4. San Francisco Cinema
We explore cinematic San Francisco, Duncan’s home city that Ryan learned to love after a dumpy introduction. Let’s talk about THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO, Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fail’s love letter to their hometown, Bay Area native David Fincher’s obsession with ZODIAC, and the Chinese-American generational saga of THE JOY LUCK CLUB. Don’t listen to Dirty Harry, if you keep your eyes and nose above gutter level, it’s a beautiful city.
00:00 - INTRO - The sites and smells of San Francisco.
06:34 - THE LAST BLACKMAN IN SAN FRANCISCO - “You don’t get to hate it unless you love it.”
18:22 - ZODIAC - The obsessive nature of serial killers mirrors the obsessive focus of Fincher
27:59 - TOP 5 FINCH - A social Benjamin fights an alien with a dragon tattoo seven times
30:47 - JOY LUCK CLUB - The least “Disney” film by Disney
32:43 - AGAINST THE GRAIN - We critique the favorites of critics
35:34 - MELODRAMA - You better earn my tears
43:30 - BEST OF SF BY THE DECADES - The Voyage Home from Vertigo to Last Blackman
50:55 - HOLLYWOOD HATES THE BAY - LA brutalizes SF on screen
51:52 - WHAT RYAN IS WATCHING
All the Films & Filmmakers we talked about.
The Last Blackman In San Francisco, Zodiac, The Joy Luck Club
George Washington, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Medicine For Melancholy, Seven, Mind Hunters, Nightcrawler, Spotlight, Alien 3, Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Fight Club, the Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Farewell, Crazy Rich Asians, Little Women, Waves, Revolutionary Road, Little Children, Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, The Artist, the truth, Terms Of Endearment, Brave, Vertigo, Bullit, The Conversation, 48 hours, Star Trek IV, Big Trouble In Little China, The Rock, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Room, The Disaster Artist, The Bridge, Shut Up Little Man, Memento, Rewind
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Recorded August 2020
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