Alex Goldman

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298 appearances 11 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 3 Jun

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten · 27 Dec 2024 podcast

And he's the detective on the case who wisely decides to fall in love with her.

Indeed, yes. Very polarizing for a reason.

You think it's a good movie? I think it's a great movie. I think it holds up. It is absurd. It is over the top, but it knows what it's doing. I think it's playing with the tropes in a fun way.

is one of controversy. What is it? Eyes Wide Shut, the Stanley Kubrick film. Right. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, once again, back in the erotics-related space.

It is about a lot. And, you know, I think audiences at the time didn't quite know what to do with it because it was marketed as a conventional erotic thriller. And it will not shock you to learn that Stanley Kubrick's take on this genre is a little more esoteric. But Tom Cruise is playing this doctor, Bill Hofford, whose wife, Nicole Kidman, confesses to fantasies about another man.

And he spirals as a result of this information, I think it's fair to say. Yeah. And a friend of his tells him about a secret party. He sneaks in and finds out that it's an orgy with dangerous consequences for those involved.

It's a rare occurrence, and I think it means something. What does it mean, do you suppose? You know, if two divergent critical sensibilities can find something to admire in this film, then maybe it should be vindicated by history.

I mean, Nicole Kidman is a very prolific actress. Did you ask her about this? I did, yes. What did she say? She said that Ryan had given her something that no one's given me. And I don't know that it's the genre itself. I think in this case it was Helena. You know, she's obsessed with Adrian Lyne. She's obsessed with Paul Verhoeven. You know, she was in a Verhoeven film herself.

She has an idea of what it takes to be in these roles. But she also realized that those films had a lot of sexism in them and there were these problems. And she wanted something that played with all of those tropes but was also true in its depiction of sexuality and a little more aware of the roles and responsibilities and the archetypes that women are expected to fulfill.

It's taking this stuff and it's twisting it and making it a little more modern.

I hope so. I mean, I think, you know, those movies were ridiculous at times, you know, often. No. But they also, in their willingness to really go for broke, I think they had the chance to show us something fun and something real. And it'd be nice if people took a few more risks in their filmmaking.

Thanks, David.

The New Yorker Radio Hour · Pick 3: Justin Chang’s Downer Movies for the Holiday Season · 3 Dec 2024 podcast

Hi, I'm Alex Goldman. You may know me as the host of Reply All, but I'm done with that. I'm doing something else now. I've started a new podcast called Hyperfixed. On every episode of Hyperfixed, listeners write in with their problems and I try to solve them. Some massive and life-altering and some so minuscule it'll boggle your mind. No matter the problem, no matter the size, I'm here for you.

That's Hyperfixed, the new podcast from Radiotopia. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts or at hyperfixedpod.com.

The New Yorker Radio Hour · Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington · 19 Nov 2024 podcast

Hi, I'm Alex Goldman. You may know me as the host of Reply All, but I'm done with that. I'm doing something else now. I've started a new podcast called Hyperfixed. On every episode of Hyperfixed, listeners write in with their problems and I try to solve them. Some massive and life altering and some so minuscule it'll boggle your mind. No matter the problem, no matter the size, I'm here for you.

That's Hyperfixed, the new podcast from Radiotopia. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts or at hyperfixedpod.com.

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