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22nd Jan 2020

Sex, Lies & Videotape (1989 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)

The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1989 features the Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape. Written and directed by Soderbergh and starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Laura San Giacomo and Peter Gallagher, Sex, Lies and Videotape debuted at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sex-lies-and-videotape-1989), Desson Howe in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sexliesandvideotaperhowe_a0b22d.htm), and Caryn James in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/04/movies/review-film-a-dance-of-sex-and-love-through-a-lens-darkly.html).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1989 installment featuring the year’s biggest flop, Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.  

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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David Rosen is a music composer and podcast producer. He has scored feature films, commercials and more, as well as creating albums of instrumental music. He currently produced Piecing It Together which he hosts and Awesome Movie Year.