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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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36:55

The Photograph (2020)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/14

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

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39:00

Cuties / Mignonnes (2020)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/13

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

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38:41

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/12

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

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30:47

Losing Ground (1982)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/11

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

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25:58

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/10

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

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39:11

The Harder They Come (1972)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/07

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

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35:32

Do the Right Thing (1989)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/05

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

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26:46

Buck and the Preacher (1972)

The Projectors ·

2025/02/03

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

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28:06

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/31

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”

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29:29

Gladiator II (2024)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/30

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

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27:57

Napoleon (2023)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/29

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

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08:28

Preview for February's Theme: BODY & SOUL

The Projectors ·

2025/01/29

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

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23:49

House of Gucci (2021)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/28

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

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32:50

The Last Duel (2021)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/27

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

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02:24

Preview of February's film theme: BODY & SOUL

The Projectors ·

2025/01/26

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

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36:52

Household Saints (1993)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/24

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

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35:59

Dogfight (1991)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/22

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

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33:36

True Love (1989)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/20

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

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07:09

Remembering David Lynch

The Projectors ·

2025/01/19

Thanks for everything, David.(Note: This discussion is also a part of our upcoming "True Love" episode that drops January 20th)

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24:52

Bigger Than Life (1956)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/17

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

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