The Hi-Lo Bro Show
Richard and Garrett talk up film culture: the Good, the Bad, and the Wonderfully Awful. We take on a piece of midnight trash/cult pop filmmaking, and pair it with a daunting, difficult piece of “High Art” cinema. Spoilers everywhere: these conversations are meant for listeners who have seen the films under discussion. We also delve into significant works of film criticism and history, as well as the source material for some of the greatest movies ever made. And some of the worst.
The Hi-Lo Bro Show
A Man Escaped/The Big Doll House - The Hi-Lo Bro Show - Ep 12 – April 2024
This is the one where Richard refers to Martin Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” and praises cultural transgression, while Garrett remembers being a teen boy drawn to VHS tape covers featuring blood, breasts, and bullets.
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Referenced media:
- “Jackie Brown” (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
- “Re-Animator” (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
- “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
- “Billy Jack” (T.C. Frank, 1971)
- “Escape from the Planet of the Apes” (Don Taylor, 1971)
- “Carnal Knowledge” (Mike Nichols, 1971)
- “Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)
- “The Omega Man” (Boris Segal, 1971)
- “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
- “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
- “The Big Bird Cage” (Jack Hill, 1972)
- “Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
- “The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
- “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957)
- “Paths of Glory” (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
- “Nights of Cabiria” (Federico Fellini, 1957)
- “Escape from Alcatraz” (Don Siegel, 1979)
- “S.O.B.” (Blake Edwards, 1981)
- “Cast Away” (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
- “Glory” (Edward Zwick, 1989)
- “All Is Lost” (J.C. Chandor, 2013)
- “Pickpocket” (Robert Bresson, 1959)
- “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966)
- “Diary of a Country Priest” (Robert Bresson, 1951)
Audio quotation:
- “The Big Doll House” from the album “Roberta Stars in the Big Doll House” (2022) by Screen Syndicate, https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IsRyCJ6Ad6k
- “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
- “Re-Animator” (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
- “A Man Escaped” (Robert Bresson, 1956)