Episode 659: Conscience (1968)

Special Guest: Sam Goff
Guest Co-Hosts: Chris Stachiw, Ryan Luis Rodriguez

Ryan Luis Rodriguez and Chris Stachiw join Mike to look at the Conscience (or Sovist) from 1968. Directed by Vladimir Denisenko, the film is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the German officers is slain, his fellow soldiers demand that the partisan responsible be turned over, lest the entire village be wiped off the earth. The film was banned and didn't see the light of day until the post-Perestroika thaw.

Sam Goff of Klassiki discusses Ukranian and Soviet cinema of the time.

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Music:
"Fluorescences For Orchestra" - Krzysztof Penderecki
"Sym. No. 3 - Passacaglia - Allegro Moderato" - Krzysztof Penderecki

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Episode 648: How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)

Guest Co-Hosts: Rahne Alexander, Spenser Parsons

Spencer Parsons and Rahne Alexander join Mike to discuss Václav Vorlícek's How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975). Co-written by Projection Booth favorite Milos Macourek, the film stars Jaromír Hanzlík as the titular Dr. Mracek, a lawyer who is unwittingly trying to displace a group of water sprites from their homes.

Music:
"Znala panna pána" - Helena Vondráèková

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Episode 658: The Fifth Seal (1976)

Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Spencer Parsons

Samm Deighan and Spencer Parsons join Mike to look at the 1976 Hungarian film from Zoltán Fábri, The Fifth Seal / Az ötödik pecsét (1976). Based on the novel by Ferenc Sánta, the film is a deceptively simple story of five men who meet and drink in an urban watering hole in World War II. One of them proposes a bit of a thought experiment which colors the world of his companions and eventually manifests in real life thanks to the fascists, the Arrow Cross Party, running the place.

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Music:
Opening Theme - George Vukan

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Episode 657: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

Special Guest: Dianne Steinberg
Guest Co-Hosts: Agatha Luz, Andrew Nette

Agatha Luz and Andrew Nette join Mike on a special episode to discuss Michael Schultz's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), a story of the dangers of fame set to the music of the music of The Beatles. The film stars the Brothers Gibb and Peter Frampton as innocents from Heartland, USA who get wooed by record producer B.D. (Donald Pleasence) and set against villains Mean Mr. Mustard and the FVB (Future Villain Band).

Singer Diane Steinberg who played femme fatale Lucy (of the Sky with Diamonds) discusses the making of the film and her illustrious career.

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Listen to the Palette Swap Ninja's Pricess Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans
Buy Golden Throats 4: Celebrities Butcher the Beatles

Music:
Selections from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtrack
"10 Got To Get You Into My Life" - Little Joe (Pesci)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - William Shatner

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Episode 652: A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)

Guest Co-Hosts: Jessica Shires, Heather Drain

Jessica Shires joins Mike White and Heather Drain to discuss her Patreon request: Jesús Franco's 1973 film A Virgin Among the Living Dead. It’s the story of Christina ("Christina von Blanc"), a young woman who is summoned to her family’s mansion after the suicide of her father. There we meet her odd family. The film plays out somewhere between a dream and a nightmare following its own pace and logic.

We discuss the film's strange pedigree (and the directorial additions by Pierre Quérut and Jean Rollin), how difficult it was tracking down genre films in the Video Search of Miami days, and the seductive power of Carmen Yazalde.

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Music:
"Confessions Of A Knife (Theme Part 1)" - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

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Episode 656: The Big Fix (1978)

Special Guests: Jeremy Kagan, Roger L. Simon
Guest Co-Hosts: Jedidiah Ayres, Andrew Nette

Jedidiah Ayres and Andrew Nette join Mike to look at Jeremy Kagan's The Big Fix. Released in 1978, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Moses Wine, a radical in the '60s who’s now a down-on-his-luck detective who gets put on a case that takes him back to his old stomping grounds.

Author of the Moses Wine books (and so much more), Roger L. Simon joins us to discuss writing the film while Kagan talks about his career.

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Learn about Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

Music:
Original Soundtrack - Bill Conti

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CONSPIRACY The Trial of the Chicago 8 from Jeremy Kagan on Vimeo.

2023 Holiday Gift Guide!

The Holiday season can be challenging to find the perfect gift for the movie-lover in your life. The Projection Booth is here to help with a gift guide that supports some of the folks that have been on the show.

Movies

• Arnold (1973)
• Benny's Bathtub
• Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B
• Cinematic Journeys: Two Films by Juleen Compton
• RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
• We Kill For Love
• The Cassandra Cat
• All My Good Countrymen
• Larks on a String
• The Party and the Guests
• Coach to Vienna
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Fifth Horseman is Fear
• Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
• Distant Journey
• After Hours
• Rules of the Game

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Books: Fiction

• California Bear by Duane Swierczynski
• Orphan Road: A Chance Novel by Andrew Nette
• Tech by Vincenzo Natali

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Books: Nonfiction

• Return of the Jedi Unauthorized Timeline 1976-2023 by Justin Berger & Jamie Benning
• Conan the Barbarian: The Official Story of the Film by John Walsh
• I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School by Stephen Armstrong
• Melvin Van Peebles's Watermelon Man by Andrew Rausch
• Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams
  
  Listen to "Episode 605: Eyes Wide Shut Redux" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter by Katharine Coldiron
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Junk Film - Why Bad Movies Matter" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men: A Memoir by Paul W. Williams
  
  Listen to "Episode 634: November Men (1993)" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time by Dwayne Epstein
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Dwayne Epstein on "Killin' Generals"" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Sheldon Lettich: From Vietnam to Van Damme by Corey Danna
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Interview with Sheldon Lettich, Brian Thompson, & Corey Danna" on Spreaker.
  
  
• The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear by Nat Segaloff
  Listen to "Special Report: Nat Segaloff on The Exorcist Legacy" on Spreaker.
  
  
• The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family from Music City, USA - The Ormonds by Jimmy McDonough
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Jimmy McDonough on The Exotic Ones" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Act Naturally: The Beatles On Film by Steve Matteo
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Act Naturally: The Beatles On Film" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Lost Federations: The Unofficial Unmade History of Star Trek by AJ Black
  
  Listen to "Special Report: AJ Black on Lost Federations" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Matt Singer on Opposable Thumbs" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession by Lawrence Leamer
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Hitchcock's Blondes" on Spreaker.
  
  
• Cinema Ann Arbor: How Campus Rebels Forged a Singular Film Culture by Frank Uhle
  
  Listen to "Special Report: Frank Uhle on Cinema Ann Arbor" on Spreaker.

Episode 651: The Keep (1983)

Special Guests: Hawk Koch, F. Paul Wilson, Ivo Ritzer
Guest Co-Hosts: John Walker, Jedidiah Ayres

Jedidiah Ayres and John Walker join Mike to look at Michael Mann's moody supernatural film The Keep. Released in 1983, the film is a real who’s who of actors including Jürgen Prochnow as a German captain, Gabriel Byrne as a Nazi SS Major, Ian McKellan as a disabled scholar, and Scott Glenn as an ancient being on the side of light. All of them eventually make their way to the titular Keep deep in the Romanian Carpathians.

Also joining us are Professor Ivo Ritzer who discusses his essay about The Keep and Manhunter in The Philosophy of Michael Mann, producer Hawk Koch, and the author of The Keep, F. Paul Wilson.

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Music:
Original Soundtrack - Tangerine Dream

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