Episode 61: 1998 with Esther Zuckerman
A podcast about the great movie years.
This week: Esther Zuckerman is an appropriate guest for Oscar Sunday, as she is the author of the fabulous book Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical, and Scandalous Oscar Fashion. She joins us to talk about famous Oscar spoiler Shakespeare in Love, the wildly underrated Velvet Goldmine, the one and only Big Lebowski, and more of the movies of 1998.
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Shakespeare in Love is streaming on Max and available for digital rental or purchase. You’ve Got Mail is available for digital rental or purchase.
The Last Days of Disco is also available for digital rental or purchase, as is Velvet Goldmine.
The Big Lebowski is streaming on Peacock, is available for digital rental or purchase, and also has a very nice 4K UHD from Universal. And here’s that original trailer we mentioned.
You can follow Esther on Twitter here and on Blusky here, and you can buy Beyond the Best Dressed 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.