70 Movies We Saw in the 70s

For the first time in the Scott Lucas era of 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s we've got guests!! Ben and Scott welcome Jim and Pat Healy to celebrate and dive deep into Michael Ritchie's 1975 masterpiece, SMILE. In a wide-ranging and super fun conversation we talk Scorsese, commentary tracks, drive-in concerts, Michael Shannon, The Fantastiks, Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Bad News Bears, P...

Scott and Ben celebrate the career of Jessica Walter with this look back at the 1971 directorial debut of Clint Eastwood. Join us for a look at the incredibly influential, Play Misty For Me. Highlights include: • Whose house is it anyway? • Hide the joint! • That’s no way to use a knife • God, you’re dumb • Peggy Seeger? Uh, yikes • Fuck James Cameron • Fuck Fatal Attraction • Bruce Surtees!! • Do...

Scott and Ben wax poetic about one of their favorite filmmakers, George A. Romero, as they celebrate and defend his prescient early masterpiece, THE CRAZIES (1973). List of people, places and things hit by army-issue shrapnel during the proceedings: Zack Snyder, Vincent Canby, Bloody Disgusting, Albert Brooks, James L. Brooks, Prince, Tim Burton, Melissa Manchester, Madonna, Robert Townsend, The g...

On our 30th(!) episode, Ben and Scott go in depth on 1975's insanely influential nostalgic slice-of-life comedy-drama-romance-tragedy: COOLEY HIGH. That's right, Chi-town is in the house, to say nothing of Chicagoland! Groove along as we: • Shoot the shit about Steven Soderbergh • Hit the heights of Harry Hamlin • Mix it up about Michael Schultz • Examine the excess of Eric Monte • Access the axio...

On a special LIFERS-centric crossover episode of 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s, Ben and Scott sing the praises of the 1976 Sam Elliott classic, LIFEGUARD. Slap on some speedos and play along as we: • Gush over Kathleen Quinlan • Gush over Anne Archer • Gush over Sam Elliott • Lament squiggly synths and endless summer montages • Discuss the art of breaking guitars • Share summer camp secrets • Attemp...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep. 28 — OH, GOD! (1977) On a very pious episode of 70 Movies, Scott Lucas and Ben Reiser examine Carl Reiner’s take on everyone’s favorite old testament deity, George Burns. Heretical and devout highlights include: • Bathrooms: the perfect vocal booths and confessionals • Runaway Train: Japanese Christian edition • Cukes: Oiled or dry? • Who didn’t wear it better: Hes...

70 MOVIES WE SAW IN THE 70s: Ep 27 - INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) Scott and Ben talk Philip Kaufman’s brilliant San Francisco-set remake of Don Siegel’s sci-fi classic and in the process take a shot at all the different iterations based on the Jack Finney novel. Podcasting Pod Nerd highlights include: • Ween vs. They Might Be Giants in the battle of drum machine duos • Brooke Adams vs. Ka...

70 MOVIES WE SAW IN THE 70s: Ep 26 RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1975) The show must go on! Join Ben with special guest co-host Scott Lucas of Local H (!!) as they take on the legacy of 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s and the legacy of Jack Starrett’s satanic car-chase spectacular, RACE WITH THE DEVIL!!! Heretical highlights include: • See no evil! Listening to and reading about but not seeing the best movies...

70 MOVIES WE SAW IN THE 70s: Ep 25 “Swishblade Sisters” on ICE CASTLES (1978) Come listen through the ears of love! It’s an actual Family Show this week as Mike and Ben are joined by their actual sisters, Katie Mullaney and Annie Reiser, to glide, leap, pirouette, and dodge raining flowers in honor of ICE CASTLES. The Lynn Holly Johnson-Robby Benson winter sports classic is a favorite of each of o...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep #24 — JEREMY (1973) Fun City Editions kingpin Jonathan Hertzberg joins Mike and Ben to celebrate Vinegar Syndrome’s surprise Black Friday release of the Robby Benson-Glynnis O’Connor teen romance JEREMY (1973)! Gloriously awkward and credibly adolescent highlights include: • Robby Benson, sensitive Tiger Beat pin-up! • Glynnis O’Connor, sensitive Linda Blair-type! •...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: WOODSTOCK (1970) (part two) Mike Lustig, guitar shaman of legendary rock ensemble Ruth Ruth, joins Mike and Ben for one more hour of Discourse and Digressions in regard to the 3 Days of Peace and Music covered by Michael Wadleigh’s epically far-out documentary, WOODSTOCK. Porta potty in the rain induced insights include: • Joe Cocker and Dr, Steve Bruhl: Separated at t...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: WOODSTOCK (1970) Mike Lustig, guitar shaman of legendary rock ensemble Ruth Ruth, joins Mike and Ben for 3 Hours of Discourse and Digressions in regard to the 3 Days of Peace and Music covered by Michael Wadleigh’s epically far-out documentary, WOODSTOCK. Brown-acid-induced insights include: • Woodstock organizer Mike Lang and 1990: Bronx Warriors star Marco de Gregori...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: AUDREY ROSE with Samm Deighan Author, podcaster, and super-cool film historian supreme Samm Deighan joins Mike and Ben for a Halloween-scented spelunk into the reincarnation “thriller” AUDREY ROSE (1977). Topics include: • Excruciating Car Wrecks in Cinema vs. Excruciating Car Wrecks of Cinema! • Samm Deighan’s Take on “The Female Uncanny” vs. Any Chance of Your Mind N...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep 20 — “It’s Alive!” (1974) There’s only one thing wrong with this episode of 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s… IT’S ALIVE!!! Hollywood sound wiz Jeff Kushner joins Mike and Ben to deliver a sprawling, mauling take on Larry Cohen’s killer baby classic, with diversions into ITs two sequels, IT LIVES AGAIN (1978) and IT’S ALIVE 3: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (1987). Among the questi...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep #19 — SILENT RUNNING (1972) Take a deep dive into deep space with Mike, Ben and special guest Scooter McCrae as they explore every nook and cranny of the interstellar bio-dome sci -fi cult classic, SILENT RUNNING! Put on your full length hippie-monk robe and settle into your dune buggy as they: • Sing along with SHATTERDEAD • Shamelessly plug potential sponsors • Tr...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep #18 — ROLLERCOASTER (1977) It’s a screaming Cyclone of a loop-de-loop episode upside-down and backward as Mike and Ben strap in and plunge howling into the mad-bomber-at-the-amusement park epic, ROLLERCOASTER — in the miracle of SENSURROUND! Just try keeping your cotton candy down as we explore: • George Segal’s mastery of the hot comb! • Ben’s .750 batting average...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Episode 17—“Kentucky Fried Movie” The ’70s sketch comedy juggernaut continues as ace of bassists Chad Pilieri joins Mike and Ben to discuss the form’s pants-wettingly hilarious peak, THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (1977). Between gasping laughs over Big Jim Slade, Willer Beer, Cleopatra Schwartz, Feel-A-Round movies, Rick Baker gorilla suit madness, and Catholic High School...

Chad, Ben and Mike conclude their conversation with a run-through of what else was playing around NYC the week Groove Tube opened in theaters. Highlights include a Brando double-bill, Don Imus, Sammy Cahn, and Conrack.

70 Movies We Saw in the 70: Ep #15—“The Groove Tube” (1974) For a yuk-by-yuk (and yuck-by-yuck) breakdown of Ken Shapiro’s pioneering, pants-dampeningly hilarious sketch-comedy classic THE GROOVE TUBE, Mike and Ben are joined by archetypal Brooklynite funnyman, ace of bassists, and former Robin Quivers massage therapist, Chad Pilieri. Beyond Chevy Chase, Koko the Klown, and the Uranus Corporation...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Maxi-Ep—“Om That Bud, Man” with Jim Healy UW Madison film scholar and 70 Movies ombudsman Jim Healy returns to right some straight regarding prior episode gaffes and dive deep—and way, way long—into what else was playing around NYC in November 1976, when our previous ep’s topic, TWO-MINUTE WARNING hit theaters Other tantalizing touchstones include Pauline Kael at the m...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep 13—TWO MINUTE WARNING (1976) Allen Broadman—aka Fischel Bocephus of HAPPYLAND and Monster Guitarist of Traci Lords’ Ex-Lovers—joins Mike and Ben to blast ecstatic rounds of praise upon Larry Peerce’s obscenely underappreciated sniper-in-the-stadium masterpiece, TWO MINUTE WARNING. Astoundingly directed by Peerce and showcasing the likes of Charlton Heston, John Cass...

70 Movies We Saw in the ’70s: Ep 12—“Pretty Maids All in a Row” (1971) It’s a 70 Movies/Crackpot Cinema crossover as Aaron Lee joins Mike and Ben for a sanguine good time with Roger Vadim’s sin-sopped, sick-joke high-school-homicide satire, PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW. In addition to waxing awestruck over PRETTY MAIDS headliners Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, and Telly Savalas, talk also turns to the...

Mike and Ben are back with another "mini" episode to tide you over. Topics include - A day at the Kingsway, Michael Pare vs Joe Dallesandro, Charlize Theron: dullard or dreamy, Anime: yay or nay, Staten Island haunts, Kings Plaza taunts, and much much more!

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep 10—CAPRICORN ONE (1978) Actor, writer, director, (and sibling of a previous guest) PAT HEALY joins us to discuss Peter Hyams’ magnificent space-faking/snake-snarfing/O.J.-elevating conspiracy thriller, CAPRICORN ONE (1978). It’s a free-wheeling, side-splitting conversation with multiple detours into the comedy stylings of Sam Waterstron, the perfect miscasting of Te...

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep 9—THE JERK Pick out a thermos, don’t trust whitey, and come join us for Part 2 of our tribute to the late, great Carl Reiner with our salute to THE JERK. Mike, Ben, and guest Kat Ellinger take on Carl’s Steve Martin masterpiece replete with Opti-Grab eye-crossing, Mexican cat juggling, homicidal can hating, Shithead the dog, and, of course, Iron Balls McGinty. So ju...