Episode 329: On the Silver Globe (1988)

Special Guest: Daniel Bird
Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Joe Yanick

Initially begun in 1977 and not released until (1988, Andrzej Zulawski, On the Silver Globe, is based on a series called The Lunar Trilogy by Zulawski's great uncle Jerzy.

Joe Yanick and Heather Drain join Mike in an attempt to unravel the Polish sci-fi epic.

Links:
Listen to the Stories From The Eastern West podcast on On the Silver Globe
Read The Origins of Polish Sci-Fi & The Legacy of Jerzy Żuławski by Adam Żuławski
Listen to our Possession episode
Listen to our Hard to be a God episode
Listen to the Daughters of Darkness Zulawski series
Read Film of the Week: On the Silver Globe by Jonathan Romney
Read Film Comment Selects: Andrzej Żuławski by Daniel Bird
Read The Second Life of a Prohibited Movie

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Music:
"On The Other Side Of The Moon" - Andrzej Korzyñski
"Antonin Artaud" - Bauhaus

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Episode 327: Wings of Desire (1987)

Guest Co-Host: Joe Yanick

Wings of Desire, the 1987 film from Wim Wenders, stars Bruno Ganz as Damiel and Otto Sander as Cassiel, two angels out of many that watch over Berlin. They are immortal observers, watching the goings-on of the myriad people around them. Yet, they can never experience the full world in which the humans live. They know not taste, touch, feeling, or love...

Small Screen Cinema's Joe Yanick joins Mike to discuss Peter Falk, the sequel Faraway, So Close!, and the American remake City of Angels on this episode.

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Links:
Buy Wings of Desire on Blu-Ray
Buy books by Wim Wenders
Visit the official Wim Wenders website

Music:
"Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" - The Travares
"What's On Your Mind" - Information Society
"From Her to Eternity" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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Episode 308: Stalker (1979)

Special Guest: Geoff Dyer
Guest Co-Hosts: Elric Kane. Joe Yanick

Andrei Tarkovsky 's Stalker / Сталкер (1979) is a deceptively simple film about three men who venture into the verdant and mystical "Zone" in search of a room where their innermost desires will come true. Based loosely on Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkadiy Strugatskiy, the film becomes a meditative experience about art, religion, and logic.

Elric Kane and Joe Yanick join Mike to discuss this unusual "science fiction" film.

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Links:
Buy Stalker on DVD
Buy Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Buy Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
Buy Roadside Picnic, read by Robert Forster
Read a script analysis of Stalker
Read a transcript of Stalker
Read Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris and Stalker: The making of two inner-space odysseys by Stephen Dalton
Read A Unique Perspective On The Making Of 'Stalker': The Testimony Of A Mechanic Toiling Away Under Tarkovsky's Guidance from Cinephilia and Beyond
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Essential Documentaries on Russian Master from Cinephilia and Beyond
Visit the official Geoff Dyer website
Read Danger! High-radiation arthouse! by Geoff Dyer

Music:
Stalker Soundtrack - Eduard Artemyev
"Stalker (For Andrei Tarkovsky)" - Alva Noto

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