Pod Insights The Rewatchables ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey About this episode The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey really want to see a Plaster of that Paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight before rewatching Martin Scorsese’s 1985 neo-noir black comedy film, ‘After Hours’ starring Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette.
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0:37 Sean Fennessey? That is right.
0:38 Bill Simmons? If you had been left out of New York Month, I think, I think people would have felt like we were feuding.
0:43 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I gotta tell you.
0:44 Bill Simmons? I'm already feuding with Kendrick Perkins, apparently. So I don't know if I could have added you to the list.
0:48 Sean Fennessey? Um, I would be in great company if I could join Perk in the feud, but I'm very grateful to be invited here. It did cross my mind when you, I'm usually like pretty chill about like, Bill's gonna do whatever he wants to do with Rewatchables. I love being on the show whenever, but when you announced New York Month.
1:03 Bill Simmons? But it was, we announced it two films in. It was like kind of belatedly became New York Month.
1:08 Sean Fennessey? You know what it was? It wasn't even, am I gonna be on an episode? It was, is a New Yorker gonna be on an episode? That's, I was like, is John G. Strachey gonna be here?
1:17 Bill Simmons? Did we not have a New Yorker or anything?
1:19 Sean Fennessey? No, it's Van, CR.
1:22 Bill Simmons? I guess Kyle Brand lives there.
1:23 Sean Fennessey? Kyle, Kyle Brand lived there. Chris did live there for a time, but native New Yorker. We don't have as many at The Ringer as you would think.
1:30 Bill Simmons? I know, but that's intentional because I have final say in a lot of this stuff.
1:34 Sean Fennessey? I'm happy to be here regardless.
1:35 Bill Simmons? Rewatchables, you can find on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel, and you can find it as a video podcast on Spotify. We're videotaping this right now. The last episode of New York City Month, NYC Month, New York Month? What did, what did we settle on for a title?
1:48 Sean Fennessey? Big Apple Broadcasting. Let's go.
1:50 Bill Simmons? There you go. We had to do this one. Martin Scorsese, after hours, right after this.
1:58 Speaker 02 That's him. There's never been a comedy quite like After Hours. Raves People Magazine. A racy raucous ride through the night. Bound to leave audiences reeling with laughter. Newsweek says, what a pleasure it is to watch Scorsese cook. He's masterful. His images sparkle. And the Village Voice calls it funny, original, and audacious. After Hours.
2:21 Speaker 03 I'm glad you came.
2:23 Speaker 02 Rated R.
2:24 Speaker 04 Now at select theaters. Coming soon to additional locations.
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2:42 Sean Fennessey? I do. I had an apple and a breakfast bar this morning.
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3:14 Bill Simmons? All right. After Hours, cult classic.
3:18 Sean Fennessey? Mm-hmm.
3:18 Bill Simmons? When they talk about the cult classics in whatever the movies that get listed, and it could be five, 10, 15, 20, this one will always get thrown into the paragraph.
3:26 Sean Fennessey? It's usually pretty high on the list.
3:27 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
3:28 Sean Fennessey? There's a variety of reasons for that.
3:30 Bill Simmons? Is it a New York movie or a Scorsese movie? If you had to pick one?
3:34 Sean Fennessey? I'll just spoil right now that this is in my top five favorite Scorsese movies of all time. So for me, it's a Scorsese movie. But part of that is because the New York that's in this movie is not a New York I ever experienced. I'm too young to have been in the dirtbag central that was Howard Street in 1985. So I don't even, it doesn't even look as much. It looks like a place that still looks that way, but it doesn't feel that way anymore. So it's more of a time capsule. And for me, it's Scorsese style all over the place.
4:02 Bill Simmons? It's so funny watching this. And just seeing all the seeds of Goodfellas and all these little edits and camera shots.
4:09 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
4:10 Bill Simmons? You're like, oh, he saved that for later, for five years after. So I am barely old enough to remember this version of New York City.
4:17 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
4:17 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
4:18 Sean Fennessey? Did you go to Manhattan when you were a kid?
4:20 Bill Simmons? Yeah, so when I was in high school, and then right after, my buddy Jim Grady, his mom got a place in New York City.
4:26 Sean Fennessey? Hmm.
4:27 Bill Simmons? And we started, if she wasn't there, we started going, yeah, we're gonna stay in your place. And you can imagine what ensued. We would go out. So it was like, probably late eighties, early nineties.
4:37 Sean Fennessey? Okay. You mixing it up at the Berlin Club? What were you doing?
4:39 Bill Simmons? We were just kinda going out and trying to get into places with fake IDs. But there was a couple nights that we had, that the reason this movie is so great is everybody has these New York City nights. But in that, there was one night, we ended up in the Meat District, and I honestly thought I was gonna die. It was like three in the morning, we're at some party, we got lost leaving, we didn't know where we were going. And it was exactly like the New York in this movie, where it's just, it's empty, it's scary. You don't know how to get anywhere, there's no cabs, and you're just like, it becomes escape from New York.
5:11 Sean Fennessey? It's so funny too, because me packing that area that you're talking about in particular is one of those parts of the city now that is defined by hamburgers costing $57 in restaurants? And not by, am I about to be knifed? Am I going to encounter an incredible sculptress who will show me, you know, the ways of downtown New York? Like, the energies are just so changed. It's so, the city is very corporate now, it's very kind of polished and shiny.
5:36 Bill Simmons? Well, I mean, think of Soho.
5:38 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's where it is.
5:40 Bill Simmons? Soho in this movie versus the Soho now, it's not, there's no relation.
5:44 Sean Fennessey? It's like a corporate epicenter now, and in this movie, it's just, it's a freewheeling thing. And that's a great part of the idea of the movie, which is it's a movie about somebody from the square world that Soho now looks like, but is more uptown. And what happens when an uptown square guy, a yuppie guy, enters the world of the artist, the world of the drug user, the world of the rebel, the world of the untamed? And what happens when he gets inside of that space? And what does it do to him? What does it make, how does it make him feel? So, such a cool idea for a movie and a way to kind of platform this very particular time in the city's history.
6:19 Bill Simmons? There's only two cities in America that when you landed them and you're trying to navigate them, just seemed completely overwhelming. The other one is Los Angeles.
6:28 Sean Fennessey? For the opposite reason, though.
6:29 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
6:30 Sean Fennessey? Where like you don't know, in LA you don't-
6:32 Bill Simmons? You don't know where stuff begins and ends.
6:33 Sean Fennessey? You can't walk anywhere.
6:34 Bill Simmons? No.
6:34 Sean Fennessey? You know, at least you get this grid-like experience in New York where it's like all the streets are numbered.
6:39 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
6:39 Sean Fennessey? You're moving up and down or east to west and you can always kind of feel like-
6:43 Bill Simmons? There's water both ways.
6:44 Sean Fennessey? Yes. You know, when you've hit the end of any side?
6:47 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
6:47 Sean Fennessey? It's a little different if you're in Brooklyn or the Bronx or Queens. It's way more confusing. In LA, I've got my sister in town and we're just driving around the city and it's like, there's no way to make any logical sense of it experientially. At least here, and this is part of my picking nits too, so I'll wait for that. But New York is like very conquerable.
7:03 Bill Simmons? True.
7:04 Sean Fennessey? You know, like-
7:04 Bill Simmons? Once you, once you understand it, but there's so many different pockets.
7:08 Sean Fennessey? True.
7:08 Bill Simmons? I didn't really fully understand that until the late 90s. I just didn't, I didn't understand where anything was in relation to anything else. Like people were like, oh, they, they, uh, they're from Brooklyn. I'm like, I don't know where that is. I don't know where that is compared to this. And eventually in your head, the map kind of settles. We also had no nav systems until the 2000s.
7:27 Sean Fennessey? So the thing that I did for years when I lived in the city was, anytime I'd be on the subway, I'd just look at the subway map. And I would just study the subway map like it was a test. And I would try to learn it as best I can. And then something really interesting happened to me in 2004, which is that the city experienced an MTA strike. So there were no subway trains running at all in New York City. So everyone walked to work.
7:47 Bill Simmons? Wow.
7:48 Sean Fennessey? So I walked down every day, I want to say it was 3rd Avenue, and I walked with-
7:53 Bill Simmons? Was this when you were working at Vivid Video?
7:55 Sean Fennessey? It was, it was pre-vivid.
7:56 Bill Simmons? Okay.
7:56 Sean Fennessey? Um, it was before I unsheathed the weapons. Uh, no, it was, I think I was working at Complex magazine and I walked, we lived on 96th and 3rd.
8:05 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
8:06 Sean Fennessey? And I walked every day to 42nd and 6th.
8:08 Bill Simmons? Oh.
8:09 Sean Fennessey? For like, whatever, however long that strike ended, like six weeks, maybe?
8:12 Bill Simmons? It took a 45 minute walk.
8:13 Sean Fennessey? It was a long walk.
8:13 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
8:14 Sean Fennessey? But when you're out walking and there's no other way to get around, then you're like, let's walk downtown and go to a restaurant. Let's walk over the bridge and see what we can get, what trouble we can get into in Brooklyn. And then that just becomes like a little bit more comfortable where you know, on foot where you're headed at all times. Whereas Paul Hackett in this movie- He doesn't even come downtown. He, as soon as he gets downtown, he's lost. Which is an interesting thing about the city is like, if you're afraid of it.
8:39 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
8:39 Sean Fennessey? It can eat you up. And that's kind of what happens to him in the movie.
8:42 Bill Simmons? Yeah, I never got a handle on it. I started going back a lot for ESPN in the 2000s. And the, the ho, the corporate hotels would always be in different spots that we stayed at. So sometimes it would be like Trump Plaza and Central Park. Other times it was way down toward, you know, Soho or Battery Park.
8:57 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
8:57 Bill Simmons? And then eventually the city like fell into place of my head, but it's.
9:01 Sean Fennessey? When you were an adult, though, would you have nights where you guys would go out to dinner after work? And then have a couple of drinks and then find yourself wandering until four o'clock in the morning?
9:08 Bill Simmons? Yeah, where you're just in a cab and it's like, we should go this place, this place where my buddy works here. And you're just, but the cabs, I always appreciated the cabs thing versus what it's like out here. Cause the, the difference in LA since even like before I moved here. Like if you watch swingers and everybody's in their cars and they have like multiple scenes where the five guys are driving in their cars. Now like Uber, Lyft LA is a little different, I think.
9:33 Sean Fennessey? It is, that shift happened exactly when I moved here to work for you. It was almost exactly in 2012 when you could feel Uber really like arriving in the city. And so the designated driver is an idea kind of went out the window. Like last night we went out and I didn't have a drop of alcohol. Cause I was driving around the city, wherever we went, every spot that we dropped, stopped into. So it's a, it's a big change. In New York, you can get ripped shit at 8pm and be out for another eight hours. Like it's just a totally different experience.
10:01 Bill Simmons? Well, so let's talk the New York piece first and then we'll talk about Scorsese. Cause so Griffin Dunn was talking about, um, who's the star of the movie? And he's talking about, this is, there's an oral history about the, about the movie that's good. But he says, "The events of after hours were not dissimilar from my life at that time. I would make immediate connections with total strangers and end up in places that it might not have been a good idea to be in. That's why young people came to New York to have experiences that were terrifying, exhilarating, sexy and dangerous." So that's like seventies, first half of the eighties, New York. That we love, it's been very romanticized. It's been in a lot of good TV shows and movies and.
10:42 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, in the time of Sidney Lumet, you know, the Serpico, New York, the hard bitten city. It's a little dangerous, but a little exciting.
10:49 Bill Simmons? Yeah, so there's been like the dangerous genre movies. There's been like the super fun New York's alive kind of movies. But you also have Saturday lives there and you have this crazy disco scene and punk music and just everything's happening. And it just seems like a really exciting place. But then you could have nights like this where you meet, you meet a girl and you end up and you don't know where you are. And it just feels like you've entered this alternate universe, which is one of the best things about this movie. It's just fucking weird the entire time.
11:17 Sean Fennessey? It's a, it's a, it's a dark side of the yellow brick road kind of a movie. And literally he's walking down brick roads in this neighborhood. And it is like very much a Wizard of Oz kind of homage. And it's like if Dorothy instead walked into the black and white darkness rather than the color that she walks into when she enters Oz. That's the idea you're supposed to have. Seems like he's gonna have one of the most fun nights of his life. He's picked up a hot girl in the diner.
11:39 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
11:39 Sean Fennessey? And he's gonna have fun and he's gonna explore the downtown scene. He's gonna meet a hot sculptor and he's gonna experience a certain kind of culture that's a little far away from him. And then it goes bad.
11:49 Bill Simmons? And then it goes worse.
11:50 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
11:51 Bill Simmons? So the cocainey screwball paranoia era, can we call it?
11:54 Sean Fennessey? Sure.
11:55 Bill Simmons? After hours into the night, desperately seeking Susan, something wild, there's something.
12:00 Sean Fennessey? Those first three are all 1985.
12:02 Bill Simmons? Right.
12:02 Sean Fennessey? Which is so interesting that like you can feel all the creative people are all kind of feeling the same way about what it's like to go out at that stage of their lives, which is so interesting.
12:11 Bill Simmons? Well, it's either people who are on cocaine or people who had just quit cocaine. Or people who had been around a lot of cocaine. There's like an energy to these movies that I think would just be weird now.
12:21 Sean Fennessey? I totally agree. And these people were entrusted with millions of dollars to make these movies.
12:26 Bill Simmons? Right.
12:27 Sean Fennessey? Like Scorsese, it seems like he's in the aftermath of his craziest era.
12:31 Bill Simmons? Talk about that, yeah.
12:32 Sean Fennessey? You know, like he's not at the peak of the mania of him using when he's making this movie. It feels like he's channeling.
12:38 Bill Simmons? But he lived it for years.
12:41 Sean Fennessey? Yes, yes.
12:42 Bill Simmons? And then it seems like some of the people that are in this movie are in the middle of it. Like Griffin Dunn's pretty open about it.
12:47 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
12:47 Bill Simmons? That John Heard, who plays the bartender, and they were like, it's perfect casting because in real life, this guy was just taking it down all over town.
12:55 Sean Fennessey? Well, think about just the production of the movie is they just had to be up all night, every night.
12:59 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
13:00 Sean Fennessey? The movie was only shot at night.
13:00 Bill Simmons? Five to five.
13:01 Sean Fennessey? So you gotta be up five to five. What's the best way to stay up in those off hours, you know?
13:04 Bill Simmons? I can't even imagine.
13:07 Bill Simmons? It was also a polarizing movie. Pauline Kael hated it.
13:10 Sean Fennessey? Shocking.
13:12 Bill Simmons? I think she just lost her way in the mid eighties.
13:14 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
13:15 Bill Simmons? That's the recurring theme.
13:16 Sean Fennessey? She got cynical, she got bitter.
13:17 Bill Simmons? She really did.
13:18 Sean Fennessey? The pieces are still really so well-written, but she doesn't really have her finger on the pulse anymore.
13:23 Bill Simmons? The critics did not like it, which I thought was fascinating, but there's a Scorsese piece of this, though. We've just got to do the deep dive.
13:32 Sean Fennessey? I reread a part of Martin Scorsese, A Journey, this week, which-
13:36 Bill Simmons? I reread the Biskin book for all the Scorsese parts.
13:39 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
13:39 Bill Simmons? I read a couple other things. Yeah, I mean, it's all documented, it's all out there.
13:43 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
13:45 Bill Simmons? Basically breaks down from cocaine in 1978.
13:48 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
13:49 Bill Simmons? After he's done New York, New York, which bombs.
13:51 Sean Fennessey? Mm-hmm.
13:52 Bill Simmons? And is gonna die. His body's just full of blood and poison. And they're basically like, we don't know how you're not dead yet, but you have to cut all this cold turkey.
14:01 Sean Fennessey? Famously asthmatic, already not, you know?
14:03 Bill Simmons? He's just dying.
14:04 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
14:04 Bill Simmons? All his friends are like, you're gonna die, what are you doing? And then ends up making Raging Bull with De Niro. Which he feels like is a massive failure because it doesn't do well, and then it doesn't win the best film Oscar.
14:15 Sean Fennessey? Correct.
14:16 Bill Simmons? And yet it wasn't a massive failure because then, as the years pass, everyone thinks it's one of the best movies of the eighties. Plus, De Niro wins Best Actor.
14:23 Sean Fennessey? It was acclaimed at the time, too, you know?
14:25 Bill Simmons? But he, for some reason, felt like he failed and-
14:28 Sean Fennessey? It was not a huge box office success. It kind of had like a real kind of middling reception, but it was, I mean, it was nominated for eight Oscars, Raging Bull.
14:37 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
14:38 Sean Fennessey? And it remains a masterpiece, hard movie to watch, but a masterpiece.
14:41 Bill Simmons? I don't really fully understand it, but his cohorts, which we've talked about before on this- Lucas is now a mega star. Spielberg is about to be a mega star again with ET and Raiders and everything Poltergeist, everything that's happened with him.
14:56 Sean Fennessey? Well, think about, we did Close Encounters and Star Wars recently, both in 77, and his movie in 77 is New York, New York, famous bomb. And then he's kind of spiraling there, so.
15:05 Bill Simmons? It's those two, it's De Palma, it's a whole bunch of people, but two of the guys are ascending. And then him and Coppola, Coppola has One From The Heart in 82.
15:14 Sean Fennessey? Similar disaster.
15:15 Bill Simmons? And bankrupts his studio.
15:16 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
15:17 Bill Simmons? Scorsese feels like he can't buy a break. He's trying to get Last Temptation of Christ done, nobody will do it. And.
15:24 Sean Fennessey? Well, it's a, it's a great story about what happens with it. Because it's, it's about to happen. I mean, he, it's this, this famous novel written about the sort of humanity of Christ, which is like, what if Christ was actually a person who was susceptible to lust, human desire, a, a, a decision to maybe go against the path of God that is, that we all understand. We just accept that Christ is this like perfectly moral figure. And this novel kind of reckons with this idea and Scorsese, almost all of his movies are about faith and redemption. He's obsessed, he's a Catholic. And he's like a dyed-in-the-wool Catholic, but he's like, I'm a flawed person, we're all flawed people. It's his dream to make a movie about Christ as a flawed person and explore what that means. And he's trying to get it made at Paramount. He's trying to shoot it in Israel, in the Holy Land.
16:09 Bill Simmons? And Paramount's like, what about aliens?
16:11 Sean Fennessey? Literally, they're like, why would we spend $10 million? And there starts to be a letter writing campaign from one of the Catholic leagues. And they get 500 letters a day. Do not let Martin Scorsese make a movie about Christ, and not this novel for sure.
16:23 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
16:23 Sean Fennessey? And they buckle and they cancel the movie. He was gonna make the movie. He had a budget, he had a cast. I think at the time it was Aiden Quinn was going to play Jesus Christ.
16:34 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
16:35 Sean Fennessey? Um, De Niro did not want to play Christ.
16:37 Bill Simmons? Smart.
16:38 Sean Fennessey? I'm doing this because we'll never do The Last Temptation of Christ on the Rewatchables, I assume.
16:42 Bill Simmons? I really like the soundtrack.
16:43 Sean Fennessey? It is a good soundtrack.
16:44 Bill Simmons? It's, I was really cranking it in the late eighties. Peter Gabriel?
16:48 Sean Fennessey? It is Peter Gabriel.
16:48 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
16:49 Sean Fennessey? So Aiden Quinn is Christ, Harvey Keitel is Judas.
16:53 Bill Simmons? Do you want to do Last Temptation of Christ?
16:55 Sean Fennessey? I think Stan is Punches pilot.
16:56 Bill Simmons? Yeah, it's fucking, I don't even think they showed on TV anymore.
17:00 Sean Fennessey? But the version that eventually got made, which is like seven or eight years later, is Willem Dafoe plays Christ.
17:06 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
17:07 Sean Fennessey? But the version that they were gonna do is, it's just, it's a massive, it is one of the massive sliding doors in movie history because him not making it leads to him making this movie and a couple of other movies that are really interesting. And I will posit, this is not even my hot take, but I will posit, I don't know if Goodfellas happens.
17:26 Bill Simmons? I think.
17:26 Sean Fennessey? If this movie doesn't happen.
17:28 Bill Simmons? You're a hundred percent right.
17:29 Sean Fennessey? So it's kind of good that it got, that movie got canceled, even though it was so heartbreaking for him and he needed to retreat so bad. He felt like he was as low as he'd ever been after they canceled.
17:36 Bill Simmons? Well, and we didn't mention King of Comedy, which bombs.
17:39 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
17:39 Bill Simmons? And he does that as a favorite in Zedaro.
17:41 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
17:42 Bill Simmons? That movie bombs. He can't get Last Temptation of Christ done. And he just feels like, I've blown my shot. I'm going to be the promising director that people talk about 40 years from now, and I fucked it up. And.
17:55 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, which is interesting too, because he had already made Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Raging Bull. Like, he'd already done enough to be.
18:02 Bill Simmons? I know, but his friends are making billion dollar movies.
18:04 Sean Fennessey? You're right. You're right.
18:05 Bill Simmons? So Biskin said he met with Fox about King of Comedy and why they didn't support it.
18:12 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
18:13 Bill Simmons? This is Scorsese's quote. "They explained that it didn't pay for them to support King of Comedy any further at the box office, so after a month they're gonna pull it. The same thing happened that year at Fox with Robert Altman's health. They didn't even release the film. Altman didn't do another studio picture for like 10 years. I realized at that point, nobody cared. And that was when I really understood that the 70s were over for me, that the directors, the ones with the personal voices, had lost. The studios got the power back. Today you look at an ad, you don't even know who directed a picture." We were talking about this with the Star Wars pod. This is kind of the culmination for him realizing like, we're fucked. Coppola went the other way and he's like, we don't need the studios. I'll pay for everything myself. And it's like, yeah, you just went bankrupt.
18:57 Bill Simmons? This is why we need the studios, because they're taking a bunch of different bets. Some work, some don't.
19:01 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
19:01 Bill Simmons? If you're just like doing a studio where you're making all the bets yourself, good luck.
19:06 Sean Fennessey? Coppola is still convinced, though, that this is the right way. This is how he did Megalopolis. And there are some guys who think to be independent is better. And then there are some people who do the devil's bargain of working with the big company so that they can get the thing that they want. But Scorsese was right. This was the era of Die Hard and Lethal Weapon.
19:22 Bill Simmons? It was coming, yeah.
19:23 Sean Fennessey? And Simpson and Bruckheimer. And that's where everything was flash dance. Like, that's where Hollywood was going. And the Hollywood that he had so much success in.
19:30 Bill Simmons? I wonder what made him, because when he's making this, that's all just starting. It's like, that's 85 is First Blood.
19:36 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm.
19:37 Bill Simmons? Two.
19:37 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
19:38 Bill Simmons? Rambo first, whatever it was called.
19:39 Sean Fennessey? The Rambo advert, yeah.
19:40 Bill Simmons? Beverly Hills Cop hits.
19:41 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm.
19:42 Bill Simmons? Um, all the Schwarzenegger stuff starting.
19:44 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
19:45 Bill Simmons? Back to the Future, then they sign up two sequels for that. And something's shifting and he's seeing it and he's like, this is bad for me.
19:51 Sean Fennessey? There's a flip side to that coin that we don't talk about as much on the show, which is that-
19:55 Bill Simmons? That I love all those movies?
19:56 Sean Fennessey? Well, those movies are good. It's not that. It's that there is still a kind of, um, autourist Hollywood, but it's very respectable and stuffy. Like, the movie that won Best Picture in 1985 is Out of Africa.
20:08 Bill Simmons? Right.
20:08 Sean Fennessey? So there is still a version of movie making that is important and culturally meaningful, quote unquote, but it's not cool and it's not exciting and audacious the way that the new Hollywood guys were. Like, the movies that are nominated that year, Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Pritzy's Honor by John Huston, and Witness. Peter Weir's a great filmmaker. John Huston's a great filmmaker. Those are not like the most audacious movies of their careers. So that crew of guys have either become blockbuster filmmakers, or they're starting to kind of get left behind a little bit.
20:39 Bill Simmons? Yeah, yeah.
20:39 Sean Fennessey? And so that's, I'm sure, what he was feeling.
20:41 Bill Simmons? It felt like, it felt like this in the time. And then even as we look back, when we do all these older ones, like that first half of the eighties especially, there was a certain, like, Oscars had a type.
20:52 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm.
20:53 Bill Simmons? And it was like, oh, it's big, lavish, and there's a cool trailer.
20:56 Sean Fennessey? True story, yeah.
20:56 Bill Simmons? It's based on something, there's a really cool theme song, and that's just kind of what worked.
21:02 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
21:02 Bill Simmons? And the stuff Scorsese was doing, I think, for, when he lost Raging Bull to Ordinary People, when he lost the best film, and he was like devastated.
21:12 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm.
21:14 Bill Simmons? But like, we did Ordinary People, that movie was really good.
21:17 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
21:17 Bill Simmons? I don't, I, I see it.
21:19 Sean Fennessey? It's better than Out of Africa.
21:20 Bill Simmons? Yeah, there's been some other Oscar ones where we're like, oh my god, wow, how did that happen? I don't know if that's one of those for me.
21:26 Sean Fennessey? We just talked about this with Gandhi too. What did Gandhi beat famously? Something else that was just like so clearly the superior film in our opinion. It was ET.
21:34 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
21:35 Sean Fennessey? Um, so, you know, there's, there's.
21:37 Bill Simmons? But that's, the Oscars had a type. And then as, as we kind of moved into the nineties, that flipped. But, so anyway, he needs a job.
21:45 Sean Fennessey? Mm-hmm.
21:47 Bill Simmons? He said, I thought it'd be interesting to see if I could go back and do something in a very fast way, all style and exercise completely in style. And I think this is why I love this movie. And it's so weird. And I have a complicated relationship with this movie because I don't really enjoy it that much as an experience because it's so stressful.
22:05 Sean Fennessey? It's very stressful.
22:06 Bill Simmons? But it's so artfully done and it's so weird that it's just kind of riveting. But it's a weird one. It's not like one of those where you'd be like, say to your wife, like, let's, Friday night, let's bang out after hours. This is just in this weird area over here.
22:22 Sean Fennessey? It's funny that you say that because my wife does love this movie. This is one of her favorites because it's not that violent. So like, obviously I watch a lot of Scorsese movies at home and most of his movies are defined by the relationship to violence. This movie has some violence, but it's kind of jokey. It's really just about a guy who keeps getting stuck and screwed.
22:39 Bill Simmons? It just keeps getting worse, yeah.
22:40 Sean Fennessey? More stressed and more stressed as time goes by. So it, for me, it is an all-time personal favorite. I'm really just stoked that we're even talking about it right now because, you know, I have, I have, I have some anxiety, you know? I've, I've certainly felt like this is a good representation of a certain kind of a guy. Who wants to have fun, but maybe doesn't realize what it means to try to have fun. Like, it's a very representative movie. It's also like, it's loaded with ideas. Like, the whole movie is like a castration examination of every time a guy gets close to a woman.
23:14 Bill Simmons? Something bad happened.
23:15 Sean Fennessey? Wants to sleep with her, but it's like a little bit dangerous and you know, the sort of fear and desire that goes into being a man at this time in history and the movie is populated by all these beautiful women and the sense of like a guy who doesn't know how to really engage with any of them, even though he thinks he does. So for all those reasons, it's a lot of fun, but the style thing that you pointed out is the number one reason, because this is him making a big shift and he kind of has stayed in this style of movie ever since. He'll have the occasional, like he made Kundo and he made The Last Temptation of Christ. He makes some movies that are silenced. His religious movies are slower paced and more painterly, I would say. Age of Innocence is, but this movie cuts fast, the camera moves fast.
23:59 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
23:59 Sean Fennessey? It's rock and roll energy. And you said, like, the way that Goodfellas looks and feels, it starts right here and it starts because of Michael Ballhaus.
24:08 Bill Simmons? Close ups of a clock.
24:09 Sean Fennessey? Yes. You know, there's that famous shot in this movie where the camera like whips in on Marcy right before she walks out the door and winks at Griffin Dunn and you're like, that's Goodfellas.
24:19 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
24:19 Sean Fennessey? It's not, nobody has a gun in their hand, but it's that feeling of like-
24:22 Bill Simmons? Or a key going in the door, close up of the key, boom.
24:25 Sean Fennessey? And that film is-
24:25 Bill Simmons? Jump cut him walking up the stairs.
24:27 Sean Fennessey? Yes, exactly.
24:28 Bill Simmons? There's so many tricks.
24:29 Sean Fennessey? So that energy is so, it's just so fun to watch a movie that feels like that.
24:32 Bill Simmons? I think it's, he's one of the only directors, you know, we always talked about with writers, if you could cover the byline of a piece you're writing and know who the writer is, then that writer, you know, the writer's doing something right. Be like, oh, I know who that is.
24:47 Sean Fennessey? You were one of those guys.
24:48 Bill Simmons? Oh, thank you. Tyler Parker's like that.
24:51 Sean Fennessey? Hundred percent.
24:52 Bill Simmons? Cover the bylines, like that's Tyler Parker.
24:53 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
24:54 Bill Simmons? Scorsese is definitely-
24:55 Sean Fennessey? It is the highest compliment I think you can pay a writer.
24:57 Bill Simmons? It's a good one. Scorsese definitely, there's some sort of style that he has that you can, you can, you can be like, I bet if somebody just blindfolded or he had amnesia and you came out of it and you're like, guess what director? He's one of the few that I feel like I would know who the director is.
25:12 Sean Fennessey? You know what's cool with him too? He's also one who if you, if you blindfolded yourself and just listened to the music in a movie.
25:21 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
25:22 Sean Fennessey? You'd be able to know right away, because this is the same thing as Goodfellas 2 where it's like- Heavy score, 50s needle drops, punk rock.
25:30 Bill Simmons? No Rolling Stones somehow.
25:31 Sean Fennessey? No Rolling Stones, that's true.
25:33 Bill Simmons? Can't believe he didn't work in like Dead Flowers or just some sort of random.
25:37 Sean Fennessey? What was, what was the Stones records like in the 80s? I'm not as up on the Stones in the 80s.
25:41 Bill Simmons? It was that we could have, he could have dipped right into Tattoo You and done.
25:44 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
25:45 Bill Simmons? Something from that.
25:46 Sean Fennessey? Kind of like fake disco stuff that they were doing. Yeah, that, that could have worked.
25:50 Bill Simmons? Well, Scorsese loved it. And he called this movie kind of a miracle, a rejuvenation. Every time I put my eye to the viewfinder, I was happy. I could sit down, look at the set with detachment. It was a great feeling. I regained the freedom I felt when I was starting out. It was a real gift. It made me think like, and we, we talked about Coogler, I remember with somebody on Ringer Movies, about how I just wish he made more movies, which is like, kind of like a shitty thing to say in some ways. Where it's like, I wish you did your job more, you know?
26:22 Sean Fennessey? You just wish you had more of his movies to watch.
26:24 Bill Simmons? I just wish sometimes great directors would just be like, fuck it. I'm just gonna do this movie for four months. Like Soderbergh's really good at this. So just be like, fuck it, I'm gonna make a movie. I'm just gonna bang one out. Be like, I like the script, it'll take three months, we'll see how it goes.
26:38 Sean Fennessey? It's, some of it depends on how you work though. Like Soderbergh shoots and edits his movies. He holds the camera when he makes the movie. He is doing everything. And so for him, he cuts the movie together while he's making it, cause it's all in his head.
26:53 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
26:54 Sean Fennessey? He's an alien. You know what I mean? Like, so he, of course, he's gonna end his career with like 95 movies. It's amazing. And he's constantly working. Coogler is trying to make hundred million dollar movies and they take years to put together. And you gotta make sure that all the stars are available at the right time. You gotta make sure all the, your crew is ready to do it.
27:12 Bill Simmons? But I just wish I, I could see Ryan Coogler's After Hours, where he's just like, yeah, it's just everything takes place in one day and I did some weird shit.
27:19 Sean Fennessey? Some, but you can only make movies like After Hours when you're low.
27:22 Bill Simmons? True.
27:22 Sean Fennessey? You know, or you could, you could decide to make a small movie, but you know, he's, he felt like he was at the bottom. You know, Coogler's at the top. He's been at the top for 10 years, so.
27:30 Bill Simmons? Stan Kubrick is another one.
27:33 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, he took his time. Stan, huh?
27:35 Bill Simmons? Stan, yeah, my guy Stan.
27:37 Sean Fennessey? Stan, okay.
27:37 Bill Simmons? Stan Kubrick.
27:38 Sean Fennessey? Interesting.
27:38 Bill Simmons? I call him Stan.
27:40 Sean Fennessey? He was a New Yorker.
27:41 Bill Simmons? Just throw a buddy cop, New York buddy cop movie, just randomly.
27:44 Sean Fennessey? I'll tell you, he would direct the hell out of a buddy cop.
27:46 Bill Simmons? Die Hard 3.
27:47 Sean Fennessey? Would watch it, would watch it.
27:49 Bill Simmons? It would have been great.
27:49 Sean Fennessey? I wouldn't take McTiernan away from Die Hard 3, but I would watch Stan Kubrick's Die Hard 4. I'm not gonna forget Stan Kubrick.
27:56 Bill Simmons? Our guy Stan.
27:59 Sean Fennessey? You think you'd get along with Kubrick?
28:02 Sean Fennessey? Think you'd be boys?
28:03 Bill Simmons? I think it's, I think what he did to Cruz and Kidman, where he was just clearly trying to break them emotionally was really the most interesting thing he did.
28:13 Sean Fennessey? You related to that?
28:14 Bill Simmons? No, just that he was like, this marriage is so fascinating to me, I'm just gonna make them do scene after scene after scene and see what can happen here.
28:23 Sean Fennessey? He had a filmmaking style.
28:24 Bill Simmons? Should we do the re-eyes wide shut and do it live?
28:27 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
28:27 Bill Simmons? In the weirdest, in London?
28:28 Sean Fennessey? Just me and you? Just looking at each other the whole time?
28:34 Bill Simmons? So, Griffin Dunn said,
28:39 Bill Simmons? I think it's good, yeah. I love the way, he's talking about the movie, I love the way he goes through the night and finally comes out on the other side. It's like a sleepless night, a night of horrifying dreams. You're floating through another world with no idea of when or how it would resolve. I wonder if that's what attracted Scorsese to this too? That this is like, almost like a fever nightmare.
29:01 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
29:01 Bill Simmons? And God only knows what kind of baggage he had from 76, 77, 78.
29:06 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I'm sure he's channeling that.
29:08 Bill Simmons? In a sinkhole
29:09 Sean Fennessey? Uh huh.
29:10 Bill Simmons? of a day.
29:11 Sean Fennessey? Yep. I think he's also probably interested in surreal art. And most of his art up until this point is pretty realistic, you know, pretty dramatically realistic. You know, Taxi Driver does kind of feel like a nightmare at times, but Raging Bull, shot in black and white, almost feels like documentary. It's somebody put a camera in Jake LaMotta's family's house and you're like, oh my God, I'm not supposed to be seeing this. So this is tremendously different with the way the camera's moving like we're talking about, the way that things keep escalating and getting worse and worse. And this feeling of just like, it's almost like, you know, the feeling when like a bug is crawling on you?
29:44 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
29:44 Sean Fennessey? And you're itching and you're like, God, get that off of me. Like, the movie kind of feels like that sometimes. And he's just well suited to it and maybe he is just channeling those coki nights, you know? Those, so many nights of being completely consumed by baby coke daddy.
29:59 Bill Simmons? Plus like they, nobody had any idea that how bad coke was for you.
30:03 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
30:04 Bill Simmons? Like, hey, is this bad for us? I don't know. Jenny's in the bathroom with her nose bleeding, but I think she'll be okay. After this movie. Goodfellas is five years later.
30:15 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
30:15 Bill Simmons? He also does Last Temptation of Christ. Kind of writes the ship, but then Goodfellas is when.
30:21 Sean Fennessey? Well, you're forgetting two things that I think are pretty critical. One is the color of money. And the color of money filmmaking style.
30:27 Bill Simmons? Right after.
30:27 Sean Fennessey? And that same thing, that camera is flying across the pool table. And I think it's because he's working with Michael Ballhaus. So Michael Ballhaus is German cinematographer.
30:35 Bill Simmons? CR's guy.
30:36 Sean Fennessey? CR's guy, they start working together.
30:38 Bill Simmons? Ballhaus hive.
30:38 Sean Fennessey? They, they make seven movies together. All bangers. And he's the one who with film and schoolmakers editing style, they build this kind of new version of the Scorsese movie. So you got color of money. And then the second thing that you got that I really liked that is a little underrated is his segment of New York stories. Which is called Life Lessons. It's Nick Nolte and Roseanne Arquette. Nick Nolte plays a painter and Roseanne Arquette plays like his assistant and former lover. If people haven't seen it, it's a weird movie. It's a trilogy. It's like a omnibus movie. Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and Scorsese make a part of those movies. Scorsese's is by far the best to me. But those movies.
31:17 Bill Simmons? Coppola's is pretty rough.
31:19 Sean Fennessey? It stars his daughter, Sophia.
31:20 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
31:21 Sean Fennessey? And she's very young.
31:22 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
31:23 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I wouldn't say Woody's is very good either, to be honest, but I love Life, Life Lessons. And so this little pocket of time is what takes us to Goodfellas, Cape Fear Casino. Like those movies wouldn't happen without these movies.
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32:39 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
32:39 Bill Simmons? But Rosanne Arquette and Linda Fiorentino in the same movie. I don't even know really how to describe this as a kid who was alive in 1985, two of the greats. Fiorentino.
32:50 Sean Fennessey? This is being recorded.
32:52 Bill Simmons? Yeah, I got it. I was 16.
32:56 Sean Fennessey? Rosanne Arquette is
33:01 Sean Fennessey? I, otherworldly in this movie.
33:03 Bill Simmons? She in 1985 is in Silverado After Hours and desperately seeking Susan.
33:08 Sean Fennessey? I wrote this down too, yeah. Cooking.
33:10 Bill Simmons? And if somebody at age 16 had come up to me and said, you could make out with her, but you have to kill three people. I would have been like, which three?
33:21 Sean Fennessey? A close friend or like an acquaintance?
33:22 Bill Simmons? Pick the three.
33:24 Sean Fennessey? The president?
33:25 Bill Simmons? You can spend 24 hours with her, you have to kill 10 people.
33:28 Sean Fennessey? Would you have killed Ronald Reagan for Rosanne Arquette? Answer the question.
33:33 Bill Simmons? And she was also in Executioner's Song with Tommy Lee Jones, which is where I first saw her, which is a TV movie.
33:38 Sean Fennessey? So she was so beautiful and so idiosyncratically.
33:42 Bill Simmons? There's really nobody like her.
33:43 Sean Fennessey? And her, her personality, her speaking voice, everything about her is just intoxicating in this movie.
33:49 Bill Simmons? I do this sometimes on the rewatchables where I always get mad that somebody didn't, wasn't in more good stuff. She's like a first ballot for me. For, I just don't understand it and the parts must have been so bad. And I think there was this mentality in the eighties and nineties where, oh, somebody had their moment for a year. Let's move on to the next actress. And you just kind of got left behind. It's so funny that Tarantino.
34:11 Sean Fennessey? That's what I was gonna say, but he did, that's why he did this.
34:13 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
34:14 Sean Fennessey? Because he was like, why is no one using her?
34:15 Bill Simmons? Yeah, she was like, she's right there.
34:17 Sean Fennessey? I know, I know.
34:18 Bill Simmons? Is that the one with all the shit on her face? That's my wife.
34:21 Sean Fennessey? Trudy, yeah.
34:23 Bill Simmons? But yes, it just, I don't understand it.
34:26 Sean Fennessey? I don't know. Stop bothering me. That's my favorite Eric Stoltz too.
34:29 Bill Simmons? Every moment she's in the movie, you're like, can she be in the movie more?
34:32 Sean Fennessey? I know. I, it's a, I don't know if it's a what if, and she did cool stuff, like she's in Cronenberg's Crash. She was in, um, like Buffalo 66. She was in some cool movies later on, but she, she, she could have been, should have been just a big mainstream movie star. Obviously her whole family is in the movies.
34:49 Bill Simmons? I was gonna do this later. I'll do it now. Like, I don't know, Meg Ryan, some of the parts Meg Ryan had from basically the late eighties on.
34:57 Sean Fennessey? People might scoff.
34:58 Bill Simmons? She could have had half of those.
34:59 Sean Fennessey? People might scoff at that, but if you watch her in Desperately Seeking Susan, that's a Meg Ryan part. You know what I mean? Like she, it's the same kind of a character where you're like with her, she's the empathetic, like regular girl.
35:09 Bill Simmons? She could have been in When Harry Met Sally, easily.
35:11 Sean Fennessey? I totally agree. It's a weird one.
35:13 Bill Simmons? I feel like she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.
35:16 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, definitely.
35:17 Bill Simmons? You pick a movie from 86 to like 93, and I feel like she could have been the lead.
35:22 Sean Fennessey? Dude, I'm so into you.
35:23 Bill Simmons? I just loved her.
35:23 Sean Fennessey? And I also, this is a big reason why I have such a big relationship to this movie is because I'm like, this is the Rosanna Arquette movie. This is the movie that like got her the most right out of any movie. You know, she's good in like Eight Million Ways to Die and stuff like that, but this is the one where she, you can feel Scorsese idealizing that feeling when you meet somebody and you're like, whoa, who is she?
35:45 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
35:46 Sean Fennessey? I want to be closer to her.
35:47 Bill Simmons? Here's who she was. Toto was like, let's write Rosanna about Rosanna Arquette. Because she walked into the room and we fucking had to write a song about it. It was that spectacular.
35:57 Sean Fennessey? As captured in the Yacht Rock documentary, yes.
35:58 Bill Simmons? I don't understand, if some people are just obviously movie stars, I don't understand how some of them don't end up in better movies.
36:05 Sean Fennessey? I don't know.
36:06 Bill Simmons? Fiorentino is a little more easy to understand because, uh, this is CR who couldn't be here because he's away.
36:12 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
36:12 Bill Simmons? We didn't, we didn't intentionally not have CR in this. He's just not here.
36:16 Sean Fennessey? No, I said, stay home, Chris. I got this.
36:19 Bill Simmons? We were maybe a little worried about the Fiorentino part because, uh, I don't, we might have had to hose him down. Uh, I asked him if he had one, one thing for CR to say in the pod.
36:29 Sean Fennessey? Can I guess what he said?
36:30 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
36:31 Sean Fennessey? I want her to step on my neck.
36:33 Bill Simmons? No. Now, he said, uh, can you please say that Linda Fiorentino is a CR, throw your life away Hall of Famer?
36:41 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, especially in this movie.
36:43 Bill Simmons? I probably would have said that anyway, but fine.
36:45 Sean Fennessey? Rip in heaters, making plaster of Paris, Edvard Munch.
36:49 Bill Simmons? First time you say she's in a bra for no reason.
36:51 Sean Fennessey? And she's just taking her top off in front of strangers. Interesting movie.
36:55 Bill Simmons? She's in this and Vision Quest in the same year. Vision Quest, which is, we already did that on the rewatchables.
37:02 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
37:03 Bill Simmons? But the premise of a high school kid and this hot lady is staying in the upstairs room and there's no way she'd have sex with him. He's only 17 and the entire, the whole movie hinges on it. And then guess what?
37:14 Sean Fennessey? She, that's the wrestling movie?
37:16 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
37:17 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
37:17 Bill Simmons? Matt Modine.
37:18 Sean Fennessey? What's the cycling movie that Matt Modine was in? Or am I thinking of Kevin Bacon? What's his cycling?
37:23 Bill Simmons? Quicksilver.
37:24 Sean Fennessey? Quicksilver. Okay. All right.
37:25 Bill Simmons? Yeah. He was in a sailing movie, Wind with Jennifer Grey, Matthew Modine.
37:29 Sean Fennessey? Haven't, haven't seen it.
37:30 Bill Simmons? Yeah. Tubey.
37:31 Sean Fennessey? Got it.
37:32 Bill Simmons? So Linda Fiorentino.
37:36 Bill Simmons? Red hot.
37:36 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
37:37 Bill Simmons? And then just stops acting for like two years, doesn't like it. And then just kind of bounces back and forth.
37:42 Sean Fennessey? Yeah. That's what I'm gonna do with potting. I'm taking two years off.
37:45 Bill Simmons? Where's Sean? He's just gone for two years.
37:46 Sean Fennessey? I'm coming back with my last seduction.
37:48 Bill Simmons? But she, she has the ability to come in just red hot for like two scenes. And a couple of directors realized that some other ones didn't. She got kind of typecast as the femme fatale.
38:00 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
38:00 Bill Simmons? There was, I think, a bunch of other stuff she could have done that they never really unlocked.
38:04 Sean Fennessey? Real mixed reports on how fun she was to work with over the years.
38:07 Bill Simmons? It seems like, yeah, that's, she's definitely, when they talk about the difficult actress group, she gets thrown in there. Who knows? But, uh, when she's on the screen, not looking away.
38:18 Sean Fennessey? She's a presence.
38:19 Bill Simmons? What's she up to?
38:20 Sean Fennessey? She is a presence. Uh, this is an apartment that features Linda Fiorentino and Rosanna Arquette living together at this time.
38:27 Bill Simmons? Unbelievable.
38:28 Sean Fennessey? It's a lot.
38:28 Bill Simmons? CR never would have been seen again.
38:29 Sean Fennessey? No.
38:30 Bill Simmons? He just would have been in plaster.
38:31 Sean Fennessey? No. He would have been horsed. He would have been in all leather.
38:34 Bill Simmons? And then Teri Garr. Yeah, CR is worse. Can we Photoshop that?
38:39 Sean Fennessey? Yes, that should be the image that we share this episode with.
38:42 Bill Simmons? Terry Gar also in a heater in the mid eighties because this is when she's one of Letterman's best guests. She's an established, uh, famous actress from Tootsie and Close Encounters.
38:51 Sean Fennessey? She's hilarious in this movie.
38:52 Bill Simmons? Stuff.
38:53 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
38:53 Bill Simmons? And this is like just Terry Gar being Terry Gar.
38:56 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm.
38:58 Bill Simmons? An amazing, amazing Letterman guest for the first four years.
39:01 Sean Fennessey? Why was she so good?
39:02 Bill Simmons? She just had like such a good chemistry with him. He did a whole-
39:05 Sean Fennessey? They were flirty together.
39:06 Bill Simmons? Super flirty.
39:07 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
39:08 Bill Simmons? He did, the famous episode she did was, he did a whole show in his office.
39:14 Bill Simmons? They just filmed it in the office and it was like this experimental show in the office. And at the end of it, he convinced her to take a shower in her ba- in his bathroom. And she came out with all these towels on and she's like, I can't believe you're making me do this. And then she went in, they cut, they made it so they covered everything. You couldn't see anything. And, uh, he just basically dared her to take a shower and she did it. And it's just like fucking crazy.
39:36 Sean Fennessey? Think that would happen today?
39:37 Bill Simmons? It would not.
39:38 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
39:38 Bill Simmons? It would not. But she was like ready, she would go on and she'd be ready for anything with Letterman. And she would go back and forth and you're always like, why don't these two end up together?
39:46 Sean Fennessey? It's funny because she is so good as the woman who like grabs on a little too quick.
39:52 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
39:53 Sean Fennessey? She's like a little too interested.
39:54 Bill Simmons? Little clingy.
39:55 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, and you're like, and he's got this other girl in the back of his head and he's kind of been thrown off the scent. But she's very good at that clingy thing.
40:01 Bill Simmons? And then Catherine O'Hara.
40:02 Sean Fennessey? Who I think, I'm just gonna say it. I think looks smoking hot in this movie.
40:06 Bill Simmons? She looks great.
40:06 Sean Fennessey? Um, and we don't think of her that way.
40:08 Bill Simmons? She looks like Jennifer Aniston.
40:09 Sean Fennessey? She, you know, it's like, that's the mom from Home Alone, Schitt's Creek. She's gone on to be this like beloved character actress, even Beetlejuice, like lots and lots of parts. In this movie as the Mr. Softy lady, chef's kiss. I love it.
40:21 Bill Simmons? Yeah, it taps into something that I don't really think she did in any other movie.
40:27 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, and you know, she had been-
40:28 Bill Simmons? I guess maybe Best in Show is the other one.
40:31 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
40:32 Bill Simmons? When, uh, when, I forget what her character name is, but she, she had a history.
40:36 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
40:37 Bill Simmons? Everybody she met. There, there's some sort of like, energy with her that, SCTV hit, and then in movies, and then eventually she became Home Alone lady for a while.
40:47 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, but she is like, she has a sexiness to her that she doesn't, is not usually asked to tap into, because she's usually just playing mom.
40:52 Bill Simmons? She's good in this.
40:53 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
40:54 Bill Simmons? 4.5 million dollar budget made 10.6 million. Not great.
40:59 Sean Fennessey? Not great.
41:00 Bill Simmons? Raj. Four stars. Put it on his great movies list.
41:06 Bill Simmons? Scorsese's attempt continues to combine comedy and satire with unrelenting pressure and a sense of all pervading paranoia. All pervading paranoia.
41:17 Sean Fennessey? Pretty much right.
41:18 Bill Simmons? Be a good book. Pauline Kael.
41:23 Bill Simmons? Scorsese's using his skills and even his personality like a hired hand, making a vacuous polished piece of consumer goods all surface.
41:33 Sean Fennessey? That's surprising.
41:34 Bill Simmons? That's gonna give a fuck you Pauline for me. First ever we've had.
41:37 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
41:38 Bill Simmons? We've had a few fuck you Rajes. I have to do fuck you Pauline on that.
41:41 Sean Fennessey? Do you think we should do a social media breakout of you cursing out prominent critics of the time? String it all together.
41:46 Bill Simmons? Vacuous polished piece of consumer goods? Talk about missing the movie. Jesus.
41:51 Sean Fennessey? That is a gross misunderstanding.
41:52 Bill Simmons? How are you doing?
41:53 Sean Fennessey? You know, I think about this sometimes, doing the big picture. Like, I, we know a little bit too much about how movies are made, right? We know a little bit too much about the production, the backstory.
42:02 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
42:02 Sean Fennessey? Like, F1 is out this weekend, and that's a movie that like, was made during the strikes, and we did the rewrites, and the reshoots, and you bring some of that stuff to the conversation. So her saying that this is just like, an assignment job, you know, that she's using that as a lens to analyze the movie, as opposed to just looking objectively at the movie.
42:22 Bill Simmons? Right.
42:23 Sean Fennessey? You can't. There's no way to separate the two things, so I understand, but we don't think about the movie in that way. When I saw it, I didn't think like, oh, this is just Scorsese taking a job so he can get back on the track, so that he can eventually make last temptation of Christ.
42:34 Bill Simmons? Why can't he do that?
42:36 Sean Fennessey? I agree.
42:36 Bill Simmons? Like, he can't fucking get a job? Maybe he couldn't find a better movie. I don't know.
42:41 Sean Fennessey? I agree.
42:41 Bill Simmons? It's very strange.
42:43 Sean Fennessey? Bad take. Bad take by Pauline.
42:45 Bill Simmons? Categories. Most rewatchable scene.
42:48 Bill Simmons? Rosé and Arquette's first scene in the diner. Some good camera work going on in that one, too.
42:53 Sean Fennessey? I love that book.
42:55 Bill Simmons? Fiorentino back rub scene.
42:57 Sean Fennessey? I have that.
42:59 Bill Simmons? I wrote down, uh, this is one of my favorite movie devices when somebody's telling a long story that somehow gets rudely interrupted, or we never find out the punchline or the money shot of the story.
43:11 Sean Fennessey? This one's particularly good because he realizes she's asleep just as he's about to complete the story.
43:15 Bill Simmons? Yeah, and we'll never know what happens. I love when they do that.
43:20 Bill Simmons? At least I think it was night.
43:24 Bill Simmons? I reached up,
43:27 Bill Simmons? untied a blindfold.
43:31 Bill Simmons? And
43:34 Bill Simmons? I saw.
43:45 Bill Simmons? One of my favorites is Halloween, the original one. Loomis is looking for Myers's grave and the undertaker is telling this long story. And then he showed up and he's like, where are we? It just interrupts him and we never find out what happened.
43:59 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, that's the carpenter's sense of humor.
44:02 Bill Simmons? The diner scene with Marcy the second time.
44:05 Sean Fennessey? My husband was a movie freak.
44:06 Bill Simmons? Yes, yes. And the guy who runs the diner says the title in the movie.
44:10 Sean Fennessey? Dick Miller, yeah, legendary that guy.
44:13 Bill Simmons? The subway token scene I have? When the guy won't let him go for an extra dollar.
44:18 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, the fare went up at midnight.
44:21 Bill Simmons? And Griffin Dunn looks around and he's like, who's gonna know? And he's like, I could go to a party, get drunk, tell somebody, who knows?
44:30 Bill Simmons? I love that guy.
44:32 Sean Fennessey? That's so funny.
44:35 Bill Simmons? Marcy dying, even though I have some other thoughts on it, but it fucking kills me when he puts the side up. When he puts the dead body with the arrow.
44:47 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, that is very funny.
44:49 Bill Simmons? It's just like so, it's, we're at another level of black comedy with that. She just killed herself in the bedroom. He's like, dead body.
44:56 Sean Fennessey? The moment before that, though, is so funny to me when he's removing the blanket to reveal that she doesn't have any burns.
45:04 Bill Simmons? Right.
45:04 Sean Fennessey? And he's like, damn it, I shouldn't have left. I could have slept with her and she could have not killed herself.
45:12 Sean Fennessey? This is the darkest dark comedy. It's so good.
45:14 Bill Simmons? It's blacker than black. It's like a purple comedy.
45:19 Bill Simmons? The Terry Gar scene is just really funny. She's dialing it up.
45:24 Sean Fennessey? I think the terminal bar in general, going to the bar where her is the bartender and she's like slipping him the notes and her can't get the cash register open, all that stuff is so great.
45:32 Bill Simmons? And that's like your classic, what the hell is going on here in New York City bar? It's like 1:30 in the morning and there's four people there.
45:38 Sean Fennessey? There's the leather guy.
45:38 Bill Simmons? Guy can't work, the cash register won't open.
45:42 Sean Fennessey? And that is a very, I mean, that's, that New York is still alive. Like, that's a thing you can find today.
45:47 Bill Simmons? The punk rock club, punk, punk rock club?
45:50 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
45:50 Bill Simmons? When they're like, Mohawk this guy.
45:53 Sean Fennessey? Club Berlin.
45:53 Bill Simmons? Yeah. The Catherine Harris scene in the apartment when he's trying to remember the phone number and she's just saying other numbers, which is something I did for 30 years. Now, you don't, everyone has the numbers. I say it to my wife all the time.
46:07 Sean Fennessey? It's a great bit.
46:08 Bill Simmons? She would go crazy.
46:08 Sean Fennessey? It is a great bit.
46:09 Bill Simmons? She'd be like, okay, so it's two, five. And I'd be like, five, nine, eight, seven.
46:15 Bill Simmons? I think, but that came from this movie. I've never seen anyone do that.
46:18 Sean Fennessey? You just kind of distilled your sense of humor right there.
46:20 Bill Simmons? Yeah, that's it. There's nothing funnier than that.
46:23 Speaker 05 Five, eight, six, two.
46:25 Speaker 06 Don't.
46:26 Speaker 05 Nine, three, eight, zero.
46:37 Speaker 06 Now I have forgotten the number.
46:41 Speaker 06 What is wrong with you? Are you alright?
46:44 Bill Simmons? The Verna Bloom is that or other is.
46:46 Sean Fennessey? You got all my ones.
46:47 Bill Simmons? And then, uh, I like the ending. I know the ending is super polarizing. They couldn't come up with one. We could talk about it in the research.
46:55 Sean Fennessey? The drop off in the van or the end credits sequence around the office?
46:59 Bill Simmons? No, the, the drop, I like that he's kidnapped in this van. Does, I mean, they don't know they're kidnapping him. And then they turn and he just fall. I actually think it works.
47:08 Sean Fennessey? It's a great story about what happened.
47:10 Bill Simmons? They were so upset about that, ah, we couldn't come up with the ending. We had to throw this together. I'm like, that ending's great, guys.
47:15 Sean Fennessey? It's really, really clever.
47:16 Bill Simmons? It's perfect.
47:17 Sean Fennessey? It's almost like he woke up from a dream because he ends up where he started.
48:00 Bill Simmons? Like, how do they, how do they feel bad about that ending?
48:03 Sean Fennessey? I don't know. I think it's great, too. And I, I even just that final thing where the camera's kind of whipping around that office space over the end credits. I just think it's such a, it's almost like his mind is spinning inside.
48:12 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
48:12 Sean Fennessey? Trying to remember, like, did that really just happen to me? It's such a good idea.
48:15 Bill Simmons? Yeah. So what do you have for most rewatchable?
48:20 Sean Fennessey? I mean, the one that is the most iconic to me is the diner conversation between Rosanna Arquette and Griffin Dunn.
48:26 Bill Simmons? The second one or the first one?
48:27 Sean Fennessey? The second, the second one. The one where she's like, my husband was a movie freak. He loved to watch The Wizard of Oz over and over again. Surrender Dorothy. All that stuff is just so, like, baked into the mythos of this movie for me. So that's my favorite.
48:39 Bill Simmons? I have that as well.
48:40 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
48:41 Bill Simmons? Surrender Dorothy is high comedy.
48:42 Sean Fennessey? It's hilarious.
48:43 Bill Simmons? I don't even understand it. I don't know how any writer would come up with that idea.
48:47 Sean Fennessey? We didn't talk about the background with Joseph Minion, the guy who wrote the movie. But he wrote it when he was 21. It was his senior thesis when he was in film school. And it got bought and then hung around for a few years, five years. But a lot of the stuff in the first half is all his, is like stuff that he was writing. And I think he got an A plus on his thesis.
49:07 Bill Simmons? I would hope so.
49:07 Sean Fennessey? And then it went on to get sold as this like
49:09 Bill Simmons? Wow.
49:10 Sean Fennessey? study of the male mind in New York City at night. And then I think a lot of the back half is very Scorseseized.
49:19 Bill Simmons? I would have gone with Joe Minion as my screen name.
49:22 Sean Fennessey? Joey Minion?
49:23 Bill Simmons? Or Joey, Joseph Minion.
49:25 Sean Fennessey? Joey Bats Minion?
49:27 Bill Simmons? Joseph Minion sounds like you were a philosopher in the 1500s.
49:32 Sean Fennessey? Oh, I mean, he's a philosopher.
49:34 Bill Simmons? I read a Joseph Minion book.
49:35 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
49:35 Bill Simmons? What's the most 1985 thing about this movie? I had four. Did you have a pick?
49:41 Sean Fennessey? I have a, one obvious one, which is just Soho in the 80s. That just Soho doesn't look like this anymore. You still have those kind of cobblestone-ish brick streets and you still have those kind of tenement style buildings. But there's just like, you know, J Crew and Lambon down there now, you know, and like eight dollar coffee shops. And then
50:03 Bill Simmons? Some douchey people too, let's be honest.
50:05 Sean Fennessey? A lot of douchey people, yeah.
50:06 Bill Simmons? Sorry, Soho.
50:07 Sean Fennessey? I mean, you hate New York. You can say it out loud.
50:09 Bill Simmons? I don't hate New York.
50:10 Sean Fennessey? New York.
50:11 Bill Simmons? No, I like New York. I just don't like getting there.
50:14 Sean Fennessey? Um.
50:15 Bill Simmons? I don't realize why it's like going to London now. It's like
50:18 Sean Fennessey? Because of the airport?
50:19 Bill Simmons? The, everything. Just you land and then it's another two plus hours to get in the city.
50:23 Sean Fennessey? It's no walk in the park coming to LAX. I mean, that's not, you know.
50:27 Bill Simmons? I also don't like the power walking situation in New York City these days with all the bikes.
50:32 Sean Fennessey? Oh, yeah, that's fair.
50:33 Bill Simmons? And, and guess what? Maybe legalizing everybody being able to smoke pot and blow pot smoke. I'm no stranger to pot.
50:41 Sean Fennessey? Unlike in Los Angeles?
50:42 Bill Simmons? Three blocks with the, I hate the pot smoke thing in general. That sounds like an old guy.
50:46 Sean Fennessey? Wow.
50:47 Bill Simmons? Let's have some respect for people with kids pushing strollers.
50:50 Sean Fennessey? We went to a party last night across the street from the party, 7-Eleven. We're walking through the 7-Eleven parking lot. There's A guy smoking a joint in the parking lot right next to a police cruiser. And I was like, picture this 20 years ago. That guy would have been thrown in the clink.
51:06 Bill Simmons? Why do I have to smell the secondhand pot smoke if I didn't sign up for it?
51:09 Sean Fennessey? Just let people live, you know? Just let them do what they want. So you don't want to be power walking in New York, but you do want to power walk in Los Angeles, where people drive like maniacs and there are no sidewalks?
51:18 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
51:19 Sean Fennessey? Okay, got it.
51:20 Bill Simmons? I just, I haven't power walked in New York enough because the whole thing where the bikes can just take the left and right turns and you just basically have to make, and I'm listening to a podcast on my headphones and not.
51:31 Sean Fennessey? What are you listening to, Terminator and Eddie? That's who you got fired up.
51:35 Bill Simmons? I have three, I have four 1985 things about this movie.
51:40 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
51:41 Bill Simmons? Opening credits, The Geffen Company presents.
51:43 Sean Fennessey? Oh, good one.
51:44 Bill Simmons? How many years were The Geffen Company even making movies?
51:46 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I'm not that long, mostly in the eighties, but that was him like leveraging his success as a music manager and trying to get into Hollywood.
51:54 Bill Simmons? Giving somebody a phone number. I guess that's not necessarily 1985, but it's definitely eighties, nineties of like, let me write down your phone number or else there's no way to get ahold. Now we would just be like.
52:04 Sean Fennessey? Put it in your phone.
52:05 Bill Simmons? Now you just be like, I'll call you on your phone and now you have my number.
52:08 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
52:10 Bill Simmons? A Bronson Pinchot cameo. Young Bronson. That felt very 1985 to me, fresh off his playing Serge in Beverly Hills Cop and his risky business.
52:20 Sean Fennessey? This was high time for him.
52:21 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
52:21 Sean Fennessey? I mean, he's about to be Balki in Perfect Strangers. You watched Perfect Strangers?
52:25 Bill Simmons? I didn't.
52:26 Sean Fennessey? You didn't watch it?
52:27 Bill Simmons? Wasn't a fan.
52:28 Sean Fennessey? What?
52:28 Bill Simmons? Didn't really like Balki.
52:31 Sean Fennessey? This is shocking.
52:32 Bill Simmons? I was in high school at that point. I was too old.
52:34 Sean Fennessey? You think you're better than me?
52:35 Bill Simmons? I just was too old.
52:39 Bill Simmons? Here's my choice, though. Going all the way across Manhattan in a cab for $6.50.
52:44 Sean Fennessey? Ooh.
52:45 Bill Simmons? I mean, he went like 90 blocks.
52:47 Sean Fennessey? Also, he's holding a 20. What is that, like 100 now? Yeah, it's like fifty.
52:51 Bill Simmons? It's like at least a fifty.
52:52 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
52:52 Bill Simmons? But yeah, six dollars for what is that cap right now?
52:55 Sean Fennessey? Oh, God.
52:56 Bill Simmons? Fifty-eight dollars?
52:57 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, uh, I don't know about that much.
52:58 Bill Simmons? Forty-five?
52:59 Sean Fennessey? It's really expensive, yeah, really expensive. I don't know, I'm not in caps as much in New York as I used to be.
53:04 Bill Simmons? Was there a better title for this movie? Throwing that in here.
53:07 Sean Fennessey? There were other titles.
53:08 Bill Simmons? So it was originally called One Night in Soho?
53:11 Sean Fennessey? Yes, which eventually became an Edgar Wright movie.
53:13 Bill Simmons? I'm not against One Night in Soho.
53:15 Sean Fennessey? Uh, I think that the original script that Minion wrote was called Lo- no, was it called Lies? Or was Lies based on a story that? There was like a theater director who had told a story similar to meeting a girl in a diner and kind of going on a journey in New York. And I think Minion based it on that, and I think that was called Lies.
53:34 Bill Simmons? Do we like After Hours as a title?
53:35 Sean Fennessey? I do, I think it's perfect. You don't like it?
53:38 Bill Simmons? It's fine. One Night in Soho is pretty good.
53:42 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, and then used in a, in a movie about the other Soho, the original Soho in London in twenty twenty-two by a correct.
53:51 Bill Simmons? What is the best?
53:53 Sean Fennessey? Um, I love this specific data point.
53:58 Sean Fennessey? Martin Scorsese told Griffin Dunn to refrain from sex and sleep during filming in order to get a more realistic feeling of paranoia, and this is what I do before every podcast.
54:10 Bill Simmons? I had, I had this in the Steven Seagal shitting on himself story that he didn't know it was true or not.
54:18 Sean Fennessey? Okay. Uh, that's just a great idea, a weird note to give someone?
54:23 Bill Simmons? Well, let's give all the backstory.
54:24 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
54:25 Bill Simmons? This is what Griffin Dunn said. Also, I love when people talk like this about themselves. Actual quote from Griffin Dunn. Marty knew I was a single man in New York who liked to party. He knew I liked the ladies.
54:41 Bill Simmons? And he said, it's very important for Paul Hackett to have a look of desire in his eyes throughout the whole movie. That's what gets him in this mess in the, in the first place. So I need you not to have sex for the first eight weeks of the shoot.
54:51 Sean Fennessey? Mm-hmm.
54:52 Bill Simmons? I said, no problem, I can do that. They start the massage scene on a Friday. They go for the weekend. And Griffin Dunn has what he calls a fucking accident.
55:04 Bill Simmons? Hooks up with somebody Monday, they're refilming the scene. He's panting, touching her back. And in the first take, he's massaging her and Marty goes, cut, Griffin, come here. Did you get laid? You ruined this whole scene. Like he sniffed out that he got laid. You fucked up this whole scene, the whole movie. I trusted you. And he was like really angry.
55:26 Sean Fennessey? It's great stuff.
55:27 Bill Simmons? How does he know?
55:29 Sean Fennessey? He's the master.
55:30 Bill Simmons? The ultimate Catholic.
55:31 Sean Fennessey? He's the maestro.
55:32 Bill Simmons? Yeah. Anyway, that story's amazing.
55:33 Sean Fennessey? That's a good one.
55:34 Bill Simmons? Not as good as Steven Zagal shitting on himself as he's being choked out on the set of Out for Justice, but really good.
55:39 Sean Fennessey? Pretty close. Yeah, that's, this is an amazing career you've made for yourself.
55:43 Bill Simmons? Thank you.
55:43 Sean Fennessey? Rosanna Arquette, 1985, it's gotta be one of what's aged the best. You've already mentioned it, Desperately Seeking Susan.
55:48 Bill Simmons? Not just for this movie, but for life.
55:50 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, in the world. She was good. When, when was Roseanne at 84? The Toto song?
55:55 Bill Simmons? I think it was like a year, maybe a year before.
55:58 Sean Fennessey? We'll come back to her, Apex Mountain, I bet. And then the big one for me with Age of the Best is the Home Alone Parents preview.
56:02 Bill Simmons? Yeah, I had that as well.
56:03 Sean Fennessey? We get one moment where we see Catherine O'Hara and John Heard talking together. We don't even hear them talk. We just see them through a window. And then soon they will be two of the most famous parents in movie history, honestly.
56:14 Bill Simmons? By the way, and looking for somebody again.
56:16 Sean Fennessey? That's right. Someone who's lost.
56:18 Bill Simmons? I have, uh, the weird New York characters, cause you could even add a couple, but, uh, specifically the incense cab driver, subway worker guy that we mentioned, and then diner guy? Or just like three so New Yorky, New York characters?
56:32 Sean Fennessey? Both diner guys, Dick Miller and Victor Argo, also a legendary New York actor.
56:37 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
56:37 Sean Fennessey? They're both, those are the two guys pouring coffee in that spot.
56:41 Bill Simmons? I love vigilante mobs, just in general in movies, when people just holding candles at 4:30 in the morning. I have movies that use real phone numbers. I always enjoy it.
56:52 Sean Fennessey? Oh, good one.
56:53 Bill Simmons? Like I'm at 243, I'm like, oh, they used a real one.
56:56 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, when you don't hear a 555. Yeah, okay. I like that. Would you ever call one of the numbers you heard in a movie?
57:01 Bill Simmons? No, but I know people do that.
57:02 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
57:03 Bill Simmons? I like crazy.
57:05 Sean Fennessey? Wait, do you want to give out your phone number right now?
57:06 Bill Simmons? No.
57:06 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
57:07 Bill Simmons? I like crazy New York City cab ride scenes. Because we've all been in those cabs when they're just like weaving through traffic and you're just like, oh my God, am I gonna die?
57:17 Sean Fennessey? So there's a special feature on the Blu-ray of this movie that's a conversation between Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz. They're old friends and Fran Lebowitz also been living in New York for a hundred years. And she says about that moment when Griffin Dunn's character gets in the car and the cab just takes off. She said, you nailed it because at that time, there was a change in New York. In the seventies, all the cab drivers were like Jewish and Italian American guys. And they all were just like family men who were like trying to make a living. And then something changed where the only people who drove cabs were maniacs.
57:48 Bill Simmons? Right.
57:49 Sean Fennessey? And she's like, these maniacs had lead foot and they just fucking drove so fast.
57:53 Bill Simmons? They just wanted to get to the next stop.
57:53 Sean Fennessey? Yes. So he had his finger on the pulse of something.
57:57 Bill Simmons? I'll probably get blamed for that. It's really funny when he sees a woman shoot the guy in the apartment.
58:04 Sean Fennessey? I love that part.
58:05 Bill Simmons? It's so weird and he's not like horrified. He's just like, I'll probably get blamed for that.
58:10 Sean Fennessey? Well, we, I haven't.
58:10 Bill Simmons? That's when the movie's just gone nuts.
58:12 Sean Fennessey? But I haven't said like, there's Hitchcock and Fritz Lang noir movies are a huge influence on this movie. And that's like such a perfect rear window moment where you see something you weren't supposed to see. And then we never think about it again.
58:23 Bill Simmons? Right.
58:23 Sean Fennessey? Like it never comes up again. Someone got shot in this neighborhood.
58:26 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
58:27 Sean Fennessey? No sirens, no cop cars, nothing.
58:29 Bill Simmons? It's like the Russian in The Sopranos, the Russian in the woods.
58:31 Sean Fennessey? Right.
58:32 Bill Simmons? Surrendered Dorothea Solerius. Just Cheech and Chong being in this movie is a What's Aged The Best.
58:37 Sean Fennessey? Smart move.
58:38 Bill Simmons? Chong said, it was like we were in our own Cheech and Chong movie within a Scorsese movie, which is kind of true.
58:43 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm.
58:44 Bill Simmons? And that's all I have for What's Aged The Best.
58:48 Sean Fennessey? I did forget to mention.
58:52 Sean Fennessey? Well, I'll get to it in another category.
58:55 Bill Simmons? Well, the next award is the Sean Fantasy Award for stealth homage that gives every movie nerd a criatur-y orgasm.
59:01 Sean Fennessey? I just ruined it. I think Rear Window is my favorite one. I mean, there's a lot of them, and a lot of them are about like, modern art. There's plenty of Louis Bunuel in the movie with the surrealism that you're finding, and the Edward Munch painting and the plaster of Paris sculpture. But I like seeing that that gal get shot, or that guy shoot that, that girl shoot that guy.
59:20 Bill Simmons? Big Kahuna Burger Award for best use of food and drink. The uneaten diner cheeseburger, I always like when the
59:27 Sean Fennessey? That's what I have too.
59:28 Bill Simmons? brings it over. It just feels, it almost feels like a character for two minutes.
59:31 Sean Fennessey? Can I, can we just talk very quickly about the Mr. Softy truck?
59:34 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
59:34 Sean Fennessey? Did you grow up with Mr. Softy?
59:36 Bill Simmons? Didn't really have him.
59:37 Sean Fennessey? This is, Mr. Softy is a fucking religion on Long Island, or at least it was when I was a kid. And there were two ice cream trucks. There was your workaday ice cream truck.
59:45 Bill Simmons? We had that one.
59:45 Sean Fennessey? All the regular stuff.
59:46 Bill Simmons? That had all the blow pops and all the different things.
59:48 Sean Fennessey? Everything in the wrapping, you know. And then the Mr. Softy truck was just dispensed by the machine.
59:53 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
59:54 Sean Fennessey? Soft serve ice cream, and
59:56 Bill Simmons? Sounds great.
59:57 Sean Fennessey? You get it with sprinkles, you get it with the candy shell, you know, the cherry shell. And when it came, it was like Christmas morning. It's, Mr. Softy was elite.
1:00:07 Bill Simmons? So Apex Mountain for Mr. Softy?
1:00:09 Sean Fennessey? It would probably be me at like nine years old after a baseball game.
1:00:13 Bill Simmons? Big Kahuna Burger Award could technically be Mr. Softy, but we don't actually see a Mr. Softy in this. So I don't think it's eligible. Uh, great shot order award. I don't even know where to go on this. I'll just let you pick.
1:00:24 Sean Fennessey? So there's the keys, which is an incredibly difficult shot to pull off. Linda Fiorentino goes up to the roof after he gets the address of where Marcy is, and she throws the keys down off the roof, and the keys are coming right at the camera.
1:00:37 Bill Simmons? For no reason. You think it's leading to something, and it really doesn't.
1:00:39 Sean Fennessey? It's just a move.
1:00:40 Bill Simmons? It's just like a move, yeah.
1:00:41 Sean Fennessey? I think, well, I mean, if you wanted to speak metaphorically, you could be like, sharp objects are racing towards this guy. You know what I mean?
1:00:47 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:00:48 Sean Fennessey? This is danger at the very beginning of the movie, setting us up for like, almost don't go in there. But that shot apparently was really hard to do, really dangerous for Griffin Dunn to keep trying to do. But it's very, very memorable. I do think that shot of him flying in the cab, where he's sitting in the back and it's bouncing and you're hearing the flamenco music and you're like, what is going on? This movie has this weird pace and energy that I've never seen before. And then I mentioned my favorite by far is the zoom in on Marcy when she winks to the camera. That's my favorite shot.
1:01:14 Bill Simmons? I like when he's, it's like in the last 20 minutes, he's outdoors and he's kind of looking up, and it's like a big crane shot that comes down on him. It's just good.
1:01:22 Sean Fennessey? That's a great one.
1:01:24 Bill Simmons? Kid Cudi Pursued Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop. We do have the Monkees in this movie and we do have Joni Mitchell. But I think the winner is Is That All There Is by Peggy Lee. A favorite song of my mom's.
1:01:36 Sean Fennessey? A great song. I think.
1:01:37 Bill Simmons? She said it's one of the great, it's one of the great divorce songs.
1:01:41 Sean Fennessey? I believe that it was featured in a very memorable episode of Mad Men at the end credits in a similar like post Don and, uh, no, Mad Men.
1:01:50 Bill Simmons? But wasn't it Sopranos?
1:01:51 Sean Fennessey? Maybe it was Sopranos.
1:01:51 Bill Simmons? It was Sopranos too.
1:01:53 Sean Fennessey? Maybe it was Sopran- I don't, I thought I could've sworn there was a Betty and Don sequence.
1:01:57 Bill Simmons? Probably was.
1:01:57 Sean Fennessey? Where, anyway, there's a couple of others I like. One, I think, I liked the last train in Clarksville Monkees drop because Terry Gar was in head, the Monkees movie.
1:02:05 Bill Simmons? Also, pretty good song.
1:02:07 Sean Fennessey? Great song.
1:02:08 Bill Simmons? I was kind of listening to it going, huh, might throw this on a summer mix.
1:02:11 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, the Monkees are good, man. Um, Pay to Cum by Bad Brains in the club. And then I think Mozart's Symphony Number 45 at the beginning of the movie is pretty good.
1:02:22 Bill Simmons? Wolfy?
1:02:22 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, Wolfy.
1:02:24 Bill Simmons? Pay to Cum, but it's spelled C U M, just for the record.
1:02:27 Sean Fennessey? Thanks for clarifying that.
1:02:28 Bill Simmons? Yeah, I noticed that in the soundtrack.
1:02:30 Sean Fennessey? When, I'm not gonna talk to you about that anymore.
1:02:32 Bill Simmons? You know, you're really serious when you're flipping the, flipping the C U M spell.
1:02:35 Sean Fennessey? Punk rock icons. Uh, when are we doing Amadeus?
1:02:40 Sean Fennessey? Speaking of Wolfy.
1:02:41 Bill Simmons? That, that would be Oscar winners month.
1:02:43 Sean Fennessey? Is that something you're gonna do?
1:02:44 Bill Simmons? Yeah, I think so.
1:02:45 Sean Fennessey? Interesting.
1:02:46 Bill Simmons? We're gonna run out of movies soon.
1:02:46 Sean Fennessey? Oliver.
1:02:47 Bill Simmons? There's like five movies left.
1:02:48 Sean Fennessey? What other Oscar winners you wanna do? There's five movies left? What are you talking about?
1:02:51 Bill Simmons? Annie Hall.
1:02:53 Sean Fennessey? Interesting. Who's gonna be on that one?
1:02:56 Bill Simmons? Probably be a lottery. You just get chosen to be in it.
1:03:00 Sean Fennessey? Cool. I love Annie Hall.
1:03:02 Bill Simmons? There's some good, uh, some good Oscar winners left. The Chest Rockwell and Brock Landers Award for Best Character Name, it's clearly Horst.
1:03:11 Sean Fennessey? I will give.
1:03:12 Bill Simmons? Was Horst his first name or his last name?
1:03:15 Sean Fennessey? I think it was kinda like Prince.
1:03:16 Bill Simmons? Like Bob Horst? Frankie Horst? Horst Lewis? Which, which way would you go? Horst Johnson?
1:03:26 Sean Fennessey? I think it's just Horst. It's like-
1:03:28 Bill Simmons? Also, the best stealth dog game-
1:03:30 Sean Fennessey? It's like Fabio.
1:03:31 Bill Simmons? Well, if you'd like, if you love this movie and you name your dog Horst-
1:03:35 Sean Fennessey? It's a good inside joke.
1:03:36 Bill Simmons? And then somebody else gets it, they're like, "After hours!" It'd be a good one.
1:03:40 Sean Fennessey? I do think second place is Kiki Bridges. Kiki Bridges-
1:03:43 Bill Simmons? Kiki Bridges.
1:03:44 Sean Fennessey? Downtown Sculptor, that's a good one.
1:03:45 Bill Simmons? Marcy is also just a good-
1:03:47 Sean Fennessey? It is a good name. It's a game, a name we've lost from the culture. Nobody names their kid Marcy anymore.
1:03:53 Bill Simmons? Uh, you have a Sean Fantasy Flex category.
1:03:56 Sean Fennessey? Um, okay, let me see which is the right one to do.
1:04:00 Bill Simmons? You can do two if you want.
1:04:03 Sean Fennessey? So, to me, scene stealing location, the Den of Thieves Benihana Award is Terminal Bar. The bar that they go to, which was still open, I think it's finally gone now.
1:04:13 Bill Simmons? The bar John Heard works in?
1:04:14 Sean Fennessey? That John Heard is the bartender in, which was a bar you could go to downtown-
1:04:17 Bill Simmons? It's a great bar.
1:04:18 Sean Fennessey? It is gone, right? I don't, I was reading about it last night.
1:04:20 Bill Simmons? I like how it's set up, it's like very, that hole, it's on the one side-
1:04:24 Sean Fennessey? Yes, you walk in, the bar's on the right, but it's got the curve on the bar-
1:04:27 Bill Simmons? Yeah, good for a movie scene.
1:04:28 Sean Fennessey? And then you've got tables, yeah. I really love a bar like that, where it feels like you can get a cup of coffee and get a beer at the same time. That's kind of like my perfect bar experience. I don't want to be in a loud bar that is just like running vertically and everybody's standing and trying to budge in to get a drink. I want open space, want some tables, and I want to feel like it's never full.
1:04:46 Bill Simmons? It looks like the Rocky I bar that they're-
1:04:49 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
1:04:49 Bill Simmons? That they're all watching the fight in.
1:04:51 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
1:04:51 Bill Simmons? It's the same kind of setup, though, the TV at the top and-
1:04:54 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, so that would be my scene stealing location.
1:04:56 Bill Simmons? That's a good one. The Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film. Just walk home. It's 90 blocks.
1:05:05 Sean Fennessey? This was my picking nit.
1:05:05 Bill Simmons? They do it in an hour.
1:05:06 Sean Fennessey? My picking nit is like, just leave. Just go.
1:05:09 Bill Simmons? How about this, there's more than one subway stop. It's beyond a picking nit. It's like, oh, I couldn't get in that subway stop. Just walk two blocks and go to the next subway stop, and maybe that guy will let you leave for 50 cents.
1:05:20 Sean Fennessey? Great point, I hadn't thought of that.
1:05:21 Bill Simmons? There's subway stops every two blocks.
1:05:23 Sean Fennessey? I also think, um, walking, even if it was considered dangerous-
1:05:30 Sean Fennessey? You're being chased by an angry mob. Like, there's nothing more dangerous than people who want to put you in prison.
1:05:35 Bill Simmons? It rains at some point, so maybe that's why you're not doing it, but.
1:05:38 Sean Fennessey? Walking in the rain in New York City is a way of life.
1:05:40 Bill Simmons? Hour fifteen?
1:05:42 Sean Fennessey? Sure, yeah.
1:05:43 Bill Simmons? And you can't get mugged because he doesn't have any money. Doesn't have anything. Nothing to take.
1:05:47 Sean Fennessey? Just his, well, I mean, he doesn't have any dignity either because Marcy killed herself.
1:05:51 Bill Simmons? Just go, go two blocks to the next subway. Just keep trying subway stops until somebody lets you in. Or you just hop over.
1:05:57 Sean Fennessey? I'm with you.
1:05:59 Bill Simmons? What's aged the worst? Griffin Dunn's unibrow is just bizarre in this movie. I don't really understand it.
1:06:04 Sean Fennessey? I thought about putting that in the most nineteen eighty-five thing about it.
1:06:07 Bill Simmons? I just don't get it.
1:06:07 Sean Fennessey? Does he even have that in, um, uh, an American Werewolf in London? I don't know. It's a weird thing. Because he doesn't have it in future movies. Somebody is obviously like, Griffin, you got to take care of this. That has aged pretty bad. I have some other, I have a couple of other What's Aged The Worst.
1:06:22 Bill Simmons? I had Soho as well, like that. It's What's Aged The Worst. It's aged the worst than that. I think Soho is more fun when it was like this.
1:06:28 Sean Fennessey? Well.
1:06:29 Bill Simmons? I miss weird.
1:06:29 Sean Fennessey? You've clearly been knifed, never been knifed in Nally.
1:06:33 Sean Fennessey? That's in play, I think, at that time.
1:06:34 Bill Simmons? Yeah, okay.
1:06:37 Sean Fennessey? I mean, the dumbasses who cancel Last Temptation of Christ, like, that's not ideal. You don't want to tell Martin Scorsese he can't make a cool movie. And actually, a lot of his career in this century is him, like, convincing people to give him a ton of money for movies. But here's the most important What's Aged The Worst for me. The name of this character is Paul Hackett. When I was a kid, Paul Hackett was the offensive coordinator for the New York Jets. And he was one of the worst offensive coordinators in the NFL. And he was kind of my introduction to the Jets will never have a good offense. Which has been a characteristic of my life. Cut to twenty twenty-three. Aaron Rodgers. He's traded to the New York Jets. And who does he bring with him? Paul Hackett's son.
1:07:19 Bill Simmons? Nate Hackett.
1:07:19 Sean Fennessey? Nathaniel Hackett.
1:07:20 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:07:21 Sean Fennessey? And I get that feeling all over again. And Nate Hackett, man, he just sucked at calling plays. And I can't get, so Paul Hackett, the character.
1:07:29 Bill Simmons? You just hear the name.
1:07:30 Sean Fennessey? It just kind of ruined. It's like, it's fucked up for me. I can't, I don't want to hear that name out loud.
1:07:36 Bill Simmons? It's a really good one.
1:07:39 Bill Simmons? The uh
1:07:42 Bill Simmons? Ruffalo Hannah Rubenek Partridge over acting word. I'm gonna go Griffin Dunn here cuz he dials it up a couple of times.
1:07:49 Sean Fennessey? He does.
1:07:49 Bill Simmons? So he'd be my choice.
1:07:50 Sean Fennessey? It's a manic movie.
1:07:52 Bill Simmons? Yeah, there's a couple of times when he just gets mad at Marcy and I'm like, where'd that, why'd that come from?
1:07:57 Sean Fennessey? We're sure it's not Will Patton?
1:07:59 Bill Simmons? As Horst?
1:08:00 Sean Fennessey? He's like the eyeliner and the tenor of his, the timbre of his voice and he's like, like what was Horst really gonna do?
1:08:08 Bill Simmons? That's almost the underacting.
1:08:10 Sean Fennessey? What are you gonna do, Horst? You're gonna, you're gonna kill this guy?
1:08:12 Bill Simmons? What are you gonna do, Joey Horst?
1:08:14 Sean Fennessey? Horst Lewis?
1:08:15 Bill Simmons? Frederick Horst. Uh, the Sierra thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford hottest take a word. I have one.
1:08:24 Sean Fennessey? I have three.
1:08:25 Bill Simmons? You have three?
1:08:25 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:08:26 Bill Simmons? Well, do two and I'll do one.
1:08:27 Sean Fennessey? This is, this is a top three Scorsese movie of all time.
1:08:31 Bill Simmons? Okay.
1:08:32 Sean Fennessey? This, it's Goodfellas, King of Comedy in this movie and that leads directly to my second hot take, which is that his eighties are better than his nineties and maybe even better than his seventies.
1:08:42 Bill Simmons? Wow.
1:08:44 Sean Fennessey? This is, this is
1:08:45 Bill Simmons? That's scorching hot.
1:08:46 Sean Fennessey? This is a hot take category.
1:08:47 Bill Simmons? You think that the eight, his eighties are better than his nineties?
1:08:50 Sean Fennessey? Would you like me to read his eighties?
1:08:51 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:08:52 Sean Fennessey? Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, plus Life Lessons. Five features, one short. His nineties, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Bringing Out the Dead. Now, Goodfellas is my favorite movie.
1:09:09 Bill Simmons? Yeah, but that's, that's pretty soft after the top two.
1:09:12 Sean Fennessey? Seventies, Boxcar Bertha, Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, New York, New York.
1:09:20 Bill Simmons? Two thousands?
1:09:21 Sean Fennessey? Two thousand is Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed. Twenty teens, there are some people who could make the case that the twenty teens are his best. You wouldn't, but I might. Shutter Island, Hugo, Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman.
1:09:36 Bill Simmons? No.
1:09:37 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:09:37 Bill Simmons? I think you're right.
1:09:39 Sean Fennessey? Thank you.
1:09:39 Bill Simmons? I think it is the eighties.
1:09:40 Sean Fennessey? Thank you. What's yours?
1:09:45 Bill Simmons? I don't know if this is a war crime, but it's a crime against humanity and a crime against pop culture and entertainment and fun. I don't know how Linda Fiorentino was never on The Sopranos.
1:09:57 Sean Fennessey? Wow.
1:09:58 Bill Simmons? I just can't believe David Chase fucked that up. And I have a great deal of respect for him. How did she not have a three to four episode arc with Tony Soprano? I think it would have been, maybe it was, it was too electric and too powerful and David Chase was worried that it could lead to some sort of world war.
1:10:17 Sean Fennessey? It just feels like there can only be one situation with Annabella Ciora. Like Annabella Ciora as Gloria.
1:10:25 Sean Fennessey? That's, that's in the Fiorentino zone.
1:10:27 Bill Simmons? Could she have been a Soprano cousin that comes back?
1:10:31 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:10:31 Bill Simmons? And used to tease Tony as a kid?
1:10:34 Sean Fennessey? I like her as like, maybe like a, like a MILFier, uh,
1:10:37 Bill Simmons? Or gets involved with Christopher?
1:10:39 Sean Fennessey? Comes in with Christopher and kind of maybe like messes with Christopher.
1:10:42 Bill Simmons? How is she not in The Sopranos universe? I just don't understand it.
1:10:45 Sean Fennessey? Is Linda Fiorentino alive? Like I,
1:10:47 Bill Simmons? Yeah, she's alive.
1:10:47 Sean Fennessey? When was the last time she was in a movie?
1:10:49 Bill Simmons? She's alive. Well, she was in Men in Black and Dogma.
1:10:51 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
1:10:51 Bill Simmons? In the late nineties. And Sopranos starts in 99.
1:10:55 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm.
1:10:55 Bill Simmons? And there's six years there where she could have been in any, she could have been the next door neighbor. She could have been Jean Cusamano, whatever her name was.
1:11:04 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:11:04 Bill Simmons? There's, it just could have, she could have been married to Artie Bucow, like I,
1:11:08 Sean Fennessey? Hey.
1:11:08 Bill Simmons? Could have gone, I know.
1:11:09 Sean Fennessey? I forgot that, that woman, I forgot that woman's name, but she's, she's so odd.
1:11:12 Bill Simmons? Just saying, I don't know how there wasn't a place for her somewhere. She could have done a one episode arc where she's just fucking with Tony and then Tony kills her. I don't know.
1:11:21 Sean Fennessey? I always think about this, but like, okay, let's just game this out. Linda Fiorentino, after Dogma in 99, her last major starring role. She's in the following movies, Ordinary Decent Criminal, What Planet Are You From and Where the Money Is? Those are all studio movies. 2002, She Makes Liberty Stand Still.
1:11:36 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:11:37 Sean Fennessey? And then Nothing for seven years.
1:11:39 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:11:39 Sean Fennessey? She's in a movie called Once More With Feeling in 2009. And then Never Works Again.
1:11:45 Bill Simmons? Yeah. I think maybe there was some, maybe there was some off the set baggage, who knows?
1:11:51 Sean Fennessey? I get it, but here's an important question. How does this person make money? How is this person alive? I always think about this when you're like, you've been an actor since you're 19.
1:11:59 Bill Simmons? Right.
1:12:00 Sean Fennessey? You work, you stop working.
1:12:02 Bill Simmons? She invested, maybe she bought some like Apple stock.
1:12:04 Sean Fennessey? Doesn't seem like she's married.
1:12:05 Bill Simmons? Does she have questions?
1:12:08 Sean Fennessey? Some questions, yeah.
1:12:09 Bill Simmons? Should we get her on a podcast? Cause she hosts a podcast.
1:12:12 Sean Fennessey? I don't know about that.
1:12:15 Bill Simmons? It just felt like she could have had one to three episodes on The Sopranos.
1:12:18 Sean Fennessey? I think it's a great take. What are you, when, when are you doing Jade?
1:12:21 Bill Simmons? Never, that movie's awful. I saw that in the theater with Nikita, my buddy.
1:12:26 Sean Fennessey? Okay. You made it sound like that, like he was a famous person.
1:12:29 Bill Simmons? Well, it's just, he's one of my friends that you have to say both of his names.
1:12:32 Sean Fennessey? Got it, okay, okay.
1:12:32 Bill Simmons? We saw Color of Night and Jade in the theater.
1:12:36 Sean Fennessey? Um, did you guys hold hands?
1:12:37 Bill Simmons? No, it's just we go see weird movies together. Speaking of weird, the Mallory Rubin Award for did this movie need a better sex scene?
1:12:47 Sean Fennessey? I think that's kind of the point.
1:12:49 Bill Simmons? I'm gonna say no.
1:12:49 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:12:50 Bill Simmons? But you, you also could have talked me into a yes.
1:12:54 Sean Fennessey? Just because of how you feel about Marcy?
1:12:56 Bill Simmons? No, not with Marcy. I think the, I think the punk club, punk club could have gotten weird. Not, maybe not with horse, but something could have been going on in the sculpture place.
1:13:04 Sean Fennessey? The bouncer?
1:13:07 Bill Simmons? Bouncer.
1:13:07 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
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1:15:18 Bill Simmons? All right, casting what-ifs. This was originally supposed to be directed by Tim Burton, and then Scorsese wanted to be involved, and he just stepped aside because he, uh, he said, "I respectfully withdraw. I will never stand in the way of Martin Scorsese wants to make a movie." And that's it.
1:15:33 Sean Fennessey? So, this is a double casting what-ifs to me because Tim Burton doesn't make this movie, and in this same year, he goes on to make Peewee's Big Adventure, which is a huge movie for me personally, and would be an amazing, I'll step on the feature category, double feature with this movie. About a man-child thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home.
1:16:03 Bill Simmons? I don't know if that one's gonna be on the rewatchables anytime soon.
1:16:05 Sean Fennessey? Peewee's Big Adventure?
1:16:07 Bill Simmons? You might be, you might be hosting that one without me.
1:16:09 Sean Fennessey? Wow, you don't like Peewee? You were too old.
1:16:11 Bill Simmons? I was never, no, I was never a Peewee Herman guy. Some people are. I'm not against it. I don't judge.
1:16:16 Sean Fennessey? I thought he was great. I mean, I was a kid when those movies came out, so the, having the Saturday morning show, the Peewee show was pretty big. But Tim Burton, Tim Burton was an all-time genius to me and then just stopped being a genius completely in 2000. Like, everything he did between 1985 and 2000, I loved. And then, kinda never again?
1:16:35 Bill Simmons? I think his hair just got really heavy and it started impinging on his brain.
1:16:38 Sean Fennessey? That's probably what it was.
1:16:39 Bill Simmons? That was my theory.
1:16:40 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:16:42 Bill Simmons? Uh, there's no real more casting what-ifs, except for they really had trouble casting the Linda Fiorentino part.
1:16:50 Bill Simmons? And Griffin Dunn said, "Linda intimidated the shit out of Marty and me. She came in like she didn't give a damn whether or not she got the part, and it made her seem like Veronica Lake. Marty and I looked at each other and said, 'That's Kiki.'"
1:17:03 Bill Simmons? Cause Griffin Dunn was one of the producers of this movie.
1:17:06 Sean Fennessey? Do you wanna talk about that really quickly?
1:17:07 Bill Simmons? Yeah. Him and Amy Robinson owned a company.
1:17:11 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, so, well, on Fiorentino, in that conversation with Friendly but which I mentioned, the only person he uses the adjective "the great" in front of is Linda Fiorentino. And Scorsese very clearly is like, "The great Linda Fiorentino." And then he's just like, "Yeah, Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunn, these other people."
1:17:27 Bill Simmons? Couldn't find a place in Goodfellas for her.
1:17:28 Sean Fennessey? It's a good point. It's a good point. She, now that, that.
1:17:31 Bill Simmons? Couldn't have found a place in Gomar for her. Yeah, she could've been a Gomar.
1:17:34 Sean Fennessey? Yeah. Um, so Griffin Dunn and Amy Robinson, Amy Robinson was the female lead of Mean Streets in the 70s. And had worked with Scorsese over the years. And Griffin Dunn and Amy Robinson formed this production company, which I think is called Triple Play. And they start producing movies. They produced actually a lot of really good movies over the years. They make a Joan McLean Silver movie in 1982 called Chili Scenes of Winter, a very good movie. Then in 1983, they make a movie with John Sales called Baby It's You.
1:18:01 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:18:02 Sean Fennessey? Starring Rosanna Arquette.
1:18:03 Bill Simmons? And Vincent Spano.
1:18:04 Sean Fennessey? Vincent Spano and shot.
1:18:06 Bill Simmons? Never happened for him.
1:18:07 Sean Fennessey? And shot by Michael Ballhaus.
1:18:08 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:18:08 Sean Fennessey? And without that movie, we don't have after hours either. Because they bring Michael Ballhaus to Scorsese, they, I think Rosanna Arquette and their relationship, they all go together. And so, and they, they also produced, one year later, Running on Empty, the Sidney Lumet movie, um, with Judd Hirsch, about the family of, uh, 1968 rebels on the run.
1:18:29 Bill Simmons? I don't like that movie.
1:18:30 Sean Fennessey? Good movie. Yeah, pretty good movie. So they, they, they are like, really good producers, in addition to Griffin being a, kind of a movie star for a minute there.
1:18:36 Bill Simmons? Well, and he also had, uh, he was the son of Dominic Dunn.
1:18:40 Sean Fennessey? He was. His, his sister famously tragically murdered.
1:18:43 Bill Simmons? Yeah, and then his sister was murdered. And that led to Dominic Dunn throwing himself in a true crime and led to, uh, the peak of him in the nineties, which I think was my number one,
1:18:56 Bill Simmons? a magazine is coming out, I'm most excited to read this person moment. Like 94, 95, him writing about OJ was like the apex mountain for me for, I can't wait until this.
1:19:06 Sean Fennessey? In Vanity Fair at that time. Yeah, yeah.
1:19:08 Bill Simmons? It was like all that mattered.
1:19:09 Sean Fennessey? He wrote amazing stories. Um, he's, he was a fascinating character.
1:19:12 Bill Simmons? He really was. He had good books, too. I liked all of his books.
1:19:16 Sean Fennessey? He's a really, really great writer and his, his aunt and uncle were, um, John Gregory Dunn and Joan Didion.
1:19:22 Bill Simmons? Yeah, Joan Dunn.
1:19:22 Sean Fennessey? And he has, Griffin Dunn has kind of become like, I don't know if he's an estate manager, but he's somebody who like helps shepherd a lot of the legacy of Didion and Dunn.
1:19:31 Bill Simmons? Pops in, and pops in in some movies from time to time.
1:19:34 Sean Fennessey? He still acts for sure, but while we're talking about movies, I just want to recommend to people haven't read a book called The Studio, that John Gregory Dunn wrote, that is about how a movie studio operates. It's one of the greatest, it's not a novel, it's a nonfiction book. It's one of the greatest books about Hollywood ever written. It's like a little underrated. And since we're in the Dunn universe, give it a shout.
1:19:53 Bill Simmons? Best that guy word, is Griffin Dunn a that guy?
1:19:57 Sean Fennessey? I don't think so.
1:19:58 Bill Simmons? He's Griffin, I think Werewolf plus this, he makes him Griffin Dunn.
1:20:01 Sean Fennessey? I agree. You put his name on top of the poster, you're kinda, you're good to go.
1:20:05 Bill Simmons? Is, uh, horsed that guy?
1:20:07 Sean Fennessey? Will? I don't think so. I, for the purposes of this show.
1:20:10 Bill Simmons? Remember the Titans or No Way Out?
1:20:11 Sean Fennessey? Yes. Oh, No Way Out. Yeah, that was kinda.
1:20:15 Bill Simmons? What was Hackman's name?
1:20:18 Bill Simmons? And he was like, huh?
1:20:20 Sean Fennessey? I don't remember.
1:20:21 Bill Simmons? At the end, when he's about to kill himself?
1:20:23 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, yeah. Horse is kind of a warm up for the crazy assistant to the Secretary of Defense in No Way Out. Is he Secretary of Defense in that movie? He is, right?
1:20:33 Bill Simmons? Yeah. He's also a classic, you didn't have any hair and now you have a full head of hair actor. Always enjoy those.
1:20:39 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, he's a very reliable.
1:20:41 Bill Simmons? He was in Armageddon or one of those?
1:20:43 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, he's in Armageddon.
1:20:44 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:20:44 Sean Fennessey? I mean, he's in, he's like in, constantly on TV. Is he in the Taylor Sheridan universe now? Will Patton?
1:20:49 Bill Simmons? He's, I always liked seeing him.
1:20:51 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, he's a great actor, really good actor.
1:20:52 Bill Simmons? I feel like he market corrected Terry Kinney a little bit.
1:20:54 Sean Fennessey? Oh.
1:20:55 Bill Simmons? They were head to head there for a while.
1:20:56 Sean Fennessey? When's the Oz rewatch pod?
1:20:58 Bill Simmons? Whenever you want.
1:20:59 Sean Fennessey? Emerald City?
1:20:59 Bill Simmons? Van is watching him right now, getting ready.
1:21:01 Sean Fennessey? Emerald City. Uh, my that guys were Dick Miller, Victor Argo and Larry Block, who is the taxi driver.
1:21:06 Bill Simmons? Yeah, those, I mean, those are literally that guys.
1:21:08 Sean Fennessey? Old school that guys.
1:21:09 Bill Simmons? Dionne Waiters award, what a category. Terry Gar, Catherine O'Hara, Linda Fiorentino, uh, Will Patton, Verna Bloom and Cheech and Chong. It's about as good of a Dionne Waiters as it's gonna get.
1:21:20 Sean Fennessey? I also had John Heard.
1:21:21 Bill Simmons? And John Heard.
1:21:22 Sean Fennessey? Speaking of the Sopranos, legendary Sopranos player.
1:21:26 Bill Simmons? I have, uh, Fiorentino winning.
1:21:28 Sean Fennessey? Okay, I'll, I'll roll with that.
1:21:29 Bill Simmons? But she's just out of control. I don't know what she's doing in this movie, but it's captivating.
1:21:35 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, another like, how do you make money person? I guess she's selling those plaster of Paris bagels.
1:21:40 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:21:41 Sean Fennessey? You got one of those?
1:21:41 Bill Simmons? I don't. Recasting couch director city. So let's have the Griffin Dunn conversation right here.
1:21:49 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:21:49 Bill Simmons? This is the best we could do in 1985 as a lead actor.
1:21:52 Sean Fennessey? He produced the movie.
1:21:53 Bill Simmons? I get it. Can I offer you Tom Hanks?
1:21:57 Sean Fennessey? You can.
1:21:58 Bill Simmons? Can I offer you as Tom Hanks as the answer of Cruz or Hanks?
1:22:02 Sean Fennessey? You can.
1:22:02 Bill Simmons? Hanks wins.
1:22:03 Sean Fennessey? I accept.
1:22:03 Bill Simmons? Can I offer you 1985, right out of splash, about to make a bunch of weird movies before his 1990 and does League of Their Own in his career and becomes Tom Hanks? I think this would have been a really good Tom Hanks movie. It's perfect. Cause Tom Hanks isn't like really a horny guy necessarily. So watching him try to awkwardly get laid, I think he could have been. I think there's comic timing with him that would have been better. I just think it's a better movie.
1:22:30 Sean Fennessey? I don't think Tom Hanks is very kooky.
1:22:34 Bill Simmons? Did you see Punchline?
1:22:36 Sean Fennessey? That's a good point. That's one of the very few times where it feels like inside of Tom Hanks is chaos.
1:22:43 Bill Simmons? Can I offer you Michael Keaton?
1:22:45 Sean Fennessey? Now, that is amazing. That would be amazing.
1:22:48 Bill Simmons? Is he too horny or like too?
1:22:50 Sean Fennessey? No, that would have been great.
1:22:51 Bill Simmons? Okay.
1:22:52 Sean Fennessey? That, I think that's better.
1:22:53 Bill Simmons? Okay.
1:22:54 Sean Fennessey? Um.
1:22:54 Bill Simmons? Michael Keaton, so coming up Night Shift, he's done, uh, Gung Ho and Mr. Mom. He's about to do Johnny Dangerously, maybe?
1:23:02 Sean Fennessey? No, Johnny Dangerously is right before, cause Griffin Dunn is in Johnny Dangerously. They play brothers in that, in Johnny Dangerously.
1:23:09 Bill Simmons? It's better with Michael Keaton. It's better with either of them, but yeah, Keaton's better.
1:23:12 Sean Fennessey? I love Griffin Dunn in this movie. There's not a lot about this movie I would change. Like I said, it's a huge favorite of mine, but Michael Keaton does have that like, I just blew a line energy.
1:23:21 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:23:21 Sean Fennessey? And he would be really good. You know what it could have been? I'm not saying I would have liked this, but would have made, would have made a little bit of sense is Steve Guttenberg.
1:23:29 Bill Simmons? Oh, wow.
1:23:30 Sean Fennessey? You know, like he was like the right kind of actor.
1:23:33 Bill Simmons? How about Andrew McCarthy?
1:23:35 Sean Fennessey? A little young.
1:23:37 Bill Simmons? Um, maybe four years later. I actually had some, if they made this movie in different years, who the perfect person would have been.
1:23:44 Sean Fennessey? What about Judge Reinhold?
1:23:47 Bill Simmons? Judge Reinhold? Well, so 1990 John Cusack.
1:23:52 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:23:52 Bill Simmons? He's clearly in it.
1:23:53 Sean Fennessey? A few years later, yeah.
1:23:54 Bill Simmons? 1996, 97 range, Josh Hamilton.
1:23:58 Sean Fennessey? Sure. A hundred percent. Yeah. Any of the Noah Baumbach players would have been good.
1:24:02 Bill Simmons? Oh, four, oh, five range. I think we get Phil Hoffman.
1:24:06 Sean Fennessey? Okay. I, I mean, I have Phil Hoffman as an answer to a category here. I would have had him as Tom Shore, the bartender in this movie.
1:24:14 Bill Simmons? 2010, 11 range, Jesse Eisenberg.
1:24:17 Sean Fennessey? You did, you made all these notes?
1:24:19 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:24:19 Sean Fennessey? Wow. Should we remake After Hours with Eisenberg?
1:24:23 Bill Simmons? Hater is somewhere in here. I think this is a great Bill Hader movie. I don't know exactly what point of his career. He's gotta be a little younger.
1:24:30 Sean Fennessey? Bill must love this movie.
1:24:31 Bill Simmons? I'm sure. But couldn't you say Hater in this movie?
1:24:34 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, but he got started a little bit later, I feel like, as a star.
1:24:37 Bill Simmons? 2013, 14 range?
1:24:40 Sean Fennessey? Sure.
1:24:42 Bill Simmons? And then I couldn't come up with now. I was thinking Shalhoub, but he's probably too handsome.
1:24:47 Sean Fennessey? Mm hmm. Too much of a hard time.
1:24:48 Bill Simmons? But it's the kind of movie that would be interesting if he made it.
1:24:50 Sean Fennessey? You know who it should be?
1:24:50 Bill Simmons? Who?
1:24:51 Sean Fennessey? Cooper Hoffman.
1:24:53 Bill Simmons? Cooper Hoffman.
1:24:57 Bill Simmons? Love that guy. That's a good one.
1:24:58 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:24:59 Bill Simmons? He might still be too young. I think he's like 22. That's a good one, though.
1:25:02 Sean Fennessey? How old was Griffin Dunn when he made this? Probably in his like 30s.
1:25:06 Bill Simmons? 20s, early 30s.
1:25:07 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, okay.
1:25:08 Bill Simmons? Half-Assed Internet Research. One of Scorsese's contributions involved the dialogue between Paul and the doorman at Club Berlin, which was inspired by Franz Kafka's Before the Law. And Scorsese said the short story reflected his frustration toward the production of The Last Temptation of Christ. Marty.
1:25:28 Sean Fennessey? Put yourself in the movie.
1:25:29 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:25:29 Sean Fennessey? That's why when you see Pauline Kael saying like, this is like impersonal or whatever, it's like, it's all him.
1:25:34 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:25:37 Bill Simmons? Rosanna Arquette said, "A lot of the people involved in After Hours were regulars at the New York bar and restaurant Cafe Central."
1:25:45 Bill Simmons? They would gather there, drink, be merry. A lot of artists, Griffin Dunn and Amy were there all the time. De Niro and Christopher Walken were always in. Bruce Willis was the bartender.
1:25:58 Sean Fennessey? Whoa.
1:26:01 Sean Fennessey? He has bartender energy.
1:26:03 Bill Simmons? Griffin Dunn said, "We partied hard at Cafe Central. Incredible place. The biggest movie stars in the world hung out there. Not one paparazzi knew about it."
1:26:12 Sean Fennessey? Okay. Cafe Central.
1:26:15 Bill Simmons? This is the John Heard. This is all from the oral history that I think Airmail did, so he can read it.
1:26:22 Bill Simmons? Griffin Dunn and Amy wanted-
1:26:23 Sean Fennessey? Are you an Airmail subscriber?
1:26:24 Bill Simmons? No.
1:26:24 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:26:26 Bill Simmons? They wanted to cast John Heard. Marty said, "I think he's incredibly talented, but I'm a little worried. He's got a reckless reputation," which he did. "John was quite a carouser." Then they convinced him to do it.
1:26:38 Sean Fennessey? He's-
1:26:39 Bill Simmons? John Heard, getting it done in the 80s.
1:26:41 Sean Fennessey? He's one of those guys who like, isn't really like that handsome?
1:26:45 Bill Simmons? Yeah, I think of him in Big, trying to play handball with Josh Baskin.
1:26:50 Sean Fennessey? He's in Chili Scenes of Winter, the other Griffin Dunn, Amy Robinson movie. Obviously, he's in Home Alone and I'm always happy to see him.
1:27:00 Bill Simmons? Me too.
1:27:01 Sean Fennessey? But he just like, looks like one of my dad's friends.
1:27:03 Bill Simmons? He did get Sopranos run, and then I think he died.
1:27:06 Sean Fennessey? He did. He did. He was a really, really good actor.
1:27:09 Bill Simmons? They had to, um, they had to cheat with Soho because it was already getting gentrified when they were making the film, so they had to do some Chinatown, Little Italy, and Tribeca to patch it together.
1:27:19 Sean Fennessey? I was wondering about that, if it was already too late to make it seem like it was this dangerous place.
1:27:25 Bill Simmons? My last two things are just from research because I was fascinated on all the people that are in this movie.
1:27:29 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:27:31 Bill Simmons? Griffin Dunn, best friends since childhood with Carrie Fisher?
1:27:35 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:27:35 Bill Simmons? And then in the documentary Bright Lights, the two of them reminisced about when he took her virginity because she considered it a burden. And as an act of friendship in London in the early 70s, they decided to have sex so she wouldn't be a virgin anymore. That's on the internet.
1:27:54 Sean Fennessey? That's must have been very exciting.
1:27:56 Bill Simmons? I didn't expect to have a reaction.
1:27:57 Sean Fennessey? That must have been very exciting for him.
1:27:59 Bill Simmons? Linda Fiorentino had a relationship with Anthony Pelicano
1:28:06 Bill Simmons? in the period leading to his 2008 trial and conviction.
1:28:09 Sean Fennessey? Wait, what happened? You didn't know about the McTiernan thing? Did this come up in DH4V?
1:28:13 Bill Simmons? I just forgot, yeah.
1:28:13 Sean Fennessey? Okay, yeah, that was like, what the hell, man?
1:28:16 Bill Simmons? Pelicano is being investigated. Linda Fiorentino started dating a former FBI agent, Mark Rassini.
1:28:25 Bill Simmons? Law enforcement agents said this was her attempt to assist Pelicano with information.
1:28:31 Sean Fennessey? Oh, my God.
1:28:32 Bill Simmons? Fiorentino said, told Rassini, as they were getting involved, she was researching a screenplay based on Pelicano's case. He then gave her searches of government computers for information to Fiorentino, who then gave the files to Pelicano's lawyer in a failed effort to help him avoid going to jail for 15 years. And then Rassini had to plead guilty as well. So she was in two relationships with two guys who went to jail. That might be part of the reason she's not acting a lot.
1:29:03 Sean Fennessey? I did not know this.
1:29:05 Bill Simmons? I don't, just guessing.
1:29:07 Sean Fennessey? That is shocking.
1:29:09 Bill Simmons? Yeah. Apex Mountain.
1:29:13 Sean Fennessey? Wait, she dated an FBI agent to get things from him to help her boyfriend who was under investigation by the FBI?
1:29:19 Bill Simmons? He was able then to get.
1:29:20 Sean Fennessey? That's a movie.
1:29:22 Bill Simmons? That's.
1:29:23 Sean Fennessey? Your girl, Linda.
1:29:26 Bill Simmons? I feel like she could have gone three episodes with Tony Soprano.
1:29:29 Sean Fennessey? I'll bet.
1:29:29 Bill Simmons? They could have figured it out.
1:29:30 Sean Fennessey? I think so, too.
1:29:32 Bill Simmons? Apex Mountain, Griffin Dunn, I'm gonna say yes.
1:29:35 Sean Fennessey? Yes, without question.
1:29:37 Bill Simmons? Rosanna Arquette, 100% 1985, yes.
1:29:39 Sean Fennessey? Without question.
1:29:40 Bill Simmons? Hard cap, all caps, yes.
1:29:42 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
1:29:42 Bill Simmons? Linda Fiorentino, Last Seduction, 1994, which she should have got nominated for an Oscar, but they had released it on HBO first.
1:29:49 Sean Fennessey? She's incredible in The Last Seduction, but probably Men in Black. I mean, Men in Black was a massive success, bigger than any other movie she'd ever been a part of, and she was the star.
1:29:58 Bill Simmons? Can I make the case for Last Seduction?
1:30:00 Sean Fennessey? Yes.
1:30:01 Bill Simmons? Do you know this whole thing about how she should have won the Oscar that year?
1:30:05 Sean Fennessey? I feel like we've talked about it before.
1:30:06 Bill Simmons? Do it. They couldn't sell, they couldn't get the movie funded to be in theaters, so they sold it to HBO.
1:30:14 Sean Fennessey? Right.
1:30:14 Bill Simmons? It ran on HBO for a couple of weeks, and then the movie gained steam, and they did this whole, they started, and they basically did the movie red carpet thing with it, and she started winning all of these awards.
1:30:25 Sean Fennessey? But it was ruled ineligible.
1:30:26 Bill Simmons? Critics' Choice, whatever, but they were like, it can't, it was on TV first, you're not eligible, and that was the year Jessica Lange won for Blue Sky, which had been made four years earlier.
1:30:34 Sean Fennessey? Mm-hmm.
1:30:35 Bill Simmons? And then, like, that was Jodie Foster, now.
1:30:38 Sean Fennessey? Mm-hmm.
1:30:43 Bill Simmons? But it's just like, it's like a particularly awful best actress category.
1:30:47 Sean Fennessey? Miranda Richardson in Tom and Viv, Winona Ryder in Little Women, and show some respect to Susan Sarandon in The Client, my beloved Reggie Love. That's weird, that's interesting, she could have won.
1:30:58 Bill Simmons? I think she wins. So if she wins in 1994.
1:31:01 Sean Fennessey? Mm-hmm.
1:31:03 Bill Simmons? She's a massive star.
1:31:05 Sean Fennessey? This is just an extraordinary amount of time spent on Linda Fiorentino in this pod.
1:31:08 Bill Simmons? Thank you, I did a lot of, I did a lot of research. Henry Miller, Apex Mountain, probably not.
1:31:13 Sean Fennessey? I would say no, maybe The Publication of Tropic of Cancer.
1:31:16 Bill Simmons? Yeah. John Heard?
1:31:19 Sean Fennessey? I think Home Alone.
1:31:22 Bill Simmons? I think he was Cutter's Way was he was leading with somebody.
1:31:24 Sean Fennessey? Yo, thank you for bringing that up. That movie is amazing.
1:31:27 Bill Simmons? It's good.
1:31:27 Sean Fennessey? He plays a Vietnam vet with an eye patch.
1:31:29 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:31:30 Sean Fennessey? In a wheelchair and he is crazy in that movie. Thank you for bringing that up.
1:31:35 Bill Simmons? Cheech and Chong? Probably not. It's probably somewhere late seventies.
1:31:38 Sean Fennessey? Up in Smoke for sure.
1:31:41 Bill Simmons? Cheech and Chong, hard to explain all these years later.
1:31:43 Sean Fennessey? You know.
1:31:44 Bill Simmons? Cause I think they just on YouTube though.
1:31:47 Sean Fennessey? Yeah. You mean like how they hit?
1:31:49 Bill Simmons? No, just like it's just very specific to an era that now they would just be guys. They'd be huge influencers. They'd probably have a billion dollar empire. It'd be like Cheech and Chong just did a one million, one billion dollar deal with Amazon.
1:32:01 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, they're kind of the Mr. Beast of their time.
1:32:04 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:32:04 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:32:05 Bill Simmons? Late night New York City movies.
1:32:07 Sean Fennessey? I have a whole list.
1:32:09 Bill Simmons? This is the best one.
1:32:11 Sean Fennessey? So.
1:32:14 Sean Fennessey? I think The Warriors is superior because it covers more ground.
1:32:18 Bill Simmons? Hmm.
1:32:19 Sean Fennessey? It captures more of the city.
1:32:20 Bill Simmons? More of the city.
1:32:21 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:32:21 Bill Simmons? So the.
1:32:22 Sean Fennessey? The Warriors would be number one.
1:32:23 Bill Simmons? Coney Island, you're, you're all over the place.
1:32:26 Sean Fennessey? This is very close behind, but in addition to that, I think Taxi Driver is certainly in the conversation. Twenty fifth hour. Saturday Night Fever.
1:32:34 Bill Simmons? Is Twenty Fifth Hour a late night New York City movie?
1:32:36 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, the club. When they're in the club for like 40 minutes.
1:32:39 Bill Simmons? Yeah, you're right.
1:32:40 Sean Fennessey? Cruising. And they're in the diner when, when, when Barry Pepper and.
1:32:43 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:32:43 Sean Fennessey? Hop and go out to the diner. Ghostbusters?
1:32:46 Bill Simmons? Hmm.
1:32:47 Sean Fennessey? Right? I mean, the whole third act is at night. American Psycho?
1:32:50 Bill Simmons? Cruising?
1:32:51 Sean Fennessey? Cruising for sure.
1:32:52 Bill Simmons? For sure. American Psycho is a good one.
1:32:55 Sean Fennessey? Um, I mean, Good Time and Uncut Gems.
1:32:58 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:32:58 Sean Fennessey? Uncut Gems, I mean, could a movie owe more of a debt to After Hours than Uncut Gems? They're, they're.
1:33:03 Bill Simmons? I was trying to think of the movies that probably were the most influenced by it and it's a long list. One of the ones I think is Go.
1:33:09 Sean Fennessey? Oh, definitely.
1:33:10 Bill Simmons? Where they were just like, let's make mid, late nineties Go and just put a bunch of weird actors with weird cameos and um, it's basically they should have paid royalties to Source Izzy.
1:33:19 Sean Fennessey? Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era too.
1:33:21 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:33:22 Sean Fennessey? Um, which I feel like people don't talk about that anymore. And then just like every Lumet film.
1:33:25 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:33:26 Sean Fennessey? Except for Dog Day Afternoon because it only takes place during the day.
1:33:28 Bill Simmons? Good list.
1:33:29 Sean Fennessey? Thank you.
1:33:31 Bill Simmons? Apex Mountain for plaster?
1:33:35 Sean Fennessey? Sure. The answer is yes.
1:33:37 Bill Simmons? Terry Gard, it's no, because I think it's probably Tootsie era, but we're still.
1:33:43 Sean Fennessey? She was Oscar nominated for Tootsie, right?
1:33:45 Bill Simmons? Still on the mountain.
1:33:45 Sean Fennessey? Yep.
1:33:46 Bill Simmons? And then.
1:33:47 Sean Fennessey? What about Mom and Dad Save the World with John Lovitz and Terry Gard?
1:33:51 Bill Simmons? I think that she was off the mountain at that point.
1:33:52 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:33:53 Bill Simmons? Soho. No.
1:33:57 Sean Fennessey? What is Apex Mountain for Soho?
1:33:59 Bill Simmons? It's somewhere in the last 15 years.
1:34:02 Sean Fennessey? Basquiat painting masterpieces five years earlier?
1:34:05 Bill Simmons? That's pretty good.
1:34:06 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:34:08 Bill Simmons? Scorsese or Spielberg? Yes. I love when we, when we have that organically.
1:34:14 Sean Fennessey? Here's the thing. Steve doesn't have the juice to get into this energy. He could never get to this place.
1:34:18 Bill Simmons? He wouldn't know what, he wouldn't know how to direct Linda Fiorentino.
1:34:22 Sean Fennessey? He definitely did not. He had no idea.
1:34:24 Bill Simmons? This is our eighth Scorsese rewatchable.
1:34:26 Sean Fennessey? I was gonna ask you that. How many has Steve had?
1:34:28 Bill Simmons? One back.
1:34:29 Sean Fennessey? Spielberg has had how many?
1:34:33 Bill Simmons? I'm gonna say seven. Hold on, I can find that.
1:34:35 Sean Fennessey? Jaws, Close Encounters.
1:34:37 Bill Simmons? E.T.
1:34:38 Sean Fennessey? E.T. Minority Report.
1:34:42 Bill Simmons? Oh, Spielberg's had nine.
1:34:43 Sean Fennessey? Nine.
1:34:44 Bill Simmons? So Michael Mann, Tony Scott, Spielberg, all at nine. Scorsese at eight. Fincher at seven. That's our top, that's our top five.
1:34:53 Sean Fennessey? Are you done with Fincher?
1:34:54 Bill Simmons? No.
1:34:56 Bill Simmons? God, no.
1:34:57 Sean Fennessey? Would you ever do Girl with a Dragon Tattoo?
1:35:00 Bill Simmons? I don't like that movie.
1:35:00 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:35:01 Bill Simmons? Do you like it?
1:35:02 Sean Fennessey? It's been one of the biggest growers in my life in the last 10 years.
1:35:05 Bill Simmons? Do I need to watch it?
1:35:05 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I think it's like incredible and I didn't realize it at the time.
1:35:09 Bill Simmons? I don't, I think I might not like it for the wrong reasons because I don't like, I really liked Rooney Mara and I think that the movie just made, sent her career in a weird direction and I want to redo it.
1:35:19 Sean Fennessey? I think she's an unusual person.
1:35:21 Bill Simmons? Maybe. It was good to see Kate in Friendship, though. Great to see her working in a good movie.
1:35:28 Sean Fennessey? As you know, she matters to me.
1:35:29 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:35:31 Sean Fennessey? Do you like Friendship? What'd you make of that? I don't think we've ever talked Tim Robinson.
1:35:36 Bill Simmons? I really liked it. My daughter, my daughter absolutely loved it.
1:35:40 Sean Fennessey? Oh, great.
1:35:41 Bill Simmons? Yeah. And my wife was uncomfortable and complaining about it most of the time, but still liked it.
1:35:45 Sean Fennessey? Not surprising.
1:35:47 Bill Simmons? It's, it's good.
1:35:48 Sean Fennessey? It is really funny.
1:35:49 Bill Simmons? It's really good. I, I thought people got a little carried away with how good it was, but I thought it was really good.
1:35:54 Sean Fennessey? I didn't think it was the funniest movie of the last 15 years, but I was happy to have a comedy with Tim Robinson in movie theaters. Yeah.
1:36:00 Bill Simmons? What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? So you said the bartender.
1:36:04 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, Tom.
1:36:05 Bill Simmons? Could talk me into the lead at certain points in his career.
1:36:07 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:36:09 Bill Simmons? Pick a Nits.
1:36:11 Bill Simmons? Not sure why he flips on Marcy and makes her cry. Never understood that. He just gets mad and I just don't get it. It's a weird plot device.
1:36:20 Sean Fennessey? I think it's because he realizes that he doesn't. He's afraid of sleeping with a burn victim and is trying to get out of there.
1:36:28 Bill Simmons? Oh, so it's a, yeah.
1:36:31 Bill Simmons? Couldn't he walk to another subway station? And then why did, why did Marcy actually kill herself was a weird one.
1:36:37 Sean Fennessey? The thing I.
1:36:38 Bill Simmons? It's the weirdest part of this movie.
1:36:40 Sean Fennessey? I wrote down what was wrong with Marcy.
1:36:44 Sean Fennessey? The thing I do think is clever is that she overdoses on Secanol, which is what Judy Garland overdosed on.
1:36:50 Bill Simmons? Oh.
1:36:50 Sean Fennessey? And she, of course, was the star of The Wizard of Oz. And so there's meant to be some symmetry there.
1:36:57 Bill Simmons? You have any other pick a Nits? We covered a lot.
1:36:59 Sean Fennessey? The biggest one was just, why don't you just walk home?
1:37:01 Bill Simmons? Sequel, prequel, prestige TV, all black cast are untouchable.
1:37:06 Bill Simmons? There's a prestige TV possibility where each episode is almost like 24. It's after hours, but it's 24 and it's 10 hours and one episode for each hour. It's not against it.
1:37:17 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:37:18 Bill Simmons? It's ambitious.
1:37:19 Sean Fennessey? Okay, but would it be Kiefer Sutherland?
1:37:23 Bill Simmons? Be his son. Is this movie better than Wayne Jenkins, Danny Treddor, Doris Burke, Sam Jackson, now Byron Mayo, Barney Cousins, Tony Roma, Harley Mays, Chris Collinsworth, Daniel Plainview, Long Legs, or Wilford Brimley in The Firm?
1:37:36 Bill Simmons? Honestly, Sam Jackson being in this movie would have been great.
1:37:39 Sean Fennessey? Interesting.
1:37:40 Bill Simmons? I think this movie is a Sam Jackson short.
1:37:43 Sean Fennessey? Well, who would he be? Well, not horse, probably.
1:37:45 Bill Simmons? He's in the bar and he's just flipping out on somebody.
1:37:48 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:37:49 Bill Simmons? But just, just two minutes of Sam, 80s crazy Sam Jackson.
1:37:53 Sean Fennessey? This make English in what?
1:37:55 Bill Simmons? Right. Just him going, him just being Sam Jackson, just bringing crazy energy. Maybe he's in the vigilante mob.
1:38:02 Sean Fennessey? I'd love to have Jules just in this movie. Jules Winfield, that would be great.
1:38:07 Bill Simmons? Just want to ask her who gets it. I'm going with the editing.
1:38:11 Sean Fennessey? Oh.
1:38:11 Bill Simmons? And our girl Thelma Schoonmaker.
1:38:13 Sean Fennessey? Good.
1:38:14 Bill Simmons? Makker maker?
1:38:14 Sean Fennessey? Maker, yeah.
1:38:15 Bill Simmons? Thelma Schoonmaker.
1:38:17 Sean Fennessey? You know, we haven't mentioned that Michael.
1:38:18 Bill Simmons? Interesting name.
1:38:18 Sean Fennessey? Michael Powell is a pretty important person in this movie. Legendary British filmmaker who had been kind of cast out of filmmaking in the 70s and 80s, but became a huge mentor to Scorsese at this time and married Thelma Schoonmaker right before this movie, I think, or maybe right after. And he was one of the people who helped him figure out the ending. Helped him determine the tone. And if you haven't seen any Michael Powell movies, Black Narcissus, Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Matter of Life and Death, like some of the greatest British films ever made. But he similarly experienced this kind of like limbo, this exile that Scorsese felt. So they like had a real kinship together. And also clearly Thelma and Powell, like, they helped Scorsese a lot.
1:39:03 Bill Simmons? Hmm.
1:39:06 Bill Simmons? Probably an answerable questions. You have any? Cause I have, I have two.
1:39:11 Sean Fennessey? Um, I think I was just trying to understand what this guy's job is. Like, I know he's a word processor, but what does that mean?
1:39:20 Bill Simmons? I don't think we're supposed to know.
1:39:22 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:39:22 Bill Simmons? I think it's like ambiguous, weird office job.
1:39:25 Sean Fennessey? So an unanswerable question.
1:39:26 Bill Simmons? Yeah. I have two. The timeline of this movie. What time does he land back in front of his office? What time is it?
1:39:36 Bill Simmons? Here's what we know. He leaves his house at 11:30. He arrives at Marcy's around 12:15. At 1:35 in the morning, Marcy says she needs to take a shower. Then we see a clock when he's leaving Terry Gar's place at 4:10.
1:39:53 Bill Simmons? When he goes to the diner, you can see the clock.
1:39:55 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:39:56 Bill Simmons? It's 4:10.
1:39:57 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:39:58 Bill Simmons? How many hours after that happened? Like three? And it's as they're driving the van, the sun's coming up. But we don't know what time of year it is. This is probably 6:30 range. So has he landed his office at seven?
1:40:11 Sean Fennessey? The number one giveaway is that someone is vacuuming in the office when he gets there.
1:40:16 Bill Simmons? So it's 6:30 in the morning?
1:40:17 Sean Fennessey? So what, what is that shift to clean? First of all, who cleans the office in the morning? Shouldn't it be at night when you clean the office?
1:40:25 Bill Simmons? They're finishing it. Cause you can see when, when Cheech and Chong are driving, you can see the sun's coming up.
1:40:30 Sean Fennessey? Right, right, right before those gates.
1:40:32 Bill Simmons? 6:30 range?
1:40:33 Sean Fennessey? I didn't mention him exiting those gates is one of my great shock gourds too.
1:40:37 Bill Simmons? So I'm going to say he gets there, this is seven hours round trip.
1:40:41 Sean Fennessey? Okay. Seven hours of it. He's there at 6:30.
1:40:44 Bill Simmons? Shows up at Marcy's at 12:15. Maybe he's in, back in the office at 7:15, not, not having slept.
1:40:52 Sean Fennessey? I think you answered the unanswerable question. I got another one.
1:40:54 Bill Simmons? It's not unanswerable though.
1:40:57 Sean Fennessey? Did he finish reading Tropic for Cancer?
1:41:00 Bill Simmons? In jail. Cause that was my other unanswerable question. Does he just get arrested four hours later?
1:41:05 Sean Fennessey? They could find him.
1:41:05 Bill Simmons? This guy came, his name was Paul Hackett. And he left and he ran away from the thing and now Marcy's dead and it was his fault.
1:41:12 Sean Fennessey? They definitely could find him.
1:41:13 Bill Simmons? And he might've shot somebody too.
1:41:16 Sean Fennessey? He didn't do anything wrong.
1:41:17 Bill Simmons? I think, I think he's at least on trial. And Dominic Dunn's covering it.
1:41:23 Bill Simmons? What piece of memorabilia would you want or not want from this movie? The Mr. Softy truck would be pretty cool. I don't know where you put it.
1:41:30 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I don't really have that kind of space.
1:41:32 Bill Simmons? Plaster bill?
1:41:33 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I think the, I think the plaster Paris bagel is probably my go to.
1:41:38 Bill Simmons? That's a good one. Coach Finstock Award, best life lesson. Nothing good happens after 2 AM?
1:41:45 Sean Fennessey? Perfect, perfect.
1:41:47 Bill Simmons? Don't chase the night. Best double feature choice. So you have, what did you have?
1:41:54 Sean Fennessey? Well.
1:41:55 Bill Simmons? You had Peewee.
1:41:56 Sean Fennessey? I have a bunch.
1:41:58 Bill Simmons? Goodfellas is in the mix.
1:41:59 Sean Fennessey? Peewee, Into the Night, the John Lennon movie.
1:42:02 Bill Simmons? So that was my choice.
1:42:03 Sean Fennessey? Okay, I'll let you talk about that.
1:42:04 Bill Simmons? Which is weirdly like, they, they think it's a ripoff of, but they're making them at the same time.
1:42:09 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, I don't think it's a ripoff.
1:42:10 Bill Simmons? I don't even know which one came out first.
1:42:12 Sean Fennessey? In LA.
1:42:12 Bill Simmons? It's basically LA.
1:42:14 Sean Fennessey? LA, yeah, for hours.
1:42:15 Bill Simmons? Yeah. Ends up in Malibu.
1:42:16 Sean Fennessey? Uncut Gems.
1:42:18 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:42:18 Sean Fennessey? Another nighttime Scorsese movie, Bringing Out the Dead. It's a little underrated, Nick Cage as an ambulance driver. Game Night and The Purge.
1:42:28 Bill Simmons? The Purge? That's a good one. I would go for Into the Night.
1:42:32 Sean Fennessey? Okay.
1:42:33 Bill Simmons? I think it'd be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version, energy.
1:42:36 Sean Fennessey? I like that.
1:42:36 Bill Simmons? And then who won the movie? Scorsese?
1:42:39 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, man. I mean, he was, he was cooked. He was done for. And then I think this movie just getting made and acknowledged.
1:42:46 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:42:46 Sean Fennessey? Was enough to kind of start to get him back on track.
1:42:48 Bill Simmons? It got his juices going again, which is all that really matters.
1:42:51 Sean Fennessey? You like this movie more or less than Color Money? Which comes right after this.
1:42:58 Bill Simmons? I like Color Money a little more.
1:42:59 Sean Fennessey? Yeah.
1:43:00 Bill Simmons? I think that movie's amazing.
1:43:01 Sean Fennessey? They're both five stars.
1:43:02 Bill Simmons? Yeah, we already did that one. This one, I think, as I said, it's.
1:43:06 Sean Fennessey? You don't want to recolor?
1:43:07 Bill Simmons? It's a, it's less of a fun hang, but I almost admire it more than Color Money. Cause I can't believe it worked.
1:43:15 Sean Fennessey? It's just a hinge movie for him, you know? He just, he needs it to go forward, to go through the next door.
1:43:21 Bill Simmons? That's it for New York City Month. What was your biggest disappointment that we didn't do in New York City?
1:43:25 Sean Fennessey? I'm waiting on Dog Day Afternoon.
1:43:28 Sean Fennessey? I want to do it. I think we could do it. I think we could do a great episode. I think we could do a mega episode about Dog Day.
1:43:35 Sean Fennessey? We should do it.
1:43:36 Bill Simmons? It's a good one. Which one were you the most jealous of that you weren't on out of the other four? Probably not Out for Justice?
1:43:43 Sean Fennessey? Nope, didn't even, I don't know if I've even seen that film. DH with a V is a big one for me. I love that movie.
1:43:50 Bill Simmons? I know, we don't, we don't have four seats anymore.
1:43:52 Sean Fennessey? I know.
1:43:52 Bill Simmons? We would have to do a different studio.
1:43:55 Sean Fennessey? If only we worked at a massive corporation, they could fund incredible studios.
1:43:58 Bill Simmons? We're changing it right now. We're trying to fix it.
1:44:01 Sean Fennessey? Probably Die Hard or The Vengeance, just because I was like a teenager when that movie came out and I just thought it was crack. I think there's like a really good case for it as better than the original Die Hard.
1:44:10 Bill Simmons? Wow.
1:44:10 Sean Fennessey? Yeah, which I know is, I know you guys talked about it a little bit, but that's a great one. And then, I don't know, what was the other one? You did another big one, too.
1:44:17 Bill Simmons? Working Girl.
1:44:18 Sean Fennessey? Oh, well, I should not have been on that. I'm glad you, I'm, I think you, you did a great service.
1:44:23 Bill Simmons? So Out for Justice 1.
1:44:25 Sean Fennessey? Yep, Out for Justice 1.
1:44:26 Bill Simmons? Which, which New York movie did we not do other than Dog Day Afternoon that you think we should have done? Because King of Comedy was in the finals.
1:44:35 Sean Fennessey? We never done that?
1:44:35 Bill Simmons? Because I was thinking about doing one for you.
1:44:36 Sean Fennessey? We never did that?
1:44:37 Bill Simmons? No. That movie makes me uneasy and uncomfortable, and I don't know if it's rewatchable.
1:44:42 Sean Fennessey? Um.
1:44:43 Bill Simmons? Because Sandra Bernhard is so frightening in that movie that it's almost like not, not fun, but I know it is.
1:44:49 Sean Fennessey? It's just, it's so crazy. It's so smart about where we are now and how people think about celebrity. It is so-
1:44:56 Bill Simmons? Which is why we're gonna have to do it at some point.
1:44:58 Sean Fennessey? So smart. I guess I don't really, it is, that is a New York movie and it is very much a movie about like a New York talk show host star, but for whatever reason, I don't associate that as much with New York as like, you know, your taxi drivers and your other Scorsese classics. I'm trying to think of best New York movies of all time.
1:45:13 Bill Simmons? We've done a bunch of them. Like we did when Harry Met Sally and Cruising and The Warriors, and we've done like a shitload of them.
1:45:19 Sean Fennessey? You know what would be a really good one?
1:45:20 Bill Simmons? Death Wish.
1:45:21 Sean Fennessey? I don't know if you have a big relationship to this movie, but Frances Ha.
1:45:24 Bill Simmons? It's on the list.
1:45:25 Sean Fennessey? Frances Ha is a movie that was about-
1:45:27 Bill Simmons? Yeah, I looked at it.
1:45:27 Sean Fennessey? -when I was living in New York.
1:45:28 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:45:29 Sean Fennessey? It is, that is the closest, like I didn't live through After Hours, but what she is doing in that movie, plus Bonback being such a special filmmaker for us, it just, it felt like my life in a very specific way. So that would be a really good one.
1:45:43 Bill Simmons? Did Jack Sanders like After Hours?
1:45:44 Sean Fennessey? Oh, I think he loved it, right, Jack?
1:45:47 Bill Simmons? I think this movie is the reason this show exists. Not the specific movie, but the idea. For me, Bill, this is a fun hang. My girlfriend and I were dying laughing the entire time. For me, it's a five star masterpiece. Wow. And this is a very specific thought, but I would say Scorsese, better than any
1:46:08 Speaker 02 Other director has the best image making instincts. His intentionality comes through so clearly when he's whipping the camera, when he's panning, when he's telling you something's supposed to be scary, something's supposed to be serious. I think it's better than any other director. I absolutely loved it.
1:46:24 Bill Simmons? Wow, you've really just trained him.
1:46:26 Sean Fennessey? What do you mean?
1:46:27 Bill Simmons? You've groomed him.
1:46:28 Sean Fennessey? He came to the right place. That's what happened.
1:46:30 Bill Simmons? No, he really did.
1:46:30 Sean Fennessey? He was born for it.
1:46:32 Bill Simmons? I think his movies have the best pace. He's figured out pace better than any other director that I can think of.
1:46:40 Sean Fennessey? He doesn't have a ton of movies that are 94 minutes, too. That's the other thing is this movie is tight.
1:46:44 Bill Simmons? Yeah.
1:46:45 Sean Fennessey? It flies.
1:46:46 Bill Simmons? Craig's away. I think Craig's on his honeymoon, somewhere.
1:46:49 Sean Fennessey? Didn't he get married like two years ago?
1:46:51 Bill Simmons? Maybe he's just on a vacation.
1:46:54 Sean Fennessey? Would it be okay if I went on my honeymoon tomorrow?
1:46:57 Bill Simmons? He's on a vacation, but when Craig comes back, we need his take on a couple of these.
1:47:01 Sean Fennessey? I think he would like this a lot if he hasn't seen it.
1:47:03 Bill Simmons? 94 minutes, he just immediately would have been in on that. All right. Well, we're coming back next week. We'll have some sort of something. When is July 4th?
1:47:11 Sean Fennessey? July 4th is on a Friday this year, right?
1:47:14 Bill Simmons? Next Friday. Gotta tape it next week. All right, that's it. That's it for New York City Month. I don't know what's coming next week. It's July 4th. We'll see. See, hopefully Jaylen Brown does get traded. Thanks to Jack Sanders. Thanks to Ronic as well, and we'll see you next week.
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