{"id":5869,"date":"2015-01-19T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:09:31","slug":"ep13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/ep13\/","title":{"rendered":"Smug Film Podcast Episode #13  &#8211; Brad Avery \/ Apocalyptic Films \/ Italian Neorealism (1\/19\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5192\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13brad.jpg\" alt=\"Episode 13\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" \/> <strong>52:12 |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/smug-film\/id853616343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View on iTunes<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this episode, John D&#8217;Amico and I are joined via Skype by Smug Film&#8217;s own Brad Avery. We discuss his essay\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/bicycle-thieves-and-other-apocalyptic-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bicycle Thieves and Other Apocalyptic Films<\/a>, and explore his idea that apocalyptic films and italian neorealist films have a lot in common. As always, we close the show with questions from our mailbag.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy the show, be sure to\u00a0<strong>subscribe on iTunes<\/strong>, and leave a\u00a0<strong>rating<\/strong>\u00a0and a\u00a0<strong>comment<\/strong>\u00a0on there as well. Doing this helps us immensely<em>\u00a0<\/em>as far as our ranking on the iTunes charts, which a large part of how we reach new listeners.\u00a0<strong>Word of mouth<\/strong>\u00a0is always best of all though, so if you like our show, tell your\u00a0friends and followers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5192\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13brad.jpg\" alt=\"Episode 13\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" \/> <strong>52:12 |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/smug-film\/id853616343\" target=\"_blank\">View on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/13BradAvery.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download Mp3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this episode, John D&#8217;Amico and I are joined via Skype by Smug Film&#8217;s own Brad Avery. We discuss his essay\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/bicycle-thieves-and-other-apocalyptic-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bicycle Thieves and Other Apocalyptic Films<\/a>, and explore his idea that apocalyptic films and italian neorealist films have a lot in common. As always, we close the show with questions from our mailbag. If you have a movie-related question you&#8217;d like answered on the show, send it to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Cody@SmugFilm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast@SmugFilm.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy the show, be sure to\u00a0<strong>subscribe on iTunes<\/strong>, and leave a\u00a0<strong>rating<\/strong>\u00a0and a\u00a0<strong>comment<\/strong>\u00a0on there as well. Doing this helps us immensely<em>\u00a0<\/em>as far as our ranking on the iTunes charts, which a large part of how we reach new listeners.\u00a0<strong>Word of mouth<\/strong>\u00a0is always best of all though, so if you like our show, tell your\u00a0friends and followers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3667],"tags":[4539,2576,4538,32,3668,95,3669,3675,4540,104,3671,185],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-podcast-episodes","tag-apocalyptic-movies","tag-bicycle-thieves","tag-brady-avery","tag-cody-clarke","tag-film-podcast","tag-john-damico","tag-movie-podcast","tag-podcast","tag-post-apocalyptic-movies","tag-smug-film-2","tag-smug-film-podcast","tag-smugfilm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}