The Projection Booth

When Robert Troy buys a "sleeping beauty" at a carnival and introduces her to the playscape of fantasy roleplay in which he lives every day, things don't necessarily work out in Some Call it Loving.

Based on a script by John Milius, the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is nearly as fascinating as the film itself. To that end, Fax Bahr, director of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse discusses the creation of his documentary.

"Weird Al" Yankovic stars as the hapless George Newman who turns his life around when he stubles into owning a TV station in UHF. Director/co-writer Jay Levey discusses the creation of the film.

On this special episode, Mike talks to Brian Hunter of the Cinetopia Film Festival. The event takes place June 3-12 in Southeast Michigan.

On this special episode, director Peter Flynn discusses his 2015 documentary about the art of projection, Dying of the Light. Outside the Cinema's Mr. Chris joins Mike to reminisce about multiplex life.

It's time to get that Barton Fink feeling with the 1991 film from the Coen Brothers starring John Turturro and John Goodman. Rob St. Mary and Adam Schartoff join Mike to discuss the film.

You won't want to miss this episode which features a "table read" of the original Mrs. Manning's Weekend script along with more information about Death Game and an interview with Dyan Traynor.

Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright stars Gary Bond as a teacher in the Outback who loses all his money and goes on a wild, bloody holiday.

Jeff Adachi's The Slanted Screen (2006) examines the portrayal of Asian men in American popular film and television. Mike is joined by Rita Su to discuss the doc, whitewashing, and yellowface.

Seen as one of the "lesser" of Alfred Hitchcock's films, Stage Fright (1950) is a fascinating update of the themes explored in Murder! (1930) as well as a interesting take on the reliability of narrators.

Based on S. Ansky's 1904 play, the 1937 Yiddish-language Polish film The Dybbuk tells the story of a broken promise and its consequences.

On a special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Jared Case, one of the head honchos of the Nitrate Picture Show festival at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. The festival spotlights the wonders of film, particularly explosive nitrate stock.

Based on a book by the Strugatsky Brothers, Hard to Be a God is a three hour medieval sci-fi film from Aleksei German. The material was also the source of Peter Fleischmann's 1989 film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein.

On a star-studded episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks about Michael Ritchie's SMILE (1975) with Kevin Heffernan and Carol Borden. Interviews include: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Annette O'Toole, Nicholas Pryor, and Denise Nickerson.

As a bonus to our coverage of Michael Ritchie's Smile, here's more of the interviews with Annette O'Toole, Denise Nickerson, Barbara Feldon, and Nicholas Pryor.