Filmography Club
Film fanatic Jason Caviness pores over an auteur's full filmography with a cast of cinephiles.
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Commentary Special: Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Cue up a copy of Gremlins 2: The New Batch (available on Amazon, YouTube, etc) and play this episode alongside it as an enjoyable commentary experience. Host Jason Caviness, San Dimas Today host Kelly Hoyle Bolick, Memento Stori host Rebecca Delius and We Own This Town curator Michael Eades talk ...
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Our Favorite Movies: Raising Arizona with Jamie Bradley
This episode Filmography Club is joined by Jamie Bradley; co-host of the thirstiest podcast Hott Minute and all around hysterical person. Together with host Jason Caviness they discuss the live action Looney Tunes movie that is the Coen Brothers 1987 crime comedy Raising Arizona.
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Our Favorite Movies: Universal Monster Movies with Alex Beene (Pt. 2)
In part one of our talk with early film aficionado Alex Beene, we covered the early history of Universal Monster Movies; the first shared universe of film. This episode, we dive further into the later history of the film franchise, some of the influential film heroes like makeup artist Jack Pierc...
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Our Favorite Movies: Universal Monster Movies with Alex Beene
In 1931, Universal Studios established cinema's first shared universe by releasing the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon. The careers of Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. (among many others) were established ...
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Jeremy Saulnier: Hold the Dark with Dycee Wildman
This is our final entry exploring the (existing) work of Jeremy Saulnier by discussing the 2018 Netflix production Hold the Dark. Based on the novel of the same name by William Giraldi, the films screenplay is by Saulnier best buddy, Macon Blair, and marks the first time the director is not respo...
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Our Favorite Movies: It Follows with Alex Steed
Jason talks with Alex Steed – host of Nashville Demystified and Why Are Dads?, writer, and co-founder of Knack-Factory – about the 2014 “prestige horror” movie, It Follows. They discuss both the overt and subtle themes of the film, the impetus for new directors to steer towards horror and how twi...
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Jeremy Saulnier: Green Room
We continue our discussion of writer/director Jeremy Saulnier’s body of work with a look at his 2015 limited release film, Green Room. The term “genre defying” is bandied about in regards to this piece but, truly, this film finds a mix of survivor horror, thriller, 70’s era Grindhouse and is even...
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Our Favorite Movies: Ikiru with Toby Leonard
This episode we discuss Ikiru, the 1952 Japanese drama directed by the renowned Akira Kurosawa that beautifully tells the tale of Kanji Watanabe, a bureaucrat looking for meaning at the end of his life.
Host Jason Caviness is joined by Toby Leonard, the Programming Director of Nashville’s Belco...
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Jeremy Saulnier: Blue Ruin
Jason and Belcourt Theatre media producer and programming coordinator Zack Hall chat about the 2013 offering from this season's auteur Jeremy Saulnier, Blue Ruin. What happens when the protagonist in a gritty revenge thriller thinks he's in an action movie? Jason and Zack get into that and a lot...
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Our Favorite Movies: Jaws with Ted Ringeisen
The core idea of Filmography Club, is to look at the work of one particular filmmaker per season and to talk to folks who know their movies. Alongside that idea, there was always the desire to create a parallel series where we could occasionally step outside the confines of a season’s subject and...
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Our Favorite Movies: Bride of Frankenstein with Mykki Newton
My guest today is Mykki Newton. Mykki is a film historian and writer. She is also an award-winning broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker with more than 40 years of experience in journalism and acting. She is a former television news anchor, reporter, entertainment correspondent and film ...