Sasquatch Sunset

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[00:00:30] Hello and welcome to Footcandle Films

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[00:00:38] My name is Alan Jackson, with me across the table

[00:00:42] is Chris Fry. Chris how's it going?

[00:00:46] It's going well. I'm looking forward to discussing the film we have on the slate today.

[00:00:50] Yeah, so we will be discussing a film, we'll have a review of a film shortly.

[00:00:54] That film will be Sasquatch Sunset and we'll tell you all about that here.

[00:00:58] In a little bit, so after that review we've also got some news items to share.

[00:01:02] I've got two films.

[00:01:06] One, well yeah, one

[00:01:10] kind of as a darling at the

[00:01:14] what was the big Cannes Film Festival? Cannes Festival.

[00:01:18] Kind of do a little follow up from the Cannes. We talked about it a couple weeks ago, some of the films that were making

[00:01:22] splashes there but I've got some updates on one in particular.

[00:01:26] And also a film that has just been announced that I think

[00:01:30] Mr. Chris Fry will find very interesting, could be exciting

[00:01:34] kind of relevant to something that you're involved in

[00:01:38] these days. Also a trailer to share

[00:01:42] of a film that is also one I think of Chris Fry is curious

[00:01:46] about and interested that just came out yesterday. The trailer, the film will be coming out

[00:01:50] later this summer. So lots to talk about and then Chris

[00:01:54] you do have a recommendation for us this episode? Yes. Okay, so just

[00:01:58] for those who are new listeners, just so you know, Chris Fry likes to bring to us

[00:02:02] a recommendation of a film on a regular basis because

[00:02:06] he does get opportunities to see some great picks and he has some

[00:02:10] to share with us and recommend for us from time to time and today is one of those

[00:02:14] times so we will hear from him at the end of the episode with that recommendation.

[00:02:18] But Chris, let's go ahead and get started with our main

[00:02:22] film review. It is the film Sasquatch Sunset.

[00:02:26] The Zoner brothers

[00:02:53] David and Nathan with some executive producing help from one

[00:02:57] Ari Oster, he of hereditary and mid-summer fame

[00:03:01] have brought to the screen a look at the year in the life of a unique family.

[00:03:05] To quote a log line for the film, it captures their daily life

[00:03:09] with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgivable.

[00:03:13] Oh, unforgivable. Unforgettable. Was that a subliminal slip?

[00:03:17] No, that was just a

[00:03:21] slip. That was not an intentional... Oh and by the way

[00:03:25] the family is a group of Sasquatch, Sasquatches,

[00:03:29] Sasquatchi. Sasquatchi. I'm not sure how you do that.

[00:03:33] I think it's just Sasquatch. Yeah, so it's a plural.

[00:03:37] So in this film

[00:03:41] there is no spoken dialogue. It is all

[00:03:45] grunting or just noises made by these

[00:03:49] Sasquatch. They are played by

[00:03:53] Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christopher Zonick-Denick

[00:03:57] and then there's one more... Oh yes, one of the brothers. One of the

[00:04:01] actual brothers actually plays one of the Sasquatches. Nathan Zoner plays

[00:04:05] he's listed as alpha male. So they play

[00:04:09] Eisenberg as a male, Riley Keough as a female. Then there's a kid, a child, played by

[00:04:13] Christopher Zonick-Denick and then there's the alpha male. So you've got four people

[00:04:17] they don't talk, they just grunt to make animal noises.

[00:04:21] And hand motions. Yes, and hand motions and bang on trees.

[00:04:25] For 88 minutes. And this film is

[00:04:29] billed as an action adventure

[00:04:33] comedy. So what was your experience with Sasquatch

[00:04:37] Sunset? So Chris

[00:04:41] come behind me. We're going to take a little trip behind the scenes here just a little bit. Sure.

[00:04:45] You and I do this podcast. We've done it for

[00:04:49] years now. Yes. We also run a film society, which we

[00:04:53] have run for years as well. Yes. We do this

[00:04:57] out of the kindness of our hearts because there is no financial compensation

[00:05:01] for doing any of this. We do it because we like to talk about movies. We do. Right.

[00:05:05] And we care about movies. Yes.

[00:05:09] But the thing I'm trying to express here is that the notion of going out and reviewing

[00:05:13] films is something you and I do because we like to.

[00:05:17] Nobody's forcing us to do this. Nobody is forcing us to watch

[00:05:21] movies and talk about them. Nobody's writing us a paycheck to do this so that we have

[00:05:25] no obligation. If I came up today and just said, look Chris

[00:05:29] I think I'm done. I don't want to review films anymore. There's no

[00:05:33] implications on that. We could just stop. Right. Right.

[00:05:38] I had a moment, just a brief moment, maybe about 15-20 minutes

[00:05:42] into this film where I thought to myself, you know what?

[00:05:46] Maybe I don't want to review films anymore. Maybe I don't understand

[00:05:50] why I'm watching the films I'm watching sometimes.

[00:05:54] Maybe I don't want to do this. And this

[00:05:58] film almost single handedly turned you off of reviewing. There was a moment.

[00:06:02] Wow. And then I had to remind myself that, look Alan, just because

[00:06:06] a film does not work for you

[00:06:10] personally, that is not what film criticism is about.

[00:06:14] Film criticism is about critiquing the film for what it's meant to be

[00:06:18] and what it's meant to stand for. And if it doesn't work for me personally, that doesn't mean

[00:06:22] there's not somebody else out there in the world that it's going to work perfectly for.

[00:06:26] So I need to understand that and recognize that. That being said

[00:06:30] I did not like this. It did not work for me.

[00:06:34] Could I have not been in the right frame of mind

[00:06:38] for it? Could I have not been in the right set up for it possibly? Like I'll understand.

[00:06:42] I'll take ownership of that. I am sure that there

[00:06:46] is an audience of people that this works for them

[00:06:50] and kudos to them. I think you summed it up pretty

[00:06:54] succinctly in your summary. That's what you described as what is

[00:06:58] on the screen. That is what people are going to get.

[00:07:02] So I found it to me more of a

[00:07:06] interesting exercise. I think it's something that

[00:07:10] probably would have worked better as short films,

[00:07:14] short pieces where maybe if you told me that I could tune in

[00:07:18] and every week watch a five minute little

[00:07:22] interaction, one of these scenes with this Sasquatch family, I'm like, okay yeah

[00:07:26] I could do that. But putting it in this format

[00:07:30] of a film and trying to derive, in my mind,

[00:07:34] I'm not saying this is where the directors are, in my mind trying to derive some sort of

[00:07:38] story meaning or semblance of something

[00:07:42] to take away from it just never got there

[00:07:46] for me for a lot of reasons. So anyway, yes this film

[00:07:50] single handedly almost marked the end of Foot Candle

[00:07:54] Film Festival, Foot Candle Film Society, Foot Candle Films Podcast.

[00:07:58] But it didn't. I will say I think where I

[00:08:02] decided no I'm going to let this play out is the one

[00:08:06] really actually bust out laughing moment I did have in this film.

[00:08:10] And it involved the Sasquatch, the Sasquatch, yeah

[00:08:14] the Sasquatch discovering something far

[00:08:18] into them in a, I thought a very funny

[00:08:22] editing sequence of reactions to finding

[00:08:26] this thing that I thought was generally very funny. So at that moment I said

[00:08:30] alright look, this is still not working for me, I still do not like this film. However

[00:08:34] we're going to let this play out. So that's where I am with Sasquatch Sunset.

[00:08:38] It didn't work for me. I didn't like it but

[00:08:42] I want to hear your thoughts though. Well I can't really

[00:08:46] discount, not that I would anyway, people's opinions are people's opinions, but

[00:08:50] I think I may have enjoyed watching

[00:08:54] it a little more than you, but yeah I was kind of

[00:08:58] I was let down. I admire the fact that

[00:09:02] this film even got made and I mean you have

[00:09:06] Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, you have two pretty well known

[00:09:10] names and if you didn't know they were in this film you would

[00:09:14] know because they are in, which is something else I admire, they're in full

[00:09:18] body costume. The entire film like we've mentioned

[00:09:22] they do not speak, they make noises, they grunt, they beat on

[00:09:26] things, but that's it. So they have to communicate

[00:09:30] everything through minor eye movements

[00:09:34] and things. So that to me in this day and age of

[00:09:38] CGI or even costumes that didn't like CGI the faces,

[00:09:42] I admire the fact that these were full body costumes.

[00:09:46] I cannot imagine how hot they were or how bad

[00:09:50] they must have stunk after they finished this shoot because

[00:09:54] yeah they're big hairy costumes.

[00:09:58] I will second the fact that even though the film's only 88 minutes, so

[00:10:02] it's almost an hour and a half, there are ideas

[00:10:06] here and there are little moments they have

[00:10:10] where you're like okay how they're working together as a

[00:10:14] unit, kind of as a family unit. There's some dynamics there. There's also

[00:10:18] kind of their isolation in the wild versus

[00:10:22] coming into contact with the modern world. There's some things

[00:10:26] there but in general like you say I think it could have been boiled down to

[00:10:30] a short film or maybe a series of short films and it probably

[00:10:34] would have worked better. I admire

[00:10:38] anybody that takes a huge swing like this and the fact that they didn't have

[00:10:42] a concrete plot with a lot of

[00:10:46] milestones they had to hit. It was just kind of like here we are.

[00:10:50] Maybe they could have filmed this in like a week because

[00:10:54] I don't imagine they had to redo take several times because

[00:10:58] it's not like an actor set a wrong line or anything as long as they

[00:11:02] moved how they were supposed to move. I guarantee you Jesse Eisenberg,

[00:11:06] my guess is going to be he spent two days.

[00:11:10] Could be. Well again for a couple reasons but yes

[00:11:14] that's my belief. Two or three days. I think the whole thing could have been

[00:11:18] done. It just made me wonder, I spent

[00:11:24] probably more time on the film wondering why

[00:11:28] cast two relatively known actors

[00:11:32] for this because other than

[00:11:36] just I mean I hate to think it's just from a craft standpoint of just having the names attached to

[00:11:40] the film but I mean I kind of expected there to be something that would

[00:11:44] make me feel like okay this is why you brought in some good caliber actors to do

[00:11:48] it. But no not really. There was, I don't know, I

[00:11:52] found myself more puzzled by that decision other than did they just need to

[00:11:56] have some names. Now Jesse Eisenberg's listed as a producer so I think that's probably

[00:12:00] might have a little bit to do with that as well. And he may just like the idea of

[00:12:04] making an offbeat art film that's not going to have a wide audience.

[00:12:08] It's like you said, I think when they showed this at Sundance there were like

[00:12:12] tons of walkouts of this film. And I can see how

[00:12:16] it is very niche but I can see how there's some people that probably will like love

[00:12:20] this film. But I am not one of them. But I think for me

[00:12:24] it was an interesting experiment. There were several

[00:12:28] moments I can call out. This is an early one so it's not

[00:12:32] really, it's hard to say you could really ruin things with this film.

[00:12:36] I mean you could, there are some things that happen but there's a grooming

[00:12:40] scene where one Sasquatch is like picking lice off the other

[00:12:44] Sasquatch and it sneezes. And the other

[00:12:48] Sasquatch kind of like wipes the back of its neck and turns around like, uh, thanks.

[00:12:52] And so kind of like when you watch nature film documentaries

[00:12:56] and you see like chimpanzees or you see apes

[00:13:00] and the way we kind of put our thoughts on what they must be thinking

[00:13:04] we kind of say, oh they're acting human like. So yeah this is a fiction movie

[00:13:08] but it was kind of interesting to see some of the interactions that they

[00:13:12] let carry over. Like I could see a human doing like, uh, thanks for sneezing on me.

[00:13:16] You know nothing was said but just some of the, you know I thought that

[00:13:20] was funny. There's a similar thing where they're building

[00:13:24] a shelter and they do this several times in the film.

[00:13:28] And one of them, you know they're picking up sticks like laying leaves

[00:13:32] to kind of make the shelter and one of them has this huge arm full of leaves

[00:13:36] and just kind of throws it at the shelter and continues walking and it hits this other one in

[00:13:40] the face and he's kind of like, uh, you're not really having. So I think it is

[00:13:44] you know I mentioned they brand it as action adventure comedy

[00:13:48] it is very understated as far as

[00:13:52] comedic. There's no stated. It is the understated.

[00:13:56] Right and so some of the things, you know Graham maybe I was desperate

[00:14:00] to find something funny but I did have little moments. There's

[00:14:04] some interactions with the modern world which I think is what you were alluding to

[00:14:08] which I hate to say spoil but I don't want to because it's like well

[00:14:12] the few moments that are there I don't want to refer. But those interactions to me

[00:14:16] were funny. Um, but not enough to carry an entire

[00:14:20] film. I you know would have liked for it to be boiled down.

[00:14:24] I will say too which I was not expecting. Um,

[00:14:28] it has kind of a the film overall and definitely at the

[00:14:32] end has a very kind of somber tone

[00:14:36] and things don't really go well

[00:14:40] for this group of Sasquatch. So if you're saying

[00:14:44] the zelda is like you know what we want to do fiction film

[00:14:48] narrative film but we want to kind of tell like an environmental kind of

[00:14:52] cautionary tale or like somehow they were trying to think like how can we take an interesting

[00:14:56] approach to this and kind of show because I feel

[00:15:00] a lot of the I think this was shot out in California and a lot

[00:15:04] of the vistas of the forests and the mountains were beautiful

[00:15:08] but you do get a lot of them because that's where these guys live, guys and girls

[00:15:12] live. Um, but it's like an interesting take on trying to

[00:15:16] make a statement movie but from a very bizarre angle. Did it

[00:15:20] entirely work for me? No. But if their statement is looking at endangered

[00:15:24] species who's slowly getting wiped out like again. If that was

[00:15:28] an intent it was again just like everything else so understated

[00:15:32] and so hard to pick up on. So again I'm not faulting it

[00:15:36] from me. I don't believe films always have to have a point

[00:15:40] or a message or whatever. I'm fine with experiment experiential

[00:15:44] films that just kind of put you in the world of the characters. And you

[00:15:48] know this film traipses on that but I still also just didn't feel like I really ever

[00:15:52] understood these groups

[00:15:56] or anything. I mean I don't understand even the, I hate, it sounds so

[00:16:00] weird to say I didn't understand the characters but I mean if we're spending

[00:16:04] an hour and a half with them I still don't really feel like I got a sense of

[00:16:08] truly anything about them. As soon as I felt like I had a handle

[00:16:12] on who they wanted us to believe these characters were then something

[00:16:16] would change. I'm like oh okay well obviously I was wrong on that so I don't know

[00:16:20] these people at all or I don't know these creatures at all. Again if the

[00:16:24] point of the film is just to say we just want to have a weird experimental film

[00:16:28] which let's just dress up four people as Sasquatch and since Sasquatch

[00:16:32] are make believe animals we can have them have any personality or any

[00:16:36] type of function we want to. And how would they be? They're half

[00:16:40] cavemen but yet they've kind of got a little bit

[00:16:44] of human traits to them. It's like it's a weird blend of that.

[00:16:48] It's like alright let's just do an hour and a half of them

[00:16:52] their world. Almost like a nature documentary we're just filming.

[00:16:56] Kind of get that but then the film does take some detours

[00:17:00] into little bits and little things that

[00:17:04] are not really, if you want to make it a true nature documentary but it just happens

[00:17:08] to be fake people, Sasquatch. That's one thing. This though

[00:17:12] tries to do something different with it from time to time but then

[00:17:16] it's not confident enough to go further with where

[00:17:20] it kind of wants to lead you at times. So yeah

[00:17:24] I'm not going to call it a disappointment for me because I didn't really have any expectations

[00:17:28] going into it so it's hard to disappoint me on this. I kind of had a feeling

[00:17:32] seeing even the trailer and reading about this that I felt like I knew how I was going to feel

[00:17:36] about it early on.

[00:17:40] It was just not a good experience for me.

[00:17:44] But I do want to say just like you said

[00:17:48] I don't want that to be an indictment to say that people should

[00:17:52] not try to make films like this because I think we need more films

[00:17:56] like this. It's just this particular one, the way it was made

[00:18:00] the subject matter, the style, everything just didn't work.

[00:18:04] Sure. Well and I think it may have worked a little bit better for me but

[00:18:08] still not entirely successful. Totally hear everything you're saying.

[00:18:12] The Zoner Brothers are unique filmmakers. This is the third film

[00:18:16] that I've seen by them. Kamiko the Treasure Hunter I think was the first film I ever

[00:18:20] saw by them and that's all the way back in 2014. Then they made a film

[00:18:24] called Damsel which was 2018. I think

[00:18:28] has Pattinson, Robert Pattinson in it. It's a very interesting

[00:18:32] western. That one I would say. Is it off of Mea

[00:18:36] Wasikowska as well? I believe so. Wasikowska yeah. I think of the three films

[00:18:40] that I've seen from them, that was probably the most successful. But I admire them that

[00:18:44] when they set out to make films they're not like okay we're yeah they're obviously

[00:18:48] independent filmmakers who come up with their ideas and

[00:18:52] you know bravo for being able to get these films made but you know I wouldn't

[00:18:56] call any of them commercial successes. So I haven't seen either of those other films.

[00:19:00] Anything at all similar, I mean anything you picked up from

[00:19:04] that was a kind of a style thing for them or an approach

[00:19:08] or are they truly very very different films all three? They're all pretty different

[00:19:12] because obviously Damsel is a western and Kamiko is just kind of this

[00:19:16] I would say Kamiko kind of is similar to Sasquatch Sunset in

[00:19:20] that it doesn't really have a strong plot element and it

[00:19:24] kind of meanders around and there's not a lot of dialogue happening.

[00:19:28] So it's similar in that way but you know interesting. Damsel would be their most normal because it's

[00:19:32] like a western with a guy setting out to I believe go rescue

[00:19:36] his girlfriend or fiance. I can't remember, it's been a long time since I've seen it

[00:19:40] was 2018. So but

[00:19:44] yeah but I think the style of like you can tell they have the mark of yeah this

[00:19:48] is somebody's independent film. They wrote those films like so not that

[00:19:52] it carries a lot over and like humor in the films. I don't remember there being

[00:19:56] any in Kamiko but Damsel yeah pretty understated.

[00:20:00] But yeah you know if yeah so

[00:20:04] be that for what it may be. Right here's what I would say to anybody

[00:20:08] I mean the trailers are out there if you're curious about this film watch the trailer

[00:20:12] if that trailer just completely enraptures you and you say yes I want to

[00:20:16] see 88 minutes of exactly this, knock yourself out you're ready to go

[00:20:20] if you watch it and you say you know what this doesn't look like for me

[00:20:24] you're right it is not for you

[00:20:28] and you need to kind of move on so

[00:20:32] yeah interesting experiment film

[00:20:36] with a few moments that

[00:20:40] I did like a moment here or there

[00:20:44] but in general yeah just not a good experience film for

[00:20:48] me and I think it's going to be a tough sell. I mean like they knew this

[00:20:52] was going to be a tough sell. It's not like they made this thinking it was going to be a commercial hit.

[00:20:56] And why they have Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Kear I think you nailed it because

[00:21:00] you know at least with stars name attached. A couple actors out there to do

[00:21:04] some you know Q&A interview media spots

[00:21:08] to try to help promote it but yeah

[00:21:12] yeah yeah yeah not my film. You know what

[00:21:16] I think I would say the same thing about what was the film we reviewed last week

[00:21:20] or two weeks ago I actually said the same thing

[00:21:24] just not my film. Oh Furiosa. Oh yeah. Yeah. Furiosa is a better film

[00:21:28] I think you know better made better better production everything else

[00:21:32] but it's just another example of it. It's just a film that's just not

[00:21:36] for me but there's an audience out there for it.

[00:21:40] Furiosa has a much bigger audience than this will but sure still kind of falls

[00:21:44] in the same camp. Yeah agreed. All right anything else you have to say about

[00:21:48] Sasquatch Sunset or are you? No and I think if I can summarize

[00:21:52] what I was feeling as far as disappointment

[00:21:56] because of the I felt like there was going to be a level of quirk

[00:22:00] kind of similar to the Daniels films Swiss Army Man

[00:22:04] basically I was thinking this is going to be kind of like a Swiss Army Man like kind of odd

[00:22:08] off kilter very quirky film. They also did everything everywhere

[00:22:12] all at once which I knew it wasn't going to be like that because it's like you know a lot of dialogue and stuff

[00:22:16] but I thought I was in for that type of ride and instead it was so understated

[00:22:20] that I was like oh man I want a little more for it

[00:22:24] but yeah so overall I let down

[00:22:28] but I'm glad films like this still get made just not as

[00:22:32] successful as I would have liked for me. True okay good deal well that is

[00:22:36] Sasquatch Sunset it is probably not playing in a theater

[00:22:40] near you but it is available online for rental and all that

[00:22:44] I mean it's playing in a few select theaters I'm assuming but

[00:22:48] very select I would imagine very very very select.

[00:22:52] Alright Chris well let's take a quick break and when we come back

[00:22:56] I've got a couple of news items and a trailer to share and we'll wrap up

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[00:23:24] Hello welcome back to Foot Candle Films here on TheMesh.tv

[00:23:30] Alan Jackson Chris Frye with you we just had our

[00:23:34] review of the film Sasquatch Sunset which we were both

[00:23:38] not big fans of Chris got a little bit more out of it than I did

[00:23:42] a little bit but we're still I mean even off mic

[00:23:46] during the break we were kind of just complaining about the film a little bit

[00:23:50] Anyway but again please please

[00:23:54] directors filmmakers producers don't stop making these interesting

[00:23:58] experimental films on our behalf just this one just didn't work

[00:24:02] okay that's all it was just didn't work so. Alright

[00:24:06] Chris I did want to share a couple of news items I found of interest

[00:24:10] let me start off with one as a follow up to our discussion

[00:24:14] about the Cannes Film Festival a couple weeks ago maybe two or three weeks ago

[00:24:18] we discussed some of the I gave you the standing ovation meter

[00:24:22] I told you the films that were having the longest standing ovation which I still

[00:24:26] think is the dumbest mark of trying to determine

[00:24:30] how successful a film is at this particular film festival but

[00:24:34] it is what they're using but let me wrap up the festival

[00:24:38] with kind of one more interesting note and that was the actual film that won

[00:24:42] the Palme d'Or award which is their highest award

[00:24:46] for the Cannes Film Festival whenever they every year

[00:24:50] they do this because it's not a film that you and I talked about

[00:24:54] during the last conversation this is one that actually I think premiered

[00:24:58] after I had recorded with you so it was not one that we had

[00:25:02] any feedback on but the film that won the Palme d'Or

[00:25:06] is a film called Anora and

[00:25:10] it is by director Sean Baker sure so you know Sean Baker

[00:25:14] we have discussed some of his work on this show before he

[00:25:18] started out with the film Tangerine which was kind of got a little

[00:25:22] bit of a reputation for all being shot on iPhones and being very low budget

[00:25:26] but also got a lot of acclaim at the time then he followed that

[00:25:30] up with The Florida Project which we actually hosted a screening of

[00:25:34] and we reviewed on the show I'm a big fan of The Florida Project

[00:25:38] I like that film quite a bit he did a third film Red Rocket

[00:25:42] I never saw I'm guessing you saw it I did see it

[00:25:46] it was okay not as yeah Florida Project for me was my favorite of the three

[00:25:50] so but this is his I guess his fourth film and it did

[00:25:54] win the big award at the Cannes Film Festival it is

[00:25:58] described by variety as it's Sean Baker's comic look

[00:26:02] at an exotic dancer and sex worker who marries the

[00:26:06] son of a Russian oligarch and is coming to theaters this

[00:26:10] fall it will open in limited release October 18th it got picked up

[00:26:14] by Neon Pictures as the studio is going to release it

[00:26:18] so it sounds like a combination

[00:26:22] between Tangerine which dealt with sex workers

[00:26:26] and Red Rocket which was an adult film star but it was a comedic look

[00:26:30] on kind of how he was a loser so it sounds like it's kind

[00:26:34] of meshing those two and then some commentary with an oligarch

[00:26:38] right so the review that variety gave of the film

[00:26:42] Peter DeBruij the reviewer he is quite a saying

[00:26:46] that the film was the quote uncut gem of this year's Cannes Competition

[00:26:50] adding that it was a rowdy safty style movie

[00:26:54] about two cultures Russian and American two languages Russian and

[00:26:58] English and two currencies money and sex

[00:27:02] so that was the film again won the big award it stars Mikey

[00:27:06] Madison which may not recognize the name she was in

[00:27:10] once upon a time in Hollywood she played

[00:27:14] one of the three Manson people

[00:27:18] yes that kind of instigated the attack at the end

[00:27:22] so if you remember there were you had

[00:27:26] who's the gentleman that is also popular now Austin Butler

[00:27:30] was one of the three she was one of the females that was

[00:27:34] in that group in that film so

[00:27:38] and then Mark Idle son who we don't know I think is a fairly new actor

[00:27:42] he's he plays the drug addled son of privilege

[00:27:46] and who's drawing a lot of comparisons performance wise to Timothy

[00:27:50] Chalamet so this is the film it won the big award

[00:27:54] it is being released by neon the variety article

[00:27:58] kind of details a little bit something I thought was interesting so neon

[00:28:02] you know I know we love our age 24 but neon I think is kind of like

[00:28:06] the next one down it's like you know it's like it's still neon did

[00:28:10] parasite yes they released it in October a few years ago

[00:28:14] they released a triangle of sadness last year in October which got Oscar

[00:28:18] nominations anatomy of a fall they released

[00:28:22] in October and now they're releasing a Nora this coming October

[00:28:26] so they're positioning it as their their big film for yeah

[00:28:30] I'm a fan of age 24 we don't give as much I guess

[00:28:34] lip service to neon but yeah those two pretty much any film

[00:28:38] they do I'm usually interested to see what they are because yeah they

[00:28:42] they make films all over the map so interesting enough a Nora

[00:28:46] was the first United States film like producing the United States

[00:28:50] to earn the palm d'or since 2011's

[00:28:54] Tree of Life from Terrence Malick okay just thought I

[00:28:58] hadn't even thought about that but yeah that's a that's very interesting so Sean Baker winning the

[00:29:02] big award for his next film so I am honestly very

[00:29:06] very anxious to see it can't wait to see it and see how it turned out so

[00:29:10] and I'm sure we'll be discussing it here on this show probably

[00:29:14] we do all right so that was a first article second

[00:29:18] story I want to bring up kind of interesting

[00:29:22] I don't know if this was in the air when you you and I had this conversation

[00:29:26] the other night but my understanding is that you are

[00:29:30] knee deep in the television show Peaky Blinders yes

[00:29:34] okay so were you aware when you decided to embark on that

[00:29:38] viewing experience of watching that show that there's now going to be a

[00:29:42] film I was vaguely aware my song

[00:29:46] which is the whole reason I'm watching it because he was a big fan of it I asked

[00:29:50] him I was like so it's done six seasons like well there's rumors of

[00:29:54] a movie so I'm like okay so they are there the rumors are now

[00:29:58] official okay there's going to be a Peaky Blinders film

[00:30:02] at Netflix so Netflix is doing it okay which makes sense that's

[00:30:06] where I'm watching the show yeah okay and it will have of course Cillian Murphy

[00:30:10] will be starring in it or Cillian Murphy and also producing it

[00:30:14] so he is still attached to it Thomas Shelby

[00:30:18] is back is what the variety article is saying

[00:30:22] it will still be directed by Tom Harper who directed some of the episodes of

[00:30:26] the first season of the show okay and

[00:30:30] yeah he's basically Cillian Murphy quoted as saying this is one

[00:30:34] for the fans so they are kind of doing this as a fan

[00:30:38] recognition kind of film capping off the series

[00:30:42] so I'm interested to see I am only two or three episodes

[00:30:46] into the second season I like the show

[00:30:50] Cillian Murphy is obviously one of the big names Sam Neal is also in it and then others

[00:30:54] I don't really recognize but those two names are like some of the big names at least so far

[00:30:58] in the series they may bring on people that I'll recognize later

[00:31:02] but I like it but I feel like

[00:31:06] kind of like how Succession they did three seasons or four seasons

[00:31:10] I think four seasons okay but by the time they ended it was like yeah that's

[00:31:14] that's it you know and like I could see like why make a movie because it's like no

[00:31:18] I'd be curious what they feel like there was left to do

[00:31:22] after six seasons because even though I'm only in the second season I could see how this would

[00:31:26] only be three or four because it just seems like

[00:31:30] the material but you know who knows and it's interesting that you say

[00:31:34] Murphy has been quoted as like oh this is one for the fans like you know

[00:31:38] they're just going to give them just a little bit more so because it

[00:31:42] you know it's you know basically gang warfare in England

[00:31:46] or London so that's kind of the deal. Well I'm speaking completely out of turn here

[00:31:50] because even though my wife watched the series I heard it playing in my house

[00:31:54] for several weeks on end while she

[00:31:58] binged it at one point I didn't see it so I don't know

[00:32:02] I don't know how the series ended I don't know if a film

[00:32:06] makes sense with it I don't know no recollection I really just brought this

[00:32:10] article up for you I have no

[00:32:14] nothing invested in the Peaky Blinder universe

[00:32:18] It's also interesting to me this is Oscar winner

[00:32:22] Killian Murphy so you know he's done

[00:32:26] you know he for the longest time he was in some of the Batman films he was

[00:32:30] kind of like that guy he didn't really have a starring role he was like put him up on

[00:32:34] a pedestal and it was like him Peaky Blinders was one of the first things where it's like yeah he's

[00:32:38] the central character of Thomas Shelby but then you know Oppenheimer and it's like

[00:32:42] okay he's in the big time so now it's interesting to me

[00:32:46] also that yeah this is like a project that he wants to do

[00:32:50] so I don't know interesting. Yeah I think so too so I think the

[00:32:54] date on that did I tell you a date did I mention the date on this?

[00:32:58] I don't believe so. Let's see.

[00:33:02] So they've already started shooting it or?

[00:33:06] They're saying the film goes into production later this year it'll be made in association with BBC

[00:33:10] film so yeah it'll still be a little while. Gotcha. We're at least a year

[00:33:14] out if not from this but

[00:33:18] interesting still to see coming to Netflix a Peaky

[00:33:22] Blinders film. Okay. Alright Chris

[00:33:26] another story yeah this is all just custom made for you at this point.

[00:33:30] There is a trailer to watch just came out yesterday

[00:33:34] we have talked about this film briefly I don't think

[00:33:38] we really dug into it very deep but I know you are a fan

[00:33:42] of the Alien franchise

[00:33:46] more specifically you're a fan of the Ridley Scott

[00:33:50] Alien stuff. Right.

[00:33:54] Okay. I mean just as recap for everybody who maybe isn't as familiar

[00:33:58] with the franchise you know Ridley Scott directed the original I think it was like 70

[00:34:02] 79 something like that and it was

[00:34:06] original the original film was definitely more sci-fi horror.

[00:34:10] Yes. Was kind of the genre. Yes. Then James Cameron came and did

[00:34:14] a sequel in the mid 80's I believe called Aliens. Right. And it was

[00:34:18] science fiction but had more action thriller

[00:34:22] format to it. Which I like that one. No I did too it was a good movie.

[00:34:26] David Fincher famously got his start directing feature films

[00:34:30] with Alien 3 which was not as successful

[00:34:34] kind of yeah took a different approach to the series a little bit still had

[00:34:38] Sigourney Weaver but a lot of people were very disappointed with that film I think

[00:34:42] it's built back some fans over time just because it's Fincher. Right.

[00:34:46] It was kind of seeing his early style in filmmaking after that

[00:34:50] Alien resurrection which was oh that's right

[00:34:54] that had Sigourney Weaver as well and Winona Ryder. I remember

[00:34:58] seeing that I actually saw that and that was an odd movie

[00:35:02] I actually saw that overseas I think I saw that in England. Okay.

[00:35:06] During my honeymoon that would have been like late 90's it would have come out maybe

[00:35:10] 97 I think. Wow. If I remember correctly. That would have been a rather odd film

[00:35:14] to see on a honeymoon for sure. Yeah it was.

[00:35:18] Yeah and not a great film I don't seem to recall that. Anyway

[00:35:22] then I think there was a lot of time off the whole alien thing they did the Alien Predators

[00:35:26] which doesn't really count. I do not count those. Yeah we don't count those.

[00:35:30] It didn't really start back up until Ridley Scott got a hold of it again and did Prometheus

[00:35:34] which I know you are a big fan of. I'm a huge fan of that film.

[00:35:38] Then it was a follow up with Alien

[00:35:42] what was the next film? The one that. Covenant.

[00:35:46] Alien Covenant which tried to bring it back a little

[00:35:50] closer to the alien that you know people

[00:35:54] liked you know. Right. Because Prometheus did go in some different directions. And I

[00:35:58] love. It's more the mythology of the whole thing as opposed to just being an alien

[00:36:02] movie. Right and I think you know this is probably heresy to most people

[00:36:06] who enjoy the franchise. Prometheus is probably my favorite. Okay.

[00:36:10] Interesting. I like a lot of the other ones obviously there would be no Prometheus if there hadn't been the 1979

[00:36:14] Alien. And Cameron's action sense from that one you know

[00:36:18] the second one good. But Prometheus is my favorite and I was disappointed

[00:36:22] because I felt like after Prometheus he got a lot of pressure

[00:36:26] to go and make more of a. Making a more alien movie. Slasher

[00:36:30] like thing. And so then he made yeah making an alien movie and so he made Covenant

[00:36:34] and I was disappointed. And then like now he's like he's executive producing

[00:36:38] this new one. He is producing it. So yeah so all that to say yes we're now

[00:36:42] come to here to where the next official movie in the Alien franchise

[00:36:46] is set. And it is coming out August 16th so we're about two

[00:36:50] months away. It is Alien Romulus.

[00:36:54] When I had heard that originally I had thought at least I'm glad to be wrong

[00:36:58] that originally it was just going to be released on I guess Hulu kind of like they did

[00:37:02] Predator or Prey. Right. They did Prey. But now I'm seeing that no

[00:37:06] it's going to have a theatrical release and then it will end up online. So I'm

[00:37:10] kind of excited that I'm going to get to see an Alien movie in the theater. Yeah.

[00:37:14] So August 16th theatrical release that is. That is true. 20th Century Studios.

[00:37:18] Directed by you already mentioned but Feta Alvarez

[00:37:22] who he did the latest versions of

[00:37:26] the Evil Dead movies. Right. Is more of a horror film director

[00:37:30] known as. Supposedly this film is to take place between

[00:37:34] Ridley Scott's original Alien and James Cameron's

[00:37:38] Aliens. Which in my head I already think I know

[00:37:42] I think I know how that's possible. So hopefully

[00:37:46] yeah we'll see. Kaylee Spaney she who played

[00:37:50] Priscilla Presley in Priscilla the film last year. And she played one of the

[00:37:54] journalists in Civil War. That's right she did yes the younger start up journalist

[00:37:58] She's going to be the star of this film. The plot has been kept

[00:38:02] mysterious so we're going to kind of honor that and kind of keep that

[00:38:06] as well. But it did release a trailer

[00:38:10] and Chris I'm going to show you the trailer. I have not seen it yet. I had seen

[00:38:14] it come out but I haven't watched it yet. Well we're going to watch it. Excited. And I'd like

[00:38:18] to hear your thoughts on this. So here we are I'll go and tell you for those of you

[00:38:22] obviously that are listening on audio which is everybody because that's how we put this out.

[00:38:26] You're just going to hear a lot of noises and screams. I was about to say surely we're going to hear

[00:38:30] a lot of screams. Yeah so just be be warned it's going to be a couple minutes of a lot

[00:38:34] of just noise. But we'll be back as soon as this is over. Here we go

[00:38:38] the trailer for Alien Romulus.

[00:38:57] Alright so that was the trailer

[00:39:20] for Alien Romulus. Chris I know you and I are

[00:39:24] very at least me personally I'm very

[00:39:28] jaded. I'm very torn on the state of trailers these days. I don't like trailers

[00:39:32] that give away too much. Sure. I feel like this trailer

[00:39:36] probably was okay in that I don't feel like I really have a sense for plot or story

[00:39:40] it's just more mood and style and it definitely seemed to be going

[00:39:44] more horror. Oh yeah. Definitely more in the vein of the first

[00:39:48] movie than others. So your thoughts on what you saw here?

[00:39:52] I think it looks good. It

[00:39:56] looks like an alien movie. You know it looks like an alien movie. I liked some of the

[00:40:00] well I liked one of the audio cues they did that you probably heard in

[00:40:04] the trailer. It's like this little clicking noise which was introduced in James Cameron

[00:40:08] actually introduced that in Aliens and that's kind of these motion

[00:40:12] sensors on their guns usually that would tell them when things were coming near them

[00:40:16] and yeah so I liked that little kind of reference

[00:40:20] but as the trailer wore on I got a little

[00:40:24] concerned because there were a lot of scenes that seemed to be

[00:40:28] directly cut from Aliens, the James Cameron. There's a scene with

[00:40:32] a female I think it's Kayleigh Spaniard I think up against a wall

[00:40:36] and the alien is like coming right at her face and she's kind of like pinned there and that's

[00:40:40] like Ripley's had that. I mean honestly I think that actually

[00:40:44] I mean that was Alien 3. I think there was a version of it in Alien 4

[00:40:48] I mean it's kind of like a hallmark thing which granted if you have Aliens

[00:40:52] running around at some point they're probably going to pin somebody against a wall and his at them

[00:40:56] but just to choose that to put in the trailer I was like

[00:41:00] okay. I think it is an interesting

[00:41:05] I could see how this could be really good because they're taking a time period

[00:41:09] that's a limited time period. We already know the first film we know what happens

[00:41:13] in James Cameron Aliens and they're taking this very narrow window and say like

[00:41:17] what happened on this planet to get us from A to B?

[00:41:21] I would also admire it if in this

[00:41:25] film nobody lives because that would make a lot of sense. So it's kind of like a solo

[00:41:29] type aspect that they do a start, not solo, Rogue One. It's kind of like a Rogue One idea

[00:41:33] giving you some back story but yet like there are going to be no other sequels

[00:41:37] this is an idea for a film, we're going to make this film but then it's a one and done

[00:41:41] but because it's such a part of a massive franchise

[00:41:45] I doubt that they'll probably make it somehow so there can be another spin off

[00:41:49] if this is successful. But I don't know

[00:41:53] I'm just such a sucker for Alien movies. I'll go see it but I do have

[00:41:57] I'm not expecting greatness. I was going to say go in with low

[00:42:01] expectations here. Okay? Go in with low expectations. We'll see what comes out of this

[00:42:05] but you know I'm interested. I feel

[00:42:09] for you because I know you like the Prometheus

[00:42:13] and you like kind of what they were building and starting from that and I think you

[00:42:17] liked kind of the direction that it was taking with that film starting

[00:42:21] the way and then they did kind of do a quote course correction

[00:42:25] for fan response to kind of get it back to this and obviously this is now

[00:42:29] bringing it all the way back. It's like nope we are back to the original two

[00:42:33] films in style and tone. So

[00:42:37] we'll see. I'm curious to see how this is going to turn out but that is August

[00:42:41] 16th coming out in theaters but it sounds like they

[00:42:45] are planning a relatively quick online

[00:42:49] distribution. Is it Hulu who's responsible for it as well? I don't know.

[00:42:53] Speaking of, I didn't actually have this as a news item to share but just because you

[00:42:57] brought it up and it does seem kind of timely. They also just announced

[00:43:01] in the same kind of theme that we're in a new

[00:43:05] Predator film that is also going

[00:43:09] to be directed by Trachtenberg, Dan Trachtenberg. Okay who did Prey?

[00:43:13] Who did Prey which I liked a lot. I did too. And it's going

[00:43:17] to be in that same kind of style universe so it is a

[00:43:21] Predator movie by Dan Trachtenberg that's a little bit

[00:43:25] more like a standalone kind of like Prey was where it's just kind of its own story in there.

[00:43:29] And it's going to star L. Fanning.

[00:43:33] The film is titled Badlands.

[00:43:37] It's basically said that Dan Trachtenberg is going to be expanding on its Predator universe.

[00:43:41] Next standalone picture, Badland, looks to be gaining momentum

[00:43:45] with L. Fanning now signing on to star.

[00:43:49] Trachtenberg co-wrote the script. Anyway, plot

[00:43:53] details are under wraps but it's still going to involve the Predator but it sounds like it's going to be

[00:43:57] another film that can just exist on its own which is how

[00:44:01] Prey did. Which I liked. Which was like a Native American slant and so maybe

[00:44:05] this is going to be like a western. Western where Predator shows

[00:44:09] up. I'm cool with this. I like that kind of this idea

[00:44:13] it's like alright just pick a time period, pick a place in the world and let's

[00:44:17] have the Predator show up and how do the people of that time

[00:44:21] deal with it. Could be interesting. Anyway,

[00:44:25] it sounds like he is kind of digging in deep into that universe and going to keep

[00:44:29] doing some work there. Which I thought was

[00:44:33] interesting though. Tell me Chris am I right with this?

[00:44:39] I'm sorry, I'm going to show you something of photograph and obviously people listening

[00:44:43] aren't going to be able to see what I'm talking about but there's a photograph that's attached to this

[00:44:47] article I just mentioned about the Predator film. So it's still from the production?

[00:44:51] No, no, just a still in general but

[00:44:55] is the Predator? It doesn't, I mean kind of

[00:44:59] looks like the Predator but it looks like an alien. It looks like a mashup of an alien

[00:45:03] I wonder if they pulled a still image from like one of those alien

[00:45:07] Predator films or something by accident and anyway it confused me

[00:45:11] because I saw that and I'm like that's an alien. Oh wait a minute no, it's a Predator.

[00:45:15] I don't know what it is. Anyway, Deadline picture imager, I don't know what

[00:45:19] that image is. I wouldn't think they would blend those two franchises

[00:45:23] because I think in general people didn't care for them so I would be surprised

[00:45:27] if they were trying to blend them back together. No, I don't think that's, I really think this

[00:45:31] Badlands movie is going to be like you described. It's basically just

[00:45:35] Predator shows up somewhere else in history and how do the people of that

[00:45:39] time deal with it? So okay. Alright, that is all

[00:45:43] I've got Chris. That's all the news, that's all the trailers to share

[00:45:47] but we do want to end the show like we try to, not every week

[00:45:51] but try to on the most point with a Chris Fry patented recommendation

[00:45:55] of a film that he thinks we ought to check out. Again

[00:45:59] the way this works is Chris recommends a film, I add it to my watch list, I never

[00:46:03] get to it in my watch list and that's that.

[00:46:07] But we'll see how still like to kind of keep building the list of things to try to check

[00:46:11] out. So Chris what do you have to recommend for us today? So this is a film that

[00:46:15] I actually ended up watching. It's on Hulu, it's called The Contestant

[00:46:19] and I ended up watching it because my wife had heard a This American

[00:46:23] Life story on NPR about it and she kept saying I want to watch this documentary

[00:46:27] it's on Hulu and I was like okay. So back

[00:46:31] before Survivor, before Big Brother

[00:46:35] and most importantly before The Truman Show

[00:46:39] there was a gentleman who went on a game show

[00:46:43] and it's incredible so The Contestant, the by the little tag

[00:46:47] line is the naked truth about the world's first reality star.

[00:46:51] And then goes further in description, the incredible true story of a man

[00:46:55] who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room

[00:46:59] naked, starving and alone and completely unaware

[00:47:03] his life was being broadcast on national TV

[00:47:07] in Japan to over 15 million viewers a week.

[00:47:11] Okay now let me preface this

[00:47:15] with saying just like Sasquatch sunset I think we said not for everyone

[00:47:19] kind of wasn't for Alan and I but we could see some people really liked it. This

[00:47:23] documentary which I think I reacted to it more

[00:47:27] than my wife, she was glad we watched it but this was a tough sit for me

[00:47:31] because the emotional strain that

[00:47:35] this gentleman goes under is pretty intense.

[00:47:39] I mean 15 months you heard it and kind of

[00:47:43] spoil anything about the show because you just, you cannot believe

[00:47:47] that this is true.

[00:47:51] And I'll get a quote here too from another movie critic Matt Singer

[00:47:55] he wrote on Letterboxd, this is as much a documentary as it is

[00:47:59] video evidence that should have been presented at someone's trial.

[00:48:03] It is a tough sit

[00:48:07] but it is fascinating to think about how this came way back when

[00:48:11] before Truman Show, before all this reality stuff and just

[00:48:15] So this actually 1998 is when this

[00:48:19] quote show was taking place.

[00:48:23] Yeah and like I said it got to be really popular and yeah I don't really

[00:48:27] want to reveal a lot of details because it's kind of surprising but it is

[00:48:31] a little bit of a tough sit. You feel bad for the gentleman

[00:48:35] but it's called The Contestant, it's streaming on Hulu

[00:48:39] and it uses, they do have some modern day interviews

[00:48:43] but a lot of it is footage from back then

[00:48:47] of the show. People commenting on the footage and like news commentators

[00:48:51] commenting on the footage and stuff. It is the first film

[00:48:55] from director Claire Titley, this is her first documentary

[00:48:59] she's probably made short films but this is her first feature and I found

[00:49:03] it pretty impressive but like I say it is kind of a tough

[00:49:07] sit but if you enjoy documentaries, if you like documentaries

[00:49:11] and if you've ever been I guess fascinated which I know you do follow Survivor

[00:49:15] I'd be curious what your read is on this.

[00:49:19] I have my one reality show off, I've watched just because it's a

[00:49:23] tradition my wife and I started watching about the time we got married and

[00:49:27] Survivor and so we still watch that kind of religiously

[00:49:31] but I can't stomach any other reality show, I can't watch anything else.

[00:49:35] I'm fascinated by the concept of reality shows and the production of reality

[00:49:39] shows but I choose not to watch them myself other than

[00:49:43] that one. So I'm intrigued now with this.

[00:49:47] Fred Armisen is the narrator. Okay so yes let me

[00:49:51] a lot of the film because it's Japanese, a lot of

[00:49:55] it's subtitled. Okay a lot of the film is subtitled however at some points

[00:49:59] they show parts of the show and

[00:50:03] they change it to English and they have Fred Armisen kind of acting like a game

[00:50:07] show host so that you can kind of get an idea of how the audiences

[00:50:11] were perceiving it and sometimes they change the text on screen so it's English instead of Japanese.

[00:50:15] I gotcha. But there's a yeah and it's just really

[00:50:19] interesting and I kept thinking about, I'm still thinking about it so

[00:50:23] but yeah I'll give a little warning but I thought it was interesting. That's the

[00:50:27] Contestant and it is streaming on Hulu and it's a

[00:50:31] 2023 film so it's pretty nice.

[00:50:35] Alright well I'm about to take a family vacation coming up

[00:50:39] this weekend. I know and I'm so tempted to want to watch this

[00:50:43] now so I'm just trying to gauge whether this is something we watch as

[00:50:47] a family. Well I mean they may find it fascinating and your

[00:50:51] families, your children are old enough now that they could

[00:50:55] definitely handle it. My youngest now is 18 so we're

[00:50:59] good. Alright, I may be checking that out.

[00:51:03] Alright that is the Contestant you said it is on Hulu? Yes.

[00:51:07] Documentary 90 minutes directed

[00:51:11] by Claire Titley and you are recommending it with

[00:51:15] a cautionary warning. Right. Okay. Good deal. Thank you

[00:51:19] Chris and thank you to everybody for listening to this episode of Foot Candle Films.

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