1 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,900 Hello, I'm Michael Moore and this is Rumble. 2 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:41,300 Welcome everyone. This is Oscar weekend. 3 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:47,200 And if, if you got my birthday message, yesterday online on 4 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:52,500 Facebook or Instagram, then you also know that yesterday was 5 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:59,100 Friday was my birthday and it was the date that 125 years ago. 6 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,200 The yesterday this weekend, the very first motion picture was 7 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,100 shown in the United States by Thomas Edison. 8 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,700 He rented out a dance hall. Was 34th Street in New York 9 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:18,900 City, put up his invention as projector and showed moving 10 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:21,400 pictures for the very first time in this country. 11 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,300 Just a few months after The Lumiere Brothers had done. 12 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:29,200 So in Paris, Of course, Tom Thomas, Edison's idea was to use 13 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,800 this art form as a way to tell stories that was not the 14 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:35,800 intention of The Lumiere brothers. 15 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:41,300 That's why they didn't really continue on for very long with 16 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:43,400 what they were doing. But we have to tip our hat to 17 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,900 the French for participating and giving us this, this incredible 18 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:53,600 art form that some of us spend a Good Time Of Our Lives working 19 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,800 in. So anyway, so the 125 years Ago 20 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:03,200 this weekend in New York City and I went down there and 21 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:08,900 there's a little plaque and if if I don't post it here I'll 22 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:13,500 post it on my Instagram and Facebook and and show that to 23 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:18,500 you also went over to Strawberry Fields and and sat there for a 24 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:21,200 while, listen to people with their guitars playing John 25 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,000 Lennon songs. But I want to get to the movies 26 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:29,300 and The Oscars here, this weekend. 27 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,800 And the ones that have been nominated. 28 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,400 I've seen virtually all of these nominees. 29 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:41,600 I'd like to give you my opinion and encourage you to see some of 30 00:02:41,608 --> 00:02:43,600 them. Because let me just start by 31 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,500 saying this, I know this is been not a good year for the movie 32 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:48,500 industry. Obviously, the theaters have all 33 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:52,900 been closed to theaters that I helped run in Michigan have been 34 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:57,500 closed since March 10th of last year, so it's not been good and 35 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,100 most of us have not been able to work. 36 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:02,300 In this business because of covid. 37 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:05,200 Protocols, it's just too has been too dangerous. 38 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,500 Now. Now some work has started. 39 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:12,000 Protocols have been established to protect crew and actors and 40 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,700 directors and so maybe maybe. By the end of this year, we'll 41 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:23,000 start to see some new movies. Certainly on the streaming 42 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,800 services, but maybe depending on whether people get vaccinated 43 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,100 and whether they keep wearing their masks, we can get the 44 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:35,000 Eaters reopen, if not, then they will stay closed and if they're 45 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,900 not closed, if the governors of your state, any of your states 46 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:42,200 of reopen them, I'd stay out of them. 47 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:46,700 I haven't gone into one and I won't go into one until we've 48 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:50,400 are closer to reaching or have reached what they call herd 49 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,200 immunity. And that means about 80 or 85% 50 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,900 of us. Have got to get vaccinated You 51 00:03:56,900 --> 00:04:00,100 know, teenagers need to be vaccinated and and they need to 52 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,800 if teenagers need to be able to go get vaccinated without their 53 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,800 parents permission. Some of these in the town where 54 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,400 I live in Michigan they the school district won't vaccinate. 55 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,200 You can get vaccinated 16 and 17 but they won't vaccinate the 56 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,400 kids unless they are print permission slip from their 57 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,100 parents. What since when do the parents 58 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:22,700 have a say? In your safety, your life, 59 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:26,500 whether you're going to live or die, if you're 16 or 17 years 60 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:27,900 old. If you don't have that right by 61 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:29,800 then. O people. 62 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,700 Listen this early. No might know parents have all 63 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:33,600 rights know who don't have all rights as parents. 64 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,400 You don't have right? You do have a right to beat your 65 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,500 child. You don't have a right to send 66 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:41,400 your child to the hospital. You don't have a right to what 67 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,900 they do in the Old Testament, sacrifice your firstborn. 68 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:46,500 He'll have a right to do that. You don't have a right to keep 69 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:48,900 them home in that educate them. You have to send them to school. 70 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:52,800 There's a whole bunch of laws that say that you have to do 71 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,200 certain things when you have kids and you have to not do 72 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,700 certain things. When you have kids. 73 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:01,300 In this case, you need to get The way and if you're 16 or 17 74 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:03,500 year old wants to get vaccinated, they should be 75 00:05:03,508 --> 00:05:07,100 allowed to be vaccinated. That's if we're really serious 76 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:11,400 about wanting to get back to what people call the old normal. 77 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:13,800 I'm hoping we don't go back to the old. 78 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,400 Normal will have a new normal but we're not even get to The 79 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,700 New Normal if we don't do this. Okay. 80 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:21,500 That's my sorry. I say this nearly every other 81 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:24,700 episode about vaccinations wearing masks will be the were 82 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:28,400 so close my friends. Why why not just get over the 83 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:29,400 finish line? Here. 84 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:34,100 Anyways, that's um, today's podcast is not about that. 85 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,200 I want to talk to you about the movies. 86 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,700 This is what I do. It's what I love. 87 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:43,000 Always love going to the movies. She's when I was younger, I 88 00:05:43,008 --> 00:05:45,500 would go. I would sometimes I would go 89 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:49,700 almost 5 days of the week, if it was a big Multiplex and there 90 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:52,600 were five different films, I didn't care how good the film 91 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,000 was. I would just, I would go to it. 92 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,800 That's just been that way for a long time. 93 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,000 I just love going. Even, I even like watching lousy 94 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,800 movies They're so lousy that they're funny or they're lousy 95 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,600 in a good way where I learned something like, you know, I make 96 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,400 a little note in my head Mike don't ever do that. 97 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,600 Mike see that don't do that. So see how helpful it is. 98 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,800 So it's so sometimes the bad stuff isn't so bad but I just 99 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,700 wanted to say though that in spite of How It's not been good 100 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:29,500 for the movies in the last year and how I'm certain, many of you 101 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:35,400 have not Seen a lot of these films that have nominations this 102 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,700 weekend. I got to tell you, there were a 103 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:43,300 lot of great movies this year, and if you haven't seen them, I 104 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:45,900 want to encourage you to find a way to see them. 105 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,200 Now, I understand that they're on all these different streaming 106 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,200 services. Each one of them charges 107 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,600 subscription to very hard to do this unless you've got some 108 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,600 serious disposable income. That's why I hope you know the 109 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,600 movie theaters can reopen Because you should be able to 110 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,600 see all of these in a movie theater, the way they were 111 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,200 intended to be seen. But before we get into those 112 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,500 that are nominated, I just want to give a shout-out to just a 113 00:07:09,508 --> 00:07:13,300 few films that I did see in the first quarter of last year 114 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:16,500 before they close the theaters, before I close my theaters. 115 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,000 So some of these I brought to my theater or if you go to theaters 116 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,600 in Traverse City Michigan, and they're so good and I don't want 117 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:30,700 them to get lost because, you know, they came out, In the year 118 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:33,200 of whatever, whatever, what are we calling? 119 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,400 What will history call this year? 120 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,600 Or two? That were in not World War Z 121 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 naught The Walking Dead? I don't know. 122 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,600 They'll come up with something, if not, I'll come up with it, 123 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,000 we'll have a contest. We will all come up with a name 124 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,800 for this awful. Two years that were in here, 125 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,300 going on three, maybe folks, no, let's not do that. 126 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:55,100 Okay. It's up to you, it's up to all 127 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,000 of us. So, anyways, I just, I just want 128 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,100 to give a shout out to some of these films that got overlooked 129 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,200 by the Oscars. One film is called, Never 130 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,000 rarely. Sometimes always never rarely, 131 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,900 sometimes always, you know, sometimes when you're filling 132 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:13,500 out a questionnaire, And they've got the four boxes like do you 133 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:18,900 do this or that or whatever? Never rarely sometimes always 134 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:20,900 that. So that's the title of the film. 135 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:25,300 And it is a it's a kind of film that people still are afraid to 136 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:29,800 do stories about abortion and this is about a teenage girl 137 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,700 think. She's 17 years old, learner 138 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:36,200 cousin live in Pennsylvania, somewhere out in the middle of 139 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,700 nowhere. One of them becomes pregnant and 140 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:42,299 they decide to take the bus into New York City to get Abortion 141 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:46,200 without their parents knowing about it because again it's none 142 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,700 of their parents business if you're 17 years old and you want 143 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:54,200 to terminate a pregnancy that should be your legal right to do 144 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,700 that at your body, anyways? Okay, enough. 145 00:08:56,700 --> 00:08:57,900 I'm sorry. Sorry for the preaching. 146 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:03,500 This is such a good movie, these two young actresses, and the 147 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:08,800 story it tells of 48 Hours on a trip to the Big Apple. 148 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:11,600 It's again it's one of these movies you've just never seen. 149 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:17,600 This movie before and it's very powerful and I really, really am 150 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:20,800 so glad to have seen this film, never, where I lie sometimes 151 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,200 always, then there's a comedy. Maybe you've seen this one Palm 152 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,600 Springs. This is, this is so hilarious. 153 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:34,000 It's a sort of a Groundhog Day idea of you're, at a wedding 154 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,300 reception, you meet somebody at the wedding reception and 155 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:42,100 imagine the rest of your life is reliving that on wedding 156 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:44,600 reception over and over and over again. 157 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:46,700 So that's where the Andy Samberg. 158 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:51,900 It's really funny. And just a really smart comedy. 159 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,500 If you get a chance to see it, another film is called first cow 160 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:02,100 and by director, I really like Kelly Riker and she is again, 161 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:06,200 made another very, she makes these kind of quiet films. 162 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,600 And it's set back. It looks like it's in the may be 163 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:17,700 there early days of Northern California and, you know, white 164 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:21,200 men have arrived set up camps, maybe do some mining. 165 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,700 Try to find gold, whatever, but there's no none of the basics 166 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:28,400 are there in this Camp. It's because it's the first time 167 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,100 white people are kind of hanging out. 168 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:36,700 So somebody sends down river for a cow. to be sent up from, I 169 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:39,200 don't know, the San Francisco area, whatever in the car 170 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:47,300 arrives on a barge, And so, the story revolves around this guy 171 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:53,000 who was a, like a chef back east in his younger days and he and 172 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,900 he was a pastry shop, I think and needs milk to make these 173 00:10:56,900 --> 00:10:59,500 pastries for the camp and the only place where there's any 174 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:01,600 milk is this cows. So they start stealing the milk 175 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,300 from a cow. It's a really good movie. 176 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:08,100 It's called first cow. If you get a chance to see it a 177 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:12,200 a remake of the Invisible, Man, been two or three. 178 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,200 Versions of this starting back in the 50s. 179 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,800 This one is with Elisabeth Moss, handmaid's, tale and madman. 180 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:23,200 Modern version of it really good. 181 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:28,200 Really smart science fiction, not just us, you know, scary 182 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,500 horror film came out at the beginning of last year and 183 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:34,900 again, didn't get any notice because the pandemic it the 184 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:39,600 Invisible Man from 2020 then there's a film called the 185 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:45,800 assistant which essentially Is a fictional version of if you were 186 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,500 a woman and you worked in Harvey Weinstein's office. 187 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:53,100 Essentially, that's that's I've told you the whole movie right 188 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:57,100 there, but it's so well done. And so understated. 189 00:11:57,300 --> 00:12:01,200 Not the filmmaker doesn't come in with a hatchet and a hammer 190 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:07,100 and a baseball bat but very definitely very and very nuanced 191 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:10,300 ways. It doesn't become so nuanced 192 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:13,700 because you just imagine yourself in that woman's shoes 193 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,600 having to work in an office like that. 194 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:22,000 And, and then finally, just another, another kind of goofy, 195 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,500 crazy comedy. But I loved it. 196 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:27,000 It's just one, it's Will Ferrell at his best. 197 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:29,800 It's called Eurovision song contest. 198 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 It's actually a much longer title and he, and, and his 199 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,100 singing partner sign up for this is huge thing in. 200 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:42,000 Opinion and even into all the parts of the world now have 201 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,600 their own like Regional song Cuts Like An American Idol kind 202 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,000 of thing, not really though. So they are representing Iceland 203 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:57,000 in the Eurovision song contest and it's Will Ferrell and it's 204 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:03,000 funny and I loved it. And it's it actually has won 205 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,200 Oscar nomination this weekend, for best song. 206 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:14,300 It's the speaks That he and his partner saying in the movie and 207 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:16,700 it's hilarious. And I encourage you, if you want 208 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:22,300 a good laugh, go with that or Palm Springs for good smart 209 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:23,300 laughs. Okay? 210 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:28,000 So now let's, let's get into some of the nominated films and 211 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,600 these are in no particular order. 212 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,500 And I'm not going to tell you which ones I voted for as an 213 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:36,200 academy member. And these are just there are 214 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:42,000 random bunch of films that I Really enjoyed and I felt were 215 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,000 every bit as good as any of the other years where you have a 216 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,800 handful of great movies and this past year, we had a handful of 217 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,400 great movies. And I don't want you to miss 218 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,300 these because I think you'll like them and I'm sorry. 219 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:58,600 I'm obviously I'm a little partisan, but I'm pulling for 220 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,200 the art form here. And I'm pulling for the idea 221 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,300 that we need to sit once again, someday together. 222 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,100 Again, 200 of us strangers in the same room. 223 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:12,800 In the dark and laugh. Our asses off or cry, her eyes 224 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:17,100 out, or get angry at The Human Condition, whatever it is movie, 225 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:22,100 does for you, or let you quietly sit there in a very, where you 226 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:25,800 could hear a pin drop. 200 people in the theater because 227 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,100 you're all thinking this movie is made. 228 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:30,700 You think I want those days back? 229 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,400 We will have the back. I'm not opposed to the living 230 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,400 room or the TV set. I really am opposed to watching 231 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,400 a movie on an iPhone. Please don't do that. 232 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,200 Okay, just speaking as a filmmaker, thank you. 233 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:44,100 All right, so let me just go through. 234 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:48,600 These are just I won't I won't take long hearing make this my 235 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,700 friends this is a brilliant film. 236 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:55,200 It's a set in the Glory Days of Hollywood in the 30s and 40s and 237 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,600 it tells the story of the screenwriter Herman mankiewicz 238 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,200 mink. The man who wrote Citizen Kane 239 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,900 for Orson Welles This movie is directed by David Fincher. 240 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,100 His father, wrote the script many, many years ago, his 241 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:13,900 father's passed on. He decided to make his dad's 242 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:16,900 movie. It's in black and white. 243 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:20,300 And maybe the most along, with Nomad the few others were the 244 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:26,200 most beautifully filmed movies of the year and the performance 245 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,600 by the actors, but especially a man deciphered as playing Marion 246 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,500 Davies was a real-life actress back in the day and in Citizen 247 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:41,400 Kane her fictional character. is the what they used to call the 248 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:47,900 ditzy blond and her performance as not a ditzy blond, but as a 249 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:58,700 very intelligent caring and curious adult, Remember those 250 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:03,200 people adults that were open to seeing the world? 251 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:07,100 Slightly different way her performance was so unexpected. 252 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:11,500 And I have to tell you I have not been able to watch Citizen 253 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:14,700 Kane. And I remember if you heard my 254 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:22,500 podcast though, week or two ago, When I was talking to Eric Roth, 255 00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:27,100 the producer of mank, I tried to watch Citizen Kane on Turner 256 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:30,000 Classic Movies a few weeks ago and I couldn't, I couldn't watch 257 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 it. I couldn't watch it because once 258 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,700 this version of how the film got made was presented in May, which 259 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:42,400 is a fictional film. But is is using fiction to set? 260 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,100 Tell some greater truths. It became almost impossible. 261 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:48,300 I had to turn it off. Either Citizen Kane. 262 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,400 A off. This film is considered by most 263 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,500 people, may be the greatest film of all time. 264 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:57,100 But what this film does, what make does? 265 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:00,900 And what a lot of movies that are nominated this year are 266 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:05,200 forcing us to do. Is to look backward. 267 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:10,800 But with 2021 eyes. Look back to the past. 268 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:13,700 How did we get here in so many ways? 269 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:15,400 Whether it's about gender or race? 270 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,200 Or our whole situation in this country? 271 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,300 And I'll tell you it, my friends, it is hard to accept 272 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:28,600 what we have watched all of our lives in the movies on TV, the 273 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:34,800 versions versions of History. That wealthy white men have 274 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:39,400 wanted us to accept. And in this case in make, this 275 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,900 movie is saying that maybe we've been told the wrong thing. 276 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,900 Maybe the way women have been treated in films for 100 years 277 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:55,700 has been the wrong thing. And what mank is asking us and 278 00:17:55,700 --> 00:18:01,800 is challenging us to do is to say in the case of Citizen Kane 279 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,500 You know, are you going to accept this any longer that one 280 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:09,900 of the great comedic actresses of the 30s and 40s? 281 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:15,400 Marion Davies was in fact just a stupid no-talent blond. 282 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,500 As she's portrayed or fictional characters portrayed in the 283 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,700 Orson Welles film. And my friends when you stop and 284 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:26,300 think about that, then you have to think about how Native 285 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:28,500 Americans have been treated in the films, and, of course, 286 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,500 African-Americans and man, just go down the list. 287 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:38,900 So many so many revolting. Stereotypes shoved down our 288 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:45,300 throats since forever. But when you look at the list of 289 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:48,500 this year's films, and when you watch these films, you start to 290 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:55,800 have this inkling. Whoa, could this be the end of 291 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:01,100 the bullshit? Are we in a transformational 292 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:04,200 moment? Artistically in this case with 293 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,000 the movies? Where we are going to tell the 294 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:14,500 greater truths with truth. And these truths are going to be 295 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:17,700 told that by just a bunch of white guys sitting in a room 296 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,300 coming up with a stories that they want to see. 297 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,300 Is it over? Is it getting better? 298 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:30,900 Is this year's group of movies, actually better than last year's 299 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:34,800 and the year before that, in some ways I think so. 300 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:38,900 I hope so. I hope this is a change and this 301 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:42,200 movie. Especially when you think about 302 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:48,700 Citizen Kane. This movie is a huge and 303 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:54,400 welcomed disrupter, manc. See, this movie. 304 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,600 Next up on my list. Here is promising young woman. 305 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,400 All right, so I guess now, we're going to just continue this 306 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,600 theme. I've started on here of looking 307 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:14,600 at a certain gender or a certain gender or to this movie 308 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,800 promising, young woman is a wrenching and brutally honest, 309 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:27,500 dark satire of how men of, you know, men guys, Good Guys, men 310 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:31,400 of culture, man, with good manners, men with education. 311 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:40,400 And how they still get to assault women at random and get 312 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:46,300 away with it. if this film set in the present is asking us, 313 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:52,100 what is your culpability in this, that that men are still 314 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:54,600 allowed to get away with this Behavior. 315 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,600 I had to tell you, I was floored by this movie and I put off 316 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,800 seeing it because I don't know, somebody just said, oh, it's a 317 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:06,100 movie about rape and psycho honey and, you know, knee here 318 00:21:06,100 --> 00:21:09,900 that and he just ever each of us have, you know, some people 319 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:14,600 cannot watch. Movies that have that show child 320 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,600 endangerment even though we know it's a movie and their actors 321 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,600 and all that. And I just don't want to see 322 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,400 that other people don't want to see animals being hurt, even 323 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,900 though you're told at the end of the movie, The Humane Society 324 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:28,600 was on the set no animals were harmed. 325 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:30,800 It's still you know. Right. 326 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,800 You know who you are. We're all we all have these 327 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,300 lines where it's just like I don't want to see this. 328 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:39,200 And I don't want to see it during this pandemic. 329 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,600 I'm, I'm sad enough already. I don't need, I don't need this. 330 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:47,600 So I stayed away from this movie for a little while, and then 331 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:51,400 when that I watched it, and I thought, wow, this is this is I 332 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,300 did this, I've done this so many times before, previous films, 333 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:57,000 were you saw? I saw the trailer. 334 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,300 I saw, he can't take this. I can't take the world, is such 335 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,700 a cruel place. I know already know. 336 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:07,100 This is the cruelty of this and how much you hate it in. 337 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:14,500 Nyet and yet I turned it on and there it was it work of art, 338 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:20,400 brilliant brilliantly, written Carey Mulligan playing the lead 339 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:25,100 character. It it's I'm telling you, 340 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:29,800 everybody listen to this. Please watch this movie. 341 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:34,500 I mean, it had me on edge for two hours but on edge, in a good 342 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:37,700 way. Not knowing what would happen 343 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,700 next? It's like Carey Mulligan. 344 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:42,800 Plays this one woman, Justice League. 345 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,800 And she's incredible and she isn't always doing or going to 346 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,700 do what you think she's going to do. 347 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,800 And her actions are actually filled with heart and substance 348 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:05,600 and brains, and sort of. Wow, this is really, this movie 349 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:11,200 is so well thought out. this is really something you don't want 350 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:17,300 to miss this, this movie and what's so wonderful about this 351 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:22,100 character Is that as much as she is Seeking Justice? 352 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,500 And revenge. Two men who have hurt women. 353 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:35,600 She gives them more of a chance to be a human being than they 354 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,800 would ever think to give those to whom the victimized. 355 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,400 So again, whatever you've heard about the subject matter of the 356 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:49,800 film, just just erase all that and and move this movie to the 357 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,800 top of your list. Promising, young woman. 358 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,400 Next up, the trial of the Chicago 7. 359 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,300 Okay. You probably already know. 360 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:04,800 I feel about this movie. I had Aaron Sorkin on the 361 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,600 podcast here. A few weeks ago, I'm a huge fan 362 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,700 of Aaron sorkin's. If they do, bring back his 363 00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:14,200 version of To Kill a Mockingbird to Broadway, or if it ever comes 364 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,000 to your town, please go see. It really is brilliant. 365 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,900 Brilliant. He is brilliant. 366 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,500 And of course, You know, trial of the Chicago 7 said during the 367 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,600 Vietnam War era, Chicago democratic convention in 1968, 368 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,500 the police decide to have a riot and just start injuring citizens 369 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:39,100 who are just peacefully protesting it. 370 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:45,000 I mean it is rare that the history of the 60s is told in a 371 00:24:45,008 --> 00:24:49,500 movie with such honesty and pain and humor. 372 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,300 No cardboard cutout characters here course. 373 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:55,700 Not, it's Aaron Sorkin, he's not going to. 374 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:58,500 These are going to be complicated complex characters. 375 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:08,800 There's a diversity of of beliefs They are all men but the 376 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:14,300 one black men, the character of a real live person called Bobby 377 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:19,700 seale. So, brilliant to see this and 378 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:22,400 then this is what all of a sudden there's a at some point, 379 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,700 very early on in the film. You're not thinking this is the 380 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:29,100 60s. It's like you're watching 381 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:35,200 something that is really urgent and now relevant now. 382 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,000 Don't miss this film. The road that we are all on 383 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,800 right now. In 2021 has not met its 384 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,500 destination. But what the hope, the hope that 385 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:53,100 this film holds out for what happens if you do get involved 386 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:57,500 and you do make your voice heard, it's very powerful. 387 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:03,900 Sacha Baron Cohen who, of course, is Borat plays a very 388 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,800 comic serious role in this film. He plays Abbie Hoffman. 389 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:14,100 He's nominated for the Oscars this weekend for best supporting 390 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:17,100 actor. And of course, Aaron Sorkin is 391 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:20,700 nominated for his writing the film. 392 00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:24,900 This is this is one of these rare films that gets politics, 393 00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:28,500 right? So, please see this film, you 394 00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:31,500 won't be disappointed and sticking with the theme of 395 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,700 political film set in Chicago, in the 60s, another film that's 396 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:38,500 up for best picture is Judas and the black Messiah. 397 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,500 And again, you have an intense, another intense, searing 398 00:26:44,500 --> 00:26:47,800 political film this time. It's about Fred Hampton. 399 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:52,000 Who was the head of the Black Panthers in in Chicago, the 400 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:57,800 chair of the Black Panthers and We have the director and Fred 401 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:03,000 Hampton sun on this podcast month or so ago, talking about 402 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,700 it. And it's Great title, great 403 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:10,100 film, Judas, and the black Messiah. 404 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:13,600 Now I for those of you listening, I should give you a 405 00:27:13,608 --> 00:27:17,800 trigger alert here. Just so you're not. 406 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,900 You know, put in the shock. When you watch this movie and 407 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:28,000 here is the alert. This movie suggests that the 408 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:36,400 police and the FBI deliberately murder people there. 409 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,000 I'm setting. Take a breath if you need to. 410 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:48,700 Oh, and sometimes they murder. People for political reasons 411 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,900 which would be called an assassination. 412 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:57,800 The other person killed with Fred Hampton on that night, he 413 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:04,500 was assassinated Mark Clark. I first knew this or heard of 414 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,900 this story because Mark Clark family living in Flint, 415 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:12,200 Michigan. He too was assassinated by the 416 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,900 Chicago Police and the FBI, but aside from all of that. 417 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:20,700 And I hate to say, aside from all of that aside from all of 418 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:24,800 that assassination by the cops that we our tax dollars, go to 419 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,800 pay this movie. As a work of art is a 420 00:28:27,808 --> 00:28:32,300 masterpiece and you do not want to miss it, Judas and the black 421 00:28:32,300 --> 00:28:36,600 Messiah. Next, film up for best picture. 422 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,100 Here is minari. It's about an immigrant family 423 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,300 from Korea who decides to come to America. 424 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:49,700 And after working in California, for a number of years decides to 425 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:52,400 move to the real America called Iowa. 426 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,900 Right there. Do I need to say more? 427 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,200 This is a beautiful film. It is sweet. 428 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,100 It is funny. It is heartbreaking. 429 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:10,000 And it reminds us that it is not easy to be a stranger in This 430 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,900 Strange Land that we live in. And most of our 431 00:29:14,900 --> 00:29:19,400 great-grandparents I'm talking about, do you white people not 432 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,600 to the descendants of slaves or the first peoples that were 433 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,500 here? But mostly everybody else your 434 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:29,800 grandparents great-grandparents great-great-grandparents. 435 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,500 Most of them. if they were able to get here, lived some version 436 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:43,700 of this story you see here in manari Of the five films that 437 00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:45,400 are nominated in. This is one of them for best 438 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,400 director. This is one of the three, three 439 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,200 of the five are directed by women. 440 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,600 If you're not shocked by that, I just, I will say as an academy 441 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,200 member and former board member. I will tell you for just so you 442 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,700 have the context of this. I'm pretty. 443 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,200 Certain I did not look this up before the podcast. 444 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,000 I think the total number of women nominated for best 445 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,700 director in the past 92 years of the Oscars. 446 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:16,400 The total number five, Five before this year. 447 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,000 Then this year, three in this year that's what's happening 448 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,600 folks. That is what is happening and it 449 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,700 should happen and it is long overdue. 450 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:36,500 Next up is nomadland. This film is also a work of art. 451 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:40,300 I mean, like real art. Your lips like you're sitting in 452 00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:42,000 the theater. If we were sitting on a theater, 453 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,800 we'd be looking at moving art. There's nothing like this film. 454 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,900 Male comedians. I'm, you know, the some 455 00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:53,900 sometimes on some of these shows this week, run podcast, they've 456 00:30:53,900 --> 00:31:00,100 been they've been making jokes about this film. it's because a 457 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:05,500 film like this signals the sea change that we are now in a sea 458 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:10,400 that is hopefully drowning, most of the misogyny that we've had 459 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,600 to put up with it, certainly in the movies No Madeline is it's 460 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,400 beautifully, photographed. It stars the great Frances 461 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,900 McDormand. Boy, this is this is a film for 462 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:29,400 it's like a meditative feast. You sit, and you watch this 463 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,800 film. And it takes your mind to places 464 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,200 it needs to go. It's just incredible. 465 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:44,000 No, math Lin. The last film that I saw here, 466 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,800 the beginning of the week, just before it was time to vote for 467 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:53,700 the Oscars was the father. I again I had avoided this film 468 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,100 because the trailer the ads, whatever. 469 00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:58,800 Look like just another Alzheimer's movie. 470 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,800 And I'm like, okay, I get it, I can't take this, you know, you 471 00:32:02,808 --> 00:32:04,300 know, both of my parents are gone now. 472 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:06,900 Everybody knows as you have to take care of your parents, in 473 00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:11,400 the final years of their lives. If you haven't gotten that memo, 474 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,800 by the way, if you're in your twenties or thirties, you don't 475 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,900 need to worry about it right now. 476 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:22,100 But I'm just saying this movie is I don't know, it does. 477 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:27,200 This is such a beautiful movie. Don't avoid this film. 478 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,900 It does not seek to jerk your tears. 479 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:36,700 It asks, you simply to look into a future that may be yours. 480 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:41,800 Yours personally, or yours because of your parents and it 481 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:46,800 asks, you not to fear it, but just to think about it, each of 482 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,000 us have parents, some have left us, others are still with us. 483 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:59,100 And who will we be at that age? Anthony Hopkins plays the 484 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:01,400 father. Olivia Colman places daughter 485 00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:07,100 and I'm telling you, man acting doesn't get better than this. 486 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:12,000 This is I can see why it was nominated for Best Picture. 487 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:15,900 In the old days. This is the film. 488 00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:18,400 That would win best picture, but I'm not doing predictions on 489 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,400 this podcast. I'm just saying that if you have 490 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:26,700 a chance to see this film, please do a couple of others by 491 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:29,500 rainey's black bottom. Whoa man. 492 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,800 Blistering. Brilliant Viola Davis is 493 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,900 amazing. So it was the late Chadwick 494 00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:39,600 Boseman and of course this is written by August Wilson. 495 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:44,200 One of our greatest ever play rights in this country you have 496 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,300 to see it just for that. Great writing. 497 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,100 Great characters. Great American stories. 498 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,800 And this is one of them. It will knock your socks off. 499 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,500 This is don't miss this film. My rainey's black bottom. 500 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,400 And then, of course, Borat subsequent movie film as a much 501 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,800 longer title, you know, the Traverse City Film Festival. 502 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:12,600 The found held the unofficial North American premiere of the 503 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,300 original Borat film in 2006. So we have a special connection 504 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:21,900 to Borat first boros directed by Larry Charles who's been on our 505 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:24,900 Board of Directors, for a film festival here in Michigan for 506 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:29,900 many, many years. The sequel to this first, Borat 507 00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:32,100 it. It just continues, huh, 508 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,600 outrageous. Political a Kind of Perfect film 509 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,600 for our time right now. I'm hoping most of you have seen 510 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,600 this by now, but if you haven't give it a watch before the 511 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,199 Oscars here, it's nominated for two for best, supporting 512 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:54,000 actress, and for in, for writing, for Josh's, writing for 513 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,800 it. So, Borat subsequent movie film. 514 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,500 Again, I'm always pushing for any film. 515 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:03,400 That gives us a chance to laugh. During the time we're in, 516 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,400 Just, I want to thank our Underwriters for today's 517 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,300 episode. And the first one I want to 518 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:29,500 thank today is audible. Audible is the leading provider 519 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:34,200 of spoken word entertainment. They have a huge selection of 520 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,500 audio. Books, Regional Entertainment 521 00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:41,500 and thousands of binge worthy broadcast, including Rumble with 522 00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:45,100 yours truly. I love audiobooks. 523 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:48,100 I'm looking forward to getting back into the car so I can 524 00:35:48,100 --> 00:35:51,500 listen to them but I have found and that just putting him on my 525 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,100 speakers here in the living room and the kitchen, whatever, and 526 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:58,000 cranking it up there. We I live alone. 527 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,000 I mean, you can listen to the book in the house as I'm doing 528 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:02,800 work. As I'm. 529 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:05,800 It's great. If you want to listen to my book 530 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,600 it's I do my own voice in it. It's called here comes trouble. 531 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:13,700 It's a 24 short stories from my life. 532 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:18,100 It's all mine fiction things that happen to me from age zero 533 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:25,000 to 35 to the night, the curtain went up on my first film, it's 534 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,800 a. So you can get that through 535 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,700 audible my buddy, Tom, Morello from Rage Against the Machine. 536 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:35,500 I was there the night, he recorded his audiobook at the 537 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,600 audible theater. They actually have a theater in 538 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,300 Manhattan, where an audience can come and listen to the recording 539 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:44,800 of an audio book, and that's what I did there at the Minetta 540 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,800 Lane theater, Tom, Morello speaking truth to power through 541 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,300 stories. And so on, also one of my great 542 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:56,700 writers from my TV series TV nation and The Awful Truth. 543 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,900 My good friend. Jay, Martel has got an audio 544 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:02,900 book out right now called the present, very funny guy. 545 00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:08,400 So for listeners of this podcast, you can try Audible for 546 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:13,700 free for 30 days, you go to audible.com, slash rumble or 547 00:37:13,700 --> 00:37:20,700 text Rumble to 500 500. That's audible.com slash rumble 548 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:27,700 or text Rumble to the number 500 500 and you'll get a free 30-day 549 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:31,500 trial of audible. Also, another underwriter we 550 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,500 have here today and who's been with us now, for some time, a 551 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:39,500 huge shout-out to, our underwriter, rake on when I'm 552 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:42,700 listening to, like, the audiobooks or podcasts, or 553 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:48,400 music, or whatever I love using. 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All five of them are great. 575 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:36,700 And for one of the first times ever, I think three of the five, 576 00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:38,800 the majority of them are not from the US. 577 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,300 Therefore in documentaries makes it very interesting tell. 578 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:47,100 I I love I mean it my Film Fest why I bring a lot of foreign 579 00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:50,200 documentaries because they just they do it differently and they 580 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,100 tell a stories that we would otherwise never see in this 581 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,800 country. So check them out. 582 00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:00,300 If you have a chance all the shorts this year, short 583 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:04,000 documentary, short live-action, film short animation, all of 584 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,200 them. Fantastic. 585 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:10,500 I have my film festival site right now, it's a virtual site 586 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:12,800 you can you can go on. It's called the virtual State. 587 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:17,600 The virtual state DOT org and you go there and you can rent. 588 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,600 Buy a ticket. Watch the all the shorts. 589 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,000 The oscar-nominated shorts this year. 590 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:29,400 Encourage you to do that. Then finally oddly enough this 591 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,800 year, I have only seen one of what used to be called best 592 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,100 foreign film and now it's best International Film. 593 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:38,300 I've only seen one of the five nominees I don't. 594 00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:40,200 I'm not really not. I don't feel. 595 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,200 It's right to him to make commentary. 596 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,200 I'm just the one film I've seen in that. 597 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,100 I plan to see the others and I probably will bring a number of 598 00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:53,700 them to my own Film Festival, but it's sadly, one of the 599 00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:57,100 categories I just did not have time to To watch the films this 600 00:40:57,100 --> 00:41:01,500 year, but, but they're from, they're from Bosnia, you know, 601 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:05,700 they're one of them's. Well, here's one from Hong Kong. 602 00:41:05,700 --> 00:41:11,800 And I just heard that the state TV in Hong Kong, is prohibiting 603 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:18,600 the Oscars from being shown because of one of the cat, one 604 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,300 of the nominees for best foreign best International Film. 605 00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:25,200 And one of them needs for, one of the shorts are from Hong Kong 606 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:30,900 and they take a critical view of how the Beijing government is 607 00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:35,800 trying to crush any dissent and, and trying to create a way that 608 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,300 the people in Hong Kong don't want to live. 609 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:40,000 So now they're going to black out the askers this weekend. 610 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,700 So right there are you that makes you want to see the film 611 00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:46,700 at that point, right? Anyways, I hope this has been 612 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:49,900 some help. If you haven't seen these films, 613 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:56,900 I've spoken of please do, let's let's get rid of the the 614 00:41:56,900 --> 00:42:00,400 coronavirus so we can get back into the movie theaters and 615 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,300 watch these movies, the way those of us who make them intend 616 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:07,100 for them to be seen, I have enough friends that work in the 617 00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:10,300 movies fiction and nonfiction and I know that they're dying to 618 00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:14,000 get back to work, so they don't want to die to go back to work. 619 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,800 So But some have started. So I'm started in other 620 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,300 countries. So we'll have a new batch 621 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,200 hopefully by this time next year. 622 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,400 Let's hope so. Because I, I personally am ready 623 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:32,000 to make one of three films. I have, I want to start making 624 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,600 at some point here, like I'm backed up. 625 00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:38,000 I'm backed up. I need to, I need to get these 626 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:43,300 films out of my system. So that's my hope for this year 627 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:46,900 that I will be making a movie in the year called 2021. 628 00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:51,800 Thank you to all of those of you who have made these incredible 629 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:58,400 films here in the last year and good luck to all of you at the 630 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:06,000 Oscars this this weekend. I know the feeling and there's 631 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,300 nothing like it, and Best of luck. 632 00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:26,100 So everybody thanks for listening to this episode of 633 00:43:26,100 --> 00:43:29,300 Rumble. Keep watching movies. 634 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,500 Let's all go back to the movies and they're in the theaters 635 00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:36,200 since we as soon as it's safe to do so. 636 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:42,800 And and I'll be watching the Oscars with you Sunday night. 637 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,000 It begin 8:00 eastern time. I'm looking forward to it and 638 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,500 plus it's being conceived by the great Steven Soderbergh. 639 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:53,100 So right there something gets all right, everybody, thanks so 640 00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:56,300 much for listening to rumble. Thank you to our executive 641 00:43:56,300 --> 00:44:00,500 producer, bezel Hamden, our editor, Nick quas. 642 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:06,600 And in to all of you for being listeners of this podcast, I'll 643 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,400 talk to you real soon. Have a good rest of the week in 644 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,700 the week and I'm like, a more. This is from