There's a TCM podcast called The Plot Thickens [0], season 1 of which was all about Peter Bogdanovich and well worth listening to if you're at all interested in the man or the auteur years of Hollywood. I'd also recommend Peter Biskind's Easy Riders Raging Bulls [1], one of my all time favourite books.
A recent 99% Invisible episode on alphabetical order was pretty fascinating. It's based on Judith Flanders's new book about alphabetical order, A Place for Everything. Among things I hadn't considered is how in Chinese "alphabetical order" is based on the number of strokes in the character.
Finally, both seasons of TMC's The Plot Thickens that aired this year were good listens. Season 2 is on the failed film adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities. Season 3 is on Lucille Ball. https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/
And heck, one more film podcast. The Mubi Podcast's episode on the Chinese film "Dream Factory" and how it basically built up that country's film industry was a great story I had never heard before: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mubi-podcast/id1569229544
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There's a TCM podcast called The Plot Thickens [0], season 1 of which was all about Peter Bogdanovich and well worth listening to if you're at all interested in the man or the auteur years of Hollywood. I'd also recommend Peter Biskind's Easy Riders Raging Bulls [1], one of my all time favourite books.
[0] https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/season-one/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Riders%2C_Raging_Bulls
A recent 99% Invisible episode on alphabetical order was pretty fascinating. It's based on Judith Flanders's new book about alphabetical order, A Place for Everything. Among things I hadn't considered is how in Chinese "alphabetical order" is based on the number of strokes in the character.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/alphabetical-order/
Two other goods ones from the always enjoyable Decoder Ring:
Truly Tasteless Jokes - How "free speech" moved from being a largely left-wing phenomenon to a right-wing phenomenon through an '80s joke book: https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021/12/decoder-ring-truly-tasteless-jokes-80s-politics-free-speech-obscenity-law
The Tootsie Shot - About filming in New York and an iconic shot you've seen from countless films - https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021/06/tootsie-shot
Finally, both seasons of TMC's The Plot Thickens that aired this year were good listens. Season 2 is on the failed film adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities. Season 3 is on Lucille Ball. https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/
And heck, one more film podcast. The Mubi Podcast's episode on the Chinese film "Dream Factory" and how it basically built up that country's film industry was a great story I had never heard before: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mubi-podcast/id1569229544