One F*cking Hour

Episode 38: Special guest director Joey Izzo joins us to deep dive on AMERICAN MOVIE (1999), the intimate and endearing documentary by Chris Smith that follows suburban Milwaukie dreamer Mark Borchardt – a kinetically passionate hesher/cinephile who exhausts all of his family, friends and resources to finish his singular micro-budgeted film projects.

 

WATCH Joey Izzo's Sundance selected short film YOU'VE NEVER BEEN COMPLETELY HONEST (2022): https://vimeo.com/blog/post/youve-never-been-completely-honest-by-joey-izzo/

 

WATCH Chris Smith's AMERICAN JOB (1994): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1FoHxjv0k

Episode 37: Special guest Rémy Bennett joins us to go one fucking hour on Nicolas Roeg’s BAD TIMING: A SENSUAL OBSESSION – the psycho-sexual drama that follows the highly destructive relationship between a cold and manipulative American psychologist (Art Garfunkel) and the raw free spirited Milena played by Roeg’s long-time collaborator and eventual wife Theresa Russell.

 

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS A DISCUSSION AROUND A FILM WHICH DEPICTS GRAPHIC SCENES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.

 

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Episode 36: Tom, Evan & Marcus go one fucking hour on the mega-dark & twisted 16mm slasher MANIAC (1980) starring brilliant character actor Joe Spinell as a disturbed serial killer and mannequin fetishist who is haunted by visions of his abusive mother. A highly controversial and game-changing entry into the DIY horror underground. 

 

Episode 35: Tom, Evan & Marcus go one fucking hour on their take on Scorsese’s iconic TAXI DRIVER (1976) finding new resonance through its disturbingly prophetic depiction of modern alienation, examining under-discussed creative choices throughout the film, along with a few nitpicks of an otherwise perfect film.

Episode 34: Tom, Evan & Marcus go one fucking hour on Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky's intimate rockumentary METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER (2004), which chronicles the lowest point in the career of heavy metal juggernaut Metallica as they endure group therapy sessions, massive infighting and major creative constipation.

Episode 33: Special guest Lars Nilsen of the Austin Film Society joins us to deep dive on ...ALL THE MARBLES (1981), which is old Hollywood maverick Robert Aldrich’s fond farewell to show-business – represented here at its molecular level in the story of a female tag team called the California Dolls and their irascible but idealistic manager, played by the great Peter Falk – as they troll the shittiest rust belt arenas for greasy $100 bills.

AFS' "Jewels In The Wasteland" series –

Series 1: https://letterboxd.com/larsn/list/richard-linklaters-austin-film-society-jewels/

Series 2: https://letterboxd.com/larsn/list/richard-linklaters-jewels-in-the-wasteland-1/

Episode 32: Tom, Evan & Marcus go one fucking hour on Oliver Stone's THE DOORS, the brazenly inaccurate account of the highly influential rock group and the infamous antics of lead singer Jim Morrison.

Self-serious to point of unintentional parody, this attempt at capturing the '60s by way of the '90s would set the framework approach for studio produced, cringe-worthy rock music biopics for decades to come.

THE UNAUTHORIZED TRUTH ABOUT OLIVER STONE'S THE DOORS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrIEPQ-gAZ0

Episode 31: Tom, Evan and special guest Rémy Bennett – three children of divorce – get heavy and personal going one fucking hour on David Cronenberg's 1979 body horror/divorce allegory. 

Episode 30: Tom, Evan and special guest Rémy Bennett go one fucking hour on PERSONAL BEST (1982), the athletic drama directed by infamous New Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne, which follows an aspiring young track and field star (Mariel Hemingway) on her journey to becoming an Olympian in the late 70s.

Episode 29: Tom, Evan & Marcus go one fucking hour on Albert Brooks' masterful "comedy" MODERN ROMANCE (1981), an equally funny and disturbing portrait of male jealousy, narcissism & neuroses.