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My husband, the radio personality
Aug. 16th, 2006 08:15 amOkay, so I’ve got to push my DH’s new radio show, Filmically Perfect. Geo and his writing partner J. Todd Anderson were asked to do a local radio show on one of our NPR affiliates, WYSO 91.3FM. You can listen every Friday, starting anywhere between 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm ET(US), depending on how the very informal programming goes. It is webcast on www.wyso.org .
During this conversational program, Geo and J.Todd discuss what makes a movie “filmically perfect,” and how certain movies they’ve selected for this list meet these requirements. I’m not 100% clear on what their actual criteria are (I seem to get something different out of their conversations than they might intend), but here's the list of litmus questions:
1) The film must create the world in which it exists.
2) The film must wholly sustain the world it creates.
3) Regardless of changes in society, the film retains its meaning and entertainment value.
I seemed to glean from that last one, regarding the film retaining its meaning, that it must play and read as well today as when it was made, that it must be appreciated on multiple levels (i.e., story level, allegorical level, as a reflection of the era in which it was made . . . something along those lines). J.Todd got very excited when I mentioned that, but the whole allegorical angle is not, apparently, a necessity.
The first installment of their show (aired Aug. 4) took a look at The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The second installment (aired Aug. 11) looked at The Searchers.
This Friday (Aug. 18) they will be discussing The Wizard of Oz.
This is impetus for very lively conversation. I’ll come up with “Is thus-and-so on your list?” and then explain why I think it should be. I was very pleased to hear that Raiders of the Lost Ark made their list, but I had to do just the slightest bit of persuading for Superman: The Movie. They had thought about including it, but didn’t, but couldn’t remember why they didn’t. I believe I’ve talked them into including it (if they wanted to, and can’t remember why they didn’t, then they should). Not that S:TM is one of my particularly favorite movies, but I think it fits the criteria of the list very well, and it is a good movie.
So if you get a chance, check out the show. It gets ya thinkin'.
During this conversational program, Geo and J.Todd discuss what makes a movie “filmically perfect,” and how certain movies they’ve selected for this list meet these requirements. I’m not 100% clear on what their actual criteria are (I seem to get something different out of their conversations than they might intend), but here's the list of litmus questions:
1) The film must create the world in which it exists.
2) The film must wholly sustain the world it creates.
3) Regardless of changes in society, the film retains its meaning and entertainment value.
I seemed to glean from that last one, regarding the film retaining its meaning, that it must play and read as well today as when it was made, that it must be appreciated on multiple levels (i.e., story level, allegorical level, as a reflection of the era in which it was made . . . something along those lines). J.Todd got very excited when I mentioned that, but the whole allegorical angle is not, apparently, a necessity.
The first installment of their show (aired Aug. 4) took a look at The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The second installment (aired Aug. 11) looked at The Searchers.
This Friday (Aug. 18) they will be discussing The Wizard of Oz.
This is impetus for very lively conversation. I’ll come up with “Is thus-and-so on your list?” and then explain why I think it should be. I was very pleased to hear that Raiders of the Lost Ark made their list, but I had to do just the slightest bit of persuading for Superman: The Movie. They had thought about including it, but didn’t, but couldn’t remember why they didn’t. I believe I’ve talked them into including it (if they wanted to, and can’t remember why they didn’t, then they should). Not that S:TM is one of my particularly favorite movies, but I think it fits the criteria of the list very well, and it is a good movie.
So if you get a chance, check out the show. It gets ya thinkin'.
