The Projection Booth

As Roman month comes to a close we look at the 1999 film Titus, directed by Julie Taymor and based on the bloody tragedy by William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.
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Special Guests: Julie Taymor & Harry Lennix

Guest Co-Host: Edward Pettit

As Roman month comes to a close we look at the 1999 film Titus, directed by Julie Taymor and based on the bloody tragedy by William Shakespeare,Titus Andronicus. The film tells to the story of a Roman general (Anthony Hopkins) who returns home following a battle to find a Rome in transition. It's about traditions, vengeance, race, and more.

Links:

Buy Titus on DVD

Buy The Tempest on DVD/Blu-Ray 

Buy The Blacklist on DVD/Blu-Ray 

Visit the official Harry Lennix website

Learn more about Theatre for a New Audience - the company that helped to birth this version of Titus

Roman Month continues with the 1969 film, Fellini Satyricon. Based loosely on the remaining fragments of Petronius's voluminous work, the film is a series of vignettes.
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Special Guest: John Baxter

Guest Co-Host: Jim Tushinski

Roman Month continues with the 1969 film, Fellini Satyricon. Based loosely on the remaining fragments of Petronius's voluminous work, the film is a series of vignettes about Encolpio (Martin Potter) and his friend Ascilto (Hiram Keller). The film mixes sex, philosophy, and death in the era of Nero.

Satyricon is one of the more fantastic and surreal of Fellini's films and one that definitely lives up to the term "Fellini-esque." 

Links:

Buy Fellini by John Baxter

Buy Fellini Satyricon on DVD

Buy On the Set of Fellini Satyricon : A Behind-the-Scenes Diary by Eileen Lanouette Hughes

Buy the paperback of Fellini's Satyricon

The second feature narrative film from legendary British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, Life of Brian finds the lads in Roman-occupied Judea circa 33 AD.
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Special Guest: Roger Christian, Will Yapp & Owen Harris 

Guest Co-Host: Ken Stanley

(Bloody) Roman Month continues with the 1979 filmLife of Brian – the second feature film from the legendary British comedy troupe - Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The film finds the lads in Roman occupied Judea circa 33 AD – a time when the Jews are being oppressed and a messiah is wanted. No, it’s not Brian. He was born in the manger down the alley from Jesus. Life of Brian tells the tale of Brian of Nazareth, a regular chap, who through a few twists and turns, ends up as sort of a fun house mirror version of the messiah. 

Causing a scandal upon its initial release, Life of Brian is considered one of the finest comedies to come out of U.K.

The 1979 film Caligula is a biopic about one of the most-wicked rulers of Rome. Directed by Tinto Brass, written by Gore Vidal and produced by Bob Guccione of Penthouse magazine.
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Special Guest: Ranjit Sandhu & Alexander Tuschinski

Guest Co-Host: Maitland McDonagh

We begin "Roman Month" with the 1979 filmCaligula is a biopic about one of the most-wicked rulers of Rome. It was directed by Tinto Brass until he took his name off it. It was written by Gore Vidal until he took his name of it. And, it was proudly produced by Bob Guccione of Penthouse magazine who didn't take his name off it. Caligula tells the tale of “Little Boots” and his anarchistic rule over Rome between 37-41 AD. Malcolm McDowell plays the title role and the film features well-known and respected British actors Sir John Gielgud, Sir Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren... to name a few… along with a swath of Penthouse Pets. 

Over 35 years later, Caligula is still as notorious for what's on screen as what went on behind the scenes. 

Correction: Victor Mature was not in Nightmare Alley.

We're looking at Naosuke Kurosawa's 1980 Japanese Roman Porno film Zoom In: Sex Apartments. Guests: Jerry Chandler of Synapse Films & Coffin Jon.
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Special Guest: Jerry Chandler

This week we're looking at Naosuke Kurosawa's 1980 Japanese Roman o film Zoom In: Sex Apartments (AKA Zoom In: Rape Apartments/Zûmu in: Bôkô danchi). The film tells the tale of a young married woman who gets raped on the way to visit an old flame. The assault appears to be a part of a series of similar rapes and gruesome murders taking place in an apartment block. The film is visually striking and seems inspired by Dario Argento's 1970s giallo films. 

We're joined once again by VCinema's Coffin Jon to talk about pinku eiga, roman o, and more.

Links:

Buy Zoom In: Sex Apartments on DVD 

Buy Jasper Sharpe's Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema

Check out Synapse's Nikkatsu Roman o page