My guest for this month is Jake Desaulniers, and he’s joined me to discuss the film he chose for me, the 2010 dreamscape heist film Inception. You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.

Show notes:

• This is a film from British director Christopher Nolan
• Richard Burton was a totally big star when The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was released
• Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark are both excellent play-acting movies
• This movie was released in 2010, which is something like 2011
• Ocean’s Eleven is a classic example of a heist film
• Jules Dassin’s Rififi and the various Jean-Pierre Melville films are also excellent examples
• Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is a very dumb movie
• And so is Darren Aronofsky’s Pi, don’t let anyone tell you differently
• Hans Zimmer has done quite a few amazing film scores
• Sweet Smell of Success, with Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, has an absolutely perfect score by Elmer Bernstein
• As does, in a completely different way, the Three Colors trilogy, directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
• All three films in the trilogy were scored by Zbigniew Preisner
• The inventive, but not beautiful, cinematography for this film was done by Wally Pfister
• Sucker Punch is seriously a terrible, terrible film. Don’t watch it, you won’t like it
• I strongly dislike most of the work of its director, Zack Snyder
• The Fountain is another film with a score that Jake loves
• Even though he doesn’t like the film Prometheus, he still likes the score
• Christopher Nolan is probably an Auteur
• The Big Chill is not a popular film with Criterion Cinephiles
• It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who you may know from his writing The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
• My review of The Big Chill, where I talk about what it means to me
• John Williams is probably the modern era’s most well known film composer
• Jake also likes Clint Mansell, who did the score for Moon
• Seeing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Castro theatre was so amazing
• Sol Kaplan did the score for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• We both absolutely adore the films of Wes Anderson, and we love the scores as well
• All the Indiana Jones films have great scores
• Hotel Chevalier with Jason Schwartzman, which is the prequel short film to The Darjeeling Limited, has an incredible song by Peter Sarstedt
• The song, which I listen to all the time, is called Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?
• Saving Private Ryan uses a different song, but they are both by Édith Piaf
• We should all have things to say about The Goonies

Rent or buy the film from iTunes
Rent or buy the film from Amazon