Episode 148 – John Frankenheimer’s Seconds

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Sean Hutchinson to discuss John Frankenheimer’s 1967 film, Seconds.

About the film:

Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged banker who, dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. Starting over in America, however, is not as easy as it sounds. This paranoiac symphony of canted camera angles (courtesy of famed cinematographer James Wong Howe), fragmented editing, and layered sound design is a remarkably risk-taking Hollywood film that ranks high on the list of its legendary director’s achievements.

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Episode Links:

• Seconds (1966) – The Criterion Collection
• Seconds: Reborn Again – The Criterion Collection
• Seconds (1966) — Art of the Title
• Seconds (1966) – IMDb
• Seconds (film) – Wikipedia
• Seconds – Slate Magazine
• A Second Life for Seconds, the 1966 Cult Classic That Made Audiences Sick
• Underrated: Rock Hudson in Seconds (1966)
• John Frankenheimer’s ‘Seconds’: The Loneliest Studio Film of the 1960s

Episode Credits:

• Scott Nye (Twitter / Battleship Pretension)
• David Blakeslee (Twitter / Criterion Reflections)
• Sean Hutchinson (Twitter / Latino Review / Mental Floss)

Next time on the podcast: Howard Hawks’s Red River

Music for this episode is from Giovanni Fusco’s work in L’Avventura, Michel Legrand’s in The Young Girls of Rochefort, and Sister Hazel’s song “Change Your Mind.”