Pickpocket (Episode 92) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

Robert Bresson, director of this week's Pickpocket and numerous films that helped define the French New Wave, was known to be a task master on set.  In his search for absolute separation of art from artifice, he demanded his actors strip away all affectation and just deliver their lines simply and rotely.  This often required as many as fifty takes of a single shot or scene! Dan and Vicky discuss the film that inspired a generation of filmmakers from Schrader to Scorsese to Soderbergh.  Our hosts, hint hint, weren't AS inspired.  In the recently seen section, there's talk of films Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 1984's Savage Streets, Hotel Artemis, The Exorcist III, Friday the 13th doc Crystal Lake Memories, and comedy from Sebastian Maniscalco, Tiffany Hadish, and Julio Torres.    Dan tells us why he made his first ER visit, his further adventures with MoviePass and the drama off and on stage in his new play Caesar & Cleopatra while Vicky talks about her late summer vacation plans! Check out the sleight of hand of Hot Date 92: Pickpocket and leave us feedback.  Go to our website at hotdatepod.com.