Episode 426: Solaris (1972)

Guest Co-Hosts: Keith Gordon, Rob St. Mary

Released in 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris is the second of three adaptations of Stanislav Lem's 1961 book of the same name. The film tells the tale of Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) who travels to a station orbiting the planet Solaris, a sentient ocean that seems to be able to read the unconscious thoughts of those on the station and conjure up living embodiments of someone from the astronauts' past, with varying results.

Keith Gordon and Rob St. Mary return to The Projection Booth to discuss the Tarkovsky film, the 1968 TV movie, and the Steven Soderbergh adaptation.

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Links:
Buy Time Within Time by Andrei Tarkovsky
Buy Solaris by Mark Bould

Music:
"Solaris" - Photek
"Solaris" - Juno Reactor

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Episode 418: Total Recall (1990)

Special Guest: Gary L. Goldman
Guest Co-Hosts: Jedidiah Ayres, Rob St. Mary

We’re kicking off back to back discussions of Philip K. Dick adaptations with a look at 1990's Total Recall. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the film spent years in turnaround until Arnold Schwarzenegger was attached and got the thing made. It's the story of a common construction worker who dreams of life on Mars. When he learns of a procedure that can implant memories of being on Mars, things get a little complicated.

Rob St. Mary and Jedidiah Ayres join Mike to discuss the complicated road which Total Recall took to get to the silver screen as well as the wretched Len Wiseman remake and the strange television spin-off. Screenwriter Gary Goldman reveals how he helped shape the film to make it the success it ultimately became.

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Links:
Buy Total Recall on Blu-Ray
Buy We Can Remember It for you Wholesale and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick
Listen to our episode on The Fly
Listen to our episode on Blade Runner
Listen to our episode on Big Trouble in Little China

Music:
Original Score - Jerry Goldsmith
"Total Recall: The Musical (Mountains of Mars" - Jon and Al

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Special Report: Other Side of the Wind Redux

Special Guests: Bob Murawski, Joseph McBride, Josh Karp
Guest Co-Hosts: Ken Stanley, Rob St. Mary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we're looking at Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind (2018) again. Way back in May 2015, four years ago, it was still something of a dream that this film would ever get completed and shown to the world. There were rumors but there had been rumors before.

Rob St. Mary and Ken Stanley join Mike to discuss finally seeing the forty-year-in-the-making film. Josh Karp (author of Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind and Joseph McBride (author of Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?) return to give their thoughts on the film while Michigan's own Bob Murawski discusses the incredible task of completing Welles's fragmented film.

Correction: Per Bob Murawski, the section with the mannequins was not done via CGI!

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Bonus Interview with Bob Murawski:

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Listen to the Previous Other Side of the Wind episode:

Listen to "TPB: The Other Side of the Wind" on Spreaker.

Links:
Watch The Other Side of the Wind on Netflix
Buy Orson Welles's Last Movie by Josh Karp
Buy What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? by Joseph McBride
Buy Making Movies with Orson Welles by Gary Graver (with Andrew Rausch)
Read more about Other Side of the Wind at WellesNet
Buy the Other Side of the Wind script (in English and French)
Read more about Kael Vs. Kane

Music:
"Music to Watch Girls By" - Tony Hatch
"Music to Watch Girls By" - Les McCann
"Music to Watch Girls By" - The Ventures
"Fruit and Icebergs" - Blue Cheer

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Episode 395: The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Rob St. Mary

Based on a novel from the early 19th century book by Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript / Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1965) tells the rather oblique tale of Alphonse Van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski), a Walloon captain of the guard, and his circular adventures in the region of Zaragoza which is in modern day Spain.

Rob St. Mary and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss Wojciech Has and the multilayered nature of The Saragossa Manuscript.

Links:
Read about The Duchess of Avila
Read Martin Schell's Saragossa Manuscript outline

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Music:
Title Theme by Krzysztof Penderecki

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Episode 384: Suspiria (1977)

Special Guests: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Clare Nina Norelli
Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Rob St Mary

We kick off #Shocktober2018 with a discussion of Dario Argento’s 1977 film Suspiria which stars Jessica Harper as Suzy Banyon, a young dancer who travels from New York to Germany to attend a prestigious dance academy to not do lot of dancing but, instead, to become embroiled in a mystery...

Maitland McDonagh (Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento) and Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss this classic, atmospheric horror tale. Authors Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (Suspiria) and Clare Nina Norelli help unravel the mystery of Argento's most note-worthy film.


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Links:
Visit Riverdale Ave Books
Read Alexandra Heller Nicholas's interview with Barbara Magnolfi
Read Alexandra Heller Nicholas's Three Mothers Redux: Kathy Acker, Pina Bausch, Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Read Clare Nina Norelli's Scores on Screen column
Read about Stan Douglas's Suspiria installation

Music:
"Markos" - Goblin
"Suspiriorum" - Stan Douglas
"Suspiria (Celesta and Bells)" - Goblin
"Witch" - Goblin

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Special Report: Mission Caligula (2018)

Special Guests: Kelly Holland, Alexander Tuschinski
Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Rob St. Mary

On this special episode Maitland McDonagh and Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss the latest developments to the continuing story of Tinto Brass & Bob Guccione's Caligula (1979) uncovered in the recent documentary Mission: Caligula (2018).

Director Alexander Tuschinski, working with Penthouse CEO Kelly Holland, have made some startling discoveries about the film that promise to thrill film fans.

Links:
Discover Maitland McDonagh's work at Riverdale Ave. Books
Give to Rob St. Mary's Detroit Punk Archive project

Music:
Score by Bruno Nicolai

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Listen to the Caligula episode:
Listen to "TPB: Caligula" on Spreaker.

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Mission: Caligula from Alexander Tuschinski on Vimeo.

Episode 358: An American Carol (2008)

Special Guests: Myrna Sokoloff
Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Sullivan, Rob St. Mary

We’re looking at the Conservative comedy, An American Carol 2008. The child of Charles Dickens and Bill O'Reilly, the film tells the tale of Michael Malone -- a stand-in for filmmaker Michael Moore (Kevin P. Farley). He's a liberal know-nothing who’s inflamed hate against the Land that We Love and is visited by four ghosts -- well, three ghosts and a contemporary country singer -- to try and convince him to love country music and stop complaining about gun control, global warming, unjust wars, and other bleeding-heart liberal causes.

Directed by David Zucker (Airplane!, Top Secret), the film was co-written by Myrna Sokoloff, as a reaction to Hollywood intolerance.

Rob St. Mary returns to the show along with Mike Sullivan to discuss the film, satire, and falafels. This isn't a podcast, this is The Flintstones.

Note: The Thomas Jefferson joke is from Joe Machi.

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Links:
Buy An American Carol on Blu-Ray
Buy Hand of Fatima by Myrna Sokoloff
Buy Postal on Blu-Ray
Buy The Onion Movie on DVD
Buy Team America: World Police on Blu-Ray

Music:
"American Idiot" - Richard Cheese
"Freedom Isn't Free" - Trey Parker

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Episode 338: The Swimmer (1968)

Special Guests: Justin Bozung, Kate Buford, Preston Neal Jones
Guest Co-Hosts: Rob St. Mary, Elric Kane

The 1968 film by Frank and Eleanor Perry, The Swimmer (based on the John Cheever short story of the same name), stars Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill, a Connecticut executive who decides to head back home by swimming through the pools of his neighbors, a "river" which he names "Lucinda" after his wife. Along the way, Ned is met with drinks, laughs, reminders of his affairs that went sour, and maybe even reminders that what he pretends to be may be no more.

Elric Kane and co-host emeritus Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss the trouble production and ground-breaking ideas of The Swimmer.

Interviews:
Justin Bozung, author of an upcoming book on Frank Perry: 1:41:00
Kate Buford, author of Burt Lancaster: An American Life: 2:33:00
Preston Neal Jones, production assistant on The Swimmer: 03:16:00

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Links:
Buy The Swimmer on Blu-Ray
Read The Swimmer: A prophetic modernist fable set in a fading Eden by Michael Atkinson
Read An Analysis of "The Swimmer" by John Cheever by Rebekah Nydam
Watch Man Fed Up with Commute Swims to Work
Read The Swimmer by John Cheever

Music:
"Like Swimming" - Morphine
"Pool Party" - Two Man Gentleman Band

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Ego Fest 5: Planet Ego

Special Guests: "Mondo" Justin Bozung, Rob St. Mary, Chris Stachiw
Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain

It's been over a year since we've pulled back the curtain and done an "Ego Fest." Rather than discussing a specific film, this episode is all about The Projection Booth itself. It's the real dirt, off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.

Heather Drain joins Mike to answer listener questions, thank Patreon Donors, go off-topic, and kvetch.

Errata: Catherine Martin is a character in Silence of the Lambs, Catherine Tramell is a character in Basic Instinct.

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Links:
Read the interview with Mike White on Outward Film Network
Read Those movie nerds behind the video-store counter are back — and they’re doing podcasts by Stephanie Merry
Listen to Heather on The Pop Culture Club
Listen to Heather on The Cotolo Chronicles
Listen to Mike and Heather on the Supporting Characters podcast
Read about Tim Lucas and Lianne Spiderbaby
Read about the death of Alan J. Pakula
Visit the official Anthony Zerbe website
Learn about the future liberals want
Read Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics? by James Robert Douglas
Listen to the We Hate Movies episode on Hollow Man
Be sure to LIKE Rob St. Mary's The Worst of Film Threat on Facebook
Buy The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film Is Like Death by Justin Bozung
Hear more of Chris Stachiw at Kulture Shocked
Listen to The Kolchak Tapes
Read reviews of The Projection Booth
Donate to The Projection Booth via Patreon
Review The Projection Booth on Google Play
Review The Projection Booth on iTunes

Music:
"Clubbed to Death" - Piano Cover
"Release the Beast" - Breakwater
"Go" - Tones on Tail
"That's Entertainment" - The Jam
"Impeach the President" - The Honeydrippers
"American Society" - L7
"Happy-Go-Lucky Me" - Paul Evans
"White Punks on Dope" - The Tubes
"War Pigs" - Alice Donut

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Episode 317: Kissed (1996)

Special Guests: Barbara Gowdy, Lynne Stopkewich, Molly Parker, Gregory Middleton
Guest Co-Hosts: Rob St. Mary, Axel Kohagen

Based on Barbara Gowdy's short story We So Seldom Look on Love, Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed (1996) is an unusual love story wherein Sandra Larson (Molly Parker) has an attraction to death while Matt (Peter Outerbridge) is attracted to Sandra.

Axel Kohagen and Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss necrophilia, zombies, and more.

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Links:
Buy Kissed on DVD
Buy We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy
Read Fuck Dead by Peter Bowen from Filmmaker Magazine
Read The Films of Lynne Stopkewich by Jason Anderson
Visit the official Barbara Gowdy website
Buy My Friend Dahmer by Derf
Buy Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfrey

Music:
"Brand New Song" by Mystery Machine
"Far Out" by Ginger
"Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" by Sarah McLachlan
"I Love the Dead" by Alice Cooper

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A picture of Greg, Molly, and Lynne, courtesy of Greg Middleton:

Special Report: Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2015)

Special Guests: Marty Langford, Carl Ciarfalio, Chris Gore
Guest Co-Hosts: Rod Lott, Rob St. Mary

Marty Langford's Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2015) examines the making and fate of Oley Sassone's The Fantastic Four (1994).

Mike talks with director Marty Langford, actor Carl Ciarfalio and journalist Chris Gore.

Rod Lott and Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss the film and how it fits into the current "making / unmaking of" documentary trend.

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Bonus Interview with Chris Gore
Chris Gore dishes about the future of Film Threat including a project with former Projection Booth host, Rob St. Mary!

Listen to "Bonus Interview: Chris Gore on the Future of Film Threat" on Spreaker.

Links:
Buy DOOMED! on Blu-Ray
Visit the official Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four website
Like DOOMED on Facebook
Visit the official Carl Ciarfalio website
Buy Stars, Stunts and Stories: A Hollywood Stuntman's Fall to Fame by Carl Ciarfalio
Visit FilmThreat.com
Read the original coverage of The Fantastic Four in Film Threat
Read Rod Lott's review of Doomed!
Read Rod Lott's review of Fantastic Four 2015
Visit FlickAttack.com
Visit Bookgasm.com
Check out Rob St. Mary's Hold Fast Vinyl

Music:
"The Fantastic Four" - Norm MacDonald
"Silver Surfer" - Icarus
"Fantastic Four Theme Song (1967)"
"Fantastic Four Theme Song (1994)"
"Silver Surfer Ghost Rider Go" - Trentemoller
"Fantastic Four" - Icarus

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Episode 290: Duck Soup (1933)

Special Guest: Robert S. Bader, Robert Weide, Joseph Adamson
Guest Co-Host: Rob St. Mary, Jon Cross

Directed by Leo McCarey, Duck Soup (1933) was the last of the four Marx Brothers' run at Paramount. A send-up of politics and warmongering, Duck Soup is an anarchic collection of sight gags, wordplay, and surrealism in which Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly, the man who will save Freedonia from disaster, despite the efforts of Chicolini (Chico Marx) and Pinky (Harpo Marx), two Sylvanian spies.

Guest this week include Robert S. Bader (author of Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage), Robert Weide (producer of Marx Brothers in a Nutshell) and Joseph Adamson (author of Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the World).

Rob St. Mary and Jon Cross join Mike to discuss Duck Soup and the Marx Brothers.

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Links:
Buy The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection on Blu-Ray
Buy Marx Brothers: In A Nutshell on DVD
Buy Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage by Robert S. Bader
Buy Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the World by Joseph Adamson
Visit MarxBrothers.net to learn more about Four of the Three Musketeers
Learn more about Robert Weide on his website
Check out the Marx Brothers information site
Hear more of Jon Cross on After Movie Diner
Listen to Jon Cross on Dr. Action and the Kickass Kid
Keep up with Rob St. Mary on his official site

Music:
"I'm Daffy Over You" - Chico Marx
"I'm Daffy Over You" - Harpo Marx
"These Are the Laws of My Administration" - Music and lyrics by: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
"Freedonia Is Going To War" - Music and lyrics by: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby

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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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