Episode 430: The Fall (2008)

Special Guest: Ged Clarke
Guest Co-Hosts: Maurice Bursztynski, Brian Hoyle

Released in 2008, Tarsem Singh's The Fall is a very loose remake of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho. The film stars Lee Pace as Roy, a stunt man who’s had an accident that has left him paralyzed from the waist down. While at the hospital he befriends a little girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru). The film goes between the two of them at the hospital and a wild world of imagination crafted by the pair as a way to keep their minds off their boredom and pain.

Brian Hoyle (The Cinema of John Boorman) and Maurice Bursztynski join Mike to discuss the film. Production designer Ged Clarke talks about the long journey of The Fall's creation.

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Links:
Buy The Fall on Blu-Ray

Music:
"The Attack" - Krishna Levy
"The Princess" - Krishna Levy

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Special Report: Exorcist II - The Heretic (1977)

Special Guests: Brian Hoyle, Paul Talbot
Guest Co-Hosts: David Kittredge, Samm Deighan

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we fly upon the wings of a demon as we discuss John Boorman's 1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic.

It’s been a few years since we’ve seen Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair), the little girl who, on the cusp of womanhood, was possessed by a demon in William Friedkin’s 1973 film. She’s back... And so’s the demon, Pazuzu…This time the titular exorcist is Father Philip Lamont (Richard Burton) who is investigating what happened to the ill-fated Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow) with the help of Dr. Gene Tuskin (Louise Fletcher) and her hypnosis machine.

Heretical super-fans Samm Deighan (Diabolique Magazine) and David Kittredge (who's directing a documentary about Exorcist II) join Mike (who did a commentary track on the new Scream Factory blu-ray release) to look at the film, how it came to be, and its fate after release. Professor Brian Hoyle (The Cinema of John Boorman) and writer Paul Talbot (The Unmaking of Exorcist II) join the fray to try and explain this cinematic oddity.

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David discusss Boorman and the Devil (2025):

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Links:
Buy The Making of Exorcist II by Barbara Pallenberg
Read American Cinematorgapher August 1977 – The Photography of EXORCIST II THE HERETIC
Buy The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film Paperback edited by Danel Olson
Read about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Read The Voice from Below by Mike White
Listen to our Alien 3 episode
Listen to our Ninth Configuration episode
Listen to our Sorcerer episode

Music:
"Magic and Ecstasy" - Mocket
"Magic and Ecstasy" - Ugly Papas
"Regan's Theme  (From “Exorcist II The Heretic”)" - The City of Prague Philharmonic
"Magic and Ecstacy" - Snakefinger
"Pazuzu" - Ennio Morricone
"Exorcist II" - Yasuto Tanaka

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Episode 148: Zardoz (1974)

Special Guest: Brian Hoyle
Guest Co-Hosts: Josh Johnson

Ever want to see Sean Connery wearing a red diaper? Then look no further than John Boorman's Zardoz (1974), a political allegory with nods to The Wizard of Oz.

We're joined by our old friend, Josh Johnson, director of Rewind This.

Links:
Buy Rewind This! on DVD... and VHS!
Buy Brian Hoyle's The Cinema of John Boorman
Buy Zardoz on DVD
Buy Zardoz on (Region 2) Blu-Ray
Buy John Boorman's Adventures of a Suburban Boy
Buy the Zardoz novelization
Hear Josh on the VHS Extravaganza
Listen to the How Did This Get Made? on Zardoz
Check out the Rick & Morty homage to Zardoz

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Music
"Zardoz" - Kosma
"Running From Zardoz" - Tzu
"Decline and Fall" - Flesh for Lulu

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