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Yea I can get why the Beatles themsevles don't focus on Let It Be much anymore, but as a music fan it'll be fascinating. And I feel like whether the new one is friendlier or not, it should be more factual and complete.

I mean, this film doesn't understand how anything works: email, computers, forklifts, corporate structure, Prozac, virtual reality, marriage, the law, sex...

Definitely not Amy. She was mocking it and the clip she chose was pretty bad haha Oh they also talked a bit about the upcoming Let It Be re-release which sounds like it will be great to me

They did, yea. They played a clip of a scene with Lennon from it and talked about it shortly. Then they showed a bunch of clips of people playing John Lennon in films since he didn’t act as much as the others.

This was a fun show, though there were so many clips it felt at times a little superficial, esp. compared to the usual in-depth Unspooled experience (and the first live show too). But obviously the Beatles clips were a blast. They basically talked through The Beatles main movies first, with Will Hines joining for most all of it. They all did sort of think A Hard Day's Night should be on the AFI list, its British-ness be damned. lol They then looked through the solo movies each of The Beatles have done, and the consensus seems to be that Ringo is the best actor of them all. This was my favorite part of the show, seeing all the obscure stuff Ringo and Paul had done. Next Jake Fogelnest joined them to discuss through the Sgt. Pepper's movie and show some clips of that. They were going to go into The Rutles too, I think, but basically seem to have run out of time. To close, Amy (and Randy Newman) had rewritten the lyrics to "Yesterday" to be about the AFI list and we all sang it.

Show is about to start!

also #RIP Ric Ocasek "White Cops on Dope": Only available on the motion picture soundtrack and DVD bonus features. The song is a musical parody of the Tubes' "White Punks on Dope", and is based on the trend of rappers working with rock bands (such as the Run-D.M.C./Aerosmith version of "Walk This Way") in an effort to cross over to mainstream audiences. Ric Ocasek of the Cars is featured on the track."

Ya, I saw it yesterday. I loved it so much. I knew nothing about it going into it besides Brad Pitt and space, and walked out in a daze of like 'whoa damn that was an experience.' Favorite movie of the year so far, easy.

Also I'll add, it's the best type of parody - the one that actually loves its target. These guys like rap music and that's why they can dig into its ethos so well

Yea this was really fun to see again. I did find that some of the jokes were told in fairly amateurish ways, like it was just a first draft almost, but so many of the details and costumes and music and attitude is so perfectly spoofed, overall, the movie still works.

I don't really buy the Coen references, beyond the superficial. I think the aim of NXNW is much different than the aim of any Coen film. I'd love to see them on the list, but if we're talking replacing something similar, this isn't where I'd turn. (If I was in charge of the list, there'd be at least 5 or 6 Coen films, to be honest, so take my bias for what its worth.) I think the Bond/blockbuster/movie as escape/give the audience a lot of what they like in interesting ways is the point of NXNW. I think Paul mentioned similar, it's a blockbuster movie from before these existed - or they only existed as Gone With The Wind-style epics. Looking at the film that way, I think it should be on the list and stands out as a bit of a prototype. And in a good way! We've seen a few other prototypes where we were like, "well later films did this better." I do think the story is fairly uninteresting and not nearly as impressive as usual Hitchcock. But as a piece of entertainment, I think it's hard to beat it.

9/26 Spartacus 10/3 Some Like It Hot 10/10 American Graffiti 10/17 The Godfather 10/24 The Godfather Part 2

Oh no worries then, wasn't trying to quiet you or anything, just wanted to let you know there may be little interaction with an argument/discussion until Monday

Save your comments until Monday when we start our discussion thread, Graham! We'll be able to participate then when (ideally) more people have seen it.

oh boy we loved this one in high school when it came out. excited to see it again

Biggest problem with that one is the voice acting to me. It's not The Beatles!

I found this to be a surprisingly innovative piece of cinema. It reminded me of The Wire haha. I don't know if knowing all the history about Kazan and communism is necessary though, but I guess it does clarify some things. A few of our earlier movies, I lamented when some of them didn't have a mood or a good sense of location, and this has it in spades. When a movie does that well, I'm definitely going to be all in on it, and that's what happened here. I thought it was all very impressive.

9/5 Lawrence of Arabia 9/12 On The Waterfront 9/19 North By Northwest 9/26 Spartacus 10/3 Some Like It Hot 10/10 American Graffiti Looks like we're in for a really entertaining fall to me

Ah that's exactly what I was trying to put my finger on about why I wasn't as into this as everyone. It just spells everything right out. I called it "ranty" in my Letterboxd review, and in the end, I found it a bit too much. (Not a real knock, I do think it's a very good movie. I just find it a little tiresome.)

It doesn't bother me technically (because if they were referring to character names I'd probably not remember who is who). But I do agree that in this episode in particular, they maybe swung too much in interpreting the film as if it was about Katherine Hepburn or the actors' lives, and not about the characters. That's not my favorite type of criticism/analysis. Like, it's one thing to put the film in context that it was Hepburn's attempt at a comeback; it's another to say it's about that. I don't think they cross that line too often, it's just this episode that seemed to be all the majority of what they were talking about.

I always want to do the color thing but I'm too lazy

I definitely liked a lot of it. I think it was very well made. I was reading criticism online about the singing, I thought the songs and acting were good. As I said on Letterboxd, I think the story lost me a little, but I think a rewatch would be rewarding and make it click more for me, approaching it again with a little bit of familiarity.

That's how I do it with books! Not sure I would with movies, but I don't really buy hard copies of those anymore.

I couldn't get over how much the Burger King Man looks like Peter O'Toole's character

I certainly can't prove otherwise