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SMC Pod #158: Why PSYCHO is the 2001 of Horror movies

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2023/10/20

For as popular and perennial as Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO is, 62 years after its initial release, Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill feels it is still underrated. In many ways, Craig feels PSYCHO is the 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY of horror movies. That is-a movie which changed the cinematic form, created new film language, and in many ways, has never been surpassed. We take a look at the history of PSYCHO including Hitchcock's own doubts that it worked. We also look at how Hitchcock

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SMC Pod #157: Filmmaker Sensibilities: Blockbuster vs...

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2023/10/13

When you love cinema, it's fascinating how some of your favorite moviemakers are beloved by a small passionate group of "in the know" fans and other of your favorite moviemakers appeal to the entire world including your grandparents who know nothing about the film world. What defines the "art house" versus the "blockbuster" sensibility? If you're a moviemaker, where does your sensibility ultimately land? Does it help to be know? Is it even productive to think in these terms? Secret Movie Club

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SMC Pod #156: Sex in American Cinema and the X &...

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2023/10/06

While the team re-assembles, Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill goes solo to discuss the history of sex in American cinema and the X and NC-17 rating. Craig marvels that 50 years ago X-rated movies like MIDNIGHT COWBOY were winning Best Picture and THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES were mainstream, making the equivalent of $100 million dollars, and getting 3 star ratings from Roger Ebert while now American studios, filmmakers, and films seem to have no idea how to deal with sex scenes (and so

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SMC Summer Podcast #10: Twin Peaks:The Return Parts...

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2023/09/29

And so, finally, we get to Summer 2023 Pod #10. The number of completion. We look at Parts 9-18 of Twin Peaks: The Return. We discuss how David Lynch managed the seemingly impossibly by matching Part 8 with the sheer brilliance of Part 18. And we discuss all the grace notes throughout. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer feels that TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN ultimately is the greatest movie of 2017, one of the greatest features of the 21st century, and that TWIN PEAKS as a whole is one of the key

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SMC Summer Pod #9: When Hitchcock experiments & SMC...

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2023/09/22

Alfred Hitchcock is one of American cinema's most daring risk-takers and experimenters. His filmmography is filled with wild experiments from single location movies like LIFEBOAT, ROPE, REAR WINDOW to rule breaking near avant garde stunners like PSYCHO and THE BIRDS. Today, Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill looks at 1948's ROPE (comprised of only 11 shots and filmed to look like one continuous take) and 1963's THE BIRDS (in which seemingly docile everyday birds attack a small

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SMC Summer Pod #8: Twin Peaks The Return Parts 1-8 &...

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2023/09/15

Today we continue our TWIN PEAKS masterwork series by looking at 2017's TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1-8. Founder.Programmer Craig Hammill talks about how David Lynch and Mark Frost telegraphed their ambition with the VERY FIRST Twin Peaks episode/pilot in 1989. Lynch's expanded vision which encompasses all of America married to Kyle Machlachlan's commitment to 5 different roles (!!) married to avant garde masterpiece parts like Part 8 make THE RETURN the greatest movie of 2017 and one of the great

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SMC Summer Pod #7: Personal Favorite movies of the...

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2023/09/07

SMC founder.programmer Craig Hammill talks about his personal favorite movies of the 21st century including Catch Me If You Can, Zodiac, No Country For Old Men, Un Prophete, Boyhood, Lovers Rock among several others. He notes how watching recent masterpieces can help give a current moviemaker the faith and belief necessary to commit to cinema in the current strange moment. David Lynch's and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks: The Return (which Craig considers one of the great 21st century movies) will get

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SMC Summer Pod #6: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Fire Walk...

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2023/08/31

SMC founder.programmer Craig Hammill continues the podcast summer mini-series deep dive into David Lynch's & Mark Frost's TWIN PEAKS. Today we talk about Lynch's 1992 feature film TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and the 90 minutes he cut out that he later released in 2014 as THE MISSING PIECES. Fire Walk With Me was initially met with near universal dislike. Now it is considered one of Lynch's greatest and most essential movies. Craig also notes how strangely the changes Lynch had to make to get

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SMC Summer Pod #5: Twin Peaks Season 1 & 2 Deep Dive...

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2023/08/24

As our Summer podcast series heads into the back stretch, founder.programmer Craig Hammill decides to devote the remaining 4 summer pods to a deep dive into each phase/cycle of David Lynch's magnum opus Twin Peaks which now comprises two tv seasons, a movie, and a limited series on cable. If last week was a kind of general prologue, this week Craig deep dives into television seasons #1 and #2 which aired on ABC 1990-1991. Craig specifically focuses on how the poorly received back half of season 2

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SMC Summer Pod #4: David Lynch, Twin Peaks, & the...

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2023/08/18

Today in our ongoing August "summer break series" something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. . .Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill talks about season one of David Lynch's and Mark Frost's revolutionary TWIN PEAKS. Arriving in 1990 on network television, TWIN PEAKS was like nothing anybody had ever seen. Disturbing, unsettling, cinematic. It's also a fascinating case study in what a movie director brings to TV versus how a show runner trained in television would

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SMC Summer Pod #3: William Friedkin, the passing of...

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2023/08/11

Today, we continue our SMC Summer Pod hybrid series of new material and a repost of one our favorite earlier pods by honoring 70's maverick moviemaker William Friedkin. Founder.Programmer Craig Hammill talks about how he actually got to interview Friedkin for two hours in the 1990's. How very few moviemakers get a movie like THE EXORCIST that changes pop culture forever. And how Friedkin's passing really begins the passing of the guard in a way. We also re-post SMC Radio Hour #4 which is a fun (we

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SMC Summer Pod #2: Box Office, Critical Success,...

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2023/08/04

Craig riffs on the Barbie/Oppenheimer current pop culture juggernaut but also notes how strange it is that a movie like Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 which will gross at least $500 million worldwide is considered underperforming. Craig also celebrates a summer where movies are again driving the pop culture. Then we repost Secret Movie Club Podcast #15 where we talked about Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods, Malcolm X with special guests Ajarae Coleman and Kevin Johnson in the age of George Floyd and

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SMC Summer 2023 Pod #1:When you have to reshape a...

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2023/07/28

As we work feverishly to prep our remaining Summer and Fall 2023 seasons, we're going to do a month of new-repost hybrid podcasts. The first 10 minutes or so will be new and on a short subject. This week, Craig talks about fascinating classics like Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, Sexy Beast, and Annie Hall that had to be severely reworked in production and post production because some element didn't work. And how strangely the brainstorming that went into fixing the problem created classics. Then

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SMC Podcast #155: David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY &...

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2023/07/21

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) talk about David Lynch's 1999 G rated Disney movie The Straight Story. It is agreed that it is one of Lynch's greatest movies yet oddly one of his most underseen because it defies many folks' surface expectations of what is a David Lynch movie. The team also offers up their own oddball director movies. 1941, Gloria, Brewster's Millions, Spike Lee's Old Boy, among many others get discussed. Connor notes how

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DEFEND THIS MOVIE #11: William Friedkin’s CRUISING

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2023/07/14

The return of our side podcast Defend This Movie! Secret Movie Club team member Edwin Gomez has long loved William Friedkin's controversial 1980 police thriller Cruising about Al Pacino going undercover to find a serial killer in New York's underground gay S&M leather bar scene. Founder.Programmer Craig Hammill has long felt uncomfortable about the movie for what he feels is a lurid, uncomfortable use of a gay sub-culture in a slasher/edgelord kind of way. But upon re-watching the movie, Craig's

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SMC Pod #154: The Fourth of July and Other Summer...

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2023/07/07

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) gets beach-ready with films for the summer! The Team agrees that Jaws is the quintessential Independence Day (the holiday) movie! Edwin salutes Patton as the greatest American movie ever made. Daniel reports on All the President’s Men and how much he likes watching people be good at their jobs. Connor half-heartedly endorses Mars Attacks! as an Independence Day (the movie) alternative. Craig celebrates “last

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SMC Pod #153: SEVEN SAMURAI Special!

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2023/06/30

On the heels of Secret Movie Club’s biggest screening to date, SMC programmer and founder, Craig Hammill, sits down with Team member and head projectionist (AND samurai aficionado), Alex Olivier, to spend nearly an hour talking about one of the best films of all time, Craig’s desert island film, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai! Alex and Craig go into the movie’s themes, the legendary cast, the difficult production, and the enormous influence the film and Kurosawa has had over cinema since its

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SMC Pod #152: Comfort Food Movies + WE BOUGHT A ZOO!

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2023/06/23

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) returns with some tasty comfort food movies that’ll make you feel warm inside! Craig recounts the way the ending of Thelma & Louise made him feel as a kid. Daniel doesn’t mind sitting with Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson. Connor is somehow comforted by the Saw franchise. And there’s the main event, The Trial of Edwin Gomez, where the Team tries to understand what compelled Edwin to watch Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a

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SMC Bitesize Pod 4: The Heirs of ”The Wizard of Oz”

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2023/06/15

1939's The Wizard of Oz (dir by Victor Fleming, MGM) was not only one of the greatest movies in what is considered Hollywood's greatest year but it also has had a sonic boom cultural influence on almost all pop culture of the last 90 years. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill looks at all the amazing creative folks influenced by Oz including Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, James Cameron, as well as folks like Stanley Kubrick who claimed to hate it. Craig powers through

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SMC Bitesize Pod 3: The ”Perfect Movie”

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2023/06/08

Secret Movie Club Bitesize Pod #3 (final bitesize pod #4 next week then the gang returns 6/23/23) finds programmer.founder Craig Hammill looking under the hood of the concept of the "perfect" movie. What elevates movies like The Gold Rush, The Godfathers I & 2, Jaws, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, In the Mood For Love, Mulholland Drive, Mad Max Fury Road, even 2017's Into The Spiderverse to the rarefied air of the "perfect" movie. And what actually happens behind the scenes

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