Friday Film Showcased

Heart and Souls. We fell in love with this film: Heart and Souls. We fell in love, except Dean thought... that it was just okay.
Things discussed:
The 1990s' VHS rental market
The van-based secondary market for VHS in the form of Video Van Men
Film tricking you into feeling things or into perceiving motion
Insanely bad marketing campaigns: When Counterprogramming Goes Wrong
Robert Downey Jr: a vaudeville kid unstuck in time?
Ron Underwood, or A Modern Icarus
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love '90s Comedy Scores
Beethoven (the dog)

🎶Hey hey, we're Friday Film Showcased, and people say we don't showcase around, but we're too busy editing to load any podcasts up... 🎶
From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Bob Rafelson's almost-forgotten existential Monkees movie, Head (1968), written by Jack Nicholson!
Whether you're a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one's for you. So take the last train to Clarksville, you randy Scouse git: this is the podcast that will make you believe in daydreams.
Fun fact: Mike Nesmith's mother invented Tipp-Ex.
See also: https://thesundae.net/2024/08/23/friday-film-showcased-episode-3-jack-nicholson-the-fortune-1975-five-easy-pieces-1970-about-schmidt-2002-more/

For the ninth day of Christmas, Friday Film Showcased gave to me: a podcast episode about The Last Boy Scout, written by Mr. Christmas himself, Shane Black!

Theme Music: Bach J.S. Christmas Oratorio. BMV 248. Part 4.

Following a hiatus, we at Spotify* are delighted to welcome Ciara and Conor back for season 2 of Friday Film Showcased. In this excellent episode, they set out their plans for the upcoming season.
Is this the first episode of the season they discuss? Is this the trailer/preview for said season? Though shorter than usual, we at Spotify* lean towards the former. Highly recommended. Five Stars.

Song title: Autumn Mvt 1 Allegro (Tony Vivaldi) / Artist: John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players / Source: Free Music Archive / License: CC BY-SA

*Full disclosure, the "we at Spotify" in this instance are Spotify for Creators contributors Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan

NOTE: We received a message from Spotify for Creators stating that it had identified copyrighted third-party content in our podcast. This is incorrect.
The theme music for our podcast is Antonin Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV315 ‘Summer’. The particular recording used was downloaded from Musopen.com, a non-profit which produces and disseminates public domain music via recordings, sheet music and educational resources concerning Western classical music. The licence for using this specific download was identified on Musopen.com as Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal.
That this is the only recording we have used, yet has been flagged as six separate recordings within the nine published versions of the podcast, with both Universal Music and Euphoria Ltd set as rights holders. This should demonstrate the difficulty with regard to copyright enforcement for performances of classical music, and differentiating between public domain recordings and copyrighted recordings.
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Summary and links:
In the quintus episode of FFS, Ciara and Conor continue their discussion of the giallo genre with a deep dive on Lucio Fulci's 1972 masterpiece, Don't Torture a Duckling. Spoilers abound!
The Giallo Files: ⁠https://giallofiles.blogspot.com/
Ciara's Fangoria article about Don't Torture a Duckling: https://www.fangoria.com/lucio-fulci-so-much-more-than-the-godfather-of-gore-dont-torture-a-duckling-at-50/