Friday, July 4, 2008

Cue the Film 14 - A Question of Quirk

This week, Emily's out of town and has left Chris, John and Steph to run the show. We do our best to discuss Steph's favorite Quirky Comedies without her. We talk about Be Kind Rewind, Juno, Rushmore, Joe's Apartment, and Harold & Maude. We do, however, hear Emily's thoughts on Juno as well as her opening salvo in the battle of The Happening via the miracle of TECHNOLOGY. She no like!

For our next show, John has chosen Coen Brothers' Movies for us to review: Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and many, many more.

If you have any feedback in the form of questions or suggestions for ideas for future shows, send an MP3 file to cuethefilm@gmail.com or call our listener line at 206-984-2736.

Our promos are from 12 Volt Theater, and Der Geek Podcast.

We want to thank the guys at Wicked Awesome Podcast, as well as Mary from The Cinema Paradiso Podcast for their support. We encourage you to check out their shows.

Download "A Question of Quirk"!

36 comments:

Alirio said...

First again?!?

Oooooh Yeah!

Can't wait to listen...

Chris JC said...

It's our second longest episode!

REJOICE.

Stephanie said...

Chris, "Download A Question of Quirk here" isn't clickable. I'd fix it but I don't think I have the password.

Chris JC said...

Oops! Fixed now!

Chris JC said...

Nice to have a reason to dig out my one and only Mos Def album :D

Emily said...

I'm starting to notice you guys go long when I'm not here hahahaha, ah well we did have that seven minute call from me sorry about that lol. Listened ot the start, but I'll listen to the rest on my hour comute both ways tis week

Chris JC said...

New sound-normalised version of the podcast up again. If anyone has the heart to try it twice, let me know if it's better - should be on the same link - iTunes people may find it harder to get if subscribed (will need to unsubscribe and subscribe again) - note: from this point on, every new download will be the "new" version, no fiddling necessary.

Chris JC said...

Oops - I forgot to beep a naughty word from Jack so - for archive purposes - another update will follow. No other major changes so no need to get it if you already have a version.

Jack said...

hi you played my promo!!! you rock!

Stephanie said...

This is something I forgot to bring up during the Harold and Maude conversation. Did Maude always act this way? Or did she become full of life because of something she recently discovered?

Jack said...

chris shoot me any email. I have some voice work for you if your interested.

Jack said...

sorry jackjaffee@gmail.com nothing dirty :-)

Chris JC said...

Am I about to unleash some Calculon style "Ungodly ACTING.... TALENT....!" on the world?

Chris JC said...

Steph - I get the impression (and it's something we didn't mention in the show) that Maude may have developed the total love for life after surviving a concentration camp (note her number tattoo - the reveal of which is the only thing that throws her a little), and it's just been compounded the older she gets - especially when you take into account her retirement plan.

Stephanie said...

The first time through I thought this was simply her nature. About the third time, I decided it was because her "body was failing". I hadn't considered the concentration camp.

Chris JC said...

I'd imagine surviving something of that nature might make some people feel that they had had the worst the world could give them.

Emily said...

Chris, if ever turned the empty city into a crappy podiobook, I need you for voice acting to okay? lol

Speakign of which I should write that some more. Its a pile of crap like the Happening, although maybe with a little ork I can decrease the pile of crap.

Chris JC said...

A little Ork?

That must be where Tiny Tiny Mork is from.

Dude - I will lend my voice to ANYTHING. Anyone who heard "Stick it in Maggie Q" knows that.

Jack said...

Chris you sold me on Joe's Apartment. I was laughing my butt off when you mention an old woman that survived mugging to be killed by someone saying hello. It left me laughing and smiling for about an hour.

Haven't seen the movie yet but it's been on my to-do list. Thanks for reminding me of a film I should see.

Stephanie said...

Speaking of movies you should see, I just saw Galaxy Quest. Apart from the over-exposure of Tim Allen in the 90's it was great!

Chris JC said...

Galaxy Quest is ultra superb.

"Whoever wrote this episode should DIE!"

Jack said...

Thinking about that movie just about anybody could've played Tim Allen's role. Jeff Goldblum, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Spacey all could've done the same job.

Sure it would've been different but it still would've worked as a movie.

Referring to galaxy quest

Chris JC said...

I think he was pretty well cast as a has-been with a high opinion of himself.

Did you get my email, Jack?

john dimery said...

hell yeah lebowski fest is this weekend, brian poeshn will be here, ace of cakes will be makiung a cake for it to woooo i might go and can integrate it into the podcast

Stephanie said...

I'm enjoying the Coen Brothers. Theirs are movies you can watch over and over. Most are even better the third time.

John, if you have suggestions for audio clips for Chris just let him know.

Stephanie said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcDAPjRvjAE

john dimery said...

big lebowski http://youtube.com/watch?v=iTkXBD508vo&feature=related
a lil long but ood

john dimery said...

i think any big leboski clip will hav the f work in it

john dimery said...

actually this one might be better

john dimery said...

wow the trailer for barton fink mean so much more if you have seen the movie

john dimery said...

for barton fink you can use like the first minute of this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kF6xmYr6IbQ

john dimery said...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tw_YryVgLOg

john dimery said...

go

Stephanie said...

I have to wait til I get home to see.

Trevor McFur suggests "Based on a True Story" for a theme.

andrew. said...

- great crop of movies for this episode.

- The 1st time i saw Rushmore I didn't like it. I think a big part of that was that a friend of mine pushed it on me, and i didn't really trust his tastes. I went in thinking it was trying really hard to be snarky. After I fell in love with The Royal Tenenbaums, i went back to Rushmore and loved it to death. (maybe that could be a theme for a show when you get desperate, movies you didn't like at first but fell in love with on a subsequent viewing)

- maybe i should revisit "Joe's Apartment." I could have sworn it came out earlier than 1996, but i must be thinking of the shorts. I wasn't very into it, but I remember it being better than i thought it would be, especially since it was the first movie from MTV Films.
I was always struck with the similarity in plot to Twilight Of The Cockroaches.

-hmmm Coen Brothers. should i get around to seeing Intolerable Cruelty? I think Barton Fink is my favorite. Raising Arizona is pretty amazing but has suffered from being run on television in perpetuity.

- thanks for the podcast!

elias said...

so busy at the moment but finally got round to this episode - awesome as ever, peeps.

I rented Be Kind Rewind after listening and really enjoyed it. Very funny and also sweet. I agree that Jack Black was acting for once and Mos Def proved he's a versatile talent.

"Size 18 feet - dang!"