Tracy Letts

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2,850 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

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The Big Picture · The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, I don't know.

Spoiler alert, Taylor of Panama.

The Geoffrey Rush character kills Pierce Brosnan, and they changed that

it's a really terrific movie.

And Hope and Glory is a great – is kind of an essential part of his filmography, I think, in that he suddenly goes in a whole new direction to make something so –

autobiographical and uh self-reflective and warm uh it's a very warm film uh

It's not overly nostalgic.

It is nostalgic, but I don't think overly so.

Not too sentimental.

A really beautiful movie.

So there's great work throughout the film.

that's the exact word I was going to use.

I mean, if you're a baggage handler or you're a rodeo clown or you're a detective, maybe you're not going to enjoy that movie.

But if you're a film dork, you have to see Boreman and the Devil.

made for

Well, again, with Duvall and Hackman...

who had pretty contentious relationships with a lot of directors.

They came from a world where both of them sort of, I mean, first of all, their theater roots, but then a lot of TV before they started making films.

And I,

I think that they just came from a world where the director's job was to know where to put the camera and to stage the action.

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