Mike was a guest on a few other podcasts recently where he discussed A Matter of Life & Death on The Kulturecast, Opening Night on Dark Habits, and Flesh on Robert Bellissimo at the Movies.
Ian Cooper and Rebecca McCallum join Mike to discuss one of Alfred Hitchcock’s later works and his final British film, (Frenzy1972). Loosely based on Arthur La Bern's Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, the film stars Jon Finch as Richard Blaney and Barry Foster as Robert Rusk. They’re a couple of blokes in a Swinging London that is plagued by a murderer of women, the Necktie Murderer.
Mike talks with Edo Choi (Associate Curator of Film & First Look Senior Programmer) and Sonia Shechet Epstein (Curator of Science and Technology & First Look Exhibitions and Film Programmer) of the Museum of the Moving Image about the 2024 First Look film festival.
Special Guest: Alan Light Guest Co-Hosts: Bill Ackerman, Samm Deighan
Samm Deighan and Bill Ackerman join Mike to discuss 1984's box office smash Purple Rain which launched Prince's movie career and made him a household name. The film stars Prince as "The Kid", a musician from Minneapolis who struggles to find his place in the music scene while battling personal demons.
Special Guest: Glenn Frankel Guest Co-Hosts: Jon Towlson, Chris Stachiw
On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re looking at John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969). It’s the story of Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a hick from Texas who goes to the big city to become a hustler. Instead, he’s hustled by everyone he meets including "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman ). The two form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive in New York.
On this special episode, Mike talks with Mark Mori (Bettie Page Reveals All) about his latest project, The Baristas Vs. The Billionaire, which tells the story of the unionization of Starbucks. They also discuss Mark's first feature documentary, Building Bombs (1989), and his upcoming The Lost Print.
Special Guest: Carl Rollyson Guest Co-Hosts: Angela Mac, Ian Brownell
We’re wrapping up Western Month with a look at William A. Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident. Released in 1943 the film is based on the 1940 novel from Walter Van Tilburg Clark and stars Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan as Gil and Art, two cowboys who ride into the town of Bridger’s Wells where a messenger brings news of the senseless murder of a local rancher Larry Kincaid and the rustling of his cattle.
Angela Mac and Ian Brownell join Mike to discuss this harrowing tale of vigilante justice while author Carl Rollyson discusses his book Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews.