Episode 222: Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979)

Special Guests: Allan Arkush, Dean Cundey, Russ Dvonch, Clint Howard, Joseph McBride, PJ Soles, Richard Whitley, Mary Woronov, Dey Young
Guest Co-Host: Adam Schartoff

School's out for summer and we're talking Rock 'N' Roll High School, the 1979 film starring The Ramones. Riff Randell (PJ Soles), a rock & roll fan, wants to get her song to The Ramones. Meanwhile, her friend Kate Rambeau (Dey Young) searches for her first love. It's a tale of loud music, exploding mice, pizza and wheat germ.

We're joined by a host of Rock 'N' Roll High School alumni from director Allan Arkush to cinematographer Dean Cundey to writers Russ Dvonch, Richard Whitley, and Joseph McBride to stars PJ Soles, Dey Young, Clint Howard and Mary Woronov.

Also part of the discussion this week is Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio.

We also talk about some of the subsequent Rock 'N' Roll films: Rock & Roll Hotel, Rock 'N' Roll High School Forever and Shake, Rattle and Rock.

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Links:
Buy Rock N Roll High School on Blu-Ray
Buy I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School by Stephen B. Armstrong
Buy End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones on DVD
Buy Ramones Mania on CD
Buy Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone
Buy Swimming Underground: My time at Andy Warhol's Factory by Mary Woronov
Buy Soggy Bottom, USA on DVD
Visit the official Dey Young website
Visit the official Joseph McBride website
Visit the official Ramones website
Follow P.J. Soles on Twitter
Follow Clint Howard on Twitter
Read about Rock & Roll Hotel by Dale Brumfield
Read all about the Rock & Roll High School soundtrack and video releases
Read Allan Arkush's Criterion Top Ten
Watch the whole Siskel & Ebert Cult Film episode
Listen to a Ramones Concert from Ann Arbor, 1981
Listen to the We Hate Movies episode on Rock & Roll High School Forever
Listen to our episode on That Guy: Dick Miller
Hear more Joseph McBride on The Projection Booth
Hear more Clint Howard on The Projection Booth
Hear more Dean Cundey on The Projection Booth
Be sure to check out Filmwax Radio

Music:
"Rock & Roll High School" - P.J. Soles
"Rock & Roll High School" - The Ramones

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Episode 142: Eating Raoul (1982)

Special Guests: Mary Woronov, Dick Blackburn, Susan Saiger, Jed Feuer

Just in time for Thanksgiving, it's a story of Reagan-era morality and economics gone wild, Eating Raoul (1982) put "cult filmmaker" Paul Bartel on the map with a surprise mainstream hit about Paul and Mary Bland, two Puritanical folks who kill swingers for cash to fulfill their "American Dream."

We speak to screenwriter Richard Blackburn, actresses Mary Woronov and Susan Saiger as well as the musician behind the Eating Raoul musical, Jed Feuer.

Get ready to dig in as guest co-host: Adam Spiegelman of the Proudly Resents podcast joins us once again to dig into this "Bland Enchilada" paired with Château Lafite Rothschild.

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Links:
Visit the official Proudly Resents website
Buy Eating Raoul on DVD
Visit the Criterion Collection page for Eating Raoul
Buy the Eating Raoul soundtrack on vinyl
Buy the musical Eating Raoul soundtrack
Learn more about Eating Raoul - The Musical
Buy Eating Raoul - The Comic Book
Visit the official Mary Woronov website
Buy Mary Woronov's "Swimming Underground: My time at Andy Warhol's Factory"
Learn more about Confessions of a Cult Queen the Mary Woronov documentary
Contribute to the making of Confessions of a Cult Queen
Visit the official Susan Saiger website
Visit the official Jed Feuer website
Contribute to the Humane Society
Listen to our episode on "Death Race 2000"

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Episode 127: Gremlins (1984)

Special Guest: Joe Dante
Guest Co-Host: Chris Cummins

We continue our interview with Joe Dante this week as we talk about Gremlins, one of a pair of Steven Spielberg-related films that brought about the PG-13 rating in 1984. We also discuss Gremlins 2: The New Batch, one of the most subversive sequels ever made.

We're joined again this week by Chris Cummins of Topless Robot and Geekadelphia.

Don't listen to this podcast after midnight.

Links:
Check out Joe Dante's Trailers from Hell
Back Joe Dante's latest project, DARK on Kickstarter
Read Chris Cummins's article about the original Gremlins in Impossibly Funky
Buy Gremlins on DVD
Buy Gremlins 2: The New Batch on DVD
Read the full list of The 50 Most Racist Movies
Listen to the first part of our interview with Joe Dante on our episode about The Howling

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Bonus:
Here's the second part of "Gizmo & the Gremlins" in its entirety.


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Episode 121: Death Race 2000 (1975)

Celebrate your independence with this most American of our national sports, the Death Race!

We're joined this week by Adam Spiegelman of the Proudly Resents and Dream Tweet podcasts to talk about this 1975 Paul Bartel film about a murderous cross-continental road race.

Links:
Buy Death Race 2000 on DVD
Watch Death Race 2000 on Netflix
Read Ib Melchior's The Racer
Buy The Driver's Guide to Hitting Pedestrians by Andersen Prunty

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Music:
"Ecoute Cette Priere" - La Muerte
"Death Race 2000" - The Glendas

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Episode 100: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)

Special Guests: Terry Morse Jr., Ron Albanese
Guest Co-Host: John Stockwell

You wanted the best, you've got the best! We're looking at this made-for-TV movie KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, a oft-maligned sci-fi fantasy where KISS got superpowers and had a Scooby-Doo-type adventure.

We're joined by KISS superfan (and Paul Stanley tribute artist), John Stockwell.

This podcast is going to put us on the map once and for all, Snede.

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Links:
Buy Conversations with Phantoms: Exclusive Interviews About the 1978 TV Movie, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park by Ron Albanese
Visit Ron Albanese's official web site
Visit the Detroit Rock City website!
Listen to the full Fresh Air interview
Read more about Kiss Meets the Phantom at Made For TV Mayhem
The official KISS website
Buy the Kissology Volume II (features Kiss in Attack of the Phantoms
Download People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest (the best of Paul Stanley's banter).

Music:
"Love Theme from Kiss" by Kiss
"Almost Human" by Kiss
"Detroit Rock City" (Reggae Version) by Andy Rehfeldt
"Mr. Speed" by Shirk Smile

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