Episodes
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Before Sunrise (1995)
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re wandering through the streets of Vienna with Richard Linklater’s 1995 film Before Sunrise, starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. Written by the director with Kim Krizan, who had previously appeared in the Linklater movies Slacker and Dazed and Confused, this movie is the first in the much-lauded Before trilogy. Tonight we’ll be playing pinball with Celine and Jesse, missing a play about a confused cow in the process. If you enjoy this episode then please consider leaving us a little review or a rating on your podcast app. As Celine says, isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
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Recorded in May 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
True Lies (1994)
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re galloping in to spy on 1994’s huge Arnie vehicle True Lies. Written and directed by a little-known chap named James Cameron, this movie was based on the French 1991 French comedy La Totale and became the third highest grossing film of 1994. Jamie Lee Curtis won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Cameron was given the Saturn Award for Best Director and the horse was shamefully overlooked. Tonight we’ll be rewinding our Walkmans with Harry, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and ripping off our sleeves with Helen, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Are these two one of the most intriguing married couples in 90s cinema? This gun’s for hire, even if we’re just dancing in the dark.
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Recorded in February 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
A New Leaf (1971)
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re walking down the aisle with 1971’s A New Leaf, written and directed by Elaine May. Based on a short story by American writer Jack Richie, this movie was May’s directorial debut and made her only the third woman ever in the Directors Guild of America. Though when studio executives made edits to her original darker, three-hour cut of the movie, she tried to have her name taken off the project and unsuccessfully sued Paramount when they decided to release it anyway. We’re kind of grateful they did. Tonight we’ll be looking at mysterious ferns with Henry, played by Walter Matthau and Henrietta, played by May herself. Are these two a match made in a botanical journal? Let’s discuss. The only difference between us, Cat, is that I am a man and you are a woman and we don't have to let that interfere if we are reasonably careful.
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in April 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re sitting down to a game of Scrabble with 1986’s She’s Gotta Have It. Written and directed by Spike Lee, this was his first feature-length film to be released and in 2017, Lee adapted it into a Netflix television series. Tonight we’ll be trying not to burn Thanksgiving dinner with Nola and talking about her connections with Jamie, Mars and Greer. Are these relationships about love, or are they more about control? Please baby, baby please.
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in April 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
I Love You, Man (2009)
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re freeloading rosemary flatbread paninis with 2009’s bass-slapping bromance I LOVE YOU, MAN. Directed and co-written by John Hamburg - who had had huge success penning the scripts for Meet the Parents and Zoolander - this movie was the third collaboration for Jason Segel and Paul Rudd, who had previously worked together on the films Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Tonight we’ll be discussing the unlikely connection between Sydney and Peter. Does this relationship touch on a kind of rush lots of us look for in our lives? Or should we be content with a summer salad and Chocolat?
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in April 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Grease (1978)
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re hopelessly devoted to 1978’s not-so shy and retiring musical GREASE, directed by Randal Kleiser. With a screenplay by Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr and based on the stage show written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, this oiled-up extravaganza and is still one of the highest-grossing movie musicals ever made and remains embedded in popular culture like the milkshake stain you can’t get out of your jeans. Tonight we’ll be splashing around with Sandy and Danny, before heading to the drive-in with Kenickie and Rizzo. Are the two central relationships in this movie electrifying, or are we throwing our lives away on a dream that won’t come true?
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in March 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday May 26, 2022
It Happened One Night (1934)
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re jumping on a bus with Frank Capra’s 1934 romantic comedy It Happened One Night, written by Robert Riskin. Lead by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, the latter being paid several times the salary of her male co-star to appear in the film, this movie was one of the last pre-code romantic comedies to be released and is one of only three films - along with Silence of the Lambs and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - to have been awarded all five of the major Academy Awards - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Tonight we’ll be dunking some doughnuts with Ellie and Peter, and perhaps gnawing on a few carrots too. Are these two young people deeply in love? Or are they just ungrateful brats?
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in March 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday May 19, 2022
Top Gun (1986)
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re sweating into our jeans with 1986’s TOP GUN. Piloted by English director Tony Scott, who went on to have huge success with films such as True Romance and Enemy of the State, and written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr, Top Gun remains nothing less than a motorcycle straddling, towel slapping phenomenon. Tonight we’ll be soaring above the clouds with our hero Maverick and exploring his connections with the wisecracking Goose, the glamorous Charlie and the cerebral Iceman. Are the friendships we make under pressure a highway to the danger zone? You’ll never know what you can do until you get it up as high as you can go.
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in April 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday May 12, 2022
Her (2013)
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re uploading the Spike Jonze 2013 movie HER and exploring the relationship between Theodore and his operating system Samantha. Among other prestigious accolades, this movie won Jonze the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, with Scarlett Johansson taking over the role of the OS system from Samantha Morton once filming had completed. Does this strange and tender relationship tell us something unsettling about where we’re all headed? Or are we just coming at this with the limited perspective of un-artifical minds?
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in March 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza
Thursday May 05, 2022
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.
In this episode, we’re speeding over the sand dunes with Alan Trustman’s 1968 heist caper The Thomas Crown Affair. Directed by Norman Jewison the year after the release of his Sidney Poitier masterpiece In the Heat of The Night and nineteen years before his Cher extravaganza Moonstruck (a big favourite of the podcast), this film was nominated for two academy awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand’s The Windmills of Your Mind and it also reinvented chess. Tonight we’ll be lighting the fire with Thomas, played by Steve McQueen and Vicki, played by Faye Dunaway. Do these two have the love of a lifetime, or are we just running a sex orgy for a couple of freaks on government funds?
Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast
Recorded in March 2022.
Edited by Rich Nelson
Additional material written by Catrin Lowe
Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich)
Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e)
Rich can be found on Twitter @Fantana275
Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza