Tag: Elliott Gould

Cinema Smorgasbord – Praising Kane – Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)

For our first episode of Praising Kane (the world’s finest Carol Kane-related podcast) of 2024 we’re DOUBLING UP, first with an episode of Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre from 1984 adapting SLEEPING BEAUTY with an all-star cast including Christopher Reeve, Beverly D’Angelo, Bernadette Peters and – of course – Carol Kane! We then get into our feature OVER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, an early film from Cannon Films directed by Menahem Golan and starring Elliott Gould and Margaux Hemingway. Carol Kane plays a demure Jewish teacher with a WILD SIDE. We also chat about the recent Sundance premiere of Kane’s new film BETWEEN THE TEMPLES. HOORAY!

Cinema Smorgasbord – Praising Kane – Harry and Walter Go To New York

We continue our chronological look at the career of Carol Kane with the notorious 1976 flop HARRY AND WALTER GO TO NEW YORK! Despite a packed cast that includes Elliott Gould, James Caan, Diane Keaton and Michael Caine the film was a box office and critical bust. But does the vaudeville-tinged safecracking caper have anything to recommend it? Let’s find out!