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Men's Film Festival
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
In a North Portland cinema, Drew and Andy welcome a room full of men to their inaugural Men's Film Festival, warning that male filmmakers are in crisis and their VHS legacy needs saving. Drawing names from a fishbowl of anonymous suggestions, they champion Brian De Palma to a teenage audience member who has never heard of him and keep getting distracted by Kathryn Bigelow, even improvising a domestic scene about her. Their reading of Terminator 2 turns into a complaint that Schwarzenegger sets unrealistic body standards for men, an unwelcome Point Break entry exposes another Bigelow film, and they close by claiming credit for movie-theater popcorn on behalf of all men.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 2
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
It takes people power and manpower in a very literal sense.
We will not let his voice be silenced.
By the way, that popcorn you're eating, invented by men.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Jonathan Krisel
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The establishing shot shows the McMenamins St. Johns theater in North Portland. IFC posted this clip on January 18, 2017, three weeks before the episode aired on February 9, 2017.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Andy ?
Thanks so much for coming, showing interest in the first-ever Men's Film Festival.
- 00:08
Drew
That's right. Celebrating the accomplishments of men. Men filmmakers.
- 00:11
Andy ?
We're in a crisis, you guys. I'm sure you know that. If you look at any newspaper, blog, television show, what do we hear about?
- 00:20
Drew ?
Women in film. We've got to preserve films made by men. A lot of them are just on VHS tapes. And we have to preserve it, and it takes us to do it. it takes people power and manpower in a very literal sense.
- 00:33
Andy ?
So we have taken your anonymous suggestions and we're gonna go through and pick out some films to show and some directors to showcase.
- 00:41
Drew ?
I see the name Brian De Palma. Have you heard of Brian De Palma?
- 00:47
No. No. I was born in 2003.
- 00:50
Drew ?
So you've probably only heard about female film directors. That's just- Catherine Bigelow.
- 00:54
Andy ?
Yeah, Catherine Bigelow.
- 00:54
Dad, what do we have for breakfast?
- 00:56
Oh, Catherine Bigelow made a movie last night, so I went to go see that.
- 01:00
Oh, okay. Okay. Will you drop me off at school?
- 01:02
Well, yeah, but tonight is the Catherine Bigelow movie.
- 01:04
Drew ?
Brian De Palma was this guy worked overtime to make movies. Carrie, The Untouchables. Yeah. Scarface. Do you guys know these movies?
- 01:14
No, not so much.
- 01:14
Drew ?
Yeah. Well, we're gonna educate you.
- 01:16
Andy ?
We will not let his voice be silenced.
- 01:18
Drew ?
Okay, Terminator 2.
- 01:22
Andy
This is a movie about a boy and his robot friend.
- 01:26
Drew ?
I think that the Arnold Schwarzenegger character is an unrealistic expectation for men. Because what's wrong with a little bit of this? You know? Why does everything have to be so fit? I mean, that's not real.
- 01:38
Drew ?
All right. Point Break. Who put that in here?
- 01:42
Andy ?
Do you know who directed Point Break, buddy?
- 01:44
No?
- 01:45
Drew ?
Catherine Bigelow.
- 01:45
Andy ?
Catherine Bigelow. It's a good movie. We're just saying that there's a lot, so many female film directors, right? We're just here to celebrate a couple of guys that are out there, right?
- 01:55
Drew
So think about that for a little while. By the way, that popcorn you're eating, invented by men. It was a man's idea to put popcorn in movie theaters.
- 02:01
Why?
- 02:02
Drew ?
It's quiet to eat. I don't think a woman would have invented that.
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