Posts tagged Richard Burton
Ep# 84 - William Shakespeare in the 60s
Ep# 84 - William Shakespeare in the 60s

In this episode, Bart & Jenna have a lively debate about what it takes to adapt something as stylized as Shakespeare to a medium that leans so heavily towards realism.

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PodcastGrateful GuysShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Grigoriy Kozintsev, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Nazvanov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Chimes at Midnight, Falstaff, Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Othello, Stuart Burge, Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, The Taming of the Shrew, Franco Zeffirelli, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Michael York, Victor Spinetti, Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Hall, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Ian HolmComment
Ep# 56 - British Spy Films in the 60s
Ep# 56 - British Spy Films in the 60s

Bart & Jenna take a dutch-angled romp through a series of nihilistic, anti-Bond spy films and find there’s plenty of drama to be found in a more realistic portrayal of spy work.

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PodcastGrateful GuysBootleg Bond, Ring of Spies, The Ipcress File, Robert Tronson, Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, Sidney J Furie, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Martin Ritt, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, The Quiller Memorandum, Michael Anderson, George Segal, Senta Berger, Alec Guinness, Harold Pinter, The Deadly Affair, Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret, Max von Sydow, A Dandy in Aspic, Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia FaComment
Ep# 45 - Haskell Wexler in the 60s
Ep# 45 - Haskell Wexler in the 60s

Bart & Jenna dive into the work of Haskell Wexler – one of the true auteur cinematographers who got his start in the 1960s. Featuring a heated debate on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as iconic in wit as it is in visual flare, and Medium Cool – a hybrid film that incorporates almost every trick he learned from the decade.

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PodcastGrateful GuysHaskell Wexler, cinematographer, The Hoodlum Priest, Irvin Kershner, Don Murray, Keir Dullea, Cindi Wood, America America, Elia, Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Linda Marsh, The Best Man, Gore Vidal, Franklin J Schaffner, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ann Sothern, The Bus, documentary, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, In the Heat of the Night, Delbert Mann, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Lee Grant, Medium Cool, Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, The Loved One, Angel Baby, The Thomas Crown Affair, Sandy DennisComment
Ep #24 - Tennessee Williams in the '60s
Ep #24 - Tennessee Williams in the '60s

Bart & Jenna take a look at Tennessee Williams in decline and find far more gems than they expected—from Fugitive Kind to The Night of the Iguana. Also they watch Boom!, also a film indeed. 

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PodcastGrateful GuysTennessee Williams, The Fugitive Kind, Marlon Brando, Sidney Lumet, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Summer and Smoke, Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, Rita Moreno, Peter Glenville, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Sweet Bird of Youth, Richard Brooks, Paul Newman, Shirley Knight, Period of Adjustment, George Roy Hill, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, The Night of the Iguana, John Huston, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, This Property is Condemned, Sydney Pollack, Francis Ford Coppola, Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Boom!, Joseph Losey, Elizabeth Taylor, Noel Coward, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, James Coburn, Lynn Redgrave, Robert HooksComment
Ep #20 - The Legend of Faust in the 60s
Ep #20 - The Legend of Faust in the 60s

How much does Jenna love Goethe’s Faust? Don’t ask me; ask her poodle named Mephistopheles. Bart & Jenna watch several films based on Faust–a theme that was on people’s minds in the ‘60s.

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PodcastGrateful GuysFaust, Goethe, Marlowe, Peter Gorski, Gustaf Grundgens, The Little Shop of Horrors, Roger Corman, Jack Nicholson, Timothy Carey, The World's Greatest Sinner, Seconds, John Frankenheimer, Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Bedazzled, Stanley Donen, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Cook & Moore, Doctor Faustus, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, The Strange Case of Doctor Faust, Gonzalo SuarezComment
Ep #2 - Clint Eastwood in the 60s
Ep #2 - Clint Eastwood in the 60s

Bart and Jenna watch every film Clint Eastwood made in the 1960s, investigating the triumphs and stumbles he took trying to break away from his white-hat television roles in order to build his black-hat film career.

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PodcastGrateful GuysClint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Witches, Hang 'Em High, Ted Post, Vittorio De Sica, italian, Silvana Mangano, Gian Maria Volonte, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Coogan's Bluff, Don Seagal, Where Eagles Dare, Richard Burton, Paint Your Wagon, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, American, Westerns, Ennio MorriconeComment