Episodes
5 days ago
5 days ago
Don & Pat dive delve into violent waters on this week's The Academy Academy as we discuss Michael Winner's Death Wish and Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. If you enjoy films directed by son-of-a-bitch bon vivants and movies that interrogate the inextricability of violence from human nature, then this is the pod for you!
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Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Dirty Harry)
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Don & Pat tackle the Dirty Harry portion of Cinema on this week's The Academy Academy. Do you miss old school DVD special features? Do you think Unforgiven and Men At Work is the perfect double feature? Do you think Emory Cohen has a shot at becoming the next Paul Walter Hauser? Do you want to learn about the life and times of Don Siegel, the guy who was NEARLY 60 when he directed Dirty Harry and got his start working on montages for films like THE ROARING TWENTIES and CASABLANCA?! This is some must-listen pod material, folks!
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Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
It's another extra credit ep, folks! One of the movies discussed is a goodie, while the other is a... confusie. We discuss Cool Cops, Dad Cops, Crazy Uncle Cops, Lunchpail Cinema, and all things Sweaty Troubling Men on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Friday Sep 06, 2024
Our Feature Presentation: A Cinema Speculation Podcast (Bullitt)
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Does Bullitt contain the most popular vehicle in all of cinema? Does Frank Bullitt play into liberal cop fantasies the way Dirty Harry plays into conservative ones? Would Steve McQueen have made Sorcerer a bonafide box-office success? Pat & Don discuss all this and more on this week's episode of The Academy Academy!
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Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Did you bragbout brag about watching R-rated films to gain social cache on the playground? Is your life riddled with moments worth of a John Cheever short story? Is Bruce Glover your go-to goon? If you answered yes to any of these questions, look no further: this pod is for you! Don & Pat discuss Wendell James Franklin's The Bus Is Coming and Robert Hartford-Davis' Black Gunn on this week's The Academy Academy. Enjoy!
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Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Don & Pat use Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation as a framework to discuss the most provocative features of a filmic era they find endlessly fascinating, beginning with Joe and Where's Poppa. Is this button-pushing double feature still relevant today, or merely a mildly concerning curio? What kind of movie uses "The Tush Scene Alone Is Worth the Price of Admission" as its poster logline and which one of these films grossed over $18,000,000 on a $100,000 budget? Tune in to find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Schlesinger in America: Part 3 (Marathon Man and Honky Tonk Freeway
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Don & Pat triumphantly return from their brief hiatus with a banger of an ep, folks! We're concluding our Schlesinger detour with the airport thriller adaptation classic Marathon Man and the cinematic Spruce Goose known as Honky Tonk Freeway. Are you down for a William Devane double feature? Do you think Tubi is the streaming equivalent of a video rental store? What is the true price of watching an elephant water ski? Tune in and find out on this week's The Academy Academy!
Who knows! Don & Pat don't as they cover The Day of the Locust on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Saturday Jul 20, 2024
Schlesinger in America: Part 2 (The Day of the Locust)
Saturday Jul 20, 2024
Saturday Jul 20, 2024
The Academy Academy covering another feel-bad film from the twisted mind of John Schlesinger, folks! Can you recognize the rot around you, or are you one amongst the stampeding horde? Do you ever want to see a movie in a crowded theater just to see the muted and uncomfortable reaction said film would elicit from the audience? If Conrad L. Hall's sumptuous cinematography worth the watch if it's only filming odious people performing odious acts?
Who knows! Don & Pat don't as they cover The Day of the Locust on this week's The Academy Academy!
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Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Schlesinger in America: Part 1 (Midnight Cowboy)
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
We continue our hiatus from the works of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry to discuss another director of the late sixties and seventies who has unfortunately receded from the cultural limelight: John Schlesinger! We discuss the British director's dual upper-crust/outsider origins, the other actors who were up for the role of Joe Buck alongside Jon Voight, and how a combination of grit, genius, and serendipity led to the creation of the only X-Rated film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
We're continuing our break from the world of Jonze with a deep dive into a key, yet oft-forgotten, seventies director: Paul Mazursky! Don & Pat do a deep dive into his oeuvre, warts and all. Does Blume in Love feature the most wrongheaded third-act misfire in cinema history? Is Bill Conti's score for An Unmarried Woman his best? Is Michael Ontkean's haircut in Willie & Phil the most insane hairdo we've witnessed in a film we've watched for the pod? Tune in to find out!
TW: Sexual Assault factors into one of these films in a way that is pretty much impossible to avoid. The convo surrounding this subject starts around 38:40 and ends at 48:30 if you wish to skip said convo!
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