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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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124 - Outland

Have You Seen This? ·

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

Have You Seen This? ·

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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1:17:45

115 - Vampire's Kiss

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2021/09/26

Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss!Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours at Andrew Hearst’s blog.https://andrewhearst.com/blog/2008/05/the-scandalous-origins-of-martin-scorseses-after-hours Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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114 - TEASER - Loose Change

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2021/09/16

Subscribe to Have You Seen This? on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration.View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.https://archive.org/details/loose-change-1st-cutWatch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at

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1:33:19

114 - Loose Change

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2021/09/11

Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration.View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.Watch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at YouTube. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:54:01

113 - The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

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2021/08/30

Jen and Tim revisit the greatest unfairly-cancelled single-season sci-fi western TV series of all time: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.! If you thought we were going to say “Firefly” you have obviously never listened to our show before. Also Jen is finally able to air her feelings about Dixie for a mass audience. Spicy!Check DVDTalk for information on the complete series on home media.https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/22466/adventures-of-brisco-county-jr-the-complete-series-the/Whether you lived

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1:18:05

112 - The Wicker Man: The Summerisle Cut

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2021/08/23

Tim and Jen welcome a special guest to discuss a fan edit of a beloved horror classic, The Wicker Man: The Summerisle Cut! Listen for yourself and decide if you want to leave angry comments on archive.org!View the Summerisle Cut at the Internet Archive.Visit the Wicker Man site mentioned by our guest,which describes all of the different cuts of the film in detail. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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111 - TEASER - Eureka

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2021/08/20

Subscribe to Have You Seen This? on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen and Tim agree and disagree on an also-ran Nicolas Roeg movie, Eureka! Jen really gets the bit between her teeth in this one and Tim demonstrates almost saintly patience while she babbles.Watch a short documentary on the inspiration for Jack McCann, the gold millionaire Sir Harry Oakes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUgWA_-sUJsBuy Charlotte Gray’s very engaging bio of Harry

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1:18:49

111 - Eureka

Have You Seen This? ·

2021/08/16

Jen and Tim agree and disagree on an also-ran Nicolas Roeg movie, Eureka! Jen really gets the bit between her teeth in this one and Tim demonstrates almost saintly patience while she babbles.Watch a short documentary on the inspiration for Jack McCann, the gold millionaire Sir Harry Oakes.Buy Charlotte Gray’s very engaging bio of Harry Oakes, Murdered Midas, on Alibris.For more British filmmaking, listen to our episode on The Firm and its 2009 reboot! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on

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1:25:44

110 - Cool World

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2021/07/26

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Cool World is not cool. Emma Bowers (@hyenasandgin) returns to commiserate with Tim and Jen about a very bad animated feature. Turns out this movie did significant psychological damage to young Tim.Watch Emma's Full Metal Alchemist video!Compare and contrast: this interview with Ralph Bakshi, and this one with writer Michael Grais. Bakshi claims malfeasance from producer Frank Mancuso, Jr

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1:56:15

109 - M.A.N.T.I.S.

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2021/07/19

What if Black Panther had been the pilot for a TV show, but when they went to series they took out Wakanda and most of the black people? You'd have M.A.N.T.I.S.! HYST superfan mugrimm joins Tim and Jen to talk about what was lost when the Sam Raimi/Sam Hamm/Rob Tapert pilot became a politically toothless show with white sidekicks.The documentary Jen couldn't remember the name of is Call Me Lucky, and it was directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. It's an account of the life of satirist and activist Barry

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1:34:36

108 - The Firm(s)

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2021/07/12

Jen and Tim look at two takes on football hooliganism called The Firm. The 1989 version is a masterpiece, the other, not so much!The 20-minute documentary Alan Clarke: His Own Man is a nice intro to the director. Also, many of his works can be found on YouTube, so happy hunting!https://vimeo.com/473362397Jen referred to a film called “WarGames” when she actually meant The War Game, a 1965 dramatization of nuclear warfare against England that the BBC withdrew from broadcast until 1985. It did not

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