Episode 371: Scarecrow (1973)

Special Guests: Jerry Schatzberg, Garry Michael White
Guest Co-Hosts: Bill Ackerman, Jamey Duvall

The crows are laughing at our episode about 1973's Scarecrow. The film stars Al Pacino and Gene Hackman as two drifters who join forces to head to Pittsburgh by way of Detroit to start a car wash.

Jamey Duvall (Movie Geeks United) and Bill Ackerman (Supporting Characters, From the Neighborhood) join Mike to discuss the film. Special guests include director Jerry Schatzberg and writer Garry Michael White (no relation).

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Links:
Buy Scarecrow on Blu-Ray
Visit the official Jerry Schatzberg website Visit the official Garry Michael White website
Read The Queer Subtext of New Hollywood Era Buddy Movies by Caroline Madden
Listen to Movie Geeks United
Listen to Supporting Characters
Listen to From the Neighborhood
Listen to our Puzzle of a Downfall Child episode

Music:
"Scarecrow" - Fred Myrow

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Episode 344: The Tenant (1976)

Guest Co-Hosts: Alex Winter, Jamey Duvall

#Shocktober2017 continues with a the 1976 film from Roman Polanski, The Tenant . Adapted from a book by Roland Topor (Fantastic Planet), the film also stars Polanski as Trelkovsky, a man in need of a new apartment. He finds one where the previous occupant has defenestrated herself. After her death, he's able to move in and finds that his neighbors don't like him being noisy... in fact, they don't like him being him at all. Some put this alongside Polanski's Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby as his “apartment trilogy” in which explores the terrors of urban paranoia.

Jamey Duvall of Movie Geeks United! and writer/director/actor Alex Winter join Mike to discuss what many consider to be Polanski's most personal film.

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Links:
Buy The Tenant on DVD
Buy The Tenant by Roland Topor
Buy the soundtrack CD by Phillip Sarde
Learn more about the Fan Preservation of The Tenant
Visit the official Alex Winter website
Check out the Movie Geeks United Kubrick Series
Listen to our Eyes Wide Shut episode

Music:
"The Tenant" - Play Dead
"The Tenant" - Japan

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Episode 325: One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

Special Guest: Toby Roan
Guest Co-Hosts: Paul Zimmerman, Jamey Duvall

Based on Charles Neider's book The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) tells the tale of Rio AKA The Kid, played by Marlon Brando, and Dad Longsworth, played by Karl Malden. The two are outlaws who take very different paths, the Kid being a "noble" criminal while Dad eventually becomes a servant of the law. We watch them spar in the coastal Californian city of Monterrey where the tumultuous water serves as a metaphor for the raging emotions inside each man.

The film was originally supposed to have been a powerhouse production with Sam Peckinpah writing the adaptation, Stanley Kubrick directing, and Brando as the star. But things don't always work out the way they're supposed to. Instead, this became the first and only film that Brando directed.

Jamey Duvall and Paul Zimmerman join Mike to discuss Brando, Westerns, and more. Special guest Toby Roan is the author of A Million Feet Of Film: The Making Of One-Eyed Jacks.

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Links:
Buy One-Eyed Jacks on Blu-Ray
Buy A Million Feet of Film by Tony Roan
Buy the One-Eyed Jack soundtrack by Hugo Friedhofer
Buy Songs my Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando
Buy The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider
Visit 50 Westerns from the '50s
Visit The Timothy Carey Experience
Hear more of Jamie Duvall at Movie Geeks United!
Read My Dinners with Demme by Paul Zimmerman
Learn more about Daglarin Oglu (1965)

Music:
"Escape (Parts 1 & 2)" - Hugo Friedhofer
"Main Theme" - Hugo Friedhofer

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Episode 264: Bad Timing - A Sensual Obsession (1980)

Special Guests: Nicolas Roeg, Yale Udoff, Anthony Lawson
Guest Co-Hosts: Elric Kane, Adam Long

Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing tells the story of two people, Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) and Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell), who get together when maybe they shouldn't have.

Guests include director Nic Roeg, screenwriter Yale Udoff, and editor Tony Lawson.

Elric Kane of Killer POV and Adam Long of Movie Geeks United join Mike to discuss this sensual obsession.

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Links:
Buy Bad Timing on DVD
Buy The World is Ever Changing by Nicolas Roeg
Visit the official Yale Udoff website
Read Nicolas Roeg/Chromatic Cartography by Andrew Mark Patch
Follow Theresa Russell on Twitter
Visit the official Art Garfunkel website
Here more of Elric Kane at Killer POV
Hear more of Adam Long at WGWG
Read more of Adam Long via Focus Newspaper

Music:
"The Koln Concert" - Keith Jarrett
"Invitation to the Blues" - Tom Waits
"No One Else" - Weezer
"Carnival" - Siouxsie & The Banshees
"Piggy in the Mirror" - The Cure
"The Spy" - The Doors

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Episode 255: Hudson Hawk

Special Guest: Daniel Waters
Guest Co-Host: Stephen Scarlata, Jamey Duvall

Catch the Excitement! Catch the Adventure! Catch the Hawk! Hudson Hawk, that is. Directed by Michael Lehmann, the 1991 Bruce Willis vanity project was considered by many at the time to be a disaster. Is that a little harsh? Was the film really a subversive parody of action films?

Stephen Scarlata and Jamey Duvall join Mike this week to examine Hudson Hawk. The episode features an interview with the film's writer, Daniel Waters, who gives us the inside scoop on the making of the film.

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Links:
Buy Hudson Hawk on DVD
Buy Hudson Hawk: The Novelization! by Geoffrey Marsh
Buy With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant by Richard E. Grant
Read the Hudson Hawk Screenplay
Read Bruce Willis defends ‘Hudson Hawk’ for twenty-nine goddamn minutes by Martin Schneider
Read My Year Of Flops Case File #67 Hudson Hawk by Nathan Rabin
Read The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Hudson Hawk by Gabe Delahaye
Read Daniel Waters on Hudson Hawk by Paul Rowlands
Read Looking back at Hudson Hawk by Simon Brew
Hear more of Jamey Duvall at Movie Geeks United
Follow Stephen Scarlata on Twitter

Music:
"Swing on a Star" - Bing Crosby
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" - The Pixies

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Special Report: Ego Fest II

Rob and Mike answer your emails and voice mails on this special episode. Find out how The Projection Booth sausage is made and learn what Rob and Mike are up to outside of TPB like Rob's new book, Re-Entry: The Orbit Magazine Anthology, and Mike's Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection.

Thanks to @peybak for his rendition of Robohost!

Links:
Give to Rob's Re-Entry: The Orbit Magazine Anthology campaign
Listen to Rob on The Weedsmen Potcast
Hear Mike on the latest Movie Geeks United
Check out Noel Mellor's Adventures in VHS book
Buy Mike Malloy's Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the 70s
Buy Skizz Cyzyk & Joe Tropea's Hit & Stay
Find out more about Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection

Music:
"The Most Beautiful Girl" - Lords of Acid
"Hang on to Your Ego" - The Beach Boys
"Hang on to Your Ego" - Frank Black

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"Re-Entry: The Orbit Magazine Anthology" Campaign Video from Rob St. Mary on Vimeo.

Episode 140: Blow Out

Special Guests: Dennis Franz, Nancy Allen,
Fred C. Caruso, & Bill Mesce Jr.

Brian DePalma's Blow Out takes on Antonioni, Coppola and Zapruder. The 1981 film stands as John Travolta's finest performance.

We're joined by Jamey Duvall of Movie Geeks United.

Links:
Buy Blow Out on DVD
Buy The Conversation on DVD
Buy Blow Up on DVD
Listen to The DePalma Thriller series at Movie Geeks United
Listen to our episode on Phantom of the Paradise
Visit the De Palma A La Mod fan site
Learn more about the weSPARK Cancer Support Center
Read Bill Mesce's Sight on Sound column
Buy Bill Mesce's Overkill: The Rise And Fall of Thriller Cinema

Music:
The Blow Out Soundtrack - Pino Donaggio
"A Good Scream" - Joohyun Park, Elizabeth Hedman

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All 15 Split Diopter Shots in BLOW OUT from Vashi Nedomansky on Vimeo.