Film Tank goes to the beach! And catches on fire, because this movie is sizzlin’.
Our first episode recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our first episode about a pandemic! Enjoy the welcome distraction from the current state of the world.
Look.
If you had… one take.
And one cinematographer.
To seize all the Oscars you ever wanted.
Would you make a war film?
Or just let it slip?
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.
There’s unusable footage on the hard drive already.
He’s nervous, but Sam Mendes is calm and ready.
Camera’s on, and it’s all so upsetting
No cuts allowed. Whole set’s a mushroom cloud.
The ground’s soakin’ now, actors are chokin’ now
A line was missed, reset, start all over now!
Sam pulls me back to reality, shouts “Deakins you’re my O.G.”
Oh, there goes a lighting rig.
I’m so mad, but not giving up that easy, no
“Reset the shot, we need those Oscar votes!”
It don’t matter, he’s dope, one of the D-P GOATS
He’s Roger fuckin’ Deakins, when he goes back to his mansion, that’s when it’s
Back to the film lab ‘gain for color corrections
Better go capture this next take and hope it gives Mendes erections
You better lose yourself in the shot, ride its flow,
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one take, do not miss your mark on “go!”
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
Film Tank searches for the Holy Grail. We did not find it. We did get one of the 7/11 Big Gulp cups, though.
Nothing says the holidays like adultery, romantic declarations about 9/11, mental institutions, Mariah Carey, fat-shaming, The Troggs, implied indentured servitude, nativity lobsters, and Wisconsin’s well-known affinity for clandestinely operating brothels in well-lit dive bars for for European tourists.
Film Tank presents Love, Actually. Or rather, Richard Curtis does. We just watched it.
Rian Johnson arrives to a galaxy far closer to you than his previous film inhabited in order to take on class wars in the new murder mystery film Knives Out.
Martin Scorsese writes an elegy for gangster films, and the incredibly flawed men who inhabit them. This week’s film: THE IRISHMAN.
Alex, Nick, and returning guest Dan get together to discuss the latest Bong Joon Ho film PARASITE.
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