Flop House Side Project Plugs Corner

Since Elliott is in California to prep for his wedding/attend ComiCon, and since Dan was sick for literally a week with some sort of death virus he picked up in Delaware, there's no new show this week. However, to tide you over, we present this...

FLOP HOUSE SIDE PROJECT PLUGS CORNER.

Elliott:

The most hyper-verbal of the floppers would like to promote his next film screening at 92Y Tribeca (part of his "Closely Watched Films" series) -- John Ford's The Hurricane.








Out of print on DVD!

Handsome Polynesian native Jon Hall finds himself jailed and trapped in a battle of wills with law and order-obsessed colonial governor Raymond Massey. Desperate to return home, Hall attempts a series of daring but unsuccessful escapes. Just when it seems things can't get any worse - the hurricane hits.

Directed by John Ford, the great master of American filmmaking and with an all-star cast featuring Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor and Academy Award-winner Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is a glossy, romantic, larger-than-life melodrama so rousing it once caused fistfights to break out among Soviet troops. As exciting and entertaining as it is unabashedly corny, the center piece of the film is a frighteningly realistic hurricane that's still impressive over 70 years later.

Elliott will discuss the tragic loss of innocent film escapism, where a South Seas adventure fits into the oeuvre of a director best known for John Wayne westerns and whether a movie is racist if the actor playing the Polynesian hero is only half-Tahitian.

Plus! A second movie unavailable on DVD—cut down to 10 minutes so you get only the best parts!

Director: John Ford. 104 min. 1937. 35mm.

Wed, Aug 4, 2010
8:00pm
92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street
$12.00

Dan McCoy

Mr. Mournful Sigh has less to sigh about this week with the publication of his second humor piece at Slate.com. At this rate he'll be able to quit his day job... whenever Slate stops paying Internet rates and starts paying him screenplay rates. But it's a funny piece, and you should read it. It's about Inception. Which is a movie. You like movies, right? I mean, you listen to a movie podcast. So we just figured... OH WHATEVER.

Also, you might enjoy this video, the latest episode of the other wing of his vast Internet empire, the web series 9 AM Meeting:



Stuart Wellington

The dreamboat of the Flop House crew doesn't have anything in particular to plug, but in the absence of his soothing bass rumble, the ladies might enjoy this glamor photo, shot tastefully from package-level.


















Rrrowl.

Episode #63 - From Paris With Love

What actors possess the sheer athleticism and breezy charm to sell a mismatched-partners action-comedy? According to the producers of From Paris With Love, it's John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. We'll let you discover whether they're correct. Meanwhile, Dan gets oddly formal, Elliott lets us in on some Kelsey Grammar secrets; and Stuart establishes our pecking order, human centipede-style.

0:00 - 0:16 - Introduction and theme

0:17 - 34:17 - Luc Besson-produced films are usually good for some dumb thrills. Remove the thrills, and you've got From Paris With Love.

34:18 - 36:55 - Final judgments

36:56 - 41:30 - Friendly's with benefits

41:31 - 45:19 - NEW CONTEST ALERT

45:20 - 55:03 - The sad bastards recommend

55:04 - 55:54 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes

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The Flop House Loves America (But Hates You)!

You've probably noticed by now that there's no new Flop House, this week. That's because we were busy doing American things like seeing a baseball game, grilling up a storm, and watching Toy Story 3 (damn you Toy Story 3 for making us feel emotions!).

In fact, we've been so busy that we didn't find the time to post this message about no new episode until well after we normally post the new episode. However, rest assured that we have been thinking about all you wonderful listeners (in-between shooting bottle rockets at each other), and we'll have a new episode up at the end of this week.














Brent Spiner hopes you had a better Independence Day than he did.

Elliott Screens "Human Desire!"

Elliott Kalan invites you to the next in his series of movies-he-likes-and-you'll-like-'em-too "Closely Watched Films," next Wednesday, July 7th at 8pm. He'll be showing Fritz Lang's vastly underrated film noir of lust, murder, and train travel Human Desire along with a 10-minute edited version of another tale of temptation and punishment, "Dante's Inferno" starring Spencer Tracey.

Plus, he'll be giving away copies of the "Columbia Pictures: Film Noir Classics II" box set, an all-new collection of five great noir films. Can you afford NOT to come to this screening? Obviously, you cannot.

Closely Watched Films: Human Desire
hosted by Elliott Kalan
Wednesday, July 7th, 8pm
92YTribeca
200 Hudson St.
Manhattan
$12



Train conductor and returning Korean War veteran Glenn Ford thinks he can ease back into the comforting monotony of the railroad. He didn't count on a lethal attraction to pouty, trash-glamorous Gloria Grahame and her hulking brute of a husband (Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford) who's already got blood on his jealous hands. Will Glenn give Gloria up to the police? Can Gloria escape her husband's clutches? Will America's rail commuters notice the acid-tinged love triangle playing out beneath their noses?

Regularly overlooked, Fritz Lang's Human Desire is a sharp, painful wonder of film noir, one of the bleakest and most austere films to come out of Hollywood. Lang and screenwriter Alfred Hayes beautifully reduce Emile Zola's La Bete Humaine to its dark heart and transplant it to the ambiguous world of post-war manhood. A must-see for noir-lovers.

PLUS: 1 1/2 Feature! Human Desire will be accompanied by a "Compressed Classic" 10-minute edit of another not-on-DVD wonder.

Director: Fritz Lang. 91 min. 1954. 35mm.

Episode #62 - Legion

If a 13-year-old boy wrote an early-90's Image comic book and pitched it to Zach Snyder's third unit director, then you might wind up with something like Legion. Meanwhile, Dan tries to make it all about his birthday, Elliott expounds on some Flop House in-jokes, and Stuart offers Wolverine a real Sophie's choice.

0:00 - 0:34 - Introduction and theme
0:35 - 40:51 - God has decided to punish us. Not by sending all of the angels from heaven to wipe out humanity - by making us watch Legion. (And punish Dan in particular by making Stu and Elliott interrupt him more than ever before.)
40:52 - 42:14 - Final judgments
42:15 - 57:47 - The Flop House Movie Mailbag threatens to take over the show.
57:48 - 59:21 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

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Episode #61 - Surrogates

Imagine you were a robot. Now imagine everyone else is a robot. Now imagine Bruce Willis is a robot. Two out of three of those things are pretty hard to imagine, right? Welcome to the world of Surrogates. Meanwhile, Elliott imagines a lost Disney live-action hit, Stuart tells us what his surrogate would look like, and Dan plucks the low-hanging fruit.

0:00 - 0:32 - Introduction and theme
0:33 - 34:34 - Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry, when we take you out in our discussion of Surrogates.
34:35 - 37:20 - Final judgments
38:21 - 45:55 - The Flop House Movie Mailbag.
45:56 - 51:40- The sad bastards recommend.
51:41 - 54:25 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

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Elliott Screens "Million Dollar Legs" With Guest John Oliver!

If you want to take a break from Elliott complaining about bad movies, and see him discuss a good movie (one that you'll get to see as well!) with special guest British person John Oliver of TV's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, then NOW'S YOUR CHANCE. We quote the 92Y Tribeca website:

"W. C. Fields (drunk, blowhard and funniest man in history) stars as the President of Klopstokia, a tiny goat-ridden country where everyone's an Olympic-level athlete and the women are all named Angela. Join American goofball Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) as he discovers the secrets of this strange land and tries to save its beleaguered leader from rebellious cabinet secretaries, spies (sexy and otherwise) and the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

Million Dollar Legs is a raucous, corny, grab-bag of a movie that straddles the unsteady line between old-fashioned wacky comedy and near stream-of-consciousness surrealist cinema. Anyone who thinks the comedy of randomness began with Adult Swim or SNL Digital Shorts

should see it."

Wed, Jun 2, 2010, 8:00 pm

92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street

$12

Buy your tickets now!