Episode 486: Birds, Orphans, and Fools (1969)

Guest Co-Hosts: Kat Ellinger, Jonathan Owen

We continue #Czechtember 2020 with the 1969 Slovakian film Birds, Orphans, and Fools by Juraj Jakubisko. It’s a story of three young people in the turbulent year and place of 1968 Slovakia. There are birds, the characters are orphans, and they often play the fool as we experience a slice of their lives.

Kat Ellinger and Jonathan Owen join Mike to discuss the film, Jakubisco's other work, and his fellow Slovakian filmmakers.

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Links:
Buy Birds, Orphans, and Fools on DVD
Read Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969): the Rule of Three in Juraj Jakubisko’s Exemplary Gallows Bacchanalia by Cerise Howard
Visit the official Juraj Jakubisko website

Music:
"My Orphanage" - Rasputina

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Special Report: Forman Vs. Forman (2019)

Special Guests: Helena Trestíková, Daniel Vadocký

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to Helena Trestíková (aided by the film's rep, Daniel Vadocký) -- half of the directing team behind the 2019 documentary Forman Vs. Forman -- about her life in occupied Czechoslovakia, her 45 year career as a documentary filmmaker, and the importance of Milos Forman.

Links:
Like Forman Vs. Forman on Facebook

Music:
"Milos Forman" - Tigres Leones

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Episode 485: Morgiana (1972)

Guest Co-Hosts: Kat Ellinger, Ben Buckingham

#Czechember2020 continues with a look at Juraj Herz's Morgiana. Released in 1972 the film stars Iva Janzurova as both Victoria and Clara Tragen, two sisters who are driven apart by their father’s will and the jealousy of Clara by Victoria.

We’ve talked about Herz in the past including his incredible film The Cremator. And, for as subversive as that film was, it was Morgiana that got him into more trouble.

Bill Buckingham and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss this wonderfully Gothic horror film.

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Links:
Buy Morgiana on DVD
Donate to Kat Ellinger's Confessions of a Cineslut
Hear more of Ben Buckingham on the Video Vortex podcast

Music:
"Morgiana (Opening Titles)" - Luboš Fišer

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Special Report: Oldboy (2003)

Guest Co-Hosts: Bill Ackerman, John Atom

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we're looking at Park Chan-wook's Oldboy (2003). Based loosely on the manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, the film tells the tale of Oh-Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik), a salaryman who gets abducted and held in a cell for 15 years. Just as he's abducted without explanation he's freed just the same. From there the film becomes a mystery where Oh-Dae-Su tries to find not just who abducted him but why.

John Atom and Bill Ackerman join Mike to discuss the original manga, the 2006 Indian remake Zinda, the 2013 Spike Lee version, and the Brian DePalma film Obsession (1976).

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Links:
Buy the Oldboy manga
Buy Park Chan-Wook's Oldboy
Buy Spike Lee's Oldboy
Buy Zinda on DVD
Watch Zinda on Amazon Prime
Buy Obsession
Read about the controversy over the Oldboy remake poster
Read 13 Movies that Deserve a Director's Cut on Blu-ray by Mike McGranaghan

Music:
"Bring My Love" - Starsailor
"If I Had a Hammer" - Peter, Paul & Mary

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Episode 484: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

Special Guest: Jonathan Owen
Guest Co-Hosts: Noel Thingvall, Jim Donahue

We continue Czechtember 2020 with a look at Jindrich Polak's Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977). Based on a story from Josef Nesvadba and co-written by Milos Macourek, the film stars Petr Kostka as both Jan and Karel Bures, twin brothers, one of who has helped invent a rocket that allows people to travel through time.

A group plans to rent out a rocket just for them and, rather than going back to do a little sport hunting in the time of the dinosaurs like Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder, they want to go back to 1944 and speak to one Adolf Hitler...

Jim Donahue and Noel Thingvall join Mike to discuss the film while Jonathan Owen speaks about the strange history of the film's screening on the BBC.

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Links:
Buy Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea on DVD
Buy In The Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman : Stories of Science and Fantasy by Josef Nesvadba

Music:
"Titulková melodie (Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem)" - Filmový Symfonický Orchestr
"Zitra rano vstanu a oparim se cajem" - Kohout plasi smrt

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Episode 483: All My Good Countrymen (1969)

Guest Co-Hosts: Spencer Parsons, Chris Stachiw

We're doing something a little different for Czechtember 2020 with two commentary track episodes. First up, a discussion of Vojtech Jasný's All My Good Countrymen (1969), a tragic tale of a group of friends in post-WWII Czechoslovakia.

Spencer Parsons and Chris Stachiw join Mike to discuss Jasny's lyrical film which was banned by Czech authorities. We also talk about the unofficial "remake", The Moravian Land (1978) and the sequel, Return to Paradise Lost (1999).

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Links:
Buy the (Region 2) DVD
Watch Life & Film, The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

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Special Report: Fantasia 2020

Special Guest: Ivo van Aarte

On this special episode of The Projection Booth Mike gives a few capsule reviews of titles playing at this year's Fantasia film festival:

• Class Action Park
• Feels Good Man
• Tiny Tim - King for a Day
• Clapboard Jungle
• Hail to the Deadites
• Monster Seafood Wars
• Traveling Cat Chronicles
• Survival Skills
• Patrick
• The Columnist

This episode also features an interview with the director of The Columnist, Ivo Van Aarte.

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Music:
"Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight" - Tiny Tim

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Special Report: Jaws (1975)

Special Guests: Carl Gottlieb, John LeMay
Guest Co-Hosts: Jamie Benning, Chris Sasser

Just when you thought it was safe to download a podcast...

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we are looking at Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975). Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws is the story of Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) -- a former New York City cop who’s moved to the idyllic island community of Amity. All is going well in his white picket world until a Great White Shark picks the waters around Amity as a feeding ground.

Jamie Benning (Filmumentaries) and Chris Sasser (Shark City) join Mike to discuss the film that defined what a "blockbuster summer hit" was. Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (The Jaws Log) and John LeMay (Jaws Unmade) discuss the making of Jaws as well as the many sequels, rip-offs, and inspired films in Jaws's wake.

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Links:
Buy Jaw on Blu-Ray
Buy Joe Alves: Designing Jaws by Dennis Prince
Buy Jaws: Memories from Martha's Vineyard: A Definitive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Greatest Suspense Thriller of All Time by Matt Taylor
Visit The Daily Jaws

Music:
Original Soundtrack - John Williams
"Mr. Jaws" - Dickie Goodman

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Inside Jaws, A Filmumentary by @jamieswb (2013) from Filmumentaries - Jamie Benning on Vimeo.