The Projection Booth Podcast
The Projection Booth has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. With over 600 episodes to date and an ever-growing fan base, The Projection Booth regularly attracts special guest talent eager to discuss their past gems, including Ellen Burstyn, Willem Dafoe, Joe Dante, Bruce Dern, Chris Elliott, William Friedkin, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Ed Harris, John Landis, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Palin, Sir Tim Rice, Julie Taymor, John Waters, and more. The podcast features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis. Visit us at http://www.projectionboothpodcast.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.
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July 24, 2024 • 76 mins
Sci-Fi July continues with Ishiro Honda’s Latitude Zero. Written by Ted Sherdeman and based on his and his wife Anne’s NBC radio serial of the same name, the film stars Joseph Cotten as a Captain Nemo-like commander of a submarine on it's way to... Latitude Zero, an underwater Utopia populated by scientists from the world over. Their enemy, Malic (Cesar Romero), will stop at nothing to destroy them, even if it means making a mant...
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July 20, 2024 • 50 mins
Writer Heidi Honeycutt discusses her new book, I Spit On Your Celluloid, a look at female genre filmmakers throughout the ages.
Buy her book and find out more via her website: https://heidihoneycutt.com/
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July 17, 2024 • 137 mins
Katharine Coldiron (Junk Film) and Tim Luz (CinemaSpection) join Mike to discuss Phil Tucker's sci-fi classic Robot Monster (1953), a cold war film in which a gorilla with a porthole on his head tries to eliminate the last few hu-mans that remain on Earth after unleashing an army of dinosaurs to wipe out everyone else.
Mike talks with Bob Furmanek President and Founder of the 3-D Film Archive before chatting with Anders Runestad abo...
Mike talks with Bob Furmanek President and Founder of the 3-D Film Archive before chatting with Anders Runestad abo...
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July 15, 2024 • 37 mins
On this special episode, Mike talks with Dawn Mikkelson about her new documentary, Minnesota Mean (2024), It's a look at a season in the rough and tumble world of Roller Derby.
Find out more at https://www.minnesotameanfilm.com/
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July 11, 2024 • 59 mins
On this special cross-over episode with Chris Stachiw's Kulturecast, we're discussing the new Netflix film, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F - The TLDL; is that Mike, Chris, and Father Malone really enjoyed its mix of Murphy's comic chops and a few throwbacks to the older films.
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July 10, 2024 • 65 mins
We continue Sci-Fi July with a look at the Yogoslavian/Czechosolvakian co-production Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy. Directed by Dusan Vukotic and co-written by Projection Booth favorite Milos Macourek, the film stars Zarko Potocnjak as Robert, a writer who manifests some of his own characters to hilarious results.
Samm Deighan (Eros plus Massacre) and Ryan Verrill (Disc-Connected) join Mike to discuss this quirky sci-fi film.
Be...
Samm Deighan (Eros plus Massacre) and Ryan Verrill (Disc-Connected) join Mike to discuss this quirky sci-fi film.
Be...
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July 9, 2024 • 10 mins
Just a little preview of some stuff coming up at the Fantasia Film Festival which runs July 18 to August 4 in Montreal, Canada. It's the premiere genre festival of North America.
This year's fest includes several Projection Booth favorites including Miguel Llansó, Monte Hellman, Allen Moyle, Kier-la Janisse, Elric Kane, Vincenzo Natali, and more.
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This year's fest includes several Projection Booth favorites including Miguel Llansó, Monte Hellman, Allen Moyle, Kier-la Janisse, Elric Kane, Vincenzo Natali, and more.
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July 8, 2024 • 23 mins
Mike talks with Peter Tatara and Alexander Fee, programmers from the Japan Cuts Film Festival which runs July 10 - 21, 2024. Find out more at the website https://japansociety.org/film/japancuts/
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July 5, 2024 • 36 mins
Mike spoke with Robert Kiviat about his career and his latest "documentary", The Mandela Effect Phenomenon which tries to present a serious argument that self-centered people mis-remembering things is an obvious signal that they're in the wrong universe.
After a lot of debate, Mike relucantly decided to release this special episode.
THE MANDELA EFFECT PHENOMENON will be available on Digital on July 9, 2024.
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After a lot of debate, Mike relucantly decided to release this special episode.
THE MANDELA EFFECT PHENOMENON will be available on Digital on July 9, 2024.
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July 4, 2024 • 44 mins
Darkman, Barb Wire, Navy Seals, Hard Target... all of these (and more!) were written by Chuck Pfarrer, military-man turned screenwriter who made his bones throughout the 1990s. On this special episode, Mike spoke with Mr. Pfarrer about his fascinating career.
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July 3, 2024 • 80 mins
Samm Deighan and Axel Kohagen join Mike to kick off a month of science fiction fun with the one film that is the least sci-fi of the bunch, The Unknown Man of Shandigor. Released in 1967 the film is a rare feature film from Swiss filmmaker Jean-Louis Roy.
The film is something of a spy movie which stars the singular Daniel Emilfork as Professor Herbert von Krantz, a scientist who has crafted a device called the Annulator which can ...
The film is something of a spy movie which stars the singular Daniel Emilfork as Professor Herbert von Krantz, a scientist who has crafted a device called the Annulator which can ...
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July 1, 2024 • 169 mins
We wrap up the first of a few Request Months with one from Brian Tessitore, The Graduate. The Mike Nichols film stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, the titular graduate. He's adrift after college and falls into an affair with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), a family friend.
Keith Gordon and Katharine Coldiron join Mike to discuss the seminal film along with homages and the "sequel," Rumor Has It. Beverly Gray, author of Seduce...
Keith Gordon and Katharine Coldiron join Mike to discuss the seminal film along with homages and the "sequel," Rumor Has It. Beverly Gray, author of Seduce...
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June 26, 2024 • 81 mins
We continue our Patreon request month with one requested by Peter Rogers, Orson Welles's The Trial. Released in 1962, the film stars Anthony Perkins as K in this adaptation of Franz Kafka's nightmare in bureaucracy.
Playwright David MacGregor and writer Mike Faloon join Mike to discuss this beautiful, baroque interpretation of Kafka's work as well as 1962 Norwegian television film and the 1993 version starring Kyle MacLaughlin.
Beco...
Playwright David MacGregor and writer Mike Faloon join Mike to discuss this beautiful, baroque interpretation of Kafka's work as well as 1962 Norwegian television film and the 1993 version starring Kyle MacLaughlin.
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June 25, 2024 • 32 mins
Susie Bright returns to The Projection Booth to talk about her work on The Wachowskis' Bound, her audible show, donating her archives to Cornell, and her substack, https://susiebright.ink/
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June 24, 2024 • 55 mins
Bruce Joel Rubin (Brainstorm, Ghost, Jacob's Ladder) and Joseph Maddrey join Mike to discuss two new books put out by Paul Cronin's Sticking Place Books: It's Only A Movie -- Bruce's revelatory autobiography -- and Three Visionary Screenplays -- a compilation of three unproduced Rubin scripts.
Find out more at https://www.brucejoelrubin.com/
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June 21, 2024 • 38 mins
On this special episode Mike talks with writer/director Derek Ting, actor Marc Singer, and actress Nikki Leigh about their parts in Ting's latest film, Agent Recon. This action/sci-fi film opens in the U.S. on June 21, 2024.
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June 20, 2024 • 18 mins
Mike spoke with director Nate Dushku, writer Amnon Lourie, and star Michael Emery about their queer horror film Birder (2023) in which a birdwatcher (Emery) visits a nude campground in New Hampshire.
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June 19, 2024 • 33 mins
On this special episode, Mike talks with Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda, the directors and co-writers of Mind Body Spirit, a found footage horror film in which a yoga influencer (Sarah J. Bartholomew) finds there's something going on in her studio.
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June 19, 2024 • 91 mins
Andrew Nette, El Goro, and Mike have no failure in communicating about Stuart Rosenberg’s 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. The film stars Paul Newman as the titular Luke. He’s a former war hero who cuts the heads off of some parking meters and gets tossed onto a chain gang for his crimes.
We discuss the film and the book as well as highlighting some of Rosenberg's other directorial efforts.
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We discuss the film and the book as well as highlighting some of Rosenberg's other directorial efforts.
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June 12, 2024 • 156 mins
We’re kicking off a month of Patreon requests with a request from Dallas Novell; 1982’s TV movie The Executioner's Song. Based on a book by Norman Mailer with a screenplay by Mailer -- and maybe Tracy Keenan Wynn -- it’s the story of the last nine months in the life of Gary Gilmore which stars Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore and Rosanna Arquette as his girlfriend, Nicole Baker.
Made for TV Mayhem's Amanda Reyes and Wake Up Heavy's Mark B...
Made for TV Mayhem's Amanda Reyes and Wake Up Heavy's Mark B...
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