Episode 59: 1978 with Katie Rife
A podcast about the great movie years.
This week: The whip-smart and hysterically funny Katie Rife joins us to talk about the movies of 1978 — from the terrifying precision to Halloween to the sweaty muscularity of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin to the impeccable formalism of Les Rendez-vous d’Anna — and why ‘70s genre cinema holds up so well.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna is streaming on The Criterion Channel and is available for digital rental or purchase. Halloween is streaming on Shudder, Plex, Crackle, and Cultpix, and is also available for digital rental or purchase. (Extra credit reading: here’s Jason’s deep dive into the film’s origins, for Vulture.)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin is streaming on Amazon Prime, MUBI, and Arrow Player, and. is available for digital rental or purchase; it’s also the highlight of the very good Shawscope Vol. 2 Blu-ray box set.
Blue Collar is available for digital rental or purchase, or you can pick up the excellent Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics. And Always for Pleasure is streaming on the Criterion Channel, or you can watch it in their wonderful Blu-ray box set, which shares that film’s title.
You can follow Katie on Instagram here and on Blusky here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one!). And you can follow Mike on Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
