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PODCAST

Wages of Cinema

Jack Gattanella

A podcast that is practically all about MOVIES! Cinema, films, celluloid, digital, whatever you want to call it. Jack and Andrew are the hosts, and we talk about new movies, classics, cult work, things we"ve seen and have never seen, special segments about directors and styles and trends, and "Required Reading" which is about movie books. And the "Local Vocal" series gives you in-depth interviews with NYC/NJ based filmmakers, actors, artists and musicians.

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00:46:48

Episode 59.3: ALL HAIL THE MARX BROTHERS! (Pt.1)

Wages of Cinema ·

2016/08/25

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" Who could say things better than Groucho Marx? That's a trick question because no one could - he, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo made such a dynamic team that their five first films at Paramount studios, between 1929 and 1933, remain among five of the funniest damn movies on the planet. Do they have the best stories? Who cares when you have four anarchic Jews who want to make you laugh? Do they have the best songs? A few are certainly among the

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00:09:42

Episode 59.2: Cinema Immersion Tank #16- PERSONA

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2016/08/25

Can you ever really understand a film when it challenges perceptions of reality? Persona was one of the key films of the 1960's and marked a turning point for the career of Ingmar Bergman - known for his philosophical and poetic examinations of spirituality, existential questions and real deep-raw-human hurt and pain and love and anger and all of those things, he went into a mode with Persona where it was... well, what was it exactly? Can Andrew, our faithful co-host and man who has actually

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01:02:58

Episode 59.1: THIS SUMMER IN MOVIES - KUBO & THE TWO...

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2016/08/25

First, Jack and Andrew take a look back at this summer of movies for 2016... and why it was so thoroughly mediocre and forgettable (and we also quote and mention an article written by Jessica Ritchey, "Hollywood Gave Up on You", which you can read at the link below. Then, Jack and Andrew talk about the movies they've seen in the three weeks(!) since the past full three-part episode, and the movies stretch from the new releases from Werner Herzog and Laika animation studios (the makers of Coraline

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01:12:43

Episode 58: SUICIDE SQUAD

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2016/08/05

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality..." (some Warners exec right now, probably) So tonight, Jack, Andrew, and Guest Star Matt(TM) bring you a review of the classic 1935 classic that's all about the brave firemen of the world and the women they love, SUICIDE SQUAD! (Well, this movie does exist, but wait, no, wrong version, right, it's 2016, gotcha, let's correct that). By now a lot of words have been written about the movie - and a little

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00:58:51

Episode 57.3: 2016 COMIC-CON TRAILERSTRAVAGANZA!

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2016/08/04

Batman! Doctor Strange! Harley Quinn! King Kong! Edward Snowden! Wait, what? We watched a whole lot of trailers - ten in all - from the San Diego Comic Con (you can listen to us RIFF the trailers on YouTube, link soon to come), and we discuss our thoughts on them at length. So strap yourselves in for a discussion that goes from Harry Potter to King Arthur to Oliver Stone and what it means to have a comedic Batman movie. Movies: JUSTICE LEAGUE FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND

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00:59:46

Episode 57.2: STAR TREK BEYOND - BATMAN: THE KILLING...

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2016/08/03

First, Jack and Andrew talk about some sad and good news about the current state of VCR's and VHS (in brief, they're dead, Jim), and Terry Gilliam's long-gestating Don Quixote film (which is finally in production!) Then, Jack talks about movies that he watched since the last episode, ranging from a sequel in another Hollywood franchise, an adaptation of Alan Moore, and Woody Allen's once-a-year offering. (please note, there was a slight audio issue around 7:50 to 8:10 in the podcast due to a

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00:30:03

Episode 57.1: Cinema Immersion Tank #15- JULIEN...

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2016/08/02

Where to start with this one? If anyone's familiar with the work of former "enfant terrible" Harmony Korine (do we call him now 'Adult terrible?'), then you know the wild, manic, tragic, gross, idiotic, perverse and often comic vignettes that populate films such as Gummo, Mister Lonely, and Spring-Breakers. He's an artist in the sense of, as director Werner Herzog would say, a "soldier of cinema", making a new f***ed up sandbox to play in. And Julien Donkey-Boy, his "Dogme 95" entry (listen to

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00:07:12

Episode 56.2: Cinema Immersion Tank #14- ZARDOZ

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2016/07/24

So what is Zardoz? The tagline was "Beyond 1984, Beyond 2001, Beyond Love, Beyond Death." This was due to what we can assume was a lack of imagination - hey, it's science fiction, let's throw in the two standard-bearers of that of the 20th century - but perhaps the 'beyond love and beyond death' part rings true. Did the film's director and writer, John Boorman, know what he was doing? Andrew watched this film five times, and for that he will do his best in under 7 minutes. (NOTE - this is a

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01:06:44

Episode 56.3: Dr. Jack & Dr. Andrew's Case Files #2-...

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2016/07/22

Most often people celebrate 10th anniversaries for something that's, well, worth celebrating. But here at The Wages of Cinema - where, don't forget, we make sure sometimes to take on those wages and plenty of them - we think a little differently. What about not simply a bad movie, but one of the colossal auteur blunders of the 2000's? On July 21st 2006, Warner brothers released the 7th feature film written-directed-produced-featuring Philadelphia's (once) golden-film-man M. Night Shyamalan, and

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00:46:37

Episode 56.1: GHOSTBUSTERS (2016) - SHOWGIRLS - THE...

Wages of Cinema ·

2016/07/22

After we talk about some listener email questions (well, multiple questions from one listener), Jack sees a little movie that no one has seen before except EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW. He also goes on about the latest from Nicolas Winding Refn, Bryan Cranston, Ewan McGregor and a trashy bad-movie modern classic. Mostly new movies, and a selection ranging from a blockbuster to crime to the most artistic statements you can come across. 1) GHOSTBUSTERS (2016) (starts at 12:43 into the

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01:29:22

Episode 55.3: THE BFG and ROALD DAHL MOVIES

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2016/07/08

What do Steven Spielberg, Henry Selick, James Bond, Nicolas Roeg, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson and Gene Wilder all have in common? Probably not much, but we can tell you all about how they all played in the wheelhouse that Roald Dahl created through his delightful children's books and screenplays (yes, he wrote a couple), many of which helped to warp minds with his playful but twisted visions and stories. Jack and Andrew explore the adaptations of his works, how they compare with one another, as Jack

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01:03:14

Episode 55.2: VIDEO GAME MOVIES - SWISS ARMY MAN -...

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2016/07/08

First Jack and Andrew get on a tangent, as they're wont to do, about video game movies and why there aren't really any good adaptations of video games (and on the flip-side why there aren't too many good games based on video games, with one exception), and there's a pitch Jack makes for a Katamari Damacy movie that should be directed by Japan's wildman Takashi Miike. Then it's movie talk as Jack sees some new movies that involve sand, surf and Daniel Radcliff's private parts, one of the late Anton

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00:23:14

Episode 55.1: Cinema Immersion Tank #13- SWEPT AWAY

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2016/07/06

It's time to take a vacation. Where to? Who with? How about if you're already on vacation and by some miracle or 'Unusual Destiny', so to speak, you find yourself on even more of a vacation? It may be that you're a lowly sailor with Communist leanings, or the wife of a wealthy man who will pontificate about the days politics and complain about the working people and how things are and... oh wait, what, what if the roles get reversed and the Communist has power over the Capitalist on a deserted

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00:54:42

Episode 54: FREE STATE OF JONES

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2016/06/28

Free State of Jones may not be a gigantic "box-office smash" (currently it opened at #6 in its first weekend), but that shouldn't matter if the movie works, right? Here we have a piece of history not many know about: a man who rallied a group of poor farmers (and ex/runaway slaves) to make a 'free state of Jones' (as in the county) to combat those in the South in Mississippi who had too much while they were being sucked dry by the Confederacy to pay for the war. Sounds like a backwoods Civil War

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01:00:42

Episode 53.5: THE PROBLEM WITH SEQUELS!

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2016/06/21

Sequels. What else is there to say about them? Jack and Andrew find discussion about the mammoth amount of sequels Hollywood has going on this year, what it means for the industry, and other bones to pick. But are there... GOOD sequels? Well, yes, of course, but there's more to it than that, as we discover in this main topic of the week. visit us at iTunes and Stitcher facebook.com/wagesofcinema twitter.com/wagesofcinema wagesofcinema@gmail.com

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00:12:43

Episode 53.2: Cinema Immersion Tank #12 - BLACK SWAN

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2016/06/21

Perfection - so many want it, few actually attain it (and as Jack Nicholson once told Stanley Kubrick allegedly, "just because you're a perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect"). Can Nina Sayers, the tragic hero (and villain of her own story) of Darren Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN from 2010, attain this lofty goal? Can she become THE black swan that requires her to 'let go'? So many questions, and so much toe-bleeding to do. Andrew Birchenough watched Black Swan 5 times in 5 days, won't you listen

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01:02:26

Episode 53.1: OJ (Made in America) - FINDING DORY -...

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2016/06/21

In this first part, we do talk movies, but also some other things, like a new mini-series on OJ Simpson (Made in America!), music videos that made us sit up and take notice, Lifetime movies, the difference between thrillers and horror movies (and science fiction and horror), and what the hell Wonder Showzen was (if anyone knows please let us know!) And some movies: THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940) THE CONJURING 2 (2016) THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011) A GOOD MARRIAGE (2014) MOTHER, MAY I SLEEP WITH DANGER

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00:50:00

Episode 52.3: Dr. Jack & Dr. Andrew's Case Files #1 -...

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2016/06/06

What can you say about a movie that is based on a Gore Vidal book and is somehow more f***ing insane and terrible than Caligula? Well... look no further than Myra Breckinridge starring Raquel Welch, John Huston, Rex Reed(!), Farrah Fawcett and John Carradine in the biggest pile of WTF that it makes Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - released in the same year and by the same studio, 20th Century Fox - look like a walk in the satirical park by comparison. But is it ALL bad? Well... Dr. Jack and Dr

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00:17:57

Episode 52.2: Cinema Immersion Tank #11 - PERFECT BLUE

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2016/06/06

Japanese pop idols. Psychological investigative crime shows. A stalker. A website and a blog (madness!). Rape. Murder. It's just a shot away, right? What if it gets to your head? This is Satoshi Kon's debut as a director, and he made quite a name for himself with an adaptation of a thriller about a pop idol who decides to become an actress. This is one of the most daring experiments into presenting reality, fantasy, dreams and nightmares into one package that includes bouncy Japanese

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00:55:30

Episode 52.1: TMNT (2014) - "1st Date" Movies -...

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2016/06/06

It may be sound like just another episode of the Wages of Cinema - what starts with a discussion from Andrew on the new Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (from 2014, not the most recent one "Out of the Shadows", got to keep them straight now of course) goes into a brief talk about what is a good movie to take a first date to see (what will be the one that you know will say "She's the one for me!") and then it veers off into some new/old movie babble from Jack about movies ranging

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