Josh Braun, producer of some of the best documentaries in the world, joins Josh and Joe to discuss the movies that have influenced him throughout his life.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man On Wire (2008)
The Cove (2009)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Encounters At The End of the World (2007)
Winnebago Man (2009)
Spellbound (2002)
Supersize Me (2004)
Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
Apollo 11 (2019)
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Searching For Sugarman (2012)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Frat House (1998)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
The Exorcist (1973)
Go West (1940)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
Hello Down There (1974)
What’s Up Doc? (1972)
El Topo (1970)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Monterey Pop (1968)
Grey Gardens (1975)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Titicut Follies (1967)
To Have And Have Not (1944)
All About Eve...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man On Wire (2008)
The Cove (2009)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Encounters At The End of the World (2007)
Winnebago Man (2009)
Spellbound (2002)
Supersize Me (2004)
Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
Apollo 11 (2019)
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Searching For Sugarman (2012)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Frat House (1998)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
The Exorcist (1973)
Go West (1940)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
Hello Down There (1974)
What’s Up Doc? (1972)
El Topo (1970)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Monterey Pop (1968)
Grey Gardens (1975)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Titicut Follies (1967)
To Have And Have Not (1944)
All About Eve...
- 7/21/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Filmmakers/authors discuss the movies they wish more people were familiar with.
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012)
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (1976)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Top Gun (1986)
Water Power (1977)
Taxi Driver (1976)
In Fabric (2018)
A Climax of Blue Power (1974)
Forced Entry (1975)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Nashville Girl (1976)
Ms .45 (1981)
Act of Vengeance a.k.a. Rape Squad (1974)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Design For Living (1933)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Melody (1971)
Oliver! (1968)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
That’ll Be The Day (1973)
Stardust (1974)
The Errand Boy (1961)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
The Bellboy (1960)
Which Way To The Front? (1970)
Hardly Working (1980)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Duck Soup (1933)
Boeing Boeing (1965)
Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
Cockfighter (1974)
The Second Civil War (1997)
I, A Woman (1965)
The Devil At Your Heels (1981)
The...
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012)
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (1976)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Top Gun (1986)
Water Power (1977)
Taxi Driver (1976)
In Fabric (2018)
A Climax of Blue Power (1974)
Forced Entry (1975)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Nashville Girl (1976)
Ms .45 (1981)
Act of Vengeance a.k.a. Rape Squad (1974)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Design For Living (1933)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Melody (1971)
Oliver! (1968)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
That’ll Be The Day (1973)
Stardust (1974)
The Errand Boy (1961)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
The Bellboy (1960)
Which Way To The Front? (1970)
Hardly Working (1980)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Duck Soup (1933)
Boeing Boeing (1965)
Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
Cockfighter (1974)
The Second Civil War (1997)
I, A Woman (1965)
The Devil At Your Heels (1981)
The...
- 3/3/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Above: 1960s French stock poster for Marx Brothers revivals.This weekend New York’s Film Forum begins a week-long series entitled The Marx Brothers & The Golden Age of Vaudeville which is as good an excuse as any to look at the representation of the greatest sibling comedy team in cinema through movie posters. It has long been a tradition in movie poster illustration to render comedy stars as caricatures—often with oversized heads on small bodies—and Groucho, Harpo and Chico were a caricaturist’s dream. (Zeppo, the straight man, less so, but he left the act after Duck Soup in 1933, and re-release posters for the films he appeared in tend to ignore him, as in the Belgian Duck Soup and the Danish Horse Feathers below). With their distinctive props—Groucho’s oversized greasepaint mustache and cigar, Harpo’s curly blonde wig and Chico’s Alpine hat—the threesome could...
- 9/23/2016
- MUBI
The Austin Film Series is wrapping up its "Rebel Rebel" series this weekend with a 35mm print of Female Trouble, the raunchy 1974 comedy from enfant terrible John Waters. It screens tonight and Sunday afternoon at the Marchesa. That's also the place to be on Thursday night as a new Essential Cinema series launches featuring some of the best collaborations of Liv Ullman and Ingmar Bergman. The first film of the series is 1966's Persona, screening in a 35mm print. Look for an article about the series on Monday by programmer Chale Nafus.
The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz has another eclectic week ahead of specialty screenings. On Saturday afternoon, you can view the late-era Marx Bros. classic, 1946's A Night In Casablanca. Also this week, there's a Bill & Ted double feature on Sunday that will include two new Mondo posters available for purchase, Russ Meyer's Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls...
- 6/27/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
Creator of film special effects who turned an 18-inch model ape into King Kong
In the history of cinema, many children have followed their mothers or fathers into the film business, but few offspring pursued the path of a parent more slavishly than Harry Redmond Jr, who has died aged 101. Like a master craftsman, Harry Redmond Sr passed on the skills of his trade to his son, the trade being the creation of special effects for films. Most notably, they worked together on King Kong (1933), in which a giant gorilla captures an actor, Ann Darrow, played by the "scream queen" Fay Wray.
The Redmonds were important members of the King Kong technical team under the supervision of Willis O'Brien, the pioneer of model animation. Part of their job was to integrate the stop-motion models and animatronics into live-action sequences by means of back projection and travelling mattes. Although the model...
In the history of cinema, many children have followed their mothers or fathers into the film business, but few offspring pursued the path of a parent more slavishly than Harry Redmond Jr, who has died aged 101. Like a master craftsman, Harry Redmond Sr passed on the skills of his trade to his son, the trade being the creation of special effects for films. Most notably, they worked together on King Kong (1933), in which a giant gorilla captures an actor, Ann Darrow, played by the "scream queen" Fay Wray.
The Redmonds were important members of the King Kong technical team under the supervision of Willis O'Brien, the pioneer of model animation. Part of their job was to integrate the stop-motion models and animatronics into live-action sequences by means of back projection and travelling mattes. Although the model...
- 6/28/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Your weekly fix of great movies made before you were born that you should check out before you die. This week’s Old Ass Movies celebrates the nonsense of the best American comedians of all time. Groucho, Harpo and Chico move in on Bogart’s territory by setting up camp at a hotel in Casablanca, mocking Nazis, playing with a toupee, and remembering to set their watches. A Night in Casablanca (1946) Directed By: Archie Mayo Written By: Joseph Fields & Roland Kibbee Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Sig Ruman, Lisette Verea, Lois Collier, and Charles Drake Selling someone on watching a Marx Brothers movie should be as easy as standing on the street corner offering free bacon, but A Night in Casablanca isn’t the typical Marx movie. It certainly shouldn’t be the first a newcomer should see, since that distinction goes to Duck Soup. It shouldn’t even be the second or third film...
- 3/20/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
In what might be the earliest bit of viral marketing comes a long-winded letter circa 1945 from Groucho Marx that proves the comedian truly had a way with words. When Marx set out to make a rollicking parody of the classic Hollywood drama, 'Casablanca,' called 'A Night in Casablanca' he received a formal letter from Warner Bros. The company wanted to know more about the movie's storyline since early drafts of the 'A Night in Casablanca' dubbed the spoof's characters with similar-sounding names.
Marx exploited this exchange to his movie's full advantage by staging a lawsuit from the studio. The performer retorted with a humorous objection addressed to the "pasty-faced legal adventurers" in question. He ripped into Warner Bros. by claiming that his comedy trio, The Marx Brothers, had first dibs on the use of the word "brothers" and more. His feigned counter-suit...
In what might be the earliest bit of viral marketing comes a long-winded letter circa 1945 from Groucho Marx that proves the comedian truly had a way with words. When Marx set out to make a rollicking parody of the classic Hollywood drama, 'Casablanca,' called 'A Night in Casablanca' he received a formal letter from Warner Bros. The company wanted to know more about the movie's storyline since early drafts of the 'A Night in Casablanca' dubbed the spoof's characters with similar-sounding names.
Marx exploited this exchange to his movie's full advantage by staging a lawsuit from the studio. The performer retorted with a humorous objection addressed to the "pasty-faced legal adventurers" in question. He ripped into Warner Bros. by claiming that his comedy trio, The Marx Brothers, had first dibs on the use of the word "brothers" and more. His feigned counter-suit...
- 2/22/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
In what might be the earliest bit of viral marketing comes a long-winded letter circa 1945 from Groucho Marx that proves the comedian truly had a way with words. When Marx set out to make a rollicking parody of the classic Hollywood drama, 'Casablanca,' called 'A Night in Casablanca' he received a formal letter from Warner Bros. The company wanted to know more about the movie's storyline since early drafts of the 'A Night in Casablanca' dubbed the spoof's characters with similar-sounding names.
Marx exploited this exchange to his movie's full advantage by staging a lawsuit from the studio. The performer retorted with a humorous objection addressed to the "pasty-faced legal adventurers" in question. He ripped into Warner Bros. by claiming that his comedy trio, The Marx Brothers, had first dibs on the use of the word "brothers" and more. His feigned counter-suit...
In what might be the earliest bit of viral marketing comes a long-winded letter circa 1945 from Groucho Marx that proves the comedian truly had a way with words. When Marx set out to make a rollicking parody of the classic Hollywood drama, 'Casablanca,' called 'A Night in Casablanca' he received a formal letter from Warner Bros. The company wanted to know more about the movie's storyline since early drafts of the 'A Night in Casablanca' dubbed the spoof's characters with similar-sounding names.
Marx exploited this exchange to his movie's full advantage by staging a lawsuit from the studio. The performer retorted with a humorous objection addressed to the "pasty-faced legal adventurers" in question. He ripped into Warner Bros. by claiming that his comedy trio, The Marx Brothers, had first dibs on the use of the word "brothers" and more. His feigned counter-suit...
- 2/22/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
1957, U, Eureka
Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was a cartoonist, gagman and screenwriter before becoming a director in the 1950s, working with Bob Hope, Danny Kaye and, most especially, Jerry Lewis. He was extravagantly admired by the Cahiers du cinéma critics, especially Truffaut, Godard and Rohmer. Extolling his gift for caricature and defending his undoubted vulgarity, they thought him the creator of "the new American comedy" as opposed to the classicism of Capra, Lubitsch and McCarey. Remotely based on a play by George Axelrod (author of The Seven Year Itch), this is a verbally and visually clever satire on television and the New York advertising world. Tony Randall stars as Rockford Hunter, the eponymous adman who saves his ailing agency by exploiting a dimwitted Hollywood star (Jayne Mansfield). Randall is brilliant, Mansfield (in her second film with Tashlin) is cruelly mocked and there's a guest appearance by Groucho Marx, for whose A Night in Casablanca...
Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was a cartoonist, gagman and screenwriter before becoming a director in the 1950s, working with Bob Hope, Danny Kaye and, most especially, Jerry Lewis. He was extravagantly admired by the Cahiers du cinéma critics, especially Truffaut, Godard and Rohmer. Extolling his gift for caricature and defending his undoubted vulgarity, they thought him the creator of "the new American comedy" as opposed to the classicism of Capra, Lubitsch and McCarey. Remotely based on a play by George Axelrod (author of The Seven Year Itch), this is a verbally and visually clever satire on television and the New York advertising world. Tony Randall stars as Rockford Hunter, the eponymous adman who saves his ailing agency by exploiting a dimwitted Hollywood star (Jayne Mansfield). Randall is brilliant, Mansfield (in her second film with Tashlin) is cruelly mocked and there's a guest appearance by Groucho Marx, for whose A Night in Casablanca...
- 1/2/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Turner Classic Movies continues their collection of some of their greatest films in four-movie sets, three of which were recently released and distributed by Warner Brothers Home Video under the label “Turner Classic Movies: Greatest Classic Films Collection” with sub-labels of “Romance,” “Marx Brothers,” and “Sci-Fi Classics”.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
The gigantic partnership that has released dozens of classic films in themed groups continues a series that serves to satisfy both serious film buffs and casual fans who may just be starting to build a library of classic films.
The latest three installments in the “Greatest Classic Films Collections” features a set timed well to Valentine’s Day and two collections of classics that never grow old.
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Romance was released by Warner Brothers Home Video on February 2nd, 2010.
Photo credit: Warner Brothers
The “Romance” edition of the “TCM Greatest Classic Films Collections” features timeless stars like Natalie Wood,...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
The gigantic partnership that has released dozens of classic films in themed groups continues a series that serves to satisfy both serious film buffs and casual fans who may just be starting to build a library of classic films.
The latest three installments in the “Greatest Classic Films Collections” features a set timed well to Valentine’s Day and two collections of classics that never grow old.
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Romance was released by Warner Brothers Home Video on February 2nd, 2010.
Photo credit: Warner Brothers
The “Romance” edition of the “TCM Greatest Classic Films Collections” features timeless stars like Natalie Wood,...
- 2/17/2010
- by BrianTT
- HollywoodChicago.com
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
Cut down in its prime by a network that didn’t understand the greatness it was letting slip away (Hello, BBC!), The Peter Serafinowicz Show (Channel 4, Not Rated, Region 2 DVD-£19.99 Srp) was fully appreciated by its dedicated fans (I’m one of them) and has since become an internet viral phenomenon as its sketches have been globally disseminated. In fact, it was via Twitter that...
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
Cut down in its prime by a network that didn’t understand the greatness it was letting slip away (Hello, BBC!), The Peter Serafinowicz Show (Channel 4, Not Rated, Region 2 DVD-£19.99 Srp) was fully appreciated by its dedicated fans (I’m one of them) and has since become an internet viral phenomenon as its sketches have been globally disseminated. In fact, it was via Twitter that...
- 2/7/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
The legendary Harpo with his son Bill.
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Interview by Nick Thomas
It’s been 60 years since the Marx Brothers – Groucho, Chico, Harpo – officially appeared together in their last feature film, Love Happy. Although fans have little “love” for it and the brothers were not “happy” making it, the film did provide some enjoyable moments showcasing Harpo’s silent talents.
Along with brothers Zeppo and Gummo, the five Marx Brothers grew up in New York. Gummo dropped out of the act and the four brothers traveled the country as stage performers before taking Hollywood by storm, starting with Cocoanuts in 1929. Straight man Zeppo eventually bailed too, and the three remaining brothers went on to become arguably the greatest comedy team ever.
Between them, the five brothers raised a dozen children and a few went into the entertainment business. Now 72, Bill Marx (one of...
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Interview by Nick Thomas
It’s been 60 years since the Marx Brothers – Groucho, Chico, Harpo – officially appeared together in their last feature film, Love Happy. Although fans have little “love” for it and the brothers were not “happy” making it, the film did provide some enjoyable moments showcasing Harpo’s silent talents.
Along with brothers Zeppo and Gummo, the five Marx Brothers grew up in New York. Gummo dropped out of the act and the four brothers traveled the country as stage performers before taking Hollywood by storm, starting with Cocoanuts in 1929. Straight man Zeppo eventually bailed too, and the three remaining brothers went on to become arguably the greatest comedy team ever.
Between them, the five brothers raised a dozen children and a few went into the entertainment business. Now 72, Bill Marx (one of...
- 11/20/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
TORONTO -- Canadian producer Peace Arch Entertainment Inc. on Thursday said it had a deal to acquire around 500 independent film titles from New York and Florida-based Castle Hill Prods. Inc. and Dream LLC. Toronto-based Peace Arch did not disclose its purchase price for the library, which include film classics like John Ford's Stagecoach, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, The Marx Bros. A Night In Casablanca and Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant. As part of the deal, Dream LLC chairman Mark Balsam will join Peace Arch as head of U.S. distribution once the transaction closes in July, adding to the Canadian producer's management bench strength.
- 4/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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