Speaking Cinema
Welcome back to the Speaking Cinema podcast, under new management!
Frequent guests Jon Bewley and Adam Seccafico have taken the reigns from Andrew Schwarz, and welcome friend to the pod Anthony Zaccone who will join the team as co-host and producer.
Speaking Cinema explores thoughtful and entertaining conversations and audio essays about the meaning we can garner from specific movies and the ideas that cinema provokes. Listen to co-hosts and filmmakers Jon Bewley, Adam Seccafico, and Anthony Zaccone dive deeper than any other podcast with interesting takes, life questions, philosophy, culture, and the art and appreciation of cinema.
Broadcast from New York City, New Jersey, and New Hampshire.
Speaking Cinema
4.10 - A Very Merry Speaking Cinema Holiday Special - With Friends!
Ho! Ho! Ho! And a metric ton of egg nog for everyone! To end the 4th Season of Speaking Cinema, we're giving the audience something special; three movies for the price of one. Its a Christmas extravaganza...with our usual blend of wit, commentary and toliet humor.
First up, Anthony and his friend Cody tackle perhaps the most beloved Christmas classic of all time, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Topics include Jimmy Stewart's PTSD, small town America in the 1940s and (of course) late stage capitalism!
Next up, the Turner-Seccafico family talk about Ron Howard's adaptation of the Grinch. Adam and Tasha go into a number of topics including Tasha's relationship to the film, Jim Carey being awesome and how much Cindy Lou Who loves The Grinch's shenanigans.
Finally, the king hath returned, as Jon discusses the culturally omnipresent film The Nightmare Before Christmas with found of the podcast, Andrew Schwarz. Listen as Jon and Andrew grapple with why the film resonates with culture at large, discuss what goes into a great musical and learn just how hard it was to animate Oogie-Boogie.
Prepare to have you stocking stuffed this holiday season because Speaking Cinema is going so hard...that one of our hosts might succumb to alcohol poisoning. Happy Holidays everyone.
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Correction on The Nightmare Before Christmas - Jon and Andrew refer to the film as an independent production, however it was produced by Skellington Productions, which was a joint venture between Tim Burton and Henry Selick, that received financial support from The Walt Disney Corporation via Touchstone Pictures, which was a pseudonym production label for films geared towards darker subject matter and more mature audiences.
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