The Projection Booth

Mike talks with writer Randy Schmidt about his biography on Karen Carpenter and the 2023 documentary, Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection.

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French Month continues with a look at Jean Renoir’s Rules of the Game. Released originally in 1939, the film was based on Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne and skewers French nobility in a comedy of manners. Released on the eve of World War II, the film was not a hit cut down to a mere 86 minute running time. It would later be expanded another 20 minutes in a version that not even Renoir had ever seen.

Robert Bellissimo and Otto Bruno join Mike to discuss this beloved film.



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Lee Demarbre (Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter) returns to The Projection Booth to discuss his latest film, Enter the Drag Dragon, a rollicking tale of kung fu, independent film, and drag.

Do not watch this movie if you're from Tennessee.






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Yaniv Eidelstein and Stephen Scarlata join Mike to look at Adrian Lyne's 1990 film Jacob's Ladder It’s the story of Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) who’s platoon in Vietnam is attacked by unknown forces. He suffers from flashbacks of this horrific event in 1970s New York where he’s left his wife and is living with his co-worker, Jezebel (Elizabeth Pena). He is plagued, as well, by horrific visions of demons. Is Jacob going mad? Is he a victim of a government plot? Or is it something else entirely?

Special guests writer Bruce Joel Rubin and director Adrian Lyne discuss the making of the film and its fate.

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On this special episode, Mike talks with Quentin Dupieux all about his latest film, Smoking Causes Cancer, which is now playing at film festivals and will be streaming in late March, 2023.




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On this special episode, Mike talks with Artistic Director 
Kevin Monahan and Director of Programming
 Nicole McControversy about the 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival, a five-day fest focused on offbeat shorts and features.

Check out the full program and buy tickets at https://bostonunderground.org/

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On this special episode, Mike talks with Nate Orloff about his career as an editor from his early days at Bad Robot to his most recent gig, editing the fourth chapter of the John Wick series.






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French Month continues with a look at Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise (1945). Set in the early-mid 1800s, the film tells a winding tale of the woman Garance (Arletty) and the four men in her orbit: The mime Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault), the actor Frederick (Pierre Brasseur), the criminal Larcenaire (Marcel Herrand), and the aristocrat Edouard (Louis Salou).

Keith Gordon and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss the film as well as the compelling circumstances around its making.

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On this special episode, Mike talks with Austin and Meredith Bragg about their feature film debut, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2023). Based on the story of Roger Sharpe, the GQ journalist who proved that pinball is a game of skill, no chance, it's an ambitious and delightful debut.

Find out more at https://pinballfilm.com/

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On this episode Mike talks with Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak about their new film A Disturbance in the Force (2023). It's all about the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special and just had its premiere at South By Southwest.

Be sure to visit their website https://www.holidayspecialdoc.... to find out when it's playing near you.

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