Podcasts about harry dean stanton fest

Movie Meltdown - Episode 608 Join us for a wrap-up of this year's Harry Dean Stanton Fest - featuring a discussion with biographer Susan Compo. And while we remember our favorite moments with Sean Young, we also mention… Warren Oates, Young Doctors in Love, watching movies in a cemetery, where did I get that voice, The Man Who Fell to Earth, laughing uproariously, changing seats while the vehicle was in motion, Hector Elizondo, front page of the LA Times, Frederic Forrest, F. Scott Fitzgerald, heading out to Joshua Tree to look for UFOs, a Corey art house movie, Sam Shepard, One from the Heart, this veneer of not caring, it was so designed to fail in a way that I find really fun, I was in my little childhood room with my rotary dial, Nicolas Roeg, Dream a Little Dream, a football field size open space, David Bowie, The Fourth War, Peter Fonda, roadtrips and mushrooms and Harry Dean Stanton's scene in Apocalypse Now.  “Things go pretty seamlessly with Harry Dean Fest… and I've always said, that's just because of the magic and the energy that surrounded Harry.”  

Movie Meltdown - Episode 583 Join us “live” from The Kentucky Theater for this year's Harry Dean Stanton Fest with special guest - director Allison Anders. And as we try to decide if we've had too much coffee, we also delve into… Wim Wenders, the unacknowledged Kevin Bacon, Billy Woodberry, RiverDale, double features, the OG, Billy Swan, The Paramount and The Capital, cop shows, American independent cinema, post office anxiety, I don't want you to die by the way, Paris, Texas,  Nicholas Ray, the L.A. Rebellion, Steven Bochco, Illeana Douglas, friends trying to makes a film together, Werner Herzog, you have control over nothing, bawled like a baby, Fairuza Balk, movie palaces, Southland, Duran Duran, Rodrigo García, never give up, Murder in the First, how to get a t-shirt, Ione Skye, there's a lot of pointing, Lightning Over Water, I'd won a grant, this is like a new movement in movies here in our film school, DIY culture, Stanley Kubrick, telling amazing stories and Paul is Dead.  “I don't know how you could not be in love with movies.” For more on Harry Dean Stanton Fest: harrydeanstantonfest.org For more on The Kentucky Theater: kentuckytheatre.org

The first ever Louisville Picture Show episode features Lucy Jones of the Harry Dean Stanton Fest! We talk the Fest, the late Harry Dean himself, and our own experiences in discovering this almost-mythological Kentucky figure. Also, Lucy and Madelyn talk about how they miss movie theaters. CLIPS USED FROM: Cool Hand Luke (1967), Repo Man (1984), Paris, Texas (1984), Partly Fiction (2012). CHECK OUT: harrydeanstantonfest.org or Harry Dean Stanton Fest on Facebook READ: Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel by Joseph B. Atkins Theme music: "Dill Pickles" by Heftone Banjo Orchestra (courtesy of Free Music Archive)

Movie Meltdown - Episode 496 This week we’re coming to you “live” from Harry Dean Stanton Fest - featuring our discussion with director Alex Cox! Listen as we discuss his early movie memories as well as stories of creating Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, hosting Moviedrome and the glory days of the L.A. punk scene.   And as we continue searching for the best burrito in America, we also address… Cisco Pike, Mysterio, Echo In The Canyon, Crawl, The Mattei Affair, Samuel L. Jackson, a dinosaur, nuclear war, an 18 year old girl on a beach, savage cowboys, Brian Wilson, the public library, the nature of making a drama, endless explaining what's going on - in Spanish, a Charles Bronson movie, A Strange Enemy, were available in the month of August of that year, I've mastered the one hand capture, they're horrible... they're an appalling pair, streaming services, Donnie Darko, pin-cushioned with arrows, people said the 70’s weren’t good - don’t believe ‘em… the 70’s were the best, sexy Kris Kristofferson, law undergrad, Sy Richardson, the BBC had all these films on their license, Mexican television, Welcome to Sweden, Edgar Wright, Popeye, a good time to be in prison, Timerider, junkie rock stars, Brian Wilson, being blacklisted, Child's Play, a high school kid, the script was kind of a potpourri, Aubrey Plaza, the whole room looked like a packet of Gitanes, Michael Nesmith, a cult movie, black and white and foreign language films, video stores everywhere, merely by putting an artistic frame around it, Spider-Man: Far from Home, the director’s cut, Liquid Paper, Turner Classic Movies and sir… please stop touching the movies.  “...I had to make money, in order to subsidize my hobby of being a filmmaker.” For more on Harry Dean Stanton Fest, go to: https://www.harrydeanstantonfest.org/

Movie Meltdown - Episode 447 This week we're coming to you "live" from Harry Dean Stanton Fest as we sit down with Drago Sumonja the co-writer of Harry Dean's last film (Lucky) as well as director of the documentary Char·ac·ter. So listen as we discuss his time spent with Harry Dean as well as the artistic collaboration and friendship he has built over the years with actor Dabney Coleman. And while we realize that the whole world eventually comes together at Dan Tana's, we also bring up… Private Benjamin, he made his own weapon, we’d just kind of play the parts really, Daveigh Chase, Cloak and Dagger, they mounted this giant antenna-looking thing onto your house, it’s own weird special little world, Unwigged and Unplugged, something about him showing up in a dress one day, it turned out to be what I wanted to be, Ron Livingston, docudrama, Facebook and their darn algorithms, David Lynch, by necessity, crossing from PG to PG-13, and I would just start typing, racy movies in conservative households, Sydney Pollack, Showgirls, and so we just try to figure out how to make that kind of interesting in a script, Top Secret, The Missouri Breaks, a dirty martini all over my pants, S. Darko, sequels to movies many years later, a rainy day assembly, Logan Sparks, Muhlenberg County, going off on these magical monologues, it’s like a master class, Mark Rydell, Repo Man and TV edits for R-rated movies. “...the documentary and your podcast - is only as good as your subject.” For more on Harry Dean Stanton Fest go to: https://www.harrydeanstantonfest.org/

Kentucky-based recording artist Jim Gleason is a musical omnivore whose interests range from rock and blues to jazz and swing to country and bluegrass. Recent releases include Last Fish Standing and Deconstruction Ahead, on which he composes, arranges, produces, sings and plays guitar, bass, pedal and lap steel, dobro and mandolin. Scott Whiddon writes and performs with Palisades (http://palisades.bandcamp.com) and has developed film scores for Richard Knox Robinson and Brian Frye/Katrina Dixon. From 2012-2016, Scott served as music director for Lexington's Harry Dean Stanton Fest . In a parallel universe, Dr. Gleason is an Associate Professor of Public Relations at Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Whiddon serves as Writing Center Director and Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication at Transylvania University. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Movie Meltdown - Episode 413 This week we are coming to you "live" from The Kentucky Theater for the kick-off of Harry Dean Stanton Fest and the red carpet premiere of Lucky. And we are glad to welcome this week's special guest John Carroll Lynch, an impressive actor in his own right as well as the director of Lucky. We also discuss Fargo, Zodiac, The Invitation, The Founder, the disenfranchisement of America and the real reason people are joining cults. And as we get caught in an elaborate Rube Goldberg plot, we also bring up... Frances McDormand, throwing dinner rolls, the American success story, flashing it's beautiful lights, to play the whale to his Ahab, the wife monologue, Grumpy Old Men, an otherworldliness, our sense of drama, Marilyn Manson, a day or so of his regular life, The Sopranos,matching your story to the appropriate format, maintaining their chapterness, he plays with a lot of sentiment in his movies... and yet there's always this fist that hits you right in the face, Saving Mr. Banks, David Lynch, The Wire, it's funny how it gets its hooks in you, the pure dark heart of capitalism, face to face and moment to moment, everytime I say that line I get goosebumps, Norm Gunderson, Partly Fiction, The Biograph and the Bluebird, it's a search not a question, The Path, it never loses its humanity as dark as it gets, it goes off the rails, John Lee Hancock, a really complicated acting problem, David Fincher, Bug, the interior journey, American Horror Story, the rhythm of the words that he's creating, there is no debate, The Man in the High Castle, a response to our echo chambers, there is no rod and staff, playing 50 in your mid-20's, Joel and Ethan Coen, how do you address those things in a way that can change minds, football vs. theater, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Michael Keaton, he does what most people want to do... and can't, that's his guiding principle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, I'd lost my taste for that individual sense of violence, the choice of living... in the valley of the shadow of death, Nick Offerman, nostalgic and creepy all at the same time, Twin Peaks and the Speedee System. "I think that, over the course of time, if you're fortunate enough to work, you slowly begin to realize, it's not about you - at all." Follow Lucky on Twitter: @LuckyFilm2017 and spread the word with #LuckyFilm For more info on Harry Dean Stanton Fest, go to: harrydeanstantonfest.org

The annual Green Lantern Bar party for the Harry Dean Stanton Fest will feature Palisades and The Binders in a show of 1970s female-driven rock to pair with a showing of the 1979 trucking film "Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers." We got together with fest director Lucy Jones, music director Scott Whiddon and singers Alicia Cox and Robbie Morgan to talk about putting the show together, trucking, politics, Billy Beer, hubcaps ... lots of stuff. Photo: Scott, Robbie, Lucy and Alicia.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 312 This week, we recap this year's Harry Dean Stanton Fest as well as sit down with director and cinema legend - Monte Hellman. And while we contemplate Harry Dean's philosophy on nothingness, we also discuss... going to Dan Tana's, John Huston, HarryTown, Roger Corman, when the machine goes to sleep, the universe collapses upon itself, get healthy, Ski Troop Attack, Jack Nicholson, Calvin Coolidge, The Beast from Haunted Cave, a day filming within an hour drive, Michael Blowen, Bearded Collie, first and only Union movie, Jack Hill, Francis Ford Coppola, two days on the leftover set, the key to the city, I stayed at his house, off-off-off-off Broadway, Waiting for Godot, The Terror, take that as a sign, Last Woman on Earth, we are nothing, I'll still do it out of jail, five Texas Rangers, adding extra scenes, Saturday matinee, bedbugs for 92 dollars a night, she just hopped up on his lap, True Romance, the mythos, One-Eyed Jacks, casting, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson, storyboards, Road to Nowhere, Ponda Baba, someone I literally stalked, the Tarzan yell, gambling, Paul Verhoeven, Summer stock company, Stagecoach, James Taylor, Silent Night, Deadly Night 3, The Virginian, Millie Perkins, the car movie, mononucleosis, Reservoir Dogs, Love or Die, the Star Wars bar, My Darling Clementine, while you're making one, you might as well make two, RoboCop, C.C Brown's Hot Fudge Sundae and sponsor our trip to Monte's house! "I never... felt that I had any chance of breaking into the movies." The velvet paintings of Monte and Harry Dean were commissioned by the Velveteria. For more info, go to: velveteria.com  For more info on Harry Dean Stanton Fest, go to: harrydeanstantonfest.org

Movie Meltdown - Episode 271 This week we discuss upcoming geek activities before launching into this week's Sofa Theater feature: The Ninth Configuration directed by William Peter Blatty. Including interviews with the stars of the movie Scott Wilson and Tom Atkins! And while we enjoy the aroma of new things and possibilities, we also mention...  Exorcist 3, shock therapy, doing selfless things, becoming a Catholic, Falcon Crest, Legion, a mechanical bird, we're all God's bitch, printed fries, the mystery of goodness, WonderFest, action figure, odd supernatural events, Marines not Army, obsessive hobbies, 3D printers, Pleased to Meet Me, an actor still needs something to hold, monster kids, Roger Corman, a geek from way back, I've never seen a person's real life mirror the fictions he loved...., working with celebrities, the theory with the hammer, no mustache, styrene kits, FX people, sometimes you go crazy to keep yourself from going crazy, Norman Reedus, fringe culture, the convention world, Harry Dean Stanton Fest, building models, it shapes your philosophy and your philosophy shapes your life, Jet Jaguar, standing in line, I'm gonna pass through this wall and trying to stalk Stacy Keech.  Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for "The Ninth Configuration", so go watch it now!!  "I've definitely got some weird existential shit going down... but who doesn't?"

Movie Meltdown - Episode 236 This week we feature our coverage/wrapup of the 2013 Harry Dean Stanton Fest. Featuring an cameo by Crispin Glover himself! Plus Lucy tells a few stories of her time spent with Crispin. And there are several discussions of the documentary "Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction" directed by Sophie Huber. Plus interviews with Harry's cousins - Jim Huggins and Jim Huggins Jr.! Yes, they tell their stories of times spent with Harry over the years. Some of which involve some "special guests"! (You have to hear "The Super Bowl Story"!!)  And as we discuss just why you shouldn't even buy green bananas, we also discuss... Ride in the Whirlwind, Repo Man, young Nick Cage, who exactly is a household name, being born in a cemetery, Pretty in Pink, blowing off Keith Richards, uranium enrichment, takes over the band, being tenacious, Red Dawn, live and learn, Alien, loneliness, going to high school with Harry Dean, having a rider, The Godfather 2, wearing an FBI hat, Wild at Heart, The Mini-Skirt Mob, driving a beer truck, blowing off Eric Clapton, XM Satellite Radio, dressing in wool, Rebecca De Mornay, a cinematic Rorschach test, what's for Thanksgiving dinner?, The Kentucky Theater, turning down Owen Wilson, the David Lynch checklist and being a household face.   "He 'bonded' with Debbie Harry."

Movie Meltdown - Episode 182 A year in the making... we present you - the Paris, Texas episode! With a “live” intro from the Kentucky Theater during Harry Dean Stanton Fest... we feature our interview with Hunter Carson co-star of this week's movie. We sit down and talk with Hunter about the very first time he met Harry Dean Stanton. Plus playing the original Bud Bundy! All that plus weird Facebook connections and the magic of Harry Dean Stanton, before we roll into our full group discussion of our Sofa Theater feature: "Paris, Texas". Directed by Wim Wenders and written by Sam Shepard (with Kit Carson), this movie is considered a classic by many. But how will it stand up when the Meltdown Gang revisits it?? And as our show represents the diversity of life on Earth, we also discuss... absurdist tick, Alexander Payne, being fascinated with the boom guy, an experienced character actor in a pivotal role, couples trying to set each other on fire, going down in a hail of bullets for The Kentucky, Peter Sellers, road movies, the Voyager gold record, True West, parental selfishness, Edvard Munch’s Home Alone, Mr. North, Lost in Translation, working with Wim, a German Rolling Stone, conversations on acting, Wings of Desire, what a beautiful woman Klaus Kinski would have been, charades is a game, Dean Stockwell is David Bowie, fairy tale theater, working with everybody from Alfred Hitchcock to David Lynch, 180 IMDB credits, the madman on the bridge, selling a lemon and a lime, Wise Blood, pouring water on your head, and introducing...  Radical. “You are so angry with Sam Shepard.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 176 This week, we are coming to you “Live” from Harry Dean Stanton Fest!! Where we find out why, “It is blood red... like the city is bleeding!” Plus we talk to singer, songwriter and actor Donnie Fritts. Who tells us about playing in Kris Kristofferson’s band and making movies with Sam Peckinpah!! Plus he’s friends with Harry Dean Stanton, and THAT is the goal to which we should all aspire. Plus while we model our awesome new Harry Dean Stanton Fest t-shirts, we also mention... time-loop movies, Bernie, Moon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Pretty in Pink, Dark Shadows, playing music in Japan, Jack Black being Jack Black... and not, prank war, The Cockfighters, changes in the music business, investing way too much time into S. Darko, Straight Time, Willie Nelson, Source Code, Cisco Pike, Repo Man, The Rolling Stones, meta cinematic, It was like my 13-year-old girl dream came true last night!, the Muscle Shoals music scene, and the best way to indulge your internet greed.“Out of the blue one day, he said - ‘I want you to be in this movie...” Harry Dean Stanton artwork by Stacey Earley. Harry Dean Stanton Fest T-shirts (with Stacey’s artwork) are available at: http://www.harrydeanstantonfest.com/ and at  Morris Books in Lexington.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 170 This week we tackle a juggernaut of the film world... TAXI DRIVER. A movie that has massively worked it’s way into the pop culture. But in re-watching it, we realize the bad-ass and cool associations it has today, may be misguided. So we try to dig in and see what’s really going on with the film and the character of Travis Bickle. And while planning our trip to Harry Dean Stanton Fest, we also mention... Emma Stone, the guy from The Strokes selling you guns, ...and we got stuck with Molly Ringwald, Scorsese from above, Lexington Film League, Ally Sheedy, The Last Picture Show, How I Met Your Mother, for every generation there is a redhead, Keitel super powers, morbid self attention, The Madison Dance, sleeping with Elvis, a mix between The Wire and Sesame Street, subconsciously sabotaging yourself, studying the movements of a crab, Super, a man OF the system, Bugsy Malone, A Band Apart, Moonlighting, closer to Britney Spears then Sid Vicious, the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen, the returning Vietnam veteran, and are movies responsible for the way they are perceived?? Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen Taxi Driver yet, you need to realize how much you are just like the others... cold and distant.  “This is just the perfect storm of cinema.” Travis Meltdown artwork by Amy Wiedl. She is available for commissioned work, so e-mail her at: amywiedl@gmail.com