Episode 90: Nosferatus Part 1--DOSferatus (feat. Emma Gallaher)
Dan, Keith, and returning guest Emma travel as far back in film history as we've ever been to discuss the cinematic attempt at to file the serial numbers off Dracula with Nosferatu! In this first installment, it's heute auf Deutsch time as our hosts break down 1922's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, one of the earliest and most groundbreaking surviving horror movies of the silent era. How does it hold up? Can it hold up, asks Keith? Then we jump to the 70s, as Werner Herzog takes his own spin at the story, but while very much adapting Nosferatu brings back the names from Dracula? Odd choice. What other odd choices hit as the 70s auteur era reimagines the classic ugly-style vampyr? Join us to find out!
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Episode 89: Two Bes or Not Two Bes (feat. Olav Rokne)
People always say "You couldn't make a [insert Mel Brooks classic] today." But were there movies Mel Brooks shouldn't have remade? That's the question facing Dan and Keith, presented by guest Olav Rokne of the Hugo Book Club, as we tackle To Be Or Not To Be. In 1942, Jack Benny starred in a farcical comedy about a theatre troupe rallying to save the Polish resistance from the Nazi occupiers, an occupation that was still very much ongoing during the film's release. Did that make the comedy a tough line to walk? Then, four decades later, Mel Brooks produced and starred in a remake that hit the throttle on the comedy yet still had more insights into the Holocaust, thanks in part to hindsight. Dan, Keith, and Olav break them both down, figure out who did what best, and how much the subject matter affected the laughs. Join us!
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Episode 88: Remaking the Marx Brothers
Dan and Keith head all the way back to the time to that brief overlap between the Golden Age of Hollywood and the dying days of vaudeville with comedy legends the Marx Brothers. In A Night at the Opera, Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx were said to hit a new height by blending their signature antics with a more grounded emotional arc (outsourced to supporting characters), but how do those antics hold up? Are aspects a little too vaudeville for a modern audience? And who would be bold enough to attempt to remake a Marx Brothers movie nearly six decades later, and why have you never heard of it? Should you have heard about it? Well, we're going to tell you about it. Listen in!
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Episode 87: Clashes of Titans
Dan and Keith head to ancient Greece and classic hero Perseus to weigh old-school stop motion against modern CG in the Clashes of the Titans! Back in 1981, legendary animator Ray Harryhausen wrapped a storied career with Clash of the Titans, in which Harry Hamlin's Perseus fights his way through stop-motion monsters to win the girl and claim a throne. Nearly three decades later, an all star cast (and Sam Worthington, fresh off one of the biggest hits in film history so you probably haven't already forgotten him) takes on a new twist on Perseus, with no throne to claim and the wrong girl gets chased, and only a few big name actors get wasted. Who did Perseus better? And who should have quit while they were ahead? Find out!
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Episode 86: Thomas Crown's Affairs
Turns out Rollerball was not the first instance of a Norman Jewison classic being remade by John McTiernan, so Dan and Keith strap in for round two, the Affairs of the Thomases Crown. In 1968, last days of the Hays Code, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway squared off as bored millionaire turned bank robbery mastermind Thomas Crown and the insurance investigator who gets pulled into his orbit while trying to prove he's the thief, in a languid romance featuring some crimes. In 1999, when sexy crime thrillers were fully off the leash, Pierce Brosnan's Thomas Crown orchestrates an art heist just to feel alive, putting him in the path of insurance investigator Rene Russo, for a much sexier game of cat and mouse. Which story of romance and betrayal manages a better theme? Better heists? Fewer crimes by law enforcement? Find out!
Welcome to Recovered, where Dan and Keith dig into all films remade, rebooted, and redone. They say there are no new stories under the sun, and Hollywood's been taking that as an excuse to tell the same stories over and over since the silent era, so we dig into which movies warranted a remake, which remakes improved on the original, and how very often neither of those things are true.
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