We’re wrapping up Czechtember 2021 with a look at Jiri Menzel’s Capricious Summer. Released in 1968, it’s based on a book by Vladislav Vancura and tells the story of three men on holiday who spend most of their time philosophizing and avoiding one woman while trying to woo another and getting nowhere.
Kat Ellinger and Jonathan Owen join Mike to discuss the film.
Spaghetti Western month continues with a look at Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence (1968) which stars Jean-Louis Trintingant as the titular Silence, a mute gunfighter who shoots the thumbs off his enemies. He's pitted against the appropriately named Loco (Klaus Kinski) in a snow-bound Utah town in one of the most nihilistic films you may enjoy.
Maitland McDonagh and Professor Ivo Ritzer join Mike to discuss the film and, unfortunately, discuss how it still has such a powerful resonance even today.
Guest Co-Hosts: Suzen Tekla Kruglnska, Kat Ellinger
#Shocktober2019 continues with a look at Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968). Based very faithfully on the book by Ira Levin, the film stars Mia Farrow as the titular Rosemary who, with her husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move to a new apartment in New York where some strange things play out.
Suzen Tekla Kruglnska and Kat Ellinger join Mike to talk about this seminal film as well as its made-for-TV sequel movie, unrelated sequel book, and TV remake.
Can you dig it? It's The Monkees's 1968 movie that confounded critics and perplexed audiences, Bob Rafelson's Head. Mike and Mondo Justin talk about the history of Head and discuss its inception and perception.
We're joined one of the editors of Head, Monte Hellman, and the author of Monkee Business, Eric Lefcowitz.
Errata: Charles Manson never tried out for The Monkees
Guest Co-Hosts: Jonathan Owen, Kat Ellinger
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Special Guests: Eric Lefcowitz & Monte Hellman