Episode 150: Cruising

Special Guests: Don Scardino, Randy Jurgensen, Travis Mathews

A highly controversial film, William Friedkin's Cruising was as confusing as it was confused. It's a slasher film, of sorts, set in the leather bar scene of the late '70s.

We're joined by Jeffrey Schwarz of I Am Divine, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, Vito! and more.

Links:
Buy Cruising on DVD
Buy Gerald Walker's Cruising
Buy Randy Jurgensen's Circle of Six
Buy William Friedkin's The Friedkin Connection
Buy the Celluloid Closet movie
Buy the Celluloid Closet book
Buy Vito! on DVD
Visit the official Jeffrey Schwarz website
Visit the official Randy Jurgensen website
Visit the official Travis Mathews website
Follow Don Scardino on Twitter
Visit the official Interior. Leather Bar. website
Wear the right hanky for the right occasion
Visit Discreet Charms and Obscure Objects to see a poster gallery
Listen to our episode about I Am Divine
Listen to our episode about Sorcerer

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Bonus Interview with Mike Starr:

Music:
"Cruising" - Airspace
"Walk the Night" - Skatt Brothers "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" - Sylvester
"Gay Bar" - Electric Six
"Hell Bent for Leather" - Judas Priest
"When I Close My Eyes I See Blood" - Madelynn Von Ritz

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INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. trailer from Travis Mathews on Vimeo.

Episode 143: The Magnificent Ambersons

Special Guests: William Friedkin, Joseph McBride, Christopher Welles Feder, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum

An episode two years in the making...

Orson Welles's follow-up to Citizen Kane adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about industrial progress and the loss of innocence set against a tumultuous family, the Ambersons.

Welles infamously lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons before its final release. We'll examine its production, its destruction, and attempts to restore what many consider Welles's forgotten masterpiece.

We're joined by guest co-host Roger L. Ryan.

And...there's a special appearance by Mondo Justin!

Links:
Buy The Magnificent Ambersons on Blu-Ray
Visit a comprehensive Magnificent Ambersons website
Read Mike Thomas's The Decline & Fall of The Magnificent Ambersons
Read David Kamp's Magnificent Obsession
Buy Jonathan Rosenbaum's Discovering Orson Welles
Visit the Jonathan Rosenbaum website
Buy Joseph McBride's Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?
Buy Joseph McBride's Orson Welles
Visit the Joseph McBride website
Buy Peter Bogdanovich's This is Orson Welles
Buy Robert L. Carringer's The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction
Buy Chris Welles Feder's In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles
Read ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’: The Fascinating Story of Orson Welles’ Studio-Tainted Masterpiece at Cinephilia and Beyond
Download The Magnificent Ambersons audio book
Learn more about the fan edit Orson Welles & I
Visit the WelleNet website
Visit Mondo Justin's Mondo Film Podcast
Special thanks to Peggy Daub of the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan

Music:
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - Charles Coburn
The Union Forever - The White Stripes (Redd Blood Cells mix)

Sources:
Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
BBC Four - Arena, The Orson Welles Story
This is Orson Welles

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Episode 129: Sorcerer

Special Guest: William Friedkin

Four men ride along dangerous mountain roads carrying nitro glycerin to put out an oil fire. That's the gist of William Friedkin's Sorcerer -- an adaptation of Georges Arnaud's Wages of Fear -- the movie that pushed the director to the brink.

We're joined by Eric Cohen of The Cinefiles.

Links:
Visit the Sorcerer blog
Buy Sorcerer on Blu-Ray
Buy The Friedkin Connection
Buy The Wages of Fear on DVD
Buy Violent Road on DVD
Buy Wages of Fear by George Arnaud
Follow William Friedkin on Twitter
Read an interview with William Friedkin from Vanity Fair
Listen to our Cruising episode

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