Podcast/Smackdown Pt 1: "Julia" & "The Goodbye Girl"
Monday, August 1, 2016 at 12:01AM 
As a companion piece to yesterday's Smackdown, a two-part podcast. In the first installment Mark Harris, Guy Lodge, Nick Davis, Sara Black McCulloch, and Nathaniel R discuss 1977's Oscar race, Jane Fonda & Vanessa Redgrave's friendship, Neil Simon's quippy writing, and more...
Part One. Index (41 minutes)
00:01 Intros, 1977 Memories, Annie Hall vs Star Wars
05:55 "getting" movies and Oscar-watching before the internet
09:09 Julia and Jane Fonda's curious "supporting" lead
16:23 Gender in Julia, Vanessa Redgrave's politics, and queer subtext
29:45 Child acting and difficult language in The Goodbye Girl
35:45 The influx of divorce/single parenting movies in the 70s
39:14 Nick's family memory of The Goodbye Girl
You can listen to the podcast here or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you?
Reader Comments (7)
I'm with Nathaniel. Julia is not a perfect movie but it's quite fascinating: the structure, the fogginess, the subtext. I could watch it for a 4th time.
It makes perfect sense everything Mark says about the struggling single-mom thing being a key issue in the relevance of The Goodbye Girl in 1977. Otherwise, I don't get it.
I miss the times when movies were in the same movie theatre for months. Even a year.
Is there a reason why you keep conversations under an hour?
/3rtful -- it has to do with the website hosting and the requirements of uploading. technical limitations.
Peggy Sue -- yeah i miss those times too because dramas especially could take on a life that was unexpected if there was really time for word of mouth to build.
Oh, I just remembered! Didn't Jane Fonda name her daughter after Vanessa Redgrave?
Psssssst I said the smart Fonda thing. :P
Hayden -YES. I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry! Loved this smackdown.