Pod Casty For Me

Get your spooky old-time mask on, everybody: it's the NO SUDDEN MOVE episode. We're talking Soderbergh's 2021 HBO Max crime thriller and all things 1954 Detroit, Black Bottom, carburetors, becoming aware of your position as a historical actor, Bill Duke, Bill & Ted (different Bill), anamorphic lenses, apologizing while hitting your boss in the face, money flowing uphill, and lots more. Really enjoyed this one - check it out! And get rid of your car!
Further Reading:
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd
The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook by James Boggs
The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkins Bates
The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas Sugrue
Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard
"How the UAW Broke Ford's Stranglehold Over Black Detroit" by Paul Prescod
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/united-autoworker-ford-black-detroit-race-labor
"No Sudden Move Writer Ed Solomon on Drawing From Real History for the HBO Max Movie" by Adam Chitwood
https://collider.com/no-sudden-move-ed-solomon-interview-true-story/

Further Viewing: 
KISS ME DEADLY (Aldrich, 1955)
THE KILLING (Kubrick, 1956)
BLUE COLLAR (Schrader, 1978)
OUT OF SIGHT (Soderbergh, 1998)
THE NICE GUYS (Black, 2016)
BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC (Parisot, 2020)
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Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin with additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

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How do you begin to talk about SUBURBICON, the 2017 film George Clooney made by hacking together an unmade Coen brothers crime script with one of his own about a true story of racial violence in the suburbs? By hacking together two incredible podcasts tangentially related to the subject, that's how!
We got together with our good friends Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori from the To The White Sea podcast for some in-depth script analysis, live scene work, and a thorough postmortem of the Clooney film to figure out what even happened here. It's gotta be the most anyone has talked about this movie in 9 years, and it was a lot of fun - we hope you enjoy!
(This episode will be on the To The White Sea feed in a couple weeks, but it's a Paid Costly For Me exclusive for now!)
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As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

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Most movies weren't directed by Steven Soderbergh, but few were as notably not directed by Steven Soderbergh as this one: MONEYBALL, the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics' revolutionary sabermetrics-based hiring strategy, was 5 days from shooting when Sony pulled the plug on Soderbergh's version. After a rewrite by Aaron Sorkin and a few cast change-ups, a slicker, Fincher-lite version directed by Bennett Miller made it to theaters, and we're talking about the whole deal. This ep has it all, quite frankly: in-depth script revision analysis, baseball talk, sports politics, and a long conversation about how statistics and "disruption" inform the world. It turns out everything is Moneyball, maybe? Give this one a listen, folks.
As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
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Like a bizarro Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone parlayed two iconic roles into a decades-long career as a movie star and filmmaker, restauranteur, and conservative hero - only he's short and a lousy director. In 2019, Stallone put his crusading 'Nam vet character out to pasture with RAMBO: LAST BLOOD, a half-assed UNFORGIVEN riff that finds Rambo going up against some rightwing fever-dream "Mexican" human traffickers. Beyond featuring almost zero Mexicans, the film also features zero Mexico: it was largely shot in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria's rise as a filmmaking hotspot is thanks in large part to the success of Stallone's Expendables franchise, which allowed production company Millennium Films to turn Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios into a one-stop offshoring shop for Hollywood. Joining us to discuss his experience working on this film (!) and the state of the Bulgarian film industry is filmmaker and co-host of the Cinema Strolls podcast Roman Pessarov! We also take a look at the Rambo series as a whole, being a cinephile outside of the US, and learn that even former Soviet dads are ultimately a lot like other dads.
GREAT ep, check it out!
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https://www.hopp.bio/cinema-strolls
https://kinematograf.bg/mirror-touch-film
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3355231/

Further Viewing:
ROLLING THUNDER (Flynn, 1977)
FIRST BLOOD (Kotcheff, 1982)
RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (Cosmatos, 1985)
RAMBO III (MacDonald, 1988)
RAMBO (Stallone, 2008)
EASTERN PLAYS (Kalev, 2009)
GLORY (Grozeva & Valchanov, 2016)
PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Mendonça Filho, 2023)
THE SECRET AGENT (Mendonça Filho, 2025)

Further Reading:
"The King of the Geezer Teasers" by Joshua Hunt:
https://www.vulture.com/article/randall-emmett-movies.html

Remember when Soderbergh produced the first Oscars ceremony of the covid-19 pandemic? Because he's the CONTAGION guy so he knows about viruses? I mean that's literally why he did it. He's friends with the CDC. Plus I guess he had some other ideas about how to change up the Oscars just to see what happens. Have you ever read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine? It's basically like that. Anyway, we sat through the entire 93rd Academy Awards ceremony again (do NOT do this) to figure out what an awards show looks like, Soderbergh-style. Let's just say it's too bad he already called another project HAYWIRE!!!
Further Reading:
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
"When COVID Almost Canceled the Oscars: An Oral History of a Most Surreal Night" by Scott Feinberg: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/covid-oscars-oral-history-1236526506/
Further Viewing:
CONTAGION (Soderbergh, 2011)
Glenn Close does Da Butt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-RovCOajc8
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