On this special episode, Mike spoke with underground filmmaker and No Wave founder Beth B about her career including her retrospective at the Metrograph as well as the upcoming Kino release of her films. Find out more at http://www.bethbproductions.com/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Mar 06, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 366
We’re kicking off a month of discussions of French films with Barbet Schroeder’s 1976 film Maitresse. The film stars Bulle Ogier as the titular Mistress, Ariane, and Gerard Depardieu as Olivier, a thief who robs the wrong apartment. Samm Deighan and Jim Vendiola join Mike to discuss the envelope-pushing film. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/pro...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 615
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert in Robbie Banfitch's latest feature film, The Outwaters. Mike talks with Banfitch about The Outwaters as well as his other work. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Feb 27, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 364
The boys from From the Files of Police Squad (in Color) , our limited series about Police Squad! and The Naked Gun films are back and talking about something we didn't discuss there... Released in 1984, Zucker Abrahams Zucker’s Top Secret is a send up of both Elvis movies and WWII espionage films. It’s a very odd duck which stars Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, a teen idol who has made a name for himself with a series of songs about surfing and skeet shooting. Nick goes behind the Iron Curtain to Eas...
Feb 22, 2023•4 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 613
Our Black History Month coverage continues with a look at Christopher St. John's Top of the Heap. Released in 1972 the film stars St. John as George Lattimer, a DC police officer who’s confronted with pressures from his job, his wife, and his daughter. When his mother dies, George undergoes a bit of a breakdown where he starts fantasizing about another life including being an astronaut. Gary Phillips and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss this sorely under-seen film while Christopher St. John tal...
Feb 15, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 612
Heather Drain and Leon Chase join Mike to kick-off Black History Month with a look at Bill Gunn’s 1973 film Ganja & Hess which stars Duane Jones as Hess Green, a scholar who is stabbed with an ancient dagger by a crazed house guest, the husband of Ganja Meda (Marlene Clark). Hess is resurrected and helps Ganja be reborn as well. The two are now addicted to blood in one of the most unusual vampire films around. Special guests musician Sam Waymon and author Christopher Sieving (Pleading the Bl...
Feb 08, 2023•3 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 610
On this special episode, Mike talks with Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas about their 2022 feature film The Civil Dead. Find out where the movie is playing near you at https://claytatum.com/The-Civil-Dead Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Feb 06, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 363
Filmmaker Elsbeth Fraanje spoke with Mike from Park City, Utah about her latest documentary, Sexual Healing, an insightful and inspiring look at sexuality in the disabled community. Keep up with the film via Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sexualhealing__documentary/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Feb 06, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 362
Mike spoke with Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis about the latest entry in the Aqua Teen saga, Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm. The film finds our heroes, Meatwad, Master Shake, and Frylock, out of their house and in various states of distress. Frylock is working for a corporate conglomerate run by an egomaniac with self-esteem problems. Buy Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm today on Blu-Ray and 4K. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/su...
Feb 03, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 361
We’re discussing the 1988 film from Karen Shakhnazarov, Zero City. The film stars Leonid Filatov as Aleksei Varakin, he’s from a Moscow Mechanical Plant and comes to a small town to meet with a man about air conditioners. He soon finds himself in an absurdist nightmare where he’s served a cake that looks like his own head by a chef who is not his father and commits suicide. Samm Deighan and Alistair Pitts join Mike to talk about the film while director Karen Shakhnazarov provides more context to...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 607
Mike talks with Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta and guest curator Will Carroll (Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema) and Peter Tatara, the brand-new Director of Film at Japan Society and founder of Anime NYC about the Japan Society's Seijun Suzuki Centennial. Celebrating 100 years of iconoclast director Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), a singular force in Japanese cinema whose radical stylistic vision and unpredictable narratives shaped the B-...
Jan 30, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 360
The rest of Mike's interview with Andrew Birkin about his vast career from his early days as a photographer to The Name of the Rose, to The Cement Garden, and more. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Jan 30, 2023•2 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 358
Jim Donahue and Richard Hatem join Mike to discuss this formerly hard-to-find film while writer/director Juleen Compton discusses her career and struggles with Hollywood film making. in her at her titular Plastic Dome, a large structure which comes to act like a tent in a holy revival. Jim Donahue and Richard Hatem join Mike to discuss this formerly hard-to-find film while writer/director Juleen Compton discusses her career and struggles with Hollywood film making. Become a supporter of this pod...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 609
On this special episode, Mike spoke with writer/director/actress Wendy McColm about her sophomore feature Fuzzy Head (2023) which plays at this year's Slamdance Film Festival . Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Jan 23, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 359
Mike talks with Mark Shapiro about the documentary he co-directed with Douglas Brian Miller, Downwind, a searing documentary about the over 900 nuclear tests that took place in Nevada over a half century and the affects they've had on the generations of people that live downwind from the radiation. Downwind has its premiere at Slamdance on Jan 23, 2023. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The P...
Jan 19, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 356
We’re confronting some of our biggest fears and learning that maybe what we’re running from… maybe we’re just running from ourselves. Yes, of course, we’re talking about Orgazmo. Released in 1997 the film was directed by and stars Trey Parker who plays Joe Young, a Mormon on his mission in the big bad city of Los Angeles where he happens upon a porn shoot and gets recruited to play an adult superhero, the titular Orgazmo. David Rodgers and Brad Jones join Mike to discuss the movie while Toddy Wa...
Jan 18, 2023•2 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 606
Uwe Boll unofficially "retired" in 2016 but now he's back with a few films underway and a few more in pre-production. Hear what Dr. Boll has been up to and what he has planned. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Jan 17, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 357
Mike talks with Paul Farber, the host of WHYY's podcast The Statue and Monument Lab's Co-Founder and Director, about The Statue -- a limited-series about the statue of Rocky Balboa and its storied history as a movie prop and source of inspiration. Listen and subscribe at: https://link.chtbl.com/0ozNBj6P?sid=ProjectionBooth Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.p...
Jan 16, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 355
Maurice Bursztynski joins Mike in the latest self-indulgent exercise in ego wherein Mike answers listener questions and goes off on meandering tangents. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Jan 13, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 354
We’re discussing the 1984 film from Stewart Raffill, The Ice Pirates . The film stars Robert Urich as Jason and Michael D. Rhodes as Roscoe. They’re two of titular Ice Pirates, intergalactic privateers who try to rob the ships of the Templars of their most precious cargo, Ice. Fresh water is at a premium and government overreach is at a maximum. Along with more of their crew and some really awful robots, the ice pirates cross paths with Mary Crosby as Princess Karina who eventually gives them a ...
Jan 11, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 608
We’re revisiting a movie we talked about ten years ago, Eyes Wide Shut. The final film from director Stanley Kubrick, we’re checking in on the film some 23 years after its release. We’ll be discussing the film, an interesting fan edit of the movie, and a 2019 book about the film from authors Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams. Matthew Asprey Gear and Rob St. Mary join Mike to see how they've changed and how it's affected their opinions of Eyes Wide Shut. Become a supporter of this podcast: https...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 605
We wrap up 2022 with a look at Mario Bava’s 1968 pop sensation Danger: Diabolik. Based on the fumetti by Angela and Luciana Guisanna, the film stars John Phillip Law as the titular Diabolik, an atomic age superthief who gets the girl, gets the gold,, and spoils the lives of every policeman in Italy including Michel Piccoli as Inspector Ginko. Father Malone and Samm Deighan join Mike in discussing the film as well as the '90s cartoon and recent film trilogy that's currently underway. Become a sup...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 604
We’re looking at the 1951 film from Alexander Mackendrick, the Man in the White Suit. The film stars Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton, an inventor who comes up with a fabric that will never wear out and never get dirty. He soon comes to the attention of both the bosses at the textile mills as well as the workers, and quickly learns that his good intentions are not appreciated in the least, with the possible exception of Daphne Birnley, his boss’s daughter. AJ Black and Mark Begley join Mike to d...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 602
We’re looking at Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell Performance (1970), the story of a gangster (James Fox) who kills an old friend and goes into hiding at the chateau of a rock star (Mick Jagger). Ben Slater and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss the film and its themes of duality while Professor Sam Umland talks about Donald Cammell and Keiron Pim shines a light on David Litvinoff. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support ....
Dec 21, 2022•2 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 603
On this episode I’m talking to Jesse Pires, director and curator at the Lightbox Film Center. We’re discussing his work down in Philadelphia as well as the work Lightbox is doing on restoration on things like Wayne Wang’s Life is Cheap, but Toilet Paper is Expensive. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Dec 19, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 353
On this special episode Mike talks with Vanessa Vasquez about her acting and producing career including her role in East Los High, her recent turns in the comedy Divorce Bait, and Disney+'s National Treasure: Edge of History. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Dec 16, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 351
Noirvember and Shocktober meet on this episode as we discuss Roman Polanski’s 1999 film The Ninth Gate. Based on the book The Club Dumas, the film tells the tale of Dean Corso (Johnny Depp), a book detective who gets put on a case by the diabolical Boris Balkan (Frank Langella). He’s to compare three volumes of the same book, a tome which holds the secret of summoning the dark lord himself. Matthew Asprey Gear and AJ Black join Mike to discuss Polanski, Satan, and the millennium. Become a suppor...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 601
On this special episode, Mike talks to writer/director Casper Kelly about his latest film, the surprise movie, Adult Swim's Yule Log (AKA The Fire Place). It's the story of a log burning in the fireplace and the strange things going on around it. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Dec 12, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 349
On this special episode Mike talks to Rachael Stoeltje and Laura Rooney of the The Association of Moving Image Archivists about the AMIA 2022 conference and the good work that they're doing in media preservation. Find out more at https://amianet.org/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth...
Dec 11, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 352
On this special episode, Mike talks to writer/director Eric Pennycoff and actor Graham Skipper about the recent horror thriller, The Leech. In it, Skipper plays Father David, a devout priest who welcomes a struggling couple into his house at Christmas time. What begins as a simple act of kindness quickly becomes the ultimate test of faith once the sanctity of his home -- and his faith -- is jeopardized. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-pod...
Dec 10, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 350
