289 – Don’t Look Now (with David Sims) (70s Spectacular – 1973)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

In 1973, the Academy embraced horror in a big way by slapping cultural phenomenon The Exorcist with 10 nominations – but then The Sting would triumph over its success on Oscar night. Critic David Sims returns to the show to talk about a different iconic and formative horror title, Nicolas Rouge’s Don’t Look Now. With prestige stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, the film follows a married couple grieving the loss of a child while working overseas in Venice. Clairvoyance, a serial killer, and disturbing visions all amount to a unique horror film that would influence many to come, but nevertheless one that the Academy was not ready to embrace.

This episode, we talk about the film’s notorious sex scene and the film as an odd middle ground between The Exorcist and Last Tango in Paris. We also talk about how the reputation of the film’s twist ending, Christie’s Oscar legacy, and how Sutherland was never nominated for an Oscar ahead of his honorary win.

Topics also include David’s favorites of 1973, Jefferson Mays on Broadway, and the Oscar streaker.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeilDavid: @davidlsims

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get that. We want to talk to Mill and Hack. Mill and Hack and
0:17.0	print. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poohop. She wants you to know. I've seen her and she wants you to know that she's happy.
0:48.0	Christine.
0:50.0	John do you hear what I say it was Christine? My daughter is dead Laura.
0:55.6	She does not come peeping with messages back from behind the grave.
1:00.0	Yes.
1:01.0	Christine is dead. Yes. She is dead. Yeah. Dead, dead, dead. Yeah, Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast The Only Podcasts Memorializing Castro's Boobs.
1:17.0	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz will be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy
1:21.8	Award aspirations, but for some reason or another it all went wrong.
1:26.7	The Oscar hopes died and were here to perform the autopsy, and in the month of May we'll be
1:31.7	celebrating the Oscar era that was the 1970s.
1:36.2	I'm your host, Chris File, and I'm here as always with my clairvoyant sister, Joe Reed.
1:42.0	Oh, I should, I should have a freak out here, right?
1:46.0	I should just be...
1:47.0	What does she tell us just riding on a boat?
1:50.0	We're like Lady Gaga on the boat, arriving the Stars Born from here except we are both two
1:55.6	Claire Vwain sisters or two very different visions of Fevis and one who's really excited about it.
2:01.4	Yes, yes. I'm also realizing because we record these so, we're recording this month so out of order.
2:07.4	I just spoiled maybe the biggest gag of up the sandbox for you.
2:10.8	I was going to say I don't get that joke at all but I will soon and I see up for soon.
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