DVD Afternoon Podcast #51: Praising Arizona

It's a slow week for interesting new DVD releases, which means Heather Noel and I decided it was time to take another dip into the DVD Helmet of Mystery to figure out what movies we'd be discussing on this week's episode of DVD Afternoon. So instead of devoting a full segment to, say, The Tourist, we wound up doing an in-depth review of... well, a different Johnny Depp movie, but a much more strange and original one: Emir Kusturica's 1993 oddity Arizona Dream, in which Depp has an affair with Faye Dunaway, plays Eskimo with Jerry Lewis, and drives across America with Vincent Gallo. Did the Helmet curse us or bless us? Give the episode a listen and find out!

If you do, you'll also hear us discuss Sam Peckinpah's corpse-strewn 1973 Western Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, as well as a mini-review of the D.A. Pennebaker documentary Kings of Pastry, a discussion of the temptation to force-feed your boy- or girlfriend all of your favourite movies, and our usual lists of the week's other most noteworthy new DVD and Blu-Ray releases. Plus: Heather beseeches the DVD Afternoon listenership to suggest names for her new blog! (You can email them to the show at dvdafternoon [at] gmail.com.)

Here's how the show breaks down:

0:00-16:12: Intro/Kings of Pastry/Boyfriend-Girlfriend Cinema Boot Camp/Name Heather's Blog!
16:13-17:18: The Nicols, "She Had a Name to Find Out"
17:19-30:09: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
30:10-31:05: Bob Dylan, "Billy 1"
31:06-44:25: Arizona Dream
44:26-45:31: The Cattanooga Cats, "Johnny Johnny Jump-Up"
45:32-1:04:39: Other noteworthy new DVDs/Outro

Hope you don't find that Cattanooga Cats song too annoying! (You see, it has "Johnny" in the title... you know, like Johnny Depp!) To make it up to you, here's the trailer for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, which contains a nice sampling of Bob Dylan's score:



And here's the scene from Arizona Dream where Vincent Gallo re-enacts the cropduster scene from North by Northwest before a semi-appreciative crowd:



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