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Director"s Club

A monthly show that reviews one film director per episode with the occasional bonus episode. Episodes 123-172 were hosted by Brad & Al. As of 2022, new episodes will be hosted by Jim and/or Bill. The spin-off show, B-Side Me, is also here (for now) which is all about music/bands!

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04:09:32

Episode 122: Favorite Films Of 2016

Director"s Club ·

2017/01/10

This is the end! (Don't worry, I didn't play The Doors in this episode). Well, no of course it isn't actually the end. But this is the last episode where I officially host. Fear not, there will be bonus episodes and I’ll be guesting from time to time throughout the year. Give all your support to Al & Brad when they begin in three weeks on the Danny Boyle episode. Of course, this is the year-end spectacular for 2016 and it should come as no surprise that it’s 4 hours long. I enlisted the help

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02:50:33

Episode 121: Podcast Christmas Present - The Royal...

Director"s Club ·

2016/12/23

Merry New Year and Happy Christmas to all. What I have prepared for you is a gift that I will call the "Royal Sampler Volume One." It contains short clips from all the podcasts featured at The Now Playing Network, as well as extended highlights from Supporting Characters & Director's Club from over the years. You also get a brief glimpse into some of my interviewing skills with various guests over the years. There's also some kind of unusual collage towards the end. This is a special episode,

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54:27

Bonus Episode: Voices & Visions - Kay Hanley (Letters...

Director"s Club ·

2016/12/12

Welcome to Voices and Visions, formerly Pop Culture Club. Confused? Well, there’s an introduction to help assist you. As you may or may not know, PCC is now V&V, and this is the first official episode under the new name. After my 8-minute monologue at the top, I am pleased to present another wonderful singer/songwriter by the name of Kay Hanley. If you’ve heard of the band Letters to Cleo, she is the incredibly energetic frontwoman and has always been a true blue rock star in my eyes. For

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02:31:14

Episode 120: Jonathan Glazer

Director"s Club ·

2016/11/23

Happy Thanksgiving to all. And I want to say thank you for all the very kind words and messages in regards to my introduction from the last episode in which I announced the show will be hosted by two different voices next year. For this episode, it is my pleasure to welcome back two special guests from the past that have meant a great deal to me and for their friendship, I am grateful. The first is the co-host of RowThree.com’s Cinecast, and has been a frequent contributor to the show here going

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02:49:45

Episode 119: Peter Bogdanovich

Director"s Club ·

2016/11/15

As of mid-January 2017, I will no longer be the host of Director's Club on a full-time basis. Episode 121 (The Best of 2016) will be my last official episode as the predominant voice you hear on the show. While some of you may frown at that change, I encourage you to listen to my reasons during the introduction as well as learn who the new host will be and why I decided to move forward. Reminder: I am not disappearing completely. After a lengthy monologue about the changes to come including the

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01:08:00

Bonus Episode: John McNaughton, Courtney Hunt, Walt...

Director"s Club ·

2016/11/04

Once again, couldn't resist including this Pop Culture Club episode in the Director's Club feed due to the level of talent involved. And hey, they happen to be directors as well of course, and very good ones. The introduction finds me reflecting on baseball, The Cubs, and the city of Chicago which segways nicely into my first guest who is from the South Side. John McNaughton got his start early on in theater, and then collaborated with talented actors to make the truly disturbing HENRY: PORTRAIT OF

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38:09

Bonus Episode: Zach Harris, Sean Pierce, Kevin Cline...

Director"s Club ·

2016/10/28

Cross-posted on the Pop Culture Club podcast feed The Hollywood Reporter said that MEATHEAD GOES HOG WILD is "A psycho-breakdown flick that goes full-tilt violent without losing its odd, almost endearing underlying friendliness." Which is a great summation of this thought-provoking dark comedy that is somewhat inspired by one of my favorite movies AFTER HOURS. One of its creators, Sean Pierce has been on the show twice before as a guest for the Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder episodes

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01:56:07

Episode 118: Jacques Tourneur

Director"s Club ·

2016/10/25

Happy Halloween everyone! Ever wondered the origin of the "jump scare?" Well, it has been documented as being in the director of this episode's classic masterpiece known as CAT PEOPLE! French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, we're talking about another old-school master of the craft. Of course, with a filmography as vast and versatile as Jacques Tourneur's, I needed help. Well, I always need help and

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02:02:31

Bonus Episode: The Thing (1982) Commentary feat....

Director"s Club ·

2016/10/10

I tied my dear friend Patrick Ripoll to a fucking couch! Former co-host and podcaster extraordinaire, is back for this special bonus episode. We are hoping that this bonus offering for October will encourage you to donate any amount to the network to help keep our shows running, but again, no obligation, just a request: http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/donation/ Patrick is a movie commentary savant at this point, thanks to his terrific show Tracks of the Damned. So I invited him down to my place

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02:13:01

Episode 117: Peter Jackson

Director"s Club ·

2016/10/04

Two very good friends and former guests join me for a live roundtable discussion on New Zealand director Peter Jackson. Both Collin Souter and Al Kwiatkowski have contributed to the show many times before, and they're among my favorite people to talk films with. As most of you know, Peter Jackson wasn't always the award-winning mastermind behind LORD OF THE RINGS, he started out in horror/comedy, long before there was SHAUN OF THE DEAD. We begin with his debut splatterfest that took him about 3

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51:17

Bonus Episode: Allan Moyle (Pump Up The Volume)

Director"s Club ·

2016/09/26

CROSS-POSTED as an official Pop Culture Club episode Well everyone, after a couple of months of waiting in anticipation, I was able to get a hold of Allan Moyle. "Who?!" you might ask. Well, he's responsible for films such as TIMES SQUARE, EMPIRE RECORDS, NEW WATERFORD GIRL, and many more. But the film that has a special place in my heart, as listeners should know, is his 1990 teenage rebellion masterpiece PUMP UP THE VOLUME. At the time of viewing this movie, I wasn't the biggest fan of Christian

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02:05:37

Episode 116: Roger Corman

Director"s Club ·

2016/09/21

Before we begin, let me remind you that you can vote on which director will be covered in late November. Since the beginning of that month, I’ll be covering Peter Bogdanovich, and then in early December, I’m covering William Wyler, I thought it would be a good idea to create a poll of directors with smaller filmographies that we’ve yet to cover on this show. And you can be the deciding factor. Right now, we have 314 votes, but it would be wonderful to get some more. I’ve decided to extend this poll

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02:17:24

Episode 115: Nicholas Ray

Director"s Club ·

2016/08/27

Nicholas Ray is now one of my top ten favorite filmmakers of all time. I had seen REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE when I was younger, but it wasn’t until recently that I went back to check out about a half a dozen of his films back-to-back. I realized the more that I watched, the more I responded to his work thematically. Joining me once again to talk about this legendary director is returning guest Sergio Mims, one of the smartest critics I know. And boy does he have some stories to share throughout our

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02:12:51

Episode 114: Zucker Abrahams Zucker (feat. Sean &...

Director"s Club ·

2016/08/12

Two hosts from my favorite movie podcast return for a second appearance! Sean Dwyer and Frank Knezic from Film Junk are back to have some laughs and deconstruct the art of the parody genre, focusing on the acclaimed trio Zucker Abrahams Zucker. We talk about the origins of the term “spoof,” revisit and review the three films that ZAZ created together, and talk about other comedies that each of them directed. There’s also a discussion over the recent wave of bad parody films, the legacy of Leslie

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02:29:32

Episode 113: James Cameron

Director"s Club ·

2016/08/05

Movie Madness’ very own Erik Childress returns once again for another blockbuster action filmmaker. This time it’s the self-proclaimed perfectionist James Cameron, arguably one of the great innovators behind the science-fiction genre especially when it comes to state-of-the-art special effects. We pretty much cover his entire career despite not having enthusiasm for where his career has gone most recently. There is a lot to say especially when it comes to Cameron’s improvement behind each “sequel”

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02:01:42

Episode 112: Alex Cox

Director"s Club ·

2016/08/02

This episode is brought to you by Crystal Meth Papsi, enjoy a refreshing new Papsi. Papsi. Drink. Drink it now. Film blogger, editor and all-around nice guy Filip ONell joins me for an incredibly fun discussion on cult British filmmaker Alex Cox. Of course we sing the praises of REPO MAN, but we dig even deeper into his other work including the acclaimed SID & NANCY as well as the underappreciated WALKER, HIGHWAY PATROLMAN & THREE BUSINESSMEN. I had a blast watching some of these for the first

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02:08:27

Episode 111: Agnes Varda

Director"s Club ·

2016/07/18

One of my favorite people to talk movies with returns for the 2nd time this year! Film blogger, enthusiast, and friend Kate Blair is back to talk about a true pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague movement, Agnes Varda. Her self-funded debut, the fiction-documentary hybrid 1956’s LA POINTE COURTE is often considered the unofficial first New Wave film; when she made it, she had no professional cinema training. Varda essentially evolved with each production in exciting and innovative ways that continue to

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01:35:16

Episode 110: Martin Scorsese Part II (w/Nick Digilio)

Director"s Club ·

2016/07/12

Back once again after only a month and a half, talk show radio hero extraordinare, WGN's Nick Digilio returns once again to discuss the post-GOODFELLAS career of Martin Scorsese. We start with CAPE FEAR and go all the way to THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, and everything in-between. Digressions galore, but a real highlight of this episode comes at about the 59 minute mark when Nick brings up an infamous studio publicist who loved to let the expletives fly! When he discusses Frank Casey at one point, it

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03:00:32

Bonus Episode: 1986 Review - The Year In Movies

Director"s Club ·

2016/07/10

We did it all for the glory of love. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go back thirty years to when I fell in love with going to the movies. The mid-80s informed a lot of my taste, and much like last year's 1985 retrospective, it's always a blast to go back and see what holds up and what we each consider to be personal favorites from a particular year. RogerEbert.com's very own Erik Childress and Collin Souter return for what is to become a yearly tradition. We go through the entire year chronologically

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03:07:43

Episode 109: Sam Peckinpah

Director"s Club ·

2016/06/24

No solo intro from yours truly since there is a whole lotta ground to cover. Supporting Characters host Bill Ackerman returns once again to talk about a controversial, almost mythological figure in film history, the one and only Sam Peckinpah. We cover nearly his entire filmography from beginning to end touching on classics such as RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, THE WILD BUNCH, PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, but we do have very strong feelings about STRAW DOGS, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, and so

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