WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from November 26, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:01pm Dan from PEI: Nice vibe here tonight
	6:01pm common: hey, where's the dan? hey jim, all!
	6:04pm chresti: Hi Jim the poet movie show!
	6:04pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi everyone!!! Is alanSix° fillin in or is it Jim?
	6:04pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi Jim the Poet!!!
	6:05pm dale: hey now. enjoying this song better than the steely dan. what if e.t. comes back in a sequel to destroy earth? now he knows all our weaknesses and how the guvment operates.
	6:05pm ness: Magical. 201-209-9368.
	👍 6:08pm Folsom: I wouldn't mind a sequel to Tapeheads.
	6:09pm Tom from Stirling: Harry Dean Stanton was in Alien.
	6:10pm jeanli: Everyone knows that Addams FAmily Values is the perfect Thxgiving movie!!
	6:10pm common: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:09 love him and yaphet in that film
	6:11pm dale: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:09 let's talk about the bonus situation.
	6:11pm full_english_breakfast: recommended movie for a long thanksgiving trip: Little Big Man
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:11 Ha. No bonus. She's still alive.
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: Conclave was very good. Many awards in store.
	6:16pm B R M: John David Washington's character in THE PIANO LESSON was Boy Willie
	6:16pm dale: how about a rocky prequel, little rocky. his journey from a bullied kid always getting picked on in gym class to his first boxing lesson. would have a brutal dodgeball scene about half way through.
	6:16pm dale: think of all the options - edward pinking shears hands, edward nail clipper hands...
	6:17pm B R M: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:13 Was opening night at my film festival and we had Edward Berger, the director, there with us (he was lovely). He also directed the recent ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT on Netflix, which is great (IMO).
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: The prequel to Edward Scissorhands is right in the beginning of the movie.
	6:19pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ B R M @6:17 Cool, he's a good director.
	6:23pm joe: 'My coffee's luke...' Brain Candy
	6:23pm dale: ↳ B R M @6:17 all quiet on the western front what fantastic. brutal, but fantastic. the soundtrack/sound design was great too.
	6:24pm DjLorraine: A little hard on the eyes
	6:27pm ?: I saw Heretic last week. My friend said, "I was expecting more. Something supernatural." I said, "that was the point. There is no supernatural."
	6:28pm B R M: ↳ dale @6:23 agree! we showed it in our cinema and it was so incredible on the big screen... he's the real deal. His next movie is a gambling movie with Colin Farrell shot on Macao...another adaptation: en.wikipedia.org...
	6:28pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving movie, but the characters in in ther forties.
	6:31pm PaulRobeson1924: Too many allegorical references to powerful drugs in The Odyssey
	6:31pm PaulRobeson1924: Been around for a thousand years
	6:33pm wenzo: THE LITTLE LEBOWSKI
	6:33pm Tom from Stirling: Good movie to watch on a long trip -Slumdog Millionaire
	6:33pm David Shortell: ↳ dale @6:05 Gahan Wilson drew a Playboy page on that idea. I wish I could find it online.
	6:33pm wenzo: Dude I always thought they were setting up a second one… “I happen to know there’s a little Lebowski on the way”
	6:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:28 *are in their forties. There are turkeys in here inhibiting my typing abilities.
	6:34pm brycepunk1: Clintondale! Hello from Highland :)
	6:34pm tranewreck: Lloyd!
	6:34pm wenzo: Although whatshisface already did a spin-off movie of Da Jesus which totally flopped I think. Never saw it
	6:34pm dale: ↳ David Shortell @6:33 ha ha! his stuff was great.
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ wenzo @6:33 Please, no sequel to The Big Lebowski. There was talk, probably not gonna happen. Good.
	6:35pm wenzo: *John Turturro
	6:36pm wenzo: Idk I think The Coen Bros could back it reasonably good if they wanted to. Apparently they agree with you tho.
	6:36pm wenzo: *could make it
	6:36pm Marie in Chicago: how about a sequel to "2010: The Year We Make Contact" ...
	6:39pm common: unconvincing head. band name
	6:39pm full_english_breakfast: i agree on the poor gladiator II special fx, thought the boats on water in the beginning scenes looked like crap
	6:41pm David Shortell: Conan of Cimmeria wins the Aquilonian throne in “The Hour of the Dragon”, serialized mostly in 1936 (the year Robert E. Howard killed himself).
	6:42pm dale: ken can't believe he got through.
	6:42pm Tom from Stirling: That's what happens when you put an old coot like Ridlley Scott in charge.
	6:43pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ common @6:39 love it
	6:43pm common: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:43 i'll get my drums
	6:44pm Listener Robert: Coffee and newspapers in Gladiator 2? They must've been going for laughs. Gladiator 1 was the scariest movie I ever saw, because of the fight scenes with their point-of-view rapid cuts. All it lacked was 3-D.
	6:44pm Ike: Time Out says they had the "newspaper" wasn't totally insane because there was news carved on stone, but that sounds ridiculously far off from what you guys are describing. "The café is a blatant anachronism, but the concept of a Roman newspaper isn’t as far-fetched... ‘The Romans had the world’s first newspaper, the Acta Diurna,’ says [a] historian." But on stone and not paper? Does that count? Pfffft.
	6:44pm Ike: www.timeout.com...
	6:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:36 Arthur C. Clarke’s “2061: Odyssey Three” was published in 1987, and “3001: The Final Odyssey” in 1997.
	6:45pm DjLorraine: I read Wicked and really enjoyed it. I thought the stage musical was missing some things.
	6:46pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ common @6:43 Hey, I'll pull out my accordion
	6:47pm common: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:46 perfect!
	6:49pm David Shortell: I’ve never seen “Gladiator” (the 2000 movie starring Russell Crowe, not the 1992 movie starring Cuba Gooding Jr). How does it compare with Kubrick’s “Spartacus”?
	6:51pm Listener Robert: Gladiator is way scarier.
	6:53pm Ike: ↳ David Shortell @6:49 The original "Gladiator" is wildly overrated IMHO. It's an OK movie but you'll find absolutely no indication of how or why it won Best Picture that year, which remains utterly baffling.
	6:53pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ David Shortell @6:44 hm; i wonder if anyone is working on adapting it...
	6:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "'The Piano Lesson'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Previously adapted into a CBS-TV movie in 1995. Watch it here: tubitv.com...
	6:53pm Tom from Stirling: J K Simmons is in almost as many movies as Samuel L Jackson.
	6:55pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:49 Gladiator is also without Howard Fast's politics.
	6:55pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Ike @6:53 So what movie should have won?
	👍 6:57pm Folsom: I couldn't find The Stand In on Glover's wiki page.
	6:59pm Tom from Stirling: So many weird smudges and blots on used books. Kinda nasty.
	6:59pm David Shortell: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:55 The other nominees were “Chocolat”, Traffic”, “Erin Brockovich” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.
	7:00pm ultradamno: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:55 Of those nominated that year, I was rooting for Crouching Tiger, Traffic was better too
	7:00pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ David Shortell @6:59 Agree. All better. Kind of like that farce Forrest Gump winning.
	7:01pm Orthofrancis: My family's Thanksgiving day tradition is to watch the old 1930's Erol Flynn version of Robin Hood.
	7:01pm ultradamno: Actually so were Erin Broc and Chocolat
	7:01pm Ike: ↳ David Shortell @6:59 Haven't seen Chocolat but the other 3 are all better for sure.
	7:02pm ultradamno: My favorite movie of that year was Songs From The Second Floor
	7:03pm Ike: ↳ Ike @7:01 I'm not a huge fan of Almost Famous but I'd probably prefer that to Gladiator too. Can't remember if I've seen You Can Count on Me but I bet that was also better than Gladiator.
	7:03pm David Shortell: ↳ Orthofrancis @7:01 With Chuck Jones' "Rabbit Hood" preceding.
	7:05pm Ike: And I forgot O Brother, Where Art Thou?! That should have won that year! It wasn't even nominated for Best Pic which is a CRIME. And I'm not even a huge Coens fan!
	👍 2:32pm zachary: Thank you, Jim! Thanks Ike, David, ultradamno, Orthofrancis, Tom, and everyone else above the scroll. Great show!

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November 26, 2024: 'Flow' 'Wicked', 'Gladiator II', 'Red One', 'Emilia Pérez', 'Nathan-ism', 'Heretic', 'Best Christmas Pageant Ever', 'Meanwhile on Earth', 'Hippo', 'Small Things Like These', 'The Piano Lesson', 'Bird', Micah's Pick ''The Stand In'

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SUB-QUESTION: What's a movie you'd recommend for people's long Thanksgiving trips?

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
The Drifters	Kissin' in the Back Row at a Movie	Love Games	Bell Records		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Piano Lesson'	Movie	Movie	Directed by Malcolm Washington Screenplay by Virgil Williams Malcolm Washington Based on The Piano Lesson by August Wilson Produced by Todd Black Denzel Washington Starring Samuel L. Jackson John David Washington Ray Fisher Michael Potts Erykah Badu Skylar Aleece Smith Danielle Deadwyler Corey Hawkins	0:12:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Heretic' "'Heretic'" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	Movie	Movie		0:30:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Gladiator II'	Movie	Movie	Directed by Ridley Scott Screenplay by David Scarpa Story by Peter Craig David Scarpa Based on Characters by David Franzoni Produced by Ridley Scott Michael Pruss Douglas Wick Lucy Fisher David Franzoni Starring Paul Mescal Pedro Pascal Joseph Quinn Fred Hechinger Lior Raz Derek Jacobi Connie Nielsen Denzel Washington	0:33:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Wicked' "'Wicked'" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	Movie	Movie	Directed by Jon M. Chu Screenplay by Winnie Holzman[a] Dana Fox Based on Wicked by Stephen Schwartz Winnie Holzman Wicked by Gregory Maguire Produced by Marc Platt David Stone Starring Cynthia Erivo Ariana Grande-Butera[b] Jonathan Bailey Ethan Slater Bowen Yang Marissa Bode Peter Dinklage Michelle Yeoh Jeff Goldblum	0:41:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Flow' "'Flow'" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	Movie	Movie	Directed by Gints Zilbalodis[1] Written by Gints Zilbalodis Matīss Kaža Produced by Gints Zilbalodis Matīss Kaža Ron Dyens Gregory Zalcman Music by Gints Zilbalodis Rihards Zalupe Production companies Dream Well Studio Sacrebleu Productions Take Five	0:43:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Small Things Like These'	Movie	Movie	Directed by Tim Mielants Screenplay by Enda Walsh[1] Based on Small Things like These by Claire Keegan Produced by Matt Damon Cillian Murphy Alan Moloney Drew Vinton Jeff Robinov Starring Cillian Murphy Eileen Walsh Michelle Fairley Clare Dunne Helen Behan Emily Watson	0:45:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Hippo' "'Hippo'" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	Movie	Movie	Directed by Mark H. Rapaport Written by Mark H. Rapaport Kimball Farley Produced by Anthony Argento Mark H. Rapaport Starring Kimball Farley Lilla Kizlinger [pl] Eliza Roberts Jesse Pimentel Narrated by Eric Roberts	0:47:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'	Movie	Movie	Directed by Dallas Jenkins Screenplay by Ryan Swanson Platte Clark Darin McDaniel Based on The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson Produced by Kevin Downes Jon Erwin Andrew Erwin Darin McDaniel Chet Thomas Daryl Lefever Starring Judy Greer Pete Holmes Molly Belle Wright Lauren Graham	0:48:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Meanwhile on Earth'	Movie	Movie	French Pendant ce temps sur terre Directed by Jérémy Clapin [fr] Written by Jérémy Clapin Produced by Marc du Pontavice Starring Megan Northam Catherine Salée Sam Louwyck	0:49:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Red One' "'Red One'" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	Movie	Movie	Directed by Jake Kasdan Screenplay by Chris Morgan Story by Hiram Garcia Produced by Hiram Garcia Dwayne Johnson Dany Garcia Chris Morgan Jake Kasdan Melvin Mar Starring Dwayne Johnson Chris Evans Lucy Liu J. K. Simmons	0:50:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet and Micah discuss	'The Stand-In'				0:52:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Columbia	Roar, Lion, Roar "Roar, Lion, Roar" by "Columbia"				0:58:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01pm Dan from PEI: Nice vibe here tonight
	6:01pm common: hey, where's the dan? hey jim, all!
	6:04pm chresti: Hi Jim the poet movie show!
	6:04pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi everyone!!! Is alanSix° fillin in or is it Jim?
	6:04pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi Jim the Poet!!!
	6:05pm dale: hey now. enjoying this song better than the steely dan. what if e.t. comes back in a sequel to destroy earth? now he knows all our weaknesses and how the guvment operates.
	6:05pm ness: Magical. 201-209-9368.
	👍 6:08pm Folsom: I wouldn't mind a sequel to Tapeheads.
	6:09pm Tom from Stirling: Harry Dean Stanton was in Alien.
	6:10pm jeanli: Everyone knows that Addams FAmily Values is the perfect Thxgiving movie!!
	6:10pm common: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:09 love him and yaphet in that film
	6:11pm dale: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:09 let's talk about the bonus situation.
	6:11pm full_english_breakfast: recommended movie for a long thanksgiving trip: Little Big Man
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:11 Ha. No bonus. She's still alive.
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: Conclave was very good. Many awards in store.
	6:16pm B R M: John David Washington's character in THE PIANO LESSON was Boy Willie
	6:16pm dale: how about a rocky prequel, little rocky. his journey from a bullied kid always getting picked on in gym class to his first boxing lesson. would have a brutal dodgeball scene about half way through.
	6:16pm dale: think of all the options - edward pinking shears hands, edward nail clipper hands...
	6:17pm B R M: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:13 Was opening night at my film festival and we had Edward Berger, the director, there with us (he was lovely). He also directed the recent ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT on Netflix, which is great (IMO).
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: The prequel to Edward Scissorhands is right in the beginning of the movie.
	6:19pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ B R M @6:17 Cool, he's a good director.
	6:23pm joe: 'My coffee's luke...' Brain Candy
	6:23pm dale: ↳ B R M @6:17 all quiet on the western front what fantastic. brutal, but fantastic. the soundtrack/sound design was great too.
	6:24pm DjLorraine: A little hard on the eyes
	6:27pm ?: I saw Heretic last week. My friend said, "I was expecting more. Something supernatural." I said, "that was the point. There is no supernatural."
	6:28pm B R M: ↳ dale @6:23 agree! we showed it in our cinema and it was so incredible on the big screen... he's the real deal. His next movie is a gambling movie with Colin Farrell shot on Macao...another adaptation: en.wikipedia.org...
	6:28pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving movie, but the characters in in ther forties.
	6:31pm PaulRobeson1924: Too many allegorical references to powerful drugs in The Odyssey
	6:31pm PaulRobeson1924: Been around for a thousand years
	6:33pm wenzo: THE LITTLE LEBOWSKI
	6:33pm Tom from Stirling: Good movie to watch on a long trip -Slumdog Millionaire
	6:33pm David Shortell: ↳ dale @6:05 Gahan Wilson drew a Playboy page on that idea. I wish I could find it online.
	6:33pm wenzo: Dude I always thought they were setting up a second one… “I happen to know there’s a little Lebowski on the way”
	6:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:28 *are in their forties. There are turkeys in here inhibiting my typing abilities.
	6:34pm brycepunk1: Clintondale! Hello from Highland :)
	6:34pm tranewreck: Lloyd!
	6:34pm wenzo: Although whatshisface already did a spin-off movie of Da Jesus which totally flopped I think. Never saw it
	6:34pm dale: ↳ David Shortell @6:33 ha ha! his stuff was great.
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ wenzo @6:33 Please, no sequel to The Big Lebowski. There was talk, probably not gonna happen. Good.
	6:35pm wenzo: *John Turturro
	6:36pm wenzo: Idk I think The Coen Bros could back it reasonably good if they wanted to. Apparently they agree with you tho.
	6:36pm wenzo: *could make it
	6:36pm Marie in Chicago: how about a sequel to "2010: The Year We Make Contact" ...
	6:39pm common: unconvincing head. band name
	6:39pm full_english_breakfast: i agree on the poor gladiator II special fx, thought the boats on water in the beginning scenes looked like crap
	6:41pm David Shortell: Conan of Cimmeria wins the Aquilonian throne in “The Hour of the Dragon”, serialized mostly in 1936 (the year Robert E. Howard killed himself).
	6:42pm dale: ken can't believe he got through.
	6:42pm Tom from Stirling: That's what happens when you put an old coot like Ridlley Scott in charge.
	6:43pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ common @6:39 love it
	6:43pm common: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:43 i'll get my drums
	6:44pm Listener Robert: Coffee and newspapers in Gladiator 2? They must've been going for laughs. Gladiator 1 was the scariest movie I ever saw, because of the fight scenes with their point-of-view rapid cuts. All it lacked was 3-D.
	6:44pm Ike: Time Out says they had the "newspaper" wasn't totally insane because there was news carved on stone, but that sounds ridiculously far off from what you guys are describing. "The café is a blatant anachronism, but the concept of a Roman newspaper isn’t as far-fetched... ‘The Romans had the world’s first newspaper, the Acta Diurna,’ says [a] historian." But on stone and not paper? Does that count? Pfffft.
	6:44pm Ike: www.timeout.com...
	6:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:36 Arthur C. Clarke’s “2061: Odyssey Three” was published in 1987, and “3001: The Final Odyssey” in 1997.
	6:45pm DjLorraine: I read Wicked and really enjoyed it. I thought the stage musical was missing some things.
	6:46pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ common @6:43 Hey, I'll pull out my accordion
	6:47pm common: ↳ Marie in Chicago @6:46 perfect!
	6:49pm David Shortell: I’ve never seen “Gladiator” (the 2000 movie starring Russell Crowe, not the 1992 movie starring Cuba Gooding Jr). How does it compare with Kubrick’s “Spartacus”?
	6:51pm Listener Robert: Gladiator is way scarier.
	6:53pm Ike: ↳ David Shortell @6:49 The original "Gladiator" is wildly overrated IMHO. It's an OK movie but you'll find absolutely no indication of how or why it won Best Picture that year, which remains utterly baffling.
	6:53pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ David Shortell @6:44 hm; i wonder if anyone is working on adapting it...
	6:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "'The Piano Lesson'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Previously adapted into a CBS-TV movie in 1995. Watch it here: tubitv.com...
	6:53pm Tom from Stirling: J K Simmons is in almost as many movies as Samuel L Jackson.
	6:55pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:49 Gladiator is also without Howard Fast's politics.
	6:55pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Ike @6:53 So what movie should have won?
	👍 6:57pm Folsom: I couldn't find The Stand In on Glover's wiki page.
	6:59pm Tom from Stirling: So many weird smudges and blots on used books. Kinda nasty.
	6:59pm David Shortell: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:55 The other nominees were “Chocolat”, Traffic”, “Erin Brockovich” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.
	7:00pm ultradamno: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:55 Of those nominated that year, I was rooting for Crouching Tiger, Traffic was better too
	7:00pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ David Shortell @6:59 Agree. All better. Kind of like that farce Forrest Gump winning.
	7:01pm Orthofrancis: My family's Thanksgiving day tradition is to watch the old 1930's Erol Flynn version of Robin Hood.
	7:01pm ultradamno: Actually so were Erin Broc and Chocolat
	7:01pm Ike: ↳ David Shortell @6:59 Haven't seen Chocolat but the other 3 are all better for sure.
	7:02pm ultradamno: My favorite movie of that year was Songs From The Second Floor
	7:03pm Ike: ↳ Ike @7:01 I'm not a huge fan of Almost Famous but I'd probably prefer that to Gladiator too. Can't remember if I've seen You Can Count on Me but I bet that was also better than Gladiator.
	7:03pm David Shortell: ↳ Orthofrancis @7:01 With Chuck Jones' "Rabbit Hood" preceding.
	7:05pm Ike: And I forgot O Brother, Where Art Thou?! That should have won that year! It wasn't even nominated for Best Pic which is a CRIME. And I'm not even a huge Coens fan!
	👍 2:32pm zachary: Thank you, Jim! Thanks Ike, David, ultradamno, Orthofrancis, Tom, and everyone else above the scroll. Great show!

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from November 26, 2024

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