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The Projectors

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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30:15

The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

The Projectors ·

2024/08/05

We’re in the future all month long for August’s theme that we’ve dubbed “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW” and so far we’re 2 for 2 on post nuclear war societies. Every Monday (mostly) is a vintage selection (vintage is considered 1969 and before) and we’re going into a bizarre and fairly deep cut 1962 science fiction film that ponders the limits of humanity and the humanity of the things humans, and humanoids, create. It certainly does ponder. Through very long winded diatribes does this movie ponder. It

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27:47

The Terminator (1984)

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2024/08/02

Glory & Propaganda is done and now we must head into the future and then back to the present to prevent the future. New month, new theme but war still lingers and this future is as bleak as they come. It’s all about tomorrow all August in a them we’re calling “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW”. Much of what we discuss this month will occur in the aftermath of nuclear fire. It’s all Oppenheimer sequels this month. We start it off in a glimmer of hope with an 80s sci-fi/horror classic starring Arnold

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33:30

Antichrist (2009)

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2024/08/01

We’re doubling down this week on selections for our overarching year’s theme called “A DREARY YEAR OF LARS VON TRIER”. By the end of what is already a complete shithole year, we will have discussed a dozen movies by the dreary Danish auteur Lars von Trier. We’re now over halfway there. Today’s film discussion is one of his most notorious and amongst the smallest casts we’ve ever discussed for a movie. It only stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (and somebody’s little German kid) as “He and

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44:28

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

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2024/07/31

We took some time off to deep dive into some topics but now we’ve returned to this year’s overarching theme in which we discuss a dozen Lars von Trier movies before it’s all said and done. Could this year get any shittier? Well maybe we can help make it feel more terrible in this DREARY YEAR OF VON TRIER. We’re going back to back this week and today we wrap up von Trier’s “Golden Hearts Trilogy” with one of his biggest hits in his filmography. This movie was many people’s official introduction to

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21:26

The General (1926)

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2024/07/29

And so we say goodbye to war movies this month. GLORY & PROPAGANDA comes to an end and Angela won’t miss it but jokes on her because next month’s topic is dystopian futures. The aftermath of GLORY & PROPAGANDA. We’re going deeper into film history for the theme’s farewell in a discussion that is also our only movie this month about the U.S. Civil War. It was almost “Shenandoah” but we figure it might be a good time to visit a Hollywood legend for the first time in his most favored and famous

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30:37

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

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2024/07/26

No shortage of atrocities in this month’s theme we’re calling GLORY & PROPAGANDA and so we dive into another brutal event in a movie that presents itself in an animated hybrid documentary style. Israeli media, and US media for that matter, doesn’t often show its military actions in such a straightforward, yet resentful, manner but the Sabra and Shatila Massacre committed by the Philangist forces under the support of the IDF is a particularly challenging event to deny. Don’t worry though, the

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27:13

M*A*S*H (1970)

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2024/07/24

For GLORY & PROPAGANDA this month we already discussed a Vietnam war movie but why not discuss a Korean War movie that is pretty much about the Vietnam War? Today’s discussion is amongst our most comical this month and it’s a film that got passed on by a lot of directors until one particular man took the reigns and established, from this point on, a very prolific and influential style. Robert Altman’s “M*A*S*H” was a such surprise hit in 1970 that it inspired a very successful television show

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30:22

Paths of Glory (1957)

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2024/07/22

We’re approaching the end of July’s theme of GLORY & PROPAGANDA. How appropriate that this month has men carrying guns in every discussion. When you’re a French solider in “The Great War” you gotta keep your head on a swivel, even in them trenches. Then you got these shithead commanding officers who seem to want to throw you on the meat pile quickly. Displays of common sense might seem like cowardice to the guy who doesn’t have to do the bullshit he commands you to do. Is there justice? Perhaps

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31:52

Jarhead (2005)

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2024/07/19

GLORY & PROPAGANDA means war movies all month long and there isn’t very many war flicks about the first gulf war. “Three Kings” is one you might think of immediately. On the other hand it’s an interesting thing to capture the mundanity of a particular conflict and during that first gulf war in 1990, a lot of soldiers charged up without seeing quite as much action as they prepared for. I mean, shit got hot but folks were more like to be accidentally bombed by their own countrymen than getting it

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29:37

Starship Troopers (1997)

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2024/07/17

For the war movies we’re discussing in this month’s theme that we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA” one person’s inspiring tale of right and might can be, to another person, a study in the horrors of power and supremacy. We’re studying all types this month in war film but the undertones of this cult hit from 1997 seems to skirt by some to this very day. Allegedly the novel’s tone is different but this film adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s “STARSHIP TROOPERS” from 1997 definitely hits more onto the

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21:47

The Battle of Algiers (1967)

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2024/07/15

CORRECTION: This film is based on the writings of Saddi Yacef NOT Franco Solinas the screenwriter.It’s GLORY & PROPAGANDA all month for our theme and let me ask you a question…are you ready for a revolution? Our covid stricken hosts discuss one of the most realistic war films ever made and the reverberations of the conflict it depicts resonates soundly on screen because the movie about the conflict is only about 5 years removed from the end of the conflict itself and it’s all filmed exactly

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23:06

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

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2024/07/12

War movies are happening all month in a theme we call GLORY & PROPAGANDA and we wrap up WW2 week with a tearjerker anime. You can call what the U.S. did in Japan brutal, we won’t deny that, but boy did all that bombing inspire some great film art. Bob’s grandfather was escorting oil tankers coming from South America on a Navy ship during this time so you can’t blame him for what happened to these kid’s mother. Blame Truman. We’re looming near the end of the war in the Pacific and Japan is

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33:08

City of Life and Death (2009)

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2024/07/11

WARNING: A LOT OF TALK ABOUT SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND GENERAL INHUMANITY. Shit can get rough during wartime. Cruelty can rear its ugly head and we get a lot of that during our war-movie themed month we’re calling GLORY & PROPAGANDA. This week is WW2 week. The Second Sino-Japanese War probably would have happened anyway, regardless of the rest of the world’s troubles, but it was on the footsteps and an essential part of how ever-present troubles were across the globe leading up to the Second World

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35:04

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

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2024/07/10

July is GLORY & PROPAGANDA!!! That means war movies all month long and we’re in the middle of WW2 week with our very first Quentin Tarantino film discussion that was very likely inspired by our Monday selection “The Dirty Dozen”, episode out now! There’s some genuine horror this month but Tarantino finds ways to use violence in a weirdly cathartic way. Comeuppance is a universal theme in Tarantino movies and it’s plentiful here. This war movie is brutally funny at times and pays sincere homage

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28:44

Come and See (1985)

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2024/07/09

This month is GLORY & PROPAGANDA for our theme. It’s WW 2 week and we’re all over the globe. Western exceptionalism may downplay Soviet contributions to art but they made some pretty fantastic movies once they made it out of very drawn out review processes. One such movie was held for seven years and, somehow, no changes were made except to the title of the film. “KILL HITLER” would have been a pretty cool title for this movie but the book of Revelations seemed like more worthy inspiration for a

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28:36

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

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2024/07/08

GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. That means wartime movies all month long and we got some 60s dadcool cinema to discuss today. Two fisted but not too “heel clickey” Robert Aldrich’s 1967 film “THE DIRTY DOZEN” holds solid ground in the history of good war movies. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, a not very well liked officer, who is assigned a dozen military prisoners who are set to either hang or serve hard time for acts of thievery, murder and rape. The goal is to parachute into France and

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37:06

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

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2024/07/05

All July is movies at war, a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. War films are movie genre that draws another specific sub-class of film that can also cross over with westerns. We’re talking about what we like to call “DAD BONER MOVIES”. I guess you could say “Dad Flicks” if you don’t want to be crude but what’s the fun in that? Think about your dad for a moment. Think about the movies he likes. The books and shows he like. Now picture your dad with a boner. It’s a lot easier than you

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42:27

Casualties of War (1989)

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2024/07/03

This is a very patriotic month here in the United States so why not discuss war movies? GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. Angela maybe isn’t going to have fun this month. It might be rough for Bob too but he actually likes sad dad-boner type movies. When you come up with Vietnam War movies in your mind, this might pop up fourth or fifth off the top of your head. This flick features Michael J. Fox in one of his most dramatic leads in his career. Many Vietnam War movies since “Apocalypse Now”

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32:03

Sergeant York (1941)

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2024/07/01

New month! New theme! July gets pretty explosive so why not talk about war movies all month? It’s a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. We start it off with some proper classic American movie heroism and jingoism but be prepared for things to not tow such a patriotic line as we dive deeper into the horrors of war on film all month. Today, we can revel in some patriotism in a biopic about a classic American hero who happens to be Tennesseean just like the hosts of this show! Alvin York was

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30:33

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

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2024/06/28

Today we say goodbye to our annual MOVIES ARE GAY theme for June and it’s one of our favorite months. So eye opening. Sometimes hole opening. We’re coasting out strong with our last selection and it just so happens to be (I think) our first official musical and it’s one that took us by surprise waaaaay back in 2001 when we happened to lay eyes on it in our movie theaters and dorm rooms. It was intensely appreciated in its time by a small audience but John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask’s

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