On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to filmmaker James D. Stern about his work as a producer and director on Broadway, television, and at the movies. Stern has produced works as diverse as Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Self/Less, Snowden, Murder Mystery, American Chaos, and Looper.
Episode 435: World War Z (2013)
Special Report: Loves of a Blonde
On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Kevin Heffernan and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss Milos Forman’s Loves of a Blonde. A mix of professional and non-professional actors, the film tells the tale of Andula (Hana Brejchova), one of hundreds of women that work in a factory who is introduced to an “eligible male” via a government-sponsored dance. <br /><br />The track was originally produced for Second Run as the audio commentary for their A Blonde in Love blu-ray release.
Special Report: Moseby Confidential
On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with author Matthew Asprey Gear about his latest work Moseby Confidential: Arthur Penn’s Night Moves and the Rise of Neo-Noir. Gear examines how Penn’s film worked among the neo-noirs of the ’70s as well as how screenwriter Alan Sharp injected a lot of his biography into the work.
Special Report: 3 Days with Dad (2019)
On this special report, Mike talks to actress Lesley Ann Warren and writer/director/producer/actor Larry Clarke about the new film 3 Days with Dad.
Special Report: Yannick Bisson on Hellmington
Known chiefly for the role he’s played for over a decade, the Victorian Toronto detective Murdoch, Yannick Billson speaks to Mike about his role in the popular TV show as well as some of his other work including the 2018 horror film Hellington and 2019’s A Perfect Plan.
Episode 433: The Joke (1969)
Czechtember 2019 continues with a look at Jaromil Jires’s The Joke. Shot in 1968 and released in 1969, the film was adapted by Jires and Milan Kundera, the author of the book of the same name. It tells the tale of Ludvik who was ousted from the Communist party after the youthful indiscretion of making a joke. He spends the rest of his life feeling the effects of this including hatching a plan for revenge on the university student who ousted him that takes 15 years to fulfill.
Special Report: D. Harlan Wilson on J.G. Ballard
As part of the University of Illinois’s Masters of Modern Science Fiction series, D. Harlan Wilson has written a literary biography of J.G. Ballard examining the themes and progression of Ballard’s fiction and (fictional) biographical work.
Special Report: Ego Fest 8
It’s time for Ego Fest 8 in which Mike answers your burning questions, get some advice and then promptly ignores it, and gives thanks to the Projection Booth’s Patreon donors.
Episode 432: The Ear (1970)
Banned before it was even released, Karel Kachyňa’s The Ear is a study in paranoia. When Anna and Ludvic return home from a party they find that their front gate is unlocked and their home is open. Someone’s been there but they don’t know who or why and they spend the rest of the night trying to figure out if they will be part of the recent purge within The Party.
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