Breaking The Waves (Episode 58) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Release Date: 11/17/2017
Clash By Night (Episode 204) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Of his time working with then burgeoning film actress Marilyn Monroe, Fritz Lang recalls a 26 year old who struggled with self esteem issues, set tardiness, and lack of preparation. On 1952's Clash By Night, adapted from the Clifford Odets play, Monroe drove the director to distraction but was surprisingly embraced by leading lady Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck, recognizing an overwhelmed and emotionally vulnerable fellow actress, was patient, helpful, and caring with the young actress according to Lang. What resulted was a pretty assured above the title debut for Monroe and...
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Paris Blues (Episode 202) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The couples paired up in Martin Ritt's 1961 musical drama Paris Blues were more than just smart casting. Real life married paramours Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward play Ram and Lillian, a jazz musician and the woman he falls in love with him. And Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll, real life lovers at the time, play Eddie and Connie. Carroll and Poitier had carried on an extramarital affair on their previous film Porgy and Bess and continued during the making of Paris Blues. Both eventually stayed married and ended the affair after Paris Blues was completed. Dan...
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Megan Is Missing (Episode 201) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky discuss the found footage horror thriller Megan is Missing. The film, starring many first time actors and shot for under a week on a $35,000 budget, was the brain child of cinematographer Michael Goi. Goi was eager to make a cautionary tale on the dangers of online predators and so impressed Anchor Bay Films they gave the movie, shot in 2008, a small theatrical release in 2011. Starring Amber Perkins and Rachel Quinn, Megan is Missing has divided critics - some applauding it's unflinching look at the dangers of being a teen in the internet age and others calling...
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Top Ten Directorial Debuts (Episode 200) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Our 200th Episode! 200 episodes of Hot Dates and Hot Takes on some of the weirdest, most beautiful and just plain bad movies. We've covered Oscar Winners and Razzie Winners, blockbusters and indie films, classics and guilty pleasures. To celebrate this milestone, we've invited Alexandra Kopko from the Film Bros Podcast to discuss our favorite directorial debuts. Dan and Vicky and Alex offer their top tens and a fun list of alternates. From the Gerwigs to the Raimis to the Lumets, hear the films that paved the way for some of the greatest careers in film - and some that...
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Home Room (Episode 199) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The 2002 film Home Room imagines the unlikely friendship between two survivors of a school shooting - women from very different backgrounds united in tragedy. Busy Philipps and Erika Christensen play Alicia and Deanna respectively and Victor Garber is the police investigator hoping the two will help answer questions about the deceased shooter. With Columbine fresh in the world's memory, director/writer Paul F. Ryan attempts to examine the effect a mass shooting can have on the community and the people in it. Dan and Vicky discuss the little seen Home Room along with lots of...
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Blood Oath (Episode 198) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The 1990 Australian film Blood Oath (aka Prisoners of the Sun) is the harrowing true to life story of the military tribunal put together on the Indonesian island of Ambon to investigate the mass killings of Australian soldiers in a Japanese POW camp. Leading the charge is Captain Cooper, played by stalwart Aussie actor Bryan Brown (FX, Cocktail, Anyone But You) and a whole battalion of great supporting turns from Deborah Unger, Terry O' Quinn, Russell Crowe, Toshi Shioya, Tetsu Watanabe, George Takei and John Polson. Dan and Vicky look at the film along with a bevy of recently seen...
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The Reckless Moment (Episode 197) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Joan Bennett and James Mason, in only his third US film, play blackmailee and blackmailer respectively in director Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment - his tale of a harried housewife whose life is turned upside down when her daughter accidentally kills a cad boyfriend and Bennett tries to cover it up. After directing only five American films, German born Ophuls returned to France, where he was a citizen, and continued to direct until his untimely death at age 54. Despite a relatively small output, Ophuls is nonetheless considered a true auteur. Dan and Vicky discuss the film along...
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J.D.'s Revenge (Episode 196) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Shot on location in New Orleans, blaxploitation horror film J.D.'s Revenge was the introduction of two of the hardest working and respected Black actors in the business - Glynn Turman and Louis Gossett. Already established presences in lots of TV and film projects, J.D.'s Revenge gave them the opportunity to play leading roles. With able support from Joan Pringle and Fred Pinkard, the movie, about a law student possessed by the spirit of a violent gangster, has become a cult favorite. Dan and Vicky discuss the film, along with lots of recently seen like Nicole...
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Experiment in Terror (Episode 195) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Shot on location in foggy San Francisco, Blake Edwards' Experiment in Terror was his follow up to Breakfast at Tiffany's - again engaging a young sophisticated city girl with a handsome leading man but this time in a very different context. Lee Remick plays Emily Sherwood, a bank teller menaced by a blackmailer and serial killer and Glenn Ford is the FBI agent assigned to protect her and capture the villain. Ross Martin, known mostly for playing nice guys, is bad guy Red Lynch and was nominated for a best supporting actor Golden Globe. Dan and Vicky discuss the stylish noir...
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Longlegs (Episode 194) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date is shaking things up for our latest episode. Instead of reaching back in history for a random date, Dan & Vicky stay in the present and discuss the serial killer thriller and recent release Longlegs, directed by Osgood Perkins and starring Maika Monroe, Nic Cage, Blair Underwood and Alicia Witt. Along with Longlegs, your hosts chat about some recently seen including Sing Sing, Kneecap, Under Paris, the documentary Faye, and horror film Monolith. Check us out on all our socials: FB: Hot Date Podcast Twitter: @HotDate726 Insta: hotdatepod
info_outlineEmily Watson had never acted for the camera before her career making and Oscar nominated turn in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. The 1996 film was the first film von Trier made after founding the film movement Dogma 95 which set down specific rules for any film created under the banner - namely, no filming on built sets, no use of post-dubbed music and no CGI. With Breaking the Waves, von Trier adhered to none of those rules and in turn created what many feel to be his most successful and accessible film.
After a busy summer, Dan and Vicky are back at 330 Studios covering their first Lars von Trier film, Breaking the Wave. They catch us up on their lives and the many things they've watched recently. Vicky expounds on TV shows like Santa Clarita Diet, Top of the Lake, The Exorcist, American Vandal and the George Michael documentary Freedom while Dan checks in with Big Little Lies and Channel Zero. And they both gives us their thoughts on the movies Blade Runner 2049, The Snowman, The Bad Seed, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Fifty Shades Darker, Gerald's Game, Nocturnal Animals, and Happy Death Day among others.
Take a listen to Hot Date 58: Breaking the Waves and make sure to leave us some feedback.