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 critic. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, NY. and appeared in several feature films, television shows and on-stage. Mykki Newton is currently a producer/videographer/editor at The University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism and New Media.
She researches and writes extensively about classic cinema on her very readable blog: https://www.mykkinewtonclassiccinema.com/
Up Next in Season 2
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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: Ikiru with Toby ...
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: 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...
