Episode 58: 1970 with Blake Howard
A podcast about the great movie years.
This week: Our Aussie invasion continues with this week’s guest, film critic and podcaster extraordinaire Blake Howard, the mastermind of One Heat Minute Productions. Blake joins us to talk about unhealthy relationships with movies and his love for the films of 1970, from the gallows humor of M*A*S*H to the working class heroism of Five Easy Pieces to the unequalled cool (and Frenchness) of Le Cercle Rouge.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
M*A*S*H is available for digital rental or purchase. Husbands is streaming on Amazon Prime Video, The Criterion Channel, and Tubi.
Five Easy Pieces is available for digital rental or purchase; you can also pick up its excellent Criterion Blu-ray, either on its own or as part of the “America Lost and Found” box set we discussed. Le Cercle Rouge isn’t streaming anywhere (WHAT the FUCK) but you can also pick that one up on 4K from the Criterion Collection.
And finally, Zabriskie Point is also unavailable for streaming, OR on Blu-ray; your only (legal) way to see that one is this DVD from 2009. But at least it’s cheap! (Bonus: here’s an excellent essay by Dennis Lim on the picture’s original reception and subsequent reappraisal.)
Things promised in show notes! Here's an image of the Miss Smog America contest:
Here are those goofy-ass Royal Guard Secret Service uniforms:
And their fate:
You can follow Blake on Instagram here, and you can listen to him — including on “Midnight Run-Through” — here, OR (all together now) wherever you get your podcasts.
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