Episode 244: THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (1974) with Seth Zarate

With returning guest Seth Zarate! Listening note: This episode sounds different from our usual productions. Cody, Seth, and Jason were all in a room together, while Aaron joined remotely. Jason had precious little editing time. Our apologies for any disruptions. One of Peter Weir’s earliest feature length films, THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS bears some of his hallmarks (genre-mixing, dualities, subcultures, cars cresting hills menacingly) and also some surreal, batshit filmmaking in the same conversation as MAD MAX (1979) (obviously) and DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) – and also the movies of the Coen Brothers? Check it out! Find Seth… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/snzarate - On Trylove episodes about ASTEROID CITY/DIAL OF DESTINY/DEAD RECKONING/BARBIE/OPPENHEIMER (2023), LOOPER (2012), IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934), THE CONVERSATION (1974), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), THE SACRIFICE (1986), THE FACULTY (1998), TIME BANDITS (1981), A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), 12 MONKEYS (1995), and THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) “The Cars That Ate Paris and the Bone-Shaking Consequences of the Past” by Chris Ryba-Tures for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/202....3/09/08/the-cars-tha “Dude, Where’s My Car? Car Culture Examined in The Cars That Ate Paris” by Matthew Lambert for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/202....3/09/08/dude-wheres- Watch THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/th....e-cars-that-ate-pari Get tickets to the Peter Weir series at the Trylon: https://www.trylon.org/films/category/peter-weir/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Main Theme” by Bruce Smeaton from the THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS soundtrack.