The Sleepless Cinematic Podcast
Emilio, Madeline, and Julian love music, and spend their afternoons and evenings working for and teaching at a music school in midtown Manhattan. But they also really love movies. A lot. So when they're done teaching, they stay up late and discuss a movie, sometimes a few, that they've all agreed to see recently. Opinions, musings, personal stories, and sincere film enthusiasm ensue.
The Sleepless Cinematic Podcast
"How Very" - The Unlikely Persistence of 'Heathers' (1989)
This week, Emilio, Julian, and Madeline break out the croquet mallets and slushies for a discussion of 'Heathers', the 1989 high school dark comedy starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. This is as formative a movie as there can be for Emilio, who can't help but speak with admiration for this cult classic. They dig into the film's satirical approach to the subject matter, its prescience about a future with rampant school violence, the star-making turns for the film's lead actors, and consider several cinematic predecessors and successors with similar themes and stylistic choices. Julian graces us with another impersonation and a few outside-the-box character comparisons. Madeline has lingering questions about Veronica's true nature. Emilio shares why the college party might be the most important scene in the movie. It's a conversation filled with exploration and earnest appreciation for one of the more influential high school movies of the 1980s.
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