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A podcast about movies: all kinds of retro, cult, grindhouse, forgotten and interesting movies, childhood favourites and things I have just discovered.
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Sunday Apr 06, 2014
Sunday Apr 06, 2014
For 132 I do something a little different. Firstly, I look at Jules Dassin's 1950 London film noir, Night and the CIty starring Richard Widmar, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers, then take a look at the acting and directing career of Ida Lupino, from her start in London to her career as both an actor and a movie and tv director.
Saturday Mar 22, 2014
Saturday Mar 22, 2014
For this one we go from the south of France to the Okie dustbowl of the 1930s. From 1973 and Truffaut's La Nuit Americaine (Day For Night) with Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Aumont to 1940 and John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell.
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
This time around for 130 I look at Quentin Tarantino's second feature film, 1994's Pulp Fiction and then to complete the set, I grok in fullness Walter Hill's 1979 flick based on a story over 2300 years old... The Warriors.
Saturday Feb 22, 2014
Saturday Feb 22, 2014
For 129 and to celebrate St David's Day on March 1st, I'm looking at two movies starring Welsh actors. Firstly, the 1967 dramatisation of The Great Train Robbery, prosaically entitled Robbery starring Sir Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and James Booth. Secondly, there's the 1964 movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, The Night Of The Iguana starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Grayson Hall.
Sunday Feb 09, 2014
Sunday Feb 09, 2014
For 128 I look at two comedy satires about movies: 1987's Amazon Women On The Moon and the lesser known and lower budget 1989 movie That's Adequate - the only movie so far that starred both Robert Downey Jr. and Bruce Willis.
Sunday Jan 26, 2014
Sunday Jan 26, 2014
This time around I look at a couple of British black and white movies from the middle of the last century. 1946's murder mystery Green For Danger starring Alistair Sim, Leo Genn and Trevor Howard and 1950's So Long At The Fair starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde. Feedback as usual to kultguru@gmail.com or voicemails to 206-337-5398.
Sunday Jan 12, 2014
Sunday Jan 12, 2014
For 126 I look at a middle-range Hitchcock movie from 1942 - Saboteur starring Robert Cummings and Norman Lloyd. Then we zip-pan to 1966 for the Australian paen to multiculturalism and beer drinking, the Michael Powell directed Their A Weird Mob starring Walter Chiari and Chips Rafferty. Feedback: Email:kultguru@gmail.com The voicemail number (US) is 206-337-5398
Sunday Dec 29, 2013
Sunday Dec 29, 2013
After topping Peter O'Toole with the last episode, I eulogise him with a look at his 1972 film, The Ruling Class also starring Alistair Sim, Arthur Lowe and Coral Browne. Then on to a 1957 western classic, 3:10 To Yuma starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Mad English Lords and Sociopathic Stagecoach Robbers. What more do you need?
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
For 124 I look at two famous films, one of which I have just seen for the first time. Firstly, we have the 1946 Raymond Chandler novel adaptation, The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, directed by Howard Hawks and then the 1962 epic, Lawrence of Arabia starrig Peter O'Toole and the deserts of the Middle East. We have feedback as well. The email address is kultguru@gmail.com and the voicemail number is 206 3377721,
Saturday Nov 30, 2013
Saturday Nov 30, 2013
This time around, I'm looking at one of the best regarded movies of all time, Hitchcock's 1958 tale of death, heights and dual identity, VERTIGO and a forgotten film about black revolutionaries in 1960s Cleveland Ohio, Jules Dassin's UPTIGHT. The voicemail number has changed too. It's now 206-337-7721.