:00 Reuben thinks this movie is funnier/more playful than he initially gave it credit for
22:10-22:40 The perfect crease
22:40-23:20 Weird army exercises
23:20-24:00 The women are the Greek chorus of the movie
24:00-25:50 Colonialism & Branding
25:50-26:30 Marcia thinks the movie is less postcolonial as much as it is about new colonial powers
26:30-27:30 The Sexyfication of Sentain
27:30-29:05 Laura Mulvey and the meaning of looking
29:05-30:30 Galoup’s body issues as satire of Leni Riefenstahl’s obsessive bod worship
30:30-32:00 Galoup – He’s The Greatest Dancer
32:00-32:45 Patrick likes that kiss-kiss pop song in the beginning
32:45-33:30 Basil likes the women staring back in the African Disco
33:30-34:30 Galoup’s heaven is a Discotheque (with him in it)
34:30-36:00 Is there even any good work left in the world?
36:00-37:45 More weird Army exercises
37:45-38:30 Galoup and Sentain get really close to kissing
38:30-41:15 Patrick doesn’t get the Galoup/Sentain jealousy
41:15-42:00 Computer proooooooooblems!
42:00-42:45 Marcia read a hilarious gay panic-filled synopsis of this movie
42:45-43:20 GOOGLING PORTION!
43:20-44:30 Looking at pictures of the French Foreign Legion
44:30-44:45 Join the French Legion and get hugged!
44:45-45:40 Reuben likes that this is a poetic movie that also makes fun of itself
45:40-46:20 Basil feels like that church digging scene was from another (worse) movie
46:20-46:50 Instead of slow motion people just move really slowly
46:50-48:35 Loose scripting and amateur acting
48:35-49:30 Finally a movie that acknowledges Denis Levant is weird-looking
49:30-50:20 Reuben thinks he looks weird in a good way
50:20-51:10 Patrick talks about Rooney and Kate Mara for a bit
51:10-52:00 Betsy hates Denis Levant’s face
52:00-53:20 Reuben saw a movie where Sentain looks like a child
53:20-54:00 How about them salt fields!
54:00-55:00 Basil had a lot of salt in his movie diet that day
55:00-55:50 Reuben likes a lot of shots in this movie
55:50-57:40 Basil hates the digital look (and hates that he notices that)
57:40-58:20 Car problems in Beau Travail
58:20-01:00:10 Reuben wants to check other Denis films for funny parts
01:00:10-01:01:10 I Can’t Sleep and Vendredi Soir
01:01:10-01:02:40 Inversions in Beau Travail (Military life as regular life, sexual repression causes perversion)
01:02:40-01:04:30 JBaum on Beau Travail (as usual, his review ends when it gets really interesting)
01:04:30-01:12:00 Let’s Play a Game again!
01:12:00-01:12:47 Thanks, Marcia! Thanks for listening everybody!
Loose Canons Ep. 26 Beau Travail
00:00-01:05 Marcia joins the Podcast! (Ilya is away)
01:05-09:10 Let’s Play a Game!
09:10-11:30 Brief Plot Recap: Reuben (who used to hate this movie)
11:30-19:30 Loved It (Reuben), Liked It (Marcia, Patrick liked it OK), On The Fence (Basil)
19:30-22:00 Reuben thinks this movie is funnier/more playful than he initially gave it credit for
22:10-22:40 The perfect crease
22:40-23:20 Weird army exercises
23:20-24:00 The women are the Greek chorus of the movie
24:00-25:50 Colonialism & Branding
25:50-26:30 Marcia thinks the movie is less postcolonial as much as it is about new colonial powers
26:30-27:30 The Sexyfication of Sentain
27:30-29:05 Laura Mulvey and the meaning of looking
29:05-30:30 Galoup’s body issues as satire of Leni Riefenstahl’s obsessive bod worship
30:30-32:00 Galoup – He’s The Greatest Dancer
32:00-32:45 Patrick likes that kiss-kiss pop song in the beginning
32:45-33:30 Basil likes the women staring back in the African Disco
33:30-34:30 Galoup’s heaven is a Discotheque (with him in it)
34:30-36:00 Is there even any good work left in the world?
36:00-37:45 More weird Army exercises
37:45-38:30 Galoup and Sentain get really close to kissing
38:30-41:15 Patrick doesn’t get the Galoup/Sentain jealousy
41:15-42:00 Computer proooooooooblems!
42:00-42:45 Marcia read a hilarious gay panic-filled synopsis of this movie
42:45-43:20 GOOGLING PORTION!
43:20-44:30 Looking at pictures of the French Foreign Legion
44:30-44:45 Join the French Legion and get hugged!
44:45-45:40 Reuben likes that this is a poetic movie that also makes fun of itself
45:40-46:20 Basil feels like that church digging scene was from another (worse) movie
46:20-46:50 Instead of slow motion people just move really slowly
46:50-48:35 Loose scripting and amateur acting
48:35-49:30 Finally a movie that acknowledges Denis Levant is weird-looking
49:30-50:20 Reuben thinks he looks weird in a good way
50:20-51:10 Patrick talks about Rooney and Kate Mara for a bit
51:10-52:00 Betsy hates Denis Levant’s face
52:00-53:20 Reuben saw a movie where Sentain looks like a child
53:20-54:00 How about them salt fields!
54:00-55:00 Basil had a lot of salt in his movie diet that day
55:00-55:50 Reuben likes a lot of shots in this movie
55:50-57:40 Basil hates the digital look (and hates that he notices that)
57:40-58:20 Car problems in Beau Travail
58:20-01:00:10 Reuben wants to check other Denis films for funny parts
01:00:10-01:01:10 I Can’t Sleep and Vendredi Soir
01:01:10-01:02:40 Inversions in Beau Travail (Military life as regular life, sexual repression causes perversion)
01:02:40-01:04:30 JBaum on Beau Travail (as usual, his review ends when it gets really interesting)
01:04:30-01:12:00 Let’s Play a Game again!
01:12:00-01:12:47 Thanks, Marcia! Thanks for listening everybody!
Loose Canons Ep. 25 The Wind Rises
This time we risk life and limb for a podcast no one listens to.
Loose Canons Ep. 25 The Wind Rises
00:00-02:00 The podcast gets really weird really quick
02:00-03:15 Brief Plot Recap: Patrick
03:15-07:30 Liked It (Everyone, Ilya not very much), Disliked It (Nobody!)
07:30-09:00 Basil imitates the movie’s sweet lofi sound design
09:00-11:40 Does the movie lionize or critique Jiro?
11:40-13:45 Reuben doesn’t think it does either
13:45-14:30 "Would you rather live in a world with or without the Pyramids?"
14:30-15:20 Patrick thinks the movie was critical of Jiro
15:20-16:30 Ilya thinks Naoko is instrumentalized as a muse character
16:30-18:55 Basil thinks Miyazaki is ambivalent about the planes and their constructors
18:55-20:30 They’re gonna put guns on it, Jiro
20:30-23:20 Jiro is straightforward & heroic but doesn’t know how to live
23:20-24:40 Everyone in the movie except for his sister enables Jiro
24:40-24:50 God, let Patrick talk!
24:50-26:30 Miyazaki uses Jiro to take stock of his own filmmaking process
26:30-27:30 Jiro’s a dreamer (he’s the only one)
27:30-28:40 Ilya likes the super weird coughing on the soundtrack
28:40-30:00 The sound design and dialogue remind Ilya of Lynch sans irony
30:00-31:00 Miyazaki is just doing his thing at this point
31:00-32:10 Basil likes that the movie doesn’t divide itself into “for adults” and “for kids” parts
32:10-33:30 Contrast/similarity to Spirited Away
33:30-34:10 There’s an ad on the podcast!
34:10-35:30 There’s no talking in the first five minutes of the movie (followed by lots of talking)
35:30-36:50 Jiro’s voice-actor is as restrained as his character’s range of emotion
36:50-37:10 It’s Basil’s birthday!
37:10-39:15 Patrick likes how Jiro’s myopia mirrors his emotional condition
39:15-41:00 Paper plane chase turns into near-death experience
41:00-41:30 Life is pretty miserable isn’t it? Yes, it is.
41:30-43:30 Critique of Japanese valorization of work and big stuff that kicks ass!
43:30-44:30 Ilya thinks it’s weird that the movie doesn’t show civilian/non-Japanese cost of war
44:30-45:30 Basil thinks awfulness of World War 2 can be inferred
45:30-46:30 Reuben likes the sympathetic portrait and Japanese perspective on WW2
46:30-47:00 Also, Reuben thought Ilya disagreed that Basil liked Dinosaurs as a kid
47:00-48:00 Sentimentalization of Axis powers’ past still gross
48:00-50:20 Brief scene in Germany is evocative of Nazi regime/Jiro’s cluelessness about it
50:20-52:00 Basil thinks not seeing the Axis powers as monsters helps people be more aware of/non-participatory in their ideology
52:00-52:50 Hans Castorp is a stand-in for the Weimar émigré of the late 1930s
52:50-56:10 His invisibility to the characters mirrors the obliviousness of the time
56:10-57:25 Song sounds like it’s from Noriko’s Dinner Table
57:25-58:00 GOOGLING SECTION OF THE PODCAST BEGINS HERE!
58:00-59:00 Reuben loves the shot of Nayoko in her wedding dress
59:00-01:00:10 Felliniesque planes
01:00:10-01:01:00 Ilya brings up The Aviator and we discuss Scorsese
01:01:00-01:02:00 De Niro banging his head against the wall in Raging Bull should be a 10-hour Youtube loop
01:02:00-01:03:00 Caproni’s massive plane looks like Howard Hughes’ Hercules
01:03:00-01:04:30 Caproni throwing film into the water is reminiscent of the failures you don’t get to see when watching movies as well as with historiography
01:04:30-01:06:00 Miyazaki’s “every artist gets ten years to do great work” is probably tongue-in-cheek
01:06:00-01:06:30 This movie is much better than Ponyo & Howl’s Moving Castle
01:06:30-01:07:40 Let’s speculate on Studio Ghibli projects!
01:07:40-01:10:00 “From the Studio that brought you…” & other hilarious marketing strategies!
01:10:00-01:10:45 This movie is much, much better than The Aviator
01:10:45-01:12:30 “World War 2 was my favorite war!” – Stephen Spielberg (according to JBaum, via Joe Dante)
01:12:30-01:14:00 Patrick compares Miyazaki’s popularity in Japan to Spielberg in US
01:14:00-01:17:20 Ozu/Mizoguchi/ Kurosawa/Miyazaki/Oshima – Who’s Big In Japan?
01:17:20-01:17:40 Who is even listening anymore?
01:17:40-01:18:15We don’t even have enough ratings on ITunes
01:18:15-01:18:30 Dogs love podcasts!
01:18:30-01:19:30 Miyazaki loves Ozu and Spielberg loves Ran
01:19:30-01:20:30 Basil is now hooked on Russian/Former Soviet Republic movies!
01:20:30-01:21:40 Underworld is the Night Watch of American Cinema
01:21:40-01:22:50 Reuben once ran (surprisingly!) fast to watch Underworld!
01:22:50-01:23:45 Go listen to other podcasts!
01:23:45-01:24:00 TEASER: next time there will be games!
01:24:00-01:24:15 Thanks for listening everybody!
Loose Canons Ep. 25 The Wind Rises
00:00-02:00 The podcast gets really weird really quick
02:00-03:15 Brief Plot Recap: Patrick
03:15-07:30 Liked It (Everyone, Ilya not very much), Disliked It (Nobody!)
07:30-09:00 Basil imitates the movie’s sweet lofi sound design
09:00-11:40 Does the movie lionize or critique Jiro?
11:40-13:45 Reuben doesn’t think it does either
13:45-14:30 "Would you rather live in a world with or without the Pyramids?"
14:30-15:20 Patrick thinks the movie was critical of Jiro
15:20-16:30 Ilya thinks Naoko is instrumentalized as a muse character
16:30-18:55 Basil thinks Miyazaki is ambivalent about the planes and their constructors
18:55-20:30 They’re gonna put guns on it, Jiro
20:30-23:20 Jiro is straightforward & heroic but doesn’t know how to live
23:20-24:40 Everyone in the movie except for his sister enables Jiro
24:40-24:50 God, let Patrick talk!
24:50-26:30 Miyazaki uses Jiro to take stock of his own filmmaking process
26:30-27:30 Jiro’s a dreamer (he’s the only one)
27:30-28:40 Ilya likes the super weird coughing on the soundtrack
28:40-30:00 The sound design and dialogue remind Ilya of Lynch sans irony
30:00-31:00 Miyazaki is just doing his thing at this point
31:00-32:10 Basil likes that the movie doesn’t divide itself into “for adults” and “for kids” parts
32:10-33:30 Contrast/similarity to Spirited Away
33:30-34:10 There’s an ad on the podcast!
34:10-35:30 There’s no talking in the first five minutes of the movie (followed by lots of talking)
35:30-36:50 Jiro’s voice-actor is as restrained as his character’s range of emotion
36:50-37:10 It’s Basil’s birthday!
37:10-39:15 Patrick likes how Jiro’s myopia mirrors his emotional condition
39:15-41:00 Paper plane chase turns into near-death experience
41:00-41:30 Life is pretty miserable isn’t it? Yes, it is.
41:30-43:30 Critique of Japanese valorization of work and big stuff that kicks ass!
43:30-44:30 Ilya thinks it’s weird that the movie doesn’t show civilian/non-Japanese cost of war
44:30-45:30 Basil thinks awfulness of World War 2 can be inferred
45:30-46:30 Reuben likes the sympathetic portrait and Japanese perspective on WW2
46:30-47:00 Also, Reuben thought Ilya disagreed that Basil liked Dinosaurs as a kid
47:00-48:00 Sentimentalization of Axis powers’ past still gross
48:00-50:20 Brief scene in Germany is evocative of Nazi regime/Jiro’s cluelessness about it
50:20-52:00 Basil thinks not seeing the Axis powers as monsters helps people be more aware of/non-participatory in their ideology
52:00-52:50 Hans Castorp is a stand-in for the Weimar émigré of the late 1930s
52:50-56:10 His invisibility to the characters mirrors the obliviousness of the time
56:10-57:25 Song sounds like it’s from Noriko’s Dinner Table
57:25-58:00 GOOGLING SECTION OF THE PODCAST BEGINS HERE!
58:00-59:00 Reuben loves the shot of Nayoko in her wedding dress
59:00-01:00:10 Felliniesque planes
01:00:10-01:01:00 Ilya brings up The Aviator and we discuss Scorsese
01:01:00-01:02:00 De Niro banging his head against the wall in Raging Bull should be a 10-hour Youtube loop
01:02:00-01:03:00 Caproni’s massive plane looks like Howard Hughes’ Hercules
01:03:00-01:04:30 Caproni throwing film into the water is reminiscent of the failures you don’t get to see when watching movies as well as with historiography
01:04:30-01:06:00 Miyazaki’s “every artist gets ten years to do great work” is probably tongue-in-cheek
01:06:00-01:06:30 This movie is much better than Ponyo & Howl’s Moving Castle
01:06:30-01:07:40 Let’s speculate on Studio Ghibli projects!
01:07:40-01:10:00 “From the Studio that brought you…” & other hilarious marketing strategies!
01:10:00-01:10:45 This movie is much, much better than The Aviator
01:10:45-01:12:30 “World War 2 was my favorite war!” – Stephen Spielberg (according to JBaum, via Joe Dante)
01:12:30-01:14:00 Patrick compares Miyazaki’s popularity in Japan to Spielberg in US
01:14:00-01:17:20 Ozu/Mizoguchi/ Kurosawa/Miyazaki/Oshima – Who’s Big In Japan?
01:17:20-01:17:40 Who is even listening anymore?
01:17:40-01:18:15We don’t even have enough ratings on ITunes
01:18:15-01:18:30 Dogs love podcasts!
01:18:30-01:19:30 Miyazaki loves Ozu and Spielberg loves Ran
01:19:30-01:20:30 Basil is now hooked on Russian/Former Soviet Republic movies!
01:20:30-01:21:40 Underworld is the Night Watch of American Cinema
01:21:40-01:22:50 Reuben once ran (surprisingly!) fast to watch Underworld!
01:22:50-01:23:45 Go listen to other podcasts!
01:23:45-01:24:00 TEASER: next time there will be games!
01:24:00-01:24:15 Thanks for listening everybody!
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