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12. S1m0ne
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My guest for this month is Serenity Caldwell, and she’s joined me to discuss the film she chose for me, the 2002 American science-fiction romantic comedy film S1m0ne. You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.
Show notes:
- Andrew Niccol, who directed this film, is also married to its star, Rachel RobertsAl Pacino is an actor, perhaps you’ve heard of himGattaca is also a film by Andrew NiccolAlphaville is the film we discussed on the previous episode of this podcastThe dot-com era was a period where tech companies with no future got lots of money, completely unlike todaySecond Life is a virtual reality world that you can run around inOne of the more notable things about Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is its ridiculously long titleThe first Lord of the Rings film, The Fellowship of the Ring came out in 20013.5" hard drives are still used as internal storage in slow computersThe Mac Pro and PowerMac G4 are both computers from Apple, they are both relatively recent5.25" floppies on the other hand, haven’t been used regularly in a very, very long timeHackers is a phenomenal film about, well, hackingAn SNL parody of this film would probably just be this filmJohn Cassavetes was an actor and director, and a pioneer of American independent filmMichelangelo Antonioni made quite a few masterpieces with a monochromatic color paletteNotting Hill is a 1999 film starting Julia Roberts, written by the guy who wrote Four Weddings and a FuneralRoberto Rossellini was an Italian neorealist directorThe Auteur theory is a vision of cinema where the director is the sole voice of the filmThe Crow is seriously every goth kids dreamThe stars of The Force Awakens, including Daisy Ridley, are newly famous, and dealing with it in interesting waysPeople Magazine is a celebrity “news” periodicalRebecca Romijn is also in this film, in a tiny but fun roleJason Schwartzman is a national treasure, and can do no wrongWe are in the 2016 presidential election cycle, and Donald Trump is a leading candidate. We’ve clearly gone crazyI am huge Catherine Keener fan, but man is she misused hereThis film stars a young Evan Rachel Wood, she’s greatWinona Ryder is probably the best thing about this entire filmSeriously, there are three versions of A Star is Born already, and a fourth is in the works42nd Street is another film about the process of stardomThe Tupac Shakur hologram at Coachella was so creepyJean-Luc Godard directed Alphaville, among many othersNiccol only wrote The Truman Show. It was directed by Peter Weir, who also made Picnic at Hanging Rock and Dead Poets Society, among othersNiccol’s did direct In Time with Justin Timberlake, as well as The Host, and Good Kill, none of which I’ve heard ofWe should do an alternate episode where Siri is our main guest for this filmGo check out The Incomparable, they have some seriously great podcasts
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