Chillpak Hollywood Hour – Year 19 Episode 22

In what might be our longest episode ever, but is certainly an epic installment in any event, your friends in podcasting delve into the potential new relevancy of late night television, the frightening potential merger of Paramount/CBS/Skydance with Warner Bros/Discovery, and the power of TikTok (and other social media platforms) in turning this year’s Superman into a box office hit. Four of the all-time great films (Carl Thodore Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, Luis Bunuel’s 1961 Viridiana, Jean Vigo’s 1934 L’Atalante, and Charles Laughton’s 1955 The Night of the Hunter) receive deep-dive analyses. With pal of the show Jon Lawlor adding support, the influence of Robert Redford’s training as a painter on his work as an actor and filmmaker gets discussed as does Burt Bacharach’s (terrible) music score for (the great) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.