One F*cking Hour

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)

Episode 13: Tom, Evan & Marcus go under the hood of an American masterpiece, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), and the artisans behind its maddening nightmare world, which still packs a stiff punch to this day.

MAGNOLIA (1999) and why everyone is wrong about this pretentious FAIL

Episode 12: Tom, Evan and Marcus reevaluate Paul Thomas Anderson's oppressively self serious MAGNOLIA (1999), the shapeless soup of half narratives that closed the '90s.

Nicolas Roeg’s WALKABOUT (1971)

Episode 11: Tom, Evan & Marcus deep dive on Nicolas Roeg's enigmatic and hallucinogenic coming of age film WALKABOUT (1971).

Listen to Stockhausen's "Hymnen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4Uy-3b0c8

SLEDGEHAMMER (1983) and SOV horror as accidental video art

Tom, Evan & Marcus go deep on the 1983 shot-on-video horror film SLEDGEHAMMER an accidental video art piece featuring hallucinatory slo-mo and a claustrophobic dead zone of white noise and white walls.

Bob Fosse’s ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)

Episode 9: Tom, Evan & Marcus deep dive on Bob Fosse's musical fever dream "All That Jazz" (1979), a meta self reflection of a total bullshit artist.

Get your pre-watch in of next week's film Sledgehammer (1983) right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJI6SXl4pp4&t=0s

 

SUPER FLY (1972)

Episode 8: Tom, Evan & Marcus dig into the artistry and the extremely talent crew behind Gordon Parks Jr.'s landmark '70s existential crime film "Super Fly".

1:09 – Overtime on "Overnight" (2003)
4:56 – Overtime on "Phantasm" (1979), letter from Roberto A. Quezada
8:41 – One Fucking Hour on "Super Fly" (1972)

Special Thanks to Rémy Bennett for additional research.

References used for this episode - "Tryin' To Get Over: Super Fly, Black Politics, and Post–Civil Rights Film Enterprise: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/373231 MOMA: Gordon Parks and “The Atmosphere of Crime”: https://www.moma.org/calendar/galleries/5258

OVERNIGHT (2003) and megalomania behind THE BOONDOCK SAINTS

Episode 7: Tom, Evan & Marcus deep dive on Tony Montana & Mark Brian Smith’s character assassination documentary OVERNIGHT (2003), which chronicles the the ill-fated making-of The Boondock Saints and its megalomaniacal director bro Troy Duffy.

Stream "Overnight" (2003) for free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/510561/overnight

PHANTASM (1979)

Episode 6: Tom, Evan & Marcus go one fucking hour on Don Coscarelli's DIY nightmare-scape "Phantasm," a 70s prog-rock album cover come to life.

Listen to THE 'TASM MIX – A Mixtape Inspired by Phantasm curated by us on YouTube or Spotify. 

James Woods in THE BOOST (1988)

Episode 5: Tom, Evan & Marcus go one fucking hour on the 'Just Say No' cautionary tale The Boost from 1988 starring James Woods & Sean Young.

STRAIGHT TIME (1978)

Episode 4: Tom, Evan & Marcus gush over Dustin Hoffman in STRAIGHT TIME, a bonafide masterpiece of 1970's crime realism.