It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode, and our guest is Bilge Ebiri. Do we need to sell you on this? OK, fine: in 1998 Steven Soderbergh took a job for hire directing an Elmore Leonard adaptation and ended up finding the style that would define much of his career, minting George Clooney as a movie star, capturing Jennifer Lopez's best-ever performance, working with Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman and a bunch of other people for the first time, and making one of the most watchable films of the 1990s. Jake also read the whole book. We talk about Leonard's moral universe, prison stuff, cop stuff, crime fiction stuff. I mean, come on. It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode with Bilge.

Further Reading:

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

"Louisiana's Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism" by W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Further Viewing:

POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967)

DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg, 1973)

GET SHORTY (Sonnenfeld, 1995)

JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997)

THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (Garbus, Rideau & Stack, 1998)

"Karen Sisco" (2003)

"Justified" (2010)

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We're talking more Gene Hackman and getting into the 1990s Elmore Leonard boom with Barry Sonnenfeld's GET SHORTY, and our friend Forrest Tiffany is here to help! Join us as we plot the line from PULP FICTION to GET SHORTY to JACKIE BROWN to OUT OF SIGHT, sing the praises of the cast, and check in with a particularly juicy Pine Cone Crime Zone.

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What the hell is going on with Steven Soderbergh's 1996 super-low-budget labor of love comedy SCHIZOPOLIS? Our returning guests, the filmmakers and all-around handsome devils Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori of the To The White Sea Podcast, help us get to the bottom of it. Is this quietly a devastating analysis of a failed marriage starring the director and his real-life ex-wife Betsy Brantley? Or is all that drowned out by too much proto-Random Humor and OK Cola-style 90s disaffection? Is Jake even capable of being nice about this movie? Listen to find out!

Further Reading:

Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

"E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" by David Foster Wallace

"David Lynch Keeps His Head" by David Foster Wallace

Further Viewing:

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Lester, 1964)

MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS (McNaughton/Davies, 1969)

PUTNEY SWOPE (Downey, 1969)

THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (Landis, 1977)

GRAY'S ANATOMY (Soderbergh, 1996)

LOST HIGHWAY (Lynch, 1997)

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