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Karina Longworth on Late Style, Unfashionable Auteurs and Season 20 of Her Film History Podcast ‘You Must Remember This’
After the Season 20 finale of her film history podcast 'You Must Remember This,' Karina Longworth talks late style, John Huston and 'The Old Man Is Still Alive.'
Whether its the sparse styling of Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” or the multi-million-dollar gonzo flair of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” there’s a vital, existential intrigue to directors who may seem over the hill, or encased in amber, and who can be easily dismissed as unfashionable. The host is speaking over a Zoom call from London, where she is introducing a British Film Institute screening series tied to “The Old Man Is Still Alive.” Selections include Henry Hathaway’s Western “True Grit,” which won John Wayne an Oscar at the age of 62, and Cukor’s little-seen final film “Rich and Famous,” a Candice Bergen-Jacqueline Bisset two-hander that Longworth likes much more than Cukor’s Oscar winner “My Fair Lady” (more on that later.) And the related thing is Quentin Tarantino’s pledge of, ‘I have to retire before I get old, because old men don’t make good movies.’ I hope this season is a counterpoint to that argument,” Longworth says, then adding.
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