The Projection Booth

We round out 2013 with coverage of our favorite films. This week, Rob picks The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, the surrealist masterpiece by director Luis Bunuel where a group of upper crust couples can't seem to ever finish a dinner party.
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Special Guests: John Baxter

& Jean-Claude Carrière

We round out 2013 with coverage of our favorite films. This week, Rob picks The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, the surrealist masterpiece by director Luis Buñuel where a group of upper crust couples can't seem to ever finish a dinner party.

Links:

Buy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie on DVD

Rent or buy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie from Amazon Instant Video

Buy The Exterminating Angel on DVD

Buy Luis Buñuel's My Last Sigh

Buy John Baxter's Buñuel

Visit the official John Baxter's website

Buy Books by Jean-Claude Carrière

Visit the website for Jean-Claude Carrière's recent art show

Visit the website for Jean-Claude Carrière's recent art book

Is The Brain that Wouldn't Die a schlock classic or a treatise on unfettered male desire? Why not both? We're joined by Professor Kevin Heffernan, author of Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968.
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Special Guests: Jon Gillespie, Tom Sivak

& Kevin Frei

Is The Brain that Wouldn't Die a schlock classic or a treatise on unfettered male desire? Why not both?

We spoke to not one but three people who have worked on musical adaptations of the film (The Brain that Wouldn't Die: A New Musical, The Brain that Wouldn't Die: In 3-D!, and Head: The Musical).

We're joined by Professor Kevin Heffernan, author of Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968.

The paths of podcasts twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations and often lose themselves in error and darkness!

Links:

Buy Kevin Heffernan's Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold

Buy the Synapse version of The Brain that Wouldn't Die on DVD

Buy Professor Dowell's Testament on DVD

Buy Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Beliaev

Buy Jon Gillespie's The Brain that Wouldn't Die: A New Musical soundtrack

Learn morea bout Tom Sivak's The Brain that Wouldn't Die: In 3-D!

Orson Welles's follow-up to Citizen Kane adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about industrial progress and the loss of innocence set against a tumultuous family, the Ambersons.
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Special Guests: William Friedkin, Joseph McBride, Christopher Welles Feder, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum

An episode two years in the making...

Orson Welles's follow-up to Citizen Kane adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about industrial progress and the loss of innocence set against a tumultuous family, the Ambersons.

Welles infamously lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons before its final release. We'll examine its production, its destruction, and attempts to restore what many consider Welles's forgotten masterpiece.

We're joined by guest co-host Roger L. Ryan.

And...there's a special appearance by Mondo Justin!

Links:

Buy The Magnificent Ambersons on DVD

Read Mike Thomas's The Decline & Fall of The Magnificent Ambersons

Read David Kamp's Magnificent Obsession

Buy Jonathan Rosenbaum's Discovering Orson Welles

Visit the Jonathan Rosenbaum website

Buy Joseph McBride's Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?

America's favorite pin-up girl, Bettie Page, still casts her alluring shadow over popular culture. In Mark Mori's Bettie Page Reveals All, we hear Bettie tell her own story about her rise to infamy and subsequent retreat from the limelight.
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Special Guest: Mark Mori

America's #1 pin-up girl, Bettie Page, still casts her alluring shadow over popular culture. In Mark Mori's Bettie Page Reveals All, we hear Bettie tell her own story about her rise to infamy and subsequent retreat from the limelight.

The film is making its way around the country. Visit the official website to find where it's playing near you.

Links:

Buy Bettie Page Reveals All on DVD

Visit the Bettie Page Reveals All website

Learn more about the unfilmed Scorsese Page biopic

Buy Varietease/Teaserama on DVD

Visit the official Bettie Page website

For Thanksgiving, enjoy the story of Reagan-era morality and economics gone wild: Eating Raoul put "cult filmmaker" Paul Bartel on the map with a surprise mainstream hit about Paul and Mary Bland, two Puritanical folks who kill swingers for cash to fulfill their "American Dream."
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Special Guests: Mary Woronov, Dick Blackburn,

Susan Saiger, Jed Feuer

Just in time for Thanksgiving, it's a story of Reagan-era morality and economics gone wild, Eating Raoul put "cult filmmaker" Paul Bartel on the map with a surprise mainstream hit about Paul and Mary Bland, two Puritanical folks who kill swingers for cash to fulfill their "American Dream."

Get ready to dig in as guest co-host: Adam Spiegelman of the Proudly Resents podcast joins us once again to dig into this "Bland Enchilada" paired with Château Lafite Rothschild.

Links:

Visit the official Proudly Resents website

Buy Eating Raoul on DVD

Buy the Eating Raoul soundtrack on vinyl

Buy the musical Eating Raoul soundtrack

Buy Eating Raoul - The Comic Book

Visit the official Mary Woronov website

Buy Mary Woronov's "Swimming Underground: My time at Andy Warhol's Factory"

Visit the official Susan Saiger website

Visit the official Jed Feuer website