Episode 412: The Passover Plot (1976)

Guest Co-Hosts: Spencer Parsons, Chris Bricklemyer

Just in time for Easter, we get passionate about a film with a very inflammatory title, The Passover Plot (1976). Directed by Michael Campus (The Mack, Z.P.G.), the film is loosely based upon the controversial book by Hugh J. Schonfield. It stars Zalman King as Jesus, Scott Wilson as Judas, and Donald Pleasence as Pontius Pilate, and co-produced by Menahem Golan.

Spencer Parsons and Chris Bricklemyer join Mike to discuss various passion plays, Jens Jørgen Thorsen's The Return (AKA Jesus vender tilbage), and more.

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Links:
Download The Passover Plot
Buy The Passover Plot on DVDr
Buy The Passover Plot by Hugh J. Schonfield
Visit the official Bart D. Ehrman website
Buy Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film by Peter Malone

Music:
"Heaven On Your Minds" - Terry Wallace And His Interstellar Moog Sounds
"King Herod's Song" - Christo Graham
"Superstar" - Minoru Terada

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Episode 411: American Tiger (1989)

Guest Co-Hosts: Kat Ellinger, Cullen Gallagher

Miami just got a lot hotter...

Also called American risciò or American Rickshaw Sergio Martino’s American Tiger (1989 ) is the story of Scott Edwards (Olympic champion Mitch Gaylord) a rickshaw driver in Miami, Florida who becomes embroiled in a supernatural mystery involving VHS tapes, Asian mysticism, Jonestown, and the dark lord Satan himself.

Cullen Gallagher and Kat Ellinger (All the Colours of Sergio Martino) join Mike to try and unravel this delightfully bizarre film.

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Links:
Buy American Tiger on DVD
Buy American Tiger on Blu-Ray*
*According to a listener, this version does include an English-language audio track!
Download American Tiger

Music:
"Little Rickshaw Boy" - Upper Crust
"'B' Gas Rickshaw" - The Raybeats

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Episode 336: THX-1138 (1971)

Special Guests: Brian Jay Jones, Matthew Robbins, Maggie McOmie, Bruce Chesse, Sid Haig
Guest Co-Hosts: Jay Bauman, Chris Bricklemyer

The first feature film from director George Lucas, THX-1138 (1971) features a world in which love is outlawed and mind-altering drugs are mandatory. The film stars Robert Duvall as the titular THX-1138 and Maggie McOmie as LUH-3417 as roommates who eventually develop into something much more despite the totalitarian regime in which they live.

Co-written by Walter Murch, the film ponders materialism, religion, and love.

Chris Bricklemyer (Outside the Cinema, Are You Serious?) and Jay Bauman (Red Letter Media) join Mike to discuss Lucas's freshman film, how its themes would echo in his other work, and how he revised it in the 2004 "director's cut."

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Promos:
The Kolchak Tapes
Popcorn Poops
After Movie Diner
Proudly Resents

Interviews:
Brian Jay Jones, author of George Lucas: A Life: 1:00:00
Music: "GVDT" - Front 242

Matthew Robbins, co-writer of Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB: 1:53:00
Music: "First Escape" - Lalo Schifrin

Maggie McOmie, actress (LUH-3417): 2:19:00
Music: "I Need Something Stronger" - Unkle

Bruce Chesse, actor (Trial Pontifex): 2:33:00
Music: "Mr. Self-Destruct" - Nine Inch Nails

Sid Haig, actor (NCH): 2:46:00
Music: "Be Happy Again (Jingle Of The Future)" - Lalo Schifrin

Discussion 2: 3:16:00
Trailer: Intacto: 3:43:00

Outro Music:
"Crucify Me" - Moev
"Police State" - T-Power

Links:
Download the original version of THX-1138
Buy THX-1138 (Director's Cut) on Blu-Ray
Watch Electonic Labrynth: THX 1138 4EB
Read about the differences between the original and director's cut of THX-1138
Read You Have Nothing to Fear: Sound Montage and Alienation in THX-1138 from Gibson Notes
Read the THX-1138 script
Read The Talented Mr. Murch by Paula Parisi
Read On THX-1138 and George Lucas's Obsession with Erasing His Past by Supreme Being
Read John Kenneth Muir's review of THX-1138
Buy The Original Movie Game - Blockbuster Edition
Listen to the Sugar Hill episode
Listen to the Logan's Run episode
Listen to the Apocalypse Now episode
Listen to the Star Wars episode

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Special Report: Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)

Special Guest: Michael Radford
Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Emily Intravia

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we discuss Michael Radford's 1984 version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt as Winston Smith, Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, and Richard Burton as O'Brien.

Emily Intravia of the Feminine Critique podcast and Samm Deighan of the Daughters of Darkness podcast join Mike to discuss Radford's 1984 as well as several other TV and film adaptations from the 1950s.

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Links:
Buy Michael Radford's 1984 on DVD
Read 1984 by George Orwell
Buy Michael Anderson's 1984 on DVD
Buy V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Listen to the Daughters of Darkness podcast
Listen to the Feminine Critique podcast

Music:
"Oceania, 'Tis For Thee" - Dominic Muldowney
"Anthem 1984" - Anthony Phillips
"1984" - David Bowie
"1984" - Rick Wakeman
"Standards" - The Jam

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Episode 271: Wake in Fright

Special Guests: Ted Kotcheff, Anthony Buckley, Jack Thompson
Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Maurice Bursztynski

Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright stars Gary Bond as a teacher in the Outback who loses all his money and goes on a wild, bloody holiday.

Maurice Bursztynski of the See/Hear and Love That Album podcast and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss the film. The episode also features interviews with director Ted Kotcheff, editor Anthony Buckley, and actor Jack Thompson.

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Links:
Buy Wake in Fright on DVD
Buy Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
Buy Wake in Fright by Tina Kaufman
Buy Not Quite Hollywood on DVD
Visit the official Anthony Buckley website
Read HOME TRUTHS: Revisiting 'Wake in Fright' by Kate Jennings
Visit the Drafthouse Films website for more information
Visit the See Hear podcast website
Visit the Love That Album podcast website
Visit the Ice Haloes website
Buy Maitland McDonagh's books on Amazon
Listen to our previous interview with Ted Kotcheff

Music:
"Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" - Eric Jupp
"Outback" (Suite) - John Scott
"Wake in Fright" theme - John Scott

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