WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from June 25, 2024

Listener comments!
	5:55pm Jim the Poet: Got fascinating things to say but you're too shy to call in? E-mail jimthepoet at wfmu dot org Or text Jim 646 684 5793
	5:57pm Jim the Poet: Also feel free to drunk dial me at 3 AM
	6:00pm Jessica is cool: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" right choice
	6:02pm Jim the Poet: ↳ Jessica is cool @6:00 Music Director Approved!
	👍 6:02pm zachary: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:02 Can't go wrong now, Jim!
	👍 6:02pm Folsom: I give this show Three Jims Up.
	👍 6:03pm zachary: Great cartoon for the show tonight, Jim. Do you think anyone will bring up Garfield?
	6:03pm Yes: JIM!
	6:04pm Tom from Stirling: New vampire movie coming out. Nosferatu. Willem Dafoe is in it so it's got to be good.
	6:04pm chresti: Hi Jim and thumb movie show!
	6:05pm joe mulligan: I've never heard of these movies, but I usually look for the top metacritic ratings. I know i'm missing out.. so many movies are better than the critics sya
	6:06pm Ike: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:02 Deeply, deeply troubling that the new MD is into Steely Dan, LOL LOL LOL (though not as bad as being into Chris Pratt's Garfield)
	6:07pm joe mulligan: I do really want to see Ryuichi Sakamoto \| Opus
	👍 6:08pm Franco Twinkie: If I can't talk about Garfield, I'm just going to stay in bed.
	6:08pm joe mulligan: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:08 ha! bring Franco some lasagna
	6:08pm Ike: "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person" is an amazing movie title! Never heard of this!
	6:09pm Tom from Stirling: Well Jude Law was acting. How was that movie? Anything with The Tudors.....
	6:10pm joe mulligan: ↳ Ike @6:08 for the longest time on the route to the DE beaches there was grafitti "Fearless Vampire Killers"
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Tom hardy is in The Bikeriders. He's always good.
	6:11pm Ike: ↳ joe mulligan @6:08 Lasagna for everybody! Except Chris Pratt.
	6:11pm Erik/VT: re fat suits, etc - Totally agree abt this oft-Hollywood miscasting of super stars instead of great characters actors! Drives me nuts-O.
	6:13pm joe mulligan: ↳ Ike @6:11 one thring I really miss about NJ is that anytime at any italian NJ restaurant you can get any kind of pasta dish. here in CA you can only get what's trendy or CalItalian
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: Law and Order: Criminal Intent is the best Law and Order. Right?
	6:13pm dale: hey now. i'm not a go to the movie person anymore. the price of raisinettes just got too out of hand.
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Erik/VT @6:11 It's called acting.
	6:14pm Erik/VT: IMO, BikeRiders is very odd tone’d film. Doesn’t quite work - yet very curiously engaging. That director Jeff Nichols makes unusual films. This is the first I haven’t loved.
	6:15pm Erik/VT: I hear THELMA (June Squibb) is really quite wonderful. & not pandering !?
	6:17pm DjLorraine: Hey, is this seat taken?
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Erik/VT @6:14 Because Tom Hardy is in it.
	6:19pm aHarry from Leeds: Find community spaces and find love ❤
	6:22pm paddy in matawan: Haaaaaaaaaaaaa! I loved both of those. The Room is so bad!
	6:23pm joe mulligan: Leave the World Behind had okay ratings/not the best, but it was one of my favorites from 2023
	6:24pm Erik/VT: perhaps more high-hat than rotten tomatoes, i prefer dipping into METACRITIC as my go-to warehouse of reviewers. Still , Wikipedia is the first place I look/read.
	6:26pm common: love the room and ed wood
	6:27pm melinda: Hello Jim and friends
	6:27pm joe mulligan: ↳ Erik/VT @6:24 I love metacritic but my wife never has. she snoozes on metacrtitc movies, most have subtitles
	6:29pm Erik/VT: ↳ joe mulligan @6:27 Haha, well that’s funny - yet they review almost everything (guessing yer jesting…)😉.
	6:29pm RustyinBaltimore: Hello Jim and fellow moviegoers.
	6:30pm Yes: psyched to see kinds of kindness... not psyched for the run time
	6:31pm dale: did they have turkeys in england? thought it was an american bird mostly.
	6:32pm paddy in matawan: Kevin Smith would probably come on. He's cool. Met him at a brewery.
	6:32pm Erik/VT: re Tavianni Bros (almost ALL are great!) - especially the 70s-early 80s era. yet re Critics, one hadn’t read horrendously scathing criticism until one reads John Simon. (Awful just awful, yet entertaining).
	6:36pm Ike: The Sunshine was cool. They tore it down for condos, right?
	6:36pm ∫ydniuß: ↳ dale @6:31 Ben Franklin advocated it for the national bird
	6:39pm dan in wisconsin: I think it was either Sundance or IFC Channel where I first saw Box of Moonlight (1996). This movie has a really quirky soundtrack. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wall of Voodoo, Peter Murphy... Set in the summertime, and it's a great road trip movie. John Turturro's character finds a mix tape cassette in the seat cushion of his rental car.
	6:39pm Tom from Stirling: Willem Dafoe is in that Kindness movie. So it must be good.
	6:40pm melinda: Early matinees are the way to go.
	6:41pm dan in wisconsin: I don't have access to cable television anymore, so I don't know if IFC plays cool stuff anymore. I saw Koyaanisqatsi on IFC one night after coming home from my movie theater job and was mesmerized. Ron Fricke is a fantastic cinematographer.
	6:41pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ melinda @6:40 Sometimes they're 5 dollar tickets.
	6:50pm Tom from Stirling: Alien: Romulus opens later in the summer.
	6:55pm Tom from Stirling: Norman Mailer tripped over my foot at Joe's Pub. Yes, he was drunk.
	6:58pm chresti: Thanks Jim!
	6:58pm dan in wisconsin: Thank you, Jim!
	12:14am ultradamno: If you liked Late Night With The Devil, you might want to look for a movie called The Cleansing Hour for comparison/contrast. It's a slightly earlier film with a notably similar premise (online fake exorcist live streams what turns out to be the real thing)
	12:30am ultradamno: Another relatively recent (last year) vampire movie worth looking at is El Conde
	2:07pm Mark of Sea Bright: regarding 0:33:18, I agree David Denby has questionable taste in movies: I recall he gave Skyfall a bad review, which I think is the best Bond film. But I also do think The New Yorker has an anti-movie culture; its rare that it gives a good review

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from June 25, 2024

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June 25, 2024: "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person", "I Used to Be Funny", "Late Night With the Devil", "Treasure", "Firebrand", "Ghostlight", "Kinds of Kindness", "The Bikeriders", 20 More Minutes of "Garfield"

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: HAS A BAD REVIEW EVER MADE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT SEEING A MOVIE?

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This week we'll be discussing some or all of the following:

"Kinds of Kindness"
"Green Border"
"I Used to Be Funny"
"Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person"
"Treasure"
"Firebrand"
"The Bikeriders"
"Janet Planet"
"Fancy Dance"
"Ghostlight"
"Bad Boys: Ride or Die"

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments
Steely Dan	Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Jim the Poet discusses	This Week's Movies!		"The Bikeriders" "Green Border" "Firebrand" "Kinds of Kindness" "Janet Planet" "Fancy Dance" "Treasure" "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person" "I Used to be Funny"
Jim the Poet discusses	"I Used to Be Funny"		Directed by Ally Pankiw Written by Ally Pankiw Produced by James Weyman Jason Aita Breann Smordi Starring Rachel Sennott Olga Petsa Sabrina Jalees Caleb Hearon Ennis Esmer Dani Kind Jason Jones
Jim the Poet discusses	"Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person"		French Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant Directed by Ariane Louis-Seize Written by Christine Doyon Ariane Louis-Seize Produced by Jeanne-Marie Poulain Line Sander Egede Starring Sara Montpetit Félix-Antoine Bénard Steve Laplante
Jim the Poet discusses	"Treasure"		Directed by Julia von Heinz Written by Julia von Heinz John Quester Based on Too Many Men by Lily Brett Produced by Fabian Gasmia Julia von Heinz Lena Dunham Starring Lena Dunham Stephen Fry Zbigniew Zamachowski
Jim the Poet discusses	"Firebrand"		Directed by Karim Aïnouz Written by Henrietta Ashworth Jessica Ashworth Rosanne Flynn (additional writing) Based on Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle Produced by Carolyn Marks Blackwood Gabrielle Tana Starring Alicia Vikander Jude Law Eddie Marsan Sam Riley Simon Russell Beale
Jim the Poet discusses	"Kinds of Kindness"		Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Written by Yorgos Lanthimos Efthimis Filippou Produced by Ed Guiney Andrew Lowe Yorgos Lanthimos Kasia Malipan Starring Emma Stone Jesse Plemons Willem Dafoe Margaret Qualley Hong Chau Joe Alwyn Mamoudou Athie Hunter Schafer
Jim the Poet discusses	"Janet Planet"		Directed by Annie Baker Written by Annie Baker Produced by Dan Janvey Derrick Tseng Annie Baker Andrew Goldman Starring Julianne Nicholson Zoe Ziegler Elias Koteas Will Patton Sophie Okonedo
Jim the Poet discusses	"The Bikeriders"		Directed by Jeff Nichols Written by Jeff Nichols Based on The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon Produced by Sarah Green Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Arnon Milchan Starring Jodie Comer Austin Butler Tom Hardy Michael Shannon Mike Faist Norman Reedus
Jim the Poet discusses	"Fancy Dance"		Directed by Erica Tremblay Written by Erica Tremblay Miciana Alise Produced by Deidre Backs Erica Tremblay Heather Rae Nina Yang Bongiovi Tommy Oliver Starring Lily Gladstone Isabel DeRoy-Olson Ryan Begay Crystle Lightning Audrey Wasilewski Shea Whigham
Jim the Poet discusses	"I Used to Be Funny"		Directed by Ally Pankiw Written by Ally Pankiw Produced by James Weyman Jason Aita Breann Smordi Starring Rachel Sennott Olga Petsa Sabrina Jalees Caleb Hearon Ennis Esmer Dani Kind Jason Jones
Jim the Poet discusses	"Green Border"		Polish Zielona granica Directed by Agnieszka Holland Written by Maciej Pisuk[1] Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko[1] Agnieszka Holland[1] Produced by Marcin Wierzchoslawski[1] Fred Bernstein[1] Agnieszka Holland[1] Starring Jalal Altawil Maja Ostaszewska Tomasz Włosok Behi Djanati Atai Mohamad Al Rashi Dalia Naous Maciej Stuhr Agata Kulesza
Duran Duran	Girls on Film "Girls on Film" by "Duran Duran"	Girls On Film 1979 Demo	No Simon LeBon!
Jim the Poet discusses	Movies for next week?		"Daddio" "Chronicles of a Wandering Saint" "A Quiet Place: Day One" "Horizon: Part One"
Jim the Poet discusses	This Week's Question		Has a bad review ever talked you out of seeing a movie?

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Listener comments!
	5:55pm Jim the Poet: Got fascinating things to say but you're too shy to call in? E-mail jimthepoet at wfmu dot org Or text Jim 646 684 5793
	5:57pm Jim the Poet: Also feel free to drunk dial me at 3 AM
	6:00pm Jessica is cool: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" right choice
	6:02pm Jim the Poet: ↳ Jessica is cool @6:00 Music Director Approved!
	👍 6:02pm zachary: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:02 Can't go wrong now, Jim!
	👍 6:02pm Folsom: I give this show Three Jims Up.
	👍 6:03pm zachary: Great cartoon for the show tonight, Jim. Do you think anyone will bring up Garfield?
	6:03pm Yes: JIM!
	6:04pm Tom from Stirling: New vampire movie coming out. Nosferatu. Willem Dafoe is in it so it's got to be good.
	6:04pm chresti: Hi Jim and thumb movie show!
	6:05pm joe mulligan: I've never heard of these movies, but I usually look for the top metacritic ratings. I know i'm missing out.. so many movies are better than the critics sya
	6:06pm Ike: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:02 Deeply, deeply troubling that the new MD is into Steely Dan, LOL LOL LOL (though not as bad as being into Chris Pratt's Garfield)
	6:07pm joe mulligan: I do really want to see Ryuichi Sakamoto \| Opus
	👍 6:08pm Franco Twinkie: If I can't talk about Garfield, I'm just going to stay in bed.
	6:08pm joe mulligan: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:08 ha! bring Franco some lasagna
	6:08pm Ike: "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person" is an amazing movie title! Never heard of this!
	6:09pm Tom from Stirling: Well Jude Law was acting. How was that movie? Anything with The Tudors.....
	6:10pm joe mulligan: ↳ Ike @6:08 for the longest time on the route to the DE beaches there was grafitti "Fearless Vampire Killers"
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Tom hardy is in The Bikeriders. He's always good.
	6:11pm Ike: ↳ joe mulligan @6:08 Lasagna for everybody! Except Chris Pratt.
	6:11pm Erik/VT: re fat suits, etc - Totally agree abt this oft-Hollywood miscasting of super stars instead of great characters actors! Drives me nuts-O.
	6:13pm joe mulligan: ↳ Ike @6:11 one thring I really miss about NJ is that anytime at any italian NJ restaurant you can get any kind of pasta dish. here in CA you can only get what's trendy or CalItalian
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: Law and Order: Criminal Intent is the best Law and Order. Right?
	6:13pm dale: hey now. i'm not a go to the movie person anymore. the price of raisinettes just got too out of hand.
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Erik/VT @6:11 It's called acting.
	6:14pm Erik/VT: IMO, BikeRiders is very odd tone’d film. Doesn’t quite work - yet very curiously engaging. That director Jeff Nichols makes unusual films. This is the first I haven’t loved.
	6:15pm Erik/VT: I hear THELMA (June Squibb) is really quite wonderful. & not pandering !?
	6:17pm DjLorraine: Hey, is this seat taken?
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Erik/VT @6:14 Because Tom Hardy is in it.
	6:19pm aHarry from Leeds: Find community spaces and find love ❤
	6:22pm paddy in matawan: Haaaaaaaaaaaaa! I loved both of those. The Room is so bad!
	6:23pm joe mulligan: Leave the World Behind had okay ratings/not the best, but it was one of my favorites from 2023
	6:24pm Erik/VT: perhaps more high-hat than rotten tomatoes, i prefer dipping into METACRITIC as my go-to warehouse of reviewers. Still , Wikipedia is the first place I look/read.
	6:26pm common: love the room and ed wood
	6:27pm melinda: Hello Jim and friends
	6:27pm joe mulligan: ↳ Erik/VT @6:24 I love metacritic but my wife never has. she snoozes on metacrtitc movies, most have subtitles
	6:29pm Erik/VT: ↳ joe mulligan @6:27 Haha, well that’s funny - yet they review almost everything (guessing yer jesting…)😉.
	6:29pm RustyinBaltimore: Hello Jim and fellow moviegoers.
	6:30pm Yes: psyched to see kinds of kindness... not psyched for the run time
	6:31pm dale: did they have turkeys in england? thought it was an american bird mostly.
	6:32pm paddy in matawan: Kevin Smith would probably come on. He's cool. Met him at a brewery.
	6:32pm Erik/VT: re Tavianni Bros (almost ALL are great!) - especially the 70s-early 80s era. yet re Critics, one hadn’t read horrendously scathing criticism until one reads John Simon. (Awful just awful, yet entertaining).
	6:36pm Ike: The Sunshine was cool. They tore it down for condos, right?
	6:36pm ∫ydniuß: ↳ dale @6:31 Ben Franklin advocated it for the national bird
	6:39pm dan in wisconsin: I think it was either Sundance or IFC Channel where I first saw Box of Moonlight (1996). This movie has a really quirky soundtrack. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wall of Voodoo, Peter Murphy... Set in the summertime, and it's a great road trip movie. John Turturro's character finds a mix tape cassette in the seat cushion of his rental car.
	6:39pm Tom from Stirling: Willem Dafoe is in that Kindness movie. So it must be good.
	6:40pm melinda: Early matinees are the way to go.
	6:41pm dan in wisconsin: I don't have access to cable television anymore, so I don't know if IFC plays cool stuff anymore. I saw Koyaanisqatsi on IFC one night after coming home from my movie theater job and was mesmerized. Ron Fricke is a fantastic cinematographer.
	6:41pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ melinda @6:40 Sometimes they're 5 dollar tickets.
	6:50pm Tom from Stirling: Alien: Romulus opens later in the summer.
	6:55pm Tom from Stirling: Norman Mailer tripped over my foot at Joe's Pub. Yes, he was drunk.
	6:58pm chresti: Thanks Jim!
	6:58pm dan in wisconsin: Thank you, Jim!
	12:14am ultradamno: If you liked Late Night With The Devil, you might want to look for a movie called The Cleansing Hour for comparison/contrast. It's a slightly earlier film with a notably similar premise (online fake exorcist live streams what turns out to be the real thing)
	12:30am ultradamno: Another relatively recent (last year) vampire movie worth looking at is El Conde
	2:07pm Mark of Sea Bright: regarding 0:33:18, I agree David Denby has questionable taste in movies: I recall he gave Skyfall a bad review, which I think is the best Bond film. But I also do think The New Yorker has an anti-movie culture; its rare that it gives a good review

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from June 25, 2024

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