Have You Ever Seen

Judy Holliday unexpectedly won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar instead of Bette Davis in All About Eve and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd, but the Judes IS outstandingly funny in Born Yesterday. George Cukor's classic comedy actually gets funnier as it goes along, as the likable ditz Holliday grows curious about history, politics, word origins...and bettering herself. Broderick Crawford plays her uncouth, corrupt, long-time boyfriend who's in Washington to buy himself his very own politician while William Holden is the journalist paid to teach Holliday things she didn't know. And fun ensues. This 672nd episode on Have You Ever Seen is a one-Ryan edition, so shuffle through your dictionary to find exactly the right words as even Born Yesterday gets a thorough reviewin'...even. Try the goods at Sparkplug Coffee. Our "HYES" promo code is the key to getting a onetime 20% discount. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Subscribe to Have You Ever Seen on your podcasting application, but track us down on YouTube too (throw @hyesellis into the search bar). Rate, review, comment, etc. Want to give us some feedback? Try the social stuff: Ryan is @moviefiend51 on Twi-X and ryan-ellis on Bluesky while Bev is @bevellisellis and bevellisellis on those 2 apps. Or email us: haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com.

We're entering a stretch of Have You Ever Seen reviews where the performances in the movies in question won the star a Best Actress Oscar. Sissy Spacek took it home 45 years ago for her transformation into the Coal Miner's Daughter...aka the First Lady Of Country Music, Miss Loretta Lynn. Spacek wasn't alone though. Tommy Lee Jones as her husband Doo and Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline shine too. Michael Apted's biography has all that famous music, of course, but we're also talking about a difficult 50-year marriage, occasional violence and Lynn's ascent to stardom. This did the poverty-to-riches story so well before that became such a common theme in musical biopics. In any case, the 671st podcast on this channel is a one-Ryan effort about Coal Miner's Daughter, so tune up your voice, pluck your guitar and join the band. Sparkplug Coffee continues to be our sponsor. Go to "sparkplug.coffee/hyes" and, when you're ready to pay up, don't forget to use our "HYES" promo code...and get a 20% discount. Subscribe to Have You Ever Seen on your podcast app, but also on YouTube. Rate, review, all that. On the 'Tube, we're "@hyesellis" in the search bar. Feedback: our email address is "haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com" and our socials are ryan-ellis & bevellisellis on Bluesky and @moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis on the Twi-X thing.

The documentary that won the Academy Award in 2015 is the topic of #670 of Have You Ever Seen. Asif Kapadia and his team look at the tremendous singer Amy Winehouse through archival footage and many new interviews with those in her circle, but the film sorely misses having these obscure people being shown on camera. Who’s who?! We were also critical of how Kapadia’s approach isn't as in-depth as he might think it is...and did this contribute to the pile-on done by the paparazzi and the media that loved to show her at her worst? There's so much blame to go around (her parents, the media, us and also her worst addiction…her husband Blake), but the women who badly needed rehab—and came up with a great song CALLED that—shoulders the most responsibility. At least we have the music. So cozy up to our chat about Amy. We're sponsored by Sparkplug Coffee. Apply our "HYES" promo code and win yourself a onetime 20% discount. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Follow our podcast by subscribing in your app. Rate and review us too. Look for us on YouTube as well (@hyesellis in the search bar). Feedback options are email (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com), Bluesky (ryan-ellis and bevellisellis) and Twi-X (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis).

Sense And Sensibility is Ang Lee's take on an English tale of manners, money and matrimony. The Taiwanese director was an outsider to this world, obviously, but he also brought a formality and desperate longing to this project. Lead actress Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. And it's a good role, doing the buttoned-down thing she did so well back in the '90s. She's a funny woman who made her name being serious. Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant are all very good too, but the men take a back seat to the sisters in this movie about (subtle) feminism. So rescue the woman you adore while on a horse when she gets caught in the rain and then try to love enough for two as our 669th episode has the Ellises seeing what the deal is with the Dashwoods and their men in Sense And Sensibility. Well, Actually: at the 11:55 mark, it should be Elizabeth "Spriggs" plural, not "Sprigg" singular. Also, the director of the oft-mentioned 1994 Little Women was Gillian Armstrong. The sponsor of this podcast is Sparkplug Coffee. They offer Have You Ever Seen listeners a onetime 20% discount. You just have to use our "HYES" promo code. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Subscribe to our podcast, but also rate and review the show. Do all that on YouTube as well. We're "@hyesellis" in the search bar. Comment and subscribe on YouTube too. Share your own thoughts about the movies we discuss by sending us an email (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). Or try social media: Ryan's handles are @moviefiend51 and ryan-ellis on Twi-X & Bluesky while Bev is @bevellisellis and bevellisellis on Twi-X and the 'Sky.

After more than 12 years of doing this podcast, it was high time for us to review something by French director Jean-Pierre Melville. Le Samourai was his (and his star, Alain Delon's) homage to '40s Hollywood noir. This crime classic is about Delon's passive hitman, who's either too cool for school...or just doesn't care. In this one-Ryan show, the talk gets into  relating to Delon's loner mindset and solo lifestyle, although not so much his sparse apartment, his constant smoking or his work as a contract killer. Or having a chirpie bird for a roommate. The ending is puzzling...but it might be more understandable when you remember the code of an actual samurai. So put on your white gloves, pull out your heater and prepare for episode #668 of Have You Ever Seen. Melville's film didn't predate the French New Wave, but he himself did. He, Godard, Truffaut, all of 'em could no doubt have been even more prolific back in those days if they had Sparkplug Coffee. Use our "HYES" promo code and you will be able to benefit from a onetime 20% discount. Go to "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Subscribe to our channel in your app, but also review the podcast and rate it. Find us on YouTube (@hyesellis in the search bar) and do all those things there too. Contact options: email (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). Social media: ryan-ellis and @moviefiend51 on Bluesky and Twi-X, with Bev's contact info being bevellisellis and @bevellisellis (on Bluesky and Twi-X).