This time around, it's pop culture chat with author, rock climber and cave clan emeritus expert Claire McKenna. We talk movies, politics, culture, television, Hollywood and social media in one long stream of semi-conscious. Lots of surprises but nothing dangerous, as Willie Wonka said. The YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7AF8YIADUw&t=153s Support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema....
Due to weird life experiences, it's another music podcast. Enjoy and I'll be back to the movie stuff next time. I promise. Support the podcast via Patreon Check out the YouTube Channel
For this one, I'm doing political films starting with 1949's ALL THE KING's MEN starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland and Mercedes McCambridge, then we go over to 1976 for ALL THE PRESIDENT's MEN starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Support the podcast via Patreon Watch the podcast YouTube Channel
For the second podcast of Femme Fatale February- we look at Billy Wilder's archly sardonic look at Hollywood with Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden, then on to 1981 for Lawrence Kasdan's erotic neo-noir Body Heat starring Kathleen Turner and William Hurt. ` Support the podcast via Patreon or you may end up face down in a swimming pool.
For the first of the two Femme Fatale February episodes, I take a look at the 1944 film noir classic Double Indemnity starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson then we head to 1992 for Basic Instinct starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Support the podcast via Patreon please.
For the second podcast of Kooky Film January I look at the 1972 gay transvestite biker film Pink Angels starring John Alderman and an 8x12 glossy of Robert Goulet and then we go to 1977 for the cutest talking vagina movie in cinema history, Chatterbox starring Candice Rialson and Rip Taylor. Support The Podcast Via Patreon
For the January Gonzo Movie Month here at Paleo-Cinema, I'm looking at a couple of crazy flicks. 1980's Where The Buffalo Roam starring Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson and Peter Boyle, then we take you jive turkeys back to 1975 for Rudy Ray Moore's iconic Dolemite also starring Jerry Jones. Journalists and pimps. What more can you want? Support the podcast financially via Patreon
This time around, after a rough year for many of us, it's a music episode with optimistic, upbeat music for the end of the year. Enjoy the season however you perceive it. Support the podcast via Patreon
This time it's two obscure but worthwhile movies based on novels by John D. MacDonald, who was born a century ago this year. First Man-Trap from 1961 - directed by Edmond O'Brien and starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen and Stella Stevens, then A Flash of Green from 1985 starring Ed Harris, Richard Jordan and Blair Brown. iTunes reviews are always welcome. Support the podcast via Patreon.
For 201 we look at two movies on a similar subject from either end of the War. First off we have Charlie Chaplin's 1940 comedy The Great Dictator starring Paulette Goddard and Reginald Owens, then we go to 1961 for Stanley Kramer's Judgement at Nuremberg starring Spencer Tracy, Maximllian Schell, Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. A very heavy episode to record but scarily timely. Support the podcast via Patreon or the bad guys win....
For the big Two Double Zero Alisa Krasnostein and I take a look at two 'women's films' from 1965. First off, it's Love Has Many Faces starring Lana Turner, Hugh O'Brian and Cliff Robertson, then it's time for Sylvia starring Caroll Baker and George Maharis. Plus there is feedback. Support the podcast via Patreon.
This time it's Krimi vs Mamet with 1965's The Trygon Factor starring Stewart Granger and Susan Hampshire and then the 1991 David Mamet crime drama Homicide starring Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy. Weird rich people, nuns and Robert Morley vs what the old whore told William H Macy. Support the podcast via Patreon micropayment. Please.
This time it's Shakespeare versus Alistair Sim with a look at the first Technicolor Shakespeare adaptation, Laurence Olivier's 1944 Henry V. Then it's on to 1959 for the comedy of manners, School For Scoundrels starring Ian Carmichael, Alistair Sim and Terry-Thomas. Support the podcast via Patreon to help with podcast hosting and my current addiction to Italian pop songs of the 1960s.
This time around, we look at two really gear movies. First, A Hard Day's Night from 1964 and Help! from 1965, both starring The Beatles. These movies show the anarchic zaniness to the 1960s. Both were made predominately to sell records to teenagers. One is better than the other. Support the podcast via Patreon
For this week's podcast, I look at two films that weren't really appreciated at the time of their release. The first of these is Anthony Mann's historical epic from 1964 - The Fall Of The Roman Empire starring Stephen Boyd, Sophia Loren and Alec Guinness and the second is an Elia Kazan movie from 1960, Big River starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet. Both films didn't get enough love and both have something important to say politically. Support The Podcast via Patreon....
This time, to celebrate the life of Gene Wilder who stepped on the rainbow this week, I take a look at his work and career and explain what was magical about this strange-looking and extremely talented man. Support the podcast via Patreon.
Two very different movies this time. The definitive and classic version of Oscar Wilde's 1895 play The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952) starring Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood and Margaret Rutherford, then we move to 1969 for a forgotten but gritty drama The Reckoning starring Nicol Williamson and Anne Bell. We go from upper class frippery to working class angst in one fell podcast. Support the podcast via Patreon and feel good about yourself.
This time it's 1960s women's pictures. We start off with the rom-com remake Move Over Darling starring Doris Day, James Garner and Thelma Ritter, then we go way iconic with 1961's Breakfast At Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard and Patricia Neal. Support the podcast via Patreon - hosting is required.
This time it's blaxploitation and miltech action all the way, starting with 1972's Superfly starring Ron O'Neal and then moving to 1983 for the action flick Blue Thunder starring Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell. Pimpmobiles and choppers. Support the podcast via Patreon.
This time around, I have a bad cold so it's time for a music podcast. From a gay-oriented Sinatra song to the dirty boogie, from Nina Simone to Lalo Schifrin. There will be bongo drums. Go, Daddy, Go! Support the podcast via Patreon- Daddy needs web hosting.
Two very different films from two different eras and two different countries. Firstly, the 1935 French historical comedy La Kermesse Heroique (Carnival In Flanders) starring Francoise Rosay and Jean Murat, then we go to America in 1988 for Oliver Stone's Talk Radio, starring and written by Eric Bogosian. The only thing they have in common is that they're both really, really good. Support the podcast via Patreon.
For 189 I look at the 1848 MGM musical biopic Words And Music starring Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake and Janet Leigh. I also look at the straightwashing of Lorenz Hart, the subject of the biopic and how Hollywood totally ignored the facts of his life. Support The Podcast via Patreon.
This time around, it's 1970s porno chic and the social context around it. Deep Throat, Behind The Green Door and The Devil In Miss Jones legitimised adult cinema for a time and changed the way adult entertainment was perceived for all time. Support the podcast via Patreon
We go from the most unusual gunfight in cinema history with Dalton Trumbo's Terror In A Texas Town (1958) starring Sterling Hayden to from 1958 as well a cute little British comedy about a rundown fleapit cinema, The Smallest Show On Earth starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. Support The Podcast via Patreon.
This time around, it's Scottish villages and the Jersey Shore in the 1950s. We start with the 1983 British comedy Local Hero starring Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster and Peter Capaldi, then we go to 1996 for Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub and Isabella Rosellini in Big Night. I also offer my thoughts on the death of podcasting friend and good human being, Vince Rotolo. Support The Podcast via Patreon - you know you want to.
This time it's a 1958 drama set on the Riviera, Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse starring Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr and David Niven, then a savage 1969 satire on advertising and politics, Robert Downey Senior's Putney Swope starring Arnold Johnson. Support the podcast via Patreon,
This time around it's Frank Perry's 1972 look at the downside of Hollywood, Play It As It Lays starring Tuesday Weld and Tony Perkins then we go to 1956 for an early Stanley Kubrick film noir, The Killing, starring Sterling Hayden and Marie Windsor. Support The Podcast Via Patreon
For this one we go from 1975 apartheid South Africa for the political action thriller The Wilby Conspiracy starring Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier and Nichol Williamson (who steals the flick) to 1950s St Tropez for Roger Vadim's scandalous and sensuous ...And God Created Woman, starring Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jurgens and Jean-Louise Trintingnant. Bureau of State Security versus Bardot doing the mambo. Support the podcast via Patreon.
This time around, it's ancient Rome circa 1959 and 1960. First to 1959 for William Wyler's epic flick of leprosy and horse-racing, Ben-Hur starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd and Jack Hawkins, then we go to a tale of slavery, oysters and snails for Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons. Support The Podcast Via Patreon.
This time around I look at Fred Schepsi's 1989 historical drama The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith starring Tom E. Lewis and Ray Barrett, then to 1956 for a great little action flick, Run For The Sun starring Richard Widmark, Jane Greer and Trevor Howard. Support the podcast via Patreon.
