The Projection Booth Podcast

We look at the 2012 film, American Mary. Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska, the film tells the tale of a med student, Mary Mason (Katherine Isabelle), who is working towards becoming a surgeon but decides to pay her bills by doing body modification.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lizzie Borden's second feature film, Working Girls (1986) looks at the day in the life of a sex worker, her co-workers, her boss, and her clients.We spoke to director Lizzie Borden and actress Amanda Goodwin (Dawn) about this groundbreaking film.We're joined in our discussion by "working girl," Grace Smith, to help us understand how some sex work really works.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We conclude Shakespeare September with our look at Orson Welles's Othello. Filmed over a period of four years, the production was plagued with financial problems but ultimately proved a triumph of ingenuity over resources.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shakespeare September continues with a look at the 1995 film Richard III, directed by Richard Loncraine and starring Ian McKellen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shakespeare September continues with the 1990 film from writer/director Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, based upon Stoppard's own award-winning mid-sixties play.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to take off to the Great White North and officially kick-off Shakespeare September with The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, an unorthodox take on William Shakespeare's Hamlet with Bob & Doug playing Rosencrantz & Guildenstern.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Roman month comes to a close we look at the 1999 film Titus, directed by Julie Taymor and based on the bloody tragedy by William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roman Month continues with the 1969 film, Fellini Satyricon. Based loosely on the remaining fragments of Petronius's voluminous work, the film is a series of vignettes.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The second feature narrative film from legendary British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, Life of Brian finds the lads in Roman-occupied Judea circa 33 AD.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1979 film Caligula is a biopic about one of the most-wicked rulers of Rome. Directed by Tinto Brass, written by Gore Vidal and produced by Bob Guccione of Penthouse magazine.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're looking at Naosuke Kurosawa's 1980 Japanese Roman Porno film Zoom In: Sex Apartments. Guests: Jerry Chandler of Synapse Films & Coffin Jon.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A notorious adult film which blends the true crime of Michael H. Kenyon and the movie Taxi Driver, Shaun Costello's Waterpower stars Jamie Gillis as Burt, the Enema Bandit, who terrorizes women with his Bardex bag and nozzle.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We examine this sci-fi classic from Mario Bava, Planet of the Vampires (AKA Terrore nello spazio) along with Troy Howarth, author of The Haunted World of Mario Bava.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This special episode features interviews with Sophie Huber, director of Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction and Ejijah Drenner, director of That Guy Dick Miller, as well as a discussion of the new Documentary Podcast from The Freep Film Festival.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We examine Alejandro Jodorowsky's landmark 1973 philosophical film, The Holy Mountain, about nine adepts searching for immortality, undertaking a sacred journey. Joining us is Stephen Scarlata, co-producer of the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Retreat, No Surrender, the 1986 low-budget martial arts film, stars Kurt McKinney as Jason Stillwell – a young man who continues to learn karate despite his father's wishes. He squares off against Jean-Claude Van Damme as an evil Soviet fighter.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike talked to Dr. Jonathan Ball, author of the definitive book on John Paizs's Canadian classic, Crime Wave (AKA The Big Crime Wave).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perhaps the best adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut work, Mother Night stars Nick Nolte as Howard W. Campbell, Jr. an American playwright whose Nazi broadcasts may have helped America win the war. But, at what cost?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Bob Rafelson's The King of Marvin Gardens, Bruce Dern as Jason, a small time conman who's working on a big deal and wants to share the score with his depressed radio monologist brother, David ( Jack Nicholson).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Mann's Manhunter was a stylish serial killer film that has proved influential for decades. Other than being known as the first film appearance from Hannibal Lecter (a sublime Brian Cox), Manhunter helped give rise to the crime procedural.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices