Special Report: Better Off Dead (1985)
We're discussing Better Off Dead (1985) from writer/director Savage Steve Holland. The film stars John Cusack as Lane Myer, a high school student obsessed with his girlfriend, Beth. When Beth breaks u...
24 Jul 20203h 37min
Episode 477: Macunaíma (1969)
Cinema Novo month continues with a look at Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s Macumaia. Based on the 1928 Modernist novel of the same name by Mário de Andrade (no relation). Some see the Cinema Novo movement ...
22 Jul 20201h 7min
Special Report: Celebrity Crush (2019)
On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to writer/director/actor Oliver Robins about his latest film, Celebrity Crush (2019). The film stars Robins as a celebrity who is kidnapped ...
17 Jul 202030min
Episide 476: Entranced Earth (1967)
Cinema Novo month continues with a look at Glauber Raucha’s Terra em Transe also known as Entranced Earth or Land of Anguish. It’s the story of the mythical country of El Dorado where the events seem ...
15 Jul 20201h 6min
Special Report: The Beaver Trilogy (& Part IV) (2000/2015)
On this very special episode of The Projection Booth we're looking at the films of Trent Harris, specifically The Beaver Trilogy (2000) which includes a documentary segment about Utah native "Groovin'...
10 Jul 20201h 57min
Episode 475: Black God, White Devil (1964)
Cinema Novo month continues with a look at Glauber Rocha's Black God, White Devil (and its follow-up, Antonio Das Mortes). It's two stories in one as our main character, Manuel, kills his boss and the...
8 Jul 20201h 12min
Episode 474: Vidas Secas (1963)
We are kicking off a month of shows discussing the Cinema Novo movement from Brazil with a look at Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s 1963 film Vidas Secas. Also known as Barren Lives, the film is based on a...
1 Jul 202053min
Episode 473: Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? is the 1973 film from Rene Vienet which is a re-dubbing of the 1972 film Crush. The film re-tells re-tells the story of Crush as the story of a bunch of rotten bureaucrats...
24 Jun 20202h 30min
