PODCAST - RONIN PHARAOH & MATT FARLEY DISCUSS WHAT MAKES 'BLOW OUT' EXCEPTIONAL
"[Blow Out] feels completely uncompromised," says the Formatted To Fit Your Screen podcast host Ronin Pharaoh to his guest for the latest episode, filmmaker Matt Farley. "It feels like the epitome of all those freedoms that supposedly had been snatched away or were being snatched away by the beginning of the eighties. But then it also feels late to me in the sense that it’s a riff on - what are we dealing with here - the Kennedy assassination, which was eighteen years earlier; it’s dealing with Ted Kennedy from a decade-plus before; Watergate, which had already been covered in movies such as The Conversation, which this movie is definitely riffing on, as well; and All The President’s Men, [and] other the paranoia thrillers. It seems like this is so late in the game compared to all these other things. And Blow-Up, the British-Italian film from fifteen years earlier, at this point. And yet this is such a perfect movie in its place and time."