The Projection Booth

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to Jeffrey Combs about his one man play Nevermore, an evening with Edgar Allan Poe.

Mr. Combs will be performing the play at the Sleepy Hollow Film Festival on Saturday October 12 2019. Find out more at The Sleepy Hollow Film Festival website.

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Released in 1979, Bill Norton's More American Graffiti reunites most of the original cast of George Lucas's 1973 film (save Richard Dreyfus). Rather than looking at a single night, the film spans four New Years Eves across the lives of five main characters.

Discussion:

00:02:08: Terry Frost and Trevor Gumbel join Mike to discuss American Graffiti and More American Graffiti.

Interviews:

00:45:55: Writer/Director Bill Norton

01:26:43: Actress Candy Clark

01:51:11: Co-writer of American Graffiti Willard Huyck

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We're kicking off Czechtember 2019 with a look at Jan Schmidt's End of August at the Ozone Hotel (AKA Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon). Released in 1967 the film is another in a collaboration between Schmidt and screenwriter Pavel Jurácek (who we discussed on our Case for a Rookie Hangman episode. Jurácek wrote the screenplay which has a group of women trying to survive in the post nuclear apocalypse. The film moves at a slow but determined pace and should not be viewed if you’re sensitive to animal cruelty.

Kat Ellinger and Rahne Alexander join Mike to discuss the film as well as some other "quiet apocalypse" movies.

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On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to Randall Lobb, the co-director of Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2017). They discuss some of Lobb's other projects which include documentaries on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Conan.

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Released in 2008, Tarsem Singh's The Fall is a very loose remake of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho. The film stars Lee Pace as Roy, a stunt man who’s had an accident that has left him paralyzed from the waist down. While at the hospital he befriends a little girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru). The film goes between the two of them at the hospital and a wild world of imagination crafted by the pair as a way to keep their minds off their boredom and pain.

Brian Hoyle (The Cinema of John Boorman) and Maurice Bursztynski join Mike to discuss the film. Production designer Ged Clarke talks about the long journey of The Fall's creation.

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Based loosely on Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary’s indie darling, Plump Fiction (1997) stars Paul Dinello and Tommy Davidson as a salt and pepper hit man team. Dinello has been asked by his boss to take out the boss’s wife, Mimi Hungry (Julie Brown) to show her a good time. Their adventure brings them in contact with a handful of other Tarantino films as well as other independent movies of the day.

Mike Sullivan and Chris Gore stop by to discuss Plump Fiction, Chris's film My Big Fat Independent Movie and more. Writer/director Bob Koherr provides some history and behind-the-scenes stories of making the film and what it did for his career.

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Made between 1998 and 2001, Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm (1998), Revelation (1999), Tribulation (2000), and Judgement (2001) tell a sprawling tale of the biblical End Times from the Rapture to the rise of the AntiChrist. There's also some Virtual Reality and Mr. T thrown in for good measure.

Jen Handorf and Dan Martin join Mike to discuss the End Times and the advantages and disadvantages of getting a Mark of the Beast tattoo. Writer/director André van Heerden discusses his work with Cloud 10 Pictures.

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Based on a book by Richard C. O'Brien, Don Bluth's The Secret of NIMH (1982) is the animated tale of Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman), the widow with several children, one of whom is very sick and can not be moved. This is a problem as the Brisby family needs to move due to the impending destruction of their home.

El Goro and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss this gorgeous and compelling film along with the horrible straight-to-video sequel, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998). Producer/animator Gary Goldman shares some of the secrets behind The Secret of NIMH.

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Released in 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris is the second of three adaptations of Stanislav Lem's 1961 book of the same name. The film tells the tale of Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) who travels to a station orbiting the planet Solaris, a sentient ocean that seems to be able to read the unconscious thoughts of those on the station and conjure up living embodiments of someone from the astronauts' past, with varying results.

Keith Gordon and Rob St. Mary return to The Projection Booth to discuss the Tarkovsky film, the 1968 TV movie, and the Steven Soderbergh adaptation.

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Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is the origin story of Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) when he was a little scamp on Corellia and all the things that put him on the path to be the Han Solo we all loved... before he was horrifically murdered by his own son.

Chris Bricklemyer and Josh Stewart join Mike to discuss the oft-maligned and troubled Star Wars film. VFX Supervisor and Co-Producer Rob Bredow talks about his book Making Solo: A Star Wars Story.

This episode uses clips from MauLer's Solo "review".

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