The Projection Booth

We talked to Fred Williamson about Original Gangstas 2: Old School Gangstas, a project he's trying to get funded via Kickstarter. Give our interview our listen and then give Fred some greenbacks.
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More of our interview with Brian Hoyle. Here he talks about his affection for Exorcist II: The Heretic.
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Special Guest: Fred "The Hammer" Williamson

We talked to Fred Williamson about Original Gangstas 2: Old School Gangstas, a project he's trying to get funded via IndieGoGo. Give our interview our listen and then give Fred some greenbacks.

Links:

Contribute to the campaign

More of our interview with Brian Hoyle. Here he talks about his affection for Exorcist II: The Heretic.

Special Guest: Brian Hoyle

Ever want to see Sean Connery wearing a red diaper? Then look no further than John Boorman's Zardoz, a political allegory with nods to The Wizard of Oz.

We're joined by our old friend, Josh Johnson, director of Rewind This.

Links:

Buy Rewind This! on DVD... and VHS!

Buy Brian Hoyle's The Cinema of John Boorman

Buy Zardoz on DVD

Buy Zardoz on (Region 2) Blu-Ray

Buy John Boorman's Adventures of a Suburban Boy

Buy the Zardoz novelization

Hear Josh on the VHS Extravaganza

Listen to the How Did This Get Made? on Zardoz

As mentioned in our Zardoz episode, there are a lot of songs related to the film. Here's a collection of Zardoz music for your listening pleasure.

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.
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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.

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

We round out 2013 with coverage of our favorite films. This week, Mike picks Black Shampoo, the blaxploitation film from Greydon Clark about a Lothario hairdresser on the Sunset Strip who finds true love only to have it taken away. He turns from loving machine to killing machine in a fury of chain saws, pool cues, and Western Style Bar be ques.
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Special Guests: Greydon Clark & Dean Cundey

Can you feel the love? We wrap up 2013 with Mike's favorite film, Black Shampoo, the tale of an African American salon owner who squares off against the mob when his true love is taken from him; going from a loving machine to a killing machine.

We're joined by Leon Chase, one of the folks who celebrates Black Shampoo Day every December 26th.

Links:

Buy Black Shampoo on DVD

Buy Greydon Clark's autobiography On the Cheap

Listen to Leon's band, Uncle Leon & the Alibis

Visit The Reign of Zaius website

Visit The Pill Girls website

Read more about Mike's Black Shampoo obsession in Impossibly Funky

Subscribe to Skip E. Lowe's YouTube Channel

Read about Dean Cundey's American Society of Cinematographers honor

Visit the Maverick's Flat website

Listen to our earlier episode about Greydon Clark's Wacko

Listen to our earlier episode about Candy Tangerine Man