Episode 10: Travis Woods (Writer and Host of Increment Vice Podcast) and Craig Mathieson (Film and T.V Critic)
First up, in this two-part episode, I join staff writer Bright Wall/ Dark Room, contributor for Cinephilia & Beyond and host of the upcoming INCREMENT VICE podcast, Travis Woods. Travis opens the episode by hounding Blake about tempting fate with another Michael Mann podcast. Their war party then continues, going deep on Mann's "time is luck" theme resonating all the more powerfully in Mohicans. TIME: 01:32
To close the episode, I join joins film and television critic with Fairfax Media and creator of BINGE-RMr Craig Mathieson. Blake and Craig discuss Mann's uncanny ability to swell and contract form the collective to the individual focus and that it's kind of a miracle that this film exists. TIME: 1:04:46
About the show:
THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann’s 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. The format of the podcast, which slightly differs from ONE HEAT MINUTE, utilises the entire final twelve-minute climax of Mohicans as a portal to explore the themes of the movie, the cross-section of political apparatuses, colonial superpower wrangling, and Mr Mann’s riff on the “great American hero.” With an Academy Award-winning score from Randy Edelman and Trevor Jones, iconic performances, stunning cinematography from Dante Spinotti, a relentlessly paced script from Mann and co-writer Christopher Crowe and masterful orchestration from Mann; the film’s extended finale - triggered by the delivery of tribal justice until the credits roll - is arguably one of the greatest endings to almost any movie ever.
About the movie:
The Last of the Mohicansis adapted (and significantly altered from) James Fenimore Cooper novel, set in 1757, Mohicans follows three trappers who are inadvertently drawn into the French and Indian War when they rescue the daughters of British Colonel and their British Captain escort from an ambush. It stars Academy Award Winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Academy Award Winner* Wes Studi, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May and Steven Waddington.
ABOUT TRAVIS WOODS
Travis Woods lives and writes in Los Angeles. He is a staff writer for Bright Wall/ Dark Room, contributor for Cinephilia & Beyond, and features in The Los Angeles Times, Paste Magazine, ScreenCrave, Rupert Pupkin Speaks, and others. He has a dog and a tattoo of Elliott Gould smoking. Bob Dylan once clapped him on the back and whispered something incomprehensible. These are the only interesting things about him.
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TWITTER: @AHEARTOFGOULD
ABOUT CRAIG MATHIESON
Craig Mathieson is a television and film critic for The Age/SMH and The Monthly. Creator of BINGE-R, which you should subscribe to right now.
TWITTER: @CMSCREENS
