The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) (With Special Guest Troy Howarth!)

Join George and the guys as we welcome a special guest, film historian Troy Howarth. Troy literally wrote the book on giallo (three of them, actually) (and another on Argento) (and another on Bava... and you get the picture) and provided the audio commentary for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage for Arrow Films recent Blu-Ray release. In short, George just promoted to next-level film nerdity.

 

We manage to not spoil the movie for most of the episode, and we clearly delineate when we hit spoiler territory, so never fear if you haven't seen Bird just yet. But hopefully we make the case to check it out!

 

What was planned as a standard episode with a guest turns into a "how to watch European cult cinema and live to tell the tale" (which, it turns out, was just the thing George and Travis were needing). After Troy departs we soldier on in our usual fashion, fighting all comers to get George to stop overthinking everything and just enjoy himself for a few hours...

 

Will George ever find a crystal-plumed bird that satisfies his remarkably stringent plumage standards? Can Travis successfully pinpoint his specific Meyers-Briggs "subtitles and dubs" personality type? Does Dan survive the guest portion without completely fan-boying out? Tune in to find out!

 

And after the episode, check out the Extra Credit Discussion group on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/remedialfilmpod

 

Theme song recorded by The Hungry Sevens, featuring Shawnee Houlihan.