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"The Cinephiliacs" and me

By July 16, 2012No Comments

My friend Peter Labuza, pro­pri­et­or of the site LabuzaMovies, has star­ted a new ven­ture, a pod­cast series, which is what all the kids are into nowadays. It’s called The Cinephiliacs, and when Peter first pitched me on it he said he aspired to make it an equi­val­ent of Marc Maron’s “WTF” for film lov­ers. And speak­ing of WTF, Peter asked me to be his first guest. Seriously, though, it was an hon­or, and a fas­cin­at­ing and not labor-unintensive exper­i­ence. We cov­er quite a bit of ground and I get quite a bit off of my chest—I don’t recall if I cried or not, I might have—and while I’m gonna take a little break from myself before I listen to it, you don’t have to. Go here for the whole story, and enjoy. I hope. If you do, tell your friends.

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  • Petey says:
    July 16, 2012 at 9:29 am

    It’s time for Cinephiliacs
    And we’re zany to the max
    So just sit back and relax
    You’ll laugh ’til you collapse
    We’re Cinephiliacs!
    Come join the Warner Brothers
    And the Warner Sister, Dot
    Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot.
    They lock us in the tower whenev­er we get caught
    But we break loose and then vamoose
    And now you know the plot!

  • BB says:
    July 16, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    Sounds like my kind of show, Glenn. Thanks for the heads-up on the new series.

  • Fernando says:
    July 16, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    I’m about half an hour in, already LOLed (yessir, I said it) at the Steely Dan ref­er­ence and Johnny Ramone anec­dote. Great stuff.

  • jbryant says:
    July 16, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    You should start one called “Cinecrophiliacs” and have Richard Brody on for a debate.

  • JC says:
    July 16, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    Sorry for the off-topic post, Glenn, but I just wanted to say I really enjoyed read­ing your TDKR review over at MSN. I like your calm, meas­ured approach to assess­ing the mater­i­al, des­pite your appar­ent “super­hero fatigue”.
    And re: the appar­ent eas­ing back from so-called “chaos cinema” (though I’ve nev­er found Nolan’s work, over­all, to be any­where near as chaot­ic as, say, Marc Forster’s com­pletely inco­her­ent Quantum Of Solace, or the last two Bourne movies), hope­fully Jim Emerson, over at Scanners, does­n’t offer up second-verse-same-as-the-first series of art­icles this time around. But part of me feels like he’d more likely to ease up if the gen­er­al reviews were less glow­ing this time around, which does­n’t, thus far, seem to be the case.
    Anyways, cheers. 🙂

  • Graig says:
    July 16, 2012 at 9:38 pm

    Really had quite a won­der­ful time listen­ing to this on the com­mute today. Among many oth­er things, it made me think back to the first time I read that DFW art­icle on David Lynch. It was back in high school (or was it juni­or high?) and I had no idea who Wallace was, but I was just start­ing to get into movies in gen­er­al and Lynch in par­tic­u­lar, and the notion that a magazine could pub­lish an art­icle like this – long, eccent­ric – on an artist I was just com­ing to revere, it totally fried my little brain. Anyway. It was a good listen. I also liked the exten­ded riff on BLOW UP. This Labuza guy did his home­work. Looking for­ward to where this pod­cast goes.

  • bill says:
    July 17, 2012 at 10:18 am

    This is a very fine inter­view. You don’t cry.

  • Stan Stelling says:
    July 17, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    I was think­ing the oth­er day that the soon to be retired Steven Soderbergh would be the per­fect per­son for a WTF like film pod­cast. All of his com­ment­ar­ies are dia­logues with anoth­er film­maker, so it would be an inter­est­ing listen to get him with anoth­er film­maker, free of the com­ment­ary con­straints. Just wish­ing out loud.
    I look for­ward to giv­ing The Cinephiliacs a listen.