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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: Terror Firmer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:06:45

Loosely based on "All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger", Terror Firmer has Lloyd Kaufman as a blind director making a very low budget film.

 TPB Special Report: The Massacre | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:20

Reported from the event, this is a special episode all about the Massacre -- a 24 hour movie marathon of features and shorts that took place at the Portage Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

 TPB: Shadow of a Doubt | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:42:06

One of Hitchcock's favorite films, Shadow of a Doubt stars Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie -- the savior of his sister's Santa Rosa family... or is he?

 TPB: Saint Jack | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:45:42

We're sailing off to Singapore this week with Saint Jack, a sorely overlooked film in Peter Bogdanovich's oeuvre starring Ben Gazarra as the titular character, an American trying to make a living as a pimp on the Lion Isle.

 TPB: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:46:01

Warren Oates gives a powerhouse performance in this tale of murder and intrigue south of the border. We talked to screenwriter Gordon Dawson and cultography author Ian Cooper about this underrated Sam Peckinpah gem.

 TPB: Mimesis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:08:01

Why watch a horror film when you can live one? That's the question posed in Doug Schultz's Mimesis, an homage to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and a Michigan-made movie.

 TPB: Mimesis Bonus: Sid Haig | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:22

Bonus: More of our interview with Sid Haig. We talk to him about Jason of Star Command, THX-1138, Busting, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and so much more.

 TPB: The Haunting of Julia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:29:30

This creepy, overlooked horror movie stars Mia Farrow as a harrowed wife and mother who unravels the mystery behind her new house, haunted by what might be the spirit of her dead daughter.

 TPB: The Haunting of Julia Bonus: Richard Loncraine | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:14

Bonus: More of our interview with director Richard Loncraine. Here he talks about Richard III, his upcoming project(s) and the invention of the Newton's Cradle.

 TPB Special Report: Blade Runner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:28:25

What can be said about Blade Runner that hasn't been said before? Hopefully you'll hear some new stuff in this special look at this seminal sci-fi film.

 TPB: The Thirteenth Floor | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:09:31

Josef Rusnak's The Thirteenth Floor, a sci-fi flick from 1999, was mistaken for a "Matrix rip-off" upon release. The film was based on the 1964 Daniel F. Galouye novel Simulacron-3 and was also the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire.

 TPB: The Thirteenth Floor Bonus: Michael Ballhaus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:35

Bonus interview with cinematographer of World on a Wire and producer of The Thirteenth Floor, Michael Ballhaus.

 TPB: The Thirteenth Floor Bonus: Craig Bierko | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:21

In this bonus interview with Craig Bierko, we discuss Scary Movie 4, Cinderella Man, Easy to Assemble, and much more.

 TPB Special Report: Detropia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:24:09

Continuing our coverage of Detroit this week, we're looking at the new documentary Detropia as well as some other Detroit docs such as Detroit Wild City and After the Factory.

 TPB: Detroit 9000 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:45:02

We're reporting from downtown Detroit from the locations used in Arthur Marks's policier Detroit 9000, the story of a black and white cop who get the thankless job of investigating a robbery which quickly turns into a political hot potato.

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