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Have You Seen This?

Have You Seen This?

The world"s only podcast about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media. Support the show on Patreon!patreon.com/haveyouseenthis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:24:18

133 - The Jericho Mile

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2022/03/28

Tim and Jen effuse about an early Michael Mann joint for television, the prison story The Jericho Mile!You can buy a beautiful blu-ray of the film fromKino Lorber, but if you just can’t wait to see it,it’s on YouTube. And we highly recommend it!The 1977 film Short Eyes, based on Miguel Piñero’s incendiary play, isfree with ads on Tubi.For more Michael Mann,check out our episode on The Keep! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:42:13

132 - Eyes of Fire

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2022/03/21

Jen and Tim host Mike Rosen, who is a witch, to discuss a very witchy cult horror movie, Eyes of Fire! Also, if you were dying to know Jen’s thoughts on Midsommar, they’re in there.Mike's graphic novel, Malleus Malleficarum, is indeed on itch.io and comes highly recommended by your hosts!Jen misidentified the actor who plays Will Smythe as “Douglas Lipscomb.” She of course meant Dennis Lipscomb.Severin Films included Eyes of Fire in their recently released All the Haunts Be Ours folk horror boxed

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131 - TEASER - Circle of Iron

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2022/03/16

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:34:16

131 - Circle of Iron

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2022/03/14

Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron.The official Bruce Lee websiteIf you’re not familiar with Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, just watch!The 17th century samurai, philosopher, and artist Miyamoto Musashi is considered a kensei— a “sword saint”— in Japan. Read a short Bruce Eder essay on the first installment in the Samurai trilogy of films, in which Toshiro Mifune played Musashi.If for whatever reason you

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1:28:16

130 - Loose Cannons

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2022/02/28

Jen and Tim enlist favorite guest Mike Rosen (bitterkarella on Twitter) to explicate the inexplicable Dan Aykroyd/Gene Hackman buddy cop comedy, Loose Cannons!Not to get all fact check dot org on you all, but the Dissociative Identity Disorder website has science-based information on what was misrepresented as “multiple personality disorder” in the movie.Busy Inside is a compassionate documentary about people with DID.Read an article about the Southern California Sorcerers, a writer’s group which

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1:42:03

129 - Hot to Trot

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2022/02/23

Tim and Jen make hay out of the 1988 comedy Hot to Trot, which killed Bobcat Goldthwait’s career for two decades. The horse was unscathed.Hear the entire episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 other bonus episodes!Tim confusedGod Bless AmericawithRed State(and Jen did not catch the error, shame on her) — the other movie from 2011 with a divisive title and middling reviews about a gun-toting ingenue.On his blog,script doctor Andy Breckman reminisces unkindly about working on the

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1:12:58

128 - Night Moves

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2022/02/14

Jen and Tim reflect on one of the great neo-noir films of Hollywood’s second golden age, Night Moves.Senses of Cinema has a thoughtful essay on the film by Bruce Jackson.We didn’t get a chance to talk about the film’s writer, Alan Sharp, who said his own screen work embodied “moral ambiguity, mixed motives and irony.” Matthew Asprey Gear describes the protracted gestation of Night Moves and illuminates some biographical details about Sharp in an article for Bright Lights Film Journal.Read Alan

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1:48:51

127 - Bamboozled

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2022/02/02

Tim and Jen welcome back Sean Morris to discuss one of Spike Lee’s most fascinating and controversial trainwrecks, Bamboozled.Per Sean’s recommendation,check out the official video for “Lovin’ It”from Little Brother’s “too intelligent” album The Minstrel Show.If you’re curious about the camera Spike Lee used to make Bamboozled, you can reada history of the Sony DCR-VX1000 here.In 2005, Dr. David Pilgrim wrote a powerful essay about the collection that became the foundation of the Jim Crow Museum at

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1:33:24

126 - The Keep

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2022/01/23

Jen and Tim are joined by Darren “Sebebe” Herczeg to reassess Michael Mann’s profoundly flawed fantasy/horror film, The Keep!Kit Rae’s exhaustive fansite may be the definitive document on The Keep at this point, but there’s also a documentary more than ten years in the making on the same subject. You can follow the filmmakers for updates on Twitter!Read Michael Mann’s original screenplay for The Keep!Watch the ending cut from the theatrical release and inexplicably appended to TV versions of the

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1:06:36

125 - House

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2022/01/17

Tim and Jen are overwhelmed by the raw charisma of Jacques from the Seeking Derangments podcast in a truly chaotic episode nominally about the chaotic 1977 film House!Via Senses of Cinema, read a retrospective on Nobuhiko Obayashi’s career that also serves as a defense of his filmmaking style.You can see a sampling of Obayashi’s commercial work on YouTube. Don’t miss the MANDOM spot starring Charles Bronson. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:29:43

124 - Outland

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2022/01/02

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen and Tim revisit an old favorite, Peter Hyams’s “High Noon in Space,” aka Outland!Jen is incorrect when she asserts that John Wayne was considered for the part of Marshal Will Kane in High Noon; Kramer and screenwriter Carl Foreman wanted a hot young star like Brando or Gregory Peck. Wayne, along with other Hollywood reactionaries including Hedda Hopper, did pressure Gary Cooper into

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1:59:39

123 - Apple TV+

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2021/12/20

Tim and Jen shred a selection of programs from awful neolib also-ran streaming service, Apple TV+!Have you seen…Tim’s website?Jen alludes at one point to the “Unicorn Killer,” Ira Einhorn. He claimed to have helped found Earth Day, but his account has been disputed. Conservatives still love to evoke him as emblematic of leftist depravity. He died in prison in 2020.Jen also touched on the much-muddied concept of"emotional labor,"as originally described by sociologist Arlie Hochschild.Read Sharmin

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2:00:13

122 - Gothic

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2021/12/14

Jen welcomes Julie once again to talk about the historical background of a phantasmagoric Ken Russell favorite, Gothic!The movie Jen fails to identify is, of course, Catherine Breillat’s 2004 Anatomy of Hell, starring Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi.Thomas Dolby enlisted vocalist Timothy Spall (!) for a song inspired by the film Gothic, “The Devil is an Englishman”Hear Steve Hackett’s cover of “The Devil is an Englishman” from his 2003 album, To Watch the Storms. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes

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120 - TEASER - Nothing But Trouble

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2021/11/29

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! https://www.patreon.com/posts/58990232Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Factory.You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Mike Rosen aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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2:04:01

121 - Fight Club

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2021/11/29

Get access to 50 bonus episodes for a pledge as low as $2/month at our Patreon!Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard.'The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, retrieving “the richest cream fat in the world”, that’s been siphoned out of the obese, and rendering it into

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1:08:30

120 - Nothing But Trouble with Matt Christman

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2021/11/22

Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Factory.You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Mike Rosen aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:28:19

119 - Siesta

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2021/11/16

Jen welcomes Julie (@ chimericalgirl1 on Twitter) to celebrate an almost entirely forgotten erotic thriller with art house ambitions, Siesta, from 1987. This one’s quite overlooked in spite of a stacked cast that includes Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Grace Jones, and Alexei Sayle.We admit, this one’s hard to track down unless you’re willing to hunt for PAL and/or bootleg DVDs, but you can hear some of the sultry Miles Davis/Marcus Miller soundtrack! Have You Seen This

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1:22:04

118 - Martin

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2021/11/01

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Mike Rosen (@ bitterkarella on Twitter) to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin.Some exciting news that broke the day we recorded this episode—the 3-hour black-and-white director’s cut of Martin has been found!Check out Mike’s satirical horror microfiction accountMidnight Pals on Twitter, as well! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See

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1:17:03

117 - The Town That Dreaded Sundown

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2021/10/25

Jen and Tim discover two Arkansas originals: The Town That Dreaded Sundown from 1976, and indie film pioneer Charles B. Pierce!Amanda Squitiero, daughter of Charles B. Pierce, corrects some misconceptions about him in this fine article from Filmmaker magazine. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:17:15

116 - Faces of Death

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2021/10/18

Tim and Jen confront the most infamous mondo film of all time, Faces of Death!Faces of Death may be viewed in its entirety on Tubi.Echoing Jen’s experience in high school auto safety,two students were traumatized after their math teacher showed the film in class in 1985:“The people at the table,” says Forget today, “beat this monkey over the head with a hammer until it died. Then they cut the top of its head off and ate its brains.” As an animal-lover, she found the film deeply disturbing and asked

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