Episode 87: 1972 with Zach Clark
A podcast about the great movie years.
Independent filmmaker Zach Clark joins us in advance of the release of his new film The Becomers for a look at some of the most delightfully insane movies of 1972, including the stylized mayhem of Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, the melodrama of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and the total decadence of Pink Flamingos.
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Pink Flamingos is not currently streaming (WTF), but we recommend the Criterion Blu-ray. Greaser’s Palace is streaming on Amazon Prime, Peacock, Tubi, PlutoTV, and several other services.
Private Parts is available for digital rental or purchase. Female Prisoner #701 is streaming on Tubi, and Arrow Player, and is available for digital rental or purchase. And The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is available on the Criterion Channel and HBO Max, for digital rental or purchase, or on Blu-ray from Criterion.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1972, with guest Judy Becker, you can listen to that here.
You can follow Zach on Letterboxd. 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 he just announced the publication date for the James Gandolfini biography we’ve mentioned on the show - you can pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop. You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
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