You're Missing Out: A National Film Registry Podcast

"Big as the men who faced this challenge! Bold as the women who loved them!"   For the final film of Season 2, we circle our wagons and wind down, with our producer Kyle Lampar coming on mic to talk about Howard Hawks' celebrated Western, Red River. We'll talk John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, subtext, sunsets, and special belt buckles.   Next week: Our Season Finale Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter Inst...

"Wonderful news...about wonderful people!...in a wonderful picture! It's a wonderful love! It's a wonderful laugh!"   Culture critic and Queen of Christmas Cinema Emily St. James joins us to talk about what is arguably the ultimate Christmas movie, Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life . We'll talk the film's inherent sadness, its overstated "failure", and... Bicentennial Man ? Next week: Red River...

" War Is Swell ...when the Marx Brothers are in it. They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve!"   Comedian Mark Levy joins the show to talk all things Marx, as we look at their most celebrated Paramount comedy, Duck Soup. We'll talk political satire, Ruritanian romance, and of course, the Wu-Tang Clan.   Next week: It's A Wonderful Life w/ Emily St. James Hosts: Mic...

"Mabel is not crazy, she's unusual. She's not crazy, so don't say she's crazy."   Youtuber and John Cassavetes aficionado Robert Bellissimo joins the show to talk about the aformentioned director's most celebrated independent film, A Woman Under the Influence. We talk Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, and what's Mike's take on Cassavetes.   Next week: Duck Soup w/ Mark Levy Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter...

"You are not a child anymore. You soon will be a goddam man."   Photographer and founder of Black Women Directors Danielle A. Scruggs joins us to tackle Charles Burnett's long locked-away neo-realist masterpiece Killer of Sheep. We'll tackle the film's impact, its influence, and the many, many layers hidden beneath its seemingly "slice of life" structure.   Next week: A Woman Under the Influence w...

"The Best American Movie Of The Year!"   Critic and author Richard Newby stops by to dissect arguably the murkiest, most unrelenting film in Martin Scorsese's oeuvre, Raging Bull. We'll step into the ring with the complex tale of Jake LaMotta, touching on boxing, film editing, and what the film's cryptic ending quote means to us. Rent Raging Bull here Next week: Killer of Sheep w/ Danielle Scruggs...

“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.”   Dr. Sabina Stent joins us to discuss one of the most influential surrealist films, and the radical creative figures who both made and championed it, in particular Maya Deren. We'll talk horror imagery, avant garde art, and Beavis and Butthead. Watch Meshes of the Afternoon here for free Watch Un Chien Andalou (referenced heavi...

"Beautiful! Stirring! Dramatic!"   Just who was Pare Lorentz? What does it mean to be "FDR's Filmmaker"? And how did government film with a covertly conservationist bent end up alongside The Godfather and Raging Bull in the second class of Registry inductees?   Our guest, Dr. Robert J. Snyder, joins us to answer those questions and more. We'll talk Lorentz's career, what it's like writing an essay...

"From the Secrets of WOMAN'S LOVE-LIFE comes this Heart-stopping story of DEVOTION! SACRIFICE! SHAME! "   Comet Over Hollywood creator Jessica Pickens joins the show to discuss a stirring drama about the loss of love, the passage of time, and whether we ever really know who we are. We'll talk Walter Huston, William Wyler, Ruth Chatterton, and David Niven in full stuffy scumbag mode. Rent Dodsworth...

"You Could Watch it for Hours and Still Want More!!"   The musical theatre duo of Hass & Swanton return to the show to talk about the most famous movie musical starring the famous musical star Maurice Chevalier (which most musical fans probably still haven't heard of). We'll talk Richard Rogers, Chevalier, Rouben Mamoulian, and Pepe Le Pew. Next week: Dodsworth w/ Jessica Pickens ( rent it here )...

"Garbo Laughs!"   Journalist Bella Zaydenberg (Yahoo!) joins us to talk about the riotous romantic comedy about a Russian envoy. We'll talk Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Russian culture, and whether Mike is ever actually funny. Rent Ninotchka here Next week: Love Me Tonight w/ Kyle Reid Hass & Jeremy Swanton Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter Letterboxd   Tom Lorenzo Twitter Letterboxd   Producer: Kyle...

"Where every sound creates a picture"   Jordan Beck ( Sgt. Stubby ) returns to the show, to once again examine a grand, ambitious animated feature from Walt Disney, Fantasia (1940)! We discuss classical music, experimental animation, the origins of heavy metal imagery, and Tom quite literally flips a chair!   Next week: Ninotchka w/ Bella Zaydenberg ( rent it here ) Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter L...

We're off for Fourth of July weekend, so we pulled an episode out of the ol' YMO 1.0 archives: VyceVictus' first ever appearance on the old version of our podcast, discussing a sure-to-be National Film Registry inductee, 1996's Solo!   We'll be back next week with regular episodes, starting with Walt Disney's Fantasia! Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter Instagram Letterboxd   Tom Lorenzo Twitter Instag...

"A remarkable, passionate work. A reminder that there cannot be neutrals anywhere."   Documentarian Amy Nicholson (Pickle, Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride) joins us to break down all the ways this remarkable, Oscar-winning documentary broke new ground for the medium. From the struggles of the miners in the titular county to the trials of Barbara Kopple attempting to capture it all, hear how...

"A staid professor. A wild lady. A tame leopard. Put them all together , they spell SMOTHER! It's a downpour of uproar!"   Ryan Luis Rodriguez (Reels of Justice, The Coolness Chronicles) joins us for some madcap antics, discussing one of the great screwball comedies of the era, Bringing Up Baby! We'll talk Grant, Hepburn, Hawks, and of course, the titular leopard. Rent Bringing Up Baby here Next w...

"A Happy-Go Lucky Hitch-Hiker on the Highway to happiness! He wanted to see the world . . . but wound up in Lover's Lane!"   Reels of Justice co-host Maynard Bangs decides to slum it here on You're Missing Out to see how the other half lives. Along the way, there's conversations about Preston Sturges, Veronica Lake, and Bruce Wayne's second alter-ego, Matchstick Malone! Rent Sullivan's Travels her...

"Teenage terror torn from today's headlines!"   Ben Hosley of the Blank Check podcast, and self-described "scum-bum expert", joins the show to talk about the juvenile delinquent film that started them all, and redefined cool for a generation, Rebel Without A Cause. We'll talk porch movies, James Dean, leather jackets, drag racing, Nicholas Ray, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, and grenades. Yes, that's ri...

"The Human Side of the War as Seen Through the Eyes of Youth!"   Journalist and Action for Everyone host VyceVictus returns to the show to discuss the landmark WWI film All Quiet on the Western Front. We talk about the film's stirring depictions of the physical and mental tolls of combat, its Oscar success on the precipice of the Hayes code, and how this film about the War to End All Wars also ant...

"They sold their souls for..."   We assemble a trio (Mike, Tom, and returning guest David Bluvband) take a journey beyond the border in search of a very special treasure: Answers. Answers to: Did Warner Bros. know how to market this movie? Was it snubbed for Best Picture? And who was the original novel's mysterious author, B. Traven? Rent The Treasure of the Sierra Madre here Next week : All Quiet...

"The Screamingly Funny Story of the College "Boob," Who Was Always the "Goat" but Did not Know It, but Who Finally Realized His Predicament and Came Through a Real hero!"   Screen Drafts host Clay Keller joins the show to talk about the "third genius" Harold Lloyd, the once-king of silent comedy now in the shadow of Keaton and Chaplin, in his most popular film of his day, The Freshman . We'll talk...

"The landmark film that took us on the road to the Kennedy White House"   Friend of the show, and You're Missing Out 's political correspondent, Amanda Rush returns to talk about Robert Drew's landmark work of cinema verite documentary, Primary . We'll talk Kennedy, primaries, and...Muncher from Ghostbusters: Afterlife ? Rent Primary here Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter Instagram Letterboxd   Tom Lo...

"Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!"   George Lucas Talk Show producer Patrick Cotnoir returns to the show to make good on his promise to talk How Green Was My Valley , the John Ford drama now best remembered as "the film that beat Citizen Kane for Best Picture". We'll talk about how it's actually so much more, plus...   "Deflect... defea...

"An offer you can't refuse"   In the 50 years since its landmark release, what more is there to say about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather? It turns out, a lot! Filmmaker Patrick Willems joins the show to talk Robert Evans, wine, his good buddy Francis, and...Ernest P. Worrell? Rent The Godfather here Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter Instagram Letterboxd   Tom Lorenzo Twitter Instagram Letterboxd...

"It Electrified Dad! It Terrified Mother! It Will Amuse You!"   This episode, Action for Everyone and Adkins Undisputed host Mike Scott joins Mike and Tom in the conductor's car to take a trip through the history of action cinema from this crucial starting point, 1903's The Great Train Robbery. Watch The Great Train Robbery here (for free!) Hosts: Michael Natale Twitter Instagram Letterboxd   Tom...

"A gay, glad, glorious romance...with scenes of lavish splendor...and lovely girls enough to send you home a nervous wreck!" Step Up writer, and co-host of Podcast Like It's 1999, Kenny Neibart joins the show to talk about one of the most iconic dance films in cinema. Put on your top hat, tie up your white tie, brush of your tails, and listen as we talk Astair & Rogers, iconic costumes, and the ev...