Episode 336: THX-1138 (1971)

Special Guests: Brian Jay Jones, Matthew Robbins, Maggie McOmie, Bruce Chesse, Sid Haig
Guest Co-Hosts: Jay Bauman, Chris Bricklemyer

The first feature film from director George Lucas, THX-1138 (1971) features a world in which love is outlawed and mind-altering drugs are mandatory. The film stars Robert Duvall as the titular THX-1138 and Maggie McOmie as LUH-3417 as roommates who eventually develop into something much more despite the totalitarian regime in which they live.

Co-written by Walter Murch, the film ponders materialism, religion, and love.

Chris Bricklemyer (Outside the Cinema, Are You Serious?) and Jay Bauman (Red Letter Media) join Mike to discuss Lucas's freshman film, how its themes would echo in his other work, and how he revised it in the 2004 "director's cut."

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Promos:
The Kolchak Tapes
Popcorn Poops
After Movie Diner
Proudly Resents

Interviews:
Brian Jay Jones, author of George Lucas: A Life: 1:00:00
Music: "GVDT" - Front 242

Matthew Robbins, co-writer of Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB: 1:53:00
Music: "First Escape" - Lalo Schifrin

Maggie McOmie, actress (LUH-3417): 2:19:00
Music: "I Need Something Stronger" - Unkle

Bruce Chesse, actor (Trial Pontifex): 2:33:00
Music: "Mr. Self-Destruct" - Nine Inch Nails

Sid Haig, actor (NCH): 2:46:00
Music: "Be Happy Again (Jingle Of The Future)" - Lalo Schifrin

Discussion 2: 3:16:00
Trailer: Intacto: 3:43:00

Outro Music:
"Crucify Me" - Moev
"Police State" - T-Power

Links:
Download the original version of THX-1138
Buy THX-1138 (Director's Cut) on Blu-Ray
Watch Electonic Labrynth: THX 1138 4EB
Read about the differences between the original and director's cut of THX-1138
Read You Have Nothing to Fear: Sound Montage and Alienation in THX-1138 from Gibson Notes
Read the THX-1138 script
Read The Talented Mr. Murch by Paula Parisi
Read On THX-1138 and George Lucas's Obsession with Erasing His Past by Supreme Being
Read John Kenneth Muir's review of THX-1138
Buy The Original Movie Game - Blockbuster Edition
Listen to the Sugar Hill episode
Listen to the Logan's Run episode
Listen to the Apocalypse Now episode
Listen to the Star Wars episode

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Episode 280: Sugar Hill (1974)

Special Guest: Paul Maslansky, Don Pedro Colley, Joy Bostic
Guest Co-Host: Heather Drain, Chris Stachiw

In Paul Maslansky's Sugar Hill, Diana "Sugar" Hill (Marki Bey) summons Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley), a voudou spirit, and his army of zombies to exact revenge on Morgan (Robert Quarry) and his racist thugs.

Interviews include director Maslansky, star Colley, and vodun/voudou scholar Joy Bostic.

Heather Drain and Chris Stachiw join Mike to discuss this horror/blaxploitation film.

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Bonus: More with Paul Maslansky

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Links:
Buy Sugar Hill on Blu-Ray
Buy African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism by Joy Bostic
Visit the official Don Pedro Colley website
Listen to the Badassess, Boobs & Bodycounts episode on Abby
Visit the Kulture Shocked website
Visit the Mondo Heather website

Music:
"Voodoo Woman Blues" - Jay McShann & His Sextette with Jimmy Witherspoon
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - Jimi Hendrix
"Supernatural Voodoo Woman (Pt.1)" - The Originals
"Supernatural Voodoo Woman (Pt.2)" - The Originals
"Devil Woman" - Cliff Richard

Episode 166: Boss Nigger (1974)

Special Guest: Fred "The Hammer" Williamson

Boss Nigger is one of the American Westerns that used the feel of the Euro-westerns that came to the fore in the mid-1960s, but with an African-American twist. The film stars Fred "The Hammer" Williamson as "Boss" and D'Urville Martin as "Amos" – two bounty hunters who become sheriff and deputy of a small western town. The twosome battles bad guys, civic corruption and racism with words and guns.

Our special guest co-host this week is David Walker of Badazz Mofo.

WARNING: You will hear the word in the title a bit. But, if you are offended by ANY USE of that word, skip this episode. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Music:
“Straight up Nigga” – Ice-T
“I Don’t Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga” – Public Enemy

Links:
Buy "Boss" on DVD
Listen to the first part of our interview with The Hammer
Check out David Walker's BadAzz MoFo
Read David Walker's Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak

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