The Player (1992 Cannes Award Winner)
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07/27/22 • 57 min
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The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1992 features a Cannes Film Festival award winner, Robert Altman’s The Player. Directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin and starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Cynthia Stevenson, Fred Ward and Peter Gallagher, The Player won two top awards at Cannes in 1992.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-player-1992), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/10/movies/review-film-inside-hollywood-an-impious-tale.html), and Peter Rainer in the Los Aneles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-19-ca-735-story.html).
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The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1992 features a Cannes Film Festival award winner, Robert Altman’s The Player. Directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin and starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Cynthia Stevenson, Fred Ward and Peter Gallagher, The Player won two top awards at Cannes in 1992.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-player-1992), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/10/movies/review-film-inside-hollywood-an-impious-tale.html), and Peter Rainer in the Los Aneles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-19-ca-735-story.html).
Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.
Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @Awesomemoviepod
You can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedy
You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed
You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.
You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we’ve been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.
Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen
All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com
Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1992 installment, featuring our documentary pick, Ron Fricke’s Baraka.
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Toys (1992 Box Office Flop)
The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1992 features the year’s biggest flop, Barry Levinson’s Toys. Directed and co-written by Barry Levinson and starring Robin Williams, Joan Cusack, Michael Gambon, Robin Wright and LL Cool J, Toys was nominated for awards at both the Razzies and the Oscars.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/toys-1992), Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-18-ca-1966-story.html), and Peter Travers in Rolling Stone (https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/toys-253263/).
Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.
Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @Awesomemoviepod
You can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedy
You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed
You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.
You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we’ve been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.
Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen
All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com
Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1992 installment, featuring a Cannes Film Festival award winner, Robert Altman’s The Player.
Next Episode
Baraka (1992 Documentary)
The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1992 features our documentary pick, Ron Fricke’s Baraka. Directed and photographed by Ron Fricke, Baraka was filmed in locations around the world, on six continents over a period of 14 months.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/baraka-1993), Hal Hinson in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/barakanrhinson_a0a88a.htm), and Pamela Bruce in The Austin Chronicle (https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/1993-12-17/138965/).
Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.
Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @Awesomemoviepod
You can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedy
You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed
You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.
You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we’ve been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.
Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen
All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com
Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1992 installment, featuring Josh’s personal pick, Saturday Night Live adaptation Wayne’s World.
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