Film Assist

On this episode Cody interviews the directors of Hamlet in the Golden Vale. They talk about castles, Ireland, what Shakespeare means to them, and working on a VR project. Their film is available to buy digitally and physically on DVD. FILM SITE: https://www.hamletinthegoldenvale.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/hamletinthegoldenvale/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/HamletFilm2018 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hamletinthegoldenvale/ https://ia601400.us.archive.org/20/items/finalhamletinthegoldenvaledirinterview/Final%20Hamlet%20in%20the%20Golden%20Vale%20Dir%20Interview.wav

This week Cody contacts writer/director Tony D’Alessio to discuss his feature debut Girl, Wired! In this interview you can hear Tony discuss how difficult financing a first time feature can be, as well as dealing with scams, and how he assembled his crew. Tony also talks about how his previous job contributed to his directing […]

Cody welcomes Bob Furmanek to the Film Assist Podcast as he conducts his first interview! Before getting into the juicy discussion Cody has to go over some changes for his podcast and site. They talk about many interesting aspects in the field of 3-D restorations. Such topics they cover are how Bob started out and […]

The seminal film that made Martin Scorsese is here, and Cody has seen it before. For the first time going through his filmography Cody is revisiting a classic that he had mixed feelings about. Will he change his mind after years of hating a film? Will Taxi Driver be one of his favorite films of […]

Cody journey’s through the 70s with Martin Scorsese by quickly examining his film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as well as getting a breakthrough on what makes Scorsese so special to film. https://ia801406.us.archive.org/35/items/ScorseseEp5Alice/scorsese%20ep%205%20alice.mp3

Cody takes a step back and provides a soothing, more relaxed, podcast episode as he covers the short documentary ItalianAmerican and a few of Scorsese’s previous shorts. https://ia601404.us.archive.org/8/items/ScorseseEp4ItalianAmericanPlusShorts/scorsese%20ep%204%20Italian%20american%20plus%20shorts.mp3

The Scorsese-a-thon continues with the big man’s third feature, Mean Streets. Arguably the film that put him on the map, Mean Streets is talked about mostly… Read more "Scorsese Ep 3: Mean Streets"

Cody takes a different approach to podcasting this episode and focuses on a shorter and more tight approach, and a script! He goes over Scorsese’s second narrative film, Boxcar Bertha, and compares it to his debut as well as how this iconic director came to such a project. As usual you can find his latest … Continue reading Scorsese Ep 2: Boxcar Bertha →

In which Cody finds an identity and start his journey to understanding historic filmmaker Martin Scorsese with his debut film, Who’s that knocking at my door? He’ll talk about his previous history with the filmmaker and then start dissecting the first of many movies. https://ia601409.us.archive.org/9/items/ScroseseEp1WhosThatKnockingAtMyDoor/Scrosese%20ep%201%20Whos%20that%20knocking%20at%20my%20door.wav

Cody discusses the new format for not only the Film Assist blog but his identity crisis stricken podcast. If you want to be a guest hit Cody up on twitter at Manimeconquest. https://ia601501.us.archive.org/30/items/ScorseseUpdate/scorsese%20update.wav