Episode 349: The Lure (2015)

Special Guests: Mermaid Cindy, John Athanason
Guest Co-Hosts: Carol Borden, David Rodgers

Released in the United States as The Lure, Agnieszka Smoczynska's 2015 film Corki Dancingu is the story of two mermaids, Golden (Michalina Olszanska) and Silver (Marta Mazurek), who join the world of humans as singers at a dinner club. To say the least, the have a little trouble fitting in.

Carol Borden (The Cultural Gutter) and David Rodgers (Bingecast) join Mike to discuss this modern take on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Ondine. Guests include John Athanason of Weeki Wachee State Park as well as a real life mermaid!

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Buy The Lure Soundtrack by Ballady I Romanse
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Read ‘THE LURE’ (2015) TOSSES DISNEY BACK IN THE KIDDIE POOL by Jedidiah Ayres

Music:
"The Housefly 3" - The Lure Soundtrack
"The Loop" - The Lure Soundtrack
"Abracadabra" - The Lure Soundtrack

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Episode 276: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

Special Guest: Peter Hames
Guest Co-Host: Nicholas Schlegel, Kevin Heffernan, Axel Kohagen

Continuing our discussion of fairy tales in films, we discuss Jaromil Jires's film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, the story of a young woman coming of age.

And who better to join Mike in discussing the film than Kevin Heffernan, Axel Kohagen, and Nicholas Schlegel?

This week's special guest, Peter Hames, is the author of several books about the Czech and Slovak New Wave.

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Buy Valerie and her Week of Wonders on DVD
Buy Valerie and her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval
Buy Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition by Peter Hames
Buy The Cinema of Central Europe by Peter Hames
Buy The Czechoslovak New Wave by Peter Hames
Buy Avant-garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties by Jonathan L. Owen
Buy Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema: The Spanish Horror Film by Nicholas G. Schlegel
Read Knot and Gender blog by Kevin Heffernan
Read The Crawling Eye Cult Media Blog by Kevin Heffernan
Visit the official Axel Kohagen website

Music:
"Talk With Grandmother" - Luboš Fišer
"Valerie" - Broadcast
"Valleri" - The Monkees

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Episode 275: Some Call It Loving (1973)

Special Guest: James B. Harris
Guest Co-Host: Heather Drain, Aaron Peterson

When Robert Troy (Zalman King) buys a "sleeping beauty" (Tisa Farrow) at a carnival and introduces her to the playscape of fantasy roleplay in which he lives every day, things don't necessarily work out in Some Call it Loving, a beautiful and unusual film from 1973.

Writer/director James B. Harris discusses the genesis of the film as well as his work with Stanley Kubrick on The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks, and more. He also compares the volatility of Timothy Carey to Richard Pryor.

Heather Drain and The Hollywood Outsider's Aaron Peterson join Mike in discussing the film as well as other interpretations of the Sleeping Beauty tale.

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Buy Some Call It Loving on Blu-Ray/DVD
Read Asleep No More: James B. Harris' SOME CALL IT LOVING by Heather Drain
Read Eyes Wide Shut: ‘Some Call It Loving’ and ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Adam Nayman
Read the Film Comment interview with James B. Harris
Visit the Etiquette Pictures website
Keep up with Heather Drain at Mondo Heather
Be sure to check out The Hollywood Outsider

Music:
"The Very Thought of You" - Nat King Cole
"The Sleeping Beauty Waltz" - Tchaikovsky
"In Dreams" - Roy Orbison
"Sleeepwalk" - Santo & Johnny
"Once Upon a Dream" - Lana Del Rey

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Episode 250: Boxing Helena (1993)

Special Guest: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Guest Co-Host: Heather Drain & Cecil Trachenberg

Obsession comes to the fore in Jennifer Chambers Lynch's controversial 1993 film Boxing Helena wherein Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) aspires to win the love and approval of the titular Helena (Sherilyn Fenn).

Mike's joined by "Mondo" Heather Drain and Good Bad Flicks' Cecil Trachenberg to discuss amputation, women in peril, and Bill Paxton's leather pants.

Links:
Buy Boxing Helena on DVD
Buy The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
Follow Jennifer Lynch on Instagram
Read a really smarmy review of Boxing Helena
Read The creepy fantasies that inspired John Fowles’ novel ‘The Collector’ by Paul Gallagher
Visit the Mondo Heather website
Visit Good Bad Flicks

Music:
Original Soundtrack - Graeme Revell
"Carcass" - Siouxsie & The Banshees
"The Collector" - The Everly Brothers
"Girl in a Box" - Blake Babies
"Secret" - Enigma

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