Shoot the Piano Player Podcast Episodes

315 - Shoot The Piano Player (1960)

Random Acts of Cinema - September 16, 2019 11:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratings
We're back into The Collection with another heavy-hitter. And it's our first foray into the French New Wave film's of Francois Truffaut. Paris! Kidnapping! Murder! Secret identities! Flashbacks! Shoot-outs in the snow! Oddly-subtitled novelty songs!  Does this movie really have it all?! If you...

Shoot the Piano Player

Lost in Criterion - October 12, 2018 16:57 - 1 hour ★★★ - 42 ratings
Truffaut responds to the Frenchness of his debut by making an "American" movie, and it's very silly and tragic and violent. Just like America!

E7: Shoot the Piano Player -- David Goodis -- East vs. West Noir -- 5 Round Burst

Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, & Detective Fiction - January 24, 2018 21:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 78 ratings
Join us for the dark wonderful tale that is "Shoot the Piano Player" by David Goodis. A story we both loved! Plus reviews, discussion, a really stupid mystery, and a discussion of the East Vs. the West coast in crime fiction. Find us on Facebook at Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, and Detective ...

IDMB Episode 112 - Shoot the Piano Player

I Do Movies Badly - February 15, 2017 03:58 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratings
If the French New Wave filmmakers weren't intending to be revolutionary and were just instead concerned with making the kind of fun, complex, Hollywood-esque films that they wanted to see, then in a way, Shoot the Piano Player is a purer encapsulation of the novelle vague sensibilities than The ...

Shoot the Piano Player Commentary

Fuds On Film - May 10, 2016 22:08 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratings
This claims to be a commentary track for Truffaut's 1960 new wave "classic", but in all honesty we can't back that assertion up with paperwork. Drew and Craig bring you coughs, heavy breathing, bizarre Czech state TV musical numbers from 1978 but, crucially, almost no insight into this movie. Bravo!

SVU #51: Shoot The Piano Player / Hosts' Choice

Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit (SVU) - January 17, 2014 03:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 420 ratings
Matt and Alison put on their berets, eat some baguettes and prove that they clearly know nothing about French culture beyond stereotypes from Pepe Le Pew cartoons as they review Francois Truffaut's SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER. Plus, some hosts' choice recommendations for movies currently available via...