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This week on The 80s Movie Podcast, host Edward Havens traces the nearly decade-long journey turning Willie Nelson’s iconic 1975 album Red Headed Stranger into a feature film. Nelson believed the album’s spare songs and unnamed preacher could live as a movie. He sought out Texas writer Bill Wittliff to develop the screenplay. Universal imagined…
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This week on The 80s Movie Podcast, host Edward Havens explores Paul Bartel’s 1982 cult film Eating Raoul. Paul and Mary Bland dream of opening a restaurant. But their plan to pay for it turns to murder. First, we trace Bartel’s early fascination with movies and animation, from his time at UPA through UCLA and…
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This week on The 80s Movie Podcast, host Edward Havens looks at Losin’ It, the 1983 teen comedy which starred a young Tom Cruise alongside Jackie Earle Haley and Shelley Long. Four teenagers head across the border in 1965, expecting an unforgettable adventure. Instead, they stumble into a chaotic night of bad decisions, romance, and…
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This week on The 80s Movie Podcast, host Edward Havens travels across the Atlantic to revisit a forgotten British film that captured The Clash at a pivotal moment. Rude Boy arrived in 1980 as punk was colliding with a changing Britain. However, the film is more than a document of one of the era’s greatest…
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In this episode of The 80s Movie Podcast, host Edward Havens explores Hearts and Armour (1984), an Italian fantasy adventure inspired by Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto’s epic 1532 poem Orlando Furioso. The film follows star-crossed lovers caught between Christian and Saracen armies during a sprawling medieval conflict. However, prophecy, magic, and divided loyalties threaten every…
