00:00Oh look! You're in this!
00:02Dune!
00:04Oh wow, this is the Lynch Dune.
00:06How about that?
00:08Sting, what a sexy man.
00:10You'd seen the Lynch Dune before you did the film with Denis, right?
00:12Yeah, sure.
00:14I feel like people give it short shrift, but it's a trip.
00:16Like you know it's a David Lynch movie.
00:18Sting and this.
00:20Sting wearing the world's greatest winged speedo.
00:22The codpiece.
00:24I saw that when I was 12 and it traumatized me.
00:26That was my sexual awakening.
00:28My name is David Fear.
00:30I am the senior film critic at Rolling Stone.
00:32We are here with Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz.
00:35The stars of Hot Stealing.
00:41Darren Aronofsky's new movie, which is out August 29th.
00:43It has everything.
00:44It's got mohawks.
00:45It's got car chases.
00:47Bars in the Lower East Side, right?
00:48What else am I missing?
00:49It's got a cat.
00:50Yep.
00:51It's got Zoe Kravitz and Austin Butler.
00:52And that is why.
00:53We are here today at Kim's Video.
00:55We're gonna walk around, take a look at some videotapes,
00:57talk about some movies.
01:04Come on.
01:06Did you go to the original Kim's Video?
01:08Yes, I did.
01:09So I was lucky enough that...
01:10I used to live there, man.
01:11Really?
01:12The one on St. Mark's.
01:13I never did that again.
01:14Exactly.
01:15When I first moved to this city, that was like the big video store that you went to.
01:18And they had a bunch of stuff you couldn't find anywhere.
01:21And a lot of stuff on the down low.
01:23A lot of stuff you couldn't...
01:24Maybe they shouldn't have been like renting out to folks.
01:26Wait, like what?
01:27Like porn?
01:28No.
01:29Well, yes.
01:30But also...
01:31I mean, it was the 90s.
01:32Was it behind a curtain?
01:33Remember that?
01:34Wow.
01:35Remember the porn section behind a curtain?
01:36I was never old enough to go behind the curtain.
01:37It's so weird.
01:38I should explain this to some of the younger viewers.
01:39Yeah, like what are you talking about?
01:40Back in the day, you couldn't download porn.
01:43You had to go to a video store.
01:44Let me explain what a video store was.
01:46Yeah.
01:47So, basically, you had to go to places.
01:49It was like a library.
01:50And then the video stores were basically the movie equivalent of that.
01:53So let's say you found After Hours.
01:55Oh, wow.
01:56Right?
01:57A movie which had a big influence on caught stealing, I imagine.
01:59You would rent this for somewhere between three days to five days.
02:04You guys got to work with the star of After Hours, Griffin Dunn, in this movie.
02:08How was that?
02:09I was so starstruck by him.
02:10Because this movie is incredible.
02:12I've never seen the VHS, actually.
02:13But this is the first film Darren and I talked about when we talked about making this film.
02:17And what a fun Scorsese movie.
02:19What do you want from me?
02:22It's a great movie.
02:23It's also so screwball comedy.
02:25Yeah.
02:26I mean, Griffin is so funny in this.
02:27Griffin's amazing in this film.
02:28Yeah, he's really funny and he has the world's best prison mustache in it, too.
02:32In our movie.
02:33In your movie, yeah.
02:34No, here he's Mr. Clean Cut here.
02:36Yeah, you don't recognize him in our film.
02:38Not at first.
02:39It took me a second.
02:40He's got a ponytail.
02:41The ponytail's gonna say the ponytail's such a vibe.
02:42All the tattoos.
02:43Oh my God, he looks so beautiful.
02:45He looks like a bar owner on the Lower East Side in the late 90s.
02:48I mean, it's kind of perfect casting, right?
02:50Oh, I miss this feeling.
02:52Oh, man, looking through.
02:53I used to spend hours in video stores like this where I grew up and just constantly perusing shelves.
02:59I got turned on to so many great movies because the boxes looked so weird and fucked up.
03:04And you'd just be like, Eraserhead, this makes no sense to me.
03:07And then you would see it and it would blow your mind.
03:09Also, there was something about, for me, I would rent a movie and you only had the three to five days.
03:14Yeah.
03:15So I'd watch them over and over again.
03:17I'd do the same.
03:18You know?
03:19Because you had to return it.
03:20And it was just like...
03:21And you have to make a decision.
03:22Yeah.
03:23You go to the store and you have to really make that decision.
03:26You have to agree.
03:27I used to get in fights with the family or your friends.
03:29Yeah.
03:30Yeah.
03:31Now do you have the thing where you're looking at streaming and you can look for two hours and not even watch something?
03:36I've never seen this.
03:37What is that?
03:38Here's what you don't get.
03:39Oh, awesome.
03:40Jim Katza?
03:41Oh my God.
03:42Here's how things worked in the 80s.
03:44I know you guys are mostly kids in the 90s, right?
03:46But back in the 80s, it was not uncommon for people to be like, we need to make a martial arts action movie.
03:52But we have a gymnast who's starring in it.
03:54How are we going to make this work?
03:56And the answer was Gymkata.
03:59Combine the power of gymnastics with the explosive force of karate.
04:04Gymkata.
04:06Basically, they made up a martial art that was one part gymnastics and two parts...
04:11No way.
04:12...Ninja ass kicking.
04:13I mean, that sounds correct.
04:14Is he wearing tights the whole film?
04:15Listen, I don't think you need career advice.
04:17You seem like you've been doing pretty good the last couple of years, but let me just throw...
04:20I think we should do a Gymkata.
04:21Gymkata remake.
04:22Two words for you, man.
04:23I gotta get into the gymnastics world.
04:25So, have either of you guys heard of this, Night of the Juggler?
04:31No.
04:32Alright, so let me give you a little bit of backstory.
04:34It's this kind of famous, quote unquote, lost movie that came out in the late 70s, early 80s.
04:40It's kind of this wonderful New York thriller.
04:43Imagine Josh Brolin, but hotter.
04:45That's James Brolin, his dad.
04:46Oh, that's James Brolin.
04:47Oh, wow.
04:48Yeah, and the peak of his Marlboro Man sexiness.
04:50I see it.
04:51I've heard a lot about him through Josh.
04:53Yeah, yeah.
04:54He looks like Burr Reynolds, doesn't he?
04:55I was just thinking that.
04:57He's got a kind of Reynolds-esque macho thing going on.
05:00This is good advertising because he spends the entire movie running around New York looking for his kidnapped daughter.
05:07In a lumberjack shirt that's basically unbuttoned to his solar plexus.
05:10It's like taken, but hot.
05:11And it, much like caught stealing, it takes place in this kind of scuzzy New York, but it's a different era of scuzziness.
05:17Like, I love how Darren has kind of recreated the late 90s scuzziness of the LES, so that when you're walking through there.
05:24You feel it.
05:25Like, I've been in a bar like that in the late 90s.
05:27Darren taught me all about that because I didn't get to see Benny's Burritos or Kim's video, but it's in the movie.
05:32What other stuff, besides After Hours, what other stuff was he having you guys watch to get us sent to the period?
05:36What else did we watch?
05:37I mean...
05:38We went to go see, um...
05:39Oh, we went to see Blowout.
05:40We went to go see Blowout, yeah.
05:41Yeah.
05:42Which I hadn't seen.
05:43Oh, where's it playing?
05:44It was playing IFT.
05:45Yeah.
05:46That's a great movie.
05:47I've seen that movie so many times, but I've never seen it on the big screen.
05:48It's so good.
05:49Sorry, am I allowed to just be looking like this?
05:51Yeah, of course.
05:52What are you seeing?
05:53Truly obscure.
05:54I mean, this is...
05:55I would go to the VHS spot and rent Jackie Chan movies.
05:59I was always a big fan of the police story ones.
06:01Police story.
06:02Oh my god, Tusk?
06:03Tusk?
06:04Wow.
06:05Tusk is nuts.
06:06Kevin.
06:09I truly, like, don't know a lot of these films.
06:12There's so many movies.
06:13There's not enough hours in your life to watch all the movies that have been made.
06:16It's refreshing, though.
06:18How many movies do you watch a week, would you say?
06:21Too many?
06:22But is that, like, multiple a day, or...?
06:24I think it depends, yeah.
06:25I mean, there have been times...
06:26Oh my god, the boy in the plastic bubble.
06:28Remember that?
06:29Speaking of Travolta...
06:30Oh my god.
06:31Yes.
06:32Yeah.
06:33So do you remember watching this as a kid?
06:34Yes.
06:35I remember watching that as a kid.
06:36And being like, this is insane.
06:37Yeah.
06:38Yeah.
06:39This is...
06:40This is insane.
06:41You should remake this.
06:42There you go.
06:43You should remake this, though.
06:44I'll be the boy in the plastic bubble.
06:45After the Jim Cotta remake, though.
06:46Wait, Buzz Aldrin is in this?
06:47Yeah.
06:48I forgot about that.
06:49So you need to see this right away.
06:51Danger Diabolique.
06:52Mmm.
06:53So, people, if you've ever seen...
06:55I think it's the Beastie Boys video for Body Movin'?
06:58Yeah!
06:59Body Movin', Body Movin'
07:00Body Movin'
07:01He wasn't found in the town so soon.
07:03They keep interspersing with this Italian spy movie of the 1960s
07:07that starred this guy John Philip Law.
07:09It reminds me a lot of you, actually.
07:11He was like the Austin Butler of the 60s.
07:13Basically, he's this super spy that's...
07:15It's based off an Italian comic where he basically runs around
07:18and, like, stops the world from being taken over by megalomaniacs.
07:21Yeah.
07:22It's amazing.
07:23It is so Italian exploitation of go-go and a great period film.
07:27Also, the cover is incredible.
07:28Great description.
07:29So, we're just basically setting you up for remakes here.
07:31Exactly.
07:32We have the whole next five years.
07:34Look at his haircut, too.
07:35The great haircut.
07:36Oh, look at that picture of them with the money naked in bed.
07:39Yeah.
07:40That's good.
07:41Yeah.
07:42Buffalo 66.
07:44So, was that a big movie for you?
07:45That was a big movie for me.
07:46Yeah, me too.
07:47This was a strong, strong vibe.
07:49Oh, man.
07:50Vincent Gallo, a very young Christina Ricci.
07:52Oh, such a babe.
07:53Didn't they shoot this on a slide film or something?
07:58Yeah, that sounds right.
08:00It was one of the only films ever shot, I think, on...
08:03Yeah.
08:04Rather than a negative, it was...
08:05How'd you know that?
08:06It was so beautiful when you see the imagery.
08:09Yeah, yeah.
08:10I remember seeing a film print of that, too, when it came out.
08:11Yeah.
08:12Oh, you saw that?
08:13Yeah.
08:14Really?
08:15Where?
08:16This is one of the advantages of being 78 years old, Austin.
08:17You look so good for your age.
08:18For that age, yeah.
08:19I've often wanted to ask your director about this.
08:21Mm-hmm.
08:22Let's call him.
08:23Yeah, if you guys want to text him this question.
08:24Let's FaceTime him.
08:25Oh, there you go.
08:26Hi.
08:27If there's anything that I know that the kids love, it's math.
08:30Yeah.
08:31This movie traumatized me as a kid.
08:32So, did you see this or Requiem for a Dream first?
08:35And I want to talk to you about that early screening of Requiem for a Dream.
08:38I realized I had seen this with my father before Requiem, but I didn't realize it was
08:43Darren Aronofsky.
08:44But, I mean, I'm watching this really young, so...
08:46Yeah.
08:47...there were certain things in this film that traumatized me as a child.
08:51Thanks, Aaron.
08:52And then, when I'm about 12, 13, then I had somebody tell me, you've got to watch Requiem
08:57for a Dream.
08:58Which traumatized me as a child.
08:59Yeah.
09:00So, how old were you when you saw it?
09:02I feel like I was like 13.
09:04And you were like 12, right?
09:0512 or 13, yeah.
09:06Something like that.
09:07And this explains so much, man.
09:10This is why I am the way that I am.
09:11We're okay, right?
09:12We're fine?
09:13We're okay.
09:14We're fine, right?
09:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:16We're okay, right?
09:17What did Darren say when you told him that you saw the movie this young?
09:20What did he say to that?
09:21He's like, good for you.
09:22Yeah, good for you.
09:23I'm glad that you've had more time with me.
09:26Oh, my God.
09:27I think, yeah, there's never too young for Darren.
09:28I don't think he was at all worried about...
09:29No, no, no.
09:30He wasn't worried about my psychology.
09:32All right, you guys want to go upstairs and do some trivia questions?
09:36Okay, yeah.
09:37On that note, yeah.
09:38Why not?
09:39Okay.
09:40Zoe doesn't want to leave.
09:41I don't, but I'll come back later.
09:42I really do want to come back and run.
09:43I need to get a VHS machine now.
09:44You can get them on eBay.
09:45Yeah, we got them.
09:46You think we can find one?
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