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“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.

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.

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.