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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

"This movie shouldn't be compelling! It's about courtrooms and corporate malfeasance, tobacco scientists and news guys — and it's crackling. And it leaves you in a place of intense emotion and feeling for this character that you followed the whole time." 50mphpodcast.com/048-the-best...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

"This film could have been a huge folly, and I think it's, instead, maybe the greatest war film ever made. It's this perfect fusion of Malick's spiritual and kind of ecological interests. I think it's one of the greatest movies of all time." open.spotify.com/episode/0Elj...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

"It's this noir pastiche, basically, that never feels pastiche-y. It never feels like they're playing kind of dress-up. It's completely immersed in the style and the rules and the tropes of that genre and plays by them perfectly, but surprisingly, still." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

"I was absolutely mesmerized by this story of connection and human isolation between two souls brought together at random. And the kind of color-coding of it, that a film could use visuals as a kind of language and in such thematic ways." 50mphpodcast.com/048-the-best...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

"It's this sprawling, Altman-esque kind of thing, but it's so infused with who Linklater is. You really feel like a filmmaker is in there talking to you. And he found something special and true and beautiful about nostalgia to work into this movie." open.spotify.com/episode/0Elj...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

"It has the greatest film editing we've ever seen in a movie, some of the best cinematography we've ever seen in a movie. Whatever one might think of the content, there's just something about the power of the image and the power of montage in that movie." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

"I find this movie so emotional that it just sort of reduces me to this day. It’s about fighting for your dreams and breaking boundaries and becoming more than what you were supposed to be. It blows me away.” open.spotify.com/episode/5L15...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

"The primal quality that made cinema, cinema for the last 100 years is people asking that question, 'What is going to happen next?' That addiction to storytelling is the engine of cinema, and that’s what Quentin Tarantino brought back in this film." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

"KEVIN'S GATE, if you will. But I think he showed everyone on that score. I think it gets too much hate largely because of what it beat at the Oscars. It’s just assured filmmaking and I miss this kind of thing." 50mphpodcast.com/047-the-best...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

“There’s something economical and taut that feels like such a rarity today when I look at this movie. It’s so cool to see all the style that they’re going to apply to THE MATRIX, applied to something this boiled-down.” open.spotify.com/episode/5L15...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

“I thought David Fincher made a remarkable choice. It is suffused with this real horror and kind of shivery dread, but it’s less of a propulsive horror ride than either of the first two. It is a real art film: slow, brooding, quiet.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

"You can view this movie as really pulpy, but I think Ed Harris and David Morse’s performances as these conflicted generals transcend summer silliness and turn this movie into a piece of actual legitimate political cinema." 50mphpodcast.com/046-the-best...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

"This is just a film that encapsulates the bombastic madness and excess of ‘90s action cinema. It’s gleefully disreputable, a movie that is just a big bucket of popcorn flying at you at 100 miles an hour." open.spotify.com/episode/1eK8...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

“It’s interesting that the ‘80s are the classical era in action filmmaking and the ‘90s are postclassical, because my two picks for number 10 are what I would consider two great subversions and analyses of the action genre.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Buckle up as we SPEED to the finish line.

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

Keanu Reeves: "Let's talk about the fire of Jan de Bont. His dedication and his perseverance and his energy and the inventiveness that he brought to the project." Sandra Bullock: "It’s because of Jan that I have, probably, my career." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

"He’s so brave. It’s so much fun to watch what he gets into next, because you know the last thing that he finished is not going to be anything like the next thing that he starts." 50mphpodcast.com/045-keanu-re...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Keanu Reeves on Dennis Hopper: "He was so good. You feel like, when you’re acting with him, it’s almost improvisational. But he’s so on script, and so ridiculously absurd and fantastic. But he was never condescending to the material." open.spotify.com/episode/26xZ...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

"All of the artists and the crafts people who worked on it, there was a warmth to everyone and a sincerity, and I think that in the fun, in the high-concept, the highbrow/lowbrow of the film, that quality emanates from the film." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

"Well, I kind of liked it, but kind of not. It barely has bombs! It’s just a bad guy that’s trying to make a boat run into another boat. It’s barely even like SPEED." Where's the lie? (P.S.: Those are the clay pigeons Alex Shaw shoots. Randomly.) 50mphpodcast.com/044-homestre...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

"Things change. Fashion changes. Movies are of their time. SPEED is of its time. It advanced upon everything, that era of American action movies, and I think it pushed it to the next level. It’s just such a wonderful ride." open.spotify.com/episode/076R...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Hear from SPEED storyboard artist Giacomo Ghiazza in this week’s episode. His work is beautiful.

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

"We did big salads, brown rice. I did Szechuan. I had a Bronco. I had a guy in the back there. He would start throwing waters and snacks to people and we’d just go in and out of all the cars." Yes, we've even tracked down the damn craft service guy... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

50 MPH is at the El Capitan Theatre for tonight’s screening of SPEED!

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

"This is the most disappointing sequel that I can recall. I go back to it every now and then to make sure, and every time I go back to it, it just never works. So, to me, that’s a trilogy from the '80s." 50mphpodcast.com/043-the-most...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

"I was, like, 'This is going to be great.' And it was not great. They didn't feel like the characters anymore. This doesn't really feel like Harry and Lloyd to me. It feels like the actors doing the Saturday Night Live sketch versions of Harry and Lloyd." open.spotify.com/episode/4jqf...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

“The second one felt like a bad rip-off of THE CRAFT. It abandoned what the first one was, because they didn’t even understand what the first one was. [It] was a random thing they bought at Sundance that ended up being a huge hit.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

"For me, it was about the script. I was totally fine with doing a sequel. I loved the experience of working with Sandra. I loved Jan. But I felt a film called 'SPEED' on an ocean liner was kind of counterintuitive. I couldn’t get on the boat." open.spotify.com/episode/4zNF...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

“I was never going to do SPEED 2. I didn’t know I had a contract for SPEED 2. I said, ‘No, that’s ridiculous. This is a one-time thing.’ And then somebody came, ‘But it’s in your contract.’ Clearly, I hadn’t read that!” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

"When I say it moved people's careers, it helped move mine. I would get calls, 'The guy who did SPEED, let's get him.' But I didn't want to be doing all those nuts and bolts. I was able to segue into creative producing." 50mphpodcast.com/041-the-fall...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

"We sold HARD RAIN, then called THE FLOOD, at Paramount. My joke was, 'Yeah, us going back to Paramount after they put SPEED into turnaround? If we said we wanted to make a movie about a dog with fleas, they would have gone, 'Absolutely.''" open.spotify.com/episode/3fc1...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

“TWISTER came along almost accidentally. I kind of felt that a movie like that has to be treated almost in a similar way [to SPEED] visually. Nobody really wanted to make that movie, either, because it was so complicated.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

"You've got all these guys sitting around who have this whole skill set that can't be exercised any longer because we say, 'Ah, we'll just build it digitally.' And we’re still capable of all that stuff! These things are not just ephemeral. You feel them." open.spotify.com/episode/7hle...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

50 MPH is a Webby Honoree in the Podcasts - Television & Film category! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

"I think when you approach an action movie, they are all incredible exercises in economy of storytelling in terms of the dramaturgy of it. I think SPEED is one of these perfect perpetual movement machines." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

"It was a little bit of sugar to help the medicine go down. What better reason than SPEED? That's kind of the Trojan horse to get people to listen to us talk about other important movies in film history." 50mphpodcast.com/039-fans-fee...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

"It’s probably a thousand pieces. It’s a bit over the top. It takes up a lot of my house here and now garage, and my girlfriend is pretty much just getting used to it, I think." -VFX journalist Ian Failes on his epic SPEED collection: instagram.com/youforgotyou... open.spotify.com/episode/2ea1...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

"We wanted to do something inspired by pop culture, inspired by movies, something that would take the best parts of improvisation and the best parts of theater and just make a rocking, rollicking comedy." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

"I watched THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD recently. I watched WHAT HAPPENED WAS..., VANYA ON 42ND STREET, DANGEROUS GAME. All those movies, it's, like, 'What is this thing and where will it lead me next?' And that’s exciting to me." 50mphpodcast.com/038-the-cine...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

"We all kind of bemoan the death of the mid-budget movie, but I think you can begin to see studios trending away from those kinds of movies because of successful years like 1994." open.spotify.com/episode/2RD4...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

"1994 was the biggest year for movies ever [up to that point]. You had two movies gross over $300 million. The top 10 films all grossed $100 million dollars or more. And it was the first year that a studio made $1 billion or more in ticket sales." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

“Zemeckis is one of the rare directors who combines heart and humanity with a great technological expertise. He made a lot of mistakes along the way, but they were mistakes in pursuit of something new and I’ve always respected him for that.” open.spotify.com/episode/3mHp...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

"FORREST GUMP, FOUR WEDDINGS, QUIZ SHOW and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION are all a certain kind of movie. I would call them all relatively mainstream. The movie that we would all say should have won, and I agree, is PULP FICTION. But they weren't ready." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

"It's hard to describe. I thought I was going to float away like a balloon. Also, I'm superstitious. I had a chance to hold an Oscar [previously] and I thought to myself, "I cannot pick up this Oscar because I will damn myself to hell and I won't get it." open.spotify.com/episode/4CBp...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

"We had no preconceived notion that it was going to win. We thought it was a good action film, but as far as Academy-wise, it didn’t fit the mold." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

"We made this movie that was kind of The Little Engine That Could, and it was a series of happy accidents. I can’t tell you that we had this grand vision. We just were trying to get our movie made. And I think that's true a lot of the times. Nobody knows." 50mphpodcast.com/035-the-movi...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

"Almost immediately, the audience embraced the movie. It was so fantastic. You cannot even imagine that the audience responds in the same way as you always would hope they would do, but loud. The studio was so excited." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Variety’s opening weekend fanfare.

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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

"Tom Sherak, right there in the screening, said, 'We're moving this movie into the teeth of summer. This is a big hit movie. We’re going to sell this like it's DIE HARD.' So, they knew. It was one of the most exciting screenings I've ever been at." open.spotify.com/episode/34FV...

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