Episode 605: Eyes Wide Shut Redux

Special Guests: Nathan Abrams, Robert P. Kolker
Guest Co-Hosts: Matthew Asprey Gear, Rob St. Mary

On this special episode we’re revisiting a movie we talked about ten years ago, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The final film from director Stanley Kubrick, we’re checking in on the film some 23 years after its release. We’ll be discussing the film, an interesting fan edit of the movie, and a 2019 book about the film from authors Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams.

Matthew Asprey Gear and Rob St. Mary join Mike to reevaluate the film. 

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Our Earlier Episode:

Listen to "Episode 94: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)" on Spreaker.

Links:
Become a supporter of The Projection Booth
Buy Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams
Buy Eyes Wide Shut (BFI Classics) by Michel Chion
Buy Eyes Wide Open by Frederic Raphael
Buy Eyes Wide Shut on Blu-Ray

Music:
"Masked Ball (1999 Extended Mix)" - Jocelyn Pook (Backwards)

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Eyes Wide Cut | Trailer from marshall allman on Vimeo.

Episode 554: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Special Guests: Mike Kaplan, Andrew Biswell
Guest Co-Hosts: Rob St. Mary, Yaniv Eidelstein

We kick off 2022 with a look at Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). Based on the 1962 book by Anthony Burgess, the film stars Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge, a teenager in the squalor of a futuristic London town where there ain’t no law & order. He’s a juvenile delinquent who eventually gets pinched for his crimes. While in prison he undergoes an experimental treatment that removes his free will but puts him on the straight and narrow only to find that all those he stepped on on his path to incarceration remember him... and not too fondly.

Your friend and faithful narrator comes to you with gorgeousness and gorgeousity made digital with my droogs, Rob St. Mary and Yaniv Eidelstein. Meanwhile, our guests include publicist Mike Kaplan and Anthony Burgess biographer Andrew Biswell.

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Links:
Become a supporter of The Projection Booth
Buy A Clockwork Orange on Blu-Ray
Buy A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Buy The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell
Buy Murder in a Blue World on Blu-Ray
Watch Banana Mecannica NSFW!
Watch A Clockwork Orgy NSFW!
Visit the International Anthony Burgeess Foundation

Music:
"La Gazza Ladra" - Wendy Carlos
"Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova 1" - U2
"Freedom of Choice" - DEVO
"Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement (Abridged)" - Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Guest Spots: The Kulturecast & Radiodrome

Chris Stachiw has made a huge mistake. He's been having me on regularly on The Kulturecast as one of his rotating guest co-hosts, covering both new films and old. Here are the latest episodes that I've been on:

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Listen to "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" on Spreaker.

Dead Alive (AKA Braindead)
Listen to "Dead Alive" on Spreaker.

Antiviral
Listen to "Antiviral" on Spreaker.

The Burning
Listen to "The Burning" on Spreaker.

The Killing
Listen to "The Killing" on Spreaker.

Avengers: Endgame
Listen to "Avengers: Endgame" on Spreaker.

Radiodrome

I was also lucky enough to be asked by Josh Hadley to come back to Radiodrome for a look at the Killer Tomatoes franchise:

Guest Spots: The Shining and Trouble Man

Shining 2:37
Mike was a guest on the Shining 2:37 episode which looks at Stanley Kubrick's The Shining in 2 minute 37 second chunks. On this episode Jack gets some advocaat spilled on his jacket...

Kulturecast
It was Blaxploitation month on Chris Stachiw's Kulturecast when Mike joined the fray to discuss Ivan Dixon's Trouble Man:

Listen to "Trouble Man" on Spreaker.

Episode 344: The Tenant (1976)

Guest Co-Hosts: Alex Winter, Jamey Duvall

#Shocktober2017 continues with a the 1976 film from Roman Polanski, The Tenant . Adapted from a book by Roland Topor (Fantastic Planet), the film also stars Polanski as Trelkovsky, a man in need of a new apartment. He finds one where the previous occupant has defenestrated herself. After her death, he's able to move in and finds that his neighbors don't like him being noisy... in fact, they don't like him being him at all. Some put this alongside Polanski's Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby as his “apartment trilogy” in which explores the terrors of urban paranoia.

Jamey Duvall of Movie Geeks United! and writer/director/actor Alex Winter join Mike to discuss what many consider to be Polanski's most personal film.

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Links:
Buy The Tenant on DVD
Buy The Tenant by Roland Topor
Buy the soundtrack CD by Phillip Sarde
Learn more about the Fan Preservation of The Tenant
Visit the official Alex Winter website
Check out the Movie Geeks United Kubrick Series
Listen to our Eyes Wide Shut episode

Music:
"The Tenant" - Play Dead
"The Tenant" - Japan

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Episode 325: One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

Special Guest: Toby Roan
Guest Co-Hosts: Paul Zimmerman, Jamey Duvall

Based on Charles Neider's book The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) tells the tale of Rio AKA The Kid, played by Marlon Brando, and Dad Longsworth, played by Karl Malden. The two are outlaws who take very different paths, the Kid being a "noble" criminal while Dad eventually becomes a servant of the law. We watch them spar in the coastal Californian city of Monterrey where the tumultuous water serves as a metaphor for the raging emotions inside each man.

The film was originally supposed to have been a powerhouse production with Sam Peckinpah writing the adaptation, Stanley Kubrick directing, and Brando as the star. But things don't always work out the way they're supposed to. Instead, this became the first and only film that Brando directed.

Jamey Duvall and Paul Zimmerman join Mike to discuss Brando, Westerns, and more. Special guest Toby Roan is the author of A Million Feet Of Film: The Making Of One-Eyed Jacks.

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Links:
Buy One-Eyed Jacks on Blu-Ray
Buy A Million Feet of Film by Tony Roan
Buy the One-Eyed Jack soundtrack by Hugo Friedhofer
Buy Songs my Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando
Buy The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider
Visit 50 Westerns from the '50s
Visit The Timothy Carey Experience
Hear more of Jamie Duvall at Movie Geeks United!
Read My Dinners with Demme by Paul Zimmerman
Learn more about Daglarin Oglu (1965)

Music:
"Escape (Parts 1 & 2)" - Hugo Friedhofer
"Main Theme" - Hugo Friedhofer

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Episode 292: The Shining (1980)

Special Guests: Douglas Milsome, Garrett Brown, Rodney Ascher, Rob Ager
Guest Co-Hosts: Keith Gordon, Vincenzo Natali

Adapted from a novel by Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick The Shining (1980) tells the tale of Jack (Jack Nicholson), Wendy, (Shelley Duvall) and Danny (Danny Lloyd) Torrance, a family who spend a winter at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Jack plans on writing a book but, instead, battles the inner demons of alcoholism and anger, slowly going mad perhaps with the help of the ghosts of the Overlook...

Directors Keith Gordon and Vincenzo Natali join Mike to discuss Stanley Kubrick and The Shining as well as the many interpretations of the films (as presented in works like Rodney Ascher's Room 237 and Rob Ager's Collative Learning series).

Along with Ascher and Ager, cameraman Douglas Milsome and Steadicam operator (and inventor) Garrett Brown reminisce about working with Stanley Kubrick.

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The Shining 237: Spilling the Advocaat

Links:
Buy The Shining on Blu-Ray
Buy Room 237 on DVD
Buy Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining edited by Danel Olson
Buy the The Shining Mini-Series
Buy The Shining by Stephen King
Buy Dr. Sleep by Stephen King
Buy The Shining (BFI Film Classics) by Roger Luckhurst
Visit the official Garrett Brown website
Visit the official Rodney Ascher website
Read MAZES, MIRRORS, DECEPTION AND DENIAL by Rob Ager
Subscribe to Collative Learning on YouTube
Visit The Overlook Hotel
Listen to The Shining: The Musical
Read What The Shining miniseries reveals about the King/Kubrick divide by Tasha Robinson
Read Is Stephen King justified in hating Kubrick's vision for The Shining? by Ryan Vlastelica
Compare the US vs. International Cuts of the Shining
Read What do Delbert Grady and Tony have in common? on the Shining FAQ
Read Here's Horror: Why 'The Shining' Still Terrifies Us by Lisa Rosman
Read THE MAKING OF 'THE SHINING': 'A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED IN THIS PARTICULAR HOTEL' by Paul Gallagher
Read The True Story Behind the Legendary “Lost Ending” of THE SHINING By Stephen Johnson
Read STANLEY KUBRICK'S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING' from Cinephilia Beyond
Watch Free Documentary View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining Looks at How Kubrick Made “the World's Scariest Movie”

Music:
"The Rock Mountains" - Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind
"Nocturnal Valse Triste" - Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind
"Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta: Adagio" - Bela Bartok
"Midnight, The Stars and You" - Al Bowlly & Ray Noble and His Orchestra
"Come and Play with Us, Danny" - Smearballs

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THE CHICKENING from Nick DenBoer on Vimeo.

Episode 275: Some Call It Loving (1973)

Special Guest: James B. Harris
Guest Co-Host: Heather Drain, Aaron Peterson

When Robert Troy (Zalman King) buys a "sleeping beauty" (Tisa Farrow) at a carnival and introduces her to the playscape of fantasy roleplay in which he lives every day, things don't necessarily work out in Some Call it Loving, a beautiful and unusual film from 1973.

Writer/director James B. Harris discusses the genesis of the film as well as his work with Stanley Kubrick on The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks, and more. He also compares the volatility of Timothy Carey to Richard Pryor.

Heather Drain and The Hollywood Outsider's Aaron Peterson join Mike in discussing the film as well as other interpretations of the Sleeping Beauty tale.

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Links:
Buy Some Call It Loving on Blu-Ray/DVD
Read Asleep No More: James B. Harris' SOME CALL IT LOVING by Heather Drain
Read Eyes Wide Shut: ‘Some Call It Loving’ and ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Adam Nayman
Read the Film Comment interview with James B. Harris
Visit the Etiquette Pictures website
Keep up with Heather Drain at Mondo Heather
Be sure to check out The Hollywood Outsider

Music:
"The Very Thought of You" - Nat King Cole
"The Sleeping Beauty Waltz" - Tchaikovsky
"In Dreams" - Roy Orbison
"Sleeepwalk" - Santo & Johnny
"Once Upon a Dream" - Lana Del Rey

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Episode 94: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Special Guest: Alison Castle
Guest Co-Host: Alexis Borelli

The year wraps up with Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the final film from director Stanley Kubrick starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

We're joined this week by Lex of the "Love & Sex with Lex" podcast as we talk about this tale of frustration and deception.

Links:
Buy The Stanley Kubrick Archives
Buy Alison Castle's Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made
Buy Eyes Wide Shut from Boulevard Movies
Read An Oral History of an Orgy Staging that scene from Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s divisive final film By Bilge Ebiri
Visit Eyes Wide Cut

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