The Film Show KBOO Radio

 

Putting the Sin in Cinema is the name of film historian Elliot Lavine's
course about the early days of sound film, when Hollywood addressed social
issues with minimal censorship.  Following a series of celebrity scandals
and complaints about lewd content, the studios cre...

 

The Northwest Film Center's Ben Popp introduces us to two up-and-coming
directors whose works are screening at the 45th Northwest Filmmakers'
Festival.  Edward Pack Davee's narrative feature Lost Division, years in the
making, is inspired by World War II diaries and shot...

 

In this extended interview with Quinn Costello, co-director (along with
Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer) of the documentary Rodents of Unusual
Size, we learn more about his travels in Louisiana learning about local
culture and the role of the nutria.  We also hear about ...

 

In this extended interview, we get more time to shoot the breeze with
comedian / puppeteer / musician David Liebe Hart and learn about his
oddball encounters, real and unreal, with celebrities, ghostly animals,
extraterrestrials, and Sasquatch.  David is a regular perfor...

 

Michael Garcia and Avalon Leonetti are cinephiles and comedians who enjoy
sharing their love of obscure movies and TV shows with Portland audiences.
 They invite local comedians to join them on the "comedy panel nostalgia
trip" Forgotten Fantasies, as well as such events...

 

Gus Van Sant's directorial work has ranged from the avant-garde (Gerry and
Last Days) to the transgressive (Mala Noche and Drugstore Cowboy)
to Hollywood crowd-pleasers (Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester).  His
latest feature, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot,...