Another Pod Casty For Me Experience: we're talking Steven Soderbergh's 2005 experiment BUBBLE - day-and-date release experiment, digital cinematography experiment, first-time actor experiment, improvised script experiment - with our buddy Evan from Left of the Projector! And this one's set at a factory, so you know we go crazy on it. We get into film distribution economics, working people on film, first-time actors, naturalism, digital cinema, eastern Ohio accents, and much more. Really tremendous film and tremendous conversation. It's also Jake's dang birthday, so you better enjoy this episode!!!

Further Reading:

"Eight Hours Are Not A Day" by Matthew Ross

"An Interview with Steven Soderbergh" by Scott Indrisek

Further Viewing:

Interview with Debbie Doebereiner

HARLAN COUNTY USA (Kopple, 1976)

STROSZEK (Herzog, 1977)

BLUE COLLAR (Schrader, 1978)

SLACKER (Linklater, 1990)

CLERKS (Smith, 1994)

CITY OF GOD (Meirelles and Lund, 2002)

ELEPHANT (Van Sant, 2003)

FISH TANK (Arnold, 2009)

WESTERN (Grisebach, 2017)

THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Eastwood, 2018)

BAD TRIP (Sakurai, 2021)

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This week we're looking at another one of Dirty Harry's spiritual children, Paul Verhoeven's 1987 ROBOCOP. Violence, corporate greed, police stuff - much to talk about here. But we're also talking about it because Verhoeven is a Dutch guy and Jake just got back from a trip to Amsterdam, which we gotta talk about too! OCEAN'S TWELVE locations, European public infrastructure, visiting the Anne Frank House during Israel's genocide of Palestinians - big ep.

Plus: a message from Hotel Detective Maxwell Pierson.

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A little something different this week: we're looking at two Soderbergh-scripted adaptations of international genre films! First, Soderbergh adapted Ole Bornedal's 1994 NATTEVAGTEN as 1997's NIGHTWATCH, also directed by Bornedal, starring post-TRAINSPOTTING, pre-PHANTOM MENACE Ewan McGregor as a night watchman at a spooky morgue. Next, Soderbergh turned Fabián Bielinsky's 2000 Argentine heist smash NUEVA REINAS (NINE QUEENS) into 2004's CRIMINAL, the directorial debut of Gregory Jacobs starring John C. Reilly and Diego Luna. Why did Sodey do this? Is there anything of the man in these adaptations? Do you need to watch four films before you listen to this episode? The answer to the last question is no! Fun ep, please enjoy.

Further Reading:

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

Further Viewing:

LOCAL HERO (Forsyth, 1983)

THE KINGDOM (Von Trier et al, 1994)

HARD EIGHT (Anderson, 1996)

PUSHER (Refn, 1996)

FUNNY GAMES (Haneke, 1997/2007)

FIGHT CLUB (Fincher, 1999)

LA CIENAGA (Martel, 2001)

BORGEN (Price et al, 2010)

ZAMA (Martel, 2017)

LA FLOR (Llinás, 2018)

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