Episode 196: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) with Kelly Krantz

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is maybe the freakiest movie from maybe the freakiest director. It’s a bit of a Brian De Palma kaleidoscope, blowing his obsession with showing you the unseen mechanics of a scene into a grand, grotesque, obscene scale. Follow Kelly on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ “The Hell of It: My Top 5 Favorite Songs from Phantom of the Paradise” by Kelly Krantz at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/10/12/the-hell-of-it-my-top-5-favorite-songs-from-phantom-of-the-paradise/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Life at Last” by Paul Williams from the PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 196: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) 1:43 - The episode actually starts 3:24 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:52 - Why Kelly loves PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE 12:46 - Pessimism and corruption 21:46 - Beef, Swan, and performance 26:17 - “Life at Last” 29:54 - De Palma’s mechanics and the movie’s earned confidence 37:25 - “Nobody gets out alive”: The ending 49:25 - Who’s the little freak?