Blank Check — Patreon: In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free)

Published 2022-02-20; 2:15:33 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Jourdain Searles, Ben Hosley (producer, in the room; speaks briefly at 0:06:47-0:06:50).

Subject films: In the Cut (2003).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy cross-talk, so attributions between Griffin and David are mostly low confidence. The ASR mangles proper names, and a few jokes lose their meaning.

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programming (programming): Jane Campion → In the Cut. Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next.
“It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): In the Cut → The Piano. The hosts note Campion's earlier film The Piano has been covered already in the miniseries.
“It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): In the Cut → Hulk. Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year.
“It was your derided film of 2000.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): In the Cut → Unfaithful. Unfaithful, from the year before, is a classic male-gazy erotic thriller; In the Cut is a woman's-perspective one.
“Classic erotic thriller, very male gazy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:13:10 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Adrian Lyne → Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas was king of the erotic thriller for a decade and Adrian Lyne helped define it.
“Adrian Lyme was the guy who helped define that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:13:31 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Unfaithful → In the Cut. Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of.
“And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): In the Cut → Swimming Pool. Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003.
“the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Basic Instinct 2 → In the Cut. Basic Instinct 2 is cited as a later attempt to put the erotic thriller back in the microwave.
“you have big basic instinct too, which is sort of this like, hey, can we like, you know, put this back in the microwave”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:14:16 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Meg Ryan → When Harry Met Sally. When Harry Met Sally is named as Ryan's breakthrough into the beloved-star persona.
“But then, like, obviously, when Harry Man Sally is like the breakthrough, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:16:28 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Meg Ryan → Courage Under Fire. Whenever Ryan tried to break out of her signature role, as in Courage Under Fire or Addicted to Love, audiences stayed away.
“just think of like courage under fire or addicted to love or whatever, any movie where she's kind of trying to like break out of the role she's best known for, audiences are not interested”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:16:55 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Russell Crowe → Proof of Life. On Proof of Life Ryan cheated on Dennis Quaid with Russell Crowe, a tabloid scandal.
“That's the one where she, she did it with Russell Crowe and also she, like, cheated with Russell Crowe.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:18:45 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Meg Ryan → Proof of Life. Proof of Life is called step one of Ryan trying to work in the Courage Under Fire genre; it flopped.
“So proof of life is like step one of like, can I try to work in sort of the courage under fire genre, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:22:31 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Meg Ryan → Kate & Leopold. Kate & Leopold, with a younger co-star, is framed as her last Meg Ryan movie.
“And she's doing it with a younger man and it's sort of like her being like, I maybe got one of these left in me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:22:55 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Hugh Jackman → Kate & Leopold. Jackman is early in his career and not yet picking projects, shoehorned into the time-travel English-lord part.
“It's the sort of Hugh Jackman is early and so he's not picking his projects yet and he's been like shoehorned into this like...”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:23:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Kate & Leopold → You've Got Mail. Ryan ended the millennium with her third go-round with Hanks and Ephron in You've Got Mail.
“So she ends off the millennium with like fucking 3rd time around with Hanks, Efron again, just doing the exact thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → In the Cut. The film was originally intended for Nicole Kidman.
“is obviously intended for Nicole Kitman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:24:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Susanna Moore → In the Cut. Campion had been developing the film since the mid-90s, when she read Moore's novel.
“Campion had been working on this movie since the mid 90s when she read Susanna Moore's novel, which came out in 95.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:24:44 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Jane Campion → Seven. Campion pitched the film to Weinstein as something like Seven, and says now it was not a great comparison.
“She compares it to seven with him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:25:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Harvey Weinstein → In the Cut. Weinstein was involved for a while, then dropped out.
“Harvey's involved for a while and then drops out because he's insane and awful.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:26:00 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Pathe → In the Cut. With Weinstein out, Pathe ended up funding the whole film.
“So they drop out and Pathay ended up funding the entire phone.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:26:12 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Nicole Kidman → Panic Room. Kidman dropped out of Panic Room a week or two before shooting, as she did with other projects.
“Like she's supposed to do panic room and drops out like a week or 2 before.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:26:34 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Jennifer Jason Lee → In the Cut. Jennifer Jason Lee in the lead would also have been accepted, as an art house movie.
“And by the way, I think they would have gotten it with Jennifer Jason Lee.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:27:33 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → Birthday Girl. Kidman made erotic-thriller-ish films like Birthday Girl without anyone saying how dare you, so In the Cut would have landed differently with her.
“I mean, she does fucking movies like birthday girl around the same period of time where people are like, I don't know, it's a crappy Nicole Kidman erotic thriller.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:27:46 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Nicole Kidman → In the Cut. Kidman is a harder-edged performer; Ryan's naturalism suits the stylized movie better.
“Nicole Kidman is like a harder edged performer.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:28:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Destroyer → In the Cut. Kidman's rejected turn in Destroyer is compared to Ryan's rejected turn: an actress doing what nobody expected or wanted.
“I feel like the Destroyer situation is similar to the Meg Ryan situation with this”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:28:56 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Nicole Kidman → Eyes Wide Shut. Kidman had already done Eyes Wide Shut, which was quite enough of that kind of film.
“I also think that Nicole did eyes wide shut and that was quite enough.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:29:21 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (craft): In the Cut → Seven. Despite its star, the film keeps a Se7en-like visual style.
“Because the movie still does have vaguely 7-S aesthetics.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:29:59 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Francis Bacon → In the Cut. The film's color palette is compared to a Francis Bacon painting.
“Like it has like the color palette of a Francis Bacon painting and the weird shallow focus and the jagged editing and all these things.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:30:04 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Holly Hunter → In the Cut. Holly Hunter could have played the lead, though it would have been an art house release.
“I would honestly say that like, Holly Hunter could have done it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:30:49 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Holly Hunter → Crash. Hunter had already done Crash by this point, so audiences would have accepted her in this.
“She already done crashed by this point.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:31:13 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): In the Cut → Solaris. Solaris is offered as another film given an F CinemaScore because it was marketed as something else.
“Come down to 2000 screens. Solaris.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:32:28 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Manohla Dargus → In the Cut. Dargus called it the best messy movie of the year.
“Manola Dargus wrote a review where she was like, it's kind of the best messy movie of the year.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:33:04 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Meg Ryan → Against the Ropes. The year after, Ryan did Against the Ropes and people were baffled.
“Against the ropes, the Charles S. Dutton boxing trainer movie, where people are like, what the fuck is this?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:33:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Mark Ruffalo → You Can Count on Me. Ruffalo's breakthrough was You Can Count on Me, a two-hander that got Linney an Oscar nomination.
“This sort of supporting roles in indie movies and then is just has this like insane breakthrough and you can count on me, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:35:39 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Laura Linney → You Can Count on Me. Linney's Oscar nomination came from the film.
“This, like, great fucking movie that gets Linny who's been respected for a while, the Oscar nomination, and it's a two-hander”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:35:46 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Mark Ruffalo → Marlon Brando. Mumbly, natural, handsome newcomers get the Brando comparison; Ruffalo got it.
“Well, he got the Brando talk.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:35:58 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Signs. During his illness Ruffalo dropped out of films, including the Joaquin Phoenix part in Signs.
“Like, he's supposed to be Joaquin Phoenix and signs.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:36:46 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): In the Cut → Collateral. After his illness, In the Cut was Ruffalo's comeback and led to a run of supporting turns in Eternal Sunshine and Collateral.
“like in the cut, eternal sunshine collateral.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:38:41 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Zodiac. Zodiac, despite flopping, was the moment Ruffalo reclaimed the leading-man trajectory.
“Despite being a flop at the time, zodiac was the moment where it's like, oh, he's kind of reclaiming the role that we all thought he was going to do.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Mark Ruffalo → The Kids Are All Right. The Kids Are All Right gave him his first Oscar nomination, which seemed overdue.
“Kids are all right as his 1st Oscar nomination.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:39:48 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Dark Waters. Ruffalo does non-Marvel work like Dark Waters alongside the Marvel films.
“I can still watch like Dark Waters and I can be like, yeah, that's my man right there.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:41:28 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Mark Ruffalo → Don Cheadle. Cheadle disappeared into Marvel and Showtime; Ruffalo kept things balanced.
“essentially since being brought into Marvel, Don Sheetle has done 10 Marvel things and 2 Showtime series.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:41:33 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Spotlight. Ruffalo got the Spotlight Oscar nomination from a cast expected to get three.
“It's funny how everyone was like spotlight's gonna get like fucking 3 best supporting actor nominations.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:42:13 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): In the Cut → Seven. The opening glimpse of the bar murder is shot like the dead-body reveals in Seven.
“But this is shot like anytime they show up and see the new dead body in seven.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:44:06 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (theme): In the Cut → Sex and the City (TV series). Between Seinfeld and Sex and the City the public's idea of New York changed, so the film's grimy New York looked fake to 2003 audiences.
“The public's idea of New York radically changes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:46:17 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Shutter Island. Ruffalo has played cops in many modes, including Collateral and Shutter Island.
“Um, he is just so bizarrely good at both playing cops, which he's done a lot in different modes, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:48:20 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Mark Ruffalo → Margaret. His New York specificity, as in Margaret, is unusual for an actor who is not from the city.
“Like you look at shit like Margaret's, where you're just like, he really gets like New York specificity”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:48:45 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): In the Cut → Hollow Man. The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set.
“It is a weirdly blank checky box set.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): In the Cut → Paul Verhoeven. The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja.
“It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Luis Mandoki → Trapped. Trapped was directed by Luis Mandoki, who also did Angel Eyes and When a Man Loves a Woman.
“The guy who did like Angel Eyes and really did when a man loves a woman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:52:35 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Meg Ryan → Isabelle Huppert. A European actress like Huppert could do this role in her sleep with no outcry; Ryan was punished.
“Isabel Hupere could do this in her fucking sleep, man.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:55:05 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Holly Hunter → The Piano. Hunter and Kidman did their provocative roles (The Piano, Dead Calm) early, so audiences accepted them.
“Holly Hunter did the piano early on.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:55:23 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Nicole Kidman → Dead Calm. Kidman did Dead Calm early, so she could keep doing this later.
“Kidman did dead calm early on.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:55:25 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Kevin Bacon → A Few Good Men. Bacon chose to be a character actor, wanting a part like A Few Good Men over the Tom Cruise role.
“I want like, I want the fucking part in a few good men rather than being turned down for the Tom Cruise role.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:59:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Raisin Tori → In the Cut. A friend of the podcast worked in the art department as an intern PA and reports Campion's 300-page look book drew on art of many kinds rather than other movies' shots.
“worked on this movie as like a uh, intern, uh, PA in the art department. Yeah, and said like she had like a fucking 300 page look book for this movie, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:01:35 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jennifer Jason Lee → Single White Female. Single White Female was the closest Lee came to a movie-star moment.
“That was the closest maybe she ever came to like having a movie star thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:04:26 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Jennifer Jason Lee → Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Her hot 90s run included Georgia and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
“She had that hot 90s early, like where she's in like Georgia and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:04:55 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Nick Damici → Jim Mickle. Damici co-wrote Jim Mickle's films and stars in the Stake Land movies.
“He like co-wrote all of Jim Mickel's movies, and he's the star of the Stakeland movies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:07:44 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Basic Instinct → In the Cut. Every sex scene in Basic Instinct carries the threat of murder; In the Cut's are intimate and real.
“But the undertone of every sex scene or basic instinct is, is she about to murder him?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:14:55 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Basic Instinct → Hot Shots! Part Deux. Basic Instinct's sex is a parody, like the sex scene in Hot Shots.
“It's like the fucking sex scene from hotshots part.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:15:07 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): In the Cut → Basic Instinct. In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's.
“The sex is very intimate and real.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Jane Campion → In the Cut. Female filmmakers like Campion try to give actresses something different, and the reaction is weird.
“these female filmmakers who are like, you know, really trying to go for something different, really trying to give actresses something else to do”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:18:23 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Jane Campion → The Piano. The Piano worked wonders despite Hunter's unlikely casting; In the Cut did not.
“it is just kind of astonishing that the piano worked so well.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:18:57 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Jane Campion → The Power of the Dog. Campion uses the baggage of her stars cleverly; in The Power of the Dog the miscasting feeling is the point.
“I think it is one of her greatest skills is being really smart about using the baggage of her stars in interesting ways, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:20:28 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Marlon Brando → On the Waterfront. Ruffalo cites Brando picking up the glove in On the Waterfront as improvised spontaneity.
“When Brando reaches down and picks up the glove and puts it on his hand, which is an improvised moment on the waterfront.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:21:36 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Marcello Mastroianni → Marlon Brando. Ruffalo prefers Mastroianni's lightness to Brando's intensity.
“The opposite end of the spectrum is Marcelo Mestriani, who had a lightness of being, a joy in his acting, wasn't precious about it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:21:46 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Kenneth Lonergan → You Can Count on Me. The hosts say a Lonergan miniseries would happen if he ever makes another film.
“Lonergan's one of those guys where like, if he ever does another fucking movie, we might just be like, fuck it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:22:54 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Mark Ruffalo → You Can Count on Me. In You Can Count on Me Ruffalo catches a bug mid-monologue and keeps going, the spontaneity he describes.
“a bug comes into frame and he like, or like a butterfly or something and he holds his hand out and like catches it on his hand and keeps on talking.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:23:12 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): In the Cut → Collateral. The speaker notes In the Cut was shot by Dion Beebe, the cinematographer of Collateral, and praises how it looks.
“Love how it looks. This film shot by Dion Bebe, by the way. one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:24:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Dion Beebe → Collateral. Beebe is one of the heroes of the 2000s for Collateral.
“one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:24:20 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Dion Beebe → Miami Vice. Beebe shot Miami Vice and defines the Michael Mann digital look.
“He defines the Michael Mann digital look.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:24:25 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Dion Beebe → Rob Marshall. The speaker says Beebe is Rob Marshall's regular cinematographer, which is why he is shooting The Little Mermaid.
“he's Rob Marshall's guy, so he's shooting a little mermaid.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:24:28 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Dion Beebe → The Little Mermaid. Beebe is shooting The Little Mermaid; the hosts wonder if it will look like Collateral or In the Cut.
“What if Little mermaid looks like collateral?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:24:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (theme): In the Cut → Meg Ryan. The silent-film flashbacks are Ryan's romcom fantasy, an impossible ideal.
“This is like a fucking fantasy that they grew up on that I think Meg Ryan has spent her life hoping she could replicate in her life that she could experience a Meg Ryan movie plot, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:32:44 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): In the Cut → Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. 2003 was crowded: Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and more.
“because that's the year, obviously, of like Lord of the Rings.”
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programming (programming): In the Cut → Sideways. Sideways, the following year, was a TIFF launch; In the Cut was not.
“Because the following year is sideways.”
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industry (industry): Bella → In the Cut. Bella's weak TIFF audience award shows winning there meant little, but In the Cut would have deserved it.
“The only reason I remember Bella is because Bella's entire marketing campaign was here are 15 other movies that won the audience award at Toronto.”
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verdict (verdict): Christina Newland → In the Cut. Newland's book has an In the Cut essay, one of the few published defenses before the reclamation.
“There's a pro in the cut essay in that.”
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verdict (verdict): Slavoj Zizek → In the Cut. Zizek discussed it favorably in The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, an early instance of reclamation.
“was among the films discussed favorably by Slavo Zijak in the pervert's guide to cinema.”
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lineage (lineage): Jane Campion → Susanna Moore. In the book the heroine is killed; Campion could not accept that ending and changed it.
“Whereas in the movie, Campion was like, I just can't have that.”
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what-if (what-if): Mickey Rourke → In the Cut. Per unsourced IMDb trivia, Kidman vetoed Rourke for a supporting role.
“However, his involvement was allegedly vetoed by Nicole Kidman on the strength of Rourke's wild reputation.”
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career (career): Mickey Rourke → Domino. Rourke's comeback era was spent in films like Domino and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
“he was in fucking domino once upon a time in Mexico”
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industry (industry): Jane Campion → In the Cut. Campion describes a wall of male critics, the corduroy wall, who set the tone for extreme films.
“The 1st ring of reviewers in America are always men.”
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industry (industry): Scary Movie 3 → In the Cut. Scary Movie 3 topped the box office the weekend In the Cut opened wide.
“So number one at the box office one in the cut is tanking is a parody film.”
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industry (industry): Scary Movie 3 → The Matrix Reloaded. The third Scary Movie drifted from scary-movie parody into Matrix and 8 Mile parody.
“let's just fucking get a zucker in here and throw everything into the mix”
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industry (industry): The Texas Chainsaw Massacre → Platinum Dunes. The Texas Chainsaw remake kicked off the horror remake wave.
“That movie was very big and that kickstarted the remake horror fever for all these movies that were seen as untouchable.”
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theme (theme): Radio → I Am Sam. Radio is in the I Am Sam zone of Oscar-chasing intellectual-disability dramas.
“No, I'm talking about I am Sam, but it's in the I am Sam Zone.”
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contrast (contrast): Radio → The Waterboy. Radio is a dramatic version of The Waterboy where the title character is a mascot.
“It's like a dramatic version of the water boy, except he doesn't play.”
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theme (theme): Debra Winger → Meg Ryan. Winger's Radio return after years away is a counterweight to Ryan's struggle for parts at 40.
“counter counterweight to uh, all this stuff we're talking about with fucking Meg Ryan's career and where she was at crossing 40”
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people (people): Rosanna Arquette → Searching for Debra Winger. Arquette made the documentary about why actresses disappear after 40.
“Rosanna Arquette had made the documentary searching for Deborah Winger”
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people (people): Gene Hackman → Dustin Hoffman. Runaway Jury pairs Hackman and Hoffman, who had never been in a movie together.
“Hackman and fucking Hoffman together.”
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lineage (lineage): Runaway Jury → The Firm. Runaway Jury is the end of the Grisham thriller run that began with The Firm and The Pelican Brief.
“That like the Grisham run is, the firm, the Pelican brief, the client, a time to kill.”
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people (people): Kevin Costner → No Way Out. Costner tells a story of Hackman as the best actor he worked with on No Way Out.
“It's an incredible story about just Costner talking about Hackman being the best actor he had ever worked with”
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people (people): Resurrection → The Night House. Both are Rebecca Hall horror films; the hosts love over-cranked Hall horror.
“Over cranked Rebecca Hall horror, my favorite sub-genre.”
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industry (industry): Clint Eastwood → Mystic River. Eastwood is credited with charting a new path for adapting the airport novel.
“Eastwood charts the new path of how to do the airport novel.”
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verdict (verdict): Kevin Bacon → Mystic River. Bacon is far and away the best performance in Mystic River.
“he's far and away the best performance in the movie”
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verdict (verdict): Dennis Lehane → Mystic River. The film is called the worst adaptation of Lehane's work.
“that's the worst adaptation of his work.”
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career (career): Sean Penn → Dead Man Walking. Penn's Mystic River win was seen as making up for losing for Dead Man Walking.
“well, he should have won for Dead Man Walking and like Penn is understung.”
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verdict (verdict): In the Cut → The Matrix Reloaded. On Jourdain's 2003 ranking In the Cut sits next to the Matrix sequels.
“Master and Commander, Matrix reloaded Matrix revolutions in the cut.”
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theme (theme): In the Cut → Demonlover. Demonlover is the kind of film In the Cut is, admirable energy but hard to love, and very Ben Hosley.
“there's like Demon Lover, which is a movie that, that's sort of like an in the cut kind of thing”
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people (people): The Fighting Temptations → Radio. Beyonce and Cuba Gooding Jr. work well together in The Fighting Temptations.
“so Beyonce and Cuba Gooding Jr. actually work really well together.”
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what-if (what-if): Barry Jenkins → The Godfather Part II. Speculation that Barry Jenkins' Lion King follow-up is a Godfather Part II style split narrative.
“isn't the thought that it's Godfather part 2 that it's like a do, a split narrative of young, young Mufasa or whatever.”
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theme (theme): In the Cut → Jane Campion. Campion was one of the few women to get to make an erotic thriller then.
“because she really is one of the few that got a chance to make a movie like that.”
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theme (theme): Basic Instinct 2 → In the Cut. Backlash to Basic Instinct 2 was far stronger than to an action sequel, showing the punishment of bad sexy movies.
“the backlash to that was so much stronger than like a backlash to an action movie sequel”
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theme (theme): In the Cut → Showgirls. Bad sexy movies like Showgirls get punished harder than bad action sequels.
“Showgirls, obviously.”
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contrast (contrast): Color of Night → In the Cut. Male-star sexy flops like Color of Night got the same backlash, but In the Cut is a woman's perspective.
“it's happened with male stars, like color of night”
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industry (industry): In the Cut → Nicole Kidman. Kidman's Amazon deal to bring back erotic thrillers has produced no films.
“Nicole Kidman signed this big deal with Amazon about like, I want to bring erotic thrillers back.”
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programming (programming): The Matrix → Ghostbusters. The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix.
“We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix.”
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programming (programming): In the Cut → Bright Star. Next week's Campion miniseries episode is Bright Star.
“Tune in next week or Bright Star.”
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fun, about In the Cut: The film's most-quoted line, 'no sense of cock whatsoever', opens the episode and is chanted back as the sign-off.
“Some podcasts give terrible blow jobs, no rhythm at all, no sense of cock whatsoever.”
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fun, about In the Cut: A guest's only prior contact with the film was a VH1 voiceover that treated it as disgusting.
“My only experience within the cut was just that weird VH1 voiceover that seemed to really hate it and I was very confused by it.”
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fun, about In the Cut: It is a Screen Gems release, the label then known for horror and teen genre films, put out on Halloween 2003.
“The thing that I had forgotten that astonished me at the very beginning of this movie is that it is a screen gems release.”
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fun, about In the Cut: Releasing an adult drama on Halloween, a dump weekend, is called a shrug of contractual obligation.
“To release like an adult drama on Halloween just feels like a complete shrug of like, I don't, contractual obligation.”
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fun, about Russell Crowe: Trivia: the FBI reportedly intercepted a threat that the Taliban wanted to kidnap Crowe before the Oscars.
“the FBI intercepted a threat that the Taliban wanted to kidnap Russell Crowe before the Oscars”
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fun, about Kate & Leopold: Host is obsessed with the film's time-travel rules, such as elevators vanishing from the timeline.
“That movie has such like weird, fungible, like, rules about, like, time travel that I am obsessed with to this day.”
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fun, about Nicole Kidman: Kidman says a bad knee injury is why she skipped both Panic Room and In the Cut.
“She had a bad knee injury, she said, which is the reason she didn't do panic room.”
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fun, about CinemaScore: An F CinemaScore only means the audience felt betrayed by the marketing; you could curate a festival of F movies.
“there's that argument that you could now, like, curate an incredible film festival, a retrospective series of just movies that got Fs from cinema score.”
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fun, about Mark Ruffalo: He hid his brain tumor from Hollywood and dropped out of films, so people thought he was torpedoing his career.
“he doesn't want people to know that he's sick because it's still a time in Hollywood where people hold that against you.”
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fun, about Mark Ruffalo: Jourdain heard his kids call him Papa and finds it very hot.
“I heard that his kids call him Papa, which I also find very hot.”
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fun, about Kevin Bacon: Bacon plays the worst New York boyfriend: his scenes read like an Instagram screenshot of a text from a single Tinder date.
“He feels like a fucking Instagram screenshot of just like, this is this insane thing this guy sent to me after one fucking Tinder date.”
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fun, about Kevin Bacon: A profile said Bacon decided he was ninth on the list and would rather be a great character actor than chase the lead.
“how he just made the choice where he's like, I'm ninth on the list.”
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fun, about Jane Campion: Campion made a 300-page look book of mixed art, not other films, for In the Cut, per a friend who interned in the art department.
“said like she had like a fucking 300 page look book for this movie, right?”
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fun, about Subway poetry: Poetry-in-motion posters were swapped on NYC subway cars every six months, and the film puts them on screen.
“But it was poetry in motion. And you just have poems that would get swapped out every 6 months on subway cars.”
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fun, about In the Cut: A famous stock scream used in the attack scene is called out as a canned Wilhelm-style scream.
“There's a famous scream that like everyone fucking uses.”
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fun, about Jane Campion: Campion shouted at Ruffalo on set to play the sex scenes with total confidence; he was scared.
“Apparently during the filming, Campion would just be shouting things at Ruffalo.”
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fun, about Mark Ruffalo: His method-acting credo, read aloud: spontaneity and vulnerability are gold, and his style is a foot in the grave and one on a banana peel.
“My style would be one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.”
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fun, about You Can Count on Me: Fans cite the moment Ruffalo catches a bug mid-monologue and keeps talking as the moment actors knew he was the guy.
“a bug comes into frame and he like, or like a butterfly or something and he holds his hand out and like catches it on his hand and keeps on talking.”
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fun, about In the Cut: The Little Red Lighthouse finale: Ruffalo is still handcuffed, so she saves herself instead of being rescued.
“Instead, he's just still there locked up and she figures out her own shit.”
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fun, about Bella: Bella's TIFF audience-award marketing was a list of fifteen other winners, since it had no other hook.
“The only reason I remember Bella is because Bella's entire marketing campaign was here are 15 other movies that won the audience award at Toronto.”
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fun, about Mickey Rourke: Unsourced IMDb trivia: Kidman vetoed Rourke for a supporting part, and Rourke thinks it would have fast-tracked his comeback.
“Mickey Rourke was initially considered for a supporting role.”
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fun, about Jane Campion: Campion's term for the male critics who set the tone for extreme films: the corduroy wall.
“She calls it the corduroy wall.”
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fun, about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The remake's trailer, with the projector-breaking-down trick, chilled a host more than the film did.
“the 1st model trailer to use the trick of it feels like the projector is breaking down.”
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fun, about Runaway Jury: Hackman and Hoffman had to reshoot a urinal scene because nobody wrote them any scene together.
“they stand next to each other at urinals and talk and they had to like do that in reshoots because they realized they had fucked up so badly”
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fun, about The Matrix Reloaded: Jourdain recently saw it for the first time after years of hearing it was bad, and calls it incredible.
“I had spent all these years being like, oh, the Matrix loaded is bad. and I was just like, you mean by bad?”
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Jourdain Searles (guest): A film critic and Bad Romance host who calls herself an In the Cut scholar and a longtime Jane Campion fan. Loves erotic thrillers, sexual frankness, and movies that like women's bodies; sees the film's backlash as puritanism and a refusal to let Meg Ryan be a woman with wants. Cannot stand Dennis Quaid or Russell Crowe, and is a sucker for the Matrix sequels.
Griffin Newman (host): Newly converted to In the Cut from a 'morbid curiosity' first viewing with David; deeply knows New York geography and nightlife, since he lived on the Lower East Side. Likes Practical Magic and Mark Ruffalo's balanced career, and is skeptical of Unfaithful. (Speaker labels are inferred; the transcript has none.)
David Sims (host): A longtime defender who saw In the Cut at 17 and was 'well known for being the In the Cut is good person'. Loves Unfaithful, Addicted to Love and Kevin Bacon-style character work, and sweats the details of box-office history. (Speaker labels are inferred; the transcript has none.)

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