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“Some ex-old lady had hit town, and they’d run away together. The emergency room had mixed them up with somebody else, the way maternity wards switched babies around, and they were still on some intensive care ward under another name. It was a particular kind of disconnected denial, and Doc figured he’d seen enough by now to recognize it.” In the novel Inherent Vice , that’s how Thomas Pynchon des...

All The President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute two host, Blake Howard joins the political editor of Business Insider Australia...

All The President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute one host Blake Howard is joined by Editor for Vulture and New York Magazine and...

Near the end of Douglas Sirk’s 1954 Technicolor melodrama, Magnificent Obsession , Otto Kruger makes a pretty heavy declaration: “Once you find the way, you'll be bound. It will obsess you. But believe me, it will be a magnificent obsession.” We agree that’s a sentiment that our pal Doc Sportello would be in a nodding, bleary-eyed acquaintance with, drawn inevitably as he is to the flame of be...

“…banana omelets, banana sandwiches, banana casseroles, mashed bananas molded in the shape of a British lion rampant, blended with eggs into batter for French toast, squeezed out a pastry nozzle across the quivering creamy reaches of a banana blancmange... tall cruets of pale banana syrup to pour oozing over banana waffles, a giant glazed crock where diced bananas have been fermenting since the su...

“What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that made them who they were and, drained of themselves, turn into the sort of people they would once have felt sorry for. It was as though while their lives were rich and full they were secretly sick of themselves and couldn’t wait to dispose of their sanity and their health and all...

”A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: Mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.” —Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin Peaks Inherent Vice is a film that meditates not just on the impenetrable nature of mystery, but rather its refle...

“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a...

” Thrilled to have finally wholeheartedly enjoyed a PTA movie so now I can make some male friends.” —Today’s guest, on Phantom Thread Apocalypse is very much in the air with this episode—as Doc and Denis are whipped by newspaper-munching Santa Ana winds while learning more and more about Mickey Wolfmann, our host is surrounded by the same winds nearly 50 years later during a particularly fiery and...

“So when Doc and Denis came in that night, it wasn't just the usual hungry doper thing. It was something else. And with Neptune moving at last out of the Scorpio death-trip and rising into the Sagittarian light of the higher mind, it was bound to be something love-related. And I thought I knew what it was…” There are Inherent Vice fans, and then there’s Kayleigh Donaldson, a writer and critic...

“It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety.” Sprawling yet intimate…digressive yet focused…s...

“…if it’s a quiet night out at the beach and your ex-old lady suddenly out-of-nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land-developer boyfriend, and his wife, and her boyfriend, and a plot to kidnap the billionaire and throw him in a loony-bin…” A mystery in which the mystery isn’t the point. A detective story in which the detective seems incapable of remembering all but the mos...

In the finale of The Last (12 minutes) of the Mohicans , I join the auteur behind this masterwork - Michael Mann. Mr Mann and I talk about existence on the planet Earth, the criticality of Wes Studi's performance for the success of this drama, the singularity of Daniel Day-Lewis as a performer, the twilight zone of the frontier and so much more. This episode was brought to you by Via Vision En...

In the penultimate episode of the series I join - in my opinion - the world's greatest living film critic, The New York Times co-chief film critic, Manohla Dargis. Manohla confesses that she fell in love with Michael Mann's work watching The Last of the Mohicans. And to close, I join co-author of THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS, TV and film critic for Vulture and Editor-at-Large of RogerEbert.com -...

First up, in this two-part episode, I join staff writer Bright Wall/ Dark Room, contributor for Cinephilia & Beyond and host of the upcoming INCREMENT VICE podcast , Travis Woods. Travis opens the episode by hounding Blake about tempting fate with another Michael Mann podcast. Their war party then continues, going deep on Mann's "time is luck" theme resonating all the more powerful...

First up, in this two-part episode, I join Staff Writer at WBUR's The ARTery and a Contributing Writer at North Shore Movies - my favourite Bostonian - Sean Burns. Sean recounts hilarious observations of Boston labourers working with Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of The Crucible , before gushing about the beauty of 90s Madeleine Stowe. To close the episode, I join Jen Johans film critic and scre...

First up, in this two-part episode, I join Edgar Award-winning author of She Rides Shotgun and Love and Other Wounds Writer for Hightown and Dune: The Sisterhood , Jordan Harper. Jordan and I talk through alarming realisations that film is the superior medium to film, and Magua's divine weapon presentation. To close the episode, I join One Heat Minute all-star crew member and co-host of The Si...

First up in this two-part episode, I join film critic on sabbatical with bylines at Roger Ebert dot com and the Metaplex Brendan Hodges. Brendan and I wrestle with Mohicans impact and resonance and talk about how the rug is pulled out from us when we're expecting a Hawkeye versus Magua face-off. To close the episode, I join the author of Fierce Bitches , Peckerwood and curator of noir literatu...

It's an honour to bring you a chat with one of the greatest living cinematographers, the legendary Dante Spintotti (cinematographer of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS & HEAT). In this bombshell laden discussion, Dante and I discuss joining the film four weeks into production; his contribution to the film's aesthetic and constructing the titanic face-off between Magua (Wes Studi) and Chingachg...

In this two-part episode, I'm joined by a writer for KQED and host of The Cooler podcast - Carly Severn. Carly and I discuss that the character of Alice the character that anchored her appreciation of The Last of the Mohicans and that watching Mohicans with a glass of wine at altitude is perhaps the ideal conditions to view the film. To close the episode, I talk to the of The Reel podcast and...

About the episode: Part One: World-renowned film critic and writer/editor for New York Magazine Bilge Ebiri reunite to talk about the fact that The Last of the Mohicans is the Star Wars of colonial history movies. Part Two: Prolific Australian film and T.V critic Cam Williams and I take a wander down nostalgia lane to talk about discovering Mohicans in Australia circa. 1993, before formally apolog...

In this two-part episode, I'm joined by senior film critic for award-winning webzine FilmFreakCentral.net - one of the world's premiere film critics - Walter Chaw. Walter and I discuss that unpacking our reactions to Mohicans is a 'Rosetta Stone' for masculine entertainments of this type, and marvel at Wes Studi's monumental Magua. To close the episode, I talk to the editor at...

In this two-part episode I'm joined by the legendary editor at large for Bright Wall Dark Room, Fran Hoepfner, to discuss loving the score before the movie and pondering Daniel Day Lewis' hair routine. To close the episode I talk to the great recovering journalist and filmmaker, Kris Tapley, about growing up in North Carolina and experiencing stunning wilderness, and pitching Mr Mann two m...

About the episode: Joe Lynch and I, self-professed "Mann-sperts," assemble again to discuss that The Last of the Mohicans is in fact Joe's favourite Michael Mann movie. About the show: THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann’s 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans . The format of the podcast, which slightl...

To say a profound thank you to the amazing followers and supporters of ONE HEAT MINUTE, I'm launching a a twelve episode limited series talking the epic finale of 1992 epic THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Guests include: Kris Tapley, Matt Zoller Seitz, Walter Chaw, Bilge Ebiri, Manohla Dargis, Joe Lynch, Sean Burns, Travis Woods, Brendan Hodges, Carly Severn, Jen Johans, JR Hennessy, Cameron William...