TMR 037 – Amelie

This week on Total Movie Recall, we find a new zest for life in 2001’s Amelie. Steve gets wistful recalling his time working in a porn shop, and Ryan reveals his ignorance about Paris. But is it ignorance? Don’t we kind of all know what Paris is really like? Smelly and smoky and rude? Not according to Amelie. Paris is a place of magical realism, true love, and tastefully decorated porn shops.

Amelie (2001)

d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Starring:
Audrey Tautou
Mathieu Kassovitz
Rufus
Jamel Debbouze
Isabelle Nanty
Dominique Pinon

"Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue.

Things discussed in the show:

The vast emptiness of Kansas and Nebraska

Paranoia and smoking weed at psych rock shows

Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard)

Young Guns 2 (Geoff Murphy, Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips)

A Man Called Horse (Elliot Silverstein, Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon)

Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat)

Top Gear (Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May)

Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Roger Corman)

Ford V Ferrari (James Mangold, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal)

Newsies (Kenny Ortega, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall)

Bad Education (Cory Finley, Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White)

The Principal (Christopher Cain, Frank Deese, Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong)

Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin)

Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway)

Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh)

The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson)

Knives Out (Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Benicio Del Toro, Frank Oz)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o)

Star Wars: Clone Wars (Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein)

Star Wars: Rebels (Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar, Dee Bradley Baker)

Brick (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin)

Looper (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt)

I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, Steven Rogers, Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney)

Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Chadwick Boseman)

BlacKKKlansman (Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Alec Baldwin, John David Washington, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Adam Driver, Topher Grace)

Conan the Barbarian - 2011 (Marcus Nispel, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan)

Robert E. Howard

Conan the Barbarian- 1982 (John Milius, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow)

Conan the Destroyer (Richard Fleischer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo)

Red Sonja (Richard Fleischer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman)

Arnold Schwarzenegger getting drop kicked

Ultimate Beastmaster (David Broome, Sylvester Stallone, Tiki Barber, Rafinha Bastos, Luis Ernesto Franco, Terry Crews, Chris DiStefano, Charissa Thompson, C.M. Punk)

Awake: The Million Dollar Game Show (James Davis, Russell Rope, Ikechukwu Mbagwu)

Manic pixie dream girls / Natalie Portman

City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet)

Delicatessen (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech)

Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Patton Oswalt)

Home Alone

Suspiria 1977

Sweeping the Streets documentary

Sacré-Cœur, Le Pigalle, The Moulin Rouge

Yellow vest protests in Paris

Bart in Paris (The Simpsons)

Timothee Chalamet

Brigitte Bardot

Edward Hopper paintings

Travelocity Gnome

Gnome Liberation Front

Paddington 2 (Paul King, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville)

Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, Steven Knight, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo)

A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sébastien Japrisot, Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster)

High Fidelity

Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel)

Next Week - Babe: Pig in the City