1974: Fifty Years Later / The Nickel Ride

The Pink Smoke podcast

Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke 1974 was a landmark year for film, a convergence of exciting international cinema and the original voices of New Hollywood that still resonates 50 years later. In our new series we invite a different guest for each episode to choose a 1974 movie to talk about, ranging from giant blockbusters to minor cult curios and everything else in between. Host Martin Kessler hops on The Nickel Ride, one of the more unjustly neglected films of that hallowed cinema year that sees director Robert Mulligan instill a distinctively L.A. setting with a shadow of noir desperation and a tinge of French crime drama melancholy. Martin is joined by two ardent cinéastes, podcaster Felicia Maroni and film writer Andrew Nette, to discuss how Mulligan creates a precis of mid-70's American movie constructs - fading machismo, pervasive paranoia, volitional isolation - that thrills even when there's more talking than shooting. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Andrew Nette on social media: @pulpcurry.bsky.social Andrew Nette's Pulp Curry website pulpcurry.com Andrew Nette's Substack newsletter: andrewnette.substack.com Felicia Maroni on social media: @CineMaroni Seeing Faces in Movies Podcast seeingfacesinmovies.com/episodes