Special Report: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

Special Guests: Pamela S. Green

On this special episode, Mike talks with filmmaker Pamela B. Green about her documentary film Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018), a look at an under-discussed pioneering female filmmaker.

Links:
Buy Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché on DVD
Visit the official movie website
Buy Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology Dual-Format Edition
Buy The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache
Buy Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema by Alison McMahan
Buy Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer
Buy Illuminating Moments: The Films of Alice Guy Blaché by Janelle Dietrick
Buy Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker by Mara Rockliff
Buy A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

Music:
"Song For Alice" - Paul Weller

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Episode 249: Contact (1997)

Special Guests: James V. Hart, William Fichtner, Lynda Obst & Seth Shostak
Guest Co-Hosts: Jamey Duvall & Emily Intravia

After nearly a decade of development, Robert Zemeckis's Contact came to the silver screen in 1997. The film stars Jodie Foster as a SETI scientist who discovers a message from space.

Mike is joined by The Feminine Critique's Emily Intravia and Movie Geeks United's Jamey Duvall. This episode features interviews with actor William Fichtner, producer Lynda Obst, screenwriter James V. Hart, and science adviser Seth Shostak.

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Bonus Interview: William Fichtner

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Links:
Buy Contact on DVD
Buy Cosmos on DVD
Buy Contact by Carl Sagan
Buy Hello, He Lied by Lynda Obst
Visit the official Carl Sagan website
Visit Lynda Obst Productions Listen to Seth Shostak on Big Picture Science
Listen to Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape on Radiolab
Read Looking back at Robert Zemeckis' Contact by Simon Brew
Read an earlier draft of the Contact script
Read Carl Sagan's letter (politely) telling Warner Bros. their Contact script sucked by Michael Ann Dobbs
Visit the SETI Institute website

Music:
Original Soundtrack - Alan Silvestri
"Space-Time Continuum (Heaven And Hell, Part I)" - Vangelis
"Martian Hop" - The Ran-Dells

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