2019 Year End Wrap-Up

It's time for our annual wrap-up of the year. The highlights, lowlight and a music mix to hopefully help you spend your time if you happen to be dashing to Grandmother's house through the ice and snow.

Most Downloaded Episodes:

1. Episode 415: The Mad Max Series
2. Episode 397: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
3. Episode 418: Total Recall (1990)
4. Special Report: The Fly (1986)
5. Episode 394: Psycho (1960)*
6. Episode 406: Body Double (1984)
7. Episode 410: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
8. Episode 423: Annihilation (2018)
9. Episode 419: Minority Report (2002)
10. Episode 393: Roommates (1981)*

*Released in 2018 but too close to the end of the year for proper ranking.

Least Downloaded Episodes:

1. Episode 441: The Reckless Moment (1949)
2. Episode 434: Shop on Main Street (1965)
3. Special Report: Another State of Mind (1984)
4. Episode 444: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
5. Special Report: Die Laughing (1980)
6. Episode 439: Dead Heat (1988)
7. Episode 440: The Big Combo (1955)
8. Special Report: Messiah of Evil (1973)
9. Episode 443: Double Indemnity (1944)
10. Episode 436: Fade to Black (1980)
11. Episode 437: Wolfen (1981)

Bonus Interviews 2019:

• Stewart Buck on Uncovering Wolfen
• Overwhelm the Sky
• Candice
• D. Harlan Wilson on J.G. Ballard
• Jeffrey Combs on Nevermore
• The Power of Grayskull
• McBeardo's Teen Movie Hell
• Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Age of Disenchantments
• A Woman's Work - The NFL's Cheerleader Problem (2019)
• Always in Season (2019)
• Producer James D. Stern
• Moseby Confidential
• Three Days with Dad (2019)
• Yannick Bisson on Hellmington

Special Reports 2019:

• Another State of Mind (1984)
• Die Laughing (1980)
• Messiah of Evil (1973)
• The Fly (1986)
• A Blonde in Love (1966)
• Taking Tiger Mountain Revistied
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• More American Graffiti
• Other Side of the Wind Redux

Music Mix:

Collecting some songs that were used in episodes or inspired by the movies being discussed, enjoy this eclectic mix of music.

Listen to "2019 Year End Music Mix" on Spreaker.

2019 Music Mix Track Listing

Title	Artist	Episode
Big Trouble in Little China	The Coupe de Villes	Big Trouble in Little China
Trouble In Paradise	The Crests	Trouble in Paradise
To Be Or Not To Be (The Hitler Rap)	Mel Brooks	To Be or Not To Be
Bring Me Edelweiss	Edelweiss	It Happened Here
Hava Nagila	Dick Dale & His Del-Tones	Plump Fiction
Cheese And Onions	The Rutles	The Rutles: All You Need is Cash
Just An Illusion	Imagination	F/X
Rollin' With Kid 'N Play	Kid 'n Play	House Party
Ain't My Type Of Hype	Full Force	House Party
Skate Dancer	Vinzerelli	Get Rollin'
Trouble Man	Marvin Gaye	Trouble Man
Superfly	Curtis Mayfield	SuperFly
Relax	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	Body Double
Human Fly	The Cramps	The Fly
Genius From The Waist Down	The Lovemasters	Me & Him
Scentless Apprentice	Nirvana	Perfume: The Story of a Murder
Hey Man Nice Shot	Filter	Heaven
Power House	Spike Jones	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
B Gas Rickshaw	Jan & Dean	American Tiger
High Moon	Star One	Outland
Sky High	Jigsaw	Kulturecast Ozploitation Month
A Man and A Train	Marty Robbins	Emperor of the North Pole
Minority Report	Los Straitjackets	Minority Report
Chick Habit	April March	But I'm a Cheerleader
Helplessly Hoping	Crosby Stills & Nash	Annihilation
I Am Legend	White Zombie	The Omega Man
Han Solo	MC Chris	Solo: A Star Wars Story
See You In September	The Tempos	The End of August at the Ozone Hotel
96 Tears	? and the Mysterians	More American Graffiti
Laugh, Laugh	Beau Brummels	The Joke
The Dead Don't Die	Sturgill Simpson	World War Z
The Killing Moon	Echo & The Bunnymen	Wolfen
Flying Dreams	Jerry Goldsmith & Paul Williams	The Secret of NIMH
All I Want Is Love	Robbie Benson	Die Laughing
Tryin' To Kill A Saturday Night	Keane	McBeardo's Teenage Movie Hell
You're So Strange	The Zippers	Fade to Black
No One Lives Forever	Oingo Boingo	Dead Heat
Another State of Mind	Green Day	Another State of Mind
The Robots	Kraftwerk	Creation of the Humanoids
Blue Bayou	Roy Orbison	The Man Who Fell to Earth
Total Recall End Theme	Basil Poledouris	Total Recall
Belladonna	Masahiko Satoh	Belladonna of Sadness
Daughters Of Darkness Opening	François de Roubaix	Daughters of Darkness
Jesus Christ Superstar	Terry Wallace	The Passover Plot
In The Hall Of The Mountain King	Electric Light Orchestra	M
Main Title and Colwyn's Arrival	James Horner	Krull
Road Warrior End Title	Brian May	The Mad Max Series
Solaris	Photek	Solaris
The Shop on Main Street	Prague Symphony Orchestra, Libor Pešek	The Shop of Main Street
Prelude (film version)/First Scene	Miklos Rozsa	Double Indemnity
Theme From The Conversation	David Shire	The Conversation
Main Theme From Kin-Dza-Dza	Andrei Pushkarev	Kin Dza-Dza
Rosemary's Baby Vs Drunken Butterfly	Gamma Ray	Rosemary's Baby

Episode 446: Millennium (1989)

Guest Co-Hosts: Chris Bricklemyer, Jedidiah Ayres

Sci-Fi December rolls along with a look at 1989’s Millennium. Directed by Michael Anderson and written by John Varley, the film stars Kris Kristofferson as an airline disaster investigator who stumbles onto something unexpected at the site of a mid-air collision. It will lead him into a tangled web of time-traveling shenanigans and a relationship with Louise Baltimore (Cheryl Ladd).

Chris Bricklemyer and Jedidiah Ayres join Mike to discuss the film, time travel, and creepy robots.

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Links:
Buy Millennium on Blu-Ray
Buy Millennium by John Varley

Music:
"Traveler in Time" - Uriah Heep

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Episode 445: The Creation of the Humanoids (1960)

Guest Co-Hosts: Jennifer Handorf, Dan Martin

Sci-Fi December continues with a look at The Creation of the Humanoids. Copyrighted 1960, the film was directed by Wesley Barry and written by Jay Simms. It plays like a stage play about a post-Apocalyptic world in which androids are a large part of society and human beings fear being replaced by them.

Jennifer Handorf and Dan Martin join Mike to discuss the film, science fiction as allegory, and intentional versus accidental genius.

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Links:
Buy The Creation of the Humanoids on DVD
Read Intonation, Please: The Creation of the Humanoids by Chris Fujiwara (PDF)

Music:
"Robots" - Flight of the Conchords

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Episode 444: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Special Guests: Candy Clark, Samuel J. Umland, Susan Compo
Guest Co-Hosts: Skizz Cyzyk, Samm Deighan

We kick off Sci-Fi December with a look at Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). Based on the book by Walter Tevis, the film stars David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, a strange man who appears in the office of a patent attorney (Buck Henry) with some big ideas that help him start on the road to untold wealth. Along the way he meets colorful characters such as hotel worker Mary Lou (Candy Clark) and lascivious college professor Bryce (Rip Torn).

Samm Deighan and Skizz Cyzyk join Mike to discuss the film and its made-for-TV remake. The episode includes interviews with authors Sam Umland (The Man Who Fell to Earth) and Susan Compo (Earthbound: David Bowie and the Man Who Fell to Earth). This episode also includes the conclusion of our interview with actress Candy Clark.

Listen/Download Now:

Listen to "Episode 444: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)" on Spreaker.

Links:
Buy The Man Who Fell to Earth on Blu-Ray
Buy The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Buy The Man Who Fell to Earth soundtrack

Music:
"Space Capsule" - John Phillips
"Subterraneans" - David Bowie
"Warszawa" - David Bowie
"Lazarus" - David Bowie
"Rocket Man" - William Shatner
"Bowie" - Flight of the Conchords

Watch:

David Bowie is The Man Who Fell to Earth • Documentary 2017 from Nacho's Productions on Vimeo.

Special Report: Stewart Buck on Uncovering Wolfen

Special Guest: Stew Buck

On this special episode Mike talks to Stew Buck, the writer/director/producer of a pair of upcoming documentaries -- A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's "The Keep" and Uncovering Wolfen.

View the teaser video for Uncovering Wolfen.

Listen to our Wolfen episode.

Music:
"The Hungry Wolf" - X

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Episode 443: Double Indemnity (1944)

Guest Co-Hosts: Kat Ellinger, Keith Gordon

Noirvember 2019 wraps up with Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944). With a screenplay co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler and based on a story by James M. Cain, the film is one of the seminal works of film noir. It stars Fred MacMurray as fast-talking Walter Neff, an insurance agent who gets played for a dope by a dame. The dame in question, Phyllis Dietrichson, is played by the one and only Barbara Stanwyck. The two cook up an insurance scam to pay off big after they bump off her husband.

Keith Gordon and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss Double Indemnity, its 1973 TV remake, the adult adaptation Eruption (1977), Body Heat (1981), and the Body Heat/Double Indemnity mash-up, Jism (2003).

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Links:
Buy Double Indemnity on Blu-Ray
Buy Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
Buy Body Heat on Blu-Ray
Buy Jism on DVD
Read more about Dispatches from Elsewhere

Music:
Soundtrack by Miklos Rosza

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Episode 442: The Conversation (1974)

Guest Co-Hosts: Vincenzo Natali, Jamey Duvall

Noirvember 2019 continues with a look at The Conversation (1974). Sandwiched between the first two Godfather films, The Conversation is writer/director Francis Ford Coppola’s paean to European art films of the 1960s, most notably Antonioni’s Blow-Up.

Instead of swinging London, however, The Conversation is set in San Francisco and stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a schlubby nudnik whose life revolves around audio surveillance, his own privacy, and violating the privacy of others.

Vincenzo Natali (In the Tall Grass) and Jamey Duvall (Movie Geeks United) join Mike to discuss the film and its spiritual sequel Enemy of the State (1998).

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Links:
Buy The Conversation on Blu-Ray
Buy The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
Buy In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch

Music:
"The Conversation" - Twilight Singers

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Special Report: Overwhelm the Sky (2019)

Special Guests: Daniel Kremer, Alexander Hero

Daniel Kremer returns to the Projection Booth as a director rather than a co-host with a discussion of his film Overwhelm the Sky (2019) along with the film's lead actor, Alexander Hero.

Links:
Be sure to LIKE Overwhelm the Sky on Facebook
Visit the Bricolage Films website

Music:
"Sleepwalker" - The Kinks

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Watch:

Official Trailer: Overwhelm the Sky (2019) from Daniel Kremer on Vimeo.