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• Investigating Sex (2001) w/ Gigi

  Get out your pipes and magnifying glasses, Sherlock HOLES is on the case. This week we're joined by our good friend Detective Gigi to look into these matters on Alan Rudolph's INVESTIGATING SEX, aka INTIMATE AFFAIRS. We get into the film's setting, its depiction of real surrealist artists and intellectuals, Andre Breton, post-WWI artists and philosophers, their bankrolling by the upper class, the characters' posturing and the women they've hired to transcribe their arcane discussions, incel behavior, sex demons, and how this film speaks not just to the 2020s, but to 2001 and the 1920s. Also, don't forget to WRITE INTO THE MAILBAG, we'll answer all of your questions when we wrap up on Alan Rudolph in a few weeks. Hi Femme article mentioned in the episode Hyper-femininity, Transaction and ‘Showgirls’ with Carlee Gomes Follow Gigi: Twitter Bluesky Conversation w/ Karthik Puru Follow Altmania: Linktree Subscribe to Este's Writing Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

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• [Patreon Preview] The Studio (2025) w/ @fender_belly

  To hear the rest of this episode, you can head over to our Patreon where for $5 a month you'll get access to two of these bonus episodes per month, AND all of our previous bonus episodes! -- SuperGOOD is the way we'd describe this episode!! Joined by our friend John (@fender_belly), we get into the first two episodes of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's latest project THE STUDIO. We see if these rumors of it being a modern twist on Robert Altman's THE PLAYER are true, talk Thomas Pynchon's upcoming novel SHADOW TICKET, PTA/Vineland, the modern Hollywood landscape, TV comebacks, art and commerce, Sony email leaks, Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, Food Fight, and in general we beat the dead horse of why capitalism sucks...MUCH to consider...

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• Trixie (2000)

  Altmania, the only show hosted by TWO private defectives. We get into the new trailer for PTA's One Battle After Another, before we jump over to the critical fallout from Breakfast of Champions, Rudolph vs Disney (and critics), Y2K, Alan Rudolph's election-inspired script for Trixie, liars and truthers, cheeked up Dermot Mulroney (not Dylan McDermott), Mancow Nathan Lane, and so much more... only on ALTMANIA. Oh, and WRITE IN TO OUR FINALE EPISODE MAILBAG, ask us anything you want!! Follow our friend Annabelle, who couldn't make it for this episode: twitter.com/themoderns_ Our Man Gregory La Cava Follow Altmania: Linktree Read Este's writing! Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

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• Breakfast of Champions (1999)

  In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut releases his much awaited follow up to Slaughterhouse-Five. Just one year later, off the tails of Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Robert Altman tasks Alan Rudolph with writing him a script based on this book, Breakfast of Champions. His one direction being, "don't follow the book", advice that would be echoed by Kurt Vonnegut himself. The project slowly fizzles away into the dustbin... until 1999. This week we're talking Alan Rudolph's BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, starring Bruce Willis as Dwayne Hoover. We take a trip to Alan-Town to talk about the new Choose Me 4K, this film's recent 4K restoration, then we get into Vonnegut talk, how this film and the book find common ground, car dealers in the Bush era, late capitalism and the "self-made" owner class, and also a lot of joking around! Write in to the mailbag for our finale episode! Follow Altmania: Linktree estebannoel.com Altman / Rudolph archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

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• Afterglow (1997) w/ Jordan Fish

  Bonjour à tous! Joining us this week, in the strange and alienating city that is Alan Rudolph's montreal, is our friend, a filmmaker, co-host of To the White Sea - Jordan Fish! We have a lengthy discussion on Alan Rudolph's 1997 film AFTERGLOW, its characters estranged from their roots, People Magazine's 1992 Sexiest Man Alive Nick Nolte and his gruff handsomeness, Julie Christie, love triangles, how funny it is when someone is horny, Altman's budget tricks for his buddy Alan, unspoken truths, withheld secrets, a whole lot more on ALTMANIA: FRIENDS OF BOB! Follow Jordan Fish / To the White Sea: To the White Sea - a Coen brothers study group https://twitter.com/tothewhitesea https://twitter.com/jwordfish Jordan's DSA NYC ad (mentioned in the episode) Follow Altmania: Linktree Esteban Noel (Este's writing) Altman / Rudolph Archive Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/altmania

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