Movie Mindset 09 - The Alchemist: The Jim O'Rourke Roeg Movies
Added 2023-06-21 11:00:07 +0000 UTCWill and Hesse examine two films by director Nicolas Roeg: Eureka (1983) and Insignificance (1985). Eureka stars Gene Hackman as a prospector who strikes an ungodly amount of gold, and explores themes of physical and sexual desire. Insignificance features an imagined conversation between Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio, and considers the 20th century through the twin destabilizing forces of atomic destruction and uncontrollable horniness.
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This is such a great episode. Got me super interested to check out Roegs films.
JLV90
2025-11-01 10:08:44 +0000 UTCSwear to god, ‘…never made dime on another man’s sweat.’ is going on my gravestone
Zach H.
2023-07-23 05:06:54 +0000 UTCThe biggest inspiration for Blonde was The Man Who Fell To Earth. Look at the beach scene again when they are looking up at the stars. It mimics when Newton first has sex with Mary Lou and I think in Blonde that’s when Monroe first sleeps with the two men together. Both films are about indifference. Like Fire Walk With Me, which Blonde references heavily also. But it’s full up with Insignificance references aswell.
J
2023-07-22 19:27:41 +0000 UTCTheresa Russel is in a great Law and Order Criminal Intent
Drew Elliott
2023-06-30 14:47:35 +0000 UTCi got really high right before the dimaggio scenes and was laughing hysterically, then cried at the we burned children line👍👍
danny
2023-06-29 15:24:30 +0000 UTCFor anybody interested in more Theresa Russell (and Sandra Locke) I highly recommend this episode of You Must Remember This. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-must-remember-this/id858124601?i=1000608299360
Jennifer Reft
2023-06-28 09:30:37 +0000 UTCDo Dark City. There is no movie, "there is no case - it's all just a big joke!"
Diet Mountain Dew is Reichist
2023-06-25 20:46:04 +0000 UTCWould love to hear y’all’s talk about Wong Kar Wai and Chungking Express
Steven Hedley
2023-06-25 01:42:13 +0000 UTCWill is notorious for his pronunciation issues, we love it! 🥰😂😂
Dennis Lyons
2023-06-23 21:49:03 +0000 UTCHappy L8 birthday!!
Dennis Lyons
2023-06-23 21:47:37 +0000 UTCZ
J.D
2023-06-23 21:47:08 +0000 UTCI was thinking that, too
Shauna Seroquel
2023-06-23 19:03:52 +0000 UTCThis episode was release on my birthday yet there was no mention of it, hmm…
Jude Brown
2023-06-23 14:17:02 +0000 UTCMelville’s Army of Shadows and Le Cercle Rouge
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-23 02:00:12 +0000 UTCWhat are the next movies?
Jeff Williams
2023-06-23 01:35:53 +0000 UTCOne of the things I liked about this ep was hearing the audio of the Eureka trailer, which, improbably, conveys the weird majesty of the film in miniature. Also, and not to take anything away from what I just said, but you could have a video of a man getting a haircut and score it to Wagner's Vorspiel and it would be a cinematic masterpiece.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-23 01:32:31 +0000 UTCSeparate thing from what exactly? I'm being a bitch (but not a kneejerk contrarian 😽) but I sincerely don't know what you mean by that. Why does everything have to be about 'telling a story'? 'Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers' - Peter Greenaway
Shauna Seroquel
2023-06-22 23:44:51 +0000 UTCWill try to think with my eyes but does anybody want to play with the idea that Roeg just sucks ass at telling a story? Can we define his appeal as a separate thing?
Don Tickles
2023-06-22 21:14:08 +0000 UTCGotta say I didn’t think I’d like movie mindset or hell on earth but these are really good. Would love a Terrence Malick episode of movie mindset even to hear you all hate on his films. He’s my favorite director.
Aram Fingal
2023-06-22 20:40:53 +0000 UTCBeing a huge nerd
fasd asdfa
2023-06-22 20:23:58 +0000 UTCCriterion Channel has insignificance
Matt James Rich
2023-06-22 19:33:02 +0000 UTCJust got used to the rahther pretentious way Will says the word rather, now he can’t pronounce the name Theresa?
Bugger Off
2023-06-22 18:33:51 +0000 UTCMost disturbing part of this was when Will and Hesse discussed the doing of long division in the characters heads, their competition. I have been doing long division in my head since I was a teenager to help get myself to sleep/as a way to occupy myself when very bored. What fate does this portend?
Daniel Capshaw
2023-06-22 17:42:42 +0000 UTCIf I hadn't already seen a few Roeg films, I would have been pretty lost, tbh. When I think about my favorite episodes, it's a combination of a well-known film with a more obscure selection (Cure/Bright Future was a real standout). That would give people who are starting down the path of movie mindset at least one foothold each episode. That being said, I'm very excited about next week's episode. Two all-time great films!
Leland Alvarado
2023-06-22 16:44:18 +0000 UTCKnightriders or Martin, please!
awwwwwwww
2023-06-22 16:08:21 +0000 UTCWhere can i find these movies
Marc Silverstein
2023-06-22 13:02:38 +0000 UTCI notice a parallel between Eureka and Mc Cabe and Mrs Miller, a man who will not partner, sell out and ends up dead
J Vladcliff
2023-06-22 12:38:12 +0000 UTCThank you
Patrick Burke
2023-06-22 11:20:54 +0000 UTCWith Eureka it really sounds like Rutger Hauer ate Gene Hackman’s “soul” and shit it out just like he did with the gold nugget
Adam Foster
2023-06-22 11:04:52 +0000 UTCWe love Hesse
Randy
2023-06-22 07:22:01 +0000 UTCPlease consider doing an episode on George Romero and one on Tobe Hooper!
KO
2023-06-22 05:54:18 +0000 UTCWas surprised how bad it was. Both these movies actually! Still fun listening to these 2 riff on them though 😊
Dennis Lyons
2023-06-22 03:50:42 +0000 UTCI’ve no qualms with perversion, but these both sucked ass imo. Abhorrent acting! 🙈
Dennis Lyons
2023-06-22 03:47:57 +0000 UTCInsignificance sort of reminds me of Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Masks of the Illuminati", which imagines a drug-fueled hangout between Einstein, James Joyce, and Aleister Crowley (all of whom lived in Zurich around the same time).
Boaz Corey
2023-06-22 03:20:56 +0000 UTCI’ve liked most of the movies in this series, but Eureka is just plain bad imo. You get an intriguing, kind of Lynchian opening of one movie, a boring if at times sexy middle of a different movie, and a exposition-laden ending that fails badly at bringing them together.
Jon
2023-06-22 00:45:43 +0000 UTCYeah, they're well past the point of discussing how the many many wrinkles on the "blank check" conceit has all but worn it away of its original meaning. What I think makes them worth listening to, imho, is that they make a great duo, kind of a less extreme Martin & Lewis, but underwrite each ep with one of the best researchers in the game, JJ Bersch. Anyway, for me, it's ok to have some squares and straights in my content feed. For every TrueAnon I've also got 99% Invisible; for every Death is Just Around the Corner I've also got Cortex by Relay FM.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-22 00:20:41 +0000 UTCOn women directing who made a hit and presumably got.the BLANK CHECK, Heckerling and Spheeris would be awesome. Fuck they probably covered them. But if not God I kind of want Will and Hesse's thoughts on like, the Decline movies and then the pivot to Wayne's World and lesser comedies because its always been so weird to me that it happened
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:38:38 +0000 UTCFuck it, the typos stay in the post
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:35:02 +0000 UTCI enjoy them when I go back a lot, but there's only when they really hot their niche idea I usually listen for an entire series, just because I find the conceit good. Like the last one I listened to was Raimi because discussing his entire career in the specific context of "he made Spider-Man and now he can do whatever he wants" is fascinating. Although obviously the Oz movie revoked the blank check pretty quick ;(
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:34:32 +0000 UTCI’m extremely fond of those Roeg-named O’Rourke albums and have been since seeing (the late) Shinji Aoyama’s Eureka in 2000. Named after - yep! - and IIRC makes ample use of the JO’R album.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 23:26:34 +0000 UTCThey’ve made a concerted effort to include female auteurs - the Elaine May miniseries is very good, as well. They’re not dirty pinko leftists or whatever, but I think they produce a great pod.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 23:24:25 +0000 UTCOK I swear I'm winding down, but is there any chance OG Chapo International Film Correspondent Matt V Brady shows up? I just feel like has to. Ask him to phone in a half ass 5 minute review of a movie on the list and it will still be fantastic
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:13:21 +0000 UTCSadly the works of Loiuse Linton are all going to be main feed stuff, I just realized
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:10:51 +0000 UTCPeople are gonna think they had Matty T on again
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:08:21 +0000 UTCI think I'm ratioing this one by myself out of my enthusiasm for Jim O"Rourke, sorry. The movies are good and the pod is good!! 👍
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:07:36 +0000 UTCPlease go look up the Jim O"Rourke album covers these two are based on
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:06:09 +0000 UTCOf course not to overlap with the Soundtracker conceit too much but obviously the O"Rourke catalog is essential. God Soundtracker is such a good concept I hope he doesn't have to end it
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:04:40 +0000 UTCWow I'm surprised Blank Check did Campion, I thought their whole thing was "director made a hit and was suddenly gifted the Title of the Podcast" I might have to go back
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 23:01:43 +0000 UTCHarron would fucking rock, a double of Warhol and Psycho just these two and possible guest I'd love to hear riff on (I sadly have to admit I can't remember her other work off the top but there's so much material in those two although I'd estimate approx 638 movie pods about just American Psycho exist
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 22:59:42 +0000 UTCOooh, Mary Harron and/or Catherine Breillat and/or Claire Denis would be good!
Rene Saller
2023-06-21 22:56:48 +0000 UTCI would have suggested the Wachowskis or Campion but Blank Check has covered them recently - and done well - so I would put my thumb on the scale for the great Euro broads.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 22:54:27 +0000 UTCI'm somehow promoting my own post but if you search, episode 14 starts off and ends with "Women of the World" from Eureka instead of the usual theme because it's mostly them talking bullshit girl boss politics with a (non bullshit) girl boss guest. So at minimum Brendan has always been a head and we can kind of just assume that Chris is just a music man of exquisite taste by now as well
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 22:52:55 +0000 UTCBut yes I'd like some femme energy here especially if they did the Wachowski Sisters since I'm a broad and a trans one and I mean so is the co-host, although I just would really love if they both love Speed Racer and covered it
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 22:49:00 +0000 UTCWertmuller probably has too much overlap with the Sleazoids who I think they're trying to be respectful of. Specifically because it was Hesse who did a free episode of theirs where she brought Seven Beauties which is a recommended listen. They've overlapped a bit, it's impossible with movie pods especially when the four hosts pretty high key have the same taste but probably won't hear any movies Will or Hesse did over there
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 22:46:22 +0000 UTCI think Gary Busey was picked to played Joe Dimmagio bc they both have weird teeth. Different kinds of weird teeth but both equally weird
Corey Reynolds
2023-06-21 22:31:05 +0000 UTCChantal Akerman would be a great choice.... although I'd love to see them cover Catherine Breillat. Akerman the poet of sexual-social ennui and yearning; Breillat the junkyard dog of bodies and fluids.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 21:17:31 +0000 UTCThey should totally do 70s Wertmuller and Cavani... (I was thinking the Wachowski Gals...but I think their wingspan gives them an unfair advantage...)
Shauna Seroquel
2023-06-21 21:15:23 +0000 UTCErrybody gangsta til they might have to venture outside their comfort zone
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 21:08:06 +0000 UTCUh, they already have on the main show - Wonder Woman 1 & 2 and eternals
William
2023-06-21 21:02:07 +0000 UTCAgree, these are the first ones to seem too complicated/obtuse to be enjoyable too
Patrick Taffe
2023-06-21 20:58:11 +0000 UTCAre you going to analyze any work by female filmmakers?
emalco
2023-06-21 20:20:13 +0000 UTCSOPHISTICATED movie perverts!
Shauna Seroquel
2023-06-21 19:04:08 +0000 UTCSoooo glad you brought up There Will Be Blood, that lift has gobsmacked me for years
Shauna Seroquel
2023-06-21 18:53:04 +0000 UTCnot really but.... if anything, dip your toe in w/ Don't Look Now. it's probably the one that has the broadest appeal among freaks and civilians alike. you'll know from that if you want to watch the others.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 18:03:50 +0000 UTCI watched a lot of the movies recommended by this show, but I don't think I'm watching these. These seem like movies for real demented movie perverts
Mitch H.
2023-06-21 17:27:13 +0000 UTCEureka - watch with ads on Tubi; buy or rent in HD from Vudu Insignificance - Criterion Channel And furthermore: Don't Look Now - free on Kanopy (that's the one where you need a library card), otherwise rent or buy from many of the usual sites Bad Timing - Criterion Channel or buy / rent from Apple or Amazon Walkabout - same as Bad Timing The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg's greatest film imo) - rent it in 4K! on the usual sites, or buy the disc
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 16:50:41 +0000 UTCMy mistake, I thought they were including BAD TIMING
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 16:28:09 +0000 UTCWhat's kmovies?
Yairo Martis
2023-06-21 16:06:09 +0000 UTCThe poster for 'Insignificance' should be that picture of Marilyn Monroe's face that turns into Einstein's face as you move closer.
Yairo Martis
2023-06-21 16:05:39 +0000 UTCMaybe if you kick herrrrr, but your leg’s gettin weakerrrrrr, and she’s a deep sleeperrrrrr, and you would get a snorerrrrrrr, to share your last hourrrrrr, you sure picked a winnerrrrr 💜 10/10 albums, was not expecting to see Jim O’Rourke love here
Owen
2023-06-21 15:59:33 +0000 UTCEureka is free on tubi
Anomalie
2023-06-21 15:53:00 +0000 UTCAny weirdos know where I can find these to watch?
Patrick Burke
2023-06-21 14:35:00 +0000 UTCWill, it’s me, your biological father. Please review some Lars Von Trier films next.
Louis
2023-06-21 14:27:44 +0000 UTCI cant find these kmovied
Marc Silverstein
2023-06-21 14:12:05 +0000 UTCI watched Eureka last night and was losing it at the scene where the gangster totally lights himself on fire with the blowtorch.
Iain Hood
2023-06-21 13:58:00 +0000 UTCAll his for lack of a better term "pop" albums are pretty much perfect. I'm a freak and love most of the noise and drone stuff too though
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 12:54:15 +0000 UTCI was going to start the episode but I listened to insignificance instead, perfect album
cmbalaclava
2023-06-21 12:47:01 +0000 UTCEpisode 14. What is wrong with my brain that I had that so fast
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 11:50:29 +0000 UTCFuck I think there was an early episode about girl boss bullshit that dropped this in place of the main theme music
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 11:48:41 +0000 UTCFantastic albums, two great films
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-21 11:46:06 +0000 UTCWOMEN OF THE WORLD TAKE OVER
Claire Casey
2023-06-21 11:45:37 +0000 UTCAny plans for a Harmony Korine episode? We need a full analysis of Trash Humpers.
ZeeBee
2023-06-21 11:37:23 +0000 UTC
