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The Projection Booth

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The Projection Booth features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis while regularly attracting special guest talent eager to discuss their past gems. The podcast has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. Visit http://www.projectionboothpodcast.comThe Projection Booth is part of the Weirding Way Media podcast network. Explore more of our shows at weirdingwaymedia.com.Become a

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Episode 558: The Red Circle (1970)

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2022/02/02

We kick off a month of discussing French films with a look at Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Circle Rouge (The Red Circle). The film stars Alain Delon and Gian-Maria Volente as two criminals who cross paths. Along with Yves Montand, the three men execute a daring heist before the fickle finger of fate touches them.Samm Deighan and Andrew Leavold join Mike to discuss the film. Mike also speaks with author Rui Nogueira about his Melville on Melville book.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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128:31

Episode 557: The Counselor (2013)

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2022/01/26

John Walker and James Lawrence join Mike to look at the 2013 film from Ridley Scott, The Counselor. Written by Cormac McCarthy, the film is a sprawling sun-baked neo-noir wherein our titular Counselor (Michael Fassbender) gets involved in the drug trade only to set off a spiral of tragic events. Boasting a stunning cast of celebrities, the film was not well received upon its theatrical release.Professor Steven Frye (Understanding Cormac McCarthy) joins us to discuss the author's work.Learn more

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27:38

Special Report: Imperfect (2021)

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2022/01/24

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Regan Linton and Brian Malone about their documentary Imperfect (2021) in which a differently-abled theater troupe from Denver puts on a production of Chicago. The film plays this week at the Slamdance film festival. Find out more at https://imperfectfilm.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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113:14

Episode 556: Swept Away (1974)

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2022/01/19

Samm Deighan and Trevor Gumbel join Mike to discuss Lina Wertmuller’s 1974 film Swept Away. Also known as Overwhelmed by an unusual fate in the blue sea of August, it’s the story of Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini) and Rafaella (Mariangela Melato). She’s a bourgeoisie on vacation with her husband who has nothing good to say about anything, especially the service on her yacht which Gennarino provides. They get separated from the ship and end up on a deserted island where they fight to survive and

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162:03

Episode 555: The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)

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2022/01/12

David Kittredge and Rod Lott join Mike to look at the 1979 film The North Avenue Irregulars. Based on the non-fiction book by Reverend Albert Fay Hill, the film stars Edward Hermann as Reverend Mike Hill, a minister who arrives with his two children at their new congregation to find a rather wacky group of women who help run the church. When one of them loses the church’s money on some illegal gambling Hill tries to get it back. Humiliated and chagrined by the mob who run the gambling there, Hill

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191:49

Episode 554: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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2022/01/05

Oh, my brothers, your friend and faithful narrator comes to you with gorgeousness and gorgeousity made digital with an episode on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). My droogs, Rob St. Mary and Yaniv Eidelstein, join me in the discussion while our guests include publicist Mike Kaplan and Anthony Burgess biographer Andrew Biswell.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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54:06

Special Report: Jeff Goldblum

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2022/01/03

It's been a long time coming but here's the interview I managed to do with Jeff Goldblum just about his career and movies in general. Be warned that the sound quality isn't great. I worked alone and with some audio folks to try and clean it up as best as possible. I hope you manage to enjoy it!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

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174:21

Episode 553: Flash Gordon (1980)

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2021/12/31

Chris Bricklemyer (Outside the Cinema) and Scott Weinberg (The Overhated Podcast) join Mike to wrap up 2021 with a discussion of Mike Hodges's 1980 film Flash Gordon. The episode features interviews with John Walsh (Flash Gordon: The Official Story of the Film) and the original screenwriter of the film, Michael Allin (Enter the Dragon, Truck Turner, etc).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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58:40

Special Report: Julia (2021)

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2021/12/29

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Carla Gutierrez and Claudia Raschke the editor and cinematographer of Julia (2021), a documentary about famed chef Julia Child who revolutionized televised cooking.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

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57:20

Special Report: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

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2021/12/24

In a special cross-over episode with The Kulturecast, Mike and Chris talk about the latest entry in the Matrix series, Matrix Resurrections. Our reaction may surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

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239:50

Episode 552: Black Christmas (1974)

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2021/12/23

Maitland McDonagh and Mark Begley join Mike to talk about Bob Clark’s 1974 film Black Christmas. It’s the story of a sorority house where a killer has sneaked into the attic and slowly picks off several of the sisters in-between harassing them with wild phone calls.Interviews include actor Art Hindle, author Simon Fitzjohn (Bob Clark: I'm Going to Kill You!), Paul Downey & David Hastings (It's My, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome

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45:41

Special Report: Wojnarowicz (2020)

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2021/12/20

Director Chris McKim celebrates the confrontational and controversial artist David Wojnarowicz in the 2020 documentary Wojnarowicz: F*ck You, F*ggot F*cker. On this special episode Mike speaks with McKim along with producers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

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233:36

Episode 551: Fight Club (1999)

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2021/12/15

Rob St. Mary and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to look at the 1999 film from director David Fincher, Fight Club. Based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, the film stars Edward Norton as an office drone who becomes addicted to self-help groups until he starts his own. However, we are not allowed to talk about it.Interviews on this episode include author Chuck Palahniuk, producer Ross Grayson Bell, and screenwriter Jim Uhls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter

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Special Report: Alexander Fee on The Japan Society

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2021/12/12

Mike spoke with Alexander Fee of the Japan Society New York about the Flash Forward series currently happening. Find out more at: https://www.japansociety.org/arts-and-culture/films/flash-forward-japanese-films. Today's episode is sponsored by New York University Tisch Pro/Online - a new way to learn filmmaking and screenwriting. Learn more at www.tischpro.smashcut.com/booth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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Episode 550: Just One of the Guys (1985)

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2021/12/08

Directed by Lisa Gottlieb, Just One of the Guys (1985) stars Joyce Hyser as Terry Griffith, a reporter for her school paper who feels she’s being discriminated against by her teacher when it comes to a potential summer internship at the Sun-Tribune. In order to prove that she has what it takes she goes undercover as a teenage boy.Rahne Alexander and Jim Laczkowski join Mike to discuss the film and other genderswap movies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a

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Episode 549: The Matrix (1999)

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2021/12/01

Released in 1999, The Wachowski Siblings's The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves as Thomas “Neo” Anderson, a cubicle jockey who is looking for meaning in his life by way of the notorious hacker Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). Neo gets more than he bargained for when he learns that the world in which we live is a computer-generated construct, the titular Matrix. Ben Buckingham and Christine Makepeace join Mike to discuss this groundbreaking film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Special Report: Lost Highway (1997)

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2021/11/27

We conclude #Noirvember 2021 with a special episode about David Lynch’s Lost Highway. Written by Lynch and Barry Gifford, it’s the story of Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), a musician who has trouble trusting his wife, Renee (Patricia Arquette). When they begin to get anonymous deliveries of VHS tapes, the pair are plunged into an underworld of mystery…Jedidiah Ayres and Bill Ackerman join Mike to discuss the film and this phase of David Lynch’s career.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Episode 548: Chameleon Street (1989)

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2021/11/24

Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at Wendell B. Harris’s Chameleon Street. After winning the Sundance film festival in 1990 the film took too long to come out theatrically and died a quick death after it did. It’s the story of Douglas Street played by Harris. He’s a man who goes from installing burglar alarms to extorting a Detroit Tiger to impersonating a doctor, student, lawyer, and more.Jay Jackson and Jonathan Melville join Mike to discuss this thought-provoking film. Learn more about your

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56:24

Special Report: These Fists Break Bricks

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2021/11/22

Mike talks with Grady Hendrix and Chris Poggiali about their new book These Fists Break Bricks which looks at the phenomena of how martial arts influenced American popular culture.Order the book at https://amzn.to/2WROuhPLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

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Episode 547: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

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2021/11/17

Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai. It’s the story of Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles), a sailor who falls in with a weird group of people: A gorgeous blonde, Elsa (Rita Hayworth), the titular lady from Shanghai, her husband, Arthur Bannister, a high-powered lawyer, and his partner, Grisby, a…well, he’s kind of a weirdo who wants to fake his own death and pin it on Michael.Spencer Parsons and Peter Flynn join Mike to discuss this highly-compromised film.Learn

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