Paleo-Cinema Podcast

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.