altmania

Movie podcast covering the work of American filmmaker Robert Altman + friends (PTA/Alan Rudolph + more) hosted by @molecularlioneI and @estebzilla

Movie podcast covering the work of American filmmaker Robert Altman + friends (PTA, Alan Rudolph, + more) hosted by Esteban Noel @estebzilla and Ryan Torgeson (@molecularlioneI) // covering the work of Robert Altman + "friends" (Paul Thomas Anderson, Alan Rudolph, + more).

Ryan and Esteban explore the works of director Robert Altman, examining the context of his films, how they speak to the current moment, and look at his wider circle of proteges and influences. Currently covering the films of Alan Rudolph.

Start of Rudolph arc: Premonition (1972)

We're BACK, it's only been one week but we're BACK. This time we're introducing our new guy, Alan Rudolph. We read about his dad's career in Hollywood, life growing up in LA, majoring as an accountant at UCLA, joining the DGA program and becoming an assistant director, his story of meeting Bob, and then we get into his very first film, PREMONITION. It's a weird hippie horror film about evil red flowers and smoking too much dope, with a crazy soundtrack and shot by the guy that went on to do Mishima. Insane stuff!! We're happy to be back though and hope you're excited to get into some great movies.

Start of PTA arc: The Dirk Diggler Story (1988) / Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)

We're baaaack! Kicking off the new series, it's Este's birthday! Go wish him a happy birthday everybody. We begin Altmania "Friends of Bob", starting with our Paul Thomas Anderson journey talking about his films overall, our first encounters with them, and our sort of plan for the upcoming films this season. Then we dive into some PTA news on his upcoming (expensive) movie, rewriting Napoleon, his life in the valley in the '70s, Ernie Anderson, Tim Conway, Robert Ridgely. Then we go right into our two films of today, PTA's first short films The Dirk Diggler Story and Cigarettes & Coffee. One movie we really loved and another we felt was lacking, find out which one is which!! Anyway, it feels great to be back and we hope you're all ready for a wonderful series with some great guests! We've got some fun in store, and we hope you all enjoy. Thanks everybody, peace and love.

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