The Nose Went To 'Blade Runner 2049' (Even Though No One Else Did)

[Music] okay here we go here there's like last minute conversations going on we try to make sure we know what we're talking about although when has that ever stopped us here on the news uh we're going to be talking today in the second segment today we'll be talking about um the new installment I don't know exactly what to call it but there's after 35 years another Blade Runner movie I guess that's how what I should say uh we'll talk about that we all went to see it uh and towards the end of the show we're going to make some recommendations uh to you for other things uh but we're going to begin with some conversations which essentially revisit some things we've talked about on previous episodes of the nose the situation in which Jamal Hill a broadcaster at ESPN finds uh and the ongoing coverage of the Harvey Weinstein uh mess and the concomitant Banning of actress Rose McAn for 12 hours from Twitter um so to do all that we have assembled um three replicants no they're not replicants Rand Richard Cooper is a novelist essayist and critic he writes the in our midst column for Hartford magazine Kate Russian is a teaching artist for the Connecticut office of the Arts and a pushkart prize nominated poet uh and Pedro Soto is Chief Operating Officer at spacecraft manufacturing uh in New Haven so I we think so Rand we think we can smush all these things together or at least I think you in our email correspondences felt that all these things can go together but maybe we we need to sort of separate them out at first um so let's begin with Jamal Jamal Hill Jamal Hill is an ESPN anchor uh she had become somewhat controversial weeks ago by among other things calling president Donald Trump a white supremacist um and now she has been suspended from her job um because she called for a boycott of the sponsors associated with the Dallas Cowboys after the owner of the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones essentially said that he would uh fire or bench or do something about anyway anybody who uh from now on knelt during the national anthem despite the fact that Jerry Jones had previously stood with his arms locked with his players and done all that kind of solidarity stuff that was so much in Vogue about two weeks ago um so um so I guess we'll start there uh and Rand I already called your name so you can begin um I know that you feel as though this puts ESPN in kind of an interesting bind they they have to lose face with somebody yeah I think it's it's um it's an interesting situation because we see roles and expectations that are kind of changing before our very eyes there's always been a default expectation that certain things will be left out of uh Sports journalism and of Journalism generally one one context in which we could put this is the increasingly partisan nature of of journalism I mean that's that's one frame for this uh for this discussion um are journalists going to be allowed and even expected to bring into uh their coverage of events whether they're political journalists or or even now Sports journalists uh their own take their their own tilt is there anything wrong with that uh aside from possibly annoying sponsors uh and employers the other questions that interest me are the role and uh and the meaning of social media in uh in so far as they relate to our jobs uh and uh and ourselves is that is your social is your Twitter account is your Facebook a sort of Arena of your private opinion that you can maintain separate from your job um what if what if you're out there more or less representing yourself in your job capacity more specifically col to your to your point I do think that ESPN and the sponsors and the team owners do find them between a rock and a hard place and I guess you could say the rock is uh concerned ultimately these are businesses about alienating um sponsors but on the other hand you've got a highly politicized and active and also divided group of people who watch sports who are out there on Twitter all the time if they fire Jamal if they fire Jamal Hill there's going to be an enormous backlash but if they do nothing then they seem to be giving tacit approval to what constitutes a real game changer in moment for the politicization of sports and you know what there's a backlash against that rocking a hard place well I mean Kate they seem very confused they seem very confused all along they were so confused by the events in Charlottesville that they uh diverted an Asian-American football uh play-by-play guy named Robert Lee from this from the Virginia game feeling that that would be incendiary I mean they seem not to know what's incendiary and what's not this just maybe isn't something that their skill set uh was built for that was not a great move to uh remove that uh that sports caster but I have to say speaking from my heart um I I don't say that Jamal Hill didn't have the right to write what she wrote but what I what I would want to ask uh Jamal Hill is like didn't she notice how many ESPN staff and broadcasters have been laid off and fired over the past uh chunk of time and um you know does she remember how long it took undefeated to get to the air and maybe she does not remember uh when uh Oprah was actually sued by the Texas cattle ranchers in 98 and it's the Cowboys maybe it would have just been better just to hang back a little bit and not even bring put herself in this situation by calling names even though I I think she asked people who disagreed with the owner's position to perhaps consider a boycott I don't think she actually called for a boycott but I just I I would like her to keep her job and I wish she hadn't put herself in this position I think she is going to keep her job and Pedro we know that yes in fact as Donald Trump likes to point out um ESPN does have a little bit of a kind of a subscription problem right now I think it has more to do with the mechanics of cable than it does with any particular thing they're putting on the air but all the same we know that they've hired people like Jamal Hill and encouraged them to have an attitude um I mean as somebody who's been in a position like that I can tell you what they do is they encourage you to have an attitude and to push the envelope and then one day you do the wrong thing and they suspend you for two weeks I mean I don't know what do you make of this no I I I think it is it is hard to you know they're kind of serving two sides um I think that there's the you know generally Sports y raw rapid in the flag USA you know uh thing and then there's the kind of trying to push the boundaries and and say messages with sports you know with Colin Kaepernick and really kind of supporting that and ESPN's trying to to kind of balance those two things and kind of carry both of them forward and then at some point you kind of hit a breaking point and I do feel that unfortunately you know the the issue has been literally turned into a literal black and white issue and I think that um you know Jamal Hill was probably responding to that and maybe forcing it to just sort of speak to that that it's it's not um it's not about players disrespecting it's about sort of you know the president literally telling you know a certain um race that their form of protest is wrong and I think that you know that's that's kind of being lost in the in the discussion I think that's being lost in the picture it's literally being turned into a you know you hate America um issue and I think she was probably responding a lot to that right so she yeah she did a series of tweets about this um and and I went back and looked on her Twitter account it was a little hard to a little bit jumbled but I think at one point she did use the word boycott uh there were other tweets that there were a little bit more like change happens when advertisers are impacted if you strongly reject what Jerry Jones said the key is his advertisers but I'm pretty sure she did at one point use the word boycott and you know Rand one thing I said in the emails about this is well first of all I would say I don't think she'd be suspended right now if she hadn't used the word boycott my experience has been that that your employers don't mind if you're controversial if that's what they want you to be in the first place don't mind you if you condemn things as wrong or evil uh there's all kinds of things that they don't mind but if you start to become the news if you cause a thing thing to happen that would not have otherwise happened you've sort of entered a different area and then of course if you cause a thing to happen to a class of people known as advertisers um you've got like a whole new set of problems well the it's always an interesting question for any institution how much contradiction structurally can an institution contain within itself capitalism the the world of of marketing moving and selling products can sustain by pre and absorption an enormous amount of structural contradiction so it will it never can surprise you in America when today's dangerous protest emerges as tomorrow's commercial and and you know you you have expect Jamal Jamal Hill to somehow be now championed and and and and emerge ultimately with some product attached to her uh so there's an almost infinite resiliency to the way our system absorbs these kinds of things I do believe that it's an interesting new moment and that the force field that the vectors of force that are involved are numerous and and complicated for Donald Trump it's very straightforward this is uh this is offensive And he as always appeals directly to hardcore supporters who believe exactly as he does but you can see that the NFL considers it way more complicated look what's become of kernick uh uh protest look at the con very complex choreography of what has gone on in recent weeks you have some players kneeling other players stand but they put a hand on the shoulder of the people kneeling some owners come out and they lock arms of players but have their hand over their heart I mean it's Kabuki football theater you can't figure this stuff out in order to try to figure it out what you're doing is charting a whole bunch of very consciously blurred positions that are designed you know to cover people's butts in all eventualities and all directions at once that's part of what makes it so so interesting a situation I think um I don't know do you have one one more guess I I look forward to reading a piece by Jamal Hill rather than a tweet I'll leave it at that yeah I mean I think that's a great point that I mean and ran kind of alluded to this at the beginning people don't know where they are when they're on Twitter even unto this day and even a young media Savvy person like Jamal Hill I think may there's a way in which people kind of get in this Twitter bubble right you know and they just think okay so I'm tweeting right now and I'll just I'm going to keep developing my thoughts here on Twitter and you know what you're not developing your thoughts you're publishing your thoughts well I I also think that you know the uh the president was also telling people to boycott the NFL and I think that she was responding as well saying boycott you know on the other side like two can play at this game and um and then you're right she she became the news because of who she is versus you know the president kind of gets a pass on on I mean if that if I were Jamal Hill that part would bother me that the president could say anything he wants to on Twitter whether he means it or not whether he tends it to be carried through or not it doesn't make any difference but if you're everybody else and especially if you're Jamal Hill no I mean they lower the boom on you his sponsors never his sponsors never say no or or Rose mcgan so so yeah so Rose mcgan was a ban for 12 hours this week on Twitter as a result of the Harvey Weinstein thing although I don't know before we launch into this and I I I'm prepared by the way to be shouted down about this or I prefer to be eased down but you could shout me down if you want to I mean I I have been troubled for I look at news aggreg to kind of get myself going in the day so memorandum is a really great one kind of gets you gives you a sense of what is being covered you know and how it's being covered how much it's being covered and so every day for the last seven or eight days I go on memorandum and I can see that there are 20 30 stories at Major publishing outlets and stories that are being linked to by other out all about this Harvey Weinstein thing which we talked about last Friday and I don't I don't minimize it I mean it absolutely is a big story it's an important story it's a placeholder for all of the the closet toxic treatment of of women that's gone on in Hollywood and lots of other places for ages and ages I I don't but I I it's sort of turned into to me it's turned into a story about well what does you know what does Oliver Stone think about this well what does Don Donna Karan think about this well what are the 20 famous people think about what Donna Ken thinks about this and you know I don't know we're on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea and Puerto Rico is about to have this cascading Health crisis and I I feel like this thing is eating up and awful lot of oxygen all of a sudden but tell me I'm wrong I might be wrong well you know I I I think the Harvey Weinstein has webs or tacles or whatever and I think uh there are more stories that are going to come out about more people uh I do think that we need to be paying more attention to what's happening in in Puerto Rico and uh in the Virgin Islands and the rest of the Caribbean and I I think that our we're too um it's like we follow the shiny things all the time and I think we need to really uh consciously pay more attention to things we say that we're concerned about such as what's going on in Puerto Rico where certainly um uh the the military has been there all along so what did take them so long so there's a group of women who are among other things now threatening to boycott Twitter see it's boycott week uh because Rose McOwen was was uh temporarily suspended this was mainly because of a tweet that had a screenshot in it that had a personal that a personal phone number yeah but you can also take that tweet down and just I mean the administrators of Twitter can take that down and just keep moving I guess the decision makers weren't around at that moment I mean I don't know I'm finding it hard to worry too much about this but there are people who very see it another another kind of silencing I I think that I mean backing up for a second I mean I think two things are driving why this is caught fire in the news I I think number one um well there's kind of three things I'll try to go quickly number one we're we're basically almost exactly a year from Access Hollywood so this is literally another you know issue of of of a you know powerful man treating women horribly um you know I think that um so that kind of is driving a lot of this the right is also pushing this because they're saying haha it's the you know the kind of what aboutism right it's you you guys do this too and it's like yes but you know the world is casting him down from his height rather than electing him president but anyways um you know and I think that I think that maybe uh you know and I think that Samantha B you know on her show this week kind of said you know this is maybe an inflection point where like this is it this is we're we're done Hollywood you know old Hollywood is dead after this point you know the the King has fallen and everyone who's done this in the past or is thinking of doing this in the future is on notice that that this is it this is just the beginning of the end of how Hollywood does that that's a that's a good argument that's a okay Rand I can give you 60 seconds and then I have to go to so to just to go back to what you said I do think there is a surprising and somewhat mysterious provincialism that's created by the mass focus on on the day's topics I was most interested in the notion that a 12-hour uh ban from Twitter constitutes a serious punishment um I first I thought it was a slap in the wrist but then I thought you know what people check in so constantly that to be off for 12 hours constitutes a serious problem for many people now to relate this to what we said earlier there's a way in which the massive focus on one two or three popular topics of the day is part of what's creating the force that is wieldable by people out there like like Jamal Hill and and part of what sponsors and networks have to take seriously this massive wave that constitutes the next three days attention is about to crash over our heads so there's there's a way in which the very provincialism and narrowness that you mentioned Colin I think is actually part of what becomes the weapon all right beautifully done we're going to take a break some people are going to come on they're going to talk to you about pledging and supporting and if you do that now you're saying you really value in particular the kind of conversation we're having right now and the value of having great conversationalists like ran Richards Cooper and Kate Russian and Pedro stto on so please do pledge with these very nice people you're about to Mr Harvey Weinstein you got to understand your actions are atrocious and completely out of hand are no excuses we're here to talk about Blade Runner in 1982 a movie called Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford directed by Ridley Scott Based On A Philip K dick short story or Nolla or something uh which was actually called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep um splashed up onto the movie screens and not much happened actually that was not a commercial success it was not a critical success it took a long I think it was nominated for zero Academy Awards it took a while before people kind of understood that this really was a bending point in The History of Science Fiction on movies that The Noir aesthetic and all kinds of interesting search searching moral and existential questions could be embedded in a really cool looking movie so uh it has since then been established itself as a real classic and um it seems as though um quite a few years have gone by without anything being done about that and that's because 35 years have passed and now here we are with a brand new Blade Runner movie we all went to see it Blade Runner 2049 2049 so I think I just could of go around the table I'll start with you Pedro and just I mean in a nutshell how are you feeling about this movie I I loved it um now it's a with a giant caveat um that I don't think it's for everyone and I can see why it did how it did in the theater but um just for for me for what this movie was um as this one little Blade Runner movie you know devoid of all other context I love the movie um so I watched it you know 2 hours and 42 minutes I think went by and and every moment I I wasn't you know looking at my watch I was just watching this really cool experience we we get to the guy with back problems and see if two hours and 42 minutes just flew by for him but Kate actually you're up next well I do not fit the Target demographic for this movie and um despite the what I saw as an interesting question about uh whether or not the the Blade Runner can have a soul I found my experience spoiled by the narrow and ridiculously sexualized representations of women interesting I want to come back to that I mean I know I get what you're saying but I want to come back to it uh all right and Rand I had the kind of reaction that's probably the least favorable one uh for you know for a movie critic and and that was sort of about a about a you want to either really love something or really dislike something and both of those responses are a nice jumping off point for for thinking and writing about a movie but if your your response is my response to this film was about a notch and a half above H and so I I and I was I was ambivalent about it there were things that I liked and the things that I liked really had to do with certain continuities Visual and cinematographic continuities with the first one so so for me part of the of the task of sorting out what I think about the second film is looking back to the first one considering what's happened in the in the 35 years since then and and perhaps raising the question call as you did an email of the the problems of sequels sequels of of successful movies the problems they have in in trying to replicate trying to be replic replicant uh successes uh and I I think for reasons I'd be happy to explain I don't think this one quite makes it as we talk about this we're uh trying I mean we discussed via email whether there are spoilers there are if you get deep enough into the 2our and 40-minute movie some things that could be spoiled and we will not spoil them for you there are other things that kind of constitute the premise of this certainly things that we can tell you uh because they're right at the beginning of the movie Ryan Gosling plays now a Blade Runner blad Runner is a person who seeks out um replicants replicants uhog replicant Rogue replicants okay so Rogue replicants so and replicants are basically engineered human beings that they look like human beings they have most of the vital functions of human beings but they are not human beings they don't uh they are made not born to use the reverse of the phrase that recurs a few times during the movie and as such memories they have things that we maybe uh associate with the notion of having an identity or a soul or a consciousness have been implanted in many cases into them as opposed to experienced so um Ryan Gosling is sent to terminate uh a rogue replicant which is something Blade Runners do and the story kind of unfolds from there so you know I mean Pedro because you are considerably younger than some of us um so I so 1982 I don't know how old you were in 1982 I actually when it came up yeah so you know in many ways I'm wondering if one of the reason you like this movie is maybe you're a little bit more open to fiddling around with the formula because one of the things that Don Don V I practiced saying this and I didn't do it right but the new director of this movie he's clearly decided he's just not going to make the same movie he's going to do something different yeah well but he hued so closely to the aesthetic and the sound and the pacing and the you know the World building um there's a lot that's the same I don't know I might disagree a little bit on that um or I'd like to hear you expound on what you felt was different well yeah I me if there's time I don't know if anybody cares what I think was different um so but maybe we'll come back to that but so Kate I want to talk about women in this movie so I think this is something I do see a little bit differently although I totally get what you're saying the women are sexualized the women are um you know shown naked more often than men are shown naked which I think is something close to never um on the other hand there's sort of these I found the women women in this movie a lot more interesting there's a character named there's a nam character named love who is not interesting uh and there's a character named joy as Jonathan McNichol is pointing out there's a giant naked woman for close to no reason I can't deny that so Joy is this character who is you know some kind of hologramic Consciousness uh with and has a relationship with the Ryan goling character I thought she was in many respects the most interesting thing in the movie and and some of the other female characters Robin Wright has kind of an interesting kind of hardboiled character that she plays there's also a woman we can't say much very much about her but she lives in a bubble because of immune deficiencies and she designs memories to be implanted into replicant I also thought she was a terrific character played by a really interesting actress I don't know I'm I wasn't maybe as dissatisfied with the women's roles as you were yeah I I was totally taken out of the movie by Joy's representation as this kind of uh series SL Stepford Wife hologram and uh there's this little sequence where she goes through the series of of costume changes and it just seemed like a a a a Barbie sexbot with different outfits whatever outfit you want and that just took me tot out of the the movie I would say that the representations of the women in the movie came down to the to the standard Madonna prostitute witch and maybe that's not uh maybe that's not so surprising in Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood all right hard to argue with that um uh before we go to Rand I want to play you a little of this let me see if I can set this up what are the things that Ryan goling eventually has to do on this peculiar Quest on which he finds himself is to go to an orphanage uh and an orphanage that is the 2049 equivalent of one of dickens's orphanages and you'll hear him you I think you'll only hear Ryan speak once the main voice you hear I believe it's the actor who plays Morgan uh in The Walking Dead who is the Fagan or or whatever of this orphanage the nickl is for the colonial ships closest any of them or any of us is is going to get to that grand life off world so come on now what sure do you have in mine cuz I got all kinds no no no I'm not buying no no no this is just my game and I play it fair no no I mean bigger than you bigger than you were try to shut me down bigger than you and they were they were men at that okay uh Rand I want you to actually talk about whatever you want to talk about Vis A this I want to uh come back to Pedro in a second just about the sound of this movie because Pedro is a sound guy well um I hadn't seen Blade Runner the original in many many years probably since since it came out so I I did go back and look and and see it again I I I thought it stood up very well and I was I was struck by um how much visual stuff how much atmosphere is placed upon a really barely existent plot one of the reasons that it didn't do well when it came out and one thing that original critics noticed was that it was kind of slow moving it didn't tell much of a story the LA Times reviewer called it blade creeper and uh but people began to to appreciate just just how rich and and Visually alluring the environment uh the the look and feel of the film was it it really perfectly merged Noir and uh and and science fiction uh so that you know the whole film with the exception of the penultimate scene was shot entirely at night it was really the darkest and most dismal the the glare of neon all of these tropes of Noir film the glare of neon uh off of off of a wet Street um were were combined all these paradoxical opposites were combined that in a way that created what became sort of the default look of dystopian futurism the combination of super high-tech with neglected abandoned and corrupted uh settings so it combined past and future in if not novel then pretty new and really really cool ways so some reviewer it might have been Richard corus say said U when he reviewed the film originally he's a great appreciator of the original Blade Runner when he said he mused out loud what's going on here well what's going on is the here and uh instead of a strong storyline what you had I thought very interestingly was this this kind of motif in which a very a surprising uh and and and mournful and ultimately almost vag narian sense of humanity was placed very unexpectedly at at the very feet of these robots of these replicants and this question of what constitutes our humanity and what constitutes the possible theoretical Humanity of machines it was that last scene in the original Blade Runner with rut gauer as as the replicant Roy baddy how stripped down to sort of a loin cloth and Howling across the the roofs surrounded by Gargoyles the famous tears and Rain speech right the tears and I mean that was a stunningly and really surprisingly poetic moment it was the great moment in the film in my view the second film you can track through scene after scene and and that really do succeed in in giving us a brand of a a sense of sort of visual postapocalyptic Annihilation that's awesome the every time I love something in this movie it was generally when we were seeing a huge Panorama from above from a ship when I liked it way less was usually when we were focusing on two or three people in a room with increasingly hack needed themes of villainy that were pushing the story way Way Beyond what the original one did so for me the original one was was all about a very certain environment look and feel and and and the second one kind of did its own cool version of that but then tried to do more so Pedro and you are a great student of some of the technical aspects of film making um this this movie is going to be a strong Contender for cinematography Roger deacons who I think has been nominated for Oscars 13 times and never won one despite the fact that he really is you know now one of the Shapers of the in ways that ran describing of our modern Cinema aesthetic uh he's going to be a big name come Oscar time and in the sound of this movie we heard it a little bit in that orphanage clip and it's unrelenting the sound of this movie um and it'll either drive you crazy or really impress you yeah I I saw this in uh 2D IMAX um when and the sound was literally cranked up to 11 and I felt it was it's intentional and it is it it really um it gets uncomfortable I actually had to cover my ears a little bit a few times um but I think the fact that this that that pounding sound just kind of drives through the movie is it's almost like another character uh on on screen or in your ears um and so I mean I love the the soundtrack itself I love the kind of kind of you know post falous 30 years later uh take on it it was Han Zimmer right who who kind of came in at the last minute and uh and did this and um but I think that the the decision to kind of amp up the sound to kind of make things things uncomfortable definitely helps it makes definitely makes the movie um a different kind of Beast than something that has you know where where like the loud is explosions you know or the loud is this the loud is never explosions or or anything the loud is just this this this sound this pulsing sound um so I'm so glad I didn't see it in IM Max 2D for that very reason sound was a little bit more tolerable saw it in three three so Kate I mean so granting the point that the sexual politics and the sexual expression of this movie is is offensive uh it was offensive to you and one could very easily understand why is there any there there after that I mean this is very much another movie about the whole question of what it means as Rand says to be human to be conscious to have parents there are all kinds of you know familiar themes in there are any of them laid out in a way that that worked for you yeah you know the the movie was interesting to to me on that level about what constitutes a human and what does it mean to have a soul and what is our relationship to Nature and all that but I I still have to say that you know you can't forget that the replicants were slaves and that the Blade Runner is essentially a slave catcher uh and the first thing he says to The Fugitive replicant that he finds is don't make me shoot you uh and I so I feel it it there's a romanti romanticization and with all the technical uh magnificence of the film all the talent all the money I'm saying is that all there is you can't do a little better around women or or imagining say black people in the future yeah so we're almost out of time here I want to give Ry one more chance to comment here just because the other thing this movie does I joked in the emails that it seemed like they called David Brooks in as a script doctor at the last minute it kind of wears a certain undergraduate familiarity with the the humanities on its sleeves so there are evocations of Kafka for some reason or other pale Fire by Nabokov plays this huge role in there there are complex biblical Illusions as there were also in the original Blade Runner I don't know is there any there there Rand is there anything to uh uh all the stuff it tries to hint at you know what I found what I found it the the Nabokov stuff would take way too long to untangle here but uh when when Gosling's character is subjected to this test to to see whether he's been sufficiently traumatized to be taken out of service he has to recite this sequence of lines that's quite cryptic and they turn out to be lines from nabokov's novel pale fire from the poem within that novel now if you go through this I mean it would take 10 minutes to explicate this it's fascinating its relationship to the film is highly problematic itic um interesting to speculate about the passage has to do with mortality and and and mortality and Machinery is obviously a big motif of this but what I found the to me the the hints in the film were less literary but I found myself thinking about the many films that have come in the 30 years since the original Blade Runner that were in a sense if not spawned at least influenced by it and and and these are films you know as various as as Terminator uh Brazil AI obviously Eternal Sunshine the Spotless Mind with the memory implants Minority Report the very great children of men which I would recommend anyone Alonso quon's film and and and the fact of the 30 years and and this whole large field of films creates a sort of you can't go home again reality for a movie like this it's it's going to make a sequel that tries to connect us back to its original Self and in some sense extend and capitalize on it but but nothing that it can do is anywhere near as novel because of its own success in in creating other things maybe that's why they have to buzz so loudly in your ears so you won't think about that all right we have to take a break here so the panel will have time also to recommend some things to you so let's do that I've seen things you people wouldn't believe a pigeon on the shoulder of Ky risol I watched seab beams glitter on the bare stomach of Harvey Weinstein okay I just got a little sick in my mouth all those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain unless you buy special goggles that collect your tears with a monthly pledge of $20 or more times to do the credits Today's show was produced by J 5189 pants and me Kion wolf Amanda fish has done questionable things our intern Evan has been sent to the offworld Colony the part of Bill Curry was played by Daryl Hannah we'll be back on Monday with news from over the weekend on the scramble and now back to Colin right so there's your teers and Rain speech um and some great Noir music too uh all right so we're going to recommend some things uh we'll start out with you Pedro SoDo um this weekend in New Haven is the continuation of Citywide Open Studios and this one's going to be pretty cool uh it is at the golf Street Armory where they take over a basically vacant uh building that the city now owns and there will be a whole plethora of artists doing some pretty cool and kinetic I believe this year as well things so um you can look it up uh and it it's happening the entire month of October all over New Haven and it's always a treat so all right that's great open studios in New Haven at the golf Street AR Armory what have you got for us Kate Russian all right I'm going to endorse my jazz and poetry project with Nat reev state of emergency at South Congregational Church in Granby and that's Sunday afternoon October 22nd at 4:00 and it's free Fab fabulous musicians and I've got to endorse the parable of the sewer by uh Octavia Butler and there is a new Opera based on that story by Bernie Johnson Reagan and Toshi Reagan doing the music and lyrics and it features a black woman hero and finally I have got to speak out on behalf of the great people who staff adult medical daycare they give respit to uh the caregivers and they give a sense of community and purpose to the clients all right Rand Richards Cooper what have you got for us I'm going to stick with film and uh recommend two things first is something that has aired already but easily findable and that was last week's HBO documentary on Steven Spielberg um I think it's terrific in a couple of ways uh first of all it goes through his films and really forces you to decide whether you consider him a great filmmaker in the in sort of the full artist sense or not and it and it sort of forces you to come to terms with your own values second it it shows what happened with really the first generation of kids who grew up making movies as fun at home and he he was a precociously skilled genius you know who was cranking out films in the 1950s as a little kid it's fascinating uh and and and America's greatest film critic David edstein is is in there a lot the second thing is actually prospective and that's this weekend at real artways is showing Frederick weisman's documentary ex libris which is about the New York Public Library Frederick Weisman is is one of America's greatest documentary filmmakers probably arguably the greatest but he sort of flies semi under the radar a lot of people who who might well know about him don't know about him so go to real art ways watch x lra a love song to the book I can maybe quickly endorse if you want that Noir aesthetic carried on in yet another way Rand read a great list of films I would also recommend the modern version of Battle Star Galactica whose creators actually site uh who who site the original Blade Runner is an inspiration you have to I mean find it in a box set or something like that it probably be kind of expensive but it's really really really good and it's good in a lot of the ways that Blade Runner is good all right that's all we have time for thanks to Rand and to Kate and to Pedro radi radio baby