Episode 395: The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Rob St. Mary

Based on a novel from the early 19th century book by Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript / Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1965) tells the rather oblique tale of Alphonse Van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski), a Walloon captain of the guard, and his circular adventures in the region of Zaragoza which is in modern day Spain.

Rob St. Mary and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss Wojciech Has and the multilayered nature of The Saragossa Manuscript.

Links:
Read about The Duchess of Avila
Read Martin Schell's Saragossa Manuscript outline

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Music:
Title Theme by Krzysztof Penderecki

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2018 Year End Wrap Up: EgoFest VII + Music Mix

Answering questions, thanking patrons, giving updates, and talking smack.... it's Ego Fest VII just in time to wrap up 2018.

Links:
See our list of 2019 episodes on the Facebook Group
Support The Projection Booth Patreon

Music:
"Dirty Back Road" - Technicolor Odyssey
"Strobe Light" - The B-52s

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2018 Music Mix:

2018 Music Mix Track Listing

Name	Artist	Episode
Children of the Revolution	T-Rex	ZPG / Children of Men
Demolition Man	Grace Jones	Demolition Man
Kill the Poor	Dead Kennedys	Society
Dream Police	Cheap Trick	Who Wants to Kill Jessii?
Detroit Rock City	KISS	Detroit Rock City
Antichrist Superstar	Marilyn Manson	Begotten
Fiend Without a Face	Misfits	Fiend Without a Face
Kiss Me Deadly	Generation X	Kiss Me Deadly
Easy Rider, 1970	Chris Sikelianos	The Last Movie
Knocking On Heaven's Door	Bob Dylan	Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Freedom Isn't Free	Trey Parker	An American Carol
The Last Of The Independants	Rory Gallagher	Charley Varrick
Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse	Ultimate Spinach	The Fifth Horseman is Fear
The Court Of The Crimson King	King Crimson	ZPG / Children of Men
Mother Sky (Reedited From Soundtracks)	Can	Deep End
Magic And Ecstasy	Snakefinger	Exorcist II: The Heretic
Theme Of The Mack	Willie Hutch	The Mack
Public Image	Public Image Limited	The Public Image is Rotten
Mr.Vampire Theme	Jie'er Choir	Mr.Vampire
Love & Craigslist	Ruth	Craigslist All-Stars
The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)	Fun Boy Three	Winter Kills
Vigilante	Front Line Assembly	Falling Down
Fly Away	Lenny Kravitz	The Getaway
The Look Of Love	Dusty Springfield	Fat City
The Long Goodbye	John Williams / Dave Grusin Trio	The Long Goodbye
Sleep Walk	Santo & Johnny	12 Monkeys
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance	Gene Pitney	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Psycho	Eddie Noack	Psycho
Dial "O" For Bigelow	Fred Lane	Ego Fest VI
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive	Johnny Mercer	L.A. Confidential
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	Jimmy Smith	Kings & Deperate Men
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine	Anita O'day	The Big Sleep
Is That All There Is?	Peggy Lee	Wanda
The Dark Crystal Overture	Trevor Jones	The Dark Crystal
Suspiria (Main Theme)	Goblin	Suspiria
Marnie	Bernard Herrmann	Marnie
Yojimbo Suite	Masaru Satoh	Yojimbo
Bloody Christmas	Jerry Goldsmith	L.A. Confidential
Maltese Falcon	Warner/Chappell Productions	The Maltese Falcon
Farewell, My Lovely	Yeong-Wook Jo	Murder, My Sweet
L'amour m'emporte, Walze	Veronika Kincses	The Earings of Madame De…
The Morrow	Michael Nyman	Gattaca
Dita Saxová	Luboš Fišer	Dita Saxova
Parallax Test	Michael Small	The Parallax View
Piece for Tape Recorder	Climax Golden Twins	Session 9
The Big Sleep	The Gathering	The Big Sleep
Muse	Nicolas Jaar	The Color of Pomegranates
The Dispute	Vladimír Hirsch	Marketa Lazarova
Addio Zio Tom	Riz Ortolani	Mandingo
Winterreise - Zwölf Lieder Von Franz Schubert, S561 - No 12 - Im Dorfe	Franz Liszt	The Piano Teacher
End theme from Scarecrow	Fred Myro	Scarecrow
End Credits	Lalo Schifrin	Man on a Swing

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Episode 394: Psycho (1960)

Special Guest: Alexandre Philippe
Guest Co-Host: Christine Makepeace

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) stars Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, an unmarried woman who’s in love with Sam Loomis (John Gavin), a man under the debt of his deceased father and living ex-wife. In a move of desperation, she sees an opportunity to change her circumstances and takes it in the form of 40,000 dollars.

Christine Makepeace (The Feminine Critique) joins Mike to discuss Psycho and its legacy, sequels, Turkish remake and more. Alexandre Philippe, the director of 78/52, talks about his fascinating documentary which takes apart the famous Psycho shower scene.

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The Psycho Series:


Links:
Buy The Psycho Legacy on DVD
Buy Psycho by Robert Bloch
Buy Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello
Listen to the Inside Psycho podcast
Listen to John Schnall’s Midnight Matinee: Psycho
Listen to our Homicidal episode
Read Marion, Venus, and Susanna in the Mirror: The Paintings in the Parlor of The Bates Motel by Katrina Powers
Read about Psycho II's unexpected success
Read about the German version of Psycho
Watch Steven Soderbergh's comparison of the Hitchcock and Van Sant Psychos

Music:
"Herrmann: Psycho (A Narrative For Orchestra)" - London Philharmonic Orchestra & Bernard Herrmann
"Norman" - Sue Thompson
"Psycho" - Eddie Noack

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Episode 393: Roommates (1981)

Special Guests: Jane Hamilton, Larry Revene, Rick Marx
Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Ashley West

Directed by Chuck Vincent and written by Rick Marx, Roommates (1981) tells the tale of a trio of women trying to make their way in New York City. The film stars Samantha Fox as Billie, a former prostitute trying to make it in the straight world, Kelly Nichols as Sherry, a model from California with a drug problem, and Veronika Hart (AKA Jane Hamilton), as Joan, an aspiring actress from the Midwest.

Heather Drain and Ashley West join Mike to discuss this harrowing adult film, the film that inspired it and the lesser film that Roommates inspired.

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Links:
Read about Ghosts of Chuck Vincent’s Film Studio
Visit the Distribpix website
Buy Larry Revene's books
Buy Raw Talent by Jerry Butler
Listen to our episode on Chuck Vincent's Cleo/Leo
Read our interview with Rick Marx

Music:
"Roommates Only" - Simon Dominic
"Roommates (Remixed)" - Now, Now
"Little Lost Girls" - The Runaways

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Special Report: Hitler's Hollywood (2017)

Special Guests: Rüdiger Suchsland

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with director Rüdiger Suchsland about his two documentaries: From Caligari to Hitler (2014) and Hitler's Hollywood (2017). The films trace the decline of Weimar cinema and the rise of propaganda as the national cinema of Germany during WWII.

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Links:
Buy From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer
Buy Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty

Music:
"I am Caligary" - Processory
"The Curse of Dr. Caligari" - Enine
"Dr. Caligari" - Bill Nelson
"Das Cabinet" - In the Nursery

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Episode 392: The Long Goodbye (1973)

Special Guest: Elliott Gould
Guest Co-Hosts: Terry Frost, Eric Cohen

We wrap up #Noirvember and our Philip Marlowe journey for the year with Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). Adapted by Leigh Brackett, one of the two main writers from Howard Hawks’s The Big Sleep, the film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe, a man now out of time with the world.

Eric Cohen and Terry Frost join Mike to discuss Philip Marlowe's place in the now and the Japanese mini-series of The Long Goodbye.

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Links:
Buy The Long Goodbye on Blu-Ray
Buy The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Hear more about Jim Bouton's Ball Four
Read ‘The Long Goodbye’: Robert Altman and Leigh Brackett’s Unique and Fascinating Take on Chandler and Film Noir

Music:
"The Long Goodbye" - Poisonville
"The Long Goodbye" - Jack Sheldon

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Episode 391: The Big Sleep (1946)

Special Guest: Dahlia Schweitzer
Guest Co-Hosts: Terry Frost, Eric Cohen

We continue our #Noirvember coverage with a discussion of The Big Sleep (1946). The first proper Philip Marlowe book by Raymond Chandler, it was the second appearance of Marlowe on screen, this time portrayed by Humphrey Bogart.

Eric Cohen and Terry Frost join Mike to discuss the pre-release version of Howard Hawks's film, how Bogart portrayed Marlowe, and the 1978 re-interpretation of the source material by Michael Winner.

Dahlia Schweitzer returns to The Projection Booth to discuss her upcoming book, L.A. Private Eyes.

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Links:
Buy The Big Sleep (1945/1946) on DVD
Buy The Big Sleep (Annotated Version) by Raymond Chandler
Buy The Big Sleep (1978) on Blu-Ray
Read more about Bogart and Hawks

Music:
"Du plomb dans la cervelle" - Max Steiner
"And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" - Anita O'Day

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Episode 390: Murder My Sweet (1944)

Special Guest: Tom Williams
Guest Co-Hosts: Terry Frost, Eric Cohen

We continue our #Noirvember2018 coverage with the first in a trio of Raymond Chandler adaptations -- Edward Dymytrk’s Murder My Sweet (1944). Based on the second of Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels, Farewell My Lovely, the film stars Dick Powell "as you've never seen him before."

Terry Frost and Eric Cohen join Mike to discuss the 1944 film and the 1976 adaptation. Tom Williams, the author of A Mysterious Something in the Light; the Life of Raymond Chandler, provides insight on Chandler's career in and out of Hollywood.

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Links:
Buy Murder My Sweet on Blu-Ray
Buy Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Buy Farewell My Lovely on DVD
Read about Only To Sleep by Lawrence Osborne

Music:
"Farewell My Lovely" - Yeong-Wook Jo

Links:
Buy Raymond Chandler and Film by William Luhr

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