316 – Liberty Heights

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

After Diner earned an Oscar nomination for its screenplay and the hearts of dads everywhere, writer/director Barry Levinson’s star quickly rose in Hollywood, culminating in Rain Man sweeping the Oscars. In the 1990s, Levinson had his share of hits and misses, but ended the decade with the final entry of his Baltimore films, Liberty Heights. The film tackles antisemitism and racism in the midcentury from a boomer lens with a young cast led by Ben Foster and Adrien Brody, but even strong reviews failed to draw an audience or the attention of awards voters.

This episode, we talk about Levinson’s filmography and the film atmosphere that led to this film being quickly forgotten. We also talk about Foster’s recent output overlooked by Oscar, Joe Mantegna’s career before being lost to the CBS soup, and Brody being mostly cut out of The Thin Red Line.

Topics also include Forget Paris, Bebe Neuwirth cast as a mom shortly after the Chicago revival, and retro movie chain pre-shows.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeil

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.7	We want to talk to Marilyn Hack, Maryland Hack and French. I'm from Canada water.
0:31.3	Dick Pooh.
0:36.2	Dick Pooh This boy
0:43.7	Have you completely lost your mind
0:47.1	You're talking about it's Halloween
0:48.6	You are not leaving this house
0:50.3	dressed as Adolf Hitler
0:51.5	What do you guys think?
0:54.8	It might be a tad too much.
0:58.6	I thought he said that his family had money.
1:00.8	Look at these rocks.
1:02.1	I couldn't get wall to wall?
1:09.0	What do you think would happen if I gave you a kiss right now?
1:12.1	I think our parents would die.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:15.2	Definitely.
1:17.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that is bringing a fucked witch to the apartment to communicate with our dead husband.
1:24.9	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died, and we are here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my Gentile Dream Girl, Chris File. Hello, Chris. It's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me.
1:45.6	Though I have so, so many thoughts on the state of the heterosexual male in regards to this
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