Cinebanter #58 - TROPIC THUNDER + ALAN BALL INTERVIEW
The MP3 of Cinebanter #58 is available here.
In this episode, Michael and Tassoula bicker about the amount of funny in TROPIC THUNDER. They also deliver their Last Five®, respond to a Listener Last Five® from Australia and discuss the classic TOKYO STORY in the From the Queue segment. Tassoula's long-awaited interview with Oscar®-winning screenwriter Alan Ball, who spoke with her during the Seattle International Film Festival, closes out the show. The breakdown is as follows:
• 00:00 Intro
• 00:32 TROPIC THUNDER DISCUSSION
• Break
• 14:21 To Sum It Up
• Break
• 14:46 The Last Five®
• Break
• 24:20 Listener Last Five® (Michelle in Sydney)
• Break
• 30:48 From the Queue: TOKYO STORY
• Break
• 36:11 Tassoula's interview with ALAN BALL
• 55:33 Credits and Outtakes
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Michael's Last Five in this episode were: DRUNKEN MASTER, IN BRUGES, LAST TANGO IN PARIS, WATER and PING PONG PLAYA. Tassoula's Last Five in this episode were: THE RECRUITER, MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT, BEFORE SUNRISE, AN AFFAIR OF LOVE and SAN FRANCISCO.
Special thanks to Brad Daane and Mark Cummins for providing the original music in this episode.
Reviews and/or notes of every movie Michael sees can be found at his MichaelVox website.
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Labels: 2008, Alan Ball, Ben Stiller, Cinebanter, MichaelVox Tassoula, Robert Downey Jr., SIFF, Tokyo Story, Tom Cruise, Towelhead, Tropic Thunder
posted by Tassoula @ 9:23 AM
3 Comments:
Hey Guys,
Was great to hear my "Last Five" so thank you :-) To answer Michael's question regarding The Bands Visit, it does have a cinema release here, in Sydney it is showing at a couple of the arthouse cinemas, so it is limited but it's great that we have an opportunity to see it on the big screen.
Nice one Michelle, glad you enjoyed the Bank Job. A great Australian film I'd recommend is The Proposition, a western-type film which is a lot like Three Burials... check it out, Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston and a great director.
Finally got around to watching Tropic Thunder, and recently watched Pineapple Express as well, so I can now tell you that if i had $10 in my pocket to see one of them again, I would pick Tropic Thunder by a country mile. I thought that caricatures were taken to logical or absurd conclusions on purpose, and I bought into it whole-hog. Plus I quit smoking dope something like a decade ago and couldn't shake the feeling that Seth Rogan was doing a Jeff Garlin impression throughout the movie. That said, how many goddamn Danny McBride movies am I going to see this year? We saw these two movies in quick succession after Foot Fist Way, so I'm half expecting to see him in whatever Bond movie from the 70s I watch on cable at 3AM when I'm feeding our daughter.
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