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Also known as “How to Get Ahead in Hollywood,” Joel and Ethan Coen‘s Barton Fink proved a critical darling but a box office failure. The film stars John Turturro as the playwright for the Common Man and John Goodman as his neighbor at the Hotel Earle.  Rob St. Mary and Filmwax Radio’s Adam Schartoff return to The Projection Booth to discuss the film.  This episode features the second part of our interview with actor Christopher Murney.

You won’t want to miss this episode which features a “table read” of the original Mrs. Manning’s Weekend script along with more information about Death Game and an interview with Dyan Traynor.

Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright stars Gary Bond as a teacher in the Outback who loses all his money and goes on a wild, bloody holiday.

Jeff Adachi’s The Slanted Screen (2006) examines the portrayal of Asian men in American popular film and television. Mike is joined by Rita Su to discuss the doc, whitewashing, and yellowface.

Seen as one of the “lesser” of Alfred Hitchcock‘s films, Stage Fright (1950) is a fascinating update of the themes explored in Murder! (1930) as well as a interesting take on the reliability of narrators.

Based on S. Ansky’s 1904 play, the 1937 Yiddish-language Polish film The Dybbuk tells the story of a broken promise and its consequences.