The Cinematic Schematic

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  • dCFF23 - Erica Tremblay, deadCenter ICON Award Winner and Writer/Director/Producer of Fancy Dance

    The deadCenter Film Festival has a history of shining a light on films made in Oklahoma about Oklahoma, and this year is no exception. Last night’s closing film was the Sundance Film Festival darling, Fancy Dance, from Oklahoma-born director Erica Tremblay. The film tells the soulful story of Jax, a Native American woman living on the Seneca–Cayuga Nation Reservation, who serves as a stand-in mother for her niece, Rokie, just before Rokie’s grandparents separate them. Fancy Dance received a standing ovation from the audience in The First American’s Museum Five Moons Theater before taking home the Best Indigenous Feature and Best Narrative Feature awards. Erica Tremblay is the 2023 deadCenter Icon Award winner, one of the highest festival honors. In this deadCenter 2023 interview, we talk with Tremblay about her experience bringing Fancy Dance back to Oklahoma. She shares her perspective on why representing Queer native women on the big screen is essential to understanding the urgent state of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation along with some of the unique challenges faced making the film. Tremblay is a Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab fellow and recipient of SFFILM Rainin and Lynn Shelton grants. She was the executive story editor of Dark Winds, an AMC series produced by George R.R. Martin and Robert Redford. She […]

    The post Erica Tremblay on Bringing ‘Fancy Dance’ Home to Oklahoma – dCFF23 appeared first on The Cinematropolis.

    16 min
  • dCFF23 - A Disturbance In The Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened Interview with co-director Jeremy Coon
    Have you ever seen a movie that seemed like such a blunder that there's no way any sane studio executive would greenlight it? There are many examples: 1995's Waterworld, 2004's Catwoman, and most recently 2019's Cats, to name a few. These are all notable failures in the history of studio filmmaking, but none of them are as infamous or culturally significant as the Star Wars Holiday Special TV movie. How does a production based on such successful property go so wrong its failure inspired a generation of filmmakers? May we recommend A Disturbance In the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened?
    In today's deadCenter 2023 interview, we sit down with Jeremy Coon, the co-director of A Disturbance In the Force: How the Holiday Special Happened to learn about what interested him in this specific behind-the-scenes story before taking a look at how he managed to piece together these unique tidbits and insights about the mythological TV special.
    Coon provides even more insight into exactly how they uncovered the making of one of the notoriously bad pieces of pop culture ever made. 
    Tune in to the conversation and make the A Disturbance In the Force: How the Holiday Special Happened a part of your deadCenter 2023 experience on Saturday, June 10th.
    23 min
  • dCFF23 - Plan C Documentary Interview with director Tracy Droz Tragos
    On June 24th, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in a controversial decision that would leave women in large parts of the country without certain rights to abortion healthcare. The historic ruling is considered a major setback by many people. However, it was just the beginning of a larger fight for the people committed to preserving the right to the abortion pill.
    According to their website, the Plan C organization exists so that everyone in the US can know about online access to abortion pills. Furthermore, with abortion illegal in many states, what does a nationwide support system look like?
    In this exclusive deadCenter 2023 podcast conversation of The Cinematic Schematic, Plan C documentary director Tracy Droz Tragos joins the show to discuss why right now is the moment for viewers to take note of Plan C’s message. We also look at how she approached telling the story of women's rights over the last three years chronologically, including when she knew it was time to end the story to elevate the cause.
    Listen to this insightful conversation and go to plancmovie.com to learn more about the work done by Plan C.
    23 min
  • dCFF23 - The Awkward Stage Interview with Jeremy and Kara Choate
    This year's deadCenter Film Festival showcases a variety of homegrown talent. There are directors who tell stories about teen adventures, explore dark comedy, and document the roots of the state's history. One of the more intriguing entries on this year's schedule is the surrealist coming-of-age drama, The Awkward Stage, a movie about a pre-teen student in a decaying Harrah, Oklahoma school who falls in love with a statue. Sound curious? 
    In this deadCenter 2023 podcast conversation, the Blood Relative Films directing duo of Jeremy, and Kara Choate, join The Cinematic Schematic to discuss what inspired their sophomore outing.
    The Choate duo made a strong first impression at last year's festival with their debut, Tenkiller. The Cinematropolis's Christopher Shultz said, "It's more interested in the slices of life happening in-between its narrative, emphasizing simple small-town happiness and hardship in equal measure."
    The Awkward Stage takes an even simpler approach to the plot. It focuses more on the vibes of living in the head of a middle school student during an uncertain period of the pandemic. 
    Adding to the awkward vibes is the unique setting of the old Harrah High School. The Blood Relative team filmed this movie inside the partially destroyed school mere weeks before it was demolished. Everything from the soundtrack from Smothered to the animations that transition the audience between vignettes serves to remind you of the less flattering moments of the pre-teen years.
    Check out the conversation ahead of The Awkward Stage's world premiere at 7:30 PM on Friday, June 9th at the Harkins Bricktown Theater.
    35 min
  • dCFF23 - Hell Hath No Fury Interview with Zachary and Jacob Burns, Leah N.H. Philpott, and Jacob Ryan Snovel

    The Cinematropolis's exclusive deadCenter 2023 coverage continues with a podcast interview featuring Planet Thunder Productions' new film, Hell Hath No Fury. First-time feature film director Zachary Burns, Jacob Leighton Burns, and stars Leah N.H. Philpott and Jacob Ryan Snovel join the show before the film's Oklahoma premiere.

    The post ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ Brings Dark Comedy to deadCenter – dCFF23 appeared first on The Cinematropolis.

    41 min
  • dCFF23 - What Rhymes with Reason Interview with Kyle Roberts, Giselle Torres, and Nikolas Thompson
    The Cinematic Schematic kicks off The Cinematropolis's exclusive deadCenter 2023 Film Festival coverage with a look at Kyle Roberts's return to feature filmmaking, What Rhymes with Reason.
    Since The Posthuman Project was released in 2014, Reckless Abandonment Pictures has focused on stop-motion projects, collaborations with Nickelodeon, and short films like The Grave. After nine years, Roberts is finally ready to reveal the fruits of his long-gestating passion project, What Rhymes with Reason, a story about friendship, adventure, and confronting the challenges of mental health amongst teens. The film assembles an impressive young cast including Gattlin Griffith(The Boys), Ricardo Hurtado(Ron's Gone Wrong), and Giselle Torres(Disney's The Villians of the Valley) in an 80s/90s Goonies-style adventure featuring treasure hunts, musical numbers, and an examination of trauma and depression experienced by high schoolers from a Christian perspective.
    Roberts, Torres, and the film's composer, Nikolas Thompson, sit down with host Caleb Masters to discuss their approach to making a teen drama that earns the right to be heard by their audience through the film's score and licensed music.
    Tune in to hear two tracks pulled directly from the movie exclusively for the podcast. Don't miss the world premiere at deadCenter on Thursday, June 8th.
    36 min
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review

    The Cinematic Schematic is joined by comic book scholar, Joshua Unruh, and Geek Girl Features' Chelsea Ratterman to review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

    Does it have the previous film's lightning in a bottle magic?

    The post Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review – The Cinematic Schematic appeared first on The Cinematropolis.

    2 hr 28 min
  • Fast X Review
    Buckle up, listeners. Today we are once again jump-starting our engines to see if The Fast and Furious franchise can possibly continue to live its life a quarter a mile at a time for the tenth time in Fast X.
    Hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman's favorite guilty pleasure franchise featuring Vin Diesel and the Fast family is back, this time with 100% more Jason Mamoa than the previous entry.
    After leaving F9: The Fast Saga in the dust with a negative review in 2021, special guest Jason Black from KJYO-FM and Critics Choice Association returns for another ride in the passenger seat along with Chad Parizman, a podcast host/producer and Founder of Ader Communications, joining us in the back seat.
    In this entry, the family is confronted by a more cartoonish bad guy, Dante (Jason Momoa), seeking vengeance for the death of his father, Hernan Reyes, the villain from Fast 5.
    It wouldn't be a Fast and Furious movie without behind-the-scenes drama to add to the challenge of franchise filmmaking. Justin Lin began production before abruptly resigning not long after production had started. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director had a falling out with Diesel.
    Furthermore, Louis Leterrier (The Transporter, The Incredible Hulk) replaced Lin for Fast X and the inevitable next film.
    After 22 years, ten films(if you count Los Bandoleros), and a Hobbs and Shaw spinoff, what more is there to say about Dom Toretto and Bryan O'Connor's found family in Fast X?
    Listen to our full spoiler-free review for the verdict.
    1 hr 48 min
  • Beau Is Afraid Review
    Have you seen my keys, listener? In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we gather around the podcast table to unpack our experiences watching every worst-case scenario imaginable play out for nearly 3 hours straight in our review discussion of the feel-bad movie of the summer, Beau Is Afraid.
    Ari Aster made a frighteningly memorable splash in horror with 2018's Hereditary followed immediately by his riff on The Wicker Man, Midsommar, in 2019. After netting A24 two box office hits, the director takes his most audacious swing yet with Beau Is Afraid, a psychological dark comedy horror starring academy award winner Joaquin Phoenix.
    The film follows a psychologically unwell man who takes an epic journey to visit his mother filled with grief, self-reflection, and personal discoveries. Martin Scorsese and film critics have praised it as a bold cinematic achievement. Is Beau Is Afraid really a modern classic?
    To render a verdict on the film hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman are rejoined by Oklahoma City city Councilperson and OCU film studies professor, James Cooper, and The Cinematropolis contributor, Daniel Bokemper.
    Has Aster crafted a masterpiece layered with meaning, or has the acclaimed filmmaker overindulged to the point of becoming pastiche?
    Listen to our full spoiler-free review discussion followed by a spoiler-filled analysis to find out!
    2 hr 26 min
  • Skinamarink Executive Producer Jonathan Barkan Talks the Film's Discovery
    In this special edition of The Cinematic Schematic, The Cinematropolis co-founders Jacob and Zachary Burns join host and co-founder Caleb Masters to spotlight the most exciting work happening in horror with the executive producer of Skinamarink, Jonathan Barkan.
    Meet Jonathan Barkan: Horror Cinema Enthusiast, Writer, Film Acquirer and Distributor, and (most recently)Filmmaker
    Currently serving as Head of US Distribution at VMI Worldwide, Jonathan Barkan has had an incredible career working in the horror film genre. Starting with his years as music editor at Bloody-Disgusting.com, he subsequently transitioned into a managing editor role at Dread Central before becoming the editor-in-chief in 2018. In 2019, Barkan took his horror film career in a different direction and jumped into the vice president of acquisitions and distribution role at The Horror Collective.
    Fun Fact: While working for The Horror Collective, Barkan discovered our parent entity, Planet Thunder Productions' movie, Shifter. Longtime listeners may recall our in-depth series documenting the making of the time travel body horror film.
    Furthermore, Barkan continued his work with filmmakers in horror film acquisitions in his later roles at Mutiny Pictures and Bayview Entertainment. It was through this stint in acquisitions he discovered one of 2023's most noteworthy films to date, Skinamarink.
    In today's conversation with Barkan, we talk with him about how he found his way into the business of horror cinema. Next, we cover his secret to discovering and distributing films like Skinamarink. Lastly, we'll get insight into the latest updates on his upcoming directorial debut, Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary. The discussion concludes with a two-minute rapid-fire interview round where Barkan spills his secrets.
    Skinamarink is now streaming on Shudder and will be available on Blu-ray on June 20th. Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary is in production.
    1 hr 39 min

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