Ciara Moloney Podcast

Friday Film Showcased Omnibus’d: Giallo Deep (Red) Dive

Originally released in two parts, this special omnibus edition of Friday Film Showcased collects Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan’s discussions about their giallo season into one big bite. Revisit without having to click from one episode to another. Listen for the first time by plunging into the two-hour-and-something deep end. Tell your friends. Tell your grandparents. Subscribe on all the platforms.

Omnibus'd: Giallo Deep (Red) Dive… on Grey Velvet in a Woman's skin… of Blood! It's exactly what you think it is – Friday Film Showcased

Films discussed: Deep Red, Stagefright Aquarius, Bay of Blood, Blood and Black Lace, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Dressed to Kill, Pieces, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, What Have You Done to Solange? and Don’t Torture a Duckling.

More topics: the various tropes of the giallo genre, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and most importantly Lucio Fulci, the entangled history of the noir, the ‎krimi, and the giallo, and red phones.

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Friday Film Showcased – The Big Clock (1948): The Big Clock/No Way Out Special Part 1

Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with part one of a two part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing’s novel The Big Clock. We are doing this as a tribute to the late Gene Hackman, who is not in the movie discussed in this episode, but was alive when it came out. But was he a child? Listen and find out!

Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss topics including: Ray Milland (man), ray-millanding (verb), The Powerhouse Charles Laughton, queer coding and the Hays Code, clocks of various sizes and mechanisms, comedic genius Elsa Lancaster of Bride of Frankenstein fame, Maureen O’Sullivan who surely is only in this as a favour to her husband John Farrow (father of Tia, Mia, and this film, if directing is fatherhood), how much can you actually fit behind a bar, President McKinley, and the existential quest to find one’s self. Literally!

The Big Clock (1948) – The Big Clock/No Way Out Special Part 1 – Friday Film Showcased

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Friday Film Showcased, Episode 5: Giallo – Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)

For many years, with regard to their film-watching, Ciara and Conor have been theming their months. On Friday Film Showcased (FFS to friends, and sometimes enemies), they look back on themes gone by.

In the quintus episode of FFS, Ciara and Conor continue their discussion of the giallo genre with a deep dive on Lucio Fulci’s 1972 masterpiece, Don’t Torture a Duckling. Spoilers abound! You can find our previous instalment, where we discussed giallo more broadly, here. (Including an edition in which all screams have been replaced by bunny noises. How relaxing!)

And make sure to tune in to the end of the episode for Conor’s original song inspired by the film!

Episode 5: Giallo – Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) – Friday Film Showcased

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Giallo list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/hoganassasin/list/giallo-season/

Mentioned in the podcast

Ciara’s Fangoria article about Don’t Torture a Duckling: ⁠https://www.fangoria.com/lucio-fulci-so-much-more-than-the-godfather-of-gore-dont-torture-a-duckling-at-50/

The Giallo Files: https://giallofiles.blogspot.com/

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Friday Film Showcased, Episode 4: Giallo – Screamless Bunny Edition

For many years, with regard to their film-watching, Ciara and Conor have been theming their months. On Friday Film Showcased (FFS to friends, and sometimes enemies), they look back on themes gone by.

In the Quatro episode of FFS, Ciara and Conor discuss the genre of giallo, including the films in the title of this episode and Stagefright Aquarius, Blood and Black Lace, Pieces, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin and Bird With the Crystal Plumage.

In the interests of listeners who don’t enjoy listening to screaming, we have released a version where screams, chainsaws and eyeball popping replaced with the soothing sound of bunny rabbits! The uncensored version is also available, but you can listen to the Screamless Bunny Edition here:

Screamless Bunny Edition – Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More – Friday Film Showcased

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Giallo list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/hoganassasin/list/giallo-season/

We continue our discussion on giallo with a deep dive on Lucio Fulci’s 1972 masterpiece Don’t Torture a Duckling:

Episode 5: Giallo – Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) – Friday Film Showcased

Mentioned in the podcast

Giallo in Casa Muppet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AikJ8F5oY

Ciara’s article on Pieces: https://crookedmarquee.com/pieces-isnt-exactly-what-you-think-it-is/

The Giallo Files: https://giallofiles.blogspot.com/

YELLOW in ITALIANO Coldplay cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_PtHYQoC20

De Palma (2015) documentary, dir. Noah Baumbach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zlxmwz55Tk

J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us (discussion of transphobia in cinema including Psycho and Silence of the Lambs from 50:00)

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Friday Film Showcased, Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More

For many years, with regard to their film-watching, Ciara and Conor have been theming their months. On Friday Film Showcased (FFS to friends, and sometimes enemies), they look back on themes gone by.

In the Quatro episode of FFS, Ciara and Conor discuss the genre of giallo, including the films in the title of this episode and Stagefright Aquarius, Blood and Black Lace, Pieces, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin and Bird With the Crystal Plumage.

Will we ever find out happened to Solange?

Giallo list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/hoganassasin/list/giallo-season/

You can listen to it here:

Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More – Friday Film Showcased

A version in which the screaming is replaced by bunny noises is now available. How relaxing!

Screamless Bunny Edition – Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More – Friday Film Showcased

Listen and subscribe on: Spotify || Apple Podcasts || Amazon Music || Castbox || Overcast || Pocketcasts || Goodpods

We continue our discussion on giallo with a deep dive on Lucio Fulci’s 1972 masterpiece Don’t Torture a Duckling:

Episode 5: Giallo – Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) – Friday Film Showcased

Mentioned in the podcast

Giallo in Casa Muppet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AikJ8F5oY

Ciara’s article on Pieces: https://crookedmarquee.com/pieces-isnt-exactly-what-you-think-it-is/

The Giallo Files: https://giallofiles.blogspot.com/

YELLOW in ITALIANO Coldplay cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_PtHYQoC20

De Palma (2015) documentary, dir. Noah Baumbach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zlxmwz55Tk

J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us (discussion of transphobia in cinema including Psycho and Silence of the Lambs from 50:00)

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God Allegedly Has Bigger Plans for Me: Religion in Lost

When Michael Schur was coming up with The Good Place, he asked Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof for advice. “[Lindelof] told me, ‘Here are the pitfalls. Here are the traps you can fall into. Here’s the problem you’re going to hit’…” Schur said, “He actually I think said to me, ‘You just need to know where you’re going.’”

Lindelof’s advice was presumably drawing from experience, because Lost absolutely did not know where it was going. For the six full-length seasons it ran, it was an incredibly messy show, narratively convoluted and incoherent, brimming over with set-ups that were never paid off – and not in a David Lynch way, where it’s meant to be surreal and not intended to be “solved”. It only took Lost until its second season to do a “what if this character is in a psych ward and this is all in his head” episode, something Buffy managed to stave off for six years. The finale of Lost aired eight years ago to a polarised reception, and its reputation has only depreciated in the interim. It regularly makes lists of the worst finales of all time, and is practically synonymous with “all the mystery-box shit turning out to be nonsense” and “wasting years of your life on a show that turns out to be crap.”

So here’s the thing: Lost was a great show, finale and all. And I think that those who came away from the finale scratching their heads kind of missed the whole point of the show – because Lost was always a show about religion.

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