Movie Time Machine : A Retro Movie Review Podcast · chad the friend

EP110 Deliverance (1972)

September 26, 2023·49 min

The show opens with that familiar Movie Time Machine looseness. Chad, James, and Jamie banter a bit before the movie talk really gets moving. Jamie is dealing with a Vikings-on-Prime question right out of the gate. Chad brings up a chapter on Deliverance in Quentin Tarantino's book review, and that detail is enough to steer the conversation toward the film. Once they settle in, the group starts talking about why Deliverance still feels so distinct. They keep coming back to the score and how it lands for them. That reaction is mixed, but it is also part of what makes the discussion work. The hosts do not sand down the rough edges. They treat those edges like the point. The conversation then opens out into seventies filmmaking more generally. James and Chad compare that era to the older studio picture model. Big productions from earlier decades come up as the obvious contrast. They talk about how access to cameras and sound equipment changed the game, and how that shift gave writers and directors more room to make their own kind of movies. The whole discussion keeps that casual, riffy feel the show likes. It moves from the movie itself to the mechanics of how movies got made. Nobody tries to make the conversation too neat. Near the end, the crew throws out The Descent as a future October watch. The episode closes with the usual easygoing sign-off and a little squeal-heavy joke energy.

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A loose Deliverance chat that mixes seventies film grit with a sports-and-pop-culture hangout vibe.

Movie Time Machine uses Deliverance as a loose anchor for a conversation about why some seventies films feel rougher and more handmade than the studio pictures that came before them.

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A retro Deliverance chat with Tarantino, seventies movie nerdery, and a surprise Descent detour.

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