The venerable and exceedingly intermittent Plastic Podcast, which has outlived the two blogs with which it was intertwined, and whose audio archives were difficult to ...
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The venerable and exceedingly intermittent Plastic Podcast, which has outlived the two blogs with which it was intertwined, and whose audio archives were difficult to ...
Daily Plastic is a Chicago-based movie blog, a collaboration between Robert Davis and J. Robert Parks, the same pair who brought you the wearable movie tote, the razor-thin pencil pocket, and that joke about aardvarks. If you know the whereabouts of the blue Pontiac Tempest that was towed from the Plastic Parking Lot on the evening of August 7th, 2008, or more importantly if you've recovered the red shoebox that was in its trunk, please contact us at your earliest convenience.
Davis was the chief film critic for the late, great Paste Magazine (which lives on now as a website) from 2005 through 2009, and he counts this interview with Claire Denis among his favorite moments. Every once in a while he pops up on Twitter. He's presently sipping puerh in Chicago, even at this hour. Meanwhile, Parks, whose work has appeared in TimeOut Chicago, The Hyde Park Herald, and Paste, is molding unsuspecting, college-aged minds in the aforementioned windy city. Media types are warned to stay clear of his semester-sized field of influence because of the distorting effects that are likely to develop.
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On this edition of the podcast, J. Robert Parks and Robert Davis talk about the new film from Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman who won the Best Performance Oscar for her role in the film.
0:00 Intro
1:17 Trailer: Black Swan, Aronofsky (2010)
3:08 Discussion
24:00 Outro
On this edition of the podcast, J. Robert Parks and Robert Davis talk about the new film from the Coen Brothers, a remake of a classic American Western, and rationalize away — utterly dismiss — any difficulties that might arise from the possibility that they have not seen the original.
0:00 Intro: Context for a Film
8:39 True Grit, Coen & Coen (2010)
14:00 A trio of voices, a triptych of clips:
- Quint, Jaws (Robert Shaw)
- Dr. Benway, "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (William S. Burroughs)
- Rooster Cogburn w/ Mattie Ross, True Grit (Jeff Bridges w/ Hailee Steinfeld)
17:55 True Grit, continued
35:01 Outro
It sounds like the setting for a Samuel Beckett play, but it's actually the latest edition of the Plastic Podcast, wherein Robert Davis and J. Robert Parks talk about a recent George Clooney film and use that as an excuse to say a little something about Michelangelo Antonioni. Where they go from there is anyone's guess.
0:00 Intro
1:42 The American, Corbijn (2010)
14:11 The Passenger, Antonioni (1975)
19:31 The Town, Affleck (2010)
22:11 Enter the Void, Noé (2009)
32:15 Outro
