Episode 17: “Why Do They Leave Them There?” (The Big Picture)

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Fearless Pretender: The Jennifer Jason Leigh Podcast

Fearless Pretender

26 episodes

6 days ago

A podcast examining, in chronological order, the filmography of the great character actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. Each month, Sam Inglis and Jason Shawhan discuss, analyse and, let's face it, probably argue about a JJL film or TV project. They'll try to place it in the context of her career, and of its genre and wider place in cinema.

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Episode 17: “Why Do They Leave Them There?” (The Big Picture)

Fearless Pretender: The Jennifer Jason Leigh Podcast

1 hour 34 minutes 44 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 17: “Why Do They Leave Them There?” (The Big Picture)

Join Sam and Jason this month as they’re joined by host of The Directors Club podcast and Chicago-based Film Critic Jim Laczkowski to talk about Christopher Guest’s 1989 debut feature The Big Picture, wherein the following topics may occur: Pay-Per-View, The persistence of vision of Corky St. Clair, The Goodbye Girl: The Musical, fleeting Bechdel moments, Al Cliver/Pierluigi Conti, misunderstanding genre, L.A.’s Vista Theatre, Fran Leibowitz, This Is Spinal Rap (Fear of a Black Hat vs CB4), Logan Stevens, how we’re finally going to get Sam to watch Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, bêtisier, charity shop serendipity, Jiminy Glick vs Ed Grimley vs Jackie Rogers Jr, pernicious and omnipresent sexism, The many lives of Richard Belzer, Quiet On The Set, and the Dan Schneider of it all.

Sam: Bluesky / Letterboxd

Jason: Bluesky / Twitter / Rotten Tomatoes

Jim: Twitter / Bluesky / Substack / Director's Club