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Bob Sham and Angela are film fans discussing a wide variety of films from throughout history and the world. Box office hits to historically significant deep cuts as well as monthly themes of creators, concepts and genres that help us expand understanding of film & find movies they may not otherwise come across. They are not experts but enthusiasts. Not too dumb. Not too smart. Just right. Let’s watch some movies. We love you.
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Bob Sham and Angela are film fans discussing a wide variety of films from throughout history and the world. Box office hits to historically significant deep cuts as well as monthly themes of creators, concepts and genres that help us expand understanding of film & find movies they may not otherwise come across. They are not experts but enthusiasts. Not too dumb. Not too smart. Just right. Let’s watch some movies. We love you.
BODY & SOUL all February. Black directors with black leads and today’s discussion is of a dripping Neo noir that is sometimes insane and funny but always entertaining. Actor/Director Bill Duke dropped this crime drama in the wake of the success of films like “Boyz in the Hood”. While not as prolific as those, Duke’s 1992 film “DEEP COVER” starring Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum & Clarence Williams III has earned it’s place among film appreciators as a worthy Neo-noir full of style and all the hard boiled film tropes that still hit. Fishburne goes by “John” he’s a cop deep undercover trying to take down some drug kingpins and with the help of a flashy lawyer who seems very comfortable on the streets, “John” becomes quite successful at criminality. The lines blur on every level and the politics of the war on drugs makes doing the right thing practically impossible. Is he a cop pretending to be a drug dealer or a drug dealer pretending to be a cop? Some great lines in this one. We happened to find a link to this one: https://archive.org/details/deep-cover_202404 Video preview for this month’s theme: https://youtu.be/DpM2KXOl4hY Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
Happy Valentines Day, folks! Hope you’re out there getting freaked now if not sooner. Today’s lovely selection is a silky smooth flick about generational flaws made easier by very attractive people getting together. Stella Meghie’s 2020 romance “THE PHOTOGRAPH” starring Issa Rae, Lakeith Stanfield & Chanté Adams has the feeling despite it being a story about emotional unavailability. But you know that emotional unavailability is gonna break right? It’s valentines Day! Sure, it would not be unusual if Bob picked some fucked up shit on the holiday but, nah, we want to feel the love. Also, this film is remarkably relaxing and, yes, people do get freaked in it. There’s also a conversation about Hip-Hop stars that seems as though it would be very different in today’s world. More on that inside. They not like us, I heard. Canadiens, I think. I believe we caught this on Freevee so put it on with your love buddy and feel the love on Love Day. Video preview for this month’s theme: https://youtu.be/DpM2KXOl4hY Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
Today’s discussion for February’s theme, BODY & SOUL (black directors black leads), comes from France by way of Senegal and was available in the US in 2020 on Netflix until several very well known and high ranking pedophiles in government decided that this film belonged in the culture war sphere of nonsense. Maimouna Doucouré’s coming of age film “CUTIES (MIGNONNES)” is an obvious critique of the oversexualization of young people through online & social media in particular. It’s obvious if you’re not stupid or some ultracynical political ghoul. That’s not to say that Doucouré’s film doesn’t provoke. She wields discomfort throughout the movie unless you’re a creep, and this film acknowledge the existence of those creeps. Creeps such as those who criticized this movie and called for its banning. Creeps like alleged pedophile Senator Josh Hawley who likely is driven in this quest by dark feelings he may have deep down inside. First generation French Senegalese girl “Amy”, played by Fathia Youssouf, is desperate for some friends outside of her traditional upbringing. She ingrains herself into a dance obsessed clique in her school and secretly navigates the online world (on a phone she stole from her cousin who never turned it off) to find ways to fit in with her boy obsessed peers. This movie has been taken down on US Netflix (company choice) so it is rather difficult to find. Good luck. Maybe you saw it five years ago? Watch out for pedophiles in your government. There are A LOT. They often complain about art. That’s a sign to watch for. Video preview for this month’s theme: https://youtu.be/DpM2KXOl4hY Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
Black Directors & Black Leads for February’s theme we call “BODY & SOUL” and today we hit up a movie that has the distinction of being the highest budgeted movie by a black female director. While the movie did break even, it didn’t give Disney the sign to drain this property of all life ad nauseam. Ava DuVernay, director of “Selma” and the documentary “13th” has her praise out there but her 2018 adaptation of the Madeline L’Engle kids novel “A WRINKLE IN TIME” is a bizarre and stumbling feature film. We don’t mean bizarre in the way you might expect from this particular story. It stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Levi Miller. The young lead does well and the kids are innocent in this but everybody else doesn’t have any excuse. This movie might have one of the most annoying characters we’ve ever discussed for the show. Oprah sucks (more on that inside), Witherspoon sucks in this and incessant cuts and half assed displays of imagination overwhelmed what fleeting moments of quality we see pass quickly by. Seriously, who ever selected and wrote those quotes for Mindy Kaling, that entire concept, you should absolutely be embarrassed. Admittedly this would be a challenge to adapt well and it’s already a red flag to see it under the Disney banner. It takes a village for all things great and terrible. We’re lucky enough to find a lot of quality when we explore movie themes. We’ve got some solid quality this month already but sometimes a movie comes along and demands that you be underwhelmed. Hear us talk all about it. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
BODY & SOUL. Black Directors & Black Leads and today’s discussion is among the early works for full length feature films directed by a black woman or at least the first in a while. There is a lot of Black Hollywood history lost to time as we discuss in this conversation about Kathleen Collins true life inspired independent film about the dissolving of a relationship. What the 1982 film “LOSING GROUND” lacks in budget it makes up for in great characterization and some nice experimentation. A convincing look at the personalities & lives in the orbit of arts and academia. Sadly, Kathleen Collins passed away less than a decade after the film was released. She was just in her late 40s. The movie stars Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones wearing a bowler hat and a cloak. Yeah, the guy from “Night of the Living Dead” is rocking a cloak, totally unironic, and actually pulling tail with it. Fucking legend. This really seems like what middle aged black men should do. Wear cloaks and spit game. I think they could get away with it. Bill Gunn’s performance as a himbo painter feels very real. We’ve all known some Victors. Maybe you were a Victor once? Painting your abstract landscapes and wiggling your hips at Puerto Rican women. Leila, though. Shit…I get it. I’d be dancing like a fool too but I would also be wearing a cloak so I definitely would have sealed the deal way faster than Victor. We found “LOSING GROUND” on KANOPY and I think it’s on Criterion Channel as well. Seek it out for a cornerstone in independent cinema history. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
February is BODY & SOUL. That means Black Directors and Black Leads and we’re anxious to get back into it after last week’s “white Jamaican” debacle with an influential independent comedy featuring the beginnings of certain writers, directors and actors in prominent black comedies over the years. After maxing out credits cards and timing out film equipment rentals just right over the span of two and a half years, Robert Townsend hit independent success upon the release of his 1987 directorial debut “HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE”. A comedy that examines the pitfalls of trying to be a working black actor in Hollywood. There’s the core story of Bobby (Townsend) who must figure out how to live between his desire to be an actor and his personal belief in what he wants to be as a black actor. This underlines several skits involving rotating players such as Keenan Ivory Wayans, Anne-Marie Johnson, John Witherspoon, Damon Wayans and many more. Hollywood Shuffle is considered a significant cult hit with broad influence. It’s worth checking out for the “Black Acting School” bit alone. Find it, watch it and let’s talk about it. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
NOTE: yeah we forgot to cut out the clip between deciding our rating and and adding it to our list. So you hear some "click clack" and the sound of Angela blowing her nose. It's about a minute long of extra RAW material. We're leaving it in. Fuck it. We were a mess on this one. But that's not the only mistake... OK we fucked up. When picking films for February’s theme, BODY AND SOUL, we aimed for Black Directors and Black Leads. We actually don’t have too much blacksploitation era movies on the docket as many of them had white directors. Today’s discussion slipped through our fingers but can you blame us? When you hear about a Jamaican movie made by a Jamaican director, if you had to assume you wouldn’t think that Jamaican director would be white. This iconic musical Neo-noir by is made by the late Perry Henzell, a native Jamaican who is white. But it’s not too hard a pill to swallow as this classic film starring reggae legend Jimmy Cliff was a smash hit in Jamaica in its day and an essential cultural artifact for important musical movements. It’s a lot of movies this month that earned their place in cultural history, well know or otherwise, and the 1972 film “THE HARDER THEY COME” is as essential to film art as it gets. Musically, all killer no filler. Heavy with crime elements as well as tranquil scenes of family and fantasy. This flick hits a lot of emotional layers and explains certain aspects of Jamaican society of the time in an insightful way. There’s a lot of links online. We’ll throw you this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGQ6gUe04A Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
BODY & SOUL this month. That means Black Directors and Black Leads and we follow up our kickoff with another actor/director movie. We couldn’t get through this month without puffing a Spike Lee joint so it’s time to discuss one of his most essential works and Spike Lee’s most significant lead performance in one of his own films is, of course, 1989’s “DO THE RIGHT THING”. This rich ensemble includes Ossie Davis, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn and John Turturro. Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn might have some tension but it’s represented here with a genuine warmth and sincerity that makes you want to be there. Maybe get out before the cops start killing and your favorite pizza joint burns down. All of Spike’s new wave influences laid bare, at least a hundred dutch angles and more than enough Public Enemy. Bob complains about Radio Raheem only playing the single of “Fight the Power” but the album featuring the song, “Fear of a Black Planet”, followed up the single which was originally released for this film. The LP version is extended. Wasn’t that a fun fact? Here’s a link to the flick we found (note: these links often die): https://archive.org/details/do.-the.-right.-thing.-1989.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264-yts.-am Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
It’s a fresh month and we’re coming at you with the freshest theme that we’re calling “BODY & SOUL”. All month long is Black Directors and Black Leads and we’re gonna kick it off with the directorial debut of classic Black Hollywood royalty. When Sidney Poitier took over the director reigns for the 1972 western “BUCK AND THE PREACHER” he got bit by the director bug. Eighteen years later he directed “Ghost Dad” so it was definitely worth it. Buck (Poitier) is a wagon master helping some former slaves move out West to avoid some Bounty Hunters looking to scare the Exodusters back to the south for a shitty life of indentured servitude. Along the way he meets Preacher (Harry Belafonte) and it’s hard to say if he can be trusted. I mean, he’s got bad teeth. Red flag #1. But Buck and the Preacher might have to work together to survive the promise of the journey. Also starring Ruby Dee who looks great on a horse. Also, what is the lore of the Ghost Dad v. Harlem Nights softball game? What’s the word on the game swag? Find out more right here, folks. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
New year, new overarching director theme! Last year we discussed every Lars von Trier feature film (that wasn’t a documentary). The process had its ups and downs. We may not have come out of that as better people. Wiser? Maybe. More traumatized? Sure. This year we’re hitting up another director whose filmography we will tackle over the course of 2025 and he might even be more controversial than von Trier but definitely more lucrative. 2025 is the year of “GETTING IT TWISTED WITH M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN” and we’re kicking it off with the movie that put him on the map, became one of the biggest horror movies of all time and set him up as a studio darling indefinitely. Of course we’re talking about “THE SIXTH SENSE” starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osmet & Toni Collette. This movie pulled in well over a half a billion dollars in 1999. The twist ending lead it to becoming a phenomena and now M. Night can’t brush his teeth without turning it into a twist. You know the boy who sees dead people? His dead psychiatrist companion? The hot single mom who does her own nails? (The TRUE twist of this film) It seems appropriate to start off the Shyamalan year with the movie that put him into the stratosphere. Lord knows that there’s some cinematic suffering around the corner but we’re trying to keep an open mind. We promise. We found a link here: https://archive.org/details/TheSixthSense Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
We’ve arrived at the end of January with an episode we actually recorded not long after the movie was released in theaters. This marks the end of a month of 5 DIRECTORS and the last of SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR and it stays historical with a sequel to his Oscar winning smash hit from over 20 years ago. Hanno, like anyone who isn’t Roman, hates Rome. They killed his wife and, as a child, pretty much abandoned him but just like a certain predecessor this natural leader finds himself on the slave end of a gladiator cage where he must bite the baboon and fight to the death towards his freedom and perhaps more. We’re talking about none other than “GLADIATOR II” starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington. It has it’s flaws, maybe a few unintentional laughs, but it’s also a good time at the movies so hear us out as we break it down. How does it compare with Ridley’s other recent fare? At the point of this recording, the hosts didn’t know but now? Now we all know. Actually, as this is written, they don’t know but as you read it it will be known. The future knows and what fun it will be when the future becomes the now. Now being as you’re reading it right now. Remember the past? This recording was the past. We looked to the future. That future is now right now. What future are we looking to right now? Are you not entertained? Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
We’re nearing the end of week 5 of our director theme for January and it’s time for the third of “SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR” and this historical biographical epic certainly seemed, on the surface, like a lay up for award bait. It made money but didn’t do much inspiring. Sure it’s weird as hell having English accents pretending to be French but we know how this Hollywood shit does. We didn’t dismiss Ridley Scott’s 2023 film “NAPOLEON” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby as much as many because we found it to be a fun time at the movies that, at the very least, made us more curious as to how the history actually was. Angela (who sounds like RFK Jr. in this recording) likes that freaky deaky Josephine stuff. You can’t go under a three point five when you got Joaquin as “Big Dawg Bonaparte” yipping like a puppy for some puss. Then there’s all the war. The dad boner special. Some massacred Austrians just for the boys. Personally, I think we need classic metal to be utilized in future war movies. Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, 70s Scorpions. Sails of Charon, brother. Who wouldn’t want to listen to “In Trance” while watching Napoleon is eat pussy, an activity the French invented. Or was it India? We’re all over the place, honestly. Let’s hope the sicko sessions end soon. There’s actually a scene in this movie where a man complains of having his succulent meal interrupted just like the video of that guy who got arrested outside of the Chinese restaurant. That guy passed away. RIP to that guy, my personal emperor. Put the crown atop your head, succulent Chinese meal guy. We love you. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
NOTE: this was published previously with most of it missing for some reason. Here is the full preview. This February we discuss films made by Black Directors with Black Actors as leads. The theme is called "BODY & SOUL" (bed music for this recording by Robert Glasper for the film "THE PHOTOGRAPH") Here's a link to a much more visual and entertaining version of this preview: https://youtu.be/DpM2KXOl4hY the schedule: 2/3 - Buck and the Preacher (1972) 2/5 - Do the Right Thing (1989) 2/7 - The Harder They Come (1972) 2/10 - Hollywood Shuffle (1987) 2/11 - Losing Ground (1982) 2/12 - A Wrinkle in Time (2018) 2/13 - Cuties (Mignonnes) (2020) 2/14 - The Photograph (2020) 2/17 - Deep Cover (1992) 2/19 - Belly (1998) 2/21 - Widows (2018) 2/24 - Black Panther (2018) 2/26 - Out of Time (2003) 2/28 - After Earth (2013) - for "Getting It Twisted w/ M. Night Shyamalan"…
We’re closing down January’s 5th week of it’s directors event with “SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR” and it’s a lot of historical but we go more into the more recent fashion history / true crime territory. The kids love their fashion. Gucci is practically an institution with how successfully it has sold its version of class and wealth to the middle classes and under. Maybe some over the top character cartoonery can be expected. It both hinders and boosts it depending on the scene but Ridley Scott’s 2021 film “HOUSE OF GUCCI” did do well enough. It stars Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto as a messy Jeffrey Tambor as well as Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. Maybe we should pay more attention to these fashion lords because they keep getting shot out there. Sometimes by their wives. They didn’t “Galooley” it completely but they did get caught. You probably know if you like this. Gaga was pretty dime and there’s plenty to revel in and also groan about but that Selma Hayek doesn’t age. God bless. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
What a fun month it’s been exploring some directors so for the final week we’re hitting up someone who is easily our most prolific, is very well known and has some beloved works under his belt. We’re talking about Tony Scott’s brother, Sir Ridley for week 5’s sub-theme “SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR”. The first of Ridley’s last four did not light up the box office and he was pretty sore about it. He blamed an entire generation and, yeah, it would be nice if millennials would move away from the franchise shlock a little more but Sir Ridley might have been suffering of a bit of a sore booty hole about it. Not enough people went to go see his historical account of a duel in medieval France following a fairly rare occurrence of a noblewoman’s claims of rape. Told in three perspectives and the men seem to tell on themselves a bit. Did the braggart fuckboy, Jacque le Gris, sexually assault Marguerite, the daughter of a traitor and wife to the terminally unlikable Jean de Carrouges? Truth or no, it all comes down to violence in Ridley’s 2021 film “THE LAST DUEL” starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck. Looking back, 2021 was kind of a fucked year for most anybody alive right now so maybe Ridley should calm down a little bit? His next one did much better and it came out the same year. People love that fashion stuff. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
We’re at the end of week four this January and that means the last discussion in what we’ve dubbed “NANCY SAVOCA’S ITALIAN HEARTS TRILOGY”. We’re discussing a film that got a 4K re-release in independent theaters last year and is available on DVD over at Kino-Lorber if you’re interested in such things. Nancy Savoca’s first three films didn’t incinerate the box office but it’s with great pleasure that we watch a reflect on some pretty detailed character pieces after all these years and they deserve to be seen and discussed. Today we talk “HOUSEHOLD SAINTS” from 1993, a soft-psychedelic tale that ranges from feelings of folklore and loops back into modern trappings before it cracks the folklore wall once again. It stars Tracy Ullman, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lily Taylor, Judith Molina, Michael Rispoli & Michael Imperioli. The legend of how the sausage maker won his wife in a card game is just the beginning. Perhaps in every family, every neighborhood, every street in Little Italy is the story of a local legend achieving sainthood. It might be nothing much more than a tragic case of psychosis, but these are probably the first sausages that cure gout instead of causing it. Hear us tale the tale as we say goodbye to Nancy Savoca’s Italian hearts. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
Week four of January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” is very heartfelt because we’re analyzing Nancy Savoca’s first three feature films in this week’s sub-theme that we’ve dubbed “NANCY SAVOCA’S ITALIAN HEARTS TRILOGY”. Criminally underrated in their time but film fans are re-evaluating Savoca’s movies today thanks to re-releases by Criterion and Kino-Lorber and are finding that their vibrant tenderness is holding up very nicely. Today we discuss the second of her films that, once again, showcases what a devastating loss to the film world it was when River Phoenix tragically passed away those many years ago. We’re discussing the 1991 60s romance “DOGFIGHT” starring River Phoenix & Lily Taylor. Some young Marines are to be shipped to far eastern lands from 1963 San Francisco but first they must play a game by seeing who can bring the ugliest girl to a party to win a prize. Lance Corporal Eddie Birdlace plays along but feels rather bad because plain and quiet Rose Fenny probably doesn’t deserve this treatment much less anybody else. She’s rightfully pissed when she figures out the game but Eddie wants to make it up to her and that night he discovers a young woman who is more sure of what she wants than he may ever be. It’s a night to remember. Beyond that he just has to survive going to places his government has no place sending him. Another tender piece from Savoca so hear us tell of it. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
We’re onto week four of January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” and we hit up another underrated filmmaker who has been getting more of her flowers in hindsight with some key film re-releases in the last few years but her first film we’re discussing did manage to beat our “Sex, Lies and Videotape” that year at Sundance. Today we’re discussing the first film of what we’re dubbing “NANCY SAVOCA’S ITALIAN HEARTS TRILOGY” (we’re really wanting that to take off) with her 1989 film “TRUE LOVE” starring Annabella Sciorra & Ron Eldard. Peeking into the lives of an engaged Italian couple in the Bronx almost feels like a violation considering how sincere and vivid even the briefest of lives that we encounter come off. Love isn’t easy though. Love can’t even guarantee happiness. You don’t doubt the connection but will this relationship truly work? A masterclass in representing rich characters on a low budget, watching “True Love” practically feels like being at an Italian wedding. You know I’d be acting a fool making moves on that cabbie lady. That dude isn’t good enough for her. This also happens to be Savoca’s biggest box office with $1.3 million on a $750k budget. Impressive but the true details of her work are still criminally under appreciated. Hear us tell of this tale of young love and also we say goodbye to one of our heroes, David Lynch. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
January’s theme is “5 DIRECTORS” in which we analyze films by a different director each week and we end Nicholas Ray week with a technical marvel that deals with something that isn’t often focused upon during the Hayes code. Addiction. James Mason produced and starred in this story based off of a true to life article from the New York Times in which a man is diagnosed with a fatal condition. Fortunately there’s a new miracle drug called Cortisone that can keep him alive so long as he doesn’t abuse it. Spoiler: He abuses it. Hide the bibles when dad’s on the junk. You don’t want to go where the psychosis takes him. We end “Nicholas Ray 1952 to 1956” with the film “BIGGER THAN LIFE” starring James Mason, Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau. Don’t think addiction is just in the purview of the streets. It can affect school teachers with transatlantic accents as well. Such a unique film for its time and crafted in such a way that you can’t imagine it handled in anybody else’s hands. Of course we found a link. Right here: https://archive.org/details/bigger-than-life-1956-nicholas-ray Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
It’s a loaded week of Nicholas Ray spanning the years 1952 to 1956. He actually made 6 films total at this time so we had to narrow out the fourth one between this deep cut film and a James Cagney western. We already discussed two genre bending Nicholas Ray Westerns this week so we turn our attention to what is easily the deepest cut film we will discuss all month. We couldn’t even find a trailer for it but this Gypsy romance goes its own way. We’re discussing Ray’s 1956 quasi-musical “HOT BLOOD” from 1956 starring Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde and Luther Adler. Gypsy King Marco has a secret, he’s dying, and he wants his little brother to walk away from the goucho/gorger ways and take his place as Gypsy King by marrying another gypsy. In comes Ann, played by Jane Russell who double crosses the gaucho living Stephano by making him think she won’t go through with the marriage, and then she does. Can these gypsy newlyweds contend with their fate or will Stephano’s stubbornness stand in the way of what his brother wants for him? Very deep cut but we found a link if you want to watch it: https://archive.org/details/hot-blood-1956-720p-movies Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
The third week of January is devoted to Nicholas Ray movies from 1952 to 1956 and we’ve arrived at what is easily his most iconic and infamous movie and it might have been like other Nicholas Ray movies, acclaimed and retroactively appreciated on a cult film level, but in less than a month of it’s release it’s lead perished in a fatal car crash. Fates collide to make Nicholas Ray’s 1955 film “REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE” a cornerstone in 50s cinema and would rocket the image of James Dean into the greater cultural zeitgeist of Americana. A much more tragic film when you consider the losses of co-stars Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo that would occur much later. James Dean was essential cool for an entire generation that probably was a lot more like Buzz Gunderson than most were ever like James Dean’s character of Jim Stark. The kids are not alright in 1955. They’re driving off of cliffs because what the hell else is there to do? Hear us discuss one of the most iconic films we’re reviewing all month. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
For January’s weekly director examinations we’re on week three with a loaded line up of Nicholas Ray Films spanning five years. Today it’s another standout western that stood out for being baffling to audiences when it initially released but history has grown kind to Ray’s 1954 film “JOHNNY GUITAR” for how unique it feels in any era. Joan Crawford owns the screen as Vienna, a hard nosed woman who just opened a casino saloon to nobody, but very soon the train tracks will be laid and she will live her life. She’s not the only woman in control. Her biggest rival is Mercedes McCambridge’s “Emma” a psychotic cattle baron who feels so burned by a past love’s history with Vienna that she’s willing to kill her for it and she’s got the law and the rest of the town behind her. In comes Johnny Guitar as played by Sterling Hayden. A mystery man hired by Vienna to entertain the saloon. Of course, they got history. She needs a body guard and he’s a secret gunfighter. She doesn’t want it to be this way but some people are gonna die. Will it be her? Will she lose everything? Can all the girl boss swag in the world save her? Joan Crawford lights it up in this film but Mercedes McCambridge more than holds her own and it’s convenient to us, the viewer, that they absolutely hated each other in real life. A worthy western melodrama that is worth seeing once. Hear us talk of it. Here’s a link to the film that we found: https://archive.org/details/johnny.-guitar.-1954.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264.-aac-yts.-mx Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
Each week in January is devoted to a different director at certain stages in their career but this discussion marks the end of Elaine May week as we have now discussed every film that Elaine May directed. This movie represents a much more dramatic direction but in typical Elaine May fashion, the humor is often in the tragic details. We have a very unique mob movie here starring two fellows that were prime in this era, Peter Falk and John Cassettes. They are the titular characters “MIKEY AND NICKY”, respectively in this film from 1976. Nicky robbed his gangster boss so now there’s a hit on him. His best friend, Mikey, from childhood is there for him, as usual. But Mikey might have some animosity he can’t shake because he’s in on the hit. A rich character acting showcase with some of the best in the biz for the era. This is also a precursor to “Ishtar” in regards to studio conflicts and budget increases that caused the industry to essentially sabotage Elaine May from directing ever again. May had plenty more to do in regards to acting and writing but you can’t help but wonder what more she could have done from the directors chair. It’s a headache business and sometimes being bros can have it’s own headaches as well. Elaine May’s next and final film wouldn’t come out until over a decade later. Here’s a link to a quality cut of the movie: https://archive.org/details/mikey-and-nicky-1976 Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
We’re examining the rest of Elaine May’s directed films this week and we’re into some deep cut quality comedies. Today’s discussion is darkly humorous in the sense that much of the humor Is centered around the self absorbed and deceitful nature of Lenny Cantor who sees greener grass everywhere he goes, especially after he’s gotten what he thinks he wants. Charles Grodin’s “Lenny” wants sex and he will get married to get it but when the dog catches the car it tends to not want much more to do with it. Lenny happens to meet who he thinks is the girl of his dreams except that he meets her on his honeymoon. The comedic examinations of an awful person can get kinda lost when you feel so bad for people around the lead. Angela wanted to fight Lenny is what we’re saying. The primary marketing pitch of Elaine May’s second feature film “THE HEARTBREAK KID” from 1972 was that it was written by Neil Simon ( the Odd Couple guy). It also stars Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin and Eddie Albert. Critically acclaimed but underseen in its time. The retroactive appreciation of Elaine May’s work probably needs more juice because these comedies are still pretty deep cut and out of print with only “Mikey and Nicky” and “Ishtar” on streaming. Fortunately, online movie nerds come through in a pinch, so until Elaine May’s movies get the Criterion box set treatment (including “Ishtar”), here’s a link to the film we’re discussing: https://archive.org/details/the-heartbreak-kid.-1972.-dvdrip.-xvi-d-vli-s Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
It’s the start of week 2 for January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” and we encountered this week’s director when we discussed “Ishtar” last April. An interesting story on film and behind the scenes. The director of that film would not direct another movie again. But before this, comedy writer, performer and producer Elaine May had three previous films under her belt so for week two we talk up the rest of Elaine May’s directorial filmography. Today we hit up a pretty delightful film debut written for the screen by her from a Jack Ritchie Story. Elaine May would find herself in the director’s chair and, though it wasn’t her intention, she also stars in it. We’re discussing an underrated comedy from 1971 called “A NEW LEAF” that also stars Walter Matthau, George Rose, Jack Weston and James Coco. Matthau is Henry Graham, a middle aged trust fund kid who just ran out of money and he has a scheme to pay his Uncle back some borrowed cash by finally settling down his closeted bachelor ways and marrying a well-to-do woman. Women disgust him in general but he finally meets Henrietta, an heiress botanist who doesn’t act very stereotypically wealthy. She’s quite strange and messy so he plans on killing this perfect woman for her money. Walter Matthau and George Rose are quite great in this. Fairly deep cut and quite out of print but we found an archive link to this one: https://archive.org/details/a-new-leaf-1971-br Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
Week one of January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS ends with our last of David Lynch’s first three films and it’s one that he sometimes disavows but also one that led to a long standing relationship with actor Kyle MacLachlan. It seemed like it was nothing less than a miracle to adapt Frank Herbert’s “DUNE” to film considering the brick wall that many directors encountered upon attempt. Denis Villeneuve finally pulled something off but for the longest time the lone attempt at adapting this imaginative science fiction story rested solely on the shoulders of David Lynch. Divisive in it’s time, his 1984 “DUNE” has it’s fans and it hosts a cavalcade of actors alongside MacLachlan’s Paul Atriedes including Jose Ferrer, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Stewart, Sting, Brad Dourif as well as many more players that would find homes in Lynch’s filmography. It’s too damn hard to discuss this movie and not compare it to the recent releases and we fail at not doing so, but Lynch’s “Dune” has its own richness. It’s own spice. It thrives in some points and is maybe slightly laughable in others but there is no less imagination and is a site to behold in terms of the era’s effects and Lynch’s ideas. Go see why 1984’s “Dune” holds a place for so many even after all these years then hear us tell of it. We found you a link right here: https://archive.org/details/Dune19843640x272435mb Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
For January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS, each week is pretty much its own subcategory. We’re halfway through “David Lynch’s First Three” with today’s discussion of one of his most accessible feature films that features and iconic performance by John Hurt as the infamously disfigured historical figure “John/Joseph Merrick”. It seems that Lynch’s follow up to his debut is also amongst his most universally acclaimed with the Academy creating an effects category after it seemed baffling to not have one amongst this film’s many award nominations. The 1980 biographical film “THE ELEPHANT MAN” also stars Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft & Freddie Jones and is pretty family friendly aside from its very heavy theme. It’s based on reality, it has a positive message and it’s a lesson by John Hurt on how to act with your body even if people can’t really see your face. There might be something wrong if you don’t choke up a little but then again we’re getting more sentimental in our old age. We cried during the swimming pool scene in “Color of Night”. We’ve gone soft and this movie has us feeling like room temp butter. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Maybe we could use a break after the busy holiday months but we’re just so damned anxious to show off our new makeover that we gotta hit the ground running for January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS and for week one’s director we got a fellow we are fairly familiar with on this show. Week one is DAVID LYNCH’S FIRST THREE and if you know a little bit then you know that David Lynch’s first film is the notorious ERASERHEAD from 1977 and it stands as a seminal work to this very day of an artists vision that looked very refined from the jump. Awkward, tragic, funny and rather horrifying is this tale of sudden domesticity amidst urban decay. Lynch always declared this one his most spiritual and it certainly comes off rather personal. As crazy as it is, it might be easier to interpret than certain other Lynch films. It’s practically impossible not to consider Jack Nance’s “Henry Spencer” as a stand in for Lynch himself. Also…that baby? We would have loved it. We wouldn’t even have minded it laughing at us. The Lady in the Radiator? Instantly married. New stepmom. Happily ever after in black and white. This is Heaven and everything is fine. Here’s a link: https://www.effedupmovies.com/eraserhead-1977/ Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5siQayjxclrq83jsNmWaO7?si=a0cf5063e58b43e4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-projectors/id1664326117 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought…
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