matthew film guy is here ladies and gentlemen in the house with i think what it appears uh to be a new um he's got some like new uh a posterage going on there a cass of eddie's film is it the uh i can't quite make it is it the uh mikey and nikki um uh is that what that is that's right it's a holdover from a uh this is revolution special show i did a couple nights ago where i extolled the virtues of elaine may's masterpiece mikey and nicki so i thought i would roll it into this show why not uh but first i just want to say hello to you sam thank you for having me you disgusting nadalist scum appreciate it appreciate you being here um what's up matthew hi emma i your views are up in the air at least sam's are on record but same to you yes i'm keeping that ambiguous obviously sure now emma's a two-time loser go on tell us a little bit about like uh may and uh and cassavetes and that crew because it's i mean at least there's like uh part of the cassavetes crew there boy you really were itching for this weren't you well i've just been doing a deep dive of my own back into this this is probably full disclosure my favorite film of all time i mean there's three or four that may vie for that title but um i was asked by forrest miller who uh you know used to edit michael brooks's movies and uh for michael brook's show and is doing his own podcast uh moving at extravaganza and he got invited to do this episode and asked me what movie do you want to talk about and mikey nicki i could talk about it for years for months for days for hours um and uh it's yeah it's it sort of intersects with cassavetes who as you know is also one of my all-time favorites it's sort of the reason why you and i met because the cassavetti scholar ray carney suggested i get to know you and so on um but mikey nicki was actually written and directed by elaine may who you also know from her improv comedy background she basically invented the art form in a lot of ways she descended from the sort of stanislavski method chicago school and she had been wanting to make this movie for many many years which is supposedly based on a true life anecdote about gangsters that were in her family and it's ostensibly a gangster movie but it's really it's two people played by peter faulk and john cassavetes uh and you get you get to know their entire lives basically in one dark night of the soul as they're running from a hitman played by ned beatty so uh it's it's sort of deceptively simple in its concept but uh the characters are as well
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