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”A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: Mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.”—Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin PeaksInherent Vice is a film that meditates not just on the impenetrable nature of mystery, but rather its reflective nature—the truest mysteries lead not to resolutions, but reflections of ourselves. In the sunstruck and hazylazy seaside mystery that spins from the Golden Fang, ol’ Doc Sportello is able to see himself and his wayward love, Shasta Fay Hepworth. And in the mystery of Inherent Vice, we are able to see ourselves—our loves found or lost or found again or lost forever; we’re even able to see the very world we live in now, with its cruelty and chaos and small kindnesses, in the very world of the film.And it’s in that world of free-floating fear and stormy paranoia that today’s guest, Drew McWeeny, suggests that decency is the only anchor—that when the bitter doom of a dying era takes hold, that’s when the little decencies matter most. It’s an idea we explore with Drew as Doc is finally drawn into the mystery plot of Inherent Vice, where he becomes lost among its purple-shagged walls, missing real estate magnates, chatty (and canny) counter girls, and a certain hypocritical and heartbroken LAPD detective with a thing for frozen chocolate covered bananas.About the Guest - DREW MCWEENYDrew McWeeny is a film critic, author, screenwriter, podcast host, cinephile, and passionate defender of INHERENT VICE. Do yourself a favor and dive deep into his work at Drew McWeeny's Pulp & Popcorn, where you can read his book, YOU'RE WATCHING IT WRONG: THE FILM NERD 2.0 GUIDE TO STAR WARS, read his film criticism, and listen to the amazing '80s ALL OVER podcast.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”—Raymond Chandler, Red WindLos Angeles.The kind of city where anything that can happen, does happen. And everything that does happen, right and wrong, seems to belong here—it couldn’t happen anywhere else. There’s an air of beauty and shame here, a twisted knot of the city’s glory and its sins bound tight together—unlike the comparatively ancient New York, say, L.A.’s sins are still recent, the wounds still scabbed and unhealed across its golden-hued, suntanned skin. Missing neighborhoods, missing gangs, missing loves, missing lives. In this city, turn any corner, walk down any mean street, and you’ll find a mystery, cruel and enticing and magic and heartbreaking, waiting for you there.And that’s just one of the topics touched upon between our host and today’s guest, Jordan Harper, whose epic, feature-length conversation rumbles from such topic’s as L.A. crime, race-based prison gangs, the history of Los Angeles land use and abuse, noir’s unique relationship to L.A., James Ellroy, adapting difficult novels, Jordan’s wrestling with the PTA oeuvre, and much, much more (including where to find the best BBQ in Missouri). About the Guest - JORDAN HARPERJordan Harper is the Edgar Award-winning author of the incredible SHE RIDES SHOTGUN and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS. He is also a television writer and producer, and wrote/developed the late, great, and unreleased L.A CONFIDENTIAL TV series, which had a pilot so perfect that its demise is final, conclusive proof of God's absence.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

”Thrilled to have finally wholeheartedly enjoyed a PTA movie so now I can make some male friends.”—Today’s guest, on Phantom ThreadApocalypse is very much in the air with this episode—as Doc and Denis are whipped by newspaper-munching Santa Ana winds while learning more and more about Mickey Wolfmann, our host is surrounded by the same winds nearly 50 years later during a particularly fiery and windswept day in Los Angeles in 2019. Further, he’s sitting down with Fran Hoepfner—a brilliant writer, an insightful critic, and…someone for whom Inherent Vice simply doesn’t do much.But if you’re going to deep-dive into Inherent Vice, part of that conversation includes the many folks and freaks and friends who just…don’t…care. Or, in certain horrifying cases that may or may not now be part of the permanent record with this episode, just don’t like Bigfoot Bjornsen (gasp!).About the GuestFRAN HOEPFNERFran Hoepfner is a writer from Chicago working on her MFA in Fiction at Rutgers in Newark. You can read her work at FranHoepfner.FYI.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

“So when Doc and Denis came in that night, it wasn't just the usual hungry doper thing. It was something else. And with Neptune moving at last out of the Scorpio death-trip and rising into the Sagittarian light of the higher mind, it was bound to be something love-related. And I thought I knew what it was…”There are Inherent Vice fans, and then there’s Kayleigh Donaldson, a writer and critic who has been ardently stanning the film since December of 2012—exactly two years before Inherent Vice was released in theaters. And since that release, she has vociferously declared and defended Vice as Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece.It’s a level of broad, absolute appreciation that leaves her uniquely suited not only for Increment Vice in general, but this scene in specific, in which Inherent Vice’s two very different tonal extremes—potfogged melancholy and zany comic tableaus—are cat’s-cradled together with some heavy heartache, a few slices of of pizza, “Vitamin C,” and a hair-changing intuition, all into a vast lattice of meaning that only grows deeper with every viewing, and every conversation.About the GuestKAYLEIGH DONALDSONKayleigh Donaldson is a critic and pop culture writer. Her work can be found on Pajiba, Screen Rant, and SYFY FANGRRLS. She is also the co-host of the podcast The Hollywood Read, alongside LaineyGossip writer Sarah Marrs.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

“It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety.”Sprawling yet intimate…digressive yet focused…surfing curlicued wavelengths of obsession and obfuscation—such is a fairly apt way of describing the tone of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice; it’s also a fair assessment of tonight’s megaconversation between our host and writer Kim Morgan.Inherent Vice. The death of the 1960s. Regret. Obsession. Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood. The melancholy of oceans. Linda Darnell. Otto Preminger’s Fallen Angel. Shasta Fay Hepworth. Jacques Demy’s Model Shop. John Garfield. Joaquin Phoenix. Time traveler Thomas Pynchon. Drugs. Paul Thomas Anderson. “Vitamin C.” Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street. Sam Fuller vs. Film Twitter. Josh Brolin. Bigfoot Bjornsen. Neo-noir shootouts. Ralph Meeker. The ambiguities of cinema, life, and self. The cars of Neil Young. Moviegoing in the mornings. The sorrowing hope of Nick Cave. The sweet heroism of Doc Sportello. These are but a few of the subjects Travis and Kim touch upon as they watch the opening minutes of Inherent Vice and ask one another a single, obsessive question: “Why is this so heartachingly beautiful?”About the GuestKIM MORGANKim Morgan writes for the New Beverly Cinema, Sight & Sound, the Criterion Collection, and more. She was a short films juror at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, has guest programmed for TCM, presented a series on Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick for FilmStruck, and was the guest director of the 2014 Telluride Film Festival. Recently, she cowrote the adaptation of NIGHTMARE ALLEY with Guillermo del Toro. You can find more of her writing at her own site, Sunset Gun. Or, read her amazing essay on INHERENT VICE for the New Beverly Cinema.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

“…if it’s a quiet night out at the beach and your ex-old lady suddenly out-of-nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land-developer boyfriend, and his wife, and her boyfriend, and a plot to kidnap the billionaire and throw him in a loony-bin…”A mystery in which the mystery isn’t the point.A detective story in which the detective seems incapable of remembering all but the most basic facts (and even those require scribbled entries into his pocket notebook).A film noir set not at night but mostly beneath the milkspilt murk of L.A. County’s smogwhite daylight.Inherent Vice is a film that deceptively uses its hardboiled detective fiction framework as a method of inquiry into something far deeper, and far more serious, than a plot to kidnap a real estate developer. It tricks us into settling in for a noir about a man solving a mystery, and instead presents us with a man confronting a melancholy truth: everything—lives, eras, and loves—comes to an end.And so it is with endings that Increment Vice begins. Together with guest Blake Howard, our host Travis Woods dives deep into the film’s opening scene, zigzagging from such topics as Joan Didion to End Of The ‘60s movies to romantic breakups, from the (maybe?) illusory nature of Vice character Sortilège all the way to the wry, smirking warmth at the heart of Paul Thomas Anderson’s heartbreaking, hilarious film.About the Guest - BLAKE HOWARDBlake Howard is a writer, a podcaster, and the editor-in-chief & co-founder of Australian film blog Graffiti With Punctuation. He is the creator of One Heat Minute Productions and the producer of Increment Vice.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the finale of The Last (12 minutes) of the Mohicans, I join the auteur behind this masterwork - Michael Mann. Mr Mann and I talk about existence on the planet Earth, the criticality of Wes Studi's performance for the success of this drama, the singularity of Daniel Day-Lewis as a performer, the twilight zone of the frontier and so much more.This episode was brought to you by Via Vision Entertainment. Follow Via Vision on Facebook and Twitter.ABOUT MICHAEL MANNDirector of Thief, Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice and more.Mr Mann is currently working with acclaimed five-time New York Times bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman on a prequel/sequel novel to HEAT. The book features key origin story elements for several key characters, including Vincent Hanna and Neil McCauley, among others, as well as continuing several story threads from the landmark crime drama. Harper Collins will publish the novel in 2020.According to Deadline, Mr. Mann has been set by HBO Max to direct the pilot episode of Tokyo Vice, the drama series that stars Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. Mann will potentially direct more episodes of the series in its freshman season, and he becomes executive producer alongside J.T. Rogers, John Lesher, Alan Poul, Emily Gerson Saines, Elgort, Destin Daniel Cretton and Watanabe.Twitter: @MichaelMannAbout the show: THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann's 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. The format of the podcast, which slightly differs from ONE HEAT MINUTE, utilises the entire final twelve-minute climax of Mohicans as a portal to explore the themes of the movie. The show examines the cross-section of political apparatuses, colonial superpower wrangling, and Mr Mann's riff on the "great American hero." The final episode - once again will feature Mr Mann to unpack his intentions with the film in the conception and orchestration of its grand ending.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the penultimate episode of the series I join - in my opinion - the world's greatest living film critic, The New York Times co-chief film critic, Manohla Dargis. Manohla confesses that she fell in love with Michael Mann's work watching The Last of the Mohicans. And to close, I join co-author of THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS, TV and film critic for Vulture and Editor-at-Large of RogerEbert.com - the equally legendary - Matt Zoller Seitz. Matt tells me that Magua is one of his favourite characters in the history of movies, and so much more.ABOUT MANOHLA DARGIS Manohla Dargis grew up in the East Village in New York, where she attended public school and was a frequent attendee at both St. Mark's Cinema and Theater 80. She started writing about movies professionally in 1987 while earning her M.A. in cinema studies at New York University. A class with the longtime Village Voice critic J. Hoberman led to her being hired to write about avant-garde cinema for the Voice. She has been the co-chief film critic for The New York Times since 2004. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. (Bio via The New York Times)To read her great work go hereTwitter: @ManohlaDargis ABOUT MATT ZOLLER SEITZBio via Roger Ebert Dot ComMatt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine, the creator of many video essays about film history and style, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the author of The Wes Anderson Collection. His writing on film and TV has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, New York Press, The Star-Ledger and Dallas Observer.Twitter: @mattzollerseitzAbout the show: THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann's 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. The format of the podcast, which slightly differs from ONE HEAT MINUTE, utilises the entire final twelve-minute climax of Mohicans as a portal to explore the themes of the movie. The show examines the cross-section of political apparatuses, colonial superpower wrangling, and Mr Mann's riff on the "great American hero." The final episode - once again will feature Mr Mann to unpack his intentions with the film in the conception and orchestration of its grand ending.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

First up, in this two-part episode, I join staff writer Bright Wall/ Dark Room, contributor for Cinephilia & Beyond and host of the upcoming INCREMENT VICE podcast, Travis Woods. Travis opens the episode by hounding Blake about tempting fate with another Michael Mann podcast. Their war party then continues, going deep on Mann's "time is luck" theme resonating all the more powerfully in Mohicans. TIME: 01:32To close the episode, I join joins film and television critic with Fairfax Media and creator of BINGE-R Mr Craig Mathieson. Blake and Craig discuss Mann's uncanny ability to swell and contract form the collective to the individual focus and that it's kind of a miracle that this film exists.TIME: 1:04:46ABOUT TRAVIS WOODSTravis Woods lives and writes in Los Angeles. He is a staff writer for Bright Wall/ Dark Room, contributor for Cinephilia & Beyond, and features in The Los Angeles Times, Paste Magazine, ScreenCrave, Rupert Pupkin Speaks, and others. He has a dog and a tattoo of Elliott Gould smoking. Bob Dylan once clapped him on the back and whispered something incomprehensible. These are the only interesting things about him.FURTHER READING:Film essays TWITTER: @AHEARTOFGOULDABOUT CRAIG MATHIESONCraig Mathieson is a television and film critic for The Age/SMH and The Monthly. Creator of BINGE-R, which you should subscribe to right now.TWITTER: @CMSCREENSAbout the show: THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann's 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. The format of the podcast, which slightly differs from ONE HEAT MINUTE, utilises the entire final twelve-minute climax of Mohicans as a portal to explore the themes of the movie. The show examines the cross-section of political apparatuses, colonial superpower wrangling, and Mr Mann's riff on the "great American hero." The final episode - once again will feature Mr Mann to unpack his intentions with the film in the conception and orchestration of its grand ending.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

First up, in this two-part episode, I join Staff Writer at WBUR's The ARTery and a Contributing Writer at North Shore Movies - my favourite Bostonian - Sean Burns. Sean recounts hilarious observations of Boston labourers working with Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of The Crucible, before gushing about the beauty of 90s Madeleine Stowe.To close the episode, I join Jen Johans film critic and screenwriter to discuss symphonies of trios echoing throughout the film and the double devastation of Uncas and Alice's death.ABOUT SEAN BURNSSean Burns is a Staff Writer at WBUR's The ARTery and a Contributing Writer at North Shore Movies. He was Philadelphia Weekly's Lead Film Critic from 1999 through 2013 and worked as the Movies Section Contributing Editor at The Improper Bostonian from 2006 until 2014. His reviews, interviews and essays have also appeared in Metro, The Village Voice, The Boston Herald, Nashville Scene, Time Out New York, Philadelphia City Paper, Movie Mezzanine, The House Next Door and RogerEbert.com.A 2013 nominee for the National Society of Film Critics, Burns was a recurring guest on the late David Brudnoy's WBZ 1030 AM radio show, and in 2002 received an award for Excellence in Criticism from the Greater Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists.His writing has been called "jocular but serious, more like a 1940′s daily reporter pounding out columns on a manual typewriter than a typical 21st-century navel-gazing film critic." Meanwhile, his sisters still tell him that he "swears too much and drives like an old lady."TWITTER: @SEANMBURNSABOUT JEN JOHANSAn avid film buff and three-time national award-winning writer, the only time Jen Johans ever got into trouble in school, was for talking about movies during quiet time. Jen Johans received a BA in Film Studies and was dubbed a walking movie encyclopaedia. Dedicated to sharing her love of film with others, Johans went from working on local festivals to curating and hosting a film discussion series before she launched the first version of her site Film Intuition in her final semester back in 2006.Originally devoted solely to the work of female filmmakers (hence its name), although she branched out as readership grew to cover everything from classic to modern mainstream fare, after twelve years and 2,400 pieces, Jen Johans remains just as committed as ever to reviewing films made by women. Likewise eager to showcase foreign, arthouse, and indie titles often overlooked on other sites, when she isn't writing about or watching movies, chances are she can be found talking about them on Twitter (@FilmIntuition) where there's no such thing as quiet time.TWITTER: @FILMINTUITIONAbout the show: THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann's 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. The format of the podcast, which slightly differs from ONE HEAT MINUTE, utilises the entire final twelve-minute climax of Mohicans as a portal to explore the themes of the movie. The show examines the cross-section of political apparatuses, colonial superpower wrangling, and Mr Mann's riff on the "great American hero." The final episode - once again will feature Mr Mann to unpack his intentions with the film in the conception and orchestration of its grand ending.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy