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1988

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Episode 483: The three faces of Willie

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"The Big Lebowski" (1998) Directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen (Comedy/Crime)

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The Big Lebowski (1998)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

The Big Lebowski has one brief scene late in the film with lightning striking off-screen, with a very slow strobe as the only source of light in that scene. It lasts about 10 seconds, and the rest of the film is safe to watch.

All of the camera work in this film is either stationary or very smooth. There is one dream sequence where the camera rolls forward a few times for a very disorienting 10 seconds or so. Another brief dream sequence depicts flight at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 3/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: The entire film centers around a kidnapping conspiracy. One man accuses a disabled man of faking his disability.

Image ID: A promotional poster for The Big Lebowski

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Joel Schumacher and Robert De Niro take a break on the set of 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 (1999)

📸 Arnaldo Magnani

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The Big Lebowski (1998)

I don’t know what other movie I’d compare The Big Lebowski to. It’s got a lot of drug use and trippy dream sequences, but a stoner movie? That’d be a stretch. Its cast contains kidnapping and thieves but I’d never call it a crime film. The characters we meet are so distinct it’s a struggle to find their equivalents in any other tale. It’s a film in a category all of its own, which makes it a must-see.

Slacker Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) has few ambitions beyond having a good time and bowling with his friends Walter (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve Buscemi). After some idiotic thugs confuse The Dude and millionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Lebowski (The titular Big Lebowski, played by David Huddleston), The Dude becomes embroidered in a kidnapping and ransom scheme.

Every character in this film is a standout. It’s as if the Coen brothers (who write and direct) snatched every standout comedic weirdo you see in other films and put them all together on their own planet where only their rules apply. The results are completely unpredictable. Everyone from the Big Lebowski’s aggressively feminist weirdo artist daughter Maude (Julianne Moore) to the thugs who demand a ransom for his trophy wife Bunny (Tara Reid) will say and do things that will make you do a double-take over and over. Even when you become somewhat acclimated to the people surrounding The Dude (who, thankfully, is more of an everyman, or as close to it as one can get in this film), you have no idea what's coming next.

You’ll laugh, you’ll bite your nail out of nervousness, you’ll curse one character that’ll turn out to have been right the whole time and you’ll latch onto another who will turn out to be the last person you should trust. You feel exactly as confused and overwhelmed as The Dude. Before you know it, everything’s spun out of control and the only course of action is to continue along the same path that’s been set out since the beginning. Anything else is sure to end up in a shootout. If this doesn’t seem to make any sense, just wait and see. You’ll understand soon enough.

Part of what makes The Big Lebowski so magnetic are the inane conversations found throughout. There are a lot of great lines in this picture. I’m not sure when you’ll be able to refer to a rug as “really tying a room together”, but the characters, the scenes, the plot (nutty as it is) and the dialogue are all so memorable, you’ll find a way to crowbar it in somewhere. This inspired screenplay is about people who range from either so passive trouble seems to seek them out, or so aggressive they turn the world around them to hell. You don’t see yourself in any one of these people directly, but it feels like you've met at least some of them at one point.

While my second viewing of the film meant the surprises weren't there anymore, and this meant I didn't enjoy it as much as the first time, I can sense The Big Lebowski growing on me. I suspect I'll like this film even more the third, fourth, fifth, etc. times I see it. (On DVD, May 19, 2018)

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Recommendations 21-25:

21. BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018), dir. Spike Lee

“INFILTRATE HATE.

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.”

Availability: Available for rental on GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and YouTube

22. MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002), dir. Joel Zwick

“LOVE IS HERE TO STAY… SO IS HER FAMILY.

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.”

Availability: Available on HBO Max with a subscription and available for rental on Amazon, Youtube, GooglePlay, AppleTV, and VUDU

23. AN AMERICAN PICKLE (2020), dir, Brandon Trost

“An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.”

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24. CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (2007), dir. Mike Nichols

“BASED ON A TRUE STORY. YOU THINK WE COULD MAKE ALL THIS UP?

The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.”

Availability: Available for rental via GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and YouTube

25. STAND AND DELIVER (1988), dir. Ramón Menéndez

“AT A TOUGH SCHOOL, SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE A STAND…AND SOMEONE DID. TOGETHER, ONE TEACHER AND ONE CLASS PROVED TO AMERICA THEY COULD…

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighborhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country’s top algebra and calculus students.”

Availability: Can be rented GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and YouTube

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Untold Tales of Dark Shadows

After what seemed like an endless series of storms, Collinsport was rewarded with a beautiful sunny summer day. Joe Haskell invited Maggie Evans to a picnic at the beach below Widows Hill.

Little did they know that a creature was lurking in the shallow waters. After years of pollution caused by Dr. Lang and Dr. Hoffman dumping chemicals into the water, something mutated… and like most ungodly creatures … it desired a beautiful woman! Maggie Evans!

Would Joe be strong enough to defeat the Creature from Collinsport Bay?!?

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Kronenwetter to host forums to introduce candidates running for village seats

The first event is Feb. 8, the second on Feb. 14.

KRONENWETTER – Kronenwetter’s Committee for Civil Discourse will host two issues forums in February – one for people running for Kronenwetter Village Board, the other for people vying for the District 15 seat on the Marathon County Board. The first, on Feb. 8, is for the nine candidates running for Kronenwetter Village Board. Those nine candidates are Sean Dumais, Cindy Lee Buchkowski-Hoffman,…

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Small Press Expo 2023: SOLRADio Live: Joel Priddy’s First There Was Chaos

Small Press Expo 2023: SOLRADio Live: Joel Priddy’s First There Was Chaos #smallpressexpo #spx #spx2023

The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch! A live version of the SOLRADio podcast, the show where SOLRAD critics take a deep dive on a single book. Moderator Alex Hoffman joins Rob Clough and Thomas Campbell along with artist Joel Priddy as they ask him about his new book, First There Was Chaos.