Special Report: The Frontier (2015)

Special Guests: Oren Shai, Webb Wilcoxen
Guest Co-Host: Jared Case

The Frontier (2015) is a retro neo-noir in which Laine (Jocelin Donahue), a woman on the run, finds her way to a diner/hotel where the owner, Luanne (Kelly Lynch) hosts an amalgam of shady characters.

Film archivist Jared Case joins Mike to speak to director Oren Shai and co-writer Webb Wilcoxen about this new film.

Links:
Buy The Frontier on Blu-Ray
Visit the official The Frontier website
Visit The Frontier on Kino Lorber
Be sure to LIKE The Frontier on Facebook

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Music:
"House Of Pies" - Friends Of Dean Martinez

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Episode 282: Dick Tracy (1990)

Special Guests: Glenne Headly, Garyn G. Roberts, Dan Kampling
Guest Co-Hosts: Jared Case, Frank Santopadre

Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy is a beautiful recreation of the four-color world of Chester Gould's square-jawed detective. It's also something of an uneasy marriage of Stephen Sondheim songs, Madonna, and a cavalcade of character actors as Gould's "Rogues Gallery."

Interviews feature Glenne Headly who plays Tracy's love interest, Tess Trueheart, as well as author Garyn G. Roberts, and Dick Tracy afficianado Dan Kampling. We also hear just a bit of executive producer Floyd Mutrux from a previous interview.

Jared Case and Frank Santopadre join Mike to debate if the film ultimately works.

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Links:
Buy Dick Tracy on Blu-Ray
Buy Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and Context by Garyn G Roberts
Buy Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell
Buy Dick Tracy The Official Biography by Jay Maeder
Read Dick Tracy: A (Re)appreciation by Jared Case
Read Looking Back at Dick Tracy by Becky Lea
Read Remember Dick Tracy? by Keith Phipps
Learn more about the Cash & Epps collection at MSU
Visit the official Stephen Sondheim website
Visit the official Frank Santopadre website
Hear more of Frank Santopadre on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
Learn more about the Nitrate Picture Show
Hear more from Floyd Mutrux

Music:
"Bat/Tracy?" - Danny Elfman
"Dick Tracy" - The Ventures
"Tess's Theme" - Danny Elfman
"The Powerful Fully-Transistorized Dick Tracy Two-Way Wrist Radio" - Man or Astro-man?
"Dick Tracy" - Ice-T

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Special Report: Nitrate Picture Show

Special Guest: Jared Case

On a special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Jared Case, one of the head honchos of the Nitrate Picture Show festival at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. The festival spotlights the wonders of film, particularly explosive nitrate stock. Hear why the Nitrate Picture Show is the world's most dangerous film festival.

Links:
Visit the official Nitrate Picture Show website

Music:
"Reel Ten" - The Plugz
"Silver Nitrate" - Pram

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Episode 193: In a Lonely Place

Special Guests: Patrick McGilligan, Steven Rybin, Will Scheibel, & Steve Anderson
Guest Co-Host: Jared Case

Noir November continues with Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place. Based loosely on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as a screenwriter on the edge of madness and Gloria Grahame as the woman who tries to love him.

We're joined by Jared Case, Head of Motion Picture Collection Information and Access at the George Eastman House.

We conclude our interview with Patrick McGilligan as we discuss his book Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director.

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Links:
Buy In a Lonely Place on DVD
Buy In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes
Buy Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director by Patrick McGilligan
Buy Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema Edited by Steven Rybin and Will Scheibel
Visit the This Last Lonely Place website
Learn more about The George Eastman House
Support the Nicholas Ray Foundation
Visit the official Humphrey Bogart website
Listen to the Out of the Past podcast about In a Lonely Place

Music:
"In a Lonely Place" - New Order
"In a Lonely Place" - The Smithereens
"The Beast in Me" - Johnny Cash

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