Sean Gallagher and Claude Call find two seemingly different movies and find the common thread between them.
Words and Movies
Claim This Podcastby Sean Gallagher & Claude Call
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156 episodes
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Sean Gallagher and Claude Call find two seemingly different movies and find the common thread between them.
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Publishing Since
8/18/2020
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Recent Episodes
May 3, 2026
Reel 92B: Critical Response, Pt.2
<p>In Part 2 of our episode we look at Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, from 1999. This was the fourth time that Levinson went to the well of life in Baltimore, and the second we've looked at (we still need to get to Tin Men and Avalon). </p><p>The film is not a response to any of his Baltimore films, but was a response to his portrayal of Dustin Hoffman's character in the film Sphere, which got him thinking about his youth and led to the story seen here. </p><p>COMING ATTRACTIONS: </p><p>In our next episode we'll be looking at some men who are searching for God in their own way. We start with A Serious Man (2009), directed by the Coen Brothers, and move on to The Tree of Life (2011), directed by Michael McCracken. Join us, won't you? </p>
May 3, 2026
Reel 92A: Critical Response, Pt.1
<p>FIlm directors have to have a thick skin when it comes to criticism. But once in awhile, it gets to them and they let it show. More often than not, they say that the critics are out of touch with audience tastes. Others will own their failures: Roland Emmerich, for example, admitted that Independence Day: Resurgence didn't work and that he probably shouldn't have been the director. </p><p>And some directors respond by making another movie that takes the criticism head-on. That's the topic of this episode. </p><p>We open with Intolerance (1916), directed by D.W. Griffith. It's a three-and-a-half hour movie intercutting four different-but-parallel storylines. It's specifically a response to Griffith's glorification of the Ku Klux Klan in his earlier Birth of a Nation. Griffith invariably framed it as a response to the critics and not an apology. </p><p>In Part Two, we go to the Baltimore neighborhood of Liberty Heights. </p>
February 1, 2026
Reel 91b: Humphrey Bogart Joins the Resistance, Pt.2
<p>We continue this episode with To Have and Have Not, a 1944 production directed by Howard Hawks. In this film, Bogart plays a sport tourism fisherman who's asked to use his boat to assist the French Resistance in Martinique. He meets up with Marie "Slim" Browning (Lauren Bacall) and that's where the fireworks started, both on and off screen. </p><p>If you don't know how to whistle, Bacall offers up a fine lesson for you. </p><p><u><strong>COMING ATTRACTIONS: </strong></u></p><p>Next time, we take our first foray into silent films, with DW Griffith's Intolerance, from 1916, and Liberty Heights, from 1999, directed by Barry Levinson. These films were made in response to criticisms of earlier films from those directors. Join us, won't you?</p>
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