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Podcasts: October 2009 Archives
Supporting Characters Worthy of Spinoffs
By Alison Willmore on 10/26/2009
Ronald Chevalier, the pompous fantasy writer memorably played by Jemaine Clement in "Gentlemen Broncos," seems so much more interesting that the film's main storylines that we found ourselves wishing there was a whole movie only devoted to him. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at a few other supporting characters we feel deserve their own movie, from a fireman in the midst of an existential crisis to a classic, wisecracking space opera smuggler. Download: MP3, 52:35 minutes, 48.1 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]... MORE »
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Improving on Real Life
By Alison Willmore on 10/19/2009
Filed under: PodcastsClearly, you can't cram an entire lifetime into two hours -- for a biopic to be truly complete and accurate, it'd run as long as its subject's time on earth. So how do you make someone's life into a movie? This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at how biographical films trim, mold and sometimes downright fictionalize their subject's lives to make them more cinematic and audience friendly, from de-gaying to skipping the difficult bits to dealing (or not dealing) with the tragic ending that, as in the case with "Amelia," everyone knows is coming. Download: MP3, 55:40... MORE »
Planet Melancholgia
By Alison Willmore on 10/12/2009
Filed under: PodcastsWhat to call the mixture of grown-up melancholy and childhood nostalgia promised by a film like "Where the Wilds Things Are"? We're not sure, but until someone gives us a better suggestion, we're going with "melancholgia." This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at the recent surge in melancholgic films about youth and the enduring appeal of all that reminiscence, and we propose some projects ripe for melancholgic adaptation. Plus, we announce the first prizewinner in our keyword game! Download: MP3, 36:53 minutes, 33.8 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]... MORE »
"Forget it, Jake. It's Cougartown."
By Alison Willmore on 10/05/2009
Filed under: PodcastsThe movies' male/female age divide is nothing new -- from Marlon Brando buttering up a less-than-half-his-age Maria Schneider in "Last Tango in Paris" to Catherine Zeta-Jones pursuing a grandfatherly Sean Connery in "Entrapment," on-screen relationships between older men and younger women rarely even merit a comment. This week on the IFC News podcast, we thought we'd look at the flip side of the phenomenon and examine how films treat pairings of older women with younger men, picking out some of the recurring themes, and wondering why the deflowering of a teenage boy by an older female is allowed to be... MORE »
