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Ep. 80 Any Number Can Win & Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

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2021/08/03

“Don’t gush over the sea. It’s always been there.” It's a “Jean Gabin is getting too for this shit” double feature! On this episode, hosts Christopher Funderburg and John Cribbs discuss two unforgettable French crime films: Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and Henri Verneuil's Any Number Can Win (1963), both starring the grandfather of quiet cool, M. Jean Gabin. Playing aging gangsters intent on making off with that last big score, the legendary leading man slipped into these

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Ep. 79 The Box Man

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2021/07/21

“The more you struggle, the more new passages you make in the labyrinth, the more the box is like another layer of outer skin that grows from the body, and the inner arrangement is made more and more complex.” On this episode, hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg climb into a corrugated cardboard nightmare and explore Kobo Abe’s delightfully bizarre The Box Man. Best known for his work with Hiroshi Teshigahara on the film adaptation of his novels (including The Face of Another and Woman in

02:04:50

Ep. 46 The Turn Of The Screw

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2021/07/03

Join hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg for a deep dive into Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and its cinematic adaptations. The story of a naive governess & her innocent charges is the quintessential ghost story, a metaphorical exploration of abuse, theodicy and the ways in which adults let down the children around them. Some of the adaptations discussed include Jack Clayton’s 1961 masterpiece The Innocents, Michael Winner’s surprisingly erudite and unsurprisingly tasteless prequel The

01:29:28

Ep. 78 Hard Boiled

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2021/06/29

“Nostalgia is one of our saving graces.” On the latest episode, hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg take things back to their heroic bloodshed drenched pasts to discuss John Woo’s ne plus ultra of Hong Kong action cinema, Hard Boiled. Like many a greasy teenage malcontent in the early 90s, their exposure to the films of John Woo was key in setting them on a life-path of undeviating film nerd-dom. Join them as they discuss their shared love of Tequila, rice like family, one corrupt cop,

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Ep. 41 Richard Jewell

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2021/06/15

Hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs are joined by filmmaker Bill Teck to discuss RICHARD JEWELL. The latest film director by Clint Eastwood, it's the true story of an Atlanta security guard falsely accused by the FBI and Atlanta-Journal Constitution of planting bombs at the 1996 Olympics. The discussion turns from Paul Walter Hauser's astounding performance (and checkered Juggalo history) to the media environment surrounding domestic terrorism in 1996 to how Eastwood's unadorned style

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Ep. 77 The Graduate

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2021/06/01

This is a deeply personal episode, so indulge us. For their 50th wedding anniversary, we’re joined by host Christopher Funderburg’s parents to discuss the film that brought them together: Mike Nichols’ 1967 countercultural comedy, The Graduate. Along with co-host John Cribbs, they get into it all: the history of both their relationship and the film itself. We discuss what the film meant to their generation, the cultural conflicts between the Los Angeles types in the film and audiences in Murray

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Ep. 57 Abel Ferrara 2010 To 2020

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2021/05/18

Abel Ferrara has been making films for nearly 50 years without compromising his unique, provocative, unflinchingly autobiographical vision. In this episode we invited special guests Marcus Pinn and John Frankensteiner to discuss Ferrara's four narrative films from the last decade: his farewell to New York City in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his return to a very different kind of city in Welcome to New York, a chronicle of the last days of a filmmaking legend with Pasolini and the brutal self-examination

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Ep. 5 Annihilation

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2021/05/04

On this episode of The Pink Smoke podcast, host John Cribbs is joined by Amanda Gilbert to discuss Alex Garland's Annihilation. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke PSP theme music by Marcus Pinn: http://www.pinnlandempire.com/

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Ep. 1 Happy End

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2021/04/20

On the inaugural episode of The Pink Smoke podcast, we tackle Michael Haneke's semi-sequel to Amour & discuss whether the filmmaker is entering a new phase of his career. Join hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs as they enter a new phase of their professional lives. One in which they have a podcast. The Pink Smoke site: http://www.thepinksmoke.com/ The Pink Smoke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepinksmoke Theme music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.

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Ep. 76 The Animal-Lover's Book Of Beastly Murder

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2021/04/06

"The rat had taken some pleasure in attacking a member of the human race, one with the same smell as the big ones." We’re joined by regular guest & noted animal-lover Wendy Mays to discuss Patricia Highsmith’s THE ANIMAL-LOVER’S BOOK OF BEASTLY MURDER! This collection of short stories follows a series of creatures from elephant to cat to rat to cockroach that find themselves wrapped up in murder, robbery and all manner of unsettling Highsmithian mayhem. Previously having joined us to discuss the

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Ep. 75 Spontaneous Combustion

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2021/03/23

Of all the overlooked, misunderstood films directed by Tobe Hooper, Spontaneous Combustion remains one of the most overlooked and misunderstood. There are few viewing experiences as shocking and tragically poetic as watching human nuclear meltdown Brad Dourif expel flames from his body as smoke pours out of him like the tip of a lit cigar. On this episode, hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg invite Stan Giesea, author of Charred Remains - an account of his time on the set of Spontaneous

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Ep. 74 Bond In The Brosnan Era

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2021/03/09

It was inevitable that our decade-spanning reappraisal of the James Bond franchise would hit the Pierce Brosnan period, but rather than return to die another day host John Cribbs and special guest John Arminio go full-tilt into all four films running from 1995 to 2002. Following Bond's evolution in an era of megalomaniacal media moguls, invisible cars and Dr. Christmas Jones, they question whether the charismatic Irishman ever really found his footing as the fabled spy or if his efforts were simply

01:37:44

Ep. 53 This Sweet Sickness

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2021/03/03

Hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg discuss Patricia Highsmith’s 1960 crime novel, This Sweet Sickness. The novel follows a stalker who constructs a perfect marriage in his mind and goes to horrifying extremes to make that vision of domestic bliss a reality. It’s a book about the psychosis of a romantic worldview, about the insanity lurking behind the ideas of a One True Love. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on

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Ep. 73 Jean-Claude Carrière

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2021/02/23

Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg sit down to pay tribute to one of the greatest screenwriters who ever lived, Jean-Claude Carrière. When Carrière recently passed away the hosts decided to pick a handful of the writer’s films to discuss as a way of exploring his long and incredibly varied career. From his career-defining work with Luis Buñuel to his long-running associations with filmmakers including Miloš Forman & Pierre Étaix to his more off-beat one-off projects, few screenwriters were

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Ep. 72 Seijun Suzuki

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2021/02/08

“Who speaks of realism here?” This is it: our mammoth exploration of the work of Japanese iconoclast Seijun Suzuki. Hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs are joined by poster illustrator and peerless cinephile Tony Stella to examine the legendarily idiosyncratic and uncontrollable director. From Suzuki’s start as an impossibly lazy assistant director at Shochiku to his his period as a relentlessly prolific genre filmmaker at Nikkatsu to his second act as an esteemed independent artist. His

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Ep. 52 James Bond In The 60s

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2021/01/27

Host John Cribbs is joined by John Arminio to discuss the James Bond films of the 60s. Looking at what many fans consider the series’ untouchable golden age, Cribbs & Arminio go film by film through every cinematic portrayal of Bond in the decade, not even skipping over 1967’s Casino Royale! Starting with Dr. No and Ursula Andress (as iconic as Venus de Milo) emerging from the ocean, touching on the duo’s consensus for the best film in the series, and capping off the conversation with a discussion

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Ep. 25 The Glitter Dome

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2021/01/23

On this month's pulp fiction episode, Funderburg & Cribbs discussed former cop Joseph Wambaugh's brutal, depressing & hilarious Hollywood conspiracy thriller, The Glitter Dome. It's a masterpiece of the "sleazy cop" genre that depicts a world of casual racism, violence, and depravity in a chaotic story about cops wildly failing to live up their duty.

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Ep. 71 Alan Dean Foster

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2021/01/11

“Most great art has been commission work. Bernini didn’t sit around making statues because he liked making statues, he did it because Pope So-and-so wanted a bust of himself on his elaborate tomb… Rembrandt, I’m sure, would’ve been happier doing something other than painting fat businessmen most of his life.” No name is as synonymous with the art of novelization as “Alan Dean Foster,” known for his work reverse engineering novels out of films like The Thing, Alien and, most of all, Star Wars. We’re

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Ep. 70 The Stars My Destination

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2020/12/27

“We’re tigers, the three of us, but who the hell are we to make decisions for the world just because we’re compulsive?” For this special international episode, we’re joined by Nicolás Virviescas and Daniel Castro, founders of the Colombian online film criticism portal Filmigrana. Our guests selected Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination to discuss for the occasion, the story of a stranded astronaut whose only motivation for survival is revenge. The book, a favorite of filmmaker John Carpenter,

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Ep. 43 Tangerine Dream Soundtracks

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2020/12/16

Host John Cribbs is joined by Emmy-winning editor/producer & longtime Pink Smoke contributor Eric Pfriender to discuss the soundtrack work of Tangerine Dream, the experimental music conglomeration best known for their scores for films like Risky Business, Sorcerer, Thief and Near Dark. Inspired by the recent re-release of Sorcerer’s soundtrack (featuring cover art by the great Tony Stella!), this is an in-depth exploration of pulsating electronic psychedelia that feels like a chase scene leading

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