Paleo-Cinema Podcast

This time, it's tough fuckers all the way. We start with Henry Silva's relentless vendetta-wreaking mafiosi in 1964's Johnny Cool. Then we follow with the John Boorman directed crime masterpiece, Point Blank starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. Don't forget to send voicemails to (206) 350-5440 and leave a comment on iTunes, please.

For the 70th Paleo-Cinema Podcast we have the smooth, smart mystery thriller The Last of Sheila starring James Coburn, James Mason, Raquel Welch, Ian McShane, Dyann Cannon, Joan Hackett and Richard Benjamin, written by Anthony (Psycho) Perkins and Stephen (Sweeney Todd) Sondheim. I follow that up with one of the great action films of the 1960s, Phillipe De Broca's L'Homme De Rio starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francoise Dorleac, Jean Servais and Adolfo Celi. Enjoy.

For this very special edition of Paleo-Cinema I'm having a perv at the very successful 1973 Australian sex comedy Alvin Purple - which features an actress who this year is up for an Oscar and stars Graeme Blundell. Add to that a perennial guilty pleasure, the 1968 Science Fantasy (emphasis on Fantasy) Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law and Anita Pallenberg.

This time around, one film only which influenced Casablanca, The Third Man and the most romantic character Warner Brothers ever produced. The 1936 (or 1937 depending on the reference book) French romantic drama, Pépé le moko starring Jean Gabin. I also talk about books, floods, drunken actors, The Golden Globes scandal and other things that come up in the voicemails. Enjoy!

For Paleo-Cinema 67 I have a couple of pleasurable flicks to tell you about. Firstly, a very early film (possibly the first) about nuclear terrorism, the 1950 Boulting Brothers thriller Seven Days To Noon starring Paleo-Cinema favourite, Andre Morell, then up to 1972 for a gritty, forgotten spy movie Innocent Bystanders starring Stanley Baker, Donald Pleasance and Geraldine Chaplin.

This time around we get our kicks in Paleo-Cinema 66 with an early proto-steampunk extravaganza starring Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg The Assassination Bureau Limited and a look at Queensland politics in the 1980s through a satirical and alternate eye in the AFI winning and almost forgotten whimsy and wonderfulness of Goodbye Paradise starring Ray Barrett and Robyn Nevin. Have a great new year, people.

Just a quick and sometimes dirty podcast, sharing some of my current music listening. Enjoy and have a happy Newtonmas!

For Paleo-Cinema 64 I look at a couple of movies with totally awe-inspiring ensemble casts. Both of them are somewhat obscure and definitely underappreciated. The first is the 1957 gritty Brit drama Hell Drivers starring Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan and the 1970 brutal spy drama The Kremlin Letter directed by John Huston and starring Patrick O'Neill, Richard Boone and Bibi Andersson.

For Paleo-Cinema 63 I look at the 1958 Robert Mitchum B-Movie Thunder Road where moonshine runners go up against the US government and corpulent criminals. Also, the Ted Flicker directed 1967 political satire, The President's Analyst starring James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge and Severn Darden. Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440.

Style more than substance this time around. I'm looking at a couple of films from 1968. Peter Yates' Bullitt starring Steve McQueen and Mario Bava's cult classic, Danger: Diabolik starring John Phillip Law and Marisa Mell. Call (206) 350-5440 to leave a voicemail.

For Paleo-Cinema Podcast 61, I look at the career and to some extent the life of Rod Taylor from his days as a Sydney radio actor in the 1950s to his work with Quentin Tarantino in 2009's Inglourious Basterds.

For the Three Score podcast we have a psychological, psychiatric horror movie, THE CABINET OF CALIGARI from 1962, a prophetic political satire from 1982, WRONG IS RIGHT and finally, feminism smashes the glass ceiling in the realm of oriental evil geniuses, in 1972's MADAME SIN. Don't forget to vote for Paleo-Cinema at Podcast Alley and if you've just inherited a couple of gigabux you can make a PayPal donation at Paleo-Cinema's Website.

For podcast 59 - I talk about movies that show three different worlds and there's an interview with me done by Erk of Erk Pod and ChannelErk at Aussiecon 4. In Nothing Lasts Forever (1984), Zach Galligan finds that tramps run the cities of the World and that retired people take buses to the Moon to go shopping. In 99 & 44/100% Dead (1973), Richard Harris is a hit man in a gangster world where Edmond O'Brien & Bradford Dillman fight for control of a city. Finally, in Night of The Eagle a.k.a Burn Witch Burn (1962), rationalist university lecturer Peter Wyngarde discovers that the true nature of the World is not what he thinks it is. This one was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1963.

In honour of Aussiecon 4 - the 2010 World Science Fiction convention, this time we're looking at three science fiction movies from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, starting with the 1958 classic, The Fly starring Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall and David Hedison, then moving into the 1965 grooviness of La Decima Vittima, a.k.a. The Tenth Victim starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress and into 1973's The Final Programme based on a novel by Michael Moorcock starring Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre and Derrick O'Connor.

While still in the depths of a Melbourne winter, I talk about three movies all with the same story. First off, Akira Kurosawa's 1954 action masterpiece Seven Samurai, then John Sturges' iteration, the 1960s western The Magnificent Seven and finally, the Roger Corman produced version, set in outer space, Battle Beyond The Stars. Take note of the new phone number for voicemails or skype to paleocinema to leave comments or use the email address.