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Every grey hair on my head, I call Kinski
 Hello Cinecast Listener,
From Chicago (er... New York), this is The Dope Sheet...
While Adam keeps the home fires burning in Chicago, I'm still
temporarily dislocated in New York City with my job at
This American Life. This has
meant getting creative as far as recording the show goes. We want to
thank everyone for their patience while we work under these
less-than-ideal conditions. (For example, you may notice a slightly
digitized sound to Adam's voice this week; a result of some bad
engineering on our part... Also, it's probably time that we revealed
that Adam is actually a robot.)
I'm looking forward to a triumphant return to Chicago in early
May. No word from Mayor Daley just yet about the ticker tape parade,
but I'll keep you posted.
Some show notes...
Hear Cinecast #95 a day early... Friday's Cinecast will be
available Thursday exclusively on
Peerblog. Check out Cinecast
partner Peerflix's blog on Thursday, April 20, for an early dose of
Cinecast. Cinecast #95 features a conversation about Jacques Demy's
"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," the fifth film in our musicals
marathon, plus our Top 5 Movies About Money. The Cinecast site and
our feed will be updated as usual on Friday morning.
Marathon Men... We didn't get to it this week on the show,
but we've updated the
Marathons page
at cinecastshow.com. We'll wrap up the Musicals Marathon next week
with Bob Fosse's "Cabaret," which replaces "Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers," the movie that got skipped when guest host Scott Smith
filled in for me. (Adam and I plan to catch up with "Brides" soon,
but we're both excited about discussing "Cabaret," a film that lets
us close out the marathon with a truly modern movie musical.)
The Musicals Marathon will be followed by a six-week
Herzog/Kinski Marathon -- five fiction films and one
documentary spotlighting the great German director/documentarian
Werner Herzog ("Grizzly Man") and his volatile muse, Klaus Kinski.
The six films -- Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nosferatu
the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Cobra Verde and My Best Fiend -- make up the
DVD collection
Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: A Film Legacy.
After that pleasant little dip into movie madness, we'll do a
classic Screwball Comedies Marathon. For the complete lineup,
check out our Marathons page.
Thanks to Rebecca for suggesting the Screwball marathon and to
Jeffrey Masley for first suggesting an in-depth look at Herzog!
And thanks to a listener recommendation from a post in the
Cinecast Message Board,
Adam and I have decided to break up the marathons by taking a week
off inbetween them. We'll use the 'break' week to hand out the
best-of-the-marathon awards, read your feedback and look ahead to the
next marathon. It might give us a chance, too, to recommend an
overlooked DVD or two...
Flip-flopping... Adam would like to thank everyone who
responded to last week's Dope Sheet discussing flip-flops -- movies
you loved or hated the first time you saw them and then changed your
mind about later. We got several interesting responses, including
this one from David Temmesfeld in Cincinnati, OH:
"That is a great top 5. I can not think of five off hand, but
there is one that does come to mind, The Life Aquatic from Wes
Anderson. I am a big Wes Anderson fan loving Bottle Rocket to Royal
Tenenbaums. But when I saw Life Aquatic in the theater, I was a
little disappointed mainly for the fact that it was kind of a typical
Wes Anderson movie, which is still better than most stuff out there.
But when I see a director's work, I like to see something new and I
just felt like he was rehashing his older work.
But then I decided to give it a second chance on DVD and boy was
I wrong. It is probably the best and most inventive movie he has done
yet. It is a lot funnier than Tenenbaums and just has some great
moments in it that I overlooked the first time because I was looking
too hard for something different. I don't know if this is what you
are looking for, but I hope this will make someone look at this movie
again."
Adam's response: Dave, that is exactly what I was looking
for... and you may even get me to take a look at Life Aquatic again.
Like you, I'm a Wes Anderson fan, and I couldn't have been more
disappointed when I saw Aquatic. I thought the humor was way too
forced and absurd in a strained 'Wes Anderson' way, almost like
someone making a parody of one of his films. I suppose it deserves at
least a second look.
Thanks for reading and listening,
Sam
Got a question you'd like answered in The Dope Sheet? Send it to
dopesheet@cinecastshow.com.
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