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Had a blast talking to Samm Deighan and Andrew Nette about Helmut Kautner's BLACK GRAVEL.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Had a blast talking to Samm Deighan and Andrew Nette about Helmut Kautner's BLACK GRAVEL.
Once condemned by the Oberhausen critics as “the worst achievement by an established director,” Black Gravel (1961) now stands as a bold, unflinching noir that dared to confront the rot beneath Germany’s economic miracle.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Once condemned by the Oberhausen critics as “the worst achievement by an established director,” Black Gravel (1961) now stands as a bold, unflinching noir that dared to confront the rot beneath Germany’s economic miracle.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
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Noirvember keeps rolling with Helmut Käutner’s Black Gravel (1961), a scalding portrait of postwar Germany buried under guilt, corruption, and American occupation. Mike is joined by Andrew Nette and Samm Deighan to dig into this bleak anti-Heimatfilm, where gravel trucker Robert Neidhardt...
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Noirvember keeps rolling with Helmut Käutner’s Black Gravel (1961), a scalding portrait of postwar Germany buried under guilt, corruption, and American occupation. Mike is joined by Andrew Nette and Samm Deighan to dig into this bleak anti-Heimatfilm, where gravel trucker Robert Neidhardt...
Mike sits down with the sibling filmmaking duo Josh Holden and Nick Holden (a.k.a. the Holden Brothers) to unpack their sharp new dramedy Sell Out, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. www.spreaker.com/episode/spec...
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mike sits down with the sibling filmmaking duo Josh Holden and Nick Holden (a.k.a. the Holden Brothers) to unpack their sharp new dramedy Sell Out, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. www.spreaker.com/episode/spec...
Mike sits down with the sibling filmmaking duo Josh Holden and Nick Holden (a.k.a. the Holden Brothers) to unpack their sharp new dramedy Sell Out, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. Shot in and around Austin and Louisiana, the film follows novelist Benny Dink as his career stalls, his...
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Mike sits down with the sibling filmmaking duo Josh Holden and Nick Holden (a.k.a. the Holden Brothers) to unpack their sharp new dramedy Sell Out, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. Shot in and around Austin and Louisiana, the film follows novelist Benny Dink as his career stalls, his...
Caleb Alexander Smith and David Krumholtz discuss their film, Forelock, and its blend of desperation, performance, and self-mythology: www.spreaker.com/episode/spec...
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Caleb Alexander Smith and David Krumholtz discuss their film, Forelock, and its blend of desperation, performance, and self-mythology: www.spreaker.com/episode/spec...
Mike talks with Caleb Alexander Smith and David Krumholtz about Forelock, a dark, biting satire set on the margins of Hollywood. The film follows Caiden, a drifting ex-athlete pulled into the bizarre world of boulevard impersonators and small-time hustlers by Randy, a disillusioned veteran of...
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Mike talks with Caleb Alexander Smith and David Krumholtz about Forelock, a dark, biting satire set on the margins of Hollywood. The film follows Caiden, a drifting ex-athlete pulled into the bizarre world of boulevard impersonators and small-time hustlers by Randy, a disillusioned veteran of...
Important announcement from The Projection Booth! www.patreon.com/posts/143054...
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Important announcement from The Projection Booth! www.patreon.com/posts/143054...
Noirvember 2025 roars to life with Walter Hill's sleek, existential chase film The Driver (1978). Ryan O’Neal plays the nameless getaway specialist who moves through Los Angeles like a ghost. www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Noirvember 2025 roars to life with Walter Hill's sleek, existential chase film The Driver (1978). Ryan O’Neal plays the nameless getaway specialist who moves through Los Angeles like a ghost. www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
Noirvember 2025 roars to life with Walter Hill’s sleek, existential chase film The Driver (1978). Ryan O’Neal plays the nameless getaway specialist who moves through Los Angeles like a ghost, pursued by Bruce Dern’s manic lawman hell-bent on taking him down. It’s a lean, hypnotic duel between...
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Noirvember 2025 roars to life with Walter Hill’s sleek, existential chase film The Driver (1978). Ryan O’Neal plays the nameless getaway specialist who moves through Los Angeles like a ghost, pursued by Bruce Dern’s manic lawman hell-bent on taking him down. It’s a lean, hypnotic duel between...
The Shabby Detective: Yet Another Columbo Podcast: The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case The Shabby Detective closes out Season Six with “The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case,” a murder most cerebral — and a little bit silly. When genius accountant Oliver Brandt (Theodore Bikel) kills his...
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Shabby Detective: Yet Another Columbo Podcast: The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case The Shabby Detective closes out Season Six with “The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case,” a murder most cerebral — and a little bit silly. When genius accountant Oliver Brandt (Theodore Bikel) kills his...
Why do YOU listen to The Projection Booth?
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Why do YOU listen to The Projection Booth?
Columbo matches wits with a smug genius in a Mensa-style murder that tests the limits of logic, ego, and patience. bit.ly/4o6EFUq
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Columbo matches wits with a smug genius in a Mensa-style murder that tests the limits of logic, ego, and patience. bit.ly/4o6EFUq
Columbo matches wits with a smug genius in a Mensa-style murder that tests the limits of logic, ego, and patience. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Columbo matches wits with a smug genius in a Mensa-style murder that tests the limits of logic, ego, and patience. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
Mike talks with author Mark Edlitz to talk about his latest deep-dive into superhero history, Look Up in the Sky: The Forgotten Superboy Series. The book uncovers the behind-the-scenes story of the short-lived Superboy TV show (1988–1992) — a fascinating chapter in the Superman legacy that’s...
October 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Mike talks with author Mark Edlitz to talk about his latest deep-dive into superhero history, Look Up in the Sky: The Forgotten Superboy Series. The book uncovers the behind-the-scenes story of the short-lived Superboy TV show (1988–1992) — a fascinating chapter in the Superman legacy that’s...
Some of my friends sound a lot like this:
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Some of my friends sound a lot like this:
George A. Romero trades zombies for suburban malaise in Jack’s Wife (AKA Season of the Witch, Hungry Wives), a spellbinding portrait of domestic despair and occult liberation. Jan White stars as Joan Mitchell, a disenchanted housewife drifting through a fog of loneliness and repression until she...
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
George A. Romero trades zombies for suburban malaise in Jack’s Wife (AKA Season of the Witch, Hungry Wives), a spellbinding portrait of domestic despair and occult liberation. Jan White stars as Joan Mitchell, a disenchanted housewife drifting through a fog of loneliness and repression until she...
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"A very low IQ individual."
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"A very low IQ individual."
Filmmaker and frequent Projection Booth co-host David Kittredge returns to the show to talk about his stunning new documentary Boorman and the Devil (2025). Premiering at the Venice Film Festival and recently screened at the Brooklyn Horror Film Fest, the film examines the making—and unmaking—of...
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Filmmaker and frequent Projection Booth co-host David Kittredge returns to the show to talk about his stunning new documentary Boorman and the Devil (2025). Premiering at the Venice Film Festival and recently screened at the Brooklyn Horror Film Fest, the film examines the making—and unmaking—of...
Buckle up for one of the wildest rides of the year—Mike talks with Alex Phillips, the audacious filmmaker behind Anything That Moves, a gleefully transgressive, genre-bending erotic thriller that skids into the underbelly of Chicago’s gig-economy sex trade and emerges with something unexpectedly...
October 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Buckle up for one of the wildest rides of the year—Mike talks with Alex Phillips, the audacious filmmaker behind Anything That Moves, a gleefully transgressive, genre-bending erotic thriller that skids into the underbelly of Chicago’s gig-economy sex trade and emerges with something unexpectedly...
#Shocktober 2025 spirals into demonic delirium with Juan López Moctezuma's Alucarda (1977).
Ryan Luis Rodriguez and Mark Begley join Mike to dissect Moctezuma’s infernal masterpiece.
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Ryan Luis Rodriguez and Mark Begley join Mike to dissect Moctezuma’s infernal masterpiece.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/10/epis...
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#Shocktober 2025 spirals into demonic delirium with Juan López Moctezuma's Alucarda (1977).
Ryan Luis Rodriguez and Mark Begley join Mike to dissect Moctezuma’s infernal masterpiece.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/10/epis...
Ryan Luis Rodriguez and Mark Begley join Mike to dissect Moctezuma’s infernal masterpiece.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/10/epis...