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Jan 13, 2020 • 52min

All The President's Minutes - Minute 3 with Maria Lewis

All The President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute three host, Blake Howard joins critic, journalist and author, Maria Lewis. Maria drags Blake for giving her 70% of a black screen for her minute before diving into how deeply this movie speaks to her beginnings as a prodigious 16-year-old journalist on the Gold Coast of Australia.ABOUT MARIA LEWISMaria Lewis is an author, journalist and screenwriter based in Sydney, Australia. Getting her start as a police reporter, her writing on pop culture has appeared in publications such as the New York Post, Guardian, Penthouse, The Daily Mail, Empire Magazine, Gizmodo, Huffington Post, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, i09, Junkee and many more. Previously seen as a presenter on SBS Viceland’s nightly news program The Feed and as the host of Cleverfan on ABC, she has been a journalist for over 15 years.Her best-selling debut novel Who's Afraid? was published in 2016, followed by its sequel Who’s Afraid Too? in 2017, which was nominated for Best Horror Novel at the Aurealis Awards in 2018. Who’s Afraid? is being developed for television by the Emmy and BAFTA award-winning Hoodlum Entertainment. Her Young Adult debut, It Came From The Deep, was released globally on October 31, Halloween, 2017 and is a twist on The Little Mermaid meets Creature From The Black Lagoon.Her fourth book, The Witch Who Courted Death, was released on Halloween, 2018 and won Best Fantasy Novel at the Aurealis Awards in 2019. Her fifth novel set within the shared supernatural universe - The Wailing Woman - was released in November, 2019.Twitter: @moviemazzAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Jan 11, 2020 • 1h 23min

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #10: "...along comes little Amethyst..." with Lindsey Romain

“Some ex-old lady had hit town, and they’d run away together. The emergency room had mixed them up with somebody else, the way maternity wards switched babies around, and they were still on some intensive care ward under another name. It was a particular kind of disconnected denial, and Doc figured he’d seen enough by now to recognize it.” In the novel Inherent Vice, that’s how Thomas Pynchon described the post-1960s generation coming of age in the year 1970, bleary-eyed and hungover from the last decade and the damage done, and afflicted with the cruelest kind of misery—absolutely devastated by the grief of loss, yet operating in complete denial of the existence that grief, telling themselves stories, as Joan Didion would say, in order to live, stories that explain away the deaths of loved ones as strange and grand mysteries, rather than cruel and banal fates. Further, in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film adaptation, Sortilege intones that the post-Manson era in which Doc and company found themselves in was perilous, “astrologically speaking, for dopers...especially those of high school age. Who'd been born, most of them, under a 90-degree aspect...the unluckiest angle possible...between Neptune, the doper's planet...and Uranus, the planet of rude surprises. Doc had known it to happen...that those left behind would refuse to believe that people they loved...or even took the same classes with, were really dead. They came up with all kinds of alternate stories so it wouldn't have to be true.” The Harlingens are a family in need of such a story, one that will allow them to live in the Mansonoid post-60s drop-out drag of the Age of Nixon. If only someone could tell them that story, could put together the pieces so we could all see it a little more clearly…About the GuestLINDSEY ROMAINLindsey Romain is a film critic and culture writer whose work has appeared in NERDIST (where she is a contributing editor), BRIGHT WALL/DARK ROOM, THRILLIST, /FILM, VULTURE, TEEN VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, and THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. In addition to crafting insightful cinematic and cultural commentary, and inflamming the Dumb Dude Wing of Twitter by embracing the thirsty excellence of THE LAST JEDI, Lindsey has written extensively about the pop phenomenon of Charles Manson, the death of the 1960s, and the collapse of that decade's counter-culture.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Jan 9, 2020 • 1h 1min

All The President's Minutes - Minute 2 with J.R Hennessy

All The President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute two host, Blake Howard joins the political editor of Business Insider Australia and journalist, J.R Hennessy. J.R and Blake discuss the prophetic nature of President's Men by focusing on the trade of journalism and the pursuit of truth. J.R and Blake also take an essential digression to contrast another "primary source" film David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network and the quaint conclusions compared to the more substantial political ramifications a decade later.Directed by Alan J. Pakula, written by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman from the novel by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman; All The President's Men is a perfect film about an imperfect time.ABOUT J.R. HENNESSY J.R. is a writer and editor at Business Insider. He has written at The Guardian, Pedestrian. T.V. and blogs media politics here.Twitter: @jrhennessyAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Jan 5, 2020 • 52min

All The President's Minutes - Minute 1 with Bilge Ebiri

All The President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute one host Blake Howard is joined by Editor for Vulture and New York Magazine and one of the world's best film critics, Bilge Ebiri. Bilge and Blake discuss director Alan J. Pakula's avant-garde choices, paranoia, audiences watching at the time knowing that all this "shit" only happening two years ago and the inference an impenetrable machine surrounding Nixon from the first minute of the movie.Directed by Alan J. Pakula, written by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman from the novel by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman; All The President's Men is a perfect film about an imperfect time.Guest Bio: Bilge Ebiri is a film critic/writer/editor at New York Magazine. He has contributed to publications such as L.A. Weekly, The New York Times and the Village Voice (rip). Bilge is also a writer and director, known for New Guy (2003), Purse Snatcher (2006) and The Barber of Siberia (1998).TWITTER: @BILGEEBIRI THE VILLAGE VOICE ARCHIVEROTTEN TOMATOESAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Jan 3, 2020 • 1h 31min

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #9: "...she's gone, man..." with Alicia Malone (Author, TCM Host)

Near the end of Douglas Sirk’s 1954 Technicolor melodrama, Magnificent Obsession, Otto Kruger makes a pretty heavy declaration:“Once you find the way, you'll be bound. It will obsess you. But believe me, it will be a magnificent obsession.” We agree that’s a sentiment that our pal Doc Sportello would be in a nodding, bleary-eyed acquaintance with, drawn inevitably as he is to the flame of beloved ex-old Shasta Fay Hepworth; it’s also something Bigfoot Bjornsen, Hope Harlingen, and the rest of Pynchon’s alliteratively named rogue’s gallery of drop-outs and dopers and heroes and hopefuls understand: “once you find the way, you’ll be bound.” They’re bound all right, though magnificent isn’t a word they’d probably use, what with their hopes and dreams all being squashed beneath the boot of time and time’s mercenary, The Golden Fang. But obsessions can be magnificent. Whether focused on a person or a time or maybe just a screen flicker at 24 frames per second, to passionately dedicate yourself to something you love can unlock doors you never even knew where there, sending you tumbling into worlds you never knew existed.That’s something our host would know a thing or three about; our guest Alicia Malone does, too. From sitting in the cave-dark of a theater for the first time to jockeying a video store to fanatically freaking about favorite films, Travis and Alicia understand obsession. How it can be magnificent. How it can be inherent.“Once you find the way, you’ll be bound.” Boy, don’t we know it, Otto.About the Guest - ALICIA MALONEA film reporter, broadcaster, historian, author, podcaster, and “self-confessed movie geek," Alicia Malone has talked about film on the Today show, NPR, MSNBC, ABC’s Academy Awards Red Carpet Preshow, CNN’s THE MOVIES docuseries, and her own show Indie Movie Guide for Fandango. She was the host of the late, the great, the never to be forgotten FilmStruck (as well as the host and producer of the The FilmStruck podcast); she is now a host on Turner Classic Movies and TCM Imports, and (seriously, the lady never sleeps) the podcast Magnificent Obsession, in which she talks to people with below-the-line jobs in the film industry about how they got their start and how movies shaped their lives. Additionally, she’s written two amazing books that are an incredible resource for film fanatics, BACKWARDS AND IN HEELS: THE PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE OF WOMEN WORKING IN FILM and THE FEMALE GAZE: ESSENTIAL MOVIES MADE BY WOMEN. You can buy both books here.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Dec 20, 2019 • 1h 17min

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #8: "...that's Bigfoot Bjornsen, Renaissance cop..." with Marya Gates

“…banana omelets, banana sandwiches, banana casseroles, mashed bananas molded in the shape of a British lion rampant, blended with eggs into batter for French toast, squeezed out a pastry nozzle across the quivering creamy reaches of a banana blancmange... tall cruets of pale banana syrup to pour oozing over banana waffles, a giant glazed crock where diced bananas have been fermenting since the summer with wild honey and muscat raisins, up out of which, this winter morning, one now dips foam mugsfull of banana mead... banana croissants and banana kreplach, and banana oatmeal and banana jam and banana bread, and bananas flamed in ancient brandy Pirate brought back last year from a cellar in the Pyrenees also containing a clandestine radio transmitter...”—Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s RainbowIt’s clear Pynchon has bananas on his brain, but perhaps not nearly as much as the bruised and spoiled synapses of Lt. Detective Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen, whose appetite for the yellow crescents sneaks nightward across the borderline of simple hunger and into the lawless landscape of horny-melancholy obsession…which, when you think about it, isn’t that—a preoccupation both depressed and thirsty—the mood of Inherent Vice as a whole? Further, after the wistful Big Sleep-isms of the seductive opening scene, and the twisty-turny plot mechanics of Doc pinballing from Pipeline Pizza to Aunt Reet’s phone line to brunch with Denis to learning the another lesson in the long, sad history of LA land use before taking a ball bat to head after being on the losing end of Jade’s Pussy-Eater’s Special, don’t we deserve a break with the funniest stretch of film in all of Inherent Vice?About the GuestMARYA GATESMarya Gates is the Editorial and Brand manager for Netflix Film, the force behind Old Films Flicker, the creator of #AYEARWITHWOMEN (in which she spent one year only watching films written and/or directed by women) and #NOIRVEMBER (the yearly celebration of all things noir)...and (*checks notes*) is the proud owner of BenicioDelTakeMeNow.tumblr.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Dec 13, 2019 • 1h 20min

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #7: "...welcome to a world of inconvenience..." with Jedidiah Ayres

“What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that made them who they were and, drained of themselves, turn into the sort of people they would once have felt sorry for. It was as though while their lives were rich and full they were secretly sick of themselves and couldn’t wait to dispose of their sanity and their health and all sense of proportion so as to get down to that other self, the true self, who was a wholly deluded fuckup.” -Philip Roth, American PastoralWell, at long last, we’re finally here. Put on a suit and tie, take the #2 clippers to your hair, and bite into the lightning-blast-to-the-teeth cold of a frozen chocolate-covered banana, because today is the day we tackle the unstoppable force (or is it immovable object?) of Bigfoot Bjornsen. The foil and nemesis and brother and partner and shadow-self to our wayward hero Doc Sportello, Bigfoot is Inherent Vice in flat-topped and flinty microcosm, an exaggerated and funhouse-stretched portrait of loss and longing for times and people passed.And today, we begin the first in a handful of episodes exploring the twisted mind and broken heart of this warped sheet of plastic as he drifts out of a commercial for Channel View Estates and materializes into that very real estate development, just in time to catch his ol’ buddy Doc catching a snooze next to what suspiciously resembles a bloodied corpse… Together, Travis and crime novelist Jedidiah Ayres chew the rag on this human blitzkrieg of broken machismo aggression and sorrow—just who is Lt. Detective Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen, and why can’t we stop thinking of him?About the GuestJEDIDIAH AYRESJedidiah Ayres is the author of such crime novels as PECKERWOOD and FIERCE BITCHES, works ropebound with such control and ambition and bloodied romanticism that reading either is akin to seeing Jim Thompson's fallen kingdom of El Rey resurrected for a Cormac McCarthy campfire tale (seriously, read this motherfucker). He also writes about crime fiction and film on his site Hardboiled Wonderland.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Dec 6, 2019 • 1h 35min

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #6: "...not you, bong-brain..." with Drew McWeeny

”A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: Mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.”—Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin PeaksInherent Vice is a film that meditates not just on the impenetrable nature of mystery, but rather its reflective nature—the truest mysteries lead not to resolutions, but reflections of ourselves. In the sunstruck and hazylazy seaside mystery that spins from the Golden Fang, ol’ Doc Sportello is able to see himself and his wayward love, Shasta Fay Hepworth. And in the mystery of Inherent Vice, we are able to see ourselves—our loves found or lost or found again or lost forever; we’re even able to see the very world we live in now, with its cruelty and chaos and small kindnesses, in the very world of the film.And it’s in that world of free-floating fear and stormy paranoia that today’s guest, Drew McWeeny, suggests that decency is the only anchor—that when the bitter doom of a dying era takes hold, that’s when the little decencies matter most. It’s an idea we explore with Drew as Doc is finally drawn into the mystery plot of Inherent Vice, where he becomes lost among its purple-shagged walls, missing real estate magnates, chatty (and canny) counter girls, and a certain hypocritical and heartbroken LAPD detective with a thing for frozen chocolate covered bananas.About the Guest - DREW MCWEENYDrew McWeeny is a film critic, author, screenwriter, podcast host, cinephile, and passionate defender of INHERENT VICE. Do yourself a favor and dive deep into his work at Drew McWeeny's Pulp & Popcorn, where you can read his book, YOU'RE WATCHING IT WRONG: THE FILM NERD 2.0 GUIDE TO STAR WARS, read his film criticism, and listen to the amazing '80s ALL OVER podcast.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Nov 29, 2019 • 1h 41min

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #5: "...paranoia alert..." with Jordan Harper

“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”—Raymond Chandler, Red WindLos Angeles.The kind of city where anything that can happen, does happen. And everything that does happen, right and wrong, seems to belong here—it couldn’t happen anywhere else. There’s an air of beauty and shame here, a twisted knot of the city’s glory and its sins bound tight together—unlike the comparatively ancient New York, say, L.A.’s sins are still recent, the wounds still scabbed and unhealed across its golden-hued, suntanned skin. Missing neighborhoods, missing gangs, missing loves, missing lives. In this city, turn any corner, walk down any mean street, and you’ll find a mystery, cruel and enticing and magic and heartbreaking, waiting for you there.And that’s just one of the topics touched upon between our host and today’s guest, Jordan Harper, whose epic, feature-length conversation rumbles from such topic’s as L.A. crime, race-based prison gangs, the history of Los Angeles land use and abuse, noir’s unique relationship to L.A., James Ellroy, adapting difficult novels, Jordan’s wrestling with the PTA oeuvre, and much, much more (including where to find the best BBQ in Missouri). About the Guest - JORDAN HARPERJordan Harper is the Edgar Award-winning author of the incredible SHE RIDES SHOTGUN and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS. He is also a television writer and producer, and wrote/developed the late, great, and unreleased L.A CONFIDENTIAL TV series, which had a pilot so perfect that its demise is final, conclusive proof of God's absence.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Nov 22, 2019 • 45min

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #4: "...tomorrow's another day-which would be today, right?..." with Fran Hoepfner

”Thrilled to have finally wholeheartedly enjoyed a PTA movie so now I can make some male friends.”—Today’s guest, on Phantom ThreadApocalypse is very much in the air with this episode—as Doc and Denis are whipped by newspaper-munching Santa Ana winds while learning more and more about Mickey Wolfmann, our host is surrounded by the same winds nearly 50 years later during a particularly fiery and windswept day in Los Angeles in 2019. Further, he’s sitting down with Fran Hoepfner—a brilliant writer, an insightful critic, and…someone for whom Inherent Vice simply doesn’t do much.But if you’re going to deep-dive into Inherent Vice, part of that conversation includes the many folks and freaks and friends who just…don’t…care. Or, in certain horrifying cases that may or may not now be part of the permanent record with this episode, just don’t like Bigfoot Bjornsen (gasp!).About the GuestFRAN HOEPFNERFran Hoepfner is a writer from Chicago working on her MFA in Fiction at Rutgers in Newark. You can read her work at FranHoepfner.FYI.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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