FS After Hours #12 (Part 2): Listener Feedback / "Dudewood"

November 28: In Part 2 of the latest Filmspotting After Hours, Adam and Matty make their way through another batch of glorious Listener Feedback, including responses to their Top 5 Nostalgia Movies, Bad Day Movies and Bad Screen Parents. Plus, long-lost Filmspotting co-host Sam Van Hallgren checks in via phone to help the guys perform a listener-scripted scene from "Dudewood" ... and the latest batch of Filmspotting winners! Thanks to everyone who donated to the show. Winners were selected from episodes #276-282. Warning: This episode contains some profanity starting around the 40 minute mark.

Programming Note: The Filmspotting 'Best of' edition guest hosted by Slashfilmcast's David Chen is being held for a later date. Look for it to be published around Christmas.



NOTES

- Read Greg Kot's article about the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir and their accident.

- Re: "Clash of the Titans": Olivier was indeed in the film as Zeus... it was Harryhausen's last work on a feature film... and it's apparently being remade starring Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson as Zeus.

- You can read Steven Soderbergh's quote about "Cannonball Run" here.

- Thanks to our partners and former partners: PixarTalk.com, Creative Screenwriting and InReviewOnline.

- Thanks, as always, to Candace, Lindsay and Golden Joe DeCeault... and to listeners Greg Burland and Kevin Vazquez for their work previewing this show and many others to make sure everything sounds good and the show notes are up to snuff.

FS #280: Precious / When Father Was Away on Business / Top 5 Bad Screen Parents

Nov. 6: O Captain! My Captain! This week, Adam and Matty make music from the heart and navigate the blackboard jungle as they stand and deliver their latest edition of Filmspotting featuring a discussion of the Sundance sensation, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire," starring Paula Patton as a Harlem high school teacher trying to save Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe’s teenaged Precious from an abusive mother -- played to the hilt by comedienne Mo'Nique. The lads also ask all dangerous minds to lean on them and trust their takes on 1985’s "When Father Was Away on Business," the first installment of the Filmspotting Golden Palm Marathon. Then, in honor of Mo’Nique’s devastating performance, the boys close out Mr. Holland’s Opus by listing their Top 5 Bad Screen Parents. Good-bye, Mr. Chips!

Also on the show: Listener Feedback, music by The Almighty Defenders and Massacre Theatre -- presented by Pixar Talk. This week's winner will get the Pixar DVD of their choice.


Filmspotting #280
:13-15:44 - Review: "Precious"
Music: The Almighty Defenders, "Bow Down and Die"
16:46-22:57 - Voicemail, Polls
22:58-34:54 - Feedback (Nostalgia Movies)
Music: The Almighty Defenders, "She Came Before Me"
35:59-39:56 - Mass. Theatre (Winner: Lance St. Laurent)
39:57-54:50 - Cannes Marathon #1: "When Father Was Away"
Music: The Almighty Defenders, "Cone of Light"
55:52-1:03:59 - New DVDs / Donations
1:04:00-1:16:26 - Top 5: Bad Parents
1:16:27-1:18:59 - Close /Next Show / Outtakes

NOTES

- Jeff Goldsmith's Creative Screenwriting Podcast can be accessed through iTunes here.

- Follow more notes and corrections at http://twitter.com/filmspotting.

- Suspense films mentioned in poll: Wait Until Dark, The Others, The Silence of the Lambs, Vertigo
- Romanian movie at TIFF: Tales From a Golden Age
- Government quashing dissent: The Lives of Others
- Another Cannes winner from Emir Kusturica: Underground
- Other "Neo-neo realism" films like Ballast: Shotgun Stories, Sugar, Wendy and Lucy, Chop Shop