Paleo-Cinema Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.