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Kyle Buchanan on Blood Sweat and Chrome
Episode 57
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with …
4 years, 3 months ago
George Stevens Jr finds his Place in the Sun
Episode 56
The son of a celebrated Hollywood director emerges from his father's shadow to claim his own place as a visionary force in American culture. George S…
4 years, 3 months ago
Keith Phipps celebrates the Age of Cage
Episode 55
Age of Cage might be the closest we will get to understanding the singular beauty of each of Nic Cage’s always electric performances. You are holding…
4 years, 3 months ago
George Stevens Jr on Elizabeth Taylor
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4 years, 3 months ago
Talking Cinema with the legendary Michel Ciment
Episode 54
Michel Ciment is the legendary editor of Positif and the author of numerous books on cinema, from Billy Wilder to Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion to Fr…
4 years, 4 months ago
Matthew Page Gets Biblical
Episode 53
John Bleasdale talks to Matthew Page about his new book 100 Bible Films.
From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandment…
4 years, 4 months ago
Leon Hunt is slayed by Mario Bava
Episode 52
John Bleasdale talks to Leon Hunt, the author of Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur.
The blurb from Bloomsbury:
How do we approach a fig…
4 years, 4 months ago
Charles Elton talks Michael Cimino
Episode 51
Read the book Cimino here.
The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino—and a reevaluation of the infa…
4 years, 4 months ago
Sydney Ladensohn Stern talks the Brothers Mankiewicz
Episode 50
Sydeny Ladensohn Stern talks to john Bleasdale about her new book The Brothers Mankiewicz available here. Between them the Mankiewicz brothers were r…
4 years, 4 months ago
Kim Newman has Nightmares
Episode 49
John Bleasdale talks to Kim Newman, journalist, film critic and fiction writer. He is author of numerous books on film including Nightmare Movies as…
4 years, 5 months ago