Kiss of the Spider Woman

These two characters for the 90 minutes we're going to be living in the pit.

I started wondering if we were going to be getting like Kiss of the Spider Woman sort of thing.

Like two men in prison who are disparate and not alike and whatever else.

And that we've got to like talk about our fantasies of old movies and the

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It was Raul Julia's, uh, you know Raul Julia from Addams Family and Kiss of the Spider Woman?

Uh-huh.

This was his final, uh, onscreen performance.

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there was a movie with Raul Julia in 1985 called Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Oh, yeah.

With William Hurt and Raul Julia.

Uh, I don't know.

Yeah, I-

Kiss of the Spider Woman.

I'll, I'll put that on my horror show late night list.

Uh, some of you might know him as the brother of Paul Schrader, who was the writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

And Leonard's a pretty, was a pretty impressive screenwriter in his own right, probably best known for Kiss of the Spider Woman, uh, which he was nominated for an Academy Award for in 1985.

Uh, Leonard was my thesis advisor, and, um, one day about two weeks into our first year, or second year of the school, he came to our class and said, uh, "Some of you might know Dan O'Bannon.

He's our filmmaker in residence.

I mean, it's like the 20th century Argentinian politics are so fascinating and this is not our first dalliance with that.

Of course, we did Kiss of the Spider Woman.

which takes place in the late 70s, early 80s, so it's a different era.

But that era is coming off of a Peronist resurgence.

I think Isabel Peron had been the president and then was deposed, and that was when the military took over, and that's the sort of backdrop of Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Because

that's during when Pinochet was president, right? Well,

So I just think it's...

It's not Deep Impact.

It's, uh, k- it's not, oh, The Kiss of the Spider Woman or what's the-

It's a film we've talked about not that long ago.

I don't think I did.

We have a podcast

review for Kiss of the Spider Woman, the podcast.

And, you know, he had a very tempestuous relationship with Marlee Matlin.

Children of a Lesser God is quite good, even though, you know, Marlee won Best Actress over Sigourney Weaver.

A tragic story, fantastic performance.

He is great in Kiss of the Spider Woman.

He's in Panic in Needle Park.

And I would be remiss if I did not mention his role as M. Bison in Street Fighter.