Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) with Scott Murphy

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Ramblin: An Amblin Podcast

Andrew Gaudion and Joshua Glenn

77 episodes

6 days ago

Ladies and Gentlemen, Extraterrestrials and Poltergeists, welcome to Ramblin: An Amblin Podcast. In each episode, your hosts Andrew Gaudion and Joshua Glenn will guide you through the weird and wonderful films that fall under the Amblin Entertainment Banner, the production company founded by Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy back in 1981. With friends, special guests and Amblin fans alike joining along the way, get ready for discussions, analysis and trivia around both some of the biggest movies of all-time, and some smaller little-seen curiosities. Hold onto your butts!

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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) with Scott Murphy

Ramblin: An Amblin Podcast

1 hour 47 minutes 28 seconds

7 months ago

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) with Scott Murphy

Clint Eastwood’s two-picture project looking the Battle of Iwo Jima reaches its conclusion (as does the 00s for Amblin) with LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, this time following the perspective of the Japanese soldiers on the island, who employed a unique strategy that took both the Americans and their own country by surprise. To examine these letters, we invite host of All 90s Action All the Time Scott Murphy to dig into what makes this the more successful film of the two, from the figure of Ken Watanabe’s General Kuribayashi, to the ensemble cast at large, its strength as an anti-War movie and the inherent surprise that such a feature should come from one Clint Eastwood. It’s a film of such stark, searing power, and one that is so good, we had to record our thoughts twice…

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Ramblin is created and produced by Andrew Gaudion and Joshua Glenn. A special thanks as always to Emily Tatham for the artwork, and Robert J. Hunter & Greg Sheffield for the theme music.