Jul 30, 2018
When he sees someone rich both his thumbs start to itch and he has to pick a pocket or two. The wonderful Morgan Hanner-Morfesis joins us to discuss Robert Bresson's transcendental meditation on love and loss, PICKPOCKET. Drinking game: take a shot every time we mention Paul Schrader.
This episode's film selection PICKPOCKET is available on FilmStruck, and they have a 14-day trial if you wanna stay on theme and snatch this one for free.
On our next episode we'll be celebrating The Summer of Sandra with all of our favorite Sandra Bullock films, like THE NET, GRAVITY, and DEMOLITION MAN (as well as some of her stinkers like WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING). If you act quick HBO has PRACTICAL MAGIC and THE BLIND SIDE streaming. Write into us at betterthanspeed@gmail.com and let us know your favorite Sandra moments and we'll read them during the next episode!
We reference a whole shitload of research material in this PICKPOCKET episode, so if you want to follow us down the rabbit hole, here ya go:
-Paul Schrader's book,
Transcendental Style in Film
-Paul Schrader’s essay on film
noir
-Paul Schrader’s glowing
review of PICKPOCKET
-The Tarkovsky diagram
-The Letterboxd list of slow cinema
-And finally, Dana Carvey's turtle costume
