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Ep. 33 Columbo: The Helter Skelter Murders

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2020/08/30

On this episode of The Pink Smoke podcast, hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg cover a fictionalized take on the Manson Family, a beautiful actress caught in a web of violence & the seedy side of Hollywood. That’s right: we’re going deep on Columbo: The Helter Skelter Murders. This continuation novel from 1994 by author William Harrington surprisingly manages to eschew total tastelessness and even guides the hosts from Columbo novices into budding super-fans. Get reeled in by the illiterate

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Ep. 35 Edogawa Ranpo Short Stories

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2020/08/30

On this Pulp Fictions episode, hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg discuss five short stories from Japanese writer Edogawa Ranpo, the master of "ero guro nansensu" or "erotic, grotesque nonsense." One of the true masters of the murky border where horror fiction bleeds into crime fiction, Ranpo is one of the 20th century's greatest genre fiction writers whose name deserves to be spoken alongside Poe & Lovecraft.

01:31:59

Ep. 59 The Ninth Configuration

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2020/08/30

Martin Kessler, who previously brought books about an immortal centurion and an omnipotent alien god to the podcast, returns to discuss The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty. A reworking of the Exorcist author's 1966 novel Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane! and basis for his 1980 movie, Configuration is set at Center Eighteen, a military sanitarium in an isolated castle deep in the Washington woods. Rehearsal for Shakespeare plays starring dogs and the sledgehammering of uncooperative atoms

01:28:26

Ep. 61 Waltz Into Darkness

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2020/08/30

"Had she asked him to lie down and die for her then and there, he would have been glad to do it, and glad of her having asked it, as well." Amour fou is the flavor of this episode, in which hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg delve into the longest and most experimental novel written by crime fiction legend Cornell Woolrich. The book, 1947's Waltz Into Darkness, begins as the straight-forward story of a New Orleans lonelyheart targeted by a beautiful, conniving imposter but becomes

01:29:01

Ep. 60 The Wanderers

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2020/08/21

On this episode hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg are joined by filmmaker & historian Bill Teck to discuss their shared love of Philip Kaufman’s cult classic The Wanderers - a coming-of-age comedy about teenage gangs in the Bronx in 1963. The conversation explores the film’s singular tone, how Kaufman remained an outsider even among the New Hollywood mavericks of the 70’s, and the ways in which The Wanderers resembles an American Fellini movie. It’s free-flowing conversation about a film

02:02:36

Ep. 58 James Bond In The 70s

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2020/07/07

With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, host John Cribbs returns with special guest John Arminio to continue their decades-spanning reappraisal of the James Bond franchise one film at a time. That means moving from the mud clone/gorilla transforming/Sausage King madness of Diamonds Are Forever into the Roger Moore era that took cinema's favorite secret agent from Bond... to beyond. Whether playing hopscotch on the heads of 'gators, corkscrewing a Hornet 'cross a ravine, escaping enemies

01:29:32

Ep. 55 Fassbinder Triple Feature

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2020/05/31

For what would’ve been the filmmaker’s 75th birthday, hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg are joined by editor/producer Eric Pfriender to discuss the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. They’ve each picked a film to discuss from the notoriously volatile director, a Triple Feature of Fassbinder’s work that serves as a jumping off point for exploring the legendarily prolific filmmaker’s philosophies and obsessions. In Love is Colder than Death, The Merchant of Four Seasons, and In a Year of 13

01:13:28

Ep. 50 Stuart Gordon In Memoriam

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2020/03/26

A remembrance of Stuart Gordon, who passed away earlier this week. Gordon is one of the Patron Saints of The Pink Smoke, a fearless, risk-taking artist who refused to be confined to any particular corner of genre filmmaking. This episode covers the essential viewing in Gordon’s filmography, the films that resonated on a personal level with the hosts & the wildcards in an unpredictable career lined under-appreciated detours into weirdness. Gordon will be missed, especially by us. The Pink Smoke

01:21:27

Ep. 49 True Grit

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2020/03/21

On this episode of The Pink Smoke podcast, we dig into Charles Portis’ classic Western, True Grit. Portis is a favorite author of hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs, a sui generis talent whose oddball humor & low-key weirdness defied easy categorization. The discussion focuses, naturally, on the how the novel defines “true grit” in a moral context: the line separating “righteousness” from “goodness” - but mainly the hosts marvel over the novel’s marvelous language, sharp characterization,

01:20:23

Ep. 37 The Burnt Orange Heresy

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2020/03/01

“The artist alone is the final judge of his work.” Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg discuss Charles Willeford's twisty thriller set in the hip, commercialized art world of Miami in the early 70's. It's a funny, cynical and self-critical book about the relationship between artists and critics, but at the same time a typically outrageous & unpredictable work of Willeford pulp crime fiction. Join them as they discuss one of their favorite novels from one of their favorite authors. The Pink

01:19:35

Ep. 45 Double Feature

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2020/01/30

Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg discuss the upcoming reprint of Donald E. Westlake’s Enough, a pair of novellas that have been given the much more appropriate title Double Feature in conjunction with the re-release. The two works, A Travesty and Ordo, have been out of print for nearly 40 years despite ranking among Westlake’s very best work. The breathless episode touches on everything from the history of Los Angeles as depicted in crime literature, the technicalities of locked room

01:54:20

The Decade Of Horror III

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2019/10/30

The Decade of Horror I: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-i The Decade of Horror II: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-ii What are your favorite horror films from the last 10 years? The third and final part of our epic Best Horror of the Decade series begins with Hellbent for Horror's S.A. Bradley sharing his love for one of the great under-appreciated horror films of the last 10 years. Christopher Funderburg chimes in with one of the most artful

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The Decade of Horror II

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2019/10/30

The Decade of Horror I: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-i The Decade of Horror III: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-iii What are your favorite horror films from the last 10 years? Continuing from Part One of our Best Horror of the Decade series, Christopher Funderburg talks about his favorite tropical fish salesman/serial killer movie, S.A. Bradley of Hellbent for Horror gets starry eyed over a certain hellacious L.A.-set tale of a woman's

02:01:02

The Decade of Horror I

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2019/10/29

The Decade of Horror II: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-ii The Decade of Horror III: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-iii What are your favorite horror films from the last 10 years? Hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs are joined by S.A. Bradley, host of Hellbent for Horror and author of the Rondo Award-nominated Screaming for Pleasure, to examine the Best Horror of the Decade by each sharing his respective list of 5 exceptional horror

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Ep. 34 Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Preview

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2019/08/27

Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg are joined by a fresh-outta-the-hospital Marcus Pinn to discuss their impending trip to the 2019 iteration of the Toronto International Film Festival. They run down the highlights of the schedule, the films they're most excited for, most curious about & dreading having to sit through.

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PSP Primer

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2019/03/05

What is The Pink Smoke Podcast? The Pink Smoke podcast is normally hidden behind an unforgiving Patreon paywall, so this "open to the public" episode intends to introduce the show to those who can't otherwise hear it. It'll answer all your pressing concerns: Why the Patreon paywall? How many episodes are there a month? What kind of subjects does it cover? Why is there something instead of nothing? Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg answer these questions and then dive into something

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Ep. 12 TIFF 2018 Preview

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2018/08/31

Marcus Pinn joins hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs to discuss their impending trip to the Toronto International Film Festival. In this preview of the festival's slate, each one of the trio picks a few must-see films, a film they're dreading & a pair of wildcards. We cover Claire Denis, Mike Leigh, Jean-Luc Godard & scan the festival's spectrum from its murky lowlights to its shimmeringly beacon-y highlights. Intro & outro music by Mr. Pinn himself, international scratch battle champion,

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Ep. 4 Eli Roth's Death Wish

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2018/03/05

On this episode, we're joined by the great film critic Vern (making his first ever podcast appearance!) to discuss Eli Roth's Death Wish. Join the Pink Smoke community and get every episode of The Pink Smoke podcast: https://www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke Support Outlaw Vern on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/outlawvern Read Outlaw Vern: http://outlawvern.com/2008/02/23/death-wish/ Read The Pink Smoke: http://thepinksmoke.com/ PSP theme music by Marcus Pinn.

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Ep. 3 Winchester

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2018/02/08

Join our Patreon community & get access to EVERY EPISODE of the Pink Smoke Podcast!! https://www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke This conversation with Winchester (2018) co-screenwriter Tom Vaughan is the first episode of the Pink Smoke Podcast not restricted to Patreon subscribers - get a taste of what you're missing out on! The free-flowing discussion touches on everything from how it feels to hear words you've written coming out of Helen Mirren's mouth to the Kindertrauma website to the nature of

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