203.5 - Let's Open the Mailbag
Added 2024-12-03 08:00:06 +0000 UTCOn this episode of the Aftershow, the mailbag is overflowing with content from last season! But, before Gala reads letters from listeners, we've got more on The Substitute, The Promise, and Pancho Villa.
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QT Please do a video archives presents collection of dvd or blu rays ! That would be awesome and bring a bigger light to rare and hard to find films
🇨🇦Chris Berger🇨🇦
2025-01-07 16:07:17 +0000 UTCQuentin’s reservoir dogs pan and scan was so good that when I finally saw the widescreen years later I was like “wtf is this?? I don’t like it.” Took me years to appreciate the widescreen version (obviously the better one) 😂
Ayz
2024-12-28 18:23:51 +0000 UTC8 random Masonic things I noticed watching The Promise: 1. 90 stiches to her face. Right angle is 90 Degree 2. Apartment is 2228. 2x2x2 is a cube measurement 3. Mason St. is driven by. 4. Blue beads. Masons use the color blue to represent universal friendship and benevolence. Also they wear the color. 5. Birds are everywhere. Set pieces, flying over, feathers of birds. Both Thoth and Ma'at could be represented by a bird or feather. 6. Circular objects seen a lot. Frisbees, sun glasses, picture frames, other objects. Etc etc 7. I think the quote is, "the way I see god is not the way you see god." Apparently, to be a freemason you need to have a belief of a god but not necessarily have to agree with everyone on who or what it is. 8. Heat shaped chairs. The heart is weighed against the feather (ma'at) in the afterlife.
Ken SGV
2024-12-12 21:18:15 +0000 UTCFinally caught up! Fantastic to hear Quentin's account of his Nottingham visits and Broadway Cinema's Pulp Fiction screening first hand. Fingers crossed you ALL visit one day! Thanks for the education, as ever. P.S. The oldest pub - Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem - claims to date back to 1189. 835 years old! It's built into the base of sand stone Nottingham Castle sits on.
Rich Johnson
2024-12-10 00:29:24 +0000 UTCMorning rewatch is Michael Winner’s THE BIG SLEEP (1978), the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 novel. As a fan of the original novels, the 1946 film, and Mitchum’s excellent FAREWELL, MY LOVELY from 1975, I’ve always had lots of issues with this one. Tarantino’s decision to cover it on his next Video Archives Podcast episode made me want to rewatch it and see what might have drawn him to it. My issues with the film are the decision to set it in 1970s England and to let all the sleaze rise to the surface. It doesn’t attempt to be noirish, and as a sequel to FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, it was sorely lacking. There’s no real sense of mystery, and Sarah Miles is no Bacall. But … on this viewing, I did enjoy it a lot more, coming at it from a more open mind. Winner captures the melancholy and aimlessness of the world of the book. This isn’t a noirish world in this film, but we see deeper into the grubbiness and desperation of most of the characters. Mitchum’s Marlowe makes mincemeat, verbally and intellectually, of all of his oppponents, and the actor delivers the witty lines perfectly. And Winner’s reason for the modern England setting is something to think about. The original film was set and filmed in the 40s by a very American filmmaker. Winner is an English filmmaker making films in the 70s. Why not set it in modern England and it give it a Winner sensibility? He was asked to do the film, and needed a hit after two flops. The studio agreed to his demand to film in the UK. (Another rumor is that Winner just couldn’t be arsed to film in the States … he did shoot the NY-set DEATH WISH 3 in England in the mid-80s, and most of his output after SLEEP was filmed in Blighty. ) I’ll still pine for a period-set Mitchum SLEEP in the FAREWELL, MY LOVELY mode, but this version does have value if you can give it a chance.
Paul Rowlands
2024-12-08 03:18:00 +0000 UTCYes, we have several guests planned for this season!
Video Archives Podcast
2024-12-05 16:01:07 +0000 UTCWill there be any more guests on the show? Would love to hear you all chat with Edgar Wright.
Jonny Blaze
2024-12-05 13:39:58 +0000 UTCI always liked it.
David Rozycki
2024-12-05 05:29:06 +0000 UTCYou won’t be sorry. He also narrates the audiobook and does quite impressive impressions — capturing spirits but not distracting.
Meghann Salus
2024-12-04 19:04:45 +0000 UTCYou just convinced me to rewatch the Langella Dracula, and the memoir sounds awesome. Will track that down for sure.
Raj
2024-12-04 14:49:42 +0000 UTCThe massive screenplay by Robert Bolt is one of the best and deserves to be on everyone’s shelf: https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/lawrence-of-arabia-1962.pdf
Raj
2024-12-04 14:40:59 +0000 UTCSuch fun. Loved the Rich Johnson story, the Alex Cox of it all...and FRIEDKIN. It always comes back to Friedkin.
Craig & Friends
2024-12-04 08:01:58 +0000 UTCI love STICK IT too, even more than writer Jessica Bendinger's bigger hit BRING IT ON.
Marc Heuck
2024-12-04 07:36:54 +0000 UTCThe peak year of 1970s horror is definitely 1979. I got to see PHANTASM at the drive-in when I was 10 in a 1978 Ford Van with a bed in back. Our parents allowed us to watch it but made us close our eyes twice. The 1999 DVD has the old 70s film look, it used the same transfer as the laser disc. The 2007 DVD has some more extras and a different menu but the transfer is too clean if you know what I mean. I wish they made the Japanese market sequel in 1981 but the did The Beastmaster instead which was awesome. I like how the Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin came out in 1979, 1980, and 1981. Three memorable years. 🤣👍
Jeffrey Hemphill
2024-12-04 04:34:34 +0000 UTCThank u for answering my question!! ALOT more comprehensive than I was expecting. It was awesome! And I’m glad it seemed to send the guys down other rabbit holes, which was fantastic! Also thx for not reading/releasing/saying the body of the letter on air, I was sweating how embarrassed I was gonna be… PHEW!! Haha 😘
hawkikwah
2024-12-04 03:10:16 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/NnCmUXl_FzI?si=9VI2mr2hdvOheZ-t
Brandon Lee
2024-12-04 03:09:30 +0000 UTC1973 The Exorcist and Wicker Man, nuff said.
John Larkin
2024-12-04 02:22:58 +0000 UTCYou should check out the 4k steelbook. You could own both. 😏
Brandon Lee
2024-12-03 23:50:59 +0000 UTCI have occasionally wanted to upgrade my trusty crusty DVD of Lawrence, but I just love having that weird book cover canvas case in my collection.
Mark Ibarra
2024-12-03 23:45:58 +0000 UTCSupposed to be a pic of Cruising 4k by Arrow Video. 👍🏼
Brandon Lee
2024-12-03 23:10:06 +0000 UTCI think a reference film to watch in 4k and to experience what it can achieve at its best, is to watch Lawrence of Arabia. If you love film, but don’t own a movie theatre, it’s pretty incredible. I’m someone who joined Columbia House movie club under 5 different names to get as many VHS that I could back in the day. I think it was like 8 movies for $15 each time you joined. 😂 I’ve fallen back in love with movies because of my 4k set up. When I see announcements like this I just geek out
Brandon Lee
2024-12-03 23:07:34 +0000 UTCMy tv has filmmaker mode that presents it in its original form as the filmmaker intended. I also disable all that AI garbage. It’s OLED too which is different than LED and LCD.
Brandon Lee
2024-12-03 22:46:44 +0000 UTCBest horror year is 1977 - SUSPIRIA, HOUSE, THE CAR, THE SENTINEL, and the scariest film of all time ERASERHEAD because you can have Dracula, the Boogeyman, Zombies, and all that shit but nothing is more frightening than fathering a baby when you’re not ready!
The Lake Show
2024-12-03 20:47:47 +0000 UTC*But I will also grant we are living in the frustrating world of people who intentionally enable the "TruMotion" type setting on their TVs.
Mark Ibarra
2024-12-03 20:06:35 +0000 UTCI don't think a media landscape, where library titles are intentionally sourced from 35mm prints "AS THEY WERE MEANT TO BE SEEN," (box blurb) is so hard to imagine in a world where vinyl just overtook CDs again.
Mark Ibarra
2024-12-03 19:56:27 +0000 UTChttps://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-jeff-waynes-the-war-of-the-worlds
David Chien
2024-12-03 19:04:17 +0000 UTCCount me as number 2 fan of the Frank Langella Dracula. He wrote a super dishy memoir where he told great stories about his experience with Sir Lawrence during filming and that informed my opinion. My husband and I watch it every year on Halloween followed by The Abominable Dr Phibes. Also, excited for another Mitchum on its way next week! I think he puts his shoulder into The Big Sleep more than usual for Late 70’s Mitchum. Can’t wait to hear the discussion. And how great that Roger got that trailer!
Meghann Salus
2024-12-03 17:20:32 +0000 UTCMy guess for the third movie next week is Ice Castles.
Anil Rana
2024-12-03 17:12:33 +0000 UTCYes I made an oopsie and mixed up the movies. I’ve since edited the text but ahh 🥰 just take it as a gift from me to you.
Video Archives Podcast
2024-12-03 15:56:44 +0000 UTCHi Gala, it looks like the email notification for this episode gives away the titles for next week in the body of the text.
Cameron Chesney
2024-12-03 13:22:19 +0000 UTCFun installment this week! Here's the Letterboxd list for this episode highlighting every title Quentin, Roger and Gala mention. Enjoy! https://letterboxd.com/vidiot1987/list/after-show-26-lets-open-the-mailbag/
Mike Kenny
2024-12-03 13:09:41 +0000 UTCHe means the 1977 rock opera of War of the Worlds with Phil Lynott and David Essex. Narration by Richard Burton. In Britain, a big thing of its era.
George White
2024-12-03 12:48:11 +0000 UTC
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