Episode 119: VHS Extravaganza

Special Guests: Josh Johnson, Mike Malloy, Dan Kinem, Thomas Edward Seymour & Ken Powell

It's our super ultra deluxe extravaganza about all things VHS. We're talking to the filmmakers behind Rewind This!, Adjust Your Tracking, Plastic Movies Rewound, and VHS Massacre. We also play back your VHS memories via all the calls we got from listeners!

Links:
Visit the Rewind This! website
Visit the Adjust Your Tracking website
Visit the Plastic Movies Rewound Facebook Page
Visit the VHS Massacre Facebook Page
Visit the New York Cine website

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Not on DVD

On our VHS Extravaganza episode we talk frequently about movies that exist only on VHS that aren't yet on DVD or Blu-Ray. That said, here's our top three(ish) films that need to be made available in current formats.

Rob's List

• Pound (1970) – Robert Downey Sr.'s absurdist follow up to Putney Swope featuring many of the same cast members, including the first appearance by his son (Robert Downey Jr.) at age 5. Not even sure this was ever out on VHS because the copy I had was probably a 5th generation dub with time code running at the bottom. This is the feature between Putney Swope and Greaser's Palace and deserves a nice treatment even if only to milk people to see a super young Iron Man in action.
• Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986) – Mike Marvin's sex comedy about a young guy heading toBusterburger University in order to get the college degree he needs to get his family's inheritance. A fun film featuring a rag tag group of misfits – a fat guy, a dork, a lady's man, a Rick James lookalike, a nun and more – who end up running a fast food joint with fun and surprising results. Featuring great performances from NFL great Dick Butkus and long-time character actor Charles Tyner. Only available on VHS as far as I know.
• More non-Coffin Joe films from Jose Mojica Marins (1970s) – Back in Brazil, Marins was making more films even as he put his signature character, Coffin Joe, away for a time. Something Weird released many of these films such as Hellish Flesh, The End of Man and Perversion. Other Coffin Joe films such as The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe and Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind also deserve some nice DVD and Blu-Ray treatment.

Mike's List

• Crime Wave - John Paizs's amazing color crime movie should never be mistaken for Sam Raimi's slapstick flick. This one stars Paizs as "quiet man" Steven Penny, a frustrated screenwriter who wants to create the best color crime movie ever made.
• Move - One of the strangest movies I've ever seen Elliott Gould in, this one was based on a book by Joel Lieber and stars Gould as a paranoid writer who's plagued by a moving man.
• God Made Man - A sadly "lost" film, Crazy Pete's God Made Man is a bizarro skit-ish comedy freak-out that skewers corporate and suburban life.

Episode 118: The Rep

Special Guest: Morgan White

The lights are going down on repertory cinemas around the globe thanks to digital projection and the evolution of home cinema. We're talking about Morgan White's documentary, The Rep, which explores independent cinemas via looking at the Toronto Underground.

Links:
Visit the website for The Rep
Like The Rep on Facebook
Read about the digital conversion conundrum

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The Rep - Trailer #2 from Morgan White on Vimeo.

Episode 117: Battlefield Earth

Special Guests: Roger Christian & J.D. Shapiro

We conclude our two-part look at Scientology and the movies with Battlefield Earth. We debate the veracity that it's "The Worst Film Ever Made" and discuss the making of the film with the film's director, Academy Award winner Roger Christian, and original screenwriter J.D. Shapiro.

Links:
Buy Battlefield Earth on DVD
Buy L. Ron Hubbard's Battlfield Earth
Buy L. Ron Hubbard's Space Jazz
Buy The Road to Freedom on CD
Read Roger Christian's How dare they call my film a turkey
Read J.D. Shairo's I penned the suckiest movie ever - sorry!
Visit JD Shapiro's website

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Music:
Songs used this episode include
"Disclaimer" - A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
"March of the Psychlos" - L. Ron Hubbard
"Battlefield Earth Theme" - Elia Cmiral
"Terl, The Security Director" - L. Ron Hubbard
"Windsplitter" - L. Ron Hubbard
"The Road to Freedom" - L. Ron Hubbard & Friends

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Special Episode: Cinetopia 2013

Special Guests: Amanda Bynum & Brian Hunter

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we discuss the 2nd Annual Cinetopia Film Festival which takes place in Ann Arbor and Detroit the weekend of June 6, 2013.

Links:
Visit the Cinetopia Film Festival website

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Music: Music used this episode includes
"Ann Arbor" - Timo Elliston
"Ann Arbor" - Nixon Now
"Raw Power" - Iggy & The Stooges

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Cinetopia Sizzle Reel from Twist Productions, LLC on Vimeo.

Episode 116: Mock Up on Mu

Special Guests: Craig Baldwin & Adam Parfrey

In the first of our two-part series on Scientology in Film, we look at Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu, a story of sex magick, science fiction, and technology.

We discuss Jack Parsons, one of the "characters" in Mock Up with Adam Parfrey of Feral House, the publishers of Sex & Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. We also discuss Peter Alexander's The Profit, a re-telling of Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard's life, and compare it with Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master.

Links:
Buy Mock Up on Mu on DVD
Buy Lawrence Wright's Going Clear
Read the "rebuttal" site
Listen to The Projection Booth episode on Kenneth Anger
Visit the Cameron-Parsons Foundation
Visit Other Cinema
Visit Feral House Press
Buy Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron by Spenser Kansa
Buy Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by Jack Carter
Buy Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
Read The Marvel: A Biography of Jack Parsons by R.S. Carbonneau
Visit the official Church of Scientology website

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Watch Mock Up on Mu by Craig Baldwin


Watch The Profit by Peter N. Alexander

Episode 115: The Howling

Special Guests: Joe Dante & Gary Brandner

We dive head first into Joe Dante's The Howling (and the rest of the book and movie franchise).

Joining us this week is our old pal Josh Hadley of the RadioDrome, What the F*ck, and Lost in the Static podcasts (among others).

Links:
Buy Gary Brandner's Howling Trilogy on Kindle
Find more of Gary Brandner's books
Buy The Howling on Blu-Ray
Visit Joe Dante's Trailers from Hell
Read Josh Hadley's column Sanity is Razor Thin

Music:
Songs used this episode include...
"Killer Wolf" - Danzig
"The Howling" - Pino Donaggio
"Howlin' For My Darling" - Howlin' Wolf
"Bark at the Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne

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Watch The Howling VI: New Moon Rising and feel your brain leak from your ears.

Episode 114: Singapore Sling

Special Guest: Professor Vrasidas Karalis

Nikos Nikolaidis's Singapore Sling is a bizarro sequel to Otto Preminger's Laura and one of the few Greek films that has made it onto the podcast. We talk about Singapore Sling, golden showers, and Greek film with our guest co-host, Fraulein Von B.

Links:
Buy A History of Greek Cinema by Vrasidas Karalis
Buy Singapore Sling on DVD
Visit the official Nikos Nikolaidis website

Music:
Tunes used this episode include...
"Curse Curse Curse" - Singapore Sling
"The Laura Suite" - David Raskin
"Laura" - Frank Sinatra
"Knifey Cock Song" - Reverend Scott & Outside the Cinema

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Nikos Nikoladis Interview from Jose Sarmiento on Vimeo.

Drink:
Here's how to make a Singapore Sling...
1/2 oz grenadine syrup
1 oz gin
sweet and sour mix
club soda
1/2 oz cherry brandy

Pour grenadine into the bottom of a collins glass, and fill with ice. Add gin, and almost-fill with equal parts of sweet and sour and chilled soda. Top with cherry brandy, and serve unstirred, garnished with a cherry. Drink excessively and try not to kill the chauffer.

Episode 113: Two-Lane Blacktop

Special Guest: Monte Hellman

Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop is a transcendental road film starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird and Warren Oates.

We spoke to director Monte Hellman about the film. We also talked to writer/director Floyd Mutrix about his history with the project.

Links:
Buy Two-Lane Blacktop on DVD
Buy the Two-Lane Blacktop screenplay
Buy Monte Hellman: His Life and Films by Brad Stevens

Music:
"Once in a Lifetime" - Talking Heads
"Moonlight Drive" - The Doors
"2LB" - Roy Montgomery*
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Cat Power*
*Available on You Never Can Go Fast Enough compilation.

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Bonus Episode: Egofest

In this special episode of The Projection Booth, we talk about the Aspen Film Festival, the Kansas City Film Festival, upcoming episodes, bronies, and conspiracy theories.

Links:
Visit the Aspen Film Festival website
Visit the Kansas City Film Festival website
Watch Branko: Return to Auschwitz
Check out The Projection Booth on Facebook

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