Episode 74: 1976 with Alexandra West
A podcast about the great movie years.
Film critic, podcaster, and historian Alexandra West joins us to talk about her new book Gore-Geous: Personal Essays on Beauty and Horror and the movies of 1976, from the bloodbaths of Carrie and Taxi Driver to the erotic power plays of In the Realm of the Senses.
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Carrie is streaming on Max and is available for digital rental or purchase, and in a glorious new(ish) 4K from Scream Factory. Marathon Man is streaming on Hoopla and is available for digital rental or purchase, as well as in a new 4K from KL Studio Classics.
Taxi Driver is available for digital rental or purchase, and it also got the fancy 4K treatment recently. In the Realm of the Senses is, as we mentioned, streaming on the Criterion Channel, and nowhere else!!
And The Omen is streaming on Hulu and is available for digital rental or purchase, and here is the baby picture we mentioned of young Damien Jason:
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1976, with actor and filmmaker Noah Segan, you can listen to that here.
You can follow Alexandra on Instagram here and Blusky here; you can buy Gore-geous here, and you can listen to The Faculty of Horror wherever fine pods are casted. 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). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.