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Director of Programming at Brooklyn's Nitehawk Cinema and longtime friend of the show Cristina Cacioppo drops by, to answer all of our questions about being a film programmer.Season 2 of FlopTV, all about BAD SEQUELS, debuts tonight! Individual episodes and season pass tickets are available here! And hey, while you're clicking on stuff, why not subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets?!”Head to factormeals.com/flop50 and use code flop50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next month while your subscription is active!
This week joining the show is Nitehawk Cinema's Director of Programming, Cristina Cacioppo! We're talking about the Robert De Niro deep cuts she programmed for the $10 Late Round series Bobby B-Sides in conjunction with the Bobby's World rep film series that screened all through January 2024. We also learn about Cristina's 20+ years of programming in NYC, a closer look into acquiring celluloid film prints, the types of films she loves to excavate (pre-code, underground films about women, and over the top bombastic cinema), and so much more!Then stick around afterwards to hear Kristine Gaddi and I share our reactions and takeaways from Bobby's World and Bobby B-Sides at Nitehawk Cinema! Follow Cristina on Letterboxd, Instagram and Twitter!You can support the show by subscribing to our Substack newsletter!Follow Marquee Mixtape on Instagram, Threads, Letterboxd, and Bluesky!Credits: Produced by Alec Rodriguez, original artwork by Cristina Montes, original music by Jeremy Bullen.
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We don't have just one great interview for this this week...we have two!! First, NYWIFT member Lucia Grillo takes us through her multifaceted career here and in Italy while Cristina Cacioppo, programmer of Nitehawk Cinema, tells us about the current River Phoenix Retrospective and the work that goes into being a film programmer. Hosts Tammy Reese and Penni Love-Harper provide a status on the writers and actors strikes, returning shows, highlight the AI panels at Advertising Week 2023, and suggest some movies to watch. We also have another segment of Katie's Korner, a brief NYWIFT programming update from Senior Director of Communications Katie Chambers To be featured on the podcast email us at communications@nywift.org. For more great content go to NYWIFT.org. Special thanks to Elspeth Collard, the creator of our podcast theme song. Social Media: NYWIFT: IG @NYWIFT / Twitter - X @NYWIFT / #NYWIFT Lucia: IG @luciagrillo_calabrisellafilms / Twitter - X @LuciaVeganTV https://www.threads.net/ @luciagrillo_calabrisellafilms Nitehawk Cinema: IG @nitehawkcinema / Twitter - X @nitehawkcinema
Episode 85: Foxfire Hey queer cuties! This week Alicia and Sarah are digging into one of the greatest queer movies of all time that is not (but kinda is) explicitly queer: 1996's Foxfire. This movie launched Angelina Jolie's (tragically not gay enough) career! And also has so many great people in it including the Jennys: Jenny Lewis and Jenny Shimizu! The latter of which we all remember as being one of Angelina Jolie's queer flames, because they met on this movie! And that's just one of the many layers on this girl-gang cake. Join us as we discuss all the ways in which we love this movie, both despite and because of how very 90s queer it is. Further reading: Excellent 2023 Autostraddle interview with director Annette Haywood-Carter by Drew Burnett Gregory Foxfire Wikipedia page Willamette Week 25th anniversary article by Chance Solem-Pfeifer 2018 Autostraddle review by Sarah Fonseca "Hollywood Had Not Caught Up": On Foxfire with Annette Haywood Carter Screen Slate Article by Mackenzie Lukenbill The Outskirts: Foxfire article from Screen Slate by Cristina Cacioppo
Nitehawk Shorts Festival runs March 1-5, featuring dozens of shorts spread between seven categories. Director of programming Cristina Cacioppo joins us alongside filmmakers Leah Shore and Jude Dry to preview the festival.
Brooklyn's Nitehawk Shorts Festival begins this Thursday, featuring a slate of bite-sized films which this year are majority women-made. We'll talk to two of the directors, Amber Shaefer and Kana Hatakeyama. Plus, the festival's organizer, Cristina Cacioppo, tells us how she put the whole 5-day event together.
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Special guest: Cristina Cacioppo. Call-in guest: Alex Ross Perry. Hosted by Jon Dieringer, John Klacsmann, and Caroline Golum.Our friend Cristina Cacioppo joins us to talk about her programming career, from Ocularis microcinema to 92YTribeca to Alamo Drafthouse and now Nitehawk Cinema. We get into the late-aughts/early-tens NYC film scene before calling up filmmaker Alex Ross Perry to discuss his memories of Peter Bogdanovich. Then Cristina talks about how programming has changed post-Covid reopening, and adapting her Screen Slate column The Outskirts into a new series at Nitehawk Cinema.To access bonus content support us at www.patreon.com/screenslateSponsored by the German Film Office. Subscribe to their newsletter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)
The boys are joined by Nitehawk Cinema Programmer Cristina Cacioppo! We discuss the 1996 film Fear starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. We talk about Mark's making out, superstar Reese and her cute teenage cheeks, along with other movie rabbit holes we fall threw. Enter the Phone. Booth and enjoy our talk about Fear!
Film programmer and writer Cristina Cacioppo joins us to talk about the singular movie with double Van Damme -- Double Impact! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Winona Ryder is a peerless pop cultural icon. Here in NYC, the Quad cinema will be showing 16 Winona films this month as part of their “Utterly Winona” retrospective. And The Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn is having an all-day Winona movie marathon on August 25. Both special events coincide with her new film "Destination Wedding" opposite Keanu Reeves opening at the end of this month. But her upswing in popularity seems to go much deeper than that. Here to discuss why Winona’s appeal is more potent now than ever is Cristina Cacioppo, programmer at Brooklyn's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
This week we're getting afraid, very afraid with Alama Drafthouse Brooklyn film programmer Cristina Cacioppo stopping by to watch Jeff Goldblum vomit goo for the first time in the David Cronenberg horror classic The Fly. Join us as we discuss how the film cemented the classic Goldblum persona, the many ways Cronenberg avoids horror movie cliches, how movies change as we grow older, the weird connection between The Fly and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Cristina's approach to film programming and much more. Check out the excellent films Cristina programs at the Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn like the Australian film Puberty Blues screening in July. Watch the deleted monkey-cat scene. (Content warning: the clip contains cruelty to both monkeys and cats.) Like Movies My Friends Have Never Seen on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. You can also get the show on iTunes and Stitcher. Or paste the RSS feed into the preferred podcast player of your choice to get new episodes when they're released.
Learn everything you need to know about the new Alamo Drafthouse as Cristina Cacioppo, the programmer at the soon-to-open dinner-and-a-movie house in America’s Downtown, breaks down her favorite movies of all time — including “Babe: Pig in the City” and “Ishtar,” but nixes one of the most important Stephen King novella-turned-movies of our generation!
Great directors can make crap. Whether because of a bad script, failing health, studio meddling, force majeure, or simply loss of artistic mojo, even the most enviable filmography can contain an irredeemable movie. But it's equally true that our least favorite directors can make something that we find invigorating and enjoyable. To explore these extremities of achievement, Digital Editor Violet Lucca convened a discussion about our personal favorite outliers—the worst films by people we love, and the best films by people we love... less. Joining us were Cristina Cacioppo, programmer at the Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn; Ashley Clark and Nick Pinkerton, regular FILM COMMENT contributors; and Michael Koresky, Editorial Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Our guests on this episode of the No Film School podcast have two of the coolest jobs in film. Dan Nuxoll is Programming Director of Rooftop Films, a screening series that showcases indie films in unique outdoor locations around New York, and Cristina Cacioppo is a New York programmer for Alamo Drafthouse, an incredible independent theatre chain started in Austin, Texas. We talk about what they look for in films to screen, how filmmakers can get our work out to appreciative audiences, and what it takes to create successful film events in Brooklyn—an area with an oversaturated but discriminating audience that has the potential to worldwide moviegoing trends.
In this episode, director Caroline Golum and Alamo Drafthouse creative manager Cristina Cacioppo join me to discuss the 1986 film, Max Mon Amour, Nagisa Oshima's tale of a woman who takes a chimp named Max to be her lover.Discussed links in podcast: PAWS NY Alisa Berk - The woman who played Max
We discuss Frances Ha, the new film directed by Noah Baumbach, and written by Baumbach and the film's star, Greta Gerwig. This is a film about the rocky terrain of female friendship as well as what it means to be alone. We talk about why we love Frances so much, despite her flaws and poor decisions. (It might have something to do with her death-defying ability to pee on Subway tracks.) And we take a look at whether Frances Ha bears any of the cynicism found in Baumbach's past works, and suggest other great films that explore female friendship. Cristina Cacciopo (the former film programmer for the dearly departed 92YTribeca, but newly instated at the Alamo Draft House) joins the conversation as the resident Baumbach "nerd." (Her words.)