Movie Mindset 08 - God Lancaster
Added 2023-06-14 11:00:06 +0000 UTCWill and Hesse discuss two classics featuring leading man Burt Lancaster: 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success (d. Alexander Mackendrick) and 1963’s The Leopard (d. Luchino Visconti). In Sweet Smell, Lancaster plays the coldly evil, all-powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsucker, and in The Leopard Lancaster is the fading, romantic noble Prince of Salina. Two masterful performances in devastating films showing Burt was one of the greatest to ever do it.
NEXT WEEK: Two from director Nicolas Roeg: 1983’s Eureka and 1985’s Insignificance.
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I like to think Mickey Rourke’s character in Eureka is Jordan Calphus Sr.
Max Fennig
2025-11-05 01:12:52 +0000 UTCI'll be anything you want, anything at all. I'll be your guardian angel.
Michael Austin
2023-07-11 06:46:25 +0000 UTCThey need to do a whole Lina Wurtmiller episode, she made incredible movies worth talking about.
Tenley
2023-06-26 17:50:24 +0000 UTCSolidarity!
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-20 22:39:27 +0000 UTCYou guys HAVE to watch Love and Anarchy, the Italian movie about a man who is going to kill Mussolini but gets distracted when he falls in love due to his heroism... one of the best films ever made.
Peter T.
2023-06-20 21:39:32 +0000 UTCI SAW IT, Rohmer, and now have MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT on The List. You are SEEN, movie brother.
J.W.
2023-06-20 21:10:02 +0000 UTCSome misc notes about Sweet Smell - not sure if anyone's going to see this but whatever: the cruel police lieutenant Kello is played by the workhorse character actor Emile Meyer; the very same year he played the priest in PATHS OF GLORY, where he's last seen speaking comforting words to Timothy Carey as he's being marched up to face the firing squad I believe Will meant to say THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT - a great comedy movie about labor and class; it's the one where Alec Guinness invents an indestructible textile material that throws the industry into turmoil. Other great Mackendrick movies include WHISKEY GALORE! - a comedy about a Scottish island community that's brought together to come to the rescue of 50k cases of booze. And two '60s adventure movies, A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA and A BOY TEN FEET TALL.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-20 18:57:25 +0000 UTCCowardice to not choose THE TRAIN, especially when considering Lancaster’s physicality
Seth Feinberg
2023-06-18 20:46:55 +0000 UTCUhh if you like your goat you can fuck it
I am become reply guy
2023-06-18 19:56:01 +0000 UTCThe most respected guy in your town typically looks more like a Walter Matthau, Burt Lancaster is a unicorn, it’s the movies.
Nolan
2023-06-18 15:21:16 +0000 UTCYea I’m like if Burt Lancaster smoked weed and was the coolest guy
Nolan
2023-06-18 15:14:48 +0000 UTC...as the Cold War was re-heating in '78, Lancaster narrated a 20-hour, internationally syndicated series on the Soviet Union in WW II called _The Unknown War_. This came five years after _The World at War_ kind of broke the media silence in the NATO west regarding the Soviet War, but still, that took something on Lancaster's part. I watched some a long time ago, and now I want to give it another look...
Frederick Von Drasek
2023-06-18 00:52:58 +0000 UTCBurt was the Daniel Craig of his era in every way
John Leavitt
2023-06-18 00:48:04 +0000 UTCI thought “Tough Guys” with Kirk was pretty good
Scot Forsythe
2023-06-18 00:18:12 +0000 UTCJust get a VPN, for like twelve bucks a month you can watch anything you want.
Poppy Chulo
2023-06-17 19:43:29 +0000 UTCNot that you all read these, but you keep queuing up pictures I can't stream on Android, and I'm too much of a Luddite to torrent shit. Had to order Insignificance from the Laramie library, other side of the state. Also, three hours of dubbed-over English with sort of matching subtitles made me fuckin homicidal. Liked the ep. Cool series.
Equality State Of Mind
2023-06-17 15:22:44 +0000 UTCimo the whole trauma angle of that movie was wholly unnecessary and a huge waste of almost hour. imo the opening should have been "hi you're a humanities student, wanna come hang out in a village that's more socially rigid than an ant colony?" "hi yes I just had a break up and I want to change my mind, let's go right now"
etienne
2023-06-16 22:52:53 +0000 UTCIt’s definitely my favorite of the three (low bar) but I think it’s quitsville. I really strongly feel that he spent his whole cache on Beau
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-16 22:19:53 +0000 UTCNah I don’t think it’s meant that way, it was dumb peak 2019 online feminism where the Warren supporters would post about how Midsommar helped them process their trauma from a 6 month relationship where the guy had an avoidant attachment style, and they all genuinely thought the bf was a monster. (I dislike the movie itself just for the normal reasons)
J.P. McD.
2023-06-16 22:01:09 +0000 UTCwell, I could go one of two ways about it: if he really meant it like that, yeah then, fuck that movie. but I think there's a "deserve's got nothin' to do with it" angle and I'm okay with that. I don't mind a sadist, but I can't abide a moralizing one.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-16 21:17:45 +0000 UTCI’m just mad about Twitter thinking Midsommar was about “female empowerment” and that a boyfriend trapped in a crappy relationship should be killed
J.P. McD.
2023-06-16 18:23:53 +0000 UTCAnd for anyone who still doesn't think Burt Lancaster is God, watch Elmer Gantry.
NoPrefect
2023-06-16 17:23:44 +0000 UTCLol at the “people also watched” on Amazon for Bright Future including every prior Movie Mindset pick
J.P. McD.
2023-06-15 23:31:03 +0000 UTCoh hell yeah. that one's bonkers city. he really made a lot of CHOICES in there
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-15 20:34:25 +0000 UTCAlso listening back to the Eastwood ep - has anyone recently watched the Eiger Sanction? It's deranged in ways I never remembered
John Marshall
2023-06-15 20:13:27 +0000 UTCMan, I have to watch that one
John Williams
2023-06-15 20:00:20 +0000 UTCThank you for the rec
John Marshall
2023-06-15 19:57:26 +0000 UTCSame director - Housekeeping (1987) is a masterpiece
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-15 19:41:39 +0000 UTCBrute Force is like a classic movie which to me is 100% about America as the Fourth Reich that came out just two years after the war was over
Garth Hillsborough
2023-06-15 18:44:54 +0000 UTCYeah at first it seemed like Will was forcing himself to do something similar to Matt but I think he's found his groove and Hesse is the right partner for the job.
M.R. Alchemist
2023-06-15 17:37:26 +0000 UTCHesse is so great I can forgive her for being Italian
HarshMalarkey
2023-06-15 17:32:57 +0000 UTCFirst episode of Movie Mindset I've listened to. Didn't think I'd care for it much. The chemistry between Will and Hesse alone are enough to make this really entertaining. They perfectly compliment each other. Great commentary. Very much enjoyed this.
(Noah J)
2023-06-15 17:19:44 +0000 UTCGreat ep
Folks,,
2023-06-15 16:32:45 +0000 UTCBrute Force and The Killers are two early career noirs(noir-ish in the case of Brute Force) that Lancaster is excellent in
David James
2023-06-15 15:29:11 +0000 UTCGotta weigh in: Beau is Afraid is bootleg. It’s become increasingly clear that Ari Aster is the kind of huckster who’s spent his life trying to make six dumb ideas look like three good ones. Lock him up at Apple TV where he belongs.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-15 12:48:02 +0000 UTCSo stoked to here that Hesse liked Shin Kamen Rider!
SF
2023-06-15 12:46:18 +0000 UTCLove the local hero recommendation - such a gentle but hilarious film
John Marshall
2023-06-15 12:44:43 +0000 UTCSteve Dallas played by Martin Milner who went on to star in the TV series Route 66 and as the lead cop in Adam 12 (Jack Webb's love song to the cop on the beat).
Michael Polacheck
2023-06-15 11:20:46 +0000 UTCi love movie mindset 📽️🍿
Adam
2023-06-15 09:26:16 +0000 UTC{Sees Alain Delon in the Leopard} "I'm gay!" {Sees Claudia Cardinale 30 minutes later} "I'm straight!"
THEKILLERWHALE
2023-06-15 09:09:43 +0000 UTCI can't think of Burt anymore without hearing Bill Hader saying "oyster crackers" in his accent.
Brad Plumb
2023-06-15 03:27:02 +0000 UTCYou know you're a GOAT when you're on Nixon's enemies list. Every name on that thing should be enshrined.
Brad Plumb
2023-06-15 03:25:13 +0000 UTC“The Swimmer”: incredible. I can’t see how “Easy Rider” could’ve been made without it.
George Mitri
2023-06-15 03:21:54 +0000 UTCCan't believe you didn't choose Executive Action (1973).
SJ
2023-06-15 03:00:10 +0000 UTCYou claim to be movie connoisseurs and yet you refuse - ( j'accuse! ) flatly refuse to address what Jimmy McGinty did to Big Box Office Jim's boy in Terminator Salivation.
Diet Mountain Dew is Reichist
2023-06-15 01:31:03 +0000 UTCStopped partway through to go watch Sweet Smell, and goddamn, what a solid watch. Hunsecker is an all time villain in that
Brady
2023-06-15 01:06:12 +0000 UTCThe Swimmer is a pretty good flick, with a nice twist at the end.
Nimbly Bimbly As FUCK
2023-06-15 01:01:38 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Burt is a underrated Hollywood super nova. Like Holden had his own production company. And his career had long legs: Flame and the Arrow to Atlantic City. What a career.
Bloggystyle
2023-06-15 00:21:02 +0000 UTC😹😹😹
Shauna Seroquel
2023-06-15 00:07:47 +0000 UTCValdez is Coming is a good one from the same period
Zach H.
2023-06-14 23:39:34 +0000 UTCFirst time watching these movies ahead of time. Greatly increased enjoyment of the episode. Would recommend.
Jon
2023-06-14 23:35:45 +0000 UTCCharade.
Brian Taulbee
2023-06-14 23:31:19 +0000 UTCI just looked at this guys credits and I have no clue who he is. I thought Lee Marvin was burt lambaster
Jack Hume
2023-06-14 23:29:00 +0000 UTCHaven't seen it but I briefly thought of then other "The Rainmaker" and briefly imagined a movie that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Mackey Rourke, Virginia Madsen, Claire Danes, and somehow fucking Burt Lancaster?! Then I realized that wasn't possible but god the Coppola Rainmaker is so stacked I have to revisit it soon even if it turns out mid
Claire Casey
2023-06-14 23:12:08 +0000 UTClast recommendation sounds kinda rad, I could see how the interplay would go lancaster: now I might just be a uh smawwl taaawn oil lawyer but uhhh, pray tell, how much uhh this here cottage? might be sold? capaldi: now ye fat american cunt ye gonna take yer bloody petrodollars an oil reiffeinery an ram it up so far up ye bum ol' winnine redraws the national border of ye meind ye daft twat
etienne
2023-06-14 22:43:49 +0000 UTCDepalma suggestions: dressed to kill v blow out, or carrie/body double
JD
2023-06-14 22:33:14 +0000 UTCYou can talk about “the swimmer” when you do your Frank Perry episode, paired with “man on a swing” or maybe “mommie dearest”
JD
2023-06-14 22:30:17 +0000 UTCit might be mentioned in the ep (I've only just started) but a footnote regarding JJ being based on Walter Winchell, his first child was a daughter that he named Walda and (Wikipedia) she spent a fair share of time in the nuthouse. Walda Winchell.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-14 21:07:11 +0000 UTCi also thought SSOS was some kind of comedy or musical. now that i know it’s about a demonic gossip king trying to fuck his sister, i’m definitely gonna check it out!
Nathan Explosion
2023-06-14 20:57:13 +0000 UTCI just watched Sweet Smell of Success with my dad, and Wong's cinematography is Something else.
Leebos
2023-06-14 20:04:30 +0000 UTCto say excruciating is u being dramatic
stop watcherman
2023-06-14 19:49:39 +0000 UTCIncredible episode too
Jeff Popp
2023-06-14 19:31:52 +0000 UTCThe first hour of Beau is Afraid has some very funny moments. The next 2 hours were excruciating.
Corey Reynolds
2023-06-14 19:14:03 +0000 UTCFor Matthau Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) The Laughing Policeman (1973) Or Charlie Varrick (1973)
Zach H.
2023-06-14 18:59:10 +0000 UTCi used to watch TOUGH GUYS (1985) constantly as a kid. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play convicted train robbers that re-enter LA society after thirty years in the clink. Dana Carvey, Eli Wallach, and Charles Durning co-star. rough gem of 80s cinema looking back on the 1950s. it’s hilarious.
Nathan Explosion
2023-06-14 17:43:54 +0000 UTCI can't believe nobody recognized Martin Milner as Steve Dallas who later on had the starring role as a cop in Adam-12
Modokk
2023-06-14 17:42:30 +0000 UTCThe good ol days when movies about journalists were all about how corrupt and evil they are
Aram Fingal
2023-06-14 17:35:01 +0000 UTCJJ would tell Tom to drown himself in a toilet and Tom would do it.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-14 16:59:40 +0000 UTCA great line from the OG Bad News Bears is the black kid stepping up to bat and announcing “this one’s going out to Allah, suckas”
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-14 16:46:28 +0000 UTCYour young audience has no clue of the movies you speak of. Old farts.
Seamus
2023-06-14 15:08:01 +0000 UTCHey Will, thoughts on Peter Riegert in The Mask, and that one episode of The Sopranos?
Yairo Martis
2023-06-14 15:05:39 +0000 UTCJJ and Sidney = Tom and Gregg
SlowTrickle
2023-06-14 14:54:22 +0000 UTCgonna start talking like that IRL. my boss is gonna ask me if the 2024 version is compiled and im gonna tell him "It's all uptight and buttoned up. Signed sealed delivered"
etienne
2023-06-14 14:40:07 +0000 UTCyou are an idiot.
Adam Skorupskas
2023-06-14 13:06:12 +0000 UTCMy pitch for Predator 3 would be an out of shape predator who hunts a group of off duty oathkeeper types doing a lame militia training in the woods. Lots of sweaty off duty cops getting merc'd left and right and the one soy boy brother-in-law is the one who takes the predator out by outrunning him and luring him to a bbq to take it out with the twin logs trap again. But this time 4 logs. Also this predator smokes/vapes. Pulls a cig from his hand device after clicking alien runes into it that you think he's gonna use as a bomb.
Robert Granniss
2023-06-14 12:57:14 +0000 UTCHesse is thinking of Martin Landau on Columbo
Will
2023-06-14 12:42:30 +0000 UTCCaught "The Rainmaker" on one of the free streaming networks a few days ago. Had never heard of it before, but Lancaster was fucking on fire.
Julie Baxter
2023-06-14 12:29:14 +0000 UTCHideaki Anno talk right off the bat, ty Hesse. 🙏
Claire Casey
2023-06-14 12:17:29 +0000 UTCLooking forward to the Charley Varrick-The Friends of Eddie Coyle episode.
Yairo Martis
2023-06-14 12:05:51 +0000 UTCIt’s worth it for the “grape orgy” alone.
gonzopitcher
2023-06-14 12:04:03 +0000 UTCYou ever see Seconds? Kind of a B minus C plus movie overall but Howe’s cinematography on it will rip your face off.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-14 12:01:31 +0000 UTCThat’s wild I was just studying Dolphy’s “Synthetic Formations” this morning.
gonzopitcher
2023-06-14 11:58:23 +0000 UTCChico Hamilton's band was real important, too – early into some Third Stream ideas about more elaborate composition in jazz, and they were the first major job for Eric Dolphy, one of the greatest musicians of any kind who ever lived
Michael S. Judge
2023-06-14 11:56:18 +0000 UTCThe Leopard is my favorite movie of all times. Visconti has some other good ones, but this is excellent. Book is very good too. But I think it’s like Jurassic Park, the book is good, add depth, but the spectacle of the film makes it. Perfect ending, too. Anticlimactic but fitting.
Skip scrambler
2023-06-14 11:52:00 +0000 UTCUlzana’s Raid is a top late Burt.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-14 11:49:24 +0000 UTCburt is a fucking godddd
Malaparte_Animal
2023-06-14 11:44:07 +0000 UTCgo tell the spartans = the best vietnam war film ever made by americans
Malaparte_Animal
2023-06-14 11:43:44 +0000 UTCI enjoyed it until the last hour and a half.
Graham Austin
2023-06-14 11:42:12 +0000 UTCBody snatchers episode was lit yo. But hopefully they do some movies I've seem too
Ba'alWhale34
2023-06-14 11:39:33 +0000 UTCIm sure im just uncivilized but i have not enjoyed the movie picks
darick michael lapaglia
2023-06-14 11:36:30 +0000 UTCBeau is Afraid is incredible. Does Will like movies? lol
Drew McGill
2023-06-14 11:35:50 +0000 UTCOMFG I'm a complete Lancaster stan and have been since I saw Elmer Gantry in college. The Swimmer is probably my favorite!
Sharilyn Neidhardt
2023-06-14 11:30:21 +0000 UTCCats in the bag and the bags in the river.
gonzopitcher
2023-06-14 11:19:13 +0000 UTC
