Paleo-Cinema Podcast

This time, we look at two movies from East Asia, 2018's Maggie from South Korea- a film about relationships, sinkholes and catfish and a classic of gay cinema from Japan, 1969's Funeral Parade Of Roses. My guest this time is Nathaniel de Bell and he knows his stuff.   You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/paleocinema. You know you want to.   The YouTube channel where you can find more goodness is youtube.com/c/terryfrost   Stay safe out there.

Yep, still around and still gonna podcast. I have a new sound deck, which is a magical piece of technology and I'm going to use it.   You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/paleocinema. You know you want to.

Ben Buckingham and I break the drought with a wide ranging podcast that gets out of control and ends up being as long as an MCU movie.    We talk about a lot of stuff and none too coherently. Ben can be found as @dissolvedpet on Twitter and Instagram.    You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $1US per month. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

Yes, I know it's late but here it is. As usual, I let you know what I've been watching and again, this one is me sharing some of the music I've been enjoying so far this year.   So in case you're self-quarantining or just chilling out, enjoy the music!   You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $1US per month. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time around, it's Bogart At Sea and Jackie Chan in hospital with 1943's Action In The North Atlantic and 1986's Armour Of God.    You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $1US per month. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

Famous people die all the time, usually the wrong ones. To honour the wrong ones, here's my piece on the people we misplaced in 2019.   Have a great 2020. I'll be back. You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $1US per month. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

Until I get my mojo back, here's a filler episode of transgressive music, singing actors and other oddities.      You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $1US per month. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time around it's a December-May romance set on the Isle of Capri and an entitled, insane country and western singer in the 1970s American South. It starts with It Started In Naples starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren from 1960 then we finish with Payday from 1972 starring Rip Torn and Ahna Capri.   You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $1US per month. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

Shakespeare and an obscure, minor film noir. That's what this podcast is about. We start with Kenneth Branagh's joyous version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, also starring Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington, from 1993 then we go back to 1952 for Don't Bother To Knock starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe.    You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $1US per month. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time around it's two non-musical Jacques Demy movies from the 1960s which share the same narrative universe as his other 1960s movies. First, Demy's first feature film Lola, starring Anouk Aimee and Marc Michel, then 1969's Model Shop starring Anouk Aimee and Gary Lockwood. Both movies are highly recommended. Enjoy!   You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema for pocket change. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time around, I look at Alfred Hitchcock's second last movie, the thriller Frenzy starring Jon Finch, Barry Foster and Anna Massey then I dive into the Nouvelle Vague for Agnes Varda's brilliant Cleo From 5 to 7 starring Corinne Marchand.   You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema for pocket change. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time it's two movies that Quentin Tarantino said were influences on his new movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: first we get Van Heflin, Tab Hunter and Kathryn Grant in Phil Karlson's Gunman's Walk then we move on to Arizona Raiders starring Audie Murphy and Buster Crabbe.   Saddle up, cowboys and cowgirls and cowthem.   You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema for pocket change. The YouTube channel is Terry Talks Movies youtube.com/c/terryfrost   See you next time 

We go from Scotland to Tucson this time starting with one of the 1949 bumper crop of Ealing comedies, Whisky Galore starring Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood and from there to Sam Peckinpah's first movie as a director, The Deadly Companions starring Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith.    You can support the podcast for as little as  $US1 a month at https://patreon.com/paleocinema.   The YouTube Channel Terry Talks Movies is at https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time it's two movies from 1968 which appear in the trailer to Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In China. Krakatoa - East Of Java, a disaster movie starring Maxmillian Schell and Brian Keith and The Night They Raided Minsky's starring Jason Robards and Britt Ekland.   You can support the podcast for as little as  $US1 a month at https://patreon.com/paleocinema.   The YouTube Channel Terry Talks Movies is at https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time it's all about toxic masculinity and Doris Day. I start with the 1956 Doris Day thriller Julie also starring Louis Jourdan and Barry Sullivan then move on to the Australian neo-western feminist drama Shame, starring Deborra-Lee Furness and Tony Barry.    You can support the podcast for as little as  $US1 a month at https://patreon.com/paleocinema.   The YouTube Channel Terry Talks Movies is at https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

This time around, I ramble about our trip to Japan last month. Food, culture, toys, travel, history and all the other things that make travel worthwhile. Back to movies next month,   You can support podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/paleocinema The YouTube channel is https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost   Catch you next time

From gigolos to saintly doctors this time, starting with the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy starring John Voight and Dustin Hoffman, then moving on to the second collaboration between Akira Kurasawa and Toshiro Mifune: 1949's The Quiet Duel. Both fantastic movies.   You can support the podcast for as little as $US1 as month at https://patreon.com/paleocinema The YouTube Channel is https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost The Terry and Sally channel doesn't have a URL yet. Take care and we'll see ya after Japan. 

This time around, it's Hitchcock and good old fashioned soap opera with nudity. Firstly, Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 stunt of a movie, Rope starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, then we move on to 1974 for Number 96 - an Australian comedy based on a taboo-breaking television soap opera starring Elaine Lee and Johnny Lockwood.    Please support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $US1 a month.   The wonderful YouTube channel is youtube.com/c/terryfrost   Thanks for listening and take care of yourselves.

Time for some 1950s Don Siegel goodness, starting with the gritty and authentic Riot In Cell Block 11 starring Neville Brand and Leo Gordon, then to 1959 for the panoramic actioner Edge Of Eternity starring Cornel Wilde and Victoria Shaw. It's good to be back podcasting! You can support the podcast by donation at patreon.com/paleocinema.

In this episode, I look at the life and career of the great film and jazz composer Michel Legrand who died this week at the age of 86.    His legacy is over 250 movie and tv scores, as well as his other collaborations with people like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Claude Nougaro, Iggy Pop and Dusty Springfield.   You can support the podcast for as little as $US1 per month at patreon.com/paleocinema  

For the first Paleo-Cinema of 2019 I look at the 1954 version of A Star Is Born, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, then we head forward to 1962 for the Italian masterpiece Il Sorpasso starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Tritingant, which may be one of my new favourite films.   You can support the podcast by paying as little as $US1 per month at https://patreon.com/paleocinema. The YouTube channel can be found at https://youtube.com/c/terryfrost

Time for another music podcast. I mix up a lot of weird shit this time. Italian pop music, novelty seasonal songs and things I just like for no particular reason.   Enjoy the holiday season, peeps. Bigger and better things for us all next year.   You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/paleocinema. 

For this episode, it's Northern California a century ago for the 1955 adaptation of John Steinbeck's East Of Eden, starring James Dean, Julie Harris and Raymond Massey. Then we head to 1961 for a small, forgotten political drama No Love For Johnnie starring Peter Finch, Billie Whitelaw and Stanley Holloway.   You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema   The YouTube Channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3hwNZQ6FyrJVyE50fUqRQ?

Forty eight years in the making, Orson Welles' final film The Other Side Of The Wind has been released on Netflix. I talk about it and what I think about it. Watching this one was a weird, wonderful journey.  Become a patron of the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema The YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3hwNZQ6FyrJVyE50fUqRQ?  

This time around, I look at the prophetic and slightly pathetic 1979 American satirical comedy Americathon starring John Ritter, Zane Buzby and Peter Riegert. If you ever wanted to see Meat Loaf fight a car, this is the movie for you. I also waffle about watching movies in the cinema as opposed to home screens.   You can support the podcast via Patreon for as little as $1 per month at Https://patreon,com/paleocinema. Charity begins with podcasts.

Musicals again. We go from the 1943 all black musical Cabin In The Sky starring Ethel Waters and Eddie Anderson to the first musical Francis Ford Coppola directed, 1968's Finian's Rainbow starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark and Keenan Wynn.    You can support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema, and find my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3hwNZQ6FyrJVyE50fUqRQ?   See ya soon

This time we go from Charles Bronson to Burl Ives with the 1975 Alistair McLean adaptation Breakheart Pass starring Bronson, Jill Ireland and Richard Crenna, then we move back to 1958 for the adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives. Could two movies be any more different?   You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema for as little as $US1 a month and the YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3hwNZQ6FyrJVyE50fUqRQ?view_as=subscriber 

This time I look at Humphrey Bogart's last film, the boxing drama/expose The Harder They Fall also starring Rod Steiger and Jan Sterling. From there it's over to the second Cinerama narrative feature film, the picaresque How The West Was Won with a cast of hundreds. So we go from palookas to pinto ponies.   Please support the podcast via Patreon for as little as $US1 per month at patreon.com/paleocinema.

This time around, more comedies. First the 1944 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1887 novella, The Canterville Ghost, starring Charles Laughton, Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien, then we go to 1978 for the seminal college comedy, National Lampoon's Animal House starring John Belushi, Tim Matheson and Peter Riegert. Spooks and Toga Parties for everyone.   You can support the podcast for as little as a dollar a month at patreon.com/paleocinema. You know you want to.

This time I chat with Dr Zom (not a real doctor) from Silva And Gold Podcast http://silvaandgold.com/ about Tom Cruise's weird asexual persona, Ralph Meeker, weird Japanese Reality TV and James Bond... for an hour and a half.   Support the podcast for as little as $1 per month at patreon.com/paleocinema.

This time, as I have a bad cold, I went for a different format. I put out questions for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) and the listeners responded.    Here are the questions, and answers, and a little bit of music.   Support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema.   Feeling better today.

Back from hiatus, I take a look at a stylistically interesting biblical epic, 1954's The Silver Chalice with Paul Newman, Pier Angeli and Jack Palance, then to a 1952 hidden gem of a film noir with absolutely no dialogue at all, The Thief, starring Ray Milland and Rita Gam.   You can find The Thief on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAx8ZpW1cEw&feature=share   Please support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema

This time around, I talk about another train trip to Sydney and the two movies I watched en route. The first is the second pilot TV movie for the David Janssen series Harry-O, Smile, Jenny You're Dead also starring Jodie Foster and Clu Gulager. Then a movie where the screenwriter copied his previous movie's beats and tropes, 1963's The Prize starring Paul Newman and Elke Sommer.   Support the podcast via Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month at https://patreon.com/paleocinema.   Feedback to feedbackpaleo@gmail.com

This time around it's everything from French Canadian chanteuses to Texas rednecks in the annual music episode. So put your cans on and wait for the tunes to hit your tympanic membranes.   Support the podcast for as little as a dollar a month at patreon.com/paleocinema.

In this one, Humphrey Bogart joints the alt-Right in Black Legion and Jean Gillies in Decoy gives us the most amazing femme fatale in all film noir.   Become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema   Get your free public domain ebook of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here at https://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/download/11371?doc=4246

It's Buenopalooza time with two films from Oscar-nominated actor Victor Bueno. First the 1964 creepy low budget take on The Boston Strangler - The Strangler then we move on to a movie that combines charcuterie with Sweeney Todd, the 1971 dark comedy, The Bad Butcher a.k.a. Meat Is Meat a.k.a. Lo strangolatore di Vienna. So put on your polo necks and sit back and enjoy the ride. Support the podcast by donating at patreon.com/paleocinema 

For this one, I have two silly movies. First the 1976 comedy parody of disaster films The Big Bus starring Joseph Bologna and Stockard Channing then Orca- The Killer Whale starring Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling. EnjoY!   Support the podcast via Patreon to win a chance at the April prize draw: patreon.com/paleocinema.

For this episode, there are a lot of pimps. First I look at the 1974 movie Truck Turner starring Isaac Hayes and Nichelle Nicholls, then we go back to 1972 for Bernie Casey in Hit Man, based on the same novel and same script as Get Carter. So put on your platform shoes and your best pimp threads and enjoy.   You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema

For this one I go from a 1970 WW2 caper film, Kelly's Heroes starring Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland to a 1957 Hemingway adaptation, The Sun Also Rises starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner. Tanks to bulls. The kid stays in the picture. Please support the podcast by going to patreon.com/paleocinema and throwing pocket change into the hat at my feet.

It's all stunts and balloon animals this time. First off, Brian Trenchard-Smith's 1976 stunt extravaganza Deathcheaters starring John Hargreaves and Grant Page, then we move over to 1991 for the Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies, Shakes The Clown starring Bobcat Goldthwait and Tom Kenny.   Support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema.

For this one, the shit gets serious. Firstly, Frank Capra's 1939 political comedy Mr Smith Goes To Washington starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, then we move on 1957 for Sidney Lumet's debut movie, 12 Angry Men starring Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb and Martin Balsam. Plus there is feedback.   Support the podcast via Patreon at patreon.com/paleocinema. Thanks 

This time it's droll British Eurospy versus French New Wave cum Film Noir. First, it's Hot Enough For June, Ralph Thomas' Eurospy comedy starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina with a great supporting cast including Robert Morley and Leon McKern. Then we hit Louis Malle's French crime drama Elevator To The Gallows starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet.   You can support the podcast by donating at patreon.com/paleocinema.

For the first Paleo-Cinema of 2018 I look at the 1962 exploitation sleazefest that is Satan In High Heels starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall, then we go to 1973 Sweden for the compulsively watchable but confronting revenge movie Thriller- A Cruel Picture a.k.a. They Call Her One Eye. Plus, there's feedback   Support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema

This time I found a Fritz Lang movie I hadn't seen, the WW2 drama, co-written by Berthold Brecht, Hangmen Also Die starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan, then I do my Top 10 movies first watched in 2017.   Have a cool holiday season and a rockin' 2018   Support the podcast via Patreon at https://patreon.com/paleocinema

Here it is. As agreed with the Patreon subscribers I watched and reviewed Star Wars - The Last Jedi as fairly as I possibly could. There's really nothing else to say except enjoy the holidays. Go to https://patreon.com/paleocinema so you too can support the podcast

This time around I explain the funding changes with Podbean, then the interesting stuff. I look at a 1942 American portmanteau film, TALES OF MANHATTAN with an enormous cast of stars and a very interesting concept. From there, to celebrate the legalisation of Same Sex Marriage in this brown, unpleasant land, I look at the 1970 adaptation of Joe Orton's 1964 play, Entertaining Mr. Sloane starring Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews and Peter McEnerey.  You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema but please be aware of service charges of 2.9% plus $US0.35 per monthly donation.

For this episode, Alex Pierce from Galactic Suburbia and Acts Of Kitchen podcasts drops by to talk about two Irwin Allen disaster movies, 1972's The Poseidon Adventure and 1974's The Towering Inferno. This is the most disastrous Paleo-Cinema Podcast yet! Alex's Podcasts http://actsofkitchen.com http://galactisuburbia.podbean.com And you can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/paleocinema  

This time I break the format and talk about the four days I spent in Sydney last week. Rambling, autobiographical stuff. Thanks for indulging me this time.   Please support the podcast for as little as $1 per month by going to patreon.com/paleocinema. 

This time I'm doing TV with a look at ITC, the company that gave us Danger Man, The Saint, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, The Adventures of Robin Hood and many many other TV action and adventure shows of the 50s, 60s and 70s.   Support the podcast for as little as a dollar a month by going to patreon.com/paleocinema .

This time we open in 18th Century California and then we open in Venice, we next play Verona and on to Cremona. From the 1940 swashbuckler The Mark Of Zorro starring Tyrone Power, linda Darnell and Basil Rathbone we go on to one of the most silly and joyous musical adaptations of Shakespeare, Kiss Me Kate from 1953 starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller.   If you enjoy the podcast think about contributing to it at patreon.com/paleocinema

Number 67 has gone missing, so here's a reup of it.