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You asked for it and you got it! The Wrestlemania 41/Monday Night Raw recap!Once again we are joined by Deep from 2 Hungry Bros and Marcus Pinn to give our overall impression of mania, the best and worst moments of night 1 and 2, the biggest surprise, and biggest disappointment. Then we jump into our recap of the Raw after mania and discuss where we think things will go from here.You can find all things Deep here:https://deepof2hungrybros.bandcamp.com/And all things Marcus Pinn here:http://www.pinnlandempire.com/If you want exclusive content or wish to see the video of this episode you can become a Patreon member using the link below: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcastYou can find our music here:Zilla Rocca:https://5oclockshadowboxers.bandcamp.com/musicCurly Castro:https://curlycastro.bandcamp.com/album/little-robert-huttonhttps://shrapknel.bandcamp.com/Alaska:https://thatrapperalaska.bandcamp.com/
Call Out Culture Wrestling is back with a preview of this weekend's 2 night Wrestlemania extravaganza. Join us as Alaska, Deep from 2 Hungry Bros, Jason Griff and Marcus Pinn review the card as well as a slew of wildcard topics.Be sure to read Marcus' article from OkayPlayer which you can find here:https://www.okayplayer.com/10-black-filmsYou can find all things Deep here:https://deepof2hungrybros.bandcamp.com/All Things Griff here:https://jasongriff.bandcamp.com/And all things Marcus Pinn here:http://www.pinnlandempire.com/If you want exclusive content or wish to see the video of this episode you can become a Patreon member using the link below: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcastYou can find our music here:Zilla Rocca:https://5oclockshadowboxers.bandcamp.com/musicCurly Castro:https://curlycastro.bandcamp.com/album/little-robert-huttonhttps://shrapknel.bandcamp.com/Alaska:https://thatrapperalaska.bandcamp.com/
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Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke All good things must come to an end. Hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg are joined by Marcus Pinn to discuss their memories of attending the Toronto International Film Festival over the course of twenty years. This set of personal reminiscences is not necessarily intended for general audiences; this is the deepest of Pink Smoke deep cuts. Their thoughts on two decades of cinema and one of the premiere international film festivals are intertwined with a discussion of poutine, junk shops selling rare novelizations, the Brass Rail and how much fun it is to bust Pinn's chops over his love of To The Wonder. They talk their favorite films they saw at the festival, their most memorable experiences, the changes to the festival throughout the years, the best years, the worst years, food poisoning, Andrew Wilson, Sportos in Batavia New York, crank-call party mix-tapes and, of course, the Eagles' sudden and unexpected transition from the Kevin Kolb era to the Michael Vick era. A tribute to one of the most important film festivals in the world and the trio's time spent there. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com The Pink Smoke on X: twitter.com/thepinksmoke Christopher Funderburg on X: twitter.com/cfunderburg John Cribbs on X: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas”
Call Out Culture Wrestling is back! Today we recap the 2024 Summer Slam and the Raw that followed. We are joined by everyone's favorite DJ, Marcus Pinn. You can find Marcus' new album Night Music here:https://5oclockshadowboxers.bandcamp.com/album/night-music For exclusive content and all sort of perks support our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast You can find our music here: Zilla Rocca: https://5oclockshadowboxers.bandcamp.com/music Curly Castro: https://curlycastro.bandcamp.com/album/little-robert-hutton https://shrapknel.bandcamp.com/ Alaska: https://thatrapperalaska.bandcamp.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/calloutculture/support
Alaska is joined for this bonus mini-episode by Marcus Pinn to discuss Longlegs. Please note that there are heavy spoilers, so if you do not want the movie spoiled do not listen. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/calloutculture/support
For this Special MFH Bonus Episode, Dan and Bradley are joined by their good friends Martin Kessler and Marcus Pinn to discuss the new film from Canadian Special Effects Artist and Director Chris Nash, IN A VIOLENT NATURE. MARCUS TWITTER MARTIN TWITTER PINNLAND EMPIRE WEBSITE THE PINK SMOKE WEBSITE MFH TWITTER BRADLEY TWITTER DAN TWITTER MFH WEBSITE MFH PATREON
On Episode 118 of The Film ‘89 Podcast, Steve and Skye discuss a film that they've been eager to cover since the podcast began, a film from the podcast's namesake year of 1989, Spike Lee's seminal story of a baking hot day in Brooklyn where the ever increasing heat pushes racial and cultural tensions to breaking point, Do The Right Thing. Joining them is a guest host making his long overdue Film ‘89 debut. He's the founder and co-host of the brilliant Zebras in America podcast, his vast wealth of writing on film can be found at PinnlandEmpire.com, he's a frequent contributor at ThePinkSmoke.com and he's as passionate and knowledgeable a cinephile as you're likely to find anywhere, Mr Marcus Pinn. Marcus and the guys discuss the brilliant ensemble cast of Lee's film, in which he stars alongside Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Rosie Perez, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Lawrence and many more. They discuss Ernest Dickerson's astonishing cinematography as well as the film's complex themes of racial intolerance. Do The Right Thing remains an all time classic of cinema and one of the most important films of the 1980's.
All episodes are made available to Patreon subscribers, the most determined and unsparing of all audiences, one week before their general release. {www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke} The Cannes Film Festival, May 1994. Two independent American crime films featuring guns, gangsters, torture, redemption, stylized artificial dialogue, quirky comedy, a cool soundtrack, a main character who dies and is resurrected and a criminal's kept woman with an Anna Karina haircut made their debut at the southern tip of France. One of them went on to conquer the world and become one of the most beloved and imitated films of the ensuing 30 years. The other faded into obscurity and is barely brought up three decades later. The films are Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Hal Hartley's Amateur, and their divergent paths clearly shifted the cultural space of American independent cinema moving forward. We welcome back Pinnland Empire guru Marcus Pinn (like us, a teenage budding cinephile in the mid-90's) to talk about these two films, how they were shaped by the climate of late 80's/early 90's indie cinema, their impact and their legacy. Despite Hartley's deep meaningful contemplations proving no match for Tarantino's sheer exuberance, these are two films that were meaningful to all three of us, so we also get pretty heavily into some formative personal history and lament the slow death of a truly specific kind of American movie. Who's the real amateur here? Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Marcus Pinn on Twitter: twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"
1974 was a landmark year for film, a convergence of exciting international cinema and the original voices of New Hollywood that still resonates 50 years later. In our new series we invite a different guest for each episode to choose a 1974 movie to talk about, ranging from giant blockbusters to minor cult curios and everything else in between. One of the more neglected films of the year was The Education of Sonny Carson, the coming-of-age tale of an inner city kid who moves from life with a street gang to fighting for survival during a stretch in prison. Directed by The Mack's Michael Campus and adapted by civil rights activist Sonny Carson from his autobiography, the film packs a more brutal punch than any movie from its time yet barely gets mentioned these days. Marcus Pinn returns to discuss the film's curiously underwhelming reputation despite its decades-long legacy through hip hop music and influence on the next 50 years of cinema. Even with a messy aesthetic and muddled narrative, Campus' film is an unquestionably powerful artwork that captures individual struggle and the cruel reality of life in Bedford-Stuyvesant with the use of real locations and real Brooklyn gangs. Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Christopher Funderburg on X: twitter.com/cfunderburg John Cribbs on X: twitter.com/TheLastMachine The Pink Smoke on X: twitter.com/thepinksmoke Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"
A Pink Smoke tradition resurrected: our once annual Summer Movie Blockbuster Preview Extravaganza returns from the dead as we train a beady and judgmental eye on all that Hollywood has to offer over an increasingly marginalized and marginal summer blockbuster season. Even if audiences no longer flock (in droves!) to big budget star-studded special effects spectaculars the way they used to, it's still worth considering what the immediate future holds for le cinema du multiplex. Hosts John Cribbs, Martin Kessler and Christopher Funderburg are joined by Pink Smoke copache Marcus Pinn to discuss Fall Guys, Deadpools, Borderlandies, the ways in which Howard Stern resembles Brandon Lee, under what circumstances you might be willing to watch Daddio, how much of a benefit of the doubt George Miller has earned and betraying the true essence of Garfield. It is essential listening for All True Cinephiles. As essential as A Quiet Place: Day One or Despicable Me 4. Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Christopher Funderburg on X: twitter.com/cfunderburg John Cribbs on X: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Marcus Pinn on Twitter: twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE Movie Kessler on X: twitter.com/MovieKessler The Pink Smoke on X: twitter.com/thepinksmoke Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"
This week on Call Out Culture Wrestling we are joined by Marcus Pinn to discuss this past week's Elimination Chamber PLE, Monday Night RAW and where this leaves us for Wrestlemania! For all things Marcus Pinn you can visit his website: http://www.pinnlandempire.com/ For exclusive content and all sort of perks support our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast You can find our music here: Zilla Rocca: https://5oclockshadowboxers.bandcamp.com/music Jason Griff: https://insubordinate.bandcamp.com/music --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/calloutculture/support
Recorded July 27th, 2023 Listen to Bradley J Kornish talk to Marcus Pinn and Martin Kessler about all things Lynch and the questionable usage of the term LYNCHIAN. A word that is overused and, in most cases, inaccurately applied. It's a conversation that includes lots of discussion about other filmmakers, especially those that have been influenced by and those that have influenced the film director DAVID LYNCH. Links MARCUS TWITTER MARTIN TWITTER PINNLAND EMPIRE WEBSITE THE PINK SMOKE WEBSITE MFH TWITTER BRADLEY TWITTER DAN TWITTER MFH WEBSITE MFH PATREON
A classic episode (utterly classic) episode released from behind the Patreon paywall. Savor it like some kind of a savory soup. Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg are joined by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire as well as Calgary's own Carly Schmidt to discuss the new film from Olivier Assayas, NON-FICTION.
Marcus Pinn and Robert Cotto reunite to discuss the enduring appeal of Wes Anderson's first three movies, 'Bottle Rocket', 'Rushmore' and 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. #Sponsored Sign Up for Free Trial of Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/wrongreel Follow Robert Cotto on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robcotto Follow Marcus Pinn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE Follow James Hancock on Twitter: https://twitter.com/colebrax Wrong Reel Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/wrong-reel
ATTENDEES Marcus Pinn, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk to Marcus Pinn about the art of dropping scratches on momentous records. Discuss our favorite soundtracks of all time. intro and outro by andrew
We are joined by Marcus Pinn and Bradley Kornish to discuss Harmony Korine's debut feature film 'Gummo' (1997), a film that still excites controversy more than 25 years after its release. #Sponsored Use Promo Code WRONGREEL at manscaped.com Follow Marcus Pinn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE Follow James Hancock on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrongReel Wrong Reel Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/wrong-reel
MFH finally gets to David Lynch's 2006 film INLAND EMPIRE. For this episode Dan and Bradley are joined by the movie geniuses Marcus Pinn and Martin Kessler to discuss this much maligned film. Links MARCUS TWITTER MARTIN TWITTER PINNLAND EMPIRE WEBSITE THE PINK SMOKE WEBSITE MFH TWITTER BRADLEY TWITTER DAN TWITTER MFH WEBSITE MFH PATREON
Happy New Year to all of our Wrong Reel family! We're starting the year with an epic roundtable discussion featuring Bill Scurry, Rob Cotto and Marcus Pinn as they count down their top 10 films of 2022. James Hancock's Top 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcXVw4NZ2A #Sponsored Use Promo Code WRONGREEL at manscaped.com Follow Robert Cotto on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robcotto Follow Bill Scurry: https://twitter.com/WilliamScurry Follow Marcus Pinn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE Follow James Hancock on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrongReel Wrong Reel Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/wrong-reel
From the sound of Mayan spoken in a Marvel movie, to the beauty of wearing a mask to breathe, Ryan Coogler's new Black Panther movie, Wakanda Forever has a lot to say. And so does my panel of experts: Moji Alawode-El, Feminist Buzzkills Podcast https://www.aafront.org/fbklive/ Marcus Pinn, Zebras in America podcast / Pinnland Empire film blog http://www.pinnlandempire.com/ Felicia Perez, Head of Memes at TaskForce.US . https://www.feliciaperez.com/ PS there is an audio glitch when Elana is explaining Riri Williams. Elana is trying to say that in the comics the character Riri Williams was specifically designed to be a superhero.
“The trouble with us Americans is that we all want a tragedy with a happy ending.” Sophie won't tell anyone she's sleeping with her professor. He's young, handsome, and passionate - perfect for Sophie, who just wants to write about love. When they hook up, he drops everything and her notebook begins to fill with poetry. But while he's head-over-heels, she's about to write two important words: The End. We're joined by Pink Smoke 3rd mic Marcus Pinn (of Pinnland Empire) to discuss Hal Hartley's brilliant film Surviving Desire! The conversation looks at Hartley's vanishing place in the American film canon, why it's more important to repeatedly read a single paragraph from The Brothers Karamazov than to know Dostoevsky's biographical details, and the disappearance of the independent cinema landscape in which Hartley's work flourished. Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Marcus Pinn on Twitter: twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"
Rarely do we cover new releases, and rarely do we cover just one film in a single episode, but when it comes to David Cronenberg, and his new film CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, we thought we would make an exception. Join Bradley and his guests Marcus Pinn and John Arminio as they get philosophical and talk about Cronenberg and his latest film CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, one of his best and most exciting films to be released in at least a decade. Article from Marcus discussed on the episode: ARTICLE MARCUS ON TWITTER JOHN ON TWITTER visit www.moviesfromhell.com for more movie stuff
Marcus Pinn joins as we discuss June announcements and a lot more.
Marcus Pinn joins as we discuss June announcements and a lot more.
Marcus Pinn joins as we discuss announcements for June and other news. Some of the discussion was not Criterion related as we discussed the Indicator Columbia Noir set featuring Humphrey Bogart. We also discuss Kinuyo Tunaka, the release cycle of Janus Films, the NYC arthouse theater scene, and much more. Episode Links Classic Film Collective
The great Bill Duke, immortalized onscreen for his roles in Car Wash, Predator, Action Jackson, The Limey and Mandy, also boasts a distinctive five-decade career directing film and television. On this episode, hosts Christopher Funderburg and John Cribbs welcome back Pinnland Empire guru Marcus Pinn to discuss Duke's 1984 feature debut, The Killing Floor. After premiering on the PBS American Playhouse series, winning the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and being chosen as an Official Selection of the "La Semaine de la Critique" section at Cannes, the movie practically disappeared from sight until its recent 4k restoration and preservation by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Set during a period of migration of Southern black workers to the giant Chicago slaughterhouses during the first World War, Killing Floor concerns the struggle to build an interracial union even as meatpacking management actively plotted to divide the workface along ethnic lines, a conflict which boiled over in the race riots of 1919. Featuring early performances from Alfre Woodard and Dennis Farina, an exhaustively researched screenplay by Leslie Lee (from a story by producer Elsa Rassbach) and assured direction from Duke, it's a film that deserves more recognition for both its subject matter and its own time and place in American filmmaking. Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Marcus Pinn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"
For October's horror fiction pick, The Pink Smoke welcomes back Wendy Mays of the Pet Cinematary and Losers Pod podcasts to talk about the swarm of killer-cats-descending-on-rural-Long Island-community classic Feral by Berton Roueche. Among the topics discussed: if it's possible to sympathize with city couples who abandon kittens on the side of the road at the end of the summer, the right way to deal with cannibalistic strays who decide to add human flesh to the menu and whether or not a 1991 TV movie totally ripped off Roueche's novel. Snuggle up with your favorite feline and follow along! The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ The Losers podcast: https://theloserspod.podbean.com/ Pet Cinematary podcast: https://petcinematary.podbean.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Join hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg for a deep dive into Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and its cinematic adaptations. The story of a naive governess & her innocent charges is the quintessential ghost story, a metaphorical exploration of abuse, theodicy and the ways in which adults let down the children around them. Some of the adaptations discussed include Jack Clayton's 1961 masterpiece The Innocents, Michael Winner's surprisingly erudite and unsurprisingly tasteless prequel The Nightcomers and the recent work of irredeemable stupidity The Turning (which reimagines the story as a grunge-era Stephen King knock-off.) The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs are joined by filmmaker Bill Teck to discuss RICHARD JEWELL. The latest film director by Clint Eastwood, it's the true story of an Atlanta security guard falsely accused by the FBI and Atlanta-Journal Constitution of planting bombs at the 1996 Olympics. The discussion turns from Paul Walter Hauser's astounding performance (and checkered Juggalo history) to the media environment surrounding domestic terrorism in 1996 to how Eastwood's unadorned style impresses without going in for the big show-off moments. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke Bill Teck on Twitter: twitter.com/billteck John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Abel Ferrara has been making films for nearly 50 years without compromising his unique, provocative, unflinchingly autobiographical vision. In this episode we invited special guests Marcus Pinn and John Frankensteiner to discuss Ferrara's four narrative films from the last decade: his farewell to New York City in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his return to a very different kind of city in Welcome to New York, a chronicle of the last days of a filmmaking legend with Pasolini and the brutal self-examination that is his latest film, the Rome-set roman à clef Tommaso starring Willem Dafoe. Marcus previously appeared on an episode of the podcast The Wrong Reel to discuss Ferrara's full filmography. We pick up the thread here by talking about how this particular Ferr-era of 2010 to 2019 fits into the scope of his long career, his evolution as an artist, his past and his future. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine John Frankensteiner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner Marcus Pinn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PINNLAND_EMPIRE Intro & outro music by the man himself, Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
On this episode of The Pink Smoke podcast, host John Cribbs is joined by Amanda Gilbert to discuss Alex Garland's Annihilation. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke PSP theme music by Marcus Pinn: http://www.pinnlandempire.com/
On the inaugural episode of The Pink Smoke podcast, we tackle Michael Haneke's semi-sequel to Amour & discuss whether the filmmaker is entering a new phase of his career. Join hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs as they enter a new phase of their professional lives. One in which they have a podcast. The Pink Smoke site: http://www.thepinksmoke.com/ The Pink Smoke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepinksmoke Theme music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg discuss Patricia Highsmith's 1960 crime novel, This Sweet Sickness. The novel follows a stalker who constructs a perfect marriage in his mind and goes to horrifying extremes to make that vision of domestic bliss a reality. It's a book about the psychosis of a romantic worldview, about the insanity lurking behind the ideas of a One True Love. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Host John Cribbs is joined by John Arminio to discuss the James Bond films of the 60s. Looking at what many fans consider the series' untouchable golden age, Cribbs & Arminio go film by film through every cinematic portrayal of Bond in the decade, not even skipping over 1967's Casino Royale! Starting with Dr. No and Ursula Andress (as iconic as Venus de Milo) emerging from the ocean, touching on the duo's consensus for the best film in the series, and capping off the conversation with a discussion of the series' transition away from lead actor Sean Connery to George Lazenby with the undervalued On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Cribbs & Arminio drill down into what makes that era of Bond films so irresistible! The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine John Arminio on Twitter: twitter.com/QuasarSniffer Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Host John Cribbs is joined by Emmy-winning editor/producer & longtime Pink Smoke contributor Eric Pfriender to discuss the soundtrack work of Tangerine Dream, the experimental music conglomeration best known for their scores for films like Risky Business, Sorcerer, Thief and Near Dark. Inspired by the recent re-release of Sorcerer's soundtrack (featuring cover art by the great Tony Stella!), this is an in-depth exploration of pulsating electronic psychedelia that feels like a chase scene leading straight into despair. Way more Ghost Dad talk than you were expecting, guaranteed. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs are joined by filmmaker & professor Mtume Gant (Whiteface, Spit) to discuss Elem Klimov's shattering WWII phantasmagoria, Come & See. The conversation touches on the function of even the best war films as righteous propaganda, extreme cinema, the film's relationship to post-War cinema in Japan & Germany as well as Tango & Cash's deep connections to Andrei Tarkovsky. It's a surprisingly light-hearted episode about an incredibly tough film. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
On this episode, hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs are joined by Lisi Russell to discuss her husband Ken Russell's BBC biopic of Richard Strauss, The Dance of the Seven Veils. The controversial film, suppressed since its premiere in 1970, recently screened for the public for the first time in five decades. Russell's angry and uncompromising film mixes a Monty Python-esque sense of satire with a harsh critique of cultural institutions across the spectrum for a depiction of Strauss that absolutely refuses to forgive the influential composer for his strained and tense collaboration with the ruling Nazi party. The conversation explores whether this is a fair portrayal of Strauss (who lost family in the holocaust), how the film may serve as an auto-critique of Russell himself, the slippery nature of campy comedy, and the ways in which an artist may take a intransigent position in their artwork as a way of exploring the most difficult aspects of an ambiguous situation. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
In this episode, we take a look at a double-bill of classic Florida pulp fiction: John D. MacDonald's Darker Than Amber (the seventh novel in his Travis McGee series) and Charles Willeford's Miami Blues (the first novel in his Hoke Moseley series). We're joined by director and "Mr. Miami" Bill Teck to discuss the novels, the sense his Cuban heritage gives him of the the state's history, the changes in crime between the 1967 publication of Amber and Blues in 1984 as well as the nuances of Floridalia ranging from Miami Dade Community College to Granny Feelgood's to depressing top-sider bars in Fort Lauderdale. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter : twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of its publication, hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg dig into Johhston McCulley's THE CURSE OF CAPISTRANO, the serialized swashbuckling tale that spawned one of the genre's immortal heros - Zorro! Strap in for an episode that covers the swashbuckling genre on the whole, from Douglas Fairbanks leaving his mark on Zorro to the Swishbuckler parodies of the late 70's/early 80's to the classic Dumas vs. Sabatini debate. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg welcome Flixwise: Cananda host Martin Kessler to the program to discuss the hardships of being a god, psychedelic science-fiction, translations of Faust done by pseudo-arachnids & whether the spider spinning its web in the bottom of a mug it can't escape experiences a sense of hopelessness. The only possible contexts for these subjects: Philip K. Dick. In this episode they look at one of Dick's more overlooked novels, Galactic Pot-Healer, the story of a depressed craftsman offered the chance to redeem his life by a mysterious creature known as "the Glimmung" - or "Dwight L. Glimmung" when it calls into radio shows. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke Martin Kessler on Twitter: twitter.com/MovieKessler John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
In this episode hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg are joined by Zebras in America's Marcus Pinn to discuss the trio's most anticipated films of the year, Zama & Let the Sunshine In! Zebras in America: https://soundcloud.com/zebras-in-america The Pink Smoke: http://thepinksmoke.com/ PSP theme-song by the same damn guy, Marcus Pinn!
Episode 2 welcomes Brian Saur of the "Rupert Pupkin Speaks" blog and Pure Cinema Podcast to discuss Joe Dante's use of character actors! An enthusiastic look at what these performers bring to classic films like Gremlins, The 'Burbs and Innerspace. From Dick Miller to Robert Picardo to Rance Howard and everyone in between, it's a look at the some of the most beloved cult favorites in the history of le cinema. It's an episode celebrating the new partnership between Pure Cinema Podcast and The Pink Smoke by digging into a shared obsession! The Pink Smoke site: http://www.thepinksmoke.com/ The Pink Smoke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepinksmoke Pure Cinema Podcast: http://thepinksmoke.com/purecinemapodcast.html Rupert Pupkin Speaks: http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/ Just the Discs podcast: https://justthediscs.libsyn.com/ Theme music, as always, by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Martin Kessler, who previously brought books about an immortal centurion and an omnipotent alien god to the podcast, returns to discuss The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty. A reworking of the Exorcist author's 1966 novel Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane! and basis for his 1980 movie, Configuration is set at Center Eighteen, a military sanitarium in an isolated castle deep in the Washington woods. Rehearsal for Shakespeare plays starring dogs and the sledgehammering of uncooperative atoms are only some of the routine events witnessed by the new enigmatic head psychiatrist, a man determined to learn why one of the inmates freaked out during a scheduled space mission and refused to go to the moon. It's a unique and intimate novel full of the kind of theological discourses Blatty explored in all his best-known work. Among other topics, Kessler talks with hosts Christopher Funderburg and John Cribbs about how Blatty's comedy background shaped the tone of the book, the existential horror of dying in space and the problem of the world's smartest dog. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, host John Cribbs returns with special guest John Arminio to continue their decades-spanning reappraisal of the James Bond franchise one film at a time. That means moving from the mud clone/gorilla transforming/Sausage King madness of Diamonds Are Forever into the Roger Moore era that took cinema's favorite secret agent from Bond... to beyond. Whether playing hopscotch on the heads of 'gators, corkscrewing a Hornet 'cross a ravine, escaping enemies via free-fall with and without parachute, the extremes of 70's Bond ensured that even as the Cold War got colder, nobody did it better! Cribbs & Arminio examine every eye-popping stunt and shameless one-liner of this remarkable period of the series that sent its hero to an oil rig in Baja, a funhouse in Thailand, deep underwater and into outer space. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
For what would've been the filmmaker's 75th birthday, hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg are joined by editor/producer Eric Pfriender to discuss the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. They've each picked a film to discuss from the notoriously volatile director, a Triple Feature of Fassbinder's work that serves as a jumping off point for exploring the legendarily prolific filmmaker's philosophies and obsessions. In Love is Colder than Death, The Merchant of Four Seasons, and In a Year of 13 Moons, we can see the themes that would repeat and repeat themselves throughout his career: the disappointments of romantic love, the instability of identity (specifically sexual identity), the stresses and miseries of domestic life, the ironic way in which unhappy people can be both victims of fate and injustice while at the same time being the source of their own problems. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
A remembrance of Stuart Gordon, who passed away earlier this week. Gordon is one of the Patron Saints of The Pink Smoke, a fearless, risk-taking artist who refused to be confined to any particular corner of genre filmmaking. This episode covers the essential viewing in Gordon's filmography, the films that resonated on a personal level with the hosts & the wildcards in an unpredictable career lined under-appreciated detours into weirdness. Gordon will be missed, especially by us. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
On this episode of The Pink Smoke podcast, we dig into Charles Portis' classic Western, True Grit. Portis is a favorite author of hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs, a sui generis talent whose oddball humor & low-key weirdness defied easy categorization. The discussion focuses, naturally, on the how the novel defines “true grit” in a moral context: the line separating “righteousness” from “goodness” - but mainly the hosts marvel over the novel's marvelous language, sharp characterization, narrative ease and general genius. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
“The artist alone is the final judge of his work.” Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg discuss Charles Willeford's twisty thriller set in the hip, commercialized art world of Miami in the early 70's. It's a funny, cynical and self-critical book about the relationship between artists and critics, but at the same time a typically outrageous & unpredictable work of Willeford pulp crime fiction. Join them as they discuss one of their favorite novels from one of their favorite authors. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg discuss the upcoming reprint of Donald E. Westlake's Enough, a pair of novellas that have been given the much more appropriate title Double Feature in conjunction with the re-release. The two works, A Travesty and Ordo, have been out of print for nearly 40 years despite ranking among Westlake's very best work. The breathless episode touches on everything from the history of Los Angeles as depicted in crime literature, the technicalities of locked room mysteries, the relationship of Westlake's work to that of Charles Willeford as well as the strange moments when pulp fiction seems to transcend the pulp genre and transform into legit literature. Special Thanks to Hard Case Crime! order the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RL8THY7 The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
The Decade of Horror I: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-i The Decade of Horror III: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-iii What are your favorite horror films from the last 10 years? Continuing from Part One of our Best Horror of the Decade series, Christopher Funderburg talks about his favorite tropical fish salesman/serial killer movie, S.A. Bradley of Hellbent for Horror gets starry eyed over a certain hellacious L.A.-set tale of a woman's breakdown and John Cribbs reveals the latest addition to his list of classic "malevolent parasites urging their hosts to commit murder" flicks. In between, they talk about the favorite 2010's horror movies from lists provided by such horror cinema alumni as the prolific genre-defining author Joe R. Lansdale, horror film producer Heather Buckley and producers of the monumental horror documentary Horror Noire, Tananarive Due and Ashlee Blackwell. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
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