WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from November 19, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:01pm common: jim, dan, all
	6:02pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" Movie talk time.
	6:04pm common: the original taking of pelham 123! the best
	6:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: Have any movies featured a heist of a credit union?
	6:06pm Tom from Stirling: Spike Lee "Inside Man". That's a good one.
	6:06pm DanFA: Does that episode of Breaking Bad where they robbed a methymine train car count?
	6:06pm Erik/VT: Yes indeed , Pelham 123 - original. Rififi (1955) The Hot Rock
	6:06pm mndave: I liked the Usual Suspects when it came out, but I didn't feel it held up really well upon a recent rewatch. Also, usually top third of the theater to avoid neck pain
	6:07pm trOOb: The orginial Italian Job!
	6:07pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ DanFA @6:06 not a movie
	6:07pm dale: take the money and run has its moments - 'i have a gub.'
	6:07pm Mia: The original Thomas Crown Affairs.”
	6:07pm Howell: Inside man with Denzel and Clive! Great heist movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
	6:08pm Listener Robert: How about if they just kept taking the Pelham line train every week? Like MTA never learned a lesson, just kept having new people hijack it every week?
	6:08pm Micheal: The Hot Rock! Brooklyn Museum Heist!
	6:08pm DanFA: The Killing or Asphalt Jungle
	6:08pm darcy: I second logan lucky. It was so under the radar, and its such an assuming film, but i remember being like wow, that was actually completely entertaining the whole time. He went a little too far with the yellow tint though
	6:08pm Jim the Poet: Logan Lucky www.imdb.com...
	6:09pm money&pain: The Killing and The Asphalt Jungle was my first thought. I could watch that over and over again (and have!) A Sterling Hayden double feature!
	6:09pm dale: who's minding the mint has an all star cast of crazies.
	6:10pm Mattynotimes: Ronin is one of my faves. Great car chases. And Dog Day Afternoon
	6:10pm Mattynotimes: Logan Lucky is pretty good
	6:10pm frankie in reverse: Dog Day Afternoon. Always and forever.
	6:11pm Tom from Stirling: The Great Train Robbery. Connery, Sutherland
	6:11pm money&pain: It's not a heist movie unless a diagram is displayed.
	6:12pm trOOb: After the Fox. 1966. Directed by Vitorio de Sica. Written by Neil Simon. With Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland!
	6:12pm Matt from OK: Point Break. Patrick Swayze all the way.
	6:12pm money&pain: It is funny! What country do you want to fly to? Wyoming.
	6:12pm darcy: Yay dog day afternoon = transgender history. There’s a pretty good doc about the guy
	6:14pm chresti: Hi Jim the Poet thumb show!
	6:15pm Nikita: me too! Front and centre so it feels like I’m the only one in the cinema.
	6:16pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ trOOb @6:12 Funny one.
	6:16pm Jim the Poet: The Killing en.wikipedia.org...
	6:16pm Micheal: The Killing is great. Timothy Carey is crazy!
	6:17pm Ben in Newark: Good evening everyone. Love The Killing! Sterling Hayden delivers one of my favorite last lines
	6:17pm misterpickles69: Oceans 11
	6:17pm Ben in Newark: ↳ Micheal @6:16 Agreed
	6:18pm money&pain: Kansas City Confidential actually inspired Reservoir Dogs. Each character is named after a color, they don't know each other's identities.
	6:18pm HyperDose: meeow!
	6:18pm money&pain: ↳ Micheal @6:16 Timothy Carely IS crazy!
	👍 6:19pm Folsom: How about Wild at Heart, there is a bank robbery scene.
	6:19pm Jim the Poet: Heat en.wikipedia.org...
	6:19pm money&pain: ↳ Ben in Newark @6:17 What is it?
	6:20pm StringOFperils: Even 'Raising Arizona' is a heist movie. He steals a baby!
	6:20pm Tom from Stirling: Tom Sizemore being chased by Pacino is a great scene in Heat.
	6:21pm Matt from OK: The original “Lady Killers” with Alec Guinness has gotta be one the of the best OG comedy-robbery films.
	6:21pm ?: Bottle rocket!
	6:21pm Rone: “Who’s Minding The Mint”
	6:21pm Jim the Poet: Thief en.wikipedia.org...
	6:22pm Art: Terminological clarification: robberies and heists can overlap but they are not the same thing. A robbery involves use of force or fear to take the property. So threatening a teller is a robbery if the hand over the money. But if you drill into the safe and steal the money, it's theft and burglary (or breaking and entering), but not robbery. Or if you trick the bank into handing over the money (without using force or fear), it will be theft and probably other crimes, but not robbery.
	6:22pm chresti: H A N D Y
	6:22pm ∫ydniuß: amazing Tangerine Dream soundtrack
	6:22pm Scarlett: BOTTLE ROCKET 🚀
	6:22pm StringOFperils: RIFIFI is an awesome heist film.
	6:23pm Erik/VT: Yes , Thief has got a great vibe & look - cool retro retro early 80s soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
	6:24pm money&pain: ↳ ∫ydniuß @6:22 And Tuesday Weld
	6:30pm darcy: I saw a fish called wanda for the first time recently. I thought the humor was schockingly politically incorrect
	6:30pm Listener Robert: ...and Rat Race.
	6:31pm StringOFperils: tOPKAPI
	6:31pm StringOFperils: iItS like RIFIFI-lite
	6:31pm Ben in Newark: ↳ money&pain @6:19 Spoiler Alert they don't get away with the heist, and when the police are about to apprehend him, his girlfriend tells him to run, when Sterling Hayden says ''eh, what's the difference''. He says it in such a deadpan way, in the moment I found it hilarious
	6:31pm Erik/VT: Capucine
	6:32pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ darcy @6:30 Just an all-right movie. Many better heist movies.
	6:33pm wenzo: Topkapi is free (with ads unfortunately) on YT… I’m gonna check that out.
	6:34pm StringOFperils: Anton Chigur. Great character. Abbatoir gun.
	6:35pm wenzo: He has a cattle prod but mostly he’s using an air pressure bolt thing they use to kill cattle
	👍 6:35pm Folsom: mad mad mad mad world is a post heist movie
	6:35pm wenzo: (As I recall it)
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: No Country for Old Men is a drug deal gone bad. Not a heist movie.
	6:35pm darcy: Whenever i see javier bardem i’m like, what’s his name again? Anthony Bourdain?
	6:36pm Ken From Hyde Park: There should be a Planet of the Apes bank heist movie.
	6:37pm wenzo: Whf would they be robbing the world central banana reserve?
	6:38pm Mia: Oh no! Don’t rob the bookstore!
	6:38pm StringOFperils: All those David Mamet things are about complex rip-offs. The Spanish Prisoner. House of Games. etc
	6:39pm wenzo: But SPOILERS then somebody breaks into the office & steals the list later in the movie I think?
	6:41pm wenzo: With Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. Much better
	6:42pm wenzo: That happens in Sexy Beast
	6:42pm ?: Has anyone recommended Le Cercle Rouge yet?
	6:42pm StringOFperils: It's called The Ladykillers. The original.
	6:43pm Nick: The lady killers with Tom Hanks? Are you stoned?
	6:43pm Mark: Yes Dog Day afternoon, there is some funny dialogue there; Bonnie and Clyde of course; Charlie Varick is a good one, the atmosphere is odd; Point Break, not a great movie but entertaining with the robbers wearrng former president's masks
	6:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ Nick @6:43 Aww. He likes it.
	6:44pm Ben in Newark: ↳ @6:42 Nope, but agreed that's a great one. Alain Delon and Yves Montand is some serious star power
	6:44pm StringOFperils: The Grifters. Don't steal Bobo's money. Ouch!
	6:44pm Nick: For pure camp and nostalgia- Ocean’s 11. Please, the original.
	👍 6:45pm Folsom: How about Kelly's Heroes?
	6:45pm Mike: Yes to Hot Rock!
	6:45pm Jim the Poet: Hot Rock en.wikipedia.org...
	6:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: What's the status of the movie that was filmed at WFMU a few months ago? Is it out yet?
	6:46pm Mike: The best thing about Hot Rock is the helicopter shot of the WTC under construction
	6:48pm Tom from Stirling: Started strong...... finishing up......
	👍 6:48pm zachary: Magical show, Jim.
	6:48pm Nick: More on DD afternoon: there was a good documentary about 10 years ago on the actual bank robber who was released from prison with terminal cancer.
	👍 6:48pm zachary: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:45 Good point. I remember Matt was involved and Andy crashed it?
	6:49pm darcy: Is drugstore cowboy a heist movie?
	6:49pm HyperDose: please bring ALL the kitties home ALL OF THEM
	👍 6:49pm zachary: ↳ zachary @6:48 Here's the show: September 11, 2024: Andy "Teaches" "The Rugged Cross" Crew How to Make a "Classic" Film wfmu.org...
	6:49pm Heist Almighty: Does The Great Muppet Caper count?
	6:50pm Nick: Better French bank heist movie- Rififi. Your welcome.
	6:51pm Jim the Poet: Sexy Beast en.wikipedia.org...
	6:51pm chresti: Oh yeah Sexy Beast!
	6:51pm wenzo: It’s more of a psychological thriller with a heist tacked on the end…
	6:52pm StringOFperils: ↳ darcy @6:49 Sure! They break in to pharmacies and steal whatever they can get high on.
	6:52pm wenzo: They drill into an elite safety deposit box bank through a Turkish bath
	6:53pm Mia: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
	6:53pm wenzo: Sorry. Another spoiler. It’s not really important to the plot.
	6:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: Question for another day: What's your favorite death scene in a movie? (Apologies if this was already covered.)
	6:53pm WantageInsomniac: Can anyone tell me the movie Micah brought up last week? sounded real good.
	6:55pm WantageInsomniac: Ken -- It has to be the Black Knight in The Holy Grail.
	6:57pm common: what film is this?
	👍 6:57pm zachary: Wait. That is a movie?
	👍 6:57pm Folsom: ↳ WantageInsomniac @6:53 Backbone 1975
	6:57pm Listener Robert: Couldn't get thru, but I saw one early this year via stream: "Duck, You Sucker!" Not long after, my friend I saw it with had a stroke, so this one sticks in my mind as the last movie he could really enjoy with me.
	6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ WantageInsomniac @6:55 Haha! "'Tis but a scratch!"
	6:59pm Listener Robert: ↳ Listener Robert @6:57 Fun because the bank they robbed then got named in "Better Call Saul" as a client: "Mesa Verde Bank and Trust".
	7:01pm Zel: Heist - Kelly 's Heroes
	8:29pm darcy: My cat is scared

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from November 19, 2024

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Steely Dan	Everyone's Gone to the Movies	Kety Lied	Geffen*		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
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Jim the Poet discusses	'Nathan-ism'	Movie	Movie	Director: Elan Golod Executive Producer: Caryn Capotosto Producer: Melanie Vi Levy, Elan Golod Cinematographer: Jason Blevins Editor: Elan Golod Language: English, German Country: United States of America Year: 2023 Publicist: Rakoom PR	0:56:57 (Pop-up)
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Listener comments!
	6:01pm common: jim, dan, all
	6:02pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" Movie talk time.
	6:04pm common: the original taking of pelham 123! the best
	6:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: Have any movies featured a heist of a credit union?
	6:06pm Tom from Stirling: Spike Lee "Inside Man". That's a good one.
	6:06pm DanFA: Does that episode of Breaking Bad where they robbed a methymine train car count?
	6:06pm Erik/VT: Yes indeed , Pelham 123 - original. Rififi (1955) The Hot Rock
	6:06pm mndave: I liked the Usual Suspects when it came out, but I didn't feel it held up really well upon a recent rewatch. Also, usually top third of the theater to avoid neck pain
	6:07pm trOOb: The orginial Italian Job!
	6:07pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ DanFA @6:06 not a movie
	6:07pm dale: take the money and run has its moments - 'i have a gub.'
	6:07pm Mia: The original Thomas Crown Affairs.”
	6:07pm Howell: Inside man with Denzel and Clive! Great heist movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
	6:08pm Listener Robert: How about if they just kept taking the Pelham line train every week? Like MTA never learned a lesson, just kept having new people hijack it every week?
	6:08pm Micheal: The Hot Rock! Brooklyn Museum Heist!
	6:08pm DanFA: The Killing or Asphalt Jungle
	6:08pm darcy: I second logan lucky. It was so under the radar, and its such an assuming film, but i remember being like wow, that was actually completely entertaining the whole time. He went a little too far with the yellow tint though
	6:08pm Jim the Poet: Logan Lucky www.imdb.com...
	6:09pm money&pain: The Killing and The Asphalt Jungle was my first thought. I could watch that over and over again (and have!) A Sterling Hayden double feature!
	6:09pm dale: who's minding the mint has an all star cast of crazies.
	6:10pm Mattynotimes: Ronin is one of my faves. Great car chases. And Dog Day Afternoon
	6:10pm Mattynotimes: Logan Lucky is pretty good
	6:10pm frankie in reverse: Dog Day Afternoon. Always and forever.
	6:11pm Tom from Stirling: The Great Train Robbery. Connery, Sutherland
	6:11pm money&pain: It's not a heist movie unless a diagram is displayed.
	6:12pm trOOb: After the Fox. 1966. Directed by Vitorio de Sica. Written by Neil Simon. With Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland!
	6:12pm Matt from OK: Point Break. Patrick Swayze all the way.
	6:12pm money&pain: It is funny! What country do you want to fly to? Wyoming.
	6:12pm darcy: Yay dog day afternoon = transgender history. There’s a pretty good doc about the guy
	6:14pm chresti: Hi Jim the Poet thumb show!
	6:15pm Nikita: me too! Front and centre so it feels like I’m the only one in the cinema.
	6:16pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ trOOb @6:12 Funny one.
	6:16pm Jim the Poet: The Killing en.wikipedia.org...
	6:16pm Micheal: The Killing is great. Timothy Carey is crazy!
	6:17pm Ben in Newark: Good evening everyone. Love The Killing! Sterling Hayden delivers one of my favorite last lines
	6:17pm misterpickles69: Oceans 11
	6:17pm Ben in Newark: ↳ Micheal @6:16 Agreed
	6:18pm money&pain: Kansas City Confidential actually inspired Reservoir Dogs. Each character is named after a color, they don't know each other's identities.
	6:18pm HyperDose: meeow!
	6:18pm money&pain: ↳ Micheal @6:16 Timothy Carely IS crazy!
	👍 6:19pm Folsom: How about Wild at Heart, there is a bank robbery scene.
	6:19pm Jim the Poet: Heat en.wikipedia.org...
	6:19pm money&pain: ↳ Ben in Newark @6:17 What is it?
	6:20pm StringOFperils: Even 'Raising Arizona' is a heist movie. He steals a baby!
	6:20pm Tom from Stirling: Tom Sizemore being chased by Pacino is a great scene in Heat.
	6:21pm Matt from OK: The original “Lady Killers” with Alec Guinness has gotta be one the of the best OG comedy-robbery films.
	6:21pm ?: Bottle rocket!
	6:21pm Rone: “Who’s Minding The Mint”
	6:21pm Jim the Poet: Thief en.wikipedia.org...
	6:22pm Art: Terminological clarification: robberies and heists can overlap but they are not the same thing. A robbery involves use of force or fear to take the property. So threatening a teller is a robbery if the hand over the money. But if you drill into the safe and steal the money, it's theft and burglary (or breaking and entering), but not robbery. Or if you trick the bank into handing over the money (without using force or fear), it will be theft and probably other crimes, but not robbery.
	6:22pm chresti: H A N D Y
	6:22pm ∫ydniuß: amazing Tangerine Dream soundtrack
	6:22pm Scarlett: BOTTLE ROCKET 🚀
	6:22pm StringOFperils: RIFIFI is an awesome heist film.
	6:23pm Erik/VT: Yes , Thief has got a great vibe & look - cool retro retro early 80s soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
	6:24pm money&pain: ↳ ∫ydniuß @6:22 And Tuesday Weld
	6:30pm darcy: I saw a fish called wanda for the first time recently. I thought the humor was schockingly politically incorrect
	6:30pm Listener Robert: ...and Rat Race.
	6:31pm StringOFperils: tOPKAPI
	6:31pm StringOFperils: iItS like RIFIFI-lite
	6:31pm Ben in Newark: ↳ money&pain @6:19 Spoiler Alert they don't get away with the heist, and when the police are about to apprehend him, his girlfriend tells him to run, when Sterling Hayden says ''eh, what's the difference''. He says it in such a deadpan way, in the moment I found it hilarious
	6:31pm Erik/VT: Capucine
	6:32pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ darcy @6:30 Just an all-right movie. Many better heist movies.
	6:33pm wenzo: Topkapi is free (with ads unfortunately) on YT… I’m gonna check that out.
	6:34pm StringOFperils: Anton Chigur. Great character. Abbatoir gun.
	6:35pm wenzo: He has a cattle prod but mostly he’s using an air pressure bolt thing they use to kill cattle
	👍 6:35pm Folsom: mad mad mad mad world is a post heist movie
	6:35pm wenzo: (As I recall it)
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: No Country for Old Men is a drug deal gone bad. Not a heist movie.
	6:35pm darcy: Whenever i see javier bardem i’m like, what’s his name again? Anthony Bourdain?
	6:36pm Ken From Hyde Park: There should be a Planet of the Apes bank heist movie.
	6:37pm wenzo: Whf would they be robbing the world central banana reserve?
	6:38pm Mia: Oh no! Don’t rob the bookstore!
	6:38pm StringOFperils: All those David Mamet things are about complex rip-offs. The Spanish Prisoner. House of Games. etc
	6:39pm wenzo: But SPOILERS then somebody breaks into the office & steals the list later in the movie I think?
	6:41pm wenzo: With Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. Much better
	6:42pm wenzo: That happens in Sexy Beast
	6:42pm ?: Has anyone recommended Le Cercle Rouge yet?
	6:42pm StringOFperils: It's called The Ladykillers. The original.
	6:43pm Nick: The lady killers with Tom Hanks? Are you stoned?
	6:43pm Mark: Yes Dog Day afternoon, there is some funny dialogue there; Bonnie and Clyde of course; Charlie Varick is a good one, the atmosphere is odd; Point Break, not a great movie but entertaining with the robbers wearrng former president's masks
	6:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ Nick @6:43 Aww. He likes it.
	6:44pm Ben in Newark: ↳ @6:42 Nope, but agreed that's a great one. Alain Delon and Yves Montand is some serious star power
	6:44pm StringOFperils: The Grifters. Don't steal Bobo's money. Ouch!
	6:44pm Nick: For pure camp and nostalgia- Ocean’s 11. Please, the original.
	👍 6:45pm Folsom: How about Kelly's Heroes?
	6:45pm Mike: Yes to Hot Rock!
	6:45pm Jim the Poet: Hot Rock en.wikipedia.org...
	6:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: What's the status of the movie that was filmed at WFMU a few months ago? Is it out yet?
	6:46pm Mike: The best thing about Hot Rock is the helicopter shot of the WTC under construction
	6:48pm Tom from Stirling: Started strong...... finishing up......
	👍 6:48pm zachary: Magical show, Jim.
	6:48pm Nick: More on DD afternoon: there was a good documentary about 10 years ago on the actual bank robber who was released from prison with terminal cancer.
	👍 6:48pm zachary: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:45 Good point. I remember Matt was involved and Andy crashed it?
	6:49pm darcy: Is drugstore cowboy a heist movie?
	6:49pm HyperDose: please bring ALL the kitties home ALL OF THEM
	👍 6:49pm zachary: ↳ zachary @6:48 Here's the show: September 11, 2024: Andy "Teaches" "The Rugged Cross" Crew How to Make a "Classic" Film wfmu.org...
	6:49pm Heist Almighty: Does The Great Muppet Caper count?
	6:50pm Nick: Better French bank heist movie- Rififi. Your welcome.
	6:51pm Jim the Poet: Sexy Beast en.wikipedia.org...
	6:51pm chresti: Oh yeah Sexy Beast!
	6:51pm wenzo: It’s more of a psychological thriller with a heist tacked on the end…
	6:52pm StringOFperils: ↳ darcy @6:49 Sure! They break in to pharmacies and steal whatever they can get high on.
	6:52pm wenzo: They drill into an elite safety deposit box bank through a Turkish bath
	6:53pm Mia: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
	6:53pm wenzo: Sorry. Another spoiler. It’s not really important to the plot.
	6:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: Question for another day: What's your favorite death scene in a movie? (Apologies if this was already covered.)
	6:53pm WantageInsomniac: Can anyone tell me the movie Micah brought up last week? sounded real good.
	6:55pm WantageInsomniac: Ken -- It has to be the Black Knight in The Holy Grail.
	6:57pm common: what film is this?
	👍 6:57pm zachary: Wait. That is a movie?
	👍 6:57pm Folsom: ↳ WantageInsomniac @6:53 Backbone 1975
	6:57pm Listener Robert: Couldn't get thru, but I saw one early this year via stream: "Duck, You Sucker!" Not long after, my friend I saw it with had a stroke, so this one sticks in my mind as the last movie he could really enjoy with me.
	6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ WantageInsomniac @6:55 Haha! "'Tis but a scratch!"
	6:59pm Listener Robert: ↳ Listener Robert @6:57 Fun because the bank they robbed then got named in "Better Call Saul" as a client: "Mesa Verde Bank and Trust".
	7:01pm Zel: Heist - Kelly 's Heroes
	8:29pm darcy: My cat is scared

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from November 19, 2024

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