The Orphans: Part 2

12/10/21 • 17 min

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This episode continues an irregular series that takes a look back at a minor cinematic phenomenon that happened more often in the 1980s than in any other decade: the one-time-only distribution company.

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We talk about the 1985 cocaine crime drama The Texas Godfather, featuring Vince Edwards and Paul L. Smith, the 1986 comedy Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter, starring Paul Sorvino, Abe Vigoda and Lorne Greene, and the 1986 gender switch comedy Willy/Milly (aka I Was a Teenage Boy, aka Something Special), starring Pamela Segall, Patty Duke, John Glover and Seth Green.

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The Orphans

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This episode begins an irregular series that will take a look back at a minor cinematic phenomenon that happened more often in the 1980s than in any other decade: a one-time-only distribution company.

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We talk about the 1980 Tinto Brass erotic historical drama Caligula, starring Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, and Peter O'Toole, and the 1985 Bud Yorkin family drama Twice in a Lifetime, featuring Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, and Brian Dennehy.

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Christmas 1981 at the Movies

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On this episode, film critic and historian Edward A. Havens III takes his Wayback Machine back forty years, to look back at the movies you could have seen after Christmas dinner in 1981.

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The movies covered during this episode include (released in 1981, unless otherwise noted):

Absence of Malice (Sydney Pollack)
Arthur (Steve Gordon)
Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
Buddy Buddy (Billy Wilder)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Cinderella (1950, Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson)
Four Friends (Arthur Penn)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
Ghost Story (John Irvin)
Heartbeeps (Allan Arkush)
Modern Problems (Ken Shapiro)
Montenegro (Dušan Makavejev)
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance)
Neighbors (John G. Avildsen)
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell)
Only When I Laugh (Glenn Jordan)
Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross)
Ragtime (Miloš Forman)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Reds (Warren Beatty)
Rollover (Alan J. Pakula)
Sharkey's Machine (Burt Reynolds)
Taps (Harold Becker)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (John Badham)