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Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) tells a story of friendship, adventure, and magic between two women (Juliet Bertoand Dominique Labourier) in Paris. Interviews: Jonathan Rosenbaum and Mary Wiles.

Continuing our discussion of fairy tales in films, we discuss Jaromil Jires’s film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, the story of a young woman coming of age.

On this special episode, Mike talks to Dylan Reynods and David Ferrier about their documentary Tickled, a fascinating look at the world of competitive tickling… and so much more.

When Robert Troy (Zalman King) buys a “sleeping beauty” (Tisa Farrow) at a carnival and introduces her to the playscape of fantasy roleplay in which he lives every day, things don’t necessarily work out in Some Call it Loving, a beautiful and unusual film from 1973.  Writer/director James B. Harris discusses the genesis of the film as well as his work with Stanley Kubrick on The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks, and more. He also compares the volatility of Timothy Carey to Richard Pryor.  Heather Drain and The Hollywood Outsider’s Aaron Peterson join Mike in discussing the film as well as other interpretations of the Sleeping Beauty tale.

We get off the boat and go all the way on this episode about Francis Ford Coppola‘s landmark 1979 Vietnam film Apocalypse Now. Based on a script by John Milius, the making of the film is nearly as fascinating as the film itself. To that end, Fax Bahr, director of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse discusses the creation of the fascinating and illuminating documentary about Apocalypse Now.  Professor Rich Edwards and former Film Threat editor Paul Zimmerman join Mike to examine the film, the “Redux” version, the nearly five-hour assembly version, and many of the parodies that the film has inspired from Porklips Now to Apocalypse Pooh and more.

“Weird Al” Yankovic stars as the hapless George Newman who turns his life around when he stumbles into owning a TV station in UHF. Somewhat lost among the blockbusters of 1989, the film has since been hailed as a comedy classic.  Director/co-writer Jay Levey discusses creating parody videos, managing Weird Al, and the creation of UHF.  Filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk and Good/Bad Flicks’ Cecil Trachtenberg, two Close Personal Friends of Al, join Mike to discuss the film and Weird Al’s career.

Mike talked with Brian Hunter of the Cinetopia Film Festival about the 2016 line-up, events, and guests. The festival takes place around Southeast Michigan from Ann Arbor to Detroit to Redford to Bloomfield from June 3 to June 12, 2016.

On this special episode, director Peter Flynn discusses his 2015 documentary about the art of projection, The Dying of the Light.  Outside the Cinema and Are You Serious‘s Mr. Chris joins Mike to reminisce about days and nights in the multiplex.