Mike speaks with director Dan Partland about his career including his latest film, God & Country, which looks at the history and tenets of Christian Nationalism, a political movement which cloaks itself in a perverse interpretation of Christianity while actually embracing fascistic politics. The film opens February 16, 2024. Find out more at https://godandcountrythemovie.com/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . ...
Feb 19, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 490
On this special episode, Mike talks to directors Dawn Mikkelson and Keri Pickett along with subject Jennifer Weir of the documentary Finding Her Beat about a Taiko drum concert in Minnesota. Find out more at https://www.herbeatfilm.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...
Feb 16, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 485
Mike talks with filmmaker Hadley Austin about Demon Mineral, a feature documentary that looks at radioactive contamination of Navajo lands. The film recently played at the 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...
Feb 15, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 486
Western Month continues with a look at Delmer Daves’s 3:10 to Yuma. Released in 1957, the film tells the tale of two men, outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) and innocent bystander Dan Evans (Van Heflin). Their fates are intertwined after Dan witnesses Ben and his outfit robbing a stagecoach. Jedidiah Ayres and Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss the 1957 film and 2007 remake which are both based on a short story by Elmore "Dutch" Leonard. Mike spoke with filmmaker and author C. Courtney Joyner and Leona...
Feb 14, 2024•2 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 671
As part of our Slamdance Film Festival coverage, Mike spoke with directors Stephan Peterson & Sonya Ballantyne about their documentary, The Death Tour (2024), in which a group of wrestlers cross the barren winter lands of Canada. 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 13, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 487
Mike talks with writer/director Roxine Helberg about her feature film debut, Cold Copy, a thriller set in the world of journalism. 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 12, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 483
Director Andrew Cumming discusses his feature film directorial debut, Out of Darkness, a horror film set in prehistory times. The film opens in the U.S. on February 9, 2024. 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 09, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 484
Jonathan Penner and Otto Bruno join Mike to kick off a month of discussing American Westerns. We begin with one from German emigre Fritz Lang with his 1952 film Rancho Notorious. The film stars Arthur Kennedy as a ranch hand whose fiance is murdered in a tale of hate, murder and revenge. 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 07, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 670
We're doing something unusual with a re-do of the third episode of The Projection Booth. Yes, we’re talking about Joseph Sargent's 1974 film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three . Based on the book by John Godey (pen name of Morton Freedgood) and brilliantly adapted by Peter Stone, the film stars Walter Matthau as Zach Garber, a transit transit cop whose train is taken hostage by Robert Shaw as Mr. Blue, and his three henchmen, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown. Duane Swierczynski ( California Be...
Jan 31, 2024•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 669
Slamdance 2024 coverage continues with a look at Darla in Space, an offbeat comedy about a woman whose mother put her in debt. Fortunately, relief comes in the form of a sentient kombucha scobi named "Mother" that provides counsel and mind-blowing orgasms. Mike speaks co-directors Eric Laplante and Susie Moon about their amazing debut feature. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection ...
Jan 26, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 482
Slamdance 2024 coverage continues with a look at Citizen Weiner a documentary about a media prank that actors/writers Zach Weiner, Joe Gallagher, and director Daniel Robbins put on where Weiner ran for New York City Council in 2020. 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 26, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 481
Kat Ellinger and El Goro join Mike to look at the Finnish folk horror film The White Reindeer. Directed by Erik Blomborg, the film was released in 1952 and it’s the story of Pirita -- played by the film’s co-writer Mirjami Kuosmanen. She’s a newlywed who misses her husband. When she goes to a shaman to have him craft a love potion for her, she becomes a dreaded were-reindeer. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Beco...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 668
Slamdance 2024 coverage continues with a discussion of On the Way Home with director Giorgi Kvelidze. It's a documentary about a pair of Georgian refugees and their struggles. 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 20, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 479
As part of our Slamdance 2024 coverage, Mike talks with director Joe Maggio and co-writers Faryl Amadeus and Clint Jordan about their 2024 film BLISS, a follow-up to the 2001 film Virgil Bliss. 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 19, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 480
On this special episode Mike talks with director Peter Hutchings about his latest film, Which Brings Me to You, a romantic comedy about Jane (Lucy Hale) and Will (Nat Wolff), two people with bad track records of former partners. The film opens in the U.S. on January 19, 2024. 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 19, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 478
Lumi Etienne and Jonathan Owen join Mike to discuss the 2006 film Taxidermia. Directed and co-written by György Pálfi, Taxidermia tells the story of three generations of an unusual family. Grandpa Vendel is in the military and serves at an outpost under the boot heel of his commanding officer. Father Kálmán is a competitive eater. And son Lajoska is a taxidermist -- hence the name of the film. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 667
Emily Intravia and Samm Deighan join Mike on episode 666 of The Projection Booth to look at Helmut Käutner’s 1948 film Der Apfel ist ab (The Apple Fell AKA The Original Sin). It’s the story of Adam Schmidt (Bobby Todd) who tries to commit suicide among the ruins of post-war Germany. Instead of killing himself, he commits himself to a sanatorium where he undergoes an extended musical fantasy sequence which retells the Genesis story. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/pod...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 666
On this special episode Mike talks with Thomas Vincent, the director of the new film Role Play. The film is about a couple in New Jersey where the wife (Kaley Cuoco) is a paid assassin while her husband (David Oyelowo) doesn’t know. The film premieres on Amazon Prime on January 12, 2024. 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 08, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 477
Directed by Risto Jarva, A Time of Roses (1969) is a low-grade science fiction film set in the distant year of 2012 where the government is a meritocracy. We focus in on Raimo Lappalainen (Arto Tuominen), a historian who wants to know what the world of 1969 was really like. He decides to recreate the past by creating a likeness of a woman who died in 1976 via her contemporary double, Kisse (Ritva Vepsä), to act as a substitute. Samm Deighan and Eric J. Peterson join Mike to discuss this anomalou...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 665
On this episode I’m talking with actor Riccardo Scamarcio about his latest film Race for Glory: Audi versus Lancia. The film opens in the U.S. on January 5, 2024. Check your local listings. 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 02, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 475
We wrap up a month of requests… and the year 2023… with a look at Fred Zinnemann’s The Day of the Jackal. Based on the book by Frederick Forsyth, the film stars Edward Fox as the titular Jackal, an assassin as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce. He’s hired by members of the OAS, a holdout group of paramilitary terrorist organization who were holdouts who tried to keep Algeria a French colony. They hire The Jackal to assassinate president Charles de Gaulle in August, 1962. Ian Brownell and...
Dec 29, 2023•2 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 664
We continue our request month with one from Patreon Donor Ludo Round. This week we’re discussing Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes. Based on a novel by, and adapted by the author Kobo Abe, the film stars Eiji Okada as teacher and amateur entomologist Niki Jumpei. On a sea-side vacation, he spends the night with the titular Woman played by Kyoko Kishida. In the morning he finds that he is trapped in the pit that holds her home. He’s now expected to help her shovel sand every night in a kin...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 663
On this episode writer and media personality Bruce Villanch stops by to have a conversation about the holiday special from Scott Rockett, Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas in which Michael Airington plays Paul Lynde who plays host to a bevy of special guests who stop by his “house” for a cocktail, a song, and a few corny jokes. It’s now available via DVD and VOD. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/...
Dec 23, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 476
Mike looks back at the crazy number of episodes released this year and what to look forward to in 2024 including the Chasing Chevy Chase podcast, What, No F*cking Ziti - a look at the Sopranos, and content exclusive to our Patreon donors: a look at the James Bond series called Rankin on Bond. Get this and a lot more at https://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth Thanks for a wonderful year! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/sup...
Dec 22, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 473
Another month of requests continues with one from Kyler Fey who joins Kat Ellinger and Mike to discuss Guilio Questi’s Arcana (1972). Released four years after the one-two punch of Django Kill, if you Live Shoot! And Death Laid an Egg, Questi goes from a Western and a Giallo of sorts to the supernatural in a story about a mother and son psychic duo who may or may not be quacks. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support . Be...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 662
We continue a month of requests with one from listener Jordan Nash,1985's Walking the Edge. Written by Curt Allen and directed by Norman Meisel, the film stars Nancy Kwan, as Christine Holloway, a woman whose son and husband are slaughtered by Joe Spinell as Brusstar and his gang of goons. She’s rescued by a cuckolded taxi driver who’s in dutch to the mob, Jason Walk, played by Robert Forster. Rahne Alexander and Mark Begley join Mike to discuss this above-average crime thriller. Become a suppor...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 661
On this special episode, Mike talks to documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay about her latest work, Your Fat Friend (2023) which spotlights Aubrey Gordon, a blogger, author, and podcaster. Find out more at https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.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...
Dec 14, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 472
Mike talks with helicopter stunt pilot Fred North about his long career performing gravity-defying moves for scores of films from around the world. We discuss his work and his riveting autobiography, Flying Sideways: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Stunt Pilot , which is available via his website https://www.fred-north.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:/...
Dec 14, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 471
Beth Accomando and Cullen Gallagher join Mike to discuss another Patreon request, Sonatine. Released in 1993, the film stars Takeshi Kitano as Murakawa, an aging gangster with no real sense of purpose. He’s sent to Okinawa on yakuza business where things don’t go as well as they should. 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 13, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 660
Actor David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman, White of the Eye) joins Mike to discuss his latest role in the Mick Davis movie Walden (2023). For more information visit https://waldenmovie.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...
Dec 12, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 470
