Special Report: The Bride! (2026)
She's been dug up, renamed, reanimated, and gaslit — and Hollywood expects her to be grateful. Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! resurrects the Bride of Frankenstein for a 1930s Chicago that feels equal ...
16 Maalis 1h 23min
Special Report: Julie Wyman on The Tallest Dwarf (2025)
Mike sits down with Julie Wyman, director of The Tallest Dwarf — a documentary that is as personal as it is political. When filmmaker and UC Davis professor Julie Forrest Wyman set out to make The Tal...
11 Maalis 21min
Special Report: Christine La Monte on Viva Verdi! (2025)
Christine La Monte discusses her career and her latest work producing a pair of opera-themed documentaries, the uplifting Viva Verdi! (2025) and the stunning Ai Weiwei's Turandot (2025). La Monte talk...
5 Maalis 48min
Episode 789: Head-On (2004)
Collision as courtship. Self-destruction as intimacy. Fatih Akın’s Head-On (2004) opens with two suicide attempts and spirals into a sham marriage between Cahit (Birol Ünel) and Sibel (Sibel Kekilli),...
4 Maalis 1h 5min
Special Report: The Oldest Person in the World (2026)
Sound designer Mark A. Mangini returns to The Projection Booth to discuss The Oldest Person in the World (2026), the Sam Green documentary about the successive holders of the oldest person title.Mark ...
3 Maalis 32min
Special Report: Derek Boonstra on Seized (2026)
Mike talks with editor Derek Boonstra about his work on Seized (2026). Premiering recently at Sundance Film Festival, the documentary traces the human fallout of asset forfeiture and the legal gray zo...
2 Maalis 19min
Special Report: Andres Landau on Nuisance Bear (2026)
Mike talks with editor Andres Landau about his work editing the 2026 documentary, Nuisance Bear. A sobering look at the uneasy relationship between polar bears and humans when humans are infringing on...
27 Helmi 29min
Special Report: Angelo Madsen on A Body to Live In (2025)
Director Angelo Madsen joins Mike to discuss his latest film, the 2025 documentary A Body to Live In which focuses on the body artist Fakir Musafar who spent his lifetime manipulating his physical for...
26 Helmi 24min
