Episode 718: Avanti Popolo (1986)

Special Guest: Zohar M. Sela
Guest Co-Hosts: Will Youmans, Yaniv Eidelstein

Yaniv Eidelstein and Will Youmans join Mike to discuss Avanti Popolo (1986), from writer/director Rafi Bukai. Set at the end of the Six-Day War, this poetic and darkly comedic masterpiece follows a group of Egyptian soldiers navigating the vast Sinai Desert on their journey to the Suez Canal. Along the way, they're thrust into surreal and precarious scenarios, exposing the absurdity and humanity of war.

We explore the film's rich cultural commentary and unforgettable performances. Plus, we welcome the film’s editor, Zohar Sela, who provides behind-the-scenes insights into the creative process and the enduring impact of Bukai's vision.

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Music:
"Bandiera Rossa" - Angelic Upstarts

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Episode 620: Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Special Guests: Bruce Joel Rubin, Adrian Lyne
Guest Co-Hosts: Stephen Scarlata, Yaniv Eidelstein

Yaniv Eidelstein and Stephen Scarlata join Mike to look at Adrian Lyne's 1990 film Jacob's Ladder It’s the story of Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) who’s platoon in Vietnam is attacked by unknown forces. He suffers from flashbacks of this horrific event in 1970s New York where he’s left his wife and is living with his co-worker, Jezebel (Elizabeth Pena). He is plagued, as well, by horrific visions of demons. Is Jacob going mad? Is he a victim of a government plot? Or is it something else entirely?

Special guests writer Bruce Joel Rubin and director Adrian Lyne discuss the making of the film and its fate.

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Buy Jacob's Ladder by Bruce Joel Rubin

Music:
"What X-Ray" - Maurice Jarre
"Devil or Angel" - The Clovers

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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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Special Report: Zappa (2020)

Special Guest: Alex Winter
Guest Co-Hosts: Skizz Cyzyk, Yaniv Eidelstein

On this special episode Yaniv Eidelstein and Skizz Cyzyk join Mike to discuss the latest documentary feature by Alex Winter, ZAPPA (2020). It’s a two plus hour look at composer, musician, artist, singer, agent provocateur Frank Zappa.

Links:
Buy Zappa on Blu-Ray
Watch Zappa
Buy The Real Frank Zappa by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso
Buy Monster Road
Watch Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Wild Man Fischer

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Music:
"Cheepnis" - Frank Zappa
"Trouble Every Day" - She Drew the Gun

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Episode 457: The Big Dig (1969)

Special Guest: Rafi Kishon
Guest Co-Hosts: Maurice Bursztynski, Yaniv Eidelstein

Our appreciation of 1969 continues with a look at The Big Dig. Also known as The Blaumilch Canal, the film was written and directed by Ephraim Kishon and stars Bomba Tzur as the titular Blaumilch, an escaped mental patient with a mania for digging. When he finds a jack hammer in downtown Tel Aviv he kicks off a chain of events that demonstrates the absurdity of bureaucracy.

Yaniv Eidelstein and Maurice Bursztynski join Mike to discuss this delightful Israeli film as well as other entries in Kishon's filmography. Special guest Rafi Kishon recounts growing up with his father's work.

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Buy The Big Dig on DVD
Buy Look Back, Mrs Lot! or, Anything Can Happen in Israel by Ephraim Kishon
Read 5 films, short and satirical: Homage to Ephraim Kishon as he would have like
Read Book honors Israeli author Kishon decade after death

Music:
בלדה לאיש הפשוט - Edna Goren
דוגי-דיג - Edna Goren

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Blaumilch English preview from Yaniv Eidelstein on Vimeo.

Episode 211: Message from the Future (1981)

Special Guest: Oded Carmeli
Guest Co-Host: Yaniv Eidelstein

In Message from the Future (AKA Sheder Min Ha'Atid AKA שדר מן העתיד), a visitor from 3005 comes back to 1985 to encourage the world to engage in WWIII.

Written and directed by (and starring) poet and futurist David Avidan, the film is a remarkable science fiction odyssey.

Links:
Learn more about "Zion's Fiction"
Read about David Avidan by Eli Eshed
Learn more about Oded Carmeli
Visit the official Hava LeHaba website
Keep up with Yaniv Eidelstein
Be sure to LIKE An American Hippie in Israel
Listen to our American Hippie and Big Gus episodes

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Music:
"I Feel Love" - Donna Summer
"Message from the Future" - Francesco Digilio Emiliano Borrelli
"Messages from the Future" - Harold Heath
"Radioactivity" - Kraftwerk
"Message from the Future" - DJ Emho
"Message for Tomorrow From the People of the Future" - Double U

Episode 147: Big Gus, What's the Fuss? (1973)

Special Guest: Lloyd Kaufman

Also known as Ha-Balash Ha'Amitz Shvartz (AKA Brave Detective, Schwartz) this early film co-directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Ami Artzi has been described by Kaufman as being "more harmful to the Jews than Mein Kampf." We'll see if that's true or a slight exaggeration on this first episode of 2014.

We're joined again by Yaniv Eidelstein, who gives us the scoop on many of the cast and crew of this mad cap Israeli film.

Music
Hava Nagila - Dick Dale

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Links:
Visit the official Lloyd Kaufman website
Visit the official Troma website
Visit the official Yaniv Eidelstein website
Buy Big Gus, What's the Fuss? from the Troma Store
Visit the Return to Nuke 'Em High official website
Help get Return to Nuke 'Em High I & II on the big screen
Listen to our episode on An American Hippie in Israel
Here's more about American Hippie on Trailers from Hell

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Check out Yaniv and Shmuel Wolf Channel 10 interview (with English subtitles)

Episode 71: An American Hippie in Israel (1972)

Guest Co-Host: Yaniv Eidelstein

Four friends search for freedom in Israel and find something else in Amos Sefer's An American Hippie in Israel, an arthouse exploitation flick.

We're joined by Yaniv Eidelstein, movie translator, bike messenger, and one of the biggest advocates for the film.

Links:
Buy An American Hippie in Israel on Blu-Ray
Join the American Hippie Facebook group
Visit Grindhouse Releasing's American Hippie page
See more of Stephen Romano's artwork

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