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
Rumble Fish/Targets - The Hi-Lo Bro Show - Ep 13 – July 2024
This is the one where Richard invokes the Fisher King and mise en abyme, while Garrett celebrates eccentric art, all in memory of “The King of Cult Cinema”, Roger Corman (1926-2024), who helped launch the careers of this episode’s two filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.
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Referenced media:
- "The Big Doll House" (Jack Hill, 1971)
- “Rolling Thunder” (John Flynn, 1977)
- “Blue Collar” (Paul Schrader, 1978)
- “Grand Theft Auto” (Ron Howard, 1977)
- “Nosferatu” (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
- “The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)
- “Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1931)
- “Bride of Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1935)
- “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (Chuck Jones, 1966)
- “The Last Picture Show” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
- “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
- “Rosemary’s Baby” (Roman Polanski, 1968)
- “Night of the Living Dead” (George A Romero, 1968)
- “Finian’s Rainbow” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1968)
- “Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)
- “The Outsiders” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
- “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
- “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
- “Chinatown” (Roman Polanski, 1974)
- “Terms of Endearment” (James L. Brooks, 1983)
- “West Side Story” (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
- “Footloose” (Herbert Ross, 1984)
Audio quotation:
- “Targets” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
- “Rumble Fish” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
- “Theme from ‘Terms of Endearment’” from “Terms of Endearment” (James L. Brooks, 1983) by Michael Gore, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW7TzkvCts&list=PLD6VJwu9YM-Xi3oEu5vabPRBgFtrmeP56&index=3