Julie Klausner

1 sketch, 15 claims, and 2 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Star 80 with Julie Klausner (guest)

A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it.

Stances

  • Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous
  • It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view
  • Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women
  • Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80
  • Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts

Humor: Acid, theatrical and self-aware, with dark one-liners and pointed cultural asides.

In their words

  • “I call this movie, oh, that Incel.” (0:15:07)
  • “I think that the issue, it's what you're saying, used to what ends?” (1:06:45)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 1–15 of 15 claims.

  1. people (performance cost): Star 80 → Joker. A great performance in a harrowing role is called career-ruinous in the way people overstate Joker typecasting.
    “I think it's an incredible performance, but I think it's the kind of performance that's like ruinous for a career.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:01:44 · Julie Klausner (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (character lineage): Eric Roberts → The King of Comedy. Roberts's Snyder is seen as another version of what Rupert Pupkin could have been.
    “I also think a group for Pupkin is another version of who this character could have been, but he was just following orders.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:02:19 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme echo): Star 80 → Anatomy of a Murder. Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric.
    “That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (critic parallel): Star 80 → A Clockwork Orange. Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder.
    “I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (counterexample): Star 80 → American Psycho. American Psycho, made by a team with female voices, succeeds as critique where Star 80 lacks her point of view.
    “American psycho has 2 female voices behind it and is therefore such an insightful and even funny critique”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:33 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (satire lineage): American Psycho → Body Double. American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double.
    “it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (sibling pair): Star 80 → All That Jazz. All That Jazz is who Fosse wanted to be, Star 80 is where he really is.
    “that all that jazz was sort of like who we wanted to be and maybe Star 80 was saying, well, this is where I really am.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:20:59 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (restraint example): Cabaret → Liza Minnelli. Fosse shot Sally Bowles walking onstage in a medium shot from the back, trusting his lead.
    “I think the restraint and the confidence in his lead actor is so fortifying”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:22:15 · Julie Klausner (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (creative partnership): Bob Fosse → Gwen Verdon. Verdon was trusted with choreography and direction, the family jewels of an auteur's ego.
    “those are the family jewels when it comes to an auteur's ego and that he was able to let her in”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:24:48 · Julie Klausner (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (technique): Liza with a Z → Cabaret. Fosse's concert film is the best example ever of shooting theater for the screen, with edits shaped to hand flicks.
    “I've never seen a better example of shooting theater.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:35:31 · Julie Klausner (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. industry (awards rivalry): Cabaret → The Godfather. Fosse beat Coppola for the best director Oscar for Cabaret while The Godfather won picture.
    “Francois Coppola in the Godfather, the guy we use as shorthand for directing a movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:50:55 · Julie Klausner (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. verdict (ranking): Sweet Charity → Star 80. A lumpy joyful film is ranked above the powerful but hateful one.
    “sweet charity is a lumpy movie that brings me joy versus star 80, a film that just makes me think very deeply about everything I hate about the world.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:52:10 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (what-might-have-been): Michael Bennett → Bob Fosse. Julie wonders what a film career for Bennett, another director-choreographer lost to AIDS, would have looked like.
    “I think very frequently about what kind of filmmaker a Michael Bennett would have been or could have been.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:57:44 · Julie Klausner (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (heir): Adam Shankman → Bob Fosse. Hairspray's visual language takes cues from choreography and editing as Fosse's did.
    “And so much of the visual language takes cues from the choreography and the editing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:59:04 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (series handoff): Star 80 → A Clockwork Orange. Julie asks them to remember Star 80 when covering Kubrick's rape depiction.
    “Think about, you know, how, you know, people say rape isn't about sex, unless you shoot it real sexy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 2:00:09 · Julie Klausner (0.60 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–2 of 2 fun items.

  1. fun, about Julie Klausner: Julie played one of the women who sexually assaulted young Fosse in Fosse/Verdon and was on set when All That Jazz moment was filmed with Sam Rockwell.
    “and Fosse's daughter was in the audience and Lynn and Lynn got to do the run and then Sam Rockwell got to do the run”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:26:11 · Julie Klausner (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Liza with a Z: Julie calls the concert film the best example of capturing theater on film, with exactly timed medium shots and cuts to Verdon in the audience.
    “I think Liza with a Z is such an incredible example of how you can direct theater for film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:34:52 · Julie Klausner (0.60 sure it was them)