The Uncut Gems Podcast - Episode 146 (Sweet Charity and Lenny)
The Uncut Gems PodcastThe Uncut Gems Podcast is a show where a bunch of like-minded individuals gather around a virtual table to discuss films that for one reason or another have become forgotten. Tongues pressed firmly in cheek, the team don their film historian top hats and rant from sedentary positions to hopefully conclude whether the film in question deserves to be covered by sands of time or if it is a classic in dire need of attention.
In this episode of the show, we assemble as The Fosse Posse to gallop through the cinema of one Bob Fosse. We begin with Sweet Charity, his 1969 musical with Shirley MacLaine, and Lenny, his 1974 new wave biopic of Lenny Bruce and his crusade against censorship. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Fosse needing to fail in 1969 to become the master that he needed to be, his inability to kill his darlings in 1969 as well as his acute sense of the visual art just a few years later, his take on cinema verité, Dustin Hoffman's funny bone, free speech absolutism and that you should never show up to an interview without a resume.
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Produced and hosted by Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows
Featuring Jak-Luke Sharp
Edited by Jakub Flasz
