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In this sizzling episode of Cultpix Radio, we're diving horns-first into Satanic September, our devilishly delightful themed month. Prepare your souls (and your eyeballs) for a hellish ride through our infernal collection!We kick things off by bragging about our recent documentaries, including some fancy-schmancy lectures from the Wickman Week film festival - we managed to persuade several professors and international academics to come all the way out to rural Sweden to discuss vintage smut. We've even added subtitles to Christina Lindberg's Swedish chatter - because nothing says "exploitation cinema" like educational content!Then we descend into the fiery pits of Satanic September, featuring such unholy gems as:1. "Satan in High Heels" (1962) - Because nothing says 'devil worship' like fabulous footwear!2. "To Hex with Sex" (1969) - A comedy about making deals with the devil. Spoiler: It doesn't end well (but it's hilarious).3. "Enter the Devil" (1972) - A budget so low, even Satan wouldn't touch it.We also gush about our eternal flame "Alucarda" (1977) and wax poetic about regional exploitation films. Who knew Texas and Florida were hotbeds of cinematic sin?Looking ahead, we tease you with upcoming theme weeks that'll make your head spin (maybe literally):- "31 Nights Until Halloween" - Because 31 days just isn't enough spook for your buck.- "Art-sploit" week - Where we pretend exploitation films are high art. Bring your beret!- Joe Sarno week - Swedish-American co-productions that'll make you say "Uff da!"- A Dutch treat with Just Jaeckin and Sylvia Kristel - Prepare for an Emmanuelle overload!- Irving Klaw week - Betty Page, anyone?We wrap up by sharing the most hilarious excuses members have given for unsubscribing. Our personal favorite? "I was drunk and horny when I signed up." Hey, we've all been there, buddy!Remember, at Cultpix, we're adding new films faster than you can say "Hail Satan!" So stick around, sinners. It's gonna be one hell of a ride!
Django Nudo and the Smut Peddler mourn Kitten Natividad but celebrate the 100th birthday of Bert I Gordon, the director of big creature and small people fantasy films who is still alive. They also announce that the European Genre Film Foundation has acquired the Joe Sarno collection of costumes, props, scripts and more from his widow Peggy Sarno, including the notorious double-dildo rocking horse from Young Playthings (1972). Kenne Fant was a talented director who was overshadowed by Ingmar Bergman, just like his contemporaries Hasse Ekman and Arne Mattsson. He often worked with the same actors as Bergmen, including Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow. Other of his actors had no problem switching between arthouse and exploitation films, like Lars Ekborg (Blonde in Bondage, The Dance Hall), Christina Schollin and others. Special mention to older actor Edvin Adolphson.As the films were produced by Nordisk Tonefilm, owned by the Swedish labour movement, there are some recurring political/didactic themes: one being criticism against the church and conservative priests, the conflict between rural and urban Sweden, and how young people try to change their lives, despite the grown-up world.Wings in the Night (1953) - An orphan boy and the vicar's daughter fall in love, but her father is opposed to their relationship.Young Summer (1954) - Helge Lysvik is a farmer's son. He dreams of a future as a musician, but there are many obstacles on the way. He's also torn between the girl next door and big city life.The Taming of Love (1955) - The headmaster's wife in the small town has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.Tarps Elin (1956) - Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children, who lives a hard life in the countryside. Eva Dahlbeck was referred to as “Battleship Femininity” by Ingmar Bergman. The Priest in Uddarbo (1958) - A young Max von Sydow impresses with warmth and humor as a young preacher, mobilizing the whole village to build a church. (No exorcism involved.)The Game of Love (1959) - Colourful and innovative marital comedy. The everyday life scenes are black and white, the fantasy/film scenes are in vivid colour. A weird film. Very hard to understand the target audience for it. But great colour and great performances all around!The Wedding Day (1960) - Star-studded comedy. A surprisingly outspoken and cynical film, where Max von Sydow screws around, despite his love for his fiancée Bibi Anderson. With English subtitles! Done by Smut Peddler himself!!A memorable line from Christina Schollin as young student Titti, talking to Bibi Andersson, who's about to marry Max: “Can't I just borrow him for the night? You'll have him every day!” Schollin is now matriarch of an acting dynasty and back on stage age 83. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1962) - Based on Selma Lagerlöf's fairy-tale about a boy who shrinks and flies on a goose all over Sweden. One of Sweden's very few fantasy films, also a great geography lesson.
Django Nudo, Smut Pedler and Kitty Lash devote the 50th episode of Cultpix Radio to celebrate the life and career of the first true male adult star Harry Reems.Born Herbert Streicher into a Jewish Bronx family in 1947, Harry Reems pursued stage acting in New York but did stag loops to help pay for the rent. The pimply kid with the big nose had come out of the Marine Corps with a hard body, plus he could act. Kitty Lash found Bucky Beaver's Stags Loops and Shorts (1970) quite the turn on with its authentic and sweaty humping; in Ape Over Love (1970) Harry goes full gorilla (fake suit); while Mondo Porno (1971) foreshadows obscenity troubles to come, though the "judge for yourself" of the erotic "case studies" got Kitty purring again.Deep Throat (1972) gave Harry fame and notoriety as he became the only US actor to ever be charged for appearing in a film. The case(s) dragged on until 1977 and contributed to his alcoholism. Late in life the love of a good woman saved him as he became a 'church gypsy': "I am not religious. I'm spiritual, 100 percent," he said. He also won belated recognition in the documentary "Inside Deep Throat" (2005). While converting to Christianity he kept his stage name and was happy to discuss his porn past. A Touch of Genie (1974) is what you'd get if Woody Allan had made porn in the 70s, though "Deeps Jaws" (19xx) is also genuinely sexy and funny is Deep Jaws (1976). All beautifully restored by Vinegar Syndrome. The Love Witch (1970) sees Harry do an 'Alex Guinness' and playing multiple parts - with on-screen Batman-style f/x! Sherlick Holmes (1975) sees him playing the great detective, in More (1975) he is Detective Dick (!) Copper, while Dark Dreams (1975) is a hallucinogenic sex and horror trip.Harry was shooting films in Sweden and Germany while his legal appeal was under way in the 1970s.: Justine & Juliette (1975) and Bel Ami (1976) are literary adaptations with a veneer of cultural respectability, but primarily gorgeously shot XXX features. Strangest Harry film of all is the non-nude SS Operation Wolfcub (1983) where he's a mercenary infiltrating a neo-Nazi training camp in Swedish forests. Harry made a return in the 1980s. Trashy Lady (1985) is Harry doing a reverse My Fair Lady on too-classy mob moll Ginger Lynn, while in China and Silk (1984) Harry plays a cop. For anyone wishing to learn more about Harry we recommend the New York Magazine article 'The Afterlife of a Porn Star' by Dave Itzkoff, as well as the excellent podcasts by the Rialto Report here, here and here. Of course we also have a Harry Reems Spotify playlist.
Cultpix has now been going for one month and we look back on what feel more like six months of intense work to make the world's leading streaming service for classical cult and genre films everything its members expect it to be. As we also celebrate VE Day and 86 years since the end of WW2, we look at all things Nazi on the big screen (and almost manage to avoid doing silly German accents), for our weekly film theme.We look at documentaries by and about Nazi's, including Leni Riefenstahl's notorious Triumph of the Will / Triumph des Willens (1935) and why the father of the founder of Synapse Films that we licensed it from, who was himself a Holocaust survivor, deemed it important to release the film, saying, "Jerry, you MUST release the film, lest we forget." To balance it we also stream the Nazi Concentration Camps (1945) documentary shown at the Nurnberg War Crimes Trials and discuss Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder's involvement in concentration camp documentaries. We then look at US exploitation films made during the war, including Bela Lugosi's Black Dragons (1942), which pre-dates The Manchurian Candidate in its plot; Hitler - Dead or Alive (1942), where a gang of ex-bounty hunters go to Germany to catch Hitler, for one million dollars; and Enemy of Women (1944), which charts the fall and rise of Joseph Goebbels, a weakling harassing women, who went from failed play writer to Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich. This is followed by the first of the so-called Nazisploitations films that proliferated in the 1970s and 80s. Love Camp 7 (1969), in which two American Lieutenants with photographic memories and big breasts, volunteer to infiltrate Love Camp 7, a women's POW camp in Nazi Germany. We chart how this led to the rise of the Nazisploitation genre in USA and Italy and films such as Ilsa She Wolf of the SS and its many sequels. Finally, there is the bastar offspring of the Nazisploitation that take things to a whole new ridiculous level with Black Gestapo (1975), a crazed blaxplo-nazisploitation film that seeks to equate the Black Panther movement with the Nazis. There is also SS Operation Wolfcub (1983), a legendary US porn star (Harry Reams) in an erotic director's film (Joe Sarno), with no sex! What were they thinking? Slap 'Nazi' or 'SS' on anything to make it instantly appealing as showcasing the ultimate of evils. To end on a high note we conclude with Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk, a 1942 two-minute propaganda film by Charles A. Ridley of the UK Ministry of Information. It remixes Triumph of the Will to a song the Nazis hated and went viral during the war. Watch the "Gestapo Hep-Cats" goose-stepping in the style of Ministry of Silly Walks and Hitler made to look ridiculous. See the full video here: Lambeth Walk: Nazi Style - by Charles A. Ridley (1941)
In this 6 Minute Monday, Joe Schillaci takes over as our guest speaker. Listen as we discuss why he never wants to spot Joe Sarno again, why he loves the Slow Carb Diet, and he plans on “Chopping Wood and Carrying Water” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/george-mahoney/message
In this episode we discuss how chewing slowly can give you a six pack, why I love and hate Joe Sarno, and why George Orwell proves that storytelling is an awesome method of education. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/george-mahoney/message
Dr. Snuggles and friends - including comedian Fifi Dosch from Fifi Quest podcast - check out Joseph W. Sarno's 1970 or '71 bananas coming of age drama The Seduction of Inga, and talk about composers Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson! Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 93 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject! It’s back to Joe Sarno’s brilliantly odd Inga series, with the second and final part in her story: The Seduction of Inga! We’re faced with the prospect of talking about it without the great and terrible Drew Buzzy, but luckily incomparable comedian and podcaster Fifi Dosch steps up to the plate. It’s a surprising movie, to say the least. There’s unexpected insert shots during the sex scenes, featuring bad wigs and unanticipated graphic positions, camera angles and acts. There’s also, out of nowhere, an incest subplot. Thanks, 1970s! Luckily there’s also cute musician boys, goofy late teenage angst, lesbian bottle smashing and some incredible Swedish pop. And who else would be responsible for this pop music (which includes all time classic She's My Kind of Girl)? It’s Sweden in 1970 after all, so of course it’s a pre-ABBA Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, and of course they’re the focus of our spotlight this episode. Get ready for hidden pop gems, ‘80s musical weirdness with Chess, Swedish acoustic folk, and naturally, lawsuits against The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. Please support our Patreon, if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669! Or email us: mail@getsoftpodcast.com Check out the other Compañeros Radio Network shows: Movie Melt Songs on Trial Heavy Leather Horror Show Ballbusters In Search of the Perfect Podcast
Dr. Snuggles and friends - including guest Tim - check out Joe Sarno's 1968 black and white erotic melodrama Inga, and talk about star Marie Liljedahl! Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 91 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject! We have looked at films from a number of different countries, but one place we haven’t been is Sweden! So, off we trot to the land of the midnight sun, to have a look at Joe Sarno’s 1968 erotic melodrama Inga! It is really something. Almost every single character in the film is a total jerk, which is rare. But can this black and white slice of ‘60s Swedish (slash American) weirdness charm the cast? Also, we recorded this one on AFL Grand Final day, which is a thing the Australians care about, including bonus Australian Tim. Many football team songs are played. There is also a tangent into perhaps the most regional reference ever on the show, as the Australians introduce Drew to Melbourne furniture salesman Franco Cozzo’s delightful ads. Plus, we talk the life and brief career of the legendary and titular star of Inga, Marie Liljedahl! Liljedahl was only in 10 films in 3 and a bit years, but is still one of the most fondly remembered actors of this era of Swedish film. Please support our Patreon, if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669! Or email us: mail@getsoftpodcast.com Check out the other Compañeros Radio Network shows: Movie Melt Songs on Trial Heavy Leather Horror Show Ballbusters In Search of the Perfect Podcast
It has been a while since you have heard from us so we decided to bring the show back with a bang! The Boys welcome our friend Joe Sarno. We talked about his brand, Head Strong Fitness, along with both his playing and coaching career. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/islandguyspod/support
Joe Sarno, an Advanced Training Legend, joins us to talk about his journey to start his own training outfit called Head Strong Fitness. I couldn’t think of a more fitting name for a program run by one of the most mentally tough people I have ever been around in my life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/george-mahoney/message
Vi har besök av den välbekante poddkollegan Fredrik af Trampe, med vilken vi pratar om så många saker att det är svårt att sammanfatta. Men svensk kult-fandom, Cate Le Bon, Andy Votel, Weyes Blood, M A Numminen, Niklas Jönsson, The Triffids, Klubb Super 8, Robert Bridgemountain, Dungen, Svenne Rubins, Faust, Klubb Sunkit, Ardy Strüwer, Joe Sarno, Joakim Pirinen, Eilert Pilarm och The Go-Betweens berörs, plus att Trampe sjunger Afzelius. Gilla, kommentera och recensera på The Facebook! https://facebook.com/musikensmaktpodcast/ Bidra till Loves fysiska överlevnad och få lite bonusmaterial! https://www.patreon.com/musikensmakt
Vi har besök av den välbekante poddkollegan Fredrik af Trampe, med vilken vi pratar om så många saker att det är svårt att sammanfatta. Men svensk kult-fandom, Cate Le Bon, Andy Votel, Weyes Blood, M A Numminen, Niklas Jönsson, The Triffids, Klubb Super 8, Robert Bridgemountain, Dungen, Svenne Rubins, Faust, Klubb Sunkit, Ardy Strüwer, Joe Sarno, Joakim Pirinen, Eilert Pilarm och The Go-Betweens berörs, plus att Trampe sjunger Afzelius.
A new way of teaching, high volume squats, and not drinking caffeine. Find out how these things can make you more efficient and effective in the weight room, the board room, and any other room you operate in. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/george-mahoney/message
In this episode, I interview back to back Toughman Champ Joe Sarno. Hear how he went from a non-contender to the most feared man in Advanced Training. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/george-mahoney/message
The Third Eye Cinema podcast returns with our (official) 90th episode, as we catch up with one of our very first guests and interviews and discuss his newest venture! Back in late 2011, we'd met with Mike Raso of EI Entertainment, Retro-Seduction Cinema, Shock-O-Rama, Camp Motion Pictures and many more sub-labels of indie film goodness. Aired as the second week of our brand spanking new podcast in January of 2012, we covered everything from SOV to classic sexploitation directors to the pending decline and fall of home media. Now a good 6 years, nearly 100 podcast episodes (not including nearly 200 episodes of sister podcast At Eye Level and a good 50 of Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine, among others) and thousands of pages of print reviews of film, music, literature and audio drama later, we've come full circle, once again meeting up with Mike to catch up on what he's been up to all this time, his exciting new Blu-Ray restorations and discoveries of previously lost films in the Joe Sarno archive and partnership with Something Weird video to reissue and restore films from the likes of Doris Wishman and Barry Mahon, the changes and ongoing travails of the home media industry in the nigh decade since and much more! Join us for a Hendrixian "Slight Return", as we circle back, catch up and update listeners on the lay of the land here in mid-2017... Week 90 Mike Raso, Joe Sarno and Film Media - Slight Return
In the third episode of Daughters of Darkness, Kat and Samm wrap up their three-part discussion of lesbian vampire films, this time with a focus on low budget American and Spanish films from the 1970s. They begin their discussion with the unusual film The Velvet Vampire (1971), the only entry in the series to be directed by a woman. The film’s star, Celeste Yarnall, is currently in ill health, so please contribute to her Go Fund Me campaign. Then they explore Spanish-language films like The Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman (1971), where Paul Naschy’s werewolf faces off against a vampire queen, and the eerie, poetic The Blood-Spattered Bride (1972). They also take a look at Joe Sarno’s inane sexploitation film, The Devil’s Plaything (1973), about a castle full of lesbian vampires attempting to reincarnate their perverse leader with the help of a buxom, virginal sacrificial victim. Luigi Batzella’s absolutely insane The Devil’s Wedding Night (1973) gets a special mention, before moving onto cult classics like José Ramón Larraz Vampyres (1974) and Juan Lopez Moctezuma’s Alucarda (1977), as well as his Mary, Mary Bloody Mary (1975). Two obscure films about innocent young girls who are pursued by aggressive female vampires are also explored: Czech film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) and low budget American film Lemora, a Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1975). The episode concludes with a somber discussion of two more mainstream, relatively recent lesbian vampire films. First off is The Hunger (1983), Tony Scott’s melancholy meditation on aging and death starring David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve. Finally, Nadja (1994) is a David Lynch-produced film that reimagines one of the first movies discussed in episode one, Dracula’s Daughter, with a ‘90s independent cinema feel.
Called "The Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street," Joe Sarno delivered an usual blend of artfulness and sexiness to the raincoat crowd. On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we talked to Wiktor Ericsson, the director of The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies which is a much a love story between Joe and Peggy Sarno as it is a documentary about Joe Sarno's career and final years of his life.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Called "The Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street," Joe Sarno delivered an usual blend of artfulness and sexiness to the raincoat crowd. On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we talked to Wiktor Ericsson, the director of The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies which is a much a love story between Joe and Peggy Sarno as it is a documentary about Joe Sarno's career and final years of his life.
This week, PCA talks about the death of Comiccon creator Joe Sarno, movie, "Ghost Writer" "Hot Tub Time Machine" secondary characters in TV shows and movies, American idol update, OK Go videos and more..
This week, PCA talks about the death of Comiccon creator Joe Sarno, movie, "Ghost Writer" "Hot Tub Time Machine" secondary characters in TV shows and movies, American idol update, OK Go videos and more..
Den nya folkhemsporren. Håller amatörerna på att ta över porrbranschen? Håller gör det själv-vågen på att konkurrera ut den kommersiella porrindustrin? För realitytrenden har tagit över, även inom pornografin. Det dokumentära säljer, och i det nya digitala medielandskapet håller amatörfilmarna på att konkurrera ut den kommersiellt framställda filmerotiken. Kino snabbspolar sig igenom den svenska porrhistorien och har pratat med kultpornografen Joe Sarno, samt några av de anonyma filmskapare som spelar in sina alster hemma i sovrummet. Ett alternativt sätt att göra erotisk fim på är "Dirty Diaries", en ny svensk stafettfilm där regissörer med hjälp av en mobilkamera försöker göra queer, feministisk och nyskapande erotisk film. Kino har intervjuat producenten Mia Engberg om hur hon gör för att inte fastna i klichébilden av njutning. I Kinostudion finns även Ester-Martin Bergsmark och Elin Magnusson - två av de tolv regissörer som deltar i projektet. Programledare: Roger Wilson. Håller amatörerna på att ta över porrbranschen? Håller gör det själv-vågen på att konkurrera ut den kommersiella porrindustrin? För realitytrenden har tagit över, även inom pornografin. Det dokumentära säljer, och i det nya digitala medielandskapet håller amatörfilmarna på att konkurrera ut den kommersiellt framställda filmerotiken. Kino snabbspolar sig igenom den svenska porrhistorien och har pratat med kultpornografen Joe Sarno, samt några av de anonyma filmskapare som spelar in sina alster hemma i sovrummet. Ett alternativt sätt att göra erotisk fim på är ”Dirty Diaries”, en ny svensk stafettfilm där regissörer med hjälp av en mobilkamera försöker göra queer, feministisk och nyskapande erotisk film. Kino har intervjuat producenten Mia Engberg om hur hon gör för att inte fastna i klichébilden av njutning. I Kinostudion finns även Ester-Martin Bergsmark, Sara Kaaman och Elin Magnusson några av regissörerna som deltar i projektet.