# Michael Ritchie

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David Szalay

Booker Prize-winning author David Szalay talks to John Wilson about his creative influences. His 2009 debut novel London and The South East, based on his experience of working in telesales, won the Betty Trask Award. The author of six books, his work often defies easy classification: his 2016 novel…

Diggstown (1992)

Grab a cold drink and pull up a chair for this episode of Hollywood Hangout, where your host Boxman strips down the cinematic classics and cult favorites you love. On this turn, we’re stepping straight into the ring with the criminally underrated 1992 sports-drama con movie, Diggstown. No endless p…

S1 Ep 1: Cochran & McAllister in Sutherland, Scotland

THE CLASSICAL GUITAR DISPATCH S1 Ep 1: Cochran & McAllister in Sutherland, Scotland I’m Matthew Cochran. Welcome to the first episode of the Classical Guitar Dispatch, a new podcast dedicated to telling the story of the guitar. The first season of the show covers music from Asencio to Dowland to Tá…

Guitar in Scottish Flow Country and Hard Goodbyes

This is a snippet from the first episode of the Classical Guitar Dispatch, where Matthew McAllister and I visit master luthier Michael Ritchie and his partner, master baker Susan Wallace, who runs a small batch bakery, Loaf. Michael and Susan live at the northern tip of Scotland, on a stunningly be…

Episode 361: BAD NEWS BEARS (1976)

Wwwwwwwweeeeeellllllcccccccooooommmmmmeeeee back sports fans!!!! This week it's Tron's pick with Bad News Bears from 1976 written by Bill Lancaster and directed by Michael Ritchie!!! The movie stars Walter Matthau/, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, Alfre…

292. Robert Redford in 'The Candidate' (1972)

Michael Ritchie and Redford's still-searingly satiric and spot-on takedown of political operatives and image crafting, peddling, and pandering in the modern campaign-industrial complex speaks louder than ever, given recent events in our body politic.

Retroist Podcast Episode 368 (The Bad News Bears)

The Bad News Bears made more sense to me after I played baseball when I was young. I was put on a T-ball team that seemed to be assembled from the kids nobody else wanted, and we were terrible. We never got great, but we improved and somehow eventually managed to win a few games, and got the award …

Episode 104: Semi-Tough (1977)

I revisit Semi-Tough (1977), a film that promised a lot on paper — Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, professional football, romance and self-help gurus. What surprised me was that the story itself wasn’t what stayed with me. Instead, it became a fascinating time capsule of late-197…

Episode 358 - Wildcats (1986)

“The accent's on the second syllable” Wildcats (1986) directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz, Nipsey Russell and Mykelti Williamson Next Time: Overboard (1987)

Fletch

Peter and Andrew dive into Michael Ritchie’s 1985 comedy classic Fletch, exploring how it balances a razor-sharp, well-crafted mystery with Chevy Chase’s signature deadpan wit and disguise-heavy physical comedy. They examine why mystery-comedies so rarely succeed, how the film keeps its jokes organ…