Episode 143: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Special Guests: William Friedkin, Joseph McBride, Christopher Welles Feder, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum
Guest Co-Hosts: Roger L. Ryan, Rob St. Mary, Justin Bozung

An episode two years in the making...

Orson Welles's follow-up to Citizen Kane adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about industrial progress and the loss of innocence set against a tumultuous family, the Ambersons.

Welles infamously lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons before its final release. We'll examine its production, its destruction, and attempts to restore what many consider Welles's forgotten masterpiece.

We're joined by guest co-host Roger L. Ryan. And...there's a special appearance by Mondo Justin!

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Links:
Buy The Magnificent Ambersons on Blu-Ray
Visit a comprehensive Magnificent Ambersons website
Read Mike Thomas's The Decline & Fall of The Magnificent Ambersons
Read David Kamp's Magnificent Obsession
Buy Jonathan Rosenbaum's Discovering Orson Welles
Visit the Jonathan Rosenbaum website
Buy Joseph McBride's Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?
Buy Joseph McBride's Orson Welles
Visit the Joseph McBride website
Buy Peter Bogdanovich's This is Orson Welles
Buy Robert L. Carringer's The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction
Buy Chris Welles Feder's In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles
Read ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’: The Fascinating Story of Orson Welles’ Studio-Tainted Masterpiece at Cinephilia and Beyond
Read ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ reconstruction to use animation for lost scenes by Ray Kelly
Learn more about the fan edit Orson Welles & I
Download The Magnificent Ambersons audio book
Visit the WelleNet website
Special thanks to Peggy Daub of the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan

Music:
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - Charles Coburn
The Union Forever - The White Stripes (Redd Blood Cells mix)

Sources:
Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
BBC Four - Arena, The Orson Welles Story
This is Orson Welles

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Episode 33: The Man From Earth (2007)

Special Guests: Richard Schenkman & Emerson Bixby

David Lee Smith is John Oldman, a college professor who reveals to his colleagues on the way out-of-town that he's actually a centuries-old caveman. And so begins a captivating yet intimate philosophical meditation on immortality, history, science and faith. Written by legendary acclaimed writer Jerome Bixby.

Join Mike and Mondo Justin this week as they discuss the film as well as interview the film's director and producer. For more information on the film please visit it's official website ManFromEarth.com.

Give generously to the Kickstarter fund for Man From Earth II.

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Episode 31: Big Wednesday (1978)

Special Guest: William Katt

It's been called the greatest surfing movie of all time. But Big Wednesday is so very much more than just a film about surfing. It's a story of epic friendship, and the changing of the tides in one's life.

Join Mike and Mondo Justin this week as they discuss the John Milius grand coming-of-age Californian vision set against a backdrop of the Vietnam war.

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Episode 29: Last Action Hero (1993)

Big Gun kick the hell outta you...

Mike and Mondo Justin are joined by The Samurai from The GGTMC podcast.

They'll be discussing the misunderstood and justly maligned big ticket summer Hollywood blockbuster of '93 -- Last Action Hero -- starring the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Whether you dislike the film or adore it, you'll be sure to know that this episode of the show will be one hell of a wild time. Now, let the sparks fly!

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Ding ding! The fight is back on!

Unable to let sleeping dogs lie, Mike and Mondo Justin get back in the ring with The Samurai from GGTMC and continue to duke it out about Last Action Hero. Also in the fray are user call-in comments. Get ready to rumble again!

Links:
Read How Last Action Hero Inspired One Of Ready Player One’s Biggest Changes To The Book by Conner Schwerdtfeger
Read The Life And Death Of Last Action Hero by Nick De Semlyen
Read Last Action Hero (1993) by Tony Black

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Episode 27: Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle

Special Guest: Michelle Clifford

In a very special episode, Mike and Mondo Justin examine the dangerously influential dark cinematic magick of movie magus Kenneth Anger.

The guys break down Anger's infamous Magick Lantern Cycle noting its significant impact on underground film as well as mainstream Hollywood.

The guys are also joined by Michelle Clifford; writer for Sleazoid Express and Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger.

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Episode 25: Shag (1989)

Special Guests: Robert Rusler, Scott Coffey, Page Hannah, Grace Smith

Mike and Justin are on-the-road again, coming to you from under an umbrella on the sunny beaches of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The guys look back at the 1989 southern coming-of-age story Shag that's set during the innocent summer of '63. Justin chats with stars Robert Rusler, Scott Coffey and Page Hannah.

Who's Grace Smith you ask? Well, listen and find out!

Links:
Buy Shag: The Movie on Blu-Ray

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Special Report: Fright Night (1985)

Special Guest: Tom Holland

Extra! Extra! Listen Up! Mike and Mondo Justin bring you a bonus show! The guys discuss the original Fright Night and the new 2011 re-imagining. In addition, Justin chats with writer and director of the 1985 vampire classic -- Tom Holland.

Bill Fulkerson from the Outside The Cinema podcast visits the show to discuss the film(s) as well.

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Episode 23: Streets Of Fire (1984)

Special Guest: Michael Paré

Mike and Mondo Justin get crazy and have a blast chatting about the 1984 Walter Hill directed, Streets of Fire. Justin talks with the star of the film, Michael Paré.

In addition, the guys get a bizarre and from-beyond-the-grave telephone call from Mr. Hervé Villechaize. We know it seems impossible but you should listen anyway because you won't believe it.

Links:
Watch the trailer for Albert Pyun's Road to Hell
Buy Streets of Fire on Blu-Ray
Buy the Streets of Fire soundtrack

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Special Report: Captain America (1990)

Special Guest: Albert Pyun
Guest Co-Host: Josh Hadley

Captain America has thrown his mighty shield in theaters for seven decades. Mike & Mondo Justin take a look at two of these instances: the 1990 Albert Pyun version and the 2011 Joe Johnston release.

Links:
Hear more Josh Hadley on Jackalope Radio
Keep up with Albert Pyun at AlbertPyunMovies.com
Hear more Albert Pyun on our Mean Guns episode
Listen to the Good Bad Flicks episode on Captain America

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Bonus: Interview with Joe Johnston

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Episode 21: Traxx (1988)

Special Guest: Shadoe Stevens

Chili flavored cookies anyone? This week the guys look back at this vastly forgotten and ahead of it's time not-on-DVD action spoof only from the mind of Dino De Laurentiis. A truly weird oddity of the VHS era.

Written by Gary DeVore and directed by Jerome Gary, Traxx (1988 ) stars Shadoe Stevens as the titular action hero who comes to a town beleaguered by baddies (including Robert Davi as Aldo Palucci). He cleans up crime with gusto, verve, and an endless amount of bullets. But Traxx really wants to give up his live as a one-man army to become the next Famous Amos.

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Links:
Buy Traxx on VHS
Subscribe to Shadoevision on YouTube
Visit the official Robert Davi website
Buy Robert Davi's Davi Sings Sinatra: On the Road to Romance
Listen to the Good Bad Flicks episode on Traxx
Listen to the Proudly Resents interview with Shadoe Stevens

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Recipe:
Mike's TRAXX Chilli Con Cookie Recipe

1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon ancho chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar mixed with 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour, chili powder and salt on paper and set aside. Beat butter with electric mixer for 1 minute until creamy. Add sugar and beat until light in color, 3 to 4 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add egg and beat 1 minute. Add the sifted ingredients and mix in. Refrigerate dough until firm, at least 30 minutes. Scoop cookies with 1-ounce scoop or rounded tablespoon onto ungreased pans. Bake 6 minutes, then turn and bake 5 minutes more. Let cool for a few minutes, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Finish the cookies and turn on Shadoe Stevens in TRAXX. Enjoy!

Episode 19: The Big Red One (1980)

Special Guests: Robert Carradine, Christa & Samantha Fuller

Film is a battleground this week as Mike and Mondo Justin storm Sam Fuller's masterpiece, The Big Red One. The guys, while smoking Fuller's favorite cigar examine the film, it's original release, and the Richard Schickel Warner Brothers reconstruction project as they discuss the work with the film's star, Robert Carradine.

In addition, the guys sit down to speak with Christa & Samantha Fuller, wife and daughter of the great filmmaker, Samuel Fuller.

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Episode 17: The Warriors (1979)

Special Guests: Michael Beck, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, David Patrick Kelly, Terry Michos, David Harris & Sam Shaber

Come out and play with Mike and Mondo Justin as they come to you from the depths of New York City. This week,the guys make podcast history by examining the 1979 Walter Hill classic, The Warriors with the majority of the film's cast by their side. Not to be missed. A first for this type of outlet.

Links:
Buy The Warriors (Theatrical Cut) on DVD
Buy The Warriors (Director's Cut) on DVD
Buy The Warrors by Sol Yurick
Buy The Warriors Soundtrack
Visit Sam Shaber's The Happy Problem official website
Visit The Warriors fansite

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Episode 15: The Art Of Dying (1991)

Special Guest: Wings Hauser

Mike and Mondo Justin take a look at the underrated late night cable gem in the rough, The Art of Dying. This Hollywood Noir twists and turns more than a Coen Brothers film. Little seen, the film was written and directed by its star, the amazing Wings Hauser.

Mike and Justin speak with Hauser about the film, his childhood growing up next door to Gilligan's Island star Bob Denver, Denver's cheetah collection, plus his friendship with the legendary Richard Pryor. Don't miss it!

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Buy The Art of Dying on VHS

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Episode 13: Deadbeat At Dawn (1988)

Special Guest: Jim Van Bebber
Guest Co-Host: Jason Buchanan

Mike and Mondo Justin are joined by a friend and the show's first guest host, Jason Buchanan of All Movie Guide.

The threesome discuss this 1988 low-fi masterpiece of film, Deadbeat at Dawn (1988).

Jim Van Bebber calls in to talk about his directorial debut as well as discuss his projects in the works. A must hear.

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Episode 11: Freaked (1993)

Special Guests: Alex Winter, Tom Stern, Tim Burns, Megan Ward, & Lee Arenberg

This isn't a podcast it's an historical event as we revisit one of our favorite films of all time, Freaked (1993).

Perhaps for the first time in podcast history Mike and Mondo Justin have the totally twisted and hilarious creators of this cult classic on board. Get ready to piss yourself with laughter in this extra special one-of-a-kind reunion special.

Links:
Download the Freaked screenplay
Buy Freaked on DVD
Visit the Alex Winter fan site
Buy the Freaked comic book
Buy the novelization by Todd Strasser

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NYU Student Film: Squeal of Death from Trouper on Vimeo.

Episode Nine: Free Enterprise (1998)

Special Guest: Robert Burnett

Et tu, Brute?

Mike stabs Mondo Justin in the back, and breaks his heart this week as the duo get into a very heated debate over this much beloved William Shatner cult comedy classic.

Join Mike and Mondo Justin as they get into a lengthy discussion with Free Enterprise co-writer/director Robert Meyer Burnett. Burnett does his best Shatner "Khan" yell and he expresses his distaste for the J.J. Abrams re-imagining.

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Links:
Buy Free Enterprise on DVD
Read about Robert Meyer Burnett on Memory Alpha
Listen to the We Hate Movies episode on Free Enterprise
Read What Does A Fan Film Need With $2 Million? by Michael Hinman

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Episode Seven: Stripteaser (1995)

Special Guests: Dan Golden, Joe Bob Briggs

Mike and Mondo Justin examine the little seen Roger Corman-produced strip club epic, Dan Golden's Stripteaser (1995).

The film centers on a blind, gun-toting obsessive (Rick Dean) who takes a strip club hostage. Doesn't sound like much does it? Well, a lot of people like you thought that as the film came to video stores in the mid '90s. Little did all of you know, that you missed one of the greatest B-movies of all time.

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Buy Stripteaser on DVD

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Episode Five: Red Scorpion (1988)

Special Guest: Dolph Lundgren

Directed By Joseph Zito (Invasion USA, Missing in Action), and shot by Joao Fernandez (Deep Throat, Let Me Die a Woman), Red Scorpion is the three act construction of Lt. Nikolai Rachenko (Dolph Lundgren) who is sent out by his Russian government to assassinate an oppressive African revolutionary. When he fails, his country turns on him. and he discovers who the true oppressors have been all long.

Also starring M. Emmet Walsh and Brion James. Scripted by the notorious Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Links:
Buy Red Scorpion on Blu-Ray
Read Jack Abramoff's Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist
Visit the official Dolph Lungren web site
Follow Dolph on Twitter

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Episode 3: The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Special Guests: Chris Gore

Episode Three finds Mike and Mondo Justin examining the 1974 classic, The Talking Of Pelham One Two Three, as well as comparing this important '70s New York epic to the respected remakes produced in the years following.

And, as a special treat, Mike and Mondo Justin interview Nerdlebrity Chris Gore

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Episode One: The Stunt Man (1980)

Special Guests: Richard Rush & Steve Railsback

To kick this thing off right Mike and Mondo Justin invite you into The Projection Booth this week as the dynamic duo discusses the amazing, and often forgotten 1980 Academy Award nominated action/drama masterpiece: Richard Rush's The Stunt Man.

Links:
Buy The Stunt Man on Blu-Ray
Buy The Sinister Saga on DVD
Visit the official Steve Railsback website
Read an interview with Richard Rush on the A/V Club

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