Paleo-Cinema Podcast

This time around, we're looking at the original media circus, Billy Wilder's 1951 movie Ace In The Hole, also known as The Big Carnival and then move from the Arizona desert to London for Richard Burton's controversial 1971 crime drama, Villain. Bad Film Diaries - Grant Watson's movie podcast

More music madness. Enjoy!

For this one, I look at the 1975 Sam Peckinpah movie The Killer Elite (which has been remade this year) and the 1972 crime movie which I consider incredibly underrated, Hickey and Boggs starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. Enjoy.

Okay, for this one, we're looking at Dennis Hopper's first starring role as a sailor who falls in love with a girl who may or may not be a mermaid in the 1961 Curtis Harrington movie Night Tide, move on to more Eurospy silliness in the 1967 film Kiss The Girls And Make Them Die and move on to the last film made by Ealing Studios, 1959's The Siege of Pinchgut, starring Aldo Ray.

This time I look at the movies of Larry Cohen. From Bone in 1972 to his work on the Masters Of Horror TV show in 2006 he has had his say on issues like racism, police corruption, cannibal monster babies, giant Aztec gods in New York, serial killers dressed as cops, involuntary donor transplants, carnivorous yoghurt and political corruption.

For this one I look at a British WW2 propaganda flick which doubles up as a guerilla warfare manual, Went The Day Well? from 1942 then back to 1935's retro-futuristic The Tunnel and way up to 1987 for David Mamet's movie directorial debut House Of Games. And don't forget the podcast's new voicemail number: 206-666-4886.

This time around for the big 50th Podcast I look at God of Gamblers (1989) starring Chow Yun Fat, Die Hard (1988) and The Wild Party (1975). A Great Article On Why Modern Films Have A Limited Colour Palette A couple of trailers: Die Hard (1988) God Of Gamblers (1989) By the way, you can watch all of God of Gamblers on Youtube, too. Start here and enjoy.

Excuse the change in the podcast numbering. I've rolled the three music special podcasts into the numbering regime which makes this one the 49th Paleo-Cinema. This time around I look at Samuel Fuller's Pickup On South Street, Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss. So it's pickpockets, reporters, prostitutes and wards full of insane nymphomaniacs.

Singing actors, acting singers, weirdness, wonderfulness and crazy music in general. Enjoy.

After a monstrously difficult process and three different attempts to get the podcast recorded, here it is. I look at what I've been watching lately, and take a look at a couple of mermaid pictures, Miranda (1948) and Mad About Men (1954) which absolutely shit on Splash! (1984). I then go all artsy fartsy and discuss Max Ophüls' 1950 French film, La Ronde starring Simone Simon, Anton Walbrook and the magnificent Danielle Darrieux

For Paleo-Cinema 44 It's listener's choice. Firstly, there's Preston Sturges' 1941 comedy with a punch Sullivan's Travels, then Love and Hate battle in unusual ways in The Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Charles Laughton and finally, some of the movie in-jokes, references and hommages to 20th Century cinema in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" are revealed.

No, it's not what you think, it's private eye style Dicks. Two Philip Marlowes (Dick Powell and Elliott Gould) and one Lew Harper (Paul Newman. The movies are Murder, My Sweet, Harper and The Long Goodbye.

This tine things are a bit different. I recorded most of this podcast while driving around Melbourne with my new mobile podcasting rig and a logitech microphone headset. I look at Avatar, why Americans don't do good tough guy actors any more, talk about a documentary on Jacques Tati and look at Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks In Another Town" while tooling around the city on the Yarra in a Toyota Corolla. Enjoy your holidays, people.

This time, we're looking at one of the iconic actors of the 1960s and 1970s, Warren Mercer Oates 1928-1982. Movies like Two Lane Blacktop, Race The Devil, Dillinger, The Wild Bunch, Cockfighter, 92 In The Shade and most of all Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia would have been less than they were without Warren Oates, the sad, worldly, mostly on the wrong side of the law everyman with a cheeky grin and a lot behind the eyes.

This time around it's Eurospy again. Three movies set in Berlin, all made in either 1965 or 1966. One has a script by one of the most interesting playwrights of the 20th Century, another based on a book by a spy novelist who was once a spy and the third has Michael Caine in it. To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the idea that maybe we weren't all going to die in a nuclear holocaust, here is Paleo-Cinema Podcast 40. Funeral In Berlin, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and The Quiller Memorandum are on the menu.