1974: Fifty Years Later / The Nickel Ride

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
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