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The Projection Booth has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. With over 600 episodes to date and an ever-growing fan base, The Projection Booth regularly attracts special guest talent eager to discuss their past gems, including Ellen Burstyn, Willem Dafoe, Joe Dante, Bruce Dern, Chris Elliott, William Friedkin, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Ed Harris, John Landis, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Palin, Sir Tim Rice, Julie Taymor, John Waters, and more. The podcast features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis.
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Episode 692: The Graduate (1967)
We wrap up the first of a few Request Months with one from Brian Tessitore, The Graduate. The Mike Nichols film stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, the titular graduate. He's adrift after college and falls into an affair with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), a family friend.
Keith Gordon and Katharine Coldiron join Mike to discuss the seminal film along with homages and the "sequel," Rumor Has It. Beverly Gray, author of Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How the Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation, talks about her work including her time on Death Race 2000.
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Episode 691: The Trial (1962)
We continue our Patreon request month with one requested by Peter Rogers, Orson Welles's The Trial. Released in 1962, the film stars Anthony Perkins as K in this adaptation of Franz Kafka's nightmare in bureaucracy.
Playwright David MacGregor and writer Mike Faloon join Mike to discuss this beautiful, baroque interpretation of Kafka's work as well as 1962 Norwegian television film and the 1993 version starring Kyle MacLaughlin.
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Special Report: The Return of Susie Bright
Susie Bright returns to The Projection Booth to talk about her work on The Wachowskis' Bound, her audible show, donating her archives to Cornell, and her substack, https://susiebright.ink/
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Special Report: Bruce Joel Rubin Books
Bruce Joel Rubin (Brainstorm, Ghost, Jacob's Ladder) and Joseph Maddrey join Mike to discuss two new books put out by Paul Cronin's Sticking Place Books: It's Only A Movie -- Bruce's revelatory autobiography -- and Three Visionary Screenplays -- a compilation of three unproduced Rubin scripts.
Find out more at https://www.brucejoelrubin.com/
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Special Report: Agent Recon (2024)
On this special episode Mike talks with writer/director Derek Ting, actor Marc Singer, and actress Nikki Leigh about their parts in Ting's latest film, Agent Recon. This action/sci-fi film opens in the U.S. on June 21, 2024.
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Special Report: Birder (2023)
Mike spoke with director Nate Dushku, writer Amnon Lourie, and star Michael Emery about their queer horror film Birder (2023) in which a birdwatcher (Emery) visits a nude campground in New Hampshire.
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