Showing posts with label Paul Bartel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Bartel. Show all posts

October 16, 2016

Special Report: Killer Party (1986)

Special Guest: Barney Cohen
Guest Co-Hosts: Jim Laczkowski, Kat Ellinger

On this Shocktober special, Kat Ellinger of the Daughters of Darkness podcast and Jim Laczkowski of the Directors Club podcast (among others) join Mike to discuss the 1986 horror comedy from director William Fruet, Killer Party in which a trio of young women (Elaine Wilkes, Joanna Johnson, Alicia Fleer) rush a sorority with horrific results including hazing, murder, and demonic possession.

Writer talks about Killer Party, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and the unmade Spiderman film.

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Links:
Buy Killer Party on DVD
Hear more of Jim Laczkowski on the Pop Culture Club and the Now Playing Network

Music:
"April" - White Sister
"Give It Up" - KC & The Sunshine Band
"Best Times" - Alan Brackett and Scott Shelly

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June 9, 2015

Episode 222: Rock 'N' Roll High School

Special Guests: Allan Arkush, Dean Cundey, Russ Dvonch, Clint Howard, Joseph McBride, PJ Soles, Richard Whitley, Mary Woronov, Dey Young
Guest Co-Host: Adam Schartoff

School's out for summer and we're talking Rock 'N' Roll High School, the 1979 film starring The Ramones. Riff Randell (PJ Soles), a rock & roll fan, wants to get her song to The Ramones. Meanwhile, her friend Kate Rambeau (Dey Young) searches for her first love. It's a tale of loud music, exploding mice, pizza and wheat germ.

We're joined by a host of Rock 'N' Roll High School alumni from director Allan Arkush to cinematographer Dean Cundey to writers Russ Dvonch, Richard Whitley, and Joseph McBride to stars PJ Soles, Dey Young, Clint Howard and Mary Woronov.

Also part of the discussion this week is Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio.

We also talk about some of the subsequent Rock 'N' Roll films: Rock & Roll Hotel, Rock 'N' Roll High School Forever and Shake, Rattle and Rock.

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Links:
Buy Rock N Roll High School on Blu-Ray
Buy End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones on DVD
Buy Ramones Mania on CD
Buy Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone
Buy Swimming Underground: My time at Andy Warhol's Factory by Mary Woronov
Buy Soggy Bottom, USA on DVD
Visit the official Dey Young website
Visit the official Joseph McBride website
Visit the official Ramones website
Follow P.J. Soles on Twitter
Follow Clint Howard on Twitter
Read about Rock & Roll Hotel by Dale Brumfield
Read all about the Rock & Roll High School soundtrack and video releases
Read Allan Arkush's Criterion Top Ten
Watch the whole Siskel & Ebert Cult Film episode
Listen to a Ramones Concert from Ann Arbor, 1981
Listen to the We Hate Movies episode on Rock & Roll High School Forever
Listen to our episode on That Guy: Dick Miller
Hear more Joseph McBride on The Projection Booth
Hear more Clint Howard on The Projection Booth
Hear more Dean Cundey on The Projection Booth
Be sure to check out Filmwax Radio

Music:
"Rock & Roll High School" - P.J. Soles
"Rock & Roll High School" - The Ramones

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November 26, 2013

Episode 142: Eating Raoul (1982)

Special Guests: Mary Woronov, Dick Blackburn, Susan Saiger, Jed Feuer

Just in time for Thanksgiving, it's a story of Reagan-era morality and economics gone wild, Eating Raoul (1982) put "cult filmmaker" Paul Bartel on the map with a surprise mainstream hit about Paul and Mary Bland, two Puritanical folks who kill swingers for cash to fulfill their "American Dream."

We speak to screenwriter , actresses Mary Woronov and Susan Saiger as well as the musician behind the Eating Raoul musical, Jed Feuer.

Get ready to dig in as guest co-host: Adam Spiegelman of the Proudly Resents podcast joins us once again to dig into this "Bland Enchilada" paired with Château Lafite Rothschild.

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Links:
Visit the official Proudly Resents website
Buy Eating Raoul on DVD
Visit the Criterion Collection page for Eating Raoul
Buy the Eating Raoul soundtrack on vinyl
Buy the musical Eating Raoul soundtrack
Learn more about Eating Raoul - The Musical
Buy Eating Raoul - The Comic Book
Visit the official Mary Woronov website
Buy Mary Woronov's "Swimming Underground: My time at Andy Warhol's Factory"
Learn more about Confessions of a Cult Queen the Mary Woronov documentary
Contribute to the making of Confessions of a Cult Queen
Visit the official Susan Saiger website
Visit the official Jed Feuer website
Contribute to the Humane Society
Listen to our episode on "Death Race 2000"

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July 2, 2013

Episode 121: Death Race 2000

Celebrate your independence with this most American of our national sports, the Death Race!

We're joined this week by Adam Spiegelman of the Proudly Resents and Dream Tweet podcasts to talk about this 1975 Paul Bartel film about a murderous cross-continental road race.

Links:
Buy Death Race 2000 on DVD
Watch Death Race 2000 on Netflix
Read Ib Melchior's The Racer
Buy The Driver's Guide to Hitting Pedestrians by Andersen Prunty

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Music:
"Ecoute Cette Priere" - La Muerte
"Death Race 2000" - The Glendas

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