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The Projection Booth Podcast

Weirding Way Media

Tv & Film

Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 1000

The Projection Booth has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. With over 600 episodes to date and an ever-growing fan base, The Projection Booth regularly attracts special guest talent eager to discuss their past gems, including Ellen Burstyn, Willem Dafoe, Joe Dante, Bruce Dern, Chris Elliott, William Friedkin, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Ed Harris, John Landis, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Palin, Sir Tim Rice, Julie Taymor, John Waters, and more. The podcast features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis.

Visit us at http://www.projectionboothpodcast.com

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Episode 703: Naked (1993)

Season 1 · Episode 703

mercredi 28 août 2024 • Duration 01:27:57

We continue Art House August with a look at Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993). The film features amateur philosopher and full-time gadfly Johnny, played brilliantly by David Thewlis. We follow Johnny as he flees to London from Manchester after raping a woman and stealing a car.

We also follow Jeremy (Greg Crutwell), an unrepentant bastard and interesting counterpoint to Johnny.

Elinor Lewy (Somebody's Watching podcast) and Nick Kujawa join Mike to discuss the film and Johnny's "dark night of the soul".

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Episode 702: Radio On (1980)

Season 1 · Episode 702

vendredi 23 août 2024 • Duration 02:13:19

We continue Art House August with a look at Christopher Petit’s Radio On. Released in 1979, the film is a road movie about a London man investigating the death of his brother in Bristol. A deliberately paced black and white film, it became famous for the use of modern music on its soundtrack.

Ben Slater and Mark Begley join Mike to discuss this unusual film. Writer/director Chris Petit talks about how the film came together.

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Episode 698: Forbidden Planet (1956)

Season 1 · Episode 698

mercredi 7 août 2024 • Duration 01:04:52

Mike Faloon and Lexy Van Dyke join Mike to wrap up Sci-Fi July with one of the classics of the genre, Forbidden Planet (1956). A loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the film stars Leslie Nielsen as Commander J.J. Adams. He and his crew land upon a planet in the Altair system where they look for survivors from the spaceship Bellerophon. There they discover just Professor Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter Altaria (Anne Francis), and their robot servant (Robby). There’s a mystery afoot and it’s up to Commander Adams and his gang of goofy astronauts to solve it.

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Special Report: Jeanie Finlay on Your Fat Friend (2023)

Season 1 · Episode 472

jeudi 14 décembre 2023 • Duration 23:54

On this special episode, Mike talks to documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay about her latest work, Your Fat Friend (2023) which spotlights Aubrey Gordon, a blogger, author, and podcaster. Find out more at https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/

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Special Report: Fred North on Flying Sideways

Season 1 · Episode 471

jeudi 14 décembre 2023 • Duration 36:46

Mike talks with helicopter stunt pilot Fred North about his long career performing gravity-defying moves for scores of films from around the world. We discuss his work and his riveting autobiography, Flying Sideways: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Stunt Pilot, which is available via his website https://www.fred-north.com/

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Episode 660: Sonatine (1993)

Season 1 · Episode 660

mercredi 13 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:21:27

Beth Accomando and Cullen Gallagher join Mike to discuss another Patreon request, Sonatine. Released in 1993, the film stars Takeshi Kitano as Murakawa, an aging gangster with no real sense of purpose. He’s sent to Okinawa on yakuza business where things don’t go as well as they should.

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Special Report: David Keith on Walden (2023)

Season 1 · Episode 470

mardi 12 décembre 2023 • Duration 11:27

Actor David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman, White of the Eye) joins Mike to discuss his latest role in the Mick Davis movie Walden (2023).

For more information visit https://waldenmovie.com/

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Special Report: David Manderson on Alan Sharp, Anti-Hero

Season 1 · Episode 469

lundi 11 décembre 2023 • Duration 44:59

Author David Manderson joins Mike to discuss Manderson's book, The Anti-hero's Journey: The Work and Life of Alan Sharp (part of the Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland series). Sharp was a novelist and screenwriter responsible for Night Moves, Rob Roy, Damnation Alley, and more.

Buy David's book at https://amzn.to/47NqQlR

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Episode 659: Conscience (1968)

Season 1 · Episode 659

vendredi 8 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:24:22

Ryan Luis Rodriguez and Chris Stachiw join Mike to look at the Conscience (or Sovist) from 1968. Directed by Vladimir Denisenko, the film is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the German officers is slain, his fellow soldiers demand that the partisan responsible be turned over, lest the entire village be wiped off the earth. The film was banned and didn't see the light of day until the post-Perestroika thaw.

Sam Goff of Klassiki discusses Ukranian and Soviet cinema of the time.

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Episode 648: How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)

Season 1 · Episode 648

mercredi 6 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:01:19

Spencer Parsons and Rahne Alexander join Mike to discuss Václav Vorlícek's How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975). Co-written by Projection Booth favorite Milos Macourek, the film stars Jaromír Hanzlík as the titular Dr. Mracek, a lawyer who is unwittingly trying to displace a group of water sprites from their homes.

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