1999: The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Twenty-five years ago, a young opportunist went to Italy to convince a rich playboy to come home again, and well ... shenanigans ensued. If you don't know anything about THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, you've had a quarter century to get up to speed. But we won't spoil it here - just go watch the movie then come back to us and listen to the Rewinders (with special guest Joe Prince) discuss the talent and the ripples (hi there, Jude Law). #BeKindRewind
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1999: South Park - Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
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Twenty-five years ago, the most shocking and tasteless cartoon on cable television turned itself into an even more shocking and tasteless film about a shocking and tasteless cartoon that soon becomes an international incident, thanks to those adorable, shocking, tasteless little scamps Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman. It's SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER & UNCUT and we're gonna g*dd**mn f**king well talk about it. #BeKindRewind
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1999: All About My Mother
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In a TRP first, the Rewinders are discussing film that isn't in English. Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 drama ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER was the winner of the Oscar for Best Foriegn Language Film, and the most-awarded film in the history of his native Spain. It's the story of a grieving mother, an HIV-positive pregnant nun, a transgender sex worker, a lesbian diva of the theatre, her heroin-addicted girlfriend, and getting by with a little help from your friends. #BeKindRewind
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1999: Election
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Twenty-five years ago, there was a three way battle for leadership between a nerd with likability issues, and good-natured goofball, and a spoiler candidate who just wanted to sow chaos. No, we're not talking about Gore, Dubya, and Nader - we're focusing on Carver High in Omaha, Nebraska, where Tracy Flick is ready for her ascension to Student Council President and her biggest nemesis seems to be not her fellow candidates, but an English teacher set on thwarting her goals. Directed by Alexander Payne and starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, this ELECTION is actually fun to watch....
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1999: Fight Club
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We're starting our 1999 season off with a bang, if by "bang" you mean repeated punches to the head. Yes, it's David Fincher's tale of toxic masculinity and violence. We're not only going to talk about FIGHT CLUB, but we're going to spoil the hell out of it, so if you've never seen it before, you might want to give it a view before tuning into our show. #BeKindRewind
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1999 Preview
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In a week, The Rewinders are setting the way-back machine to 25 years ago, when we were on the precipice of a new millennium, and Hollywood was cranking out an amazing number of brilliant movies. We can only watch six of them for the show, however ... if you want to listen along, here's your homework. We're gonna party like it's 1999. #BeKindRewind
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Welcome to Season 6!
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We're baaaack!! And this year, we're looking at movies from 1999, 1974, 1949, and all the 4's and 9's in between. In case you want to watch along, we're pleased to present our slate of films for Season 6. Come along for the ride, and #BeKindRewind ...
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1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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As the Rewind Project wraps up another year, we wanted to discuss a wholesome, heartwarming tale of greed, madness, murder, and revenge. It's basically THE SHINING in an isolated mountain range, starring Humphrey Bogart as a down-on-his-luck beggar whose evil side emerges when he thinks he strikes gold, and an Oscar-winning performance by Walter Huston as a plucky prospector (directed by his Oscar-winning son, John). THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE is dark and weird, so obviously we needed to talk about it. #BeKindRewind
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1948: The Snake Pit
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Seventy-five years ago, Olivia de Havilland starred in a film that humanized women struggling with mental health, and together with director Anatole Litvak, created a sensitive portrayal of a woman and one caring psychologist working in an overcrowded and often cruel system. Take our hand, we're walking into THE SNAKE PIT. It'll be okay. #BeKindRewind
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1948: Easter Parade
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Seventy-five years ago, MGM took one of the most beloved songs from Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN, and made a movie that has absolutely nothing to do with Easter. But! It has Judy Garland and Fred Astaire and Peter Lawford and Ann Miller and 16 more songs by Berlin. EASTER PARADE is an old-fashioned musical about a song-and-dance man and the girl he plucks from obscurity to become the toast of Broadway, and we're gonna put on our fanciest bonnets and talk about it. #BeKindRewind
info_outlineSpoiler Alert: Soylent Green is not derived from plankton. Fifty years ago, audiences watched a dystopian film set fifty years in the future. The weird thing is, they weren't that far off. Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson star in SOYLENT GREEN, people. #BeKindRewind