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Cinema Double Shot
By Wallace McKelveyTV & Film
Cinema Double Shot episodes
- Hitting the film festival circuit with Paul & Wally!
Paul joins Wally as they talk about a busy fall taking RIVER CITY STORIES to film festivals, as well as avoiding burnout, rocking cardigans, and recording a public service announcement about the importance of off-year elections.
Check us out on YouTube:
📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Subscribe to my newsletter:
⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
Get tickets for River City Stories at the Red Rose and Centre County film festivals:
🎟️ Nov. 7 & 8: https://redrosefilmfestival.com/
🎟️ Nov. 16: https://centrefilm.org/
39 min - Improv and the Art of Being Silly with the Biz Bruja
Join us for a special crossover episode with The Biz Bruja herself, Vanessa Codorniu, as we talk about improv comedy, the art of being silly, and the joy of embracing your inner payaso.
Check us out on YouTube:
📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Subscribe to my newsletter:
⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
Get tickets for River City Stories at the Red Rose and Centre County film festivals:
🎟️ Nov. 7 & 8: https://redrosefilmfestival.com/
🎟️ Nov. 16: https://centrefilm.org/
1 hr 19 min - Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest and City Issues
Fresh off a successful run of River City Stories (Part 2), Paul and Wally talk about the latest Spike Lee joint, Highest 2 Lowest, and various issues facing cities big and small.
Check us out on YouTube:
📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Subscribe to my newsletter:
⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
1 hr 9 min - We made a movie! Paul and Wally share their indie filmmaking journey
Just in time for Harrisburg Fringe Festival, Paul and Wally recount some of their favorite — and perhaps less favorite — experiences making RIVER CITY STORIES as the next round of stories screens at Midtown Cinema July 17-19.
Check us out on YouTube:
📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm
Get tickets for River City Stories and Cinderella at Harrisburg Fringe:
🎟️ July 17-20: https://www.hbgfringe.com/tickets
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Subscribe to my newsletter:
⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
48 min - Queer Cinema: Josh and Wally share their favorite films for Pride Month
Just in time for Pride, Josh and Wally recount some of their favorite LGBTQ+ themed films, ranging from Pre-Code Hollywood through modern-day classics.
00:02:30 River City Stories and the Harrisburg Fringe Festival
00:05:41 Cinderella at Fringe
00:09:18 Mrs. Doubtfire and Robin Williams
00:13:17 Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage
00:17:56 Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope
00:24:47 Pre-Code Movies and Baby Face
00:27:56 Nightmare on Elm Street Part II
00:31:30 Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon
00:36:35 Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader
00:39:23 Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight
00:43:27 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Fake-out)
00:43:58 Hairspray and the films of John Waters
00:47:26 John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch
00:52:16 Reprise: Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage
00:55:13 Sean Baker’s Tangerine
00:59:37 Bury Your Gays Pick: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers
01:03:37 Bury Your Gays Pick: Tom Ford’s A Single Man
01:06:14 Queer-coded Villains: Doctor Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein
01:07:09 Queer-coded Villains: Herbert West in Re-Animator
01:07:45 Queer-coded Villains: Joel Cairo and His Gang in The Maltese Falcon
01:08:35 Queer-coded Villains: Ursula in The Little Mermaid
Check us out on YouTube:
📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm
Get tickets for River City Stories and Cinderella at Harrisburg Fringe:
🎟️ July 17-20: https://www.hbgfringe.com/tickets
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Subscribe to my newsletter:
⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
1 hr 16 min - River City, Real Talk: The Biz Bruja joins us to talk about bold storytelling
Join us for a special crossover episode with The Biz Bruja herself, Vanessa Codorniu, and River City Stories collaborator Paul Hood as we discuss what inspires our creativity. Along the way, we also talk about Alfred Hitchcock, Spike Lee, and what we've inherited from our ancestors.
Get tickets for River City Stories:
🎟️ May 16 & 18: https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/
Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
🔮 https://www.thebizbruja.com/
54 min - Sinners and Vamps: Josh and Wally sink their teeth in vampire cinema
Inspired by Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, an epic vampire tale set in 1930s Mississippi, Josh and I talk about some of our favorite blood-sucking horror films of all time — everything from F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (the O.G.) to Grace Jones’ underrated performance in Vamp.
00:49 SIR Christopher Lee and Dracula
01:43 The Man with the Golden Gun (And Three Nipples)
04:14 Creature Feature Weekend and Hacktress
04:57 Ryan Coogler’s Sinners
09:08 Robert Johnson and “Preacher Boy”
13:13 Lovers Rock meets From Dusk Till Dawn
23:20 Dracula and Nosferatu, the O.G.’s
36:58 Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In
39:50 Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction
41:20 Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
45:01 Richard Wenk’s Vamp
49:45 Joel Schumacher’s Lost Boys
55:20 Josh Dorsheimer’s Cinderella at Fringe
56:15 River City Stories
Check us out on YouTube:
📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm
Get tickets for River City Stories:
🎟️ May 16 & 18: https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Subscribe to my newsletter:
⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
59 min - Cinematic First Loves: Vanessa and Wally on the Films That Shaped Them
River City Stories collaborator Vanessa Codorniu joins Wally to talk about the movies they watched as young people — everything from Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and the lasting impressions those films left at an early age.
00:01:26 An update on River City Stories
00:06:06 Billy Elliott and Bend It Like Beckham
00:07:17 Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful
00:13:17 Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate
00:25:39 What we inherit from our ancestors
00:31:27 Improv comedy and the power of performance
00:41:51 Solange Knowles and Cranes in the Sky
00:57:00 Roman Polanski's Chinatown
00:59:00 Luis Puenzo's The Official Story
01:03:27 Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
01:05:40 Emotional Processing and the Myth of the Minotaur
01:06:08 John Duigan’s Wide Sargasso Sea
01:10:44 The Biz Bruja
Connect with Vanessa at The Biz Bruja:
🔮 https://www.thebizbruja.com/
Get tickets for River City Stories:
🎟️ May 16 & 18: https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Subscribe to my newsletter:
⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
Learn more about Wally Films:
🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/
1 hr 13 min - Cleo from 5 to 7: Reflections on French Culture and Psychic Cinema
River City Stories collaborator Amandine Pope joins Wally for a screening of Agnès Varda's French New Wave masterpiece Cleo from 5 to 7. Along the way, they talk about the politics and culture of France, the use of psychic mediums in movies, and — of course — mortality.
00:03:13 An introduction to Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7
00:07:09 Wally's fascination with psychics
00:10:52 Amandine's brush with the occult
00:15:34 Quantum physics and the outer reaches of what we know
00:23:23 Cleo from 5 to 7 as a feminist film
00:26:11 The vagaries of language and translation
00:31:37 Teaching French to Americans
00:37:35 French culture and politics
00:49:12 Amandine's favorite French films
Learn French with Amandine:
🇫🇷 https://www.aufrenchcorner.com/
Get tickets for River City Stories:
🎟️ May 16 & 18: https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/
Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:
☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
1 hr 3 min - Heard But Not Seen: The Greatest Voice Performances of All Time
Inspired by Lupita Nyong’o’s charmingly complex work in The Wild Robot, Josh and I talk about some of our favorite voice performances of all time. We also reflect on some of our own experiences. Josh played a psychotic pumpkin in the horror anthology flick HeBGBTV and on stage as Karnak in Ride the Cyclone. Wally has, somewhat reluctantly, recorded ADR (or automatic dialogue replacement).
00:00:49 River City Stories and switching to a bi-weekly format
00:03:09 Josh's role as Karnak in the Ride the Cyclone musical
00:06:56 HAL 9000 and 2001: A Space Odyssey
00:10:48 Lupita Nyong'o in The Wild Robot
00:16:54 Vincent Price in The Great Mouse Detective
00:17:47 Robin Williams in Aladdin
00:18:55 Mandy Moore's Rapunzel in Tangled (and Wally stumps for her music, too)
00:19:48 Eartha Kitt in The Emperor's New Groove
00:22:14 Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill in Batman: The Animated Series
00:28:03 Josh Dorsheimer in HeBGB TV and the process of finding a voice
00:32:37 ADR or automatic dialogue replacement
00:36:12 Scarlett Johansson in Her
00:39:42 Levi Stubbs in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
00:43:04 Mercedes McCambridge in The Exorcist
00:49:33 Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly in the Child's Play (Chucky) movies
00:50:58 Howie Mandel, Frank Welker and Michael Winslow in the Gremlins movies
00:52:11 Ben Burtt in Wall-E
00:54:43 James Earl Jones as Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies
00:58:32 Andy Serkis in... everything? (Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, Tintin and more)
Get tickets for River City Stories:
🎟️ https://www.westshoretheatre.org/tickets/
🎟️ https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/
Like what you hear? Check us out on YouTube:
☕️ http://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm
Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:
📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/
1 hr 4 min
About Cinema Double Shot
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Coffee and movies! They're the perfect pair. In this show, journalist and filmmaker Wallace McKelvey talks about some of his favorite films — their history, how they were made, and what they mean…
today — with some of his favorite people. Come for the nerdery, stay for the good times!