Episode 76: 1987 with Carrie Courogen
A podcast about the great movie years.
Writer, editor, and director Carrie Courogen is the author of the breathtakingly good new book Miss May Does Not Exist, and since it’s a biography of Elaine May, she joins us to talk about 1987 — not only May’s unjustly maligned Ishtar, but the sheer perfection of Broadcast News and Moonstruck.
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Ishtar is streaming on MUBI and is available for digital rental or purchase. Broadcast News is streaming on Starz, if you somehow have that, and is available for digital rental or purchase; it also has an excellent Criterion Blu-ray. (Also, here’s a piece Jason wrote for Slate a few years back about its wisely deleted scenes.)
Moonstruck is on Hoopla, Tubi, MGM+, and PlutoTV, is available for digital rental or purchase, and it too has an excellent Criterion Blu-ray. Housekeeping is on Tubi, and is available for digital rental or purchase; there’s also a very good Indicator Blu-ray if you have a multi-region player.
And Baby Boom is on Hoopla, Tubi, MGM+, and PlutoTV, is available for digital rental or purchase.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1987, with Vulture and New York magazine’s Bilge Ebiri, you can listen to that here.
You can buy Miss May Does Not Exist from Amazon here or Bookshop here. You can follow Carrie on Instagram here and Twitter 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). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.