Neal Brennan

“Barry Lyndon, if you can stay awake through this entire movie, you have a sleep disorder.”

“Shampoo. As a single guy, I can relate to this movie a lot. In the book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, there's a story about how Warren and Jack Nicholson were gonna send a kid to med school to be their own private doctor. It's one of my favorite anecdotes about, about Hollywood excess and like a legit good idea.”

“Bang, Me and You and Everyone We Know, it captures the loneliness of childhood. Truly like no other book, video, television show, just a fucking masterpiece. Let's see. Of everyone involved, I take it.”

“Oh my goodness. A Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith. Yeah, Andy Griffith. Matlock. He's so goddamn good in this movie, and apparently he yelled at the director at the end that he'd make him, he'd made him lose his mind.”

“Paris is Burning. The Comedian John Mulaney can do entire monologues from this movie in their entirety. He will sometimes text them to me 'cause I said, it's giving businessman or something. And then he does the entire, Paris is Burning. A true masterpiece and a really well made, documentary.”

“Spike Lee, Bamboozled. Spike Lee, one of my personal heroes, could take or leave me, but, he's one of my, he's the reason I went to film school because he was doing press for Do the Right Thing in 1989. And he mentioned film school. And I was like, film school, you say. And, and then I applied and somehow got in. Oh, interesting. Side note about Spike Lee. I, I did, I created Chappelle's Show with Dave and, Spike did a sketch one time and in the middle of the take my cell phone started ringing. And, Spike charged me 20 bucks. He has a thing on his set. If a cell phone goes off, you pay the director 20 bucks. I was technically probably the director on the sketch, but I paid him 20 bucks 'cause he's Spike Lee and he is great.”

“Bringing Up Baby. A great illustration of how men interact with women. He, here's what I mean, Baby is a leopard that she brings with her everywhere she goes, just on the street in New York at a newspaper, it's ba and The Leopard represents femininity. And Cary Grant is just trying to figure out, how am I gonna deal with this woman? Ba it's a baby, it's a tiger. It's like a triple metaphor, basically. It's like a metaphor thrice removed. It's fucking insane that this, 86 years ago, they made a movie where a woman brings a tiger everywhere she goes. And that represents femininity and a man interacting with it. Excellent. Good job. Who wrote this? Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde. Pretty great. Old, old timey names.”

“Menace II Society. Allen, Albert Hughes. I now am buddies with Allen. He told me an anecdote about this movie one time that at one point it was so bad, he had a rag in his car to wipe tears with. It was, he would just go to editing. It sucked. And he would drive home and cry the entire way that he needed a rag to, wipe his tears. And it's actually a good, like, lesson in filmmaking, which is, and then he just said like, and then they would just do sections at a time. And just the parts of the movie that were good were like spread, like manifest destiny of quality, where it was like, okay, that's good. This part's good, this part's good, this part's good. That's like as a advice of a good filmmaker. Just you just want as many good parts of any artists of any kind, as many good neighborhoods for your work as possible. And then you just hope that the weaker sections are short and forgivable.”