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The Projection Booth

Summary: The Projection Booth is a film discussion/dissection podcast from Detroit. Our goals include bringing lesser-known films to light and placing them in context of their time and place in film study.

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 TPB: The Mafu Cage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:42:06

Directed by Karen Arthur, The Mafu Cage (1978) stars Carol Kane and Lee Grant as Cissy and Ellen, two sisters who live together in a large, sprawling house. Ellen is a scientist with a potential boyfriend and a world outside the house while Cissy lives in the house and, really, in her own head.

 TPB: Straw Dogs (1971) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:28:09

David Sumner, a mathemetician, moves to the south of England with his native wife, Amy, where he upsets the status quo. The situation erupts in violence and terror in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.

 TPB: A Thousand Cuts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:34

Mike talked with Jeff Joseph and Dennis Barok about their book A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies, now available via the University of Mississippi Press.

 TPB: Vertigo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:33:18

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a tale of obsession where Jimmy Stewart plays John "Scottie" Ferguson, a disgraced detective who's to follow Madeline (Kim Novak), who seems to have become possessed by a spirit from San Francisco's past.

 TPB: Bonus Interview: Derrel Maury | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:38

Mike spoke to Derrel Maury about his work with Norman Lear and in Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, among other things.

 TPB: Massacre at Central High | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:20:07

Rene Daalder's Massacre at Central High is the story of a new kid at school where he finds that the so-called cool kids are running the school with an iron fist.

 TPB: Umbrellas of Cherbourg | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:05:31

Jacques Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo as two star-crossed lovers.

 TPB: Bonus Interview: Catriona MacColl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:09

As a bonus interview, Mike spoke with Catriona MacColl about her work with Jacques Demy on Lady Oscar as well as Lucio Fulci on the Gates of Hell trilogy.

 TPB: The Hidden | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:47:39

Tom Beck is a supercop who gets paired with odd duck Lloyd Gallagher to investigate a string of strange crimes where seemingly ordinary people go nuts, indulging in fast cars, loud music, and more. Special Guest: Jack Sholder.]

 TPB: 2 Lava 2 Lantula | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 11:29

Mike spoke to Steve Guttenberg about his role in the Lavalantual series as well as President Bill Clinton's love of the Police Academy series and more on this special episode.

 TPB: Dick Tracy (1990) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:05:33

Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy is a candy-colored adaptation of the long-running Chester Gould comic strip. Mike, Jared Case, and Frank Santopadre debate if the film ultimately works.

 TPB: The First Nudie Musical | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:59:27

The First Nudie Musical stars Stephen Nathan as Harry Schecther, a down on his luck filmmaker who's reluctantly entered the world of pornography to keep his father’s studio solvent. Special Guest: Bruce Kimmel. Co-Hosts: Angela Mac & Trevor Gumbel.

 TPB: Movie Freak | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:41

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with film critic Owen Gleiberman about his memoir, Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, which tells the story of Gleiberman's love of movies, his years at Entertainment Weekly and more.

 TPB: Sugar Hill | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:36:51

In Paul Maslansky's Sugar Hill (1977) Diane "Sugar" Hill summons the aid of Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley) to exact vengeance against those who killed her boyfriend.

 TPB: Sugar Hill Bonus: Paul Maslansky | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:10:41

As part of the discussion of Paul Maslansky's sole directorial effort, Sugar Hill, Mike talked to Mr. Maslansky about his long and storied career as a producer, focusing on Race with the Devil, Damnation Alley, and The Silent Flute.

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