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On a special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Jared Case, one of the head honchos of the Nitrate Picture Show festival at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. The festival spotlights the wonders of film, particularly explosive nitrate stock. Hear why the Nitrate Picture Show is the world’s most dangerous film festival.

Based on a book by the Strugatsky Brothers, Hard to Be a God is a three hour medieval sci-fi film from Aleksei German wherein the inhumanity of man comes to the fore.  The material was also the source of Peter Fleischmann’s 1989 film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein. Both films inform the discussion this week with Travis Crawford and The Cultural Gutter’s Carol Borden.

Get on your sash and listen to the discussion of Michael Ritchie‘s Smile, a send-up of beauty pageants and small-town America from 1975.  We talked to a few of the stars of the film: Bruce Dern, Nicholas Pryor, Barbara Feldon, Denise Nickerson, and Annette O’Toole. Joining Mike in the discussion is The Cultural Gutter’s Carol Borden and The Crawling Eye’s Kevin Heffernan.

As a bonus to our coverage of Michael Ritchie’s Smile, here’s more of the interviews with Annette O’Toole, Denise Nickerson, Barbara Feldon, and Nicholas Pryor.

This week’s discussion focuses on Tim Burton’s 1994 film about the hapless B-movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. Guests include the film’s co-writer, Larry Karaszewski, actor Mike Starr, musician Lydia Kavina, and author Andrew J. Rausch.

Mike discusses James Signorelli’s Elvira Mistress of the Dark with Josh Hadley and John Pilate. The film stars Cassandra Peterson as a horror hostess desperate to break into Vegas who’s beset by the righteous people of Falwell, MA and her demonic Uncle (William Morgan Sheppard).