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The History of Sound

Tickets Secured Pod Episode 8

Autumn has fallen in New York and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by tumbling down the stairs of the Angelika straight into Oliver Hermanus’s Palme D’Or nominated The History of Sound.

A WWI (?), gay, heart wrenching movie starring mischievous scamp Josh O’Connor and former Phantom of the Opera Paul Mescal. Listen in as they discuss period filmmaking on a budget, the possible litigious wrath of Hanya Yanagihara, and what all this had to do with the Stomp Clap Hey music of Barack Obama’s first term. 

Time Stamped Notes:

0:47 Autumn in New York ….rated the #1 creepiest age gap film

3:00 Oliver Hermanus has had multiple films at Cannes

6:22 The jacket scene in Brokeback Mountain

12:52 The History Of Sound: a short story by Ben Shattuck 

18:22 Fat City: Both a film and a production company with a great logo 

20:00 The cover of the collection of stories is the same as the poster is the same as the cover of A Little Life

23:53 Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor Rationed Jolly Ranchers 

26:00 Paul Mescal can sing!!!

36:54 Malaga island conflict in movie actually happened in 1912

38:35 "Bury Your Gays" literary trope 

43:02 The film began pre production in 2020

44:36 Indiewires Top 100 Movies of the 2020s So Far

48:22 The Tragedy of Stomp Clap Hey 

48:45 Every song in The History of Sound sounds like this 

49:50 Trader Joe’s newsletter and Victorian art 

52:30 Chris Cooper on playing the older version of Paul Mescal

58:22 One of the many tv shows starring Julianne Moore

1:01 Daniel Day-Lewis ends 7-year retirement

1:05:12 The Baby Carriage in the Battleship Potemkin 

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