Blank Check with Griffin & David: An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David” and the episode “An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Dana Stevens.

Subject films: An Angel at My Table (1990).

On the transcript: Auto-transcript has no speaker labels and merges sponsor reads into the middle; ad segments at roughly 0:33:27-0:36:27, 1:07:37-1:09:45 and 1:09:51-1:10:13 were skipped. Some lines of the box-office game are attributed with low confidence.

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subject (1)

An Angel at My Table

compared (21)

The Piano · Bright Star · My Brilliant Career · Picnic at Hanging Rock · Cinema Paradiso · The Last Emperor · Moonlight · Sweetie · Girl, Interrupted · Frances · The Power of the Dog · Angela's Ashes · The Lord of the Rings · The Cable Guy · All of Me · 17 Again · Vice Versa · Like Father Like Son · Big · Freaky Friday · No Holds Barred

passing (21)

When Harry Met Sally... · Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead · Goodfellas · Mo' Better Blues · Owls Do Cry (novel by Janet Frame) · Two Friends · Shallow Grave · Groundhog Day · FX: The Series (TV) · Bowling for Columbine · With Honors · Son of the Pink Panther · Victor/Victoria (TV remake) · Oscar · The Silence of the Lambs · One Good Cop · Mannequin: On the Move · Spider-Man · Gladiator · Ghostbusters (franchise) · Top of the Lake

dismissed (4)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · Another 48 Hrs. · Another Stakeout · Point of No Return

recommended (1)

Oscar Wilde trial biopic (unnamed; transcript says 'wild')

anecdote (6)

Annie · What About Bob? · FX2 (The Deadly Art of Illusion) · Madonna: Truth or Dare · Switch · Stone Cold

Claims (52)

  1. unmapped (sister films): An Angel at My Table → Bright Star. Both are Campion biopics about writers made many years apart; Dana nearly picked Bright Star for the episode.
    “They're kind of sister films in a way, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:07:15 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. theme (parallel (inscrutable artists)): Buster Keaton → Janet Frame. Dana says Keaton, like Frame in the film, remains mysterious even after years of research.
    “a little bit like the Janet Frame character that we're going to talk about in this episode, he also has this ineffable, mysterious quality”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:11:08 · Dana Stevens (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. industry (festival rival): An Angel at My Table → Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. At Venice, Angel won the runner-up prize and lost the Golden Lion to Stoppard's film.
    “It actually lost the Golden Lion to Tom Stoppertz, Rosencrantz and Gildenster dead movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:12:58 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. industry (festival context): Martin Scorsese → Goodfellas. Goodfellas was in competition at Venice that year, and Scorsese won the directing trophy.
    “Goodfellas was in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year, at Mo Better Blues”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:13:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career sequencing): An Angel at My Table → The Piano. The next film is The Piano, where Campion becomes the first woman to win the Palme d'Or.
    “it's also the movie after this is, uh, the piano, where she becomes the 1st woman to win the palm door.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:13:46 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (genealogy): An Angel at My Table → My Brilliant Career. Dana confused the two for years; both are about a young woman growing into a writer.
    “I even confused the movies for years afterwards probably was my brilliant career, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:16:00 · Dana Stevens (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. craft (mood): An Angel at My Table → Picnic at Hanging Rock. The gauzy distance, fades to black and mystery of the childhood chapter recall Picnic at Hanging Rock.
    “Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock, which I think this movie has something in common with”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:16:07 · Dana Stevens (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. people (director credit): Peter Weir → Picnic at Hanging Rock. Dana attributes Picnic at Hanging Rock to Peter Weir.
    “Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:16:07 · Dana Stevens (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. people (contrast (casting continuity)): An Angel at My Table → Cinema Paradiso. Dana praises Angel's continuity across three actresses, unlike Cinema Paradiso where the three actors never felt like one person.
    “remember Cinema Paradiso, like how none of the 3 guys at the same, at different ages seemed like the same dude”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:17:47 · Dana Stevens (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. people (casting across ages): An Angel at My Table → The Last Emperor. Campion loved The Last Emperor, which shares the kid-to-adult actor handoff; she planned the switches to land in happy moments.
    “Campion loved the last emperor, which has to pull the same trick, you know, going from kid to adolescent to grown up.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:18:55 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  11. craft (structure): An Angel at My Table → Moonlight. Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule.
    “there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (possible influence): Barry Jenkins → An Angel at My Table. Speaker wonders whether Jenkins referenced Angel when making Moonlight.
    “I wonder if Barry Jenkins, like references at all in working on Moonlight”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  13. career (career sequencing): An Angel at My Table → Sweetie. Frame approved the adaptation before Sweetie was made; Campion used early festival heat for a weird small comedy first.
    “she gets the approval from frame to make this before sweetie's been made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:25:21 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. lineage (source material): Janet Frame → Owls Do Cry. Frame's debut novel; the sibling's burning-trash death is from the novel, while the autobiography has a drowning.
    “In owls do cry, the fictional book.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:26:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. what-if (what it could have been): An Angel at My Table → Girl, Interrupted. With a TV-miniseries approach it could have been a sensationalist mental-illness movie like Girl, Interrupted.
    “Yeah, it could have been a girl interrupted.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:29:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. what-if (what it could have been): An Angel at My Table → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Dana says a cruder version could have resembled Cuckoo's Nest, whose portrait of mental illness she finds reductionist.
    “its portrait of, you know, mental illness and mental illness treatment is is just really, really crude and reductionist.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:29:54 · Dana Stevens (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. what-if (what it could have been): An Angel at My Table → Frances. Another highbrow mental-illness biopic the film could have resembled.
    “And I think it could have been Francis.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:30:02 · Dana Stevens (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (feel): An Angel at My Table → Terrence Malick. The childhood section, with sparse dialogue and a baby's-eye first shot, recalls Malick.
    “Yes, in in a way that almost at moments recalls Terrence Malik.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:30:52 · Dana Stevens (0.70 sure it was them)
  19. verdict (best literary biopics): An Angel at My Table → Bright Star. Dana calls them two of the best literary biopics ever, both avoiding the furrowed-brow-at-desk cliches.
    “the same person, Jane Campion directed what I think are 2 of the best literary biopics ever made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:31:10 · Dana Stevens (0.90 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (biopic done right): An Angel at My Table → Oscar Wilde trial biopic (unnamed; transcript says 'wild'). Speaker prefers biopics that focus on one conflict or period, like the Wilde film about only his trial.
    “Like wild, that fantastic Oscar wild biography that's only about the trial”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:32:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (feel): An Angel at My Table → Terrence Malick. The train-and-asylum moment is called a Malick-like glimpse of a child sensing something wrong in the world.
    “that's a really powerful, again, sort of Malikian moment, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:45:30 · Dana Stevens (0.70 sure it was them)
  22. craft (visual resemblance): Annie → An Angel at My Table. Janet Frame, in her red cardigan and curly red hair, looks like Annie, which makes viewers root for her.
    “she kind of looks like Australian little orphan Annie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:52:10 · Dana Stevens (0.35 sure it was them)
  23. people (director against type): John Huston → Annie. Huston's only musical, a grandiose swan song that never achieves liftoff.
    “It's the only musical he ever made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:55:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. craft (aesthetic carryover): An Angel at My Table → Sweetie. Sweetie's saturated children's-film look survives in Angel only in the Janet character's costume and hair.
    “it's like an adult film that has the aesthetics of a children's film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:56:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. craft (production design): An Angel at My Table → The Power of the Dog. Production design is a major part of Campion's project in both, communicating class without exposition.
    “in power of the dog, this past year where production design is a huge part of what informs Campion's project.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:58:25 · Dana Stevens (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (narrative strategy): An Angel at My Table → The Power of the Dog. Campion's films hold you without conventional narrative thrust, unlike the ensemble of Power of the Dog, this one is just Janet.
    “in power of the dog, it's an ensemble of full characters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:59:55 · Dana Stevens (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. craft (unconventional structure): An Angel at My Table → Two Friends. Speaker notes Campion films that do not operate like normal narratives, citing a backward-narrative film (transcribed 'Two friends').
    “Two friends has this weird backward narrative?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  28. what-if (what it could have been): An Angel at My Table → Angela's Ashes. A more maudlin filmmaker would have turned Frame's working-class background into Angela's Ashes.
    “could have been turned into like Angela's ashes or something”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (landscape): The Power of the Dog → The Lord of the Rings. New Zealand standing in for Montana looks, if like anything, like Lord of the Rings.
    “if it looks like anywhere, it looks like Lord of the Rings landscapes, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:10:46 · Dana Stevens (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. unmapped (production lore): Peter Jackson → The Lord of the Rings. Jackson pitched multiple films on the strength of unfilmed New Zealand locations and a ready industry.
    “I got like 80 locations in my back pocket that no one has ever filmed before”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:10:51 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  31. craft (craft): Stuart Driver → The Piano. A speaker names Stuart Driver (as transcribed) as the person who shot The Piano, in the run-up to the film.
    “Yeah, sorry, Stuart Driver shot.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:12:48 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  32. people (composer credit (criticized)): Michael Nyman → The Piano. Dana thinks the score is overused and imposing, a major problem for her.
    “I dont like the music by, is it by Michael Nyman?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:13:32 · Dana Stevens (0.70 sure it was them)
  33. craft (score comparison): The Piano → Philip Glass. The Piano's score is like a Philip Glass score: if you dislike it you are in trouble.
    “it's kind of like a Philip Glass score, something where it's like, if you don't like it, you're in trouble”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:13:38 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. people (cast credit): Holly Hunter → The Piano. Dana praises the imagery, Hunter, Keitel and script.
    “Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, all of that stuff, the storytelling.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:13:59 · Dana Stevens (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. people (returning actor): Kerry Fox → Bright Star. Fox, the lead here, returns in Bright Star as Fanny's mother, which feels deliberate and twins the two films.
    “it does feel like she brought Carrie Fox back in that for a reason.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:18:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. unmapped (other role): Kerry Fox → Shallow Grave. A speaker knows Fox best from Shallow Grave; her co-stars broke out from it and she did not.
    “I know Carrie Fox best or a new Carrie Fox best from Shallow Grave.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. theme (recurring character type): An Angel at My Table → Sweetie. Both films have doofy, non-villainous, two-dimensional men and boys.
    “both very good at those sorts of doofy men where they're not even villainous sort of, but they're just sort of like painfully, uh, awkward”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:21:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. unmapped (vibe): What About Bob? → The Cable Guy. Annoying-houseguest dynamic similar to The Cable Guy.
    “It's sort of a cable guy vibe, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:33:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. theme (character comparison): What About Bob? → Frank Grimes. Dreyfuss's therapist is likened to Frank Grimes, the lone person who sees the intolerable guy for what he is.
    “He's the only one who understands that this person is intolerable.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:34:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  40. unmapped (champion): Steven Spielberg → What About Bob?. Spielberg paid out of pocket to campaign for Bill Murray for best actor.
    “Steven Spielberg like paid out of pocket to run a best actor campaign for Bill Murray”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:34:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. people (feud): Bill Murray → Richard Dreyfuss. Murray's reported insult to Dreyfuss during What About Bob?.
    “you are not liked, you are tolerate it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  42. people (feud): Bill Murray → Chevy Chase. Compared to Murray calling Chase medium talent.
    “Wow. Which is up there with Bill Murray saying to Chevy Chase, calling him medium talent.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  43. lineage (unnecessary sequel): FX2 (The Deadly Art of Illusion) → Another Stakeout. Speaker's guess for the weekend's no.2 sequel, a lesser-remembered two-actor crime sequel.
    “It's not another one. It's not another stakeout.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:37:06 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. people (near-miss director): David Fincher → Madonna: Truth or Dare. Speaker believes Fincher was supposed to make the film.
    “I think Fincher was supposed to make this movie, in fact.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:39:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (later work): Alek Keshishian → With Honors. Truth or Dare's director later made With Honors.
    “Alec Kashishian, who then went on to make with honors.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:40:15 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  46. what-if (body-swap lineage): Switch → All of Me. Body-swap comedies were a recurring well: All of Me, 17 Again, Vice Versa, Like Father Like Son, Big, Freaky Friday.
    “That's a couple years earlier.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:41:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  47. what-if (body-swap lineage): Switch → Freaky Friday. Freaky Friday (70s, a 90s TV version, and 2003 Lohan) is cited as evidence the genre always returns.
    “And there's Freaky Friday in there somewhere.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:42:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  48. unmapped (critic champion): Roger Ebert → Switch. Ebert argued Barkin deserved an Oscar nomination; she got a Golden Globe nod.
    “Roger Ebert was pushing that Ellen Barkin should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:42:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. theme (genre comparison): Stone Cold → No Holds Barred. Speaker is reminded of Hulk Hogan's generic wrestler movie when guessing the Bosworth film.
    “The Hulk Hogan movie is no holds bar, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:44:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. unmapped (athlete-to-movie-star): Brian Bosworth → Jim Brown. Studios hoped another athlete could repeat Jim Brown's movie stardom.
    “it had been like 20 years since like the peak of Jim Brown.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:45:39 · Dana Stevens (0.40 sure it was them)
  51. industry (release-date history): Spider-Man → Gladiator. Gladiator showed May could open a movie; Spider-Man made May the preferred month.
    “Spider-Man has the biggest weekend of all time in May, and then I think officially may becomes the month you want to release it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:47:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. career (career completeness): An Angel at My Table → Top of the Lake. Top of the Lake seasons are on Patreon as an important missing piece of Campion's filmography.
    “too important a piece in the Campion philography.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:50:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items (24)

  1. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Griffin's best-line story: the film has no quotes page, so he scrubbed to the scene for the line about longing to be as full of secrets as she seemed to be.
    “I long to be as full of secrets as she seemed to be”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:00:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Made for TV as three episodes, but it conquered Venice: crowds chanted for the film for ten minutes, though it only won the runner-up prize.
    “people were shouting angel, angel for 10 minutes”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:14:16 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Alexia Keogh: Campion's wig trick: when the child actress put on the huge red wig, she cried. The girl never made another film.
    “when they put the wig on Alexia Kio, the little girl, she started crying because she was like, this is insane.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:18:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about The Last Emperor: Campion's fear of attachment: she loved the middle kid in The Last Emperor and was mad when he grew up, so she timed Angel's actor switches for happy moments.
    “I was basically afraid like, oh, you're gonna love one of them and you're gonna, you know, miss them when they're gone.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:19:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Moonlight: Griffin admits he was so Moonlight-pilled he assumed Kerry Fox would be the entire third part, and only 30 minutes into part two realized she had arrived.
    “I was so like moonlight pilled watching this movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:20:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Janet Frame: Frame was a local hero until the film; her authorized biography and its omitted details caused controversy after her death.
    “there was controversy after she died about uh, uh, liberties that the biographer had taken”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about An Angel at My Table: The opening shot: a baby's feet walking through the grass and a mother's flowered dress looming overhead, an unusual way to begin a biopic.
    “that very 1st shot of the baby's feet walking through the grass”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:30:56 · Dana Stevens (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Janet Frame: Days or hours from a lobotomy, Frame was spared when she won a literary prize, and the film tosses it off as the halfway point.
    “It's completely bananas that she was like days or hours from a lobotomy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:36:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Margot Robbie: A joke that the film should have paused and cut to Margot Robbie in the bathtub assuring us it really happened.
    “They should have cut to Margot Robbie in the bathtub saying it's really happened.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:40:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Dana's favorite shot is an 8 to 9 second silent shot of Janet staring at a piece of chalk as she freezes while teaching.
    “it's so cinematic to decide to look at someone looking at a piece of chalk”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:41:24 · Dana Stevens (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about An Angel at My Table: The photograph sequence: a sister missing from the photo, her death, then the photo restored with an arm added; Janet watches and listens, a writer in the making.
    “the photographer did this weird thing where he cut her out of this photo and made her her own photo and then added her arm there.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:48:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Annie: David says Annie is famously the first movie he ever saw; Dana saw original Broadway Annie at 12 and decided then to live in New York.
    “I think it was, it's famously the 1st movie I ever saw.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:52:41 · David Sims (0.75 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Annie: John Huston, around 80, barking at kid actors during Hard Knock Life; the EPK press conference showed him with a cattle-call Annie.
    “John Houston being like, well, you found our Annie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:55:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Jane Campion: Campion on New Zealand: the first European painters' pictures were thought exaggerated because of the clear air and black shadows.
    “everyone thought the colors were exaggerated.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:06:44 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Fancy free, said by a boarding-house man warning her about men, becomes Griffin's life-changing discovery and a debate about whether it means single.
    “Fancy free means single.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:14:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Her lover interrupts sex to read his poem to her, a mansplaining moment where Fox withdraws under the bedsheets.
    “The guy breaking off, the guy breaking off their sexual encounter to read his poem to her in bed.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:20:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Non-American films show women topless in bed instead of the L-shaped bedsheet, crotch to neck.
    “Oh, the LL shaped bedsheets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:21:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Menstruation scene: the mother pins on a rag and says she is lucky it did not start at 12.
    “her mom's consolation is like, look, you're lucky.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:24:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about An Angel at My Table: The ending: Janet twists to Chubby Checker, then the film fades to a girl dancing the twist in her writing trailer.
    “she's twisting to chubby checker at the end”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:27:03 · Dana Stevens (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about An Angel at My Table: Callback: she wants an author photo on her first book and is hurt; the later photo, with photographers climbing a hill to reach her while she wrestles farm animals, is anything but glamorous.
    “she's asking, where's my picture?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:28:43 · Dana Stevens (0.60 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about What About Bob?: Spielberg bought print ads and held screenings to run a best-actor campaign for Bill Murray.
    “he held screenings and he like bought print ads.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:34:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Bill Murray: Murray's reported insult to Dreyfuss on the set of What About Bob?.
    “you are not liked, you are tolerate it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about FX2 (The Deadly Art of Illusion): The film school Griffin dropped out of had a framed FX2 poster in the studio.
    “they framed it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:38:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Stone Cold: Brian Bosworth's film was originally NC-17; the one-earring bleach-blonde pompadour on the poster is described.
    “He's got like the one earring and the bleach blonde tipped pompadour.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:45:59 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

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