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, Robert Davis and J. Robert Parks talk about Line Describing a Cone and whatever tangents it inspires.
Did they talk for 40 minutes about a beam of light projected through a smoky room, and then feel like things were left unsaid? Did they reference the Millenium Falcon and Andy Warhol and Richard Serra and the industry-wide shift from film to digital video? Did they claim to have watched people sleep and trains pass for hours but only when mediated by a rectangle projected from a distant lens? Did Rob make a faux pas at least once while he was inside the cone?
Nevertheless.
0:00 Intro
1:21 Discussion: Line Describing a Cone, McCall (1973)
48:59 Outro
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
This edition of the Plastic Podcast is a joint production with the AFI Film Festival's AFI Fest Now website. The folks who put together the festival's online magazine kindly asked us to comment on a few of the films in their 2010 lineup, so we chose two of our favorites. We're hosting these special episodes here at dailyplastic.com and at afi.com. The first was about the new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and this second one is about the latest film from Abbas Kiarostami.
0:00 Intro
1:06 Clip: Certified Copy, Kiarostami (2010)
1:53 Discussion
30:49 Outro
This edition of the Plastic Podcast is a joint production with the AFI Film Festival's AFI Fest Now website. The folks who put together the festival's online magazine kindly asked us to comment on a few of the films in their 2010 lineup, so we chose two of our favorites. We're hosting these special episodes here at dailyplastic.com and at afi.com. First up, the new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In the next episode, we talk about the latest from Abbas Kiarostami.
0:00 Intro
1:41 Discussion: Uncle Boonmee, Apichatpong (2010)
26:19 Outro
On this edition of the Plastic Podcast, Rob and J. Robert talk about the new David Fincher film about Facebook, The Social Network. Is it Kane? All the President's Men? Elephant? And who is this Marshall McLuhan fellow, anyway?
0:00 Intro
1:04 The Social Network Teaser
2:06 Discussion: The Social Network, Fincher (2010)
21:02 Present Difficulty
42:44 Outro
On this edition of the Plastic Podcast, Rob and J. Robert talk about a recent documentary by noted street artist Banksy, whose stencils and more elaborate works seem to respond to and interact with the world around us. But is the whole movie a hoax? And what if it is?
0:00 Intro
2:19 Discussion: Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
27:19 Outro
He is, you know. Psycho. At least in the hands of Guy Ritchie and Robert Downey, Jr.
On this edition of the Plastic Podcast, Rob and J. Robert talk about Ritchie's recent adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's characters, about Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and about Gus Van Sant's intriguing 1998 remake of Hitchcock's classic, recklessly shaping and reshaping that trio's Venn diagram like an elementary school teacher sorting out her transparencies. Come along, won't you?
0:00 Intro
2:45 Trailer: Sherlock Holmes!
3:26 Sherlock Holmes (Ritchie, 2009)
13:49 The Manic, Mumbling Detective
16:20 The Cinematic Industrial Age
20:11 Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960), Psycho (Van Sant, 1998)
27:25 In Color
29:12 Assessing the Original and the Humble Remake
33:50 Implicating the Audience
37:09 The Moving Vernacular
44:15 Outro
