Special Guests: Bob Murawski, Joseph McBride, Josh Karp Guest Co-Hosts: Ken Stanley, Rob St. Mary
On this special episode of The Projection Booth we're looking at Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind (2018) again. Way back in May 2015, four years ago, it was still something of a dream that this film would ever get completed and shown to the world. There were rumors but there had been rumors before.
Music:
"Music to Watch Girls By" - Tony Hatch
"Music to Watch Girls By" - Les McCann
"Music to Watch Girls By" - The Ventures
"Fruit and Icebergs" - Blue Cheer
Special Guests: Josh Karp & Joseph McBride Guest Co-Host: Andrew Rausch
We’re kicking off “Maudit May” with a discussion of Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind. A film some fifty years in the making, it has yet to be completed and released.
The film stars John Huston as Jake Hannaford, an aging film director who is working on an artsy fartsy film to try to stay relevant with New Hollywood. Most of the film takes place on Hannaford’s seventieth birthday where he’s surrounded by sycophants, critics, friends and former friends. Populated by a star-studded cast, the film is a treatise on filmmaking, aging, and machismo.
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!
Special Guest: Peter Bogdanovich Guest Co-Host: Ben Slater
We're sailing off to Singapore this week with Saint Jack, a sorely overlooked film in Peter Bogdanovich's oeuvre starring Ben Gazarra as the titular character, an American trying to make a living as a pimp on the Lion Isle.
We're joined this week by Ben Slater, author of Kinda Hot, a book which documents the making of Saint Jack.
Special Guests: Bob Murawski, Joseph McBride, Josh Karp
Special Guests: Josh Karp & 
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Special Guest: Peter Bogdanovich