Ben-Hur
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Oct 27, 2026
Brian SaurHOST
Screen icons Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner star in this epic adaptation of Nicholas Gogol's historical novella directed by J. Lee Thompson.
Brian SaurHOST
which is crazy, and written by the team of Waldo Salt from Midnight Cowboy, an incredible writer, and Carl Tunberg, who wrote Ben-Hur.
Brian SaurHOST
The film boasts an Academy Award-nominated score by composer Friends Waksman, hailed by the great Bernard Herrmann as the score of a lifetime.
Brian SaurHOST
That's high praise.
MaulerHOST
The film was nominated for 11 Oscars and won all 11, including Best Picture.
MaulerHOST
This legendary feat ties with Ben-Hur and Titanic for the most wins ever, marking the first time a fantasy epic won film's highest honor and serving as a massive validation for the entire fantasy genre, which the first two didn't get anywhere near as much recognition from the Academy, right? So it feels almost like a bit of an apology for not being fast on that one.
Critical DrinkerHOST
Well, yeah, I was going to say, like, do you think maybe this was kind of a collective acknowledgement of the entire trilogy story? I think so,
MaulerHOST
but Return of the King is still a fucking amazing film, so whatever.
Jack P. ShepherdHOST
big one.
DavePANELIST
And then obviously like Ben-Hur is here.
DavePANELIST
And then apparently, you know, the Metropolis from Metropolis.
DavePANELIST
Apparently that was real and it was huge.
Hansen BursicGUEST
Um, It is interesting though.
Hansen BursicGUEST
I don't know if you can have like a moment or I think it, because I, you know, I talk, I talked a lot about this, you know, when you talk about like McCarthyism and the McCarthy era in cinema, people often are like, well, it was Ben-Hur that broke the, you know, it was, that was the film that like ended it, the blacklisting.
Hansen BursicGUEST
Sure.
Hansen BursicGUEST
Um, but you know, I, I don't think it was just something like Ben, her, you can just need one film to like give it permission.
Jack P. ShepherdHOST
I've brought a new perfume in.
Jack P. ShepherdHOST
Ben gives it a whiff.
Jack P. ShepherdHOST
Um, and, uh, two, uh, Oh, uh, what movie location, if you had to pick that you can visit, where would you go? Uh, Not a set that's been built.
Jack P. ShepherdHOST
An actual, real location in the world that is famous for my film, Where Are You Going? And I've had the survey back on my house.
10 MINS LATER
Ben PriceHOST
Look,
DaveUNKNOWN
I'll do it for half.
DaveUNKNOWN
Yeah, I was going to say, do you reckon you could convince her to let Ben do it? I mean,
Jack P. ShepherdHOST
I would.
StuHOST
Yeah, and like we said earlier, it knows what it is.
StuHOST
It's not trying to be Ben-Hur.
StuHOST
It's not trying to be a masterpiece.
StuHOST
What a
Nathaniel GingrichHOST
It really did.
Nathaniel GingrichHOST
Those old school, like, the Ten Commandments, the Ben-Hur, your...
Adam SchwartzHOST
Lawrence of Arabia.
Adam SchwartzHOST
Yeah, Lawrence of
JeremyHOST
It just stopped turning.
TronHOST
I mean, comparatively, like a Ben-Hur where they killed 100 horses kind of shit, and it's like, you know, they
JeremyHOST
stabbed
TronHOST
them and javelined them a bunch of times, and they fucking
CharlesHOST
Yeah.
CharlesHOST
Ben Hur.
CharlesHOST
And I mean, uh, uh, Wuthering Heights and, um, Roman holiday, you know, he is like,
NickHOST
um, he has a three
Bryan CrumpHOST
With the organist Philip Smith.
Bryan CrumpHOST
This is a bigger than Ben-Hur kind of thing coming up, isn't it, John? Yes, it is.
Bryan CrumpHOST
50 players in the orchestra, no less.
John MietusGUEST
And the organ
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