Special Report: They Live (1988)

Special Guests: D. Harlan Wilson, Sandy King, Peter Jason, Keith David
Guest Co-Hosts: El Goro, Patrick Bromley

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we're giving you a choice: either put on the podcast, or start eating a trash can.

Yes, we're talking about John Carpenter's They Live (1988) wherein a man with no name -- or a name that means nothing -- Nada ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper) comes to Los Angeles looking for work only to find a vast conspiracy instead.

We talk to the author of the They Live Cultography, D. Harlan Wilson, as well as producer Sandy King, and actors Peter Jason and Keith David.

F! This Movie's Patrick Bromley and Talk Without Rhythm's El Goro join Mike to discuss this politically-charged film as well as Pizzagate, Wrestlemania, Shepard Fairey's use of wrestling, skateboarding, and politics via the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" phenomenon, and morning in America.

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Links:
Buy They Live on Blu-Ray
Buy They Live (Cultography) by D. Harlan Wilson
Buy They Live (Deep Focus) by Jonathan Lethem
Buy Mitch O'Connell's The Real Donald Trump Revealed T-shirts
Listen to 8 O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson
Read Nada by Ray Nelson and Bill Wray
Visit the official John Carpenter website
Visit Storm King Productions
Visit the official Peter Jason website
Visit the official Keith David website
Visit the official D. Harlan Wilson website
Visit the official Rowdy Roddy Piper website
Visit the official Ray Nelson website
Visit Obey Giant - The Art of Shepard Fairey
Learn more about Wallflower Press
Listen to the Talk Without Rhythm podcast
Listen to the F! This Movie podcast
Read John Carpenter Is Fighting With Internet Nazis Over His Cult Classic They Live by Sidney Fussell
Read more about Les Hoffman, Felix Hoffman, and Albert Hoffman
Read 33 Things We Learned From John Carpenter’s and Roddy Piper’s They Live Commentary by Rob Hunter
Read Larger than life: An oral history of WrestleMania III by Adam Graham and Tony Paul
Listen to our episode on The Thing
Hear more Keith David on the Requiem for a Dream episode
Hear more about Other Side of the Wind

Music:
"Return to Church" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
"Wake Up" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
"Back Alley" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
"Transport Station" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
"For Everybody" - "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
"With Hoffman Lenses We Will See The Truth" - Set Your Goals
"They Live" - Reign of Zaius
"Obey, Consume... Escape" - Jon of the Shred

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Special Report: The Thing (1982)

Special Guests: John Kenneth Muir, Jez Conolly, Dean Cundey, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites
Guest Co-Hosts: El Goro, Patrick Bromley

Initially lambasted by critics, John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) was a brilliant adaptation of John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There?. The film tells the story of a dozen men in Antarctica who are infiltrated by an alien shapeshifter.

Interviews include authors John Kenneth Muir (The Films of John Carpenter), Jez Conolly (Devil’s Advocates: The Thing), actors Joel Polis (Fuchs), Thomas G. Waites (Windows), and cinematographer Dean Cundey.

Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast and El Goro of the Talk Without Rhythm podcast join Mike on this very special episode.

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Bonus Interview with Stuart Cohen:
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Links:
Buy The Thing on Blu-Ray with a commentary from El Goro, Patrick Bromley, and Mike White (UK Release)
Buy The Thing on Blu-Ray (US Release)
Buy The Films of John Carpenter by John Kenneth Muir
Buy Devil's Advocates: The Thing by Jez Connelly
Buy The Thing (BFI Modern Classics) by Anne Billson
Visit Stuart Cohen's website
Visit the Joel Polis website
Visit the Thomas G. Waites website
Visit Jez Conolly's official website
Visit John Kenneth Muir's blog
Watch ‘Big John’: A 75-Minute Precious Exploration of John Carpenter’s Life, Work and Ways
Read John Carpenter's The Thing had an Icy Critical Reception
Visit Outpost31.com
Read Ennio Morricone’s unused score for The Thing ended up in The Hateful Eight by Ben Kaye
Listen to Special "The Thing" Commentary for Patricia Stevens by The After Movie Diner
Read The Men Who Were 'The Thing' Look Back on a Modern Horror Classic by Simon Abrams and Matt Zoller Seitz
Listen to the The Thing Read Along Book
Here more from Dean Cundey on The Projection Booth
Listen to our interview with Keith David
Hear more Patrick Bromley on F This Movie!
Hear more El Goro on Talk Without Rhythm

Music:
"Burn It" - Ennio Morricone
"Bestiality" - Ennio Morricone
"Fuchs" - Ennio Morricone
"The Thing that was Bennings" - Ennio Morricone
"Desolation (Main Theme)" - Ennio Morricone
That Thing" - Who Ha
"I Know I'm Human" - Beckett

Watch:

The Hateful Thing from KINO on Vimeo.

Episode 212: Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Special Guests: Ellen Burstyn, Keith David, Christopher McDonald, Mark Margolis
Guest Co-Host: Emily Intravia

"Everyone is a junkie." - William S. Burroughs

We talk about Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film, Requiem for a Dream. Based on the 1978 book by Hubert Selby, Jr., it tells the tale of four New Yorkers whose lives spiral out of control due to addiction.

We've got a star-studded line-up of guests on this one including our co-host from The Feminine Critique, Emily Intravia.

Links:
Buy Requiem for a Dream on Blu-Ray
Buy Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Buy Dopefiend by Donald Goines
Visit the official Keith David website
See Keith David in the new season of Community
Read this great article on Christopher McDonald from Salon

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Bonus Interview: Mark Margolis

Listen to "Bonus Interview: Mark Margolis" on Spreaker.

Music:
"Lux Aeterna" - Clint Mansell & The Kronos Quartet
"Heroin" - The Velvet Underground
"Just One Fix" - Ministry

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Pupil – A Darren Aronofsky Supercut from WarmBakedBread on Vimeo.