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Special Report: Hal (2018)
On this special report, Mike talks to author Nick Dawson (Being Hal Ashby) and Amy Scott about the new documentary about filmmaker Hal Ashby... Hal (2018).
Learn more at http://hal.oscilloscope.net/
Le…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 381: Dita Saxova (1968)
Czechtember 2018 continues with a look at Antonin Moskalyk’s Dita Saxova. Released in 1968, the film was adapted by Arnost Lustig and based on his novel. The film is the story of our titular Dita Sax…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 380: ... And The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
Zbyněk Brynych’s 1965 film The Fifth Horseman is Fear stars Miroslav Macháček as Dr. Braun. The film is ostensibly set during the Nazi occupation of Prague where Dr. Braun isn’t practicing medicine. …
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Special Report: The Writer with No Hands (2014/2017)
On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re discussing the documentary film The Writer with No Hands. Directed by William Westaway, the film tells the story of writer and professor Matthew …
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 21: Traxx (1988) Redux
As part of the research for The Writer with No Hands episode, Mike went back into the archive to re-tool an oldie and a goodie, TRAXX (1988).
Written by Gary DeVore and directed by Jerome Gary, Traxx …
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 379: Gattaca (1997)
Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, Gattaca (1997) stars Ethan Hawke as Jerome Morrow… or is he? He’s actually Vincent Freeman, a naturally occurring person in a world where people can be genetica…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 378: Deep End (1970)
Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (1970) stars John Moulder-Brown as Mike, a fifteen year old drop-out who finds work at a public bath where he takes care of the male patrons while Jane Asher plays Susan,…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Special Report: Timon Singh on Born to Be Bad
Timon Singh of the Bristol Bad Film Club joins Mike to talk about his book, Born To Be Bad: Talking to the Greatest Villains in Action Cinema and the documentary, In Search of the Last Action Heroes,…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Special Report: The Last Movie (1971)
On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re looking at Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie. Barely released by Universal Pictures in 1971, the film stars Hopper as Kansas -- a man as middle-Amer…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 377: The Parallax View (1974)
Alan J. Pakula's, The Parallax View (1974) stars Warren Beatty as reporter Joe Frady. After a mysterious series of deaths, Frady gets embroiled in an investigation that leads him to The Parallax Corp…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago