Posts Tagged ‘The Wild Bunch’
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #540
September 18, 2017 | 
Author Even though the Emmy Awards celebrating Television took place last night, your friends in podcasting spend the entire hour (and ten minutes) talking movies. First, they start by celebrating the life and career of the singular Harry Dean Stanton. Then, they discuss misogyny and sexual assault in the movie exhibition business. Finally, Dean and Phil tackle a wide range of cinematic endeavors, including two surrealist (absurdist?) classics by Luis Bunuel, a late classic western by Sam Peckinpah, an all-star war film from the 1970′s, the restored director’s cut of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and an Alfred Hitchcock comedy. Pass the popcorn – We’re talking movies!
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #535
In many ways, this week’s show is a sequel to last week’s episode #534, with the promised celebration of Jeanne Moreau’s life and career, an email from a listener about Tom Jones’ “The Young New Mexican Puppeteer” and more from the British Film Institute List of “the 50 films you should see by the age of 14″.
Unlike most sequels, however, this show is even more irreverent, insightful and informative than last week’s!
The festivities commence with a clip of Dean on Australian television telling a (bestiality?) joke, and then after a special opening (a tribute to Glen Campbell), Dean comes out guns blazing, ranting about the internet speeds of his adopted land. After Phil calms him down, they discuss the news of David Letterman’s new show, they urge people to save the Salem Cinema (a jewel of the Pacific Northwest), they talk about an interview they did with the late Jim Marrs and they continue their discussion about the “death of discernment”, this time focusing on an appalling memo crafted by a then member of the National Security Council.
From there, it’s onto “Celebrity Deaths”, where, in addition to the Femme Fatale of the French New Wave and Glen Campbell, your friends in podcasting remember a Tony-winning star of Broadway’s “The Music Man”, the star of an early television western series turned right-wing anti-government activist, and the man inside the Godzilla costume.
Finally, Dean and Phil discuss a 1982 Australian western, a 1954 western that influenced the likes of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, the original King Kong, and the Will Rogers comedy Life Begins at 40.
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #492
The great film theorist André Bazin described the genre of the movie western as “the American film par excellence.” Your friends in podcasting could not agree more! That’s why on this week’s show (their 2nd of 10 “Top Ten” shows commemorating this, the 10th year of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour), Dean and Phil count down their Top Ten All Time Westerns.
What films will make the list? What films won’t? Will Dean have difficulty numbering 10 to 1?
These questions and many more will be answered during the next 75 minutes. Enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 3:10 to Yuma, Alan Ladd, American Film Institute, Anthony Quinn, Australia, Bad Day at Black Rock, Blazing Saddles, Brad Pitt, Burt Lancaster, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Canada, Casey Affleck, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Cleavon Little, Clint Eastwood, Cowboy, Dana Andrews, Dean Haglund, Dean Martin, Delmer Daves, directing, Edmond O'Brien, Eli Wallach, feminism, filmmaking, Fred Zinneman, Gary Cooper, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder, Glenn Ford, Gregory Peck, Hell or High Water, Henry Fonda, Henry King, High Noon, Howard Hawks, independent film, individual vs. society, Jack Elam, Jack Lemmon, Jack Palance, James Coburn, James Stewart, Jason Robards, Jeffrey Hunter, Jesse James, John Ford, John Sturges, John Wayne, justice, Karl Malden, Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Leigh Brackett, Marlon Brando, Mel Brooks, Mexico, Morgan Freeman, movies, mythology, National Film Registry, No Country For Old Men, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Eyed Jacks, Paul Newman, Phil Leirness, producing, race relations, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, Ralph Bellamy, Richard Brooks, Richard Harris, Richard Jaeckel, Ricky Nelson, Rio Bravo, Robert Ford, Robert Redford, Robert Ryan, Rod Serling, Sam Peckinpah, screenwriting, Sergio Leone, Shane, show business, Sight and Sound, Spaghetti Westerns, Stanley Kubrick, Steve McQueen, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The Gunfighter, The Lone Gunmen, The Magnificent Seven, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Professionals, The Searchers, The Seven Samurai, The Wild Bunch, The X-Files, top ten, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Unforgiven, United States, Van Heflin, violence, Walter Brennan, westerns, William Holden, William Wellman, Woody Strode, Yul Brynner | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #270
If you are a big fan of the “In Memoriam” section of awards shows, you are going to LOVE this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. Much of the show is dedicated to remembering the show business legends that left us since your friends in podcasting last came to you from a certain “historic building in downtown Los Angeles” …
Dean and Phil also follow up on last week’s incredible interview of true Renaissance man Leigh J. McCloskey by discussing another Renaissance man, Dean Haglund!
Of course, there’s much, much more to enjoy, including “The Irving G. Thalberg Drinking Game”, “The Succotash Bump”, the Bob Hope Airport, Torchwood, Norman Rockwell, The Pageant of the Masters, Phil’s desire to get knighted by the King of Norway, and the “Lawsuit of the Week”.
Finally, this week’s show includes big shout outs to Ethan Dettenmaier and “Combat Radio”, “Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis”, Pepper Jay, Yi Tian and Actors E Chat Show, Susan Larison Danz and “The Frontier Beyond Fear”, Marc Hershon and “Succotash”, Shaun Parker, David Sobolov and Agent Summer.
Oh, and if funny videos are something you enjoy, then by all means, check out this clip of Dean Haglund interviewing another sci-fi icon, a true “Star Wars” legend.
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #223
Forgive us for another delay, but your friend in podcasting, Dean Haglund is working CRAAZY hours shooting his hosting segments for “The X-Files” forthcoming syndication run on YouToo, a brand new cable network. Dean describes more of what he’s been shooting, and what kind of interactive technologies this network plans on utilizing on-air. And since talk of “The X-Files” is in the air, it’s only fitting that Dean and Phil discuss the brand new show Frank Spotnitz has sold to Cinemax and that show’s origins. What will be of particular interest to X-philes is the discussion Dean and Frank had in London about the possibility of an X-Files 3 and the real reason it hasn’t happened already (and no, Fox is NOT to blame).
Of course, even if you’ve never seen an episode of “The X-Files”, there will be plenty to love about this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollyood Hour, including discussions of a new Alien, a new Blade Runner and a new …The Wild Bunch?!?
Phil sings the praises of three actresses who have really come into their own as movie stars and whose extraordinary talents are on display at American multiplexes right now.
As podcast royalty, it is the responsibility of Dean and Phil to remember the Queen of Hollywood and a former First Lady, both of whom died this past week.
Finally, amidst all the stories of marketing madness and bizarre celebrity behavior, Dean and Phil find time to plot a way of attracting a brand new sponsor for show, looking to “The Jersey Shore”‘s The Situation for inspiration!
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