POP ART Howard Casner

POP ART, WHERE WE FIND THE POP CULTURE IN ART AND THE ART IN POP CULTURE.

 

That’s right, it’s episode 100. I’ve reached a milestone.

 

WHAT A DRAG: Join me and filmmaker and podcaster Donald McKinney, III (The Real Short Box, The Blue Beetle) as we talk The Flight of Dragons and Dragonslayer,two films about young people fighting dragons.  

 

“All hail Casiodorus Rex, dragonslayer!” Look. Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s super…No, it’s a…dragon?…

 

Sounds like it’s time for Episode 100 of Pop Art. Yes, you heard that right. This is the 100th episode of my podcast. Huzzah, huzzah. I can’t believe I got here, but here I am. It’s the podcast where we find the pop culture in art and the art in pop culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture,
and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indie/foreign side of cinema with a connection to it.

 

Today, I am happy to welcome as my guest, filmmaker and podcaster Donald McKinney, III, who was my very first guest on Pop Art and who showed me the ropes. Donald has chosen as his film the animated The Flight of Dragons, while I have chosen the more SFX spectacular Dragonslayer, both films about young people who have to battle a dragon.

 

And in this episode, we answer such questions as: What is it about dragons anyway? What are our favorite dragons? Nudity in a Disney film? What was it about the sexualization of teens in the 70s and 80s? Why was Flight of Dragons banned on Israeli TV? What does "Vermithrax Pejorative" translate as? What are the differences between the book The Dragon and the George and the film Flight of Dragons? What is the connection of Dragonslayer to the Star War series? What is a George? How did Peter MacNicol get this role?

 

Meanwhile, check out The Real Short Box on most streaming platforms like Apple, as well as on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+real+short+box

 

Donald’s website Rumblespoon Productions as http://www.rumblespoon.com/wp/index/

 

The web series The Blue Beetle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6a-L7kUfdE

 

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

 

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader, The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss


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THE WRONG MANS: Join me and filmmaker, podcaster, author and film scholar, Steven Jay Rubin (The James Bond Encyclopedia) as we talk
North by Northwest and Tell No One, two films about men accused of a murder
they didn’t commit and have to go on the run to prove their innocence.

 

“You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my
son, are you?” It happens to the best of us. We’re just going our merry way
when someone gets murdered. We get blamed for it when we’re totally innocent.
So do we work with the authorities and hire a good lawyer and private investigator?
Of course not. We do what any normal person would. We go on the run and find
the murderer ourselves. Ah, fun times, fun times…

 

Sounds like it’s time for Episode 99 of Pop Art,
where we find the pop culture in art and the art in pop culture. It’s the
podcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture, and I’ll select a
film from the more art/classic/indie/foreign side of cinema with a connection
to it. For this episode, I am happy to welcome as my guest, filmmaker, podcaster,
author and film scholar, Steven Jay Rubin, who has
chosen as his film the Alfred Hitchcock classic North By Northwest, while I
have chosen Guillaume
Canet’s Tell No One, both films about someone who has been accused of a
murder they didn’t commit and have to go on the run to prove their innocence.

 

And in this episode, we answer such questions as: What is the appeal of
wrong man films? Who is the murderer in the book as opposed to the film of Tell
No One? What about that crop duster scene? What about that chase over the freeway
and through the market scene? Whose idea was it to make Marin Landau’s
character gay? What actor in Tell No One plays the lead in the French version
of The Office? Why do the French adapt so many American and British authors of
thrillers and mysteries? Where does the title North by Northwest come from? Is
Hercule Poriot French? What is the age difference between Cary Grant and Jessie
Royce Landis?

 

Check out Rubin’s IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748169/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_1_q_steven%2520jay%2520rubin

 

His podcast Saturday Night at the Movies can be found at https://www.stevenjayrubin.com/podcast

 

And his books are available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=steven+jay+rubin&i=stripbooks&crid=3Q0CWCUZ3OQF1&sprefix=steven+jay+rubin%2Cstripbooks%2C186&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

 

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

 

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader,
The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True
Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

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POP ART, WHERE WE FIND THE POP CULTURE IN ART AND THE ART IN POP CULTURE.

 

REBELS WITH AND WITHOUT A CAUSE: Join me and filmmaker Derek Nguyen (The
Housemaid, now available on Amazon) as we talk Hair and No Regrets for Our
Youth, two films about young people protesting a war.

 

“It’s the age of Aquarius.”
War. What is it good for. Absolutely nothing, except maybe munitions manufacturers,
politicians, war contractors, oh, and of course movies, can’t forget movies…Sounds
like it’s time for Episode 98 of Pop Art, where we find the pop culture in art
and the art in pop culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a movie
from popular culture, and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indie
side of cinema with a connection to it. For this episode, I am happy to welcome
as my guest, writer, director, producer Derek Nguyen,
who has chosen as his film the Milos Foreman musical Hair, while I have chosen an
early Akira Kurosawa film, No Regrets for Our Youth, both films about young
people protesting war.

 

And in this episode we answer such questions: Why is there such a dearth of
war protest films? What great songs did they leave out of Hair? What is the
real history behind the events in No Regrets…? What did the authors of the
original Broadway version of Hair think of the movie? Is Henry David Thoreau
full of it? What musical pieces are played on piano in No Regrets…? Where is
the lyric The Rest is Silence from? What doesn’t quite compute about the ending
of Hair? Where does Nicholas Ray appear in Hair?

 

Check out Nguyen’s IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1532529/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_dereke%2520nguyen.
The Housemaid can be seen on Amazon Prime.

 

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

 

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader,
The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True
Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

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POP ART, WHERE WE FIND THE POP CULTURE IN ART AND THE ART IN POP CULTURE.

 

FATALE ATTRACTION: Join me and film enthusiast The Vern of Cinema Recall as we discuss two movies about film fatales, To Die For and Ossessione.

 

“You're not really anybody in America unless you're on TV.” You meet someone. You fall in love. She’s
married. She manipulates you into killing her husband so you can be with her forever. She betrays you. Hey, it’s happened to the best of us…Sounds like it’s
time for Episode 97 of Pop Art, where we find the pop culture in art and the art in pop culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a movie from
popular culture, and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indie side of cinema with a connection to it. For this episode, I am happy to welcome back as
my guest, film enthusiast and podcaster The Vern, who has chosen as his film the dark comedy, Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, while I have chosen Luchino Visconti’s feature film debut, Ossessione, both films about woman manipulating men to commit murder for them. Fun times. Fun times.

 

And in this episode we answer the following questions: What did the writers get wrong about driving in New Hampshire? Why was Ossessione banned in Italy and then prohibited in the US after the war? What happened in real life that was different in To Die For? Who ran screaming from the film festival premier of Ossessione screaming—This is not Italy? What is the appeal of femme fatales? What is a homme fatale? Who is G. Clifford Prout? Why didn’t Anna Magani play the lead in Ossessione? Where does the author of the book To Die For appear in the movie? Is there a coded gay character in Ossessione? Why does Illeana Douglas have a cast on in the second half of the movie?

 

Meanwhile look up The Vern’s podcast CinemaRecall at Cinemarecall.net.

 

The Vern has been a previous guest on my podcast. For episode 6, we discussed two films revolving around roboticized police forces,
Robocop and THX1138.

 

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

 

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader,
The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True
Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

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POP ART, WHERE WE FIND THE POP CULTURE IN ART AND THE ART IN POP CULTURE.

 

TRAINSUBSTANTIATION: Join me and screenwriter Jordan Trippeer as we discuss
two movies that take place on trains, Bullet Train and TransSiberian.

 

“You’re a diesel.” Oh,
for the days when people traveled by train. The scenery, the comfort, the
luxury, the smuggling, the murders, the crashes.…Sounds like it’s time for
Episode 96 of Pop Art, where we find the pop culture in art and the art in pop
culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture,
and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indie side of cinema with a
connection to it. For this episode, I am happy to welcome back as my guest, screenwriter Jordan Trippeer, who has chosen as her film the
action packed Brad Pitt led comedy Bullet Train, while I have chosen the more indie
Woody Harrelson/Emily Mortimer crime drama, TransSiberian, both films about criminal
goings on a train.

 

And in this episode we
answer such questions as:  What’s so
great about train movies anyway? What are the different moral universes the two
movies take place in? Why was Bullet Train accused of whitewashing? Why did a
sign in TransSiberian read All Abroad? What is the character of Hello Kitty? What
are the McGuffin in both films? Why was Bullet Train filmed on studio sound
stages? What are some differences between the book and screenplay of Bullet Train?


 

Check out Jordan’s IMDB page
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4930599/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
and check out her films, as well as be on the look out for her upcoming
projects.

 

Jordan has been a previous guest on my podcast. For
episode 20, we discussed two films revolving around demons, Constantine and The
Wailing. Check it out.

 

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

 

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader,
The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True
Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

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POP ART, WHERE WE FIND THE POP CULTURE IN ART AND THE ART IN POP CULTURE.

TIMELESS: Join me and podcaster and movie lover Nick Rehak of Rehak Radio as we discuss two time travel movies, Looper and Predestination.

Nick was previous a guest of Pop Art for Ep 76 where we discussed two horror films revolving around hotels—The Shining and The Innkeepers—The guests check in, but do they check out. Check it out.

Not happy with the way things are now? Would you like a change of pace? Of place? How about a change of time?…Sounds like it’s time for Episode 95 of Pop Art, where we find the pop culture in art and the art in pop culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture, and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indie side of cinema with a connection to it. I am your “This time travel crap, just fries your brain like an egg” host, Howard Casner. For this episode, I am happy to welcome back, podcaster and movie lover Nick Rehak, who has chosen as his film the Rian Johnson time travel movie, Looper, while I have chosen the Spierig brothers time travel movie, Predestination, both films not just about time travel, but movies about people encountering themselves and ironically affecting their own lives.

And in this episode we answer such questions as: What is it about time travel movies anyway, why are they so popular? Are both movies Greek tragedy? Is Rian Johnson a hipster? What are the basic themes explored by time travel movies and these movies in particular? How was Looper changed for release in China and why? What’s intriguing about the bathroom signs in Predestination? What happened on Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s 30th birthday? How does the Chernobyl Power Plant fit in?

Be sure to look up Nick Rehak at Rehak Radio https://www.mixcloud.com/TheRehak/rehak-radio-the-first-episode-51121/

His podcast at French Toast Sunday https://frenchtoastsunday.com/podcasts

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader, The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

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