Episode 313: Making Mr. Right (1987)

Special Guests: Susan Seidelman, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly, Laurie Frank, Floyd Byars
Guest Co-Hosts: Beth Accomando, Miguel Rodriguez

In Susan Seidelman's Making Mr. Right (1987), Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) is an ad executive whose new client, ChemTec, needs a major PR campaign in order to make the Ulysses robot (John Malkovich) palatable to the American public.

Laurie Frank and Floyd Byars penned this sci-fi romantic comedy.

The episode features the second of the three-part interview with actress Glenne Headly. Hear the first part on the Dick Tracy episode.

Beth Accomando and Miguel Rodridguez join Mike to discuss this delightfully quirky film.

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Links:
Buy Making Mr. Right on DVD
Visit the official Ann Magnuson website
Visit the Frank Picture Gallery
Read Beth Accomando's film reviews
Visit the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival website

Music:
"Another World" - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
"Blank Generation" - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
"I Met An Astronaut" - Ann Magnuson
"Too Many Fish in the Sea" - The Marvelettes
"Happy Together" - The Turtles

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Episode 304: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Special Guests: Dean Defino, Jimmy McDonough
Guest Co-Hosts: Beth Accomando, Miguel Rodriguez

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence, the word and the act.

A trio of busty go-go dancers (Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams) kill a man in the desert and kidnap his girlfriend before attempting to rob a lascivious old man and his two sons in the heated melodrama Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) from auteur Russ Meyer.

Beth Accomando and Miguel Rodriguez of the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival join Mike to discuss this paean to female power and fast cars. Guest Dean Defino is the author of the Cultography on Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, while Jimmy McDonough penned Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film.

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Links:
Buy Faster Pussycat Kill Kill on Blu-Ray
Buy Faster Pussycat Kill Kill on DVD
Buy Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film by Jimmy McDonough
Buy Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Cultographies) by Dean Defino
Learn more about the Cultography series
Visit the official Russ Meyer website
Listen to the Cinema Junkies podcast
Be sure to LIKE The Film Geeks on Facebook

Music:
"Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" - The Neptunas
"Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" - The X-Ray Harpoons
"Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie
"Faster Pussycat" - The Cramps

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Episode 279: House

Guest Co-Hosts: Rob St. Mary, Miguel Rodriguez

Nobuhiko Obayashi's House (1977) is a surrealistic ghost tale from Japan that explores the dangers of domesticity and loss.

Rob St. Mary and Miguel Rodriguez join Mike in discussing the film and its resurgence in recent years.

Links:
Buy House on Blu-Ray
Learn more about Art Theatre Guild
Learn more about Axe Cop
Visit the official Horrible Imaginings festival website
Visit the official Rob St. Mary website

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Music:
"Eat Eat Eat" - Asei Kobayashi / Micky Yoshino / Godiego
"Main Theme" - Asei Kobayashi / Micky Yoshino / Godiego

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Episode 238: Ten Canoes (2006)

Special Guests: Rolf de Heer, Ian Jones
Guest Co-Host: Miguel Rodriguez

Ten Canoes is a story about stories. It tells the multi-layered tale of brothers in an Australian aboriginal tribe. It's brought to us by director Rolf de Heer and cinematographer Ian Jones, one of several of their collaborations along with actor David Gulpilil.

We're joined again by Horrible Imaginings festival director Miguel Rodriguez.

Links:
Buy Ten Canoes on Blu-Ray
Watch Charley's Country on Amazon Prime
Visit the Twelve Canoes website
Visit the Ten Canoes website
Visit Rolf de Heer's official website
Be sure to check out the Cinema Junkies podcast
Visit the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival

Music:
"Ten Canoes" - Ion Ludwig
"Didgeridoo" - Aphex Twin

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Episode 221: Cruel Story of Youth (1960)

Special Guests: David Desser & Linda Hoaglund
Guest Co-Host: Miguel Rodriguez

Cruel Story of Youth (AKA Naked Youth, Seishun Zankoku Monogatari, and 青春残酷物語) is a 1960 film from Nagisa Oshima at the forefront of the Japanese New Wave cinema movement. The film tells the tale of two youths who fall in love -- or lust, at least -- against the backdrop of the ANPO protests.

We're joined by Miguel Rodriguez of the Horrible Imaginings film festival to discuss this groundbreaking film.

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Links:
Buy Cruel Story of Youth on (All-Region Taiwan) DVD
Buy Cruel Story of Youth on VHS
Buy the Eclipse Oshima's Outlaw Sixties box set
Buy Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema by David Desser
Read more about the film at Senses of Cinema
Read A Samurai Among Farmers by Tony Rayns
Read more about ANPO X Art by Linda Hoaglund
Visit the official Linda Hoaglund website
Visit the The Wound and the Gift website
Read the story about Sugawara Bunta & Hayao Miyazaki joining in against bases
Hear Linda on our Battle Royale and Battles Without Honor and Humanity episodes
Be sure to check out Midnight Eye for more Asian film reviews
Check out the The Horrible Imaginings film festival

Music:
"Flaming Youth (Demo Version)" - KISS

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