Paleo-Cinema Podcast

Paleo-Cinema Podcast # 39 Frankenheimer’s Paranoia Trilogy

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Paleocinema Podcast 9 - film noir versus Rififi and Topkapi

In this podcast I look at Jules Dassin’s two classic crime caper movies, Rififi and Topkapi - the sources from which all subsequent caper movies evolved. In the film noir segment I talk about Robert Wise’s 1949 boxing film, The Set-Up, based (believe it or not) on a 1929 poem by Joseph Moncure March and finally, the third of my alternative Magnificent Seven action film stars of the 1960s - Australian actor Rod Taylor.

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Paleocinema Podcast 8 - ITV Classics and a rarely seen Mitchum Film Noir

Once more with feeling… this podcast includes the second of my alt.magnificent 7 of pre 1980 action stars, a look at Otto Preminger’s film noir movie “Angel Face” and a look at the cool genre tv shows that Lord Lew Grade produced with his British TV company ITC.

The chipmunk problem is now solved. The podcast sounds as good as it every does. Enjoy!

Paleocinema Podcast #7 What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing On A Knight Like This versus The Big Combo

In this podcast I look at the first of my magnificent seven of pre-1980s action movie stars, go into a guilty pleasure - the 1976 porn Alice In Wonderland and look at a half-forgotten film noir, The Big Combo

Paleocinema Podcast 6- 1960s Closeted Gay Politicians, Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town

Podcast Number Six, The Newtonmas Programme.

In this podcast I look at Advise and Consent, the 1962 political movie directed by Otto Preminger, my guest Sally looks at Rankin-Bass Christmas specials and I go through some of the best movies I first saw in 2007. Have cool holidays.

Paleo-cinema Podcast 5 - Roberto Rossellini Versus Gerry Anderson Versus Robert A Heinlein

It’s summer in Paleo-Cinema Land. In this ‘cast I look at Roberto Rossellini’s Viaggio In Italia, Gerry Anderson’s live action movie Journey To The Far Side of the Sun a.k.a. Doppleganger and the Robert A Heinlein scripted and embarassingly silly science fiction movie Project Moonbase. I then rabbit on about movie reference books.

Paleocinema Podcast 4 - Spy Films, Apart From 007

In this podcast I look at the history of spy films, apart from James Bond, going back to the origins of the genre, revealing the longest running spy movie series of all time and dissing not only “Get Smart” but Austin Powers as well.

Extra music and sounds from archive.org and Soundsnap.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #3 The Thief of Bagdad Meets Stone

In this episode I look at the 1940 Alexander Korda remake of “The Thief of Bagdad” and Sandy Harbutt’s 1974 Australian biker movie “Stone”.

Podcast 2 - The Vincent Price Episode

Podcast #2 - in which Terry talks about the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) and looks at one of the legends of horror movies in the 1950s and 1960s. Email: kultguru@gmail.com.

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #1

The inaugural podcast.

Movies/TV Discussed:

The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)

The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

I Spy Series 1 Boxed Set (1965)

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