Paleo-Cinema Podcast

The Martian Drive In Podcast #1

paleocinema — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:52:26 +0000

For the first of the new podcasts, I look at the 1964 Steampunkesque “First Men In the Moon” starring Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries and Martha Hyer and the 1968 George Pal produced movie “The Power” starring George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette and Michael Rennie. Email:kultguru@gmail.com. The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 101 - Music Once Again

paleocinema — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:44:44 +0000

This time, another music cast. Eclectic and weird stuff from my collection, including a sick and twisted song I almost wasn’t going to include. Email: kultguru@gmail.com. The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 100- From Dr No With Love

paleocinema — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:28:15 +0000

In the big 100th Podcast celebrations I look at the two seminal Bond films, 1962’s Dr No and 1963’s From Russia With Love. Also, lots of feedback love, listener questions read out to me by Sal and more fun than anything you can do with your pants zipped.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 99 - Gabriel While The City Sleeps

paleocinema — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:53:08 +0000

For the lead up to Paleo-Cinema Podcast 100 - I look at Fritz Lang’s 1956 drama “While The City Sleeps” with Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino & Howard Duff and the weirdly fascistic and prophetic 1933 pre-Code political drama “Gabriel Over The White House”. Get your comments and best wishes in for the big 100 to kultguru@gmail.com.

Films With Frost - It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

paleocinema — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:56:05 +0000

For this one, Ivor Cole and I do a comedy. The ensemble road movie from 1963, It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Enjoy!

Films With Frost - Nightmare Alley

paleocinema — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:54:53 +0000

This time, Ivor Cole and I share our thoughts on 1947’s Nightmare Alley starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell.

Films With Frost - All About Eve

paleocinema — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:51:27 +0000

This time, I share another one of the radio segments I did with Ivor Cole at ABC Local Radio Darwin. It’s All About Eve starring Bette Davis, George Sanders and Ann Baxter.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 98 - Phantom Lady Panics In The Streets

paleocinema — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:18:46 +0000

For this one, I continue the A-Z Project, the letter P. I look at Phantom Lady from 1944, and Panic In The Streets from 1950. iTunes reviews are welcome. Email kultguru@gmail.com for feedback.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 97 - The Valley of The Pleasure Seekers

paleocinema — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:06:42 +0000

For this one, Dr Zom drops in so that we can get in touch with our feminist side and look at two 1960s chick flicks: the remake of Three Coins In The Fountain known as “The Pleasure Seekers” with Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin and Carol Lynley and then we go sleaze-side for 1967’s “The Valley Of The Dolls” with Sharon Tate, Patty Duke and Barbara Parkin, and some dudes. iTunes reviews are always welcome. Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 96 - More Waffling, With Sal Included

paleocinema — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:07:48 +0000

This time around, I catch up with Sal in the back garden for a chat, waffle about movies and there is also feedback.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 95 - Ocean’s Overlanders.

paleocinema — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:28:13 +0000

For this very special episode of Paleo-Cinema Podcast, we go from the epic tale of a 1,500 mile cattle drive during World War 2 in Northern Australia to Atomic Age Suavity in Las Vegas. The Overlanders (1946) starring Chips Rafferty and 1,000 cattle is the first Ealing film lensed in Australia. Ocean’s Eleven (1960) was an excuse for The Rat Pack to hang out, drink and get laid. Email: kultguru@gmail.com. The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 94 - Waffling About Movies With No Particular Direction

paleocinema — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:37:07 +0000

This time, I just waffle about movies again. Good cinema experiences, which films I’m looking forward to in 2012 and other bits of general chat. Don’t forget Paleo-Cinema Cafe on Facebook, emails to kultguru@gmail.com.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 93- I’m As Mad As Hell And I See A Barefoot Boy With A Dog…

paleocinema — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:22:00 +0000

This time, I look at the best film Tyrone Power ever made, the 1947 Film Noir classic, Nightmare Alley and the prophetic 1976 rant against the cruelty and greed of the television industry, Network, starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall. We also have feedback from the usual suspects. Go to The Paleo-Cinema Cafe on Facebook to hang out, or email kultguru@gmail.com for leaving comments. Enjoy!

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 92 - Shooting The Shit with Paul Poulton.

paleocinema — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:36:43 +0000

This time, I have an Australian guest, Paul Poulton - costumer and steampunk aficionado well before it was fashionable. Just general waffling about movies, and I do my version of the James Lipton/ Bernard Pivot ten questions and then at the end, there’s another one of my ABC Local Radio Darwin chats with Ivor Cole, this time about The Young Girls of Rochefort. Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440.

Films With Frost - The Big Knife

paleocinema — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:55:29 +0000

Here’s the first of the movie chats I do with Ivor Cole at ABC Local Radio Darwin. In this one, we discuss Robert Aldrich’s The Big Knife.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 91- M For Mabuse

paleocinema — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:59:42 +0000

This time I’m examining the career of the evil Dr Mabuse, from his origins in the German Weimar Republic in the 1920s to the 1990s when Claude Chabrol made a film about the first real super-villain. Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440. Or stop by The Paleo-Cinema Café on Facebook.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 90 - The Life And Death Of Laura Hunt

paleocinema — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:39:59 +0000

For Paleo-Cinema Podcast 90, The A-Z Project hits the letter L. The movies this time are Laura (1944) and the Powell and Pressburger classic, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Between them, almost four hours of filmic goodness. iTunes reviews are welcome and other podcasts please send promos.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 89 - The Killers Times Two.

paleocinema — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:02:48 +0000

This time around, I talk about two movies based on Ernest Hemingway’s story, The Killers. The 1946 version (directed by Robert Siodmak) which showcased the debut performance of Burt Lancaster and the 1964 version (directed by Don Siegel) which showcased the final performance of Ronald Reagan. . Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440. iTunes reviews are always welcome.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 88 - Waffling Through The Years 1957-1975

paleocinema — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:17:03 +0000

This time I waffle about movies from 1957-1975 picking a movie a year, sometimes more. It is an experimental divergence from the usual stuff, but we’ll see how it goes. . Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440. iTunes reviews are welcome.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 87 - Le Jour De Johnny Guitar

paleocinema — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:01:08 +0000

For Paleo-Cinema 87, the A-Z Project continues. I talk about Nicholas Ray’s 1954 Western with a subtext about the McCarthy Era and HUAC, Johnny Guitar, starring Sterling Hayden and Joan Crawford and Jacques Tati’s 1948 look at a rural French postman, Jour de fête. Emails to: kultguru@gmail.com, the voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440, iTunes reviews are welcome and there’s a PayPal donate button at paleo-cinema.com. .

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 86 - Two Weeks On Another Set.

paleocinema — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:52:58 +0000

For 86 Dr Zom and I take a look at The Set (1970) an Australian film ahead of its’ time in portraying gay characters in positive ways, and the 1962 story of Hollywood movie makers making a film in Italy, Vincente Minnelli’s Two Weeks In Another Town, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse and George Hamilton. iTunes reviews are always welcome, and there’s a paypal donate button at http://paleo-cinema.com. Emails feedback: kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 85 - I Walked With A Zombie In A Lonely Place

paleocinema — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:37:55 +0000

For the 4th Birthday podcast, I look at Nicholas Ray’s “In A Lonely Place” starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame and the classic Val Lewton/ Jacques Tourneur movie, “I Walked With A Zombie”. . Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is (206) 350-5440. Reviews in iTunes and anywhere else you like, would be nice, too.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 84 - Music Is Like Movies For Your Ears.

paleocinema — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:31:28 +0000

This time, it’s another music podcast. Lots of groovy and weird stuff. Next time, it’s back to the movies, Don’t forget, the voicemail like is (US)(206) 350-5440, leave reviews on iTunes and comments to kultguru@gmail.com.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 83 - House Of The Bamboo Hustler

paleocinema — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:08:53 +0000

The Paleo-Cinema Podcast A-Z Project has reached the Letter H, and following requests for more Samuel Fuller movies, I’ve gone with one I’ve watched for the first time, the 1955 thriller House Of Bamboo starring Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi and Cameron Mitchell followed by a classic of cool cinema, 1961’s The Hustler starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott and Piper Laurie in her Oscar nominated performance. Don’t forget to give feedback and/or write iTunes reviews. Enjoy!

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 82 - The Ginger Trilogy

paleocinema — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:56:19 +0000

For Paleo-Cinema Podcast 82 we look at The Ginger Trilogy, Ginger (1971), The Abductors (1972) and Girls Are For Loving (1973). Low-budget drive-in programmers with nudity, bondage, calypso music and the New Jersey Turnpike. And don’t forget, iTunes reviews are welcome and the website http://paleo-cinema.com has links to other podcasts and blogs and a PayPal donation button. Enjoy!

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 81 - Banning The Hotel With Dr Zom - Part Deux

paleocinema — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:32:26 +0000

This time, we have a guest on Paleo-Cinema, the inestimable Doctor Zom skypes in to chat with me about two films from 1967. Hotel, starring Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden and Michael Rennie and Banning starring Robert Wagner, Jill St John, Anjanette Comer and Susan Clark. This one is in two parts - so download twice the filmic goodness.

iTunes reviews are always welcome.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 81 - Banning The Hotel With Dr Zom.

paleocinema — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:59:45 +0000

iTunes reviews are always welcome.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 80 - Flight of the Fahrenheit.

paleocinema — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:04:08 +0000

This time around, it’s the Paleo-Cinema A-Z Project “F” podcast. The Flight Of The Phoenix (1965) and Francois Truffaut’s (1966) adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. We also have feedback. Don’t forget, iTunes reviews.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 79 - The Eiger Without A Face

paleocinema — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:39:02 +0000

In Paleo-Cinema Podcast 79, I look at The Eiger Sanction (1975) starring and directed by Clint Eastwood and one of the classics of horror cinema, Georges Franju’s 1960 masterpiece Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face).

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Paleo-Cinema Podcast 78 - Duck Soup D.O.A.

paleocinema — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:05:28 +0000

This time around, in the Paleo-Cinema A-Z Project, we’re hitting the D’s, being The Four Marx Brothers in 1933’s Duck Soup and from 1950, one of the greatest low budget films noir, D.O.A. starring Edmond O’Brien.

Here’s the archive.org link to download D.O.A. (Free Download).

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 77 - Charly and Coffy

paleocinema — Sun, 29 May 2011 02:17:28 +0000

This time around I have a chat with Sal about nothing in particular and I look at the 1973 Blaxploitation movie Coffy starring Pam Grier and the Oscar winning 1968 science fiction film, Charly starring Cliff Robertson.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 76 The Bell Book And Candle Of Blood.

paleocinema — Sat, 14 May 2011 07:13:07 +0000

This time around, I’m going into the territory of Machete Maidens Unleashed! and looking at The Brides of Blood - The first of the Blood Island trilogy starring Kent Taylor, John Ashley and Beverly Powers for some low budget monster action, then over to the witchy beatnik side of things for Bell, Book and Candle starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 75 - All About Alphaville

paleocinema — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:39:12 +0000

To start the A-Z Project in Paleo-Cinema Podcast, I’m looking at Jean-Luc Godard’s surrealistic science fiction dystopia movie from 1965 Alphaville and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1950 classic, nominated for 14 Academy Awards, All About Eve.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 74 Cast A Deadly Odd Man Out.

paleocinema — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:11:52 +0000

For numero setenta y cuatro, I look at the 1991 HBO Fantasy Film Noir, Cast A Deadly Spell starring Fred Ward, Julianne Moore and Clancy Brown, then going from gumshoes and witchcraft to the mean streets of Northern Ireland we segue to Carol Reed’s 1947 Anglo-Irish film noir, Odd Man Out starring James Mason, Cyril Cusack and Dan O’Herlihy. Click here to watch for David Guglielmo’s Spaghetti Western influenced revenge flick short film - Damn Your Eyes

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 73 - Frank, Vlad and Larry

paleocinema — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:13:11 +0000

For Paleo-Cinema 73 I’m taking up a challenge to look at slightly earlier films, so this time it’s the big three of Universal Horror Movie monsters. First, Tod Browning’s 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, then James Whale’s Frankenstein which made Boris Karloff a household name in every mortuary in the World and lastly, the tragic tale of Larry Talbot, 1941’s The Wolf Man.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 72 - The Music One So I Can Go On Vacation

paleocinema — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:26:44 +0000

This time, it’s time for platters that matter and that fantastic black plastic. While I drink cocktails out of coconuts and then visit the Mad Max Museum in Silverton, you can listen to weird sounds I have found on the internet. Voicemail number: (206) 350-5440. Emails: kultguru@gmail.com and if you like, throw a review in the direction of iTunes.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 71 - Tough Guys Take On The Mob

paleocinema — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:37:28 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 70 - L’Homme De Sheila

paleocinema — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:36:51 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 69 - Purple Barbarella

paleocinema — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:53:17 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 68 - Pepe, Paris & The Casbah.

paleocinema — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:11:05 +0000

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!

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 67 - Seven Days To Innocence.

paleocinema — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:04:05 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 66 - The Assassination Of Paradise

paleocinema — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:52:55 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 65 - Groovy Movie Sounds and Other Oddities.

paleocinema — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:22:38 +0000

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

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 64 - The Kremlin Drivers

paleocinema — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:17:29 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 63 - The President’s Moonshine

paleocinema — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:55:08 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 62 - Diabolik Bullitt.

paleocinema — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:53:20 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 61 - Don’t Spare The Rod

paleocinema — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:12:13 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 60 - Wrong Is Caligari’s Sin

paleocinema — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:54:56 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 60 - Wrong Is Caligari’s Sin

paleocinema — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:54:27 +0000

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 59 Three Strange Cinematic Worlds

paleocinema — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:17:45 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 58 The Last Fly Victim Programme

paleocinema — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:20:30 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 57 - The Magnificent Samurai Beyond The Stars Times 7

paleocinema — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:23:05 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 56 - Crooked Reporters And Crooks.

paleocinema — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:20:12 +0000

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

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 55 More Singing Actors And Weirdness

paleocinema — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:32:51 +0000

More music madness. Enjoy!

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 54 - 1970s Tough Guys

paleocinema — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:28:33 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 53 - Kiss The Night Tide Off Pinchgut

paleocinema — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:01:02 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast # 52 The Films of Larry Cohen

paleocinema — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:58:40 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast Now Has Voicemail!

paleocinema — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:32:25 +0000

Yes, we now have an USA voicemail number. It is 206-666-4886. Please leave your voicemail messages there at any time you like.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 51 Tunnels, Nazis and Bad Ponies.

paleocinema — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:17:04 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 50 - Gamblers, Good Time Girls and Extraordinary Thieves.

paleocinema — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:56:08 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #49 Three By Samuel Fuller.

paleocinema — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:39:22 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast Music Special #3

paleocinema — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:30:28 +0000

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

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #45 Mermaids on a Merry Go Round.

paleocinema — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:45:08 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #44 Listener’s Choice

paleocinema — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:18:51 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #43 Dicks

paleocinema — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:06:23 +0000

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.

Paleo-CInema Podcast 42 The Mobile Newtonmas Podcast Special

paleocinema — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:50:51 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast # 41 The United States Of Warren Oates

paleocinema — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:01:24 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #40 The Funeral for A Cold Spy in Berlin Memorandum

paleocinema — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:35:13 +0000

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.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast # 39 Frankenheimer’s Paranoia Trilogy

paleocinema — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:12:00 +0000

For Podcast 39 I look at what has been called John Frankenheimer’s Paranoia Trilogy, the 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate, 1964’s Seven Days In May and 1966’s Seconds. All of the speak to the fears of the time and all have influenced the plots of many subsequent lesser movies. Oddly enough, the zeitgeist fears of the 1960s resemble many of the zeitgeist fears of the Noughties. That’s part of the fun of watching old movies: seeing our own lives and times foreshadowed in them.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #38 Ozploitation Galore!

paleocinema — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:22:34 +0000

London to a brick, the best explanation of Ozploitation cinema this side of the black stump or at least the end of the local tram line. Fuck me dead! in the immortal words of Rod Taylor in “Welcome to Woop Woop”. Vote for Paleo-CInema under Movies and TV at Podcast Alley and send your comments by mp3 or email to kultguru@gmail.com.

Paleo-Cinema Special #3 Gallic soundtracks and Bad Singing Actors

paleocinema — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:18:49 +0000

More musical wonderfulness from the soundtracks of planet Earth. Please to enjoy.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #37 Pimps, Hairdressers and Chainsaws.

paleocinema — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:35:57 +0000

This time around, people, it’s the 2nd Anniversary Paleo-Cinema full of pimps, hairdressers, insecure mofos and the relative merits of chainsaws versus machetes. I look at Rudy Ray Moore’s odd, iconoclastic and archetypally 1970s pimp film Dolemite, its’ sequel, The Human Tornado and the black version of a Warren Beatty film which is much better than the original, Black Shampoo. So put on your platform soles, your fake zebra skin greatcoat and get a couple of your working ladies together and enjoy the studtastic pimperific Paleo-Cinema 37.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 36 Pilgrims, Magic Sound and The High Price of Immortality

paleocinema — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:23:16 +0000

For Podcast 36 I take a look at the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger WW2 movie A Canterbury Tale from 1944, Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 creepy supernatural movie The Shout and a lesser known 1973 British Horror film which should become recognised as a proto-steampunk classic, The Asphyx.

Paleo-Cinema 35 We Deserve Better Science Fiction Films

paleocinema — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:50:16 +0000

This time, I’m on a rant, people. I fulminate, pontificate and ratiocinate about movies once more. Summer (or for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere) Winter Blockbusters have pissed me off mightily, so I’m looking back at a few classic SF films and try to analyse why they work and modern Science Fiction films don’t.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast Special 2

paleocinema — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:06:32 +0000

Once more I’m inflicting weird and wonderful music upon you. Singing actors, spooky women, groovy audio wall to wall. Enjoy.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 34 Don’t Call Me Shirley.

paleocinema — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:31:45 +0000

Three comedies this time around. Blake Edwards’ S.O.B. (yes, the one where Julie Andrews’ boobs have a cameo role and Robert Vaughn wears women’s undies), Airplane! known in the antipodes as Flying High and the classic golfing comedy Caddyshack. (I’m deliberately ignoring the sequels to the latter two movies). Nothing serious for #34 but just a few chuckles and a look at how a dramatic B-Movie like Zero Hour! can be transformed into a really silly comedy.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 33 - The Later Career of Orson Welles

paleocinema — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:44:48 +0000

This time I’ll be looking at three of Orson Welles’ later films. The multi-formed multi-version Confidential Report/ Mr Arkadin, the film noir classic Touch of Evil and Welles’ last and most playfully joyous film - F For Fake.

The Lives Of Harry Lime Radio Shows- From Archive.org

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 32 Sick Japanese Puppies.

paleocinema — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:08:43 +0000

This time around, I’m looking at Japanese crime movies. Sonny Chiba’s inimitable Streetfighter series, Hanzo The Razor where a Japanese cop with unusual methods is explored in detail and take a quick swim in a sea of weirdness with Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter and Branded To Kill.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 31 Kidsafe Movies

paleocinema — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:28:45 +0000

This time around, I’ll be suggesting movies to watch with children. Not necessarily childrens’ films but movies that might generate a passion for cinema in the minds of the young, so they don’t grow up to say things like “Rob Schneider Is A Genius” or “I don’t like black and white movies, I can’t get into them” or other things that would make people doubt the integrity of their genetic structure. I offer this as a public service to the children of the world.*

*Tongue in cheek, of course

Paleo-cinema Podcast Number 30 - The Big Three Movies

paleocinema — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:37:49 +0000

Okay I’m going out on a limb this time, looking at three of the most popular Paleo-Cinematic movies of all time and trying to think of something original to say about them. Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca and Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Also, don’t forget to vote for Paleo-Cinema over at Podcast Alley.

Paleo-cinema Podcast Special Episode #1

paleocinema — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:21:30 +0000

In this ‘cast I’m doing something different. A mixtape of sorts where I share some of my favourite movie music. Not much else to say, but enjoy it Back to a full podcast next week.

Terry

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #28 Dealing With The Devil

paleocinema — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:59:25 +0000

Okay, in this pre-Easter season we look at three movies about making a deal with the Devil. First off, a baseball fan with a mid-life crisis cuts a contract with Ray Walston in Damn Yankees - only to have Gwen Verdon thrown at him. (They’re thinking about remaking this with Jake Gyllenhaal in the Tab Hunter role and Jim Carrey in the Ray Walston one).

Next we look at the comedy classic, Bedazzled (and if you don’t like this movie, you fill me with inertia) and move on to Brian De Palma’s rock and roll iteration of Faust, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1974’s Phantom of the Paradise.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 27 - Damned Killer Children

paleocinema — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:44:58 +0000

This time I take a look at three movies about lethal children from the early 1960s. The first is Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley. The second is the sequel cum remake of it, Children of the Damned from 1963 starring Ian Hendry and Alan Badel and finally, an unrelated film: Joseph Losey’s 1961 (released in 1963) Hammer film (These Are) The Damned. All have lethal children in them, all three take a different approach to the subject.

Paleo-cinema Podcast #26 Road House Singers, Gigolos in Cuzco and A Love Story Between Two Shits.

paleocinema — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:31:44 +0000

This time around we have one movie from the 40s, one from the 50s and one from the 60s. To start with, Road House (1948), then Secret of the Incas from 1954 and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 25 - The Eurospy Agenda

paleocinema — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:53:54 +0000

This time around, I take a look at Eurospy movies - European espionage movies from the 1960s which range from absurd comedies to dark and deadly thrillers, so put on your tux, mix martinis, load your Walther PPK and enjoy!

A Link To A Gallery Of Eurospy Movie posters on David J. Deal’s site

Paleo-Cinema 24 - 5 Robert Aldrich movies, Cowboys, Indians, Private Eyes, Actors and Soldiers

paleocinema — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:23:14 +0000

This time around I’m looking at five movies made by Robert Aldrich between 1954 and 1956. They are Apache starring blue eyed Burt Lancaster as Massai, the last Apache warrior, Vera Cruz where Lancaster buddies up with Gary Cooper… for a while, Kiss Me Deadly which merges private eye film noir with Atomic Era McCarthy paranoia, The Big Knife which shows the disintegration of a movie star and Attack! which takes a raw look at the politics of war on a small scale.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 23- The Newtonmas Musical Podcast

paleocinema — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:34:02 +0000

In this annual Newtonmas podcast I look at three musicals. The Gang’s All Here from 1943, Kismet from 1955 and One Touch of Venus from 1949. Happy holidays people, and happy movie viewing.

Paleocinema Podcast #22 - Industrialised Vampires, Lost Civilizations and A Bad Movie About Movies

paleocinema — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:07:27 +0000

In this podcast we first look at THIRST, the 1979 Ozploitation vampire movie starring Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Henry Silva, Shirley Cameron, Rod Mullinar and Max Phipps.

From there we wind back the clock forty four years and go to a lost kingdom (or should that be queendom?) in the Arctic with the 1935 version of H. Rider Haggard’s SHE, starring Randolph Scott and Helen Gahaghan.

Then forward again two years to Frank Capra’s three million dollar utopian epic, LOST HORIZON based on James Hilton’s novel. This is the good version, not the one where Bobby Van tapdances into a lake to amuse small children.

And finally, THE OSCAR which was as far from winning the award it is named after as I am from winning Miss World. A bad movie, with features of interest.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #21 - Ozploitation,Comatose Killers, Sexy Nightclub Singers & Death in Rio.

paleocinema — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:12:51 +0000

Back again. In this podcast I look at Mark Hartley’s documentary Not Quite Hollywood, begin the Paleo-Cinema Ozploitation Festival with 1978’s Patrick the best killer-in-a-coma movie ever, explain why Charles Laughton stole the 1949 film noir, The Bribe and have fun with love and death at the carnival in Rio in the Oscar winning Foreign Language movie Black Orpheus.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #20 - Music, Cars and Politics.

paleocinema — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:38:22 +0000

In this podcast I check out the Monkees’ movie, partly written by Jack Nicholson, Head, a rev head car-based action flick that influenced Quentin Tarantino in a big way - Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry and a film from 1957 that has a lot to say about politics and the media right now, A Face In The Crowd.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 19- Science Fiction Extravaganza!

paleocinema — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:02:31 +0000

In this podcast I give a brief history of the very, very early days of science fiction cinema… and by very early days I mean from 1895 to the early 20th Century. We are talking deeply paleo-cinema this time. All the important questions are answered. What were the first movies ever to be pirated, plagiarised and remade? What is the first science fiction film ever madeand what do pigs have to do with it?

From there I move on to a checklist of pre-Star Wars science fiction movies that are either must-sees or must-owns. (Not a complete list, the podcast doesn’t have a 6000 minute running time.) And finally, I look at a science fiction movie from 1967 which is sadly overlooked, Peter Watkins’ Privilege, which during the summer of love took a darker look at pop music, celebrity and the relationship between popular culture and politics.

Paleocinema Podcast 18 Savage Action Flicks

paleocinema — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:07:25 +0000

In this podcast I talk about three manly adventure movies from the 60s and 70s. Charles Bronson’s hitman opus “The Mechanic” from 1972, and two films about survival in the savage regions of Africa - 1965’s Sands of the Kalahari and 1966’s classic The Naked Prey. I also complete the Alternative Magnificent 7.

Breakfast In Scarsdale Podcast 17

paleocinema — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:29:42 +0000

In Podcast 17 I (with the assistance of a co-reviewer - Sal) look at one of the coolest thrillers of 1967, the Terence Young directed Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. And a proto-post modern look at Hollywood scriptwriting, alcoholism, stealing the Eiffel Tower, movie producers and why Frankenstein and My Fair Lady are the same thing, 1963’s Paris When It Sizzles starring William Holden, /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn>Audrey Hepburn and Tony Curtis.

I also do a brief look at the movie Quentin Tarantino’s about to remake, Inglorious Bastards.

Link to the Creative Commons License for the Podcast

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 16 - Ozploitation and Blaxploitation

paleocinema — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:00:01 +0000

In this podcast I look at the classic Ozploitation movie The Man From Hong Kong, one of the stars of which has become notorious in Taiwainese triads, and Shaft, the 1971 classic blaxploitation movie. I also look at great books about movies and a few other bits and pieces.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #15 Hellzapoppin’ The Three Caballeros At The Apocalypso

paleocinema — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:13:54 +0000

In podcast 15 I take a look at the seminal gonzo surrealist Olsen and Johnson comedy from 1941 Hellzapoppin’, the first Disney movie to combine animation and live action and arguably the last decent flick they made - The Three Caballeros and to end things on an up-beat, I take a look at the other end of the World movie from 1959, Ranald McDougall’s The World, The Flesh and the Devil - starring Harry Belafonte, Mel Ferrer and Inger Stevens.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 14 - Global Warming, Missing Nipples and A Cosmological Horror Movie

paleocinema — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:26:29 +0000

Okay, in this podcast we have the ur-global warming movie The Day The Earth Caught Fire, directed by Val Guest and starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro, the fifth person in my alt.Magnificent Seven, the movie that inspired a cosmological theory - the 1945 Ealing horror movie Dead of Night and talk about a place where you can get enough free movie and tv series downloads to last you a lifetime.

Link to an article in The Guardian about the links between the Steady State Theory and Dead of Night.

Internet Archive Links

The Archive.Org Archive of The Adventures of Robin Hood.

The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari

DOA (1949)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 13 - French Chicks and Atomic Flicks

paleocinema — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:25:44 +0000

In this podcast I look at the 1962 nuclear war scare film “Panic In Year Zero!” starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon and gush lyrically about the two 1960s Jacques Demy musical masterpieces, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort.

Email comments to kultguru@gmail.com or go to the Paleo-Cinema Blog for more movie goodness.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast 12 Bruce Lee versus Muppets versus Superfly

paleocinema — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:38:36 +0000

In this podcast I look at the Wonderful World of Soundtracks, including the works of Lalo Schifrin, Curtis Mayfield, Monty Norman, John Barry, Piero Umiliani, Anton Karras and a host of others. I also look at the fourth actor in my alternate Magnificent 7 of action film stars from the middle of the 20th Century. Email comments to kultguru@gmail.com or go to the Paleo-Cinema Blog for more movie goodness.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #11 Nazis versus Cowboys versus Dinosaurs

paleocinema — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:39:34 +0000

In this podcast I do a memorial bit for Richard Widmark, Jules Dassin and Charlton Heston.

The classic Michael Powell/ Emeric Pressburger wartime propaganda film 49th Parallel gets a gong and I talk about a childhood favourite The Valley of Gwangi with effects by Ray Harryhausen.

Podcast #10 - The George Pal Experience

paleocinema — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:16:49 +0000

Go here for details and the podcast blog. Text or mp3 comments to kultguru@gmail.com, please. Enjoy!