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Listen along as two amateur film buffs make their way through the vast Criterion Collection one title at a time, all from the comfort of the couch.
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Monday Dec 03, 2018
Monday Dec 03, 2018
Hazel, Dandelion, Blackberry and Clover? No, we’re not making a salad, instead we’re discussing the 1978 animated retelling of the Richard Adam’s novel Watership Down. Join us in episode #17 as we heed Fiver’s warnings and search for our new warren.
SHOWNOTES
Director - Martin Rosen
The Plague Dogs (1982)
Theme Song - “Time and Tide” by Alan Price (original keyboardist for The Animals)
Hazel - John Hurt (Died Jan 25, 2017) (207 acting credits)
Alien (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Plague Dogs as Snitter (1982)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Hellboy (2004)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Melancholia (2011)
Doctor Who as The War Doctor in 3 episodes (2013)
Watership Down mini-series as General Woundwort (1999 -2000)
Fiver - Richard Briers (Died Feb 17, 2013
Bigwig - Michael Graham Cox (Died Apr 30, 1995)
Captain Holly - John Bennett (April 11, 2005)
Chief Rabbit - Ralph Richardson (Died Oct 10, 1983)
Blackberry - Simon Cadell (Died March 6, 1996)
Silver - Terence Rigby (Died August 10, 2008)
Pipkin - Roy Kinnear (Died September 20, 1988)
Dandelion - Richard O’Callaghan (Still Alive?)
Cat - Lynn Farleigh (Still Alive?)
General Woundwort - Harry Andrews (Died March 6, 1989)
Cowslip - Denholm Elliott
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Clover - Mary Maddox
Kehaar (Bird) - Zero Mostel (comedian)
The only black man (Clifton Jones) plays a character named “Blackavar”
Watership Down references in the TV Show “Lost”
Movies with similar stories / plots include Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Secret of NIMH
Other movies mentioned:
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