John Cribbs
@thelastmachine.bsky.social
Dignity. Always dignity.
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Five from the Fire
John Carpenter
Ronny Yu
Luchino Visconti
Hilary Birmingham
Robert Zemeckis
If you could save 5 movies from these directors, which would you pick? We tasked @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social and Jon Laubinger of the #DirectorsTakePodcast to make the hard choice!
Five from the Fire
John Carpenter
Ronny Yu
Luchino Visconti
Hilary Birmingham
Robert Zemeckis
If you could save 5 movies from these directors, which would you pick? We tasked @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social and Jon Laubinger of the #DirectorsTakePodcast to make the hard choice!
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Five from the Fire
John Carpenter
Ronny Yu
Luchino Visconti
Hilary Birmingham
Robert Zemeckis
If you could save 5 movies from these directors, which would you pick? We tasked @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social and Jon Laubinger of the #DirectorsTakePodcast to make the hard choice!
Five from the Fire
John Carpenter
Ronny Yu
Luchino Visconti
Hilary Birmingham
Robert Zemeckis
If you could save 5 movies from these directors, which would you pick? We tasked @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social and Jon Laubinger of the #DirectorsTakePodcast to make the hard choice!
Fellow used bookstore explorer @scsheil.bsky.social will appreciate how awesome it is that I found this at a used shop in Poughkeepsie, NY.
October 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Fellow used bookstore explorer @scsheil.bsky.social will appreciate how awesome it is that I found this at a used shop in Poughkeepsie, NY.
I'm back on @authorizedpod.bsky.social talking about Phillip Rock's pretty excellent adaptation of Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. It's the @hsblechman.bsky.social season, for which all of you punks should feel lucky.
open.spotify.com/episode/66ZzK0…
artwork by Tony Stella
open.spotify.com/episode/66ZzK0…
artwork by Tony Stella
September 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm back on @authorizedpod.bsky.social talking about Phillip Rock's pretty excellent adaptation of Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. It's the @hsblechman.bsky.social season, for which all of you punks should feel lucky.
open.spotify.com/episode/66ZzK0…
artwork by Tony Stella
open.spotify.com/episode/66ZzK0…
artwork by Tony Stella
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
We sit down to discuss one of the warmest titles from the colder-than-death filmography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a story of how the misery of unaccepted love is made even more miserable when it is accepted.
soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
We sit down to discuss one of the warmest titles from the colder-than-death filmography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a story of how the misery of unaccepted love is made even more miserable when it is accepted.
soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
August 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
We sit down to discuss one of the warmest titles from the colder-than-death filmography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a story of how the misery of unaccepted love is made even more miserable when it is accepted.
soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
We sit down to discuss one of the warmest titles from the colder-than-death filmography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a story of how the misery of unaccepted love is made even more miserable when it is accepted.
soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
Johnny name-dropping The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag: A
Johnny's story about Jonathan Winters making prank calls: A+
Johnny's story about Jonathan Winters making prank calls: A+
July 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Johnny name-dropping The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag: A
Johnny's story about Jonathan Winters making prank calls: A+
Johnny's story about Jonathan Winters making prank calls: A+
Outstanding episode.
And Bilge pulling out Raoul Walsh playing John Wilkes Booth in BIRTH OF A NATION was high five-worthy.
Wondering if Hannah would have accepted Jason Schwartzman.
And Bilge pulling out Raoul Walsh playing John Wilkes Booth in BIRTH OF A NATION was high five-worthy.
Wondering if Hannah would have accepted Jason Schwartzman.
July 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Outstanding episode.
And Bilge pulling out Raoul Walsh playing John Wilkes Booth in BIRTH OF A NATION was high five-worthy.
Wondering if Hannah would have accepted Jason Schwartzman.
And Bilge pulling out Raoul Walsh playing John Wilkes Booth in BIRTH OF A NATION was high five-worthy.
Wondering if Hannah would have accepted Jason Schwartzman.
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Earp Adjacent Westerns
We're joined by @davidlambertart.bsky.social to discuss movies where they don't call him Wyatt & they don't call it Tombstone but he still cleans up the streets!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-153-earp-adjacent-westerrns/id1529803112?i=1000715388863
Earp Adjacent Westerns
We're joined by @davidlambertart.bsky.social to discuss movies where they don't call him Wyatt & they don't call it Tombstone but he still cleans up the streets!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-153-earp-adjacent-westerrns/id1529803112?i=1000715388863
July 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Earp Adjacent Westerns
We're joined by @davidlambertart.bsky.social to discuss movies where they don't call him Wyatt & they don't call it Tombstone but he still cleans up the streets!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-153-earp-adjacent-westerrns/id1529803112?i=1000715388863
Earp Adjacent Westerns
We're joined by @davidlambertart.bsky.social to discuss movies where they don't call him Wyatt & they don't call it Tombstone but he still cleans up the streets!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-153-earp-adjacent-westerrns/id1529803112?i=1000715388863
I only need one show. #AllHailHypnotoad
May 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I only need one show. #AllHailHypnotoad
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
Major Dune-dee
@davidlambertart.bsky.social on Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE!
@moviekessler.bsky.social on David Lynch's DUNE!
Two big studio movies shot in Mexico that almost derailed their director's career. We discuss what happened!
m.soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
Major Dune-dee
@davidlambertart.bsky.social on Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE!
@moviekessler.bsky.social on David Lynch's DUNE!
Two big studio movies shot in Mexico that almost derailed their director's career. We discuss what happened!
m.soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
February 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
Major Dune-dee
@davidlambertart.bsky.social on Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE!
@moviekessler.bsky.social on David Lynch's DUNE!
Two big studio movies shot in Mexico that almost derailed their director's career. We discuss what happened!
m.soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
Major Dune-dee
@davidlambertart.bsky.social on Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE!
@moviekessler.bsky.social on David Lynch's DUNE!
Two big studio movies shot in Mexico that almost derailed their director's career. We discuss what happened!
m.soundcloud.com/user-5646248...
THE PINK SMOKE PATREON:
Shane audio commentary
Is it true that if you say Shane's name three times he magically appears? Saddle up with @quasarsniffer.bsky.social and @davidlambertart.bsky.social for a full length commentary on one of the greatest Westerns ever made!
patreon.com/posts/shane-au…
Shane audio commentary
Is it true that if you say Shane's name three times he magically appears? Saddle up with @quasarsniffer.bsky.social and @davidlambertart.bsky.social for a full length commentary on one of the greatest Westerns ever made!
patreon.com/posts/shane-au…
January 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
THE PINK SMOKE PATREON:
Shane audio commentary
Is it true that if you say Shane's name three times he magically appears? Saddle up with @quasarsniffer.bsky.social and @davidlambertart.bsky.social for a full length commentary on one of the greatest Westerns ever made!
patreon.com/posts/shane-au…
Shane audio commentary
Is it true that if you say Shane's name three times he magically appears? Saddle up with @quasarsniffer.bsky.social and @davidlambertart.bsky.social for a full length commentary on one of the greatest Westerns ever made!
patreon.com/posts/shane-au…
I made my way across the desert to return to @authorizedpod.bsky.social for the doin' and the knowin' of Joan D. Vinge's novelization of MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME. (Spoiler: I do in fact bust a deal and consequently face the wheel.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mad…
Artwork by Tony Stella
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mad…
Artwork by Tony Stella
January 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I made my way across the desert to return to @authorizedpod.bsky.social for the doin' and the knowin' of Joan D. Vinge's novelization of MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME. (Spoiler: I do in fact bust a deal and consequently face the wheel.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mad…
Artwork by Tony Stella
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mad…
Artwork by Tony Stella
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
Female Trouble
We're joined by @wigwurq.bsky.social to discuss the *most* John Waters movie ever made: the fabulously unhinged, proudly deviant, bizarrely wholesome FEMALE TROUBLE.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820/1974-fifty-years-later-female-trouble
Female Trouble
We're joined by @wigwurq.bsky.social to discuss the *most* John Waters movie ever made: the fabulously unhinged, proudly deviant, bizarrely wholesome FEMALE TROUBLE.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820/1974-fifty-years-later-female-trouble
December 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
Female Trouble
We're joined by @wigwurq.bsky.social to discuss the *most* John Waters movie ever made: the fabulously unhinged, proudly deviant, bizarrely wholesome FEMALE TROUBLE.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820/1974-fifty-years-later-female-trouble
Female Trouble
We're joined by @wigwurq.bsky.social to discuss the *most* John Waters movie ever made: the fabulously unhinged, proudly deviant, bizarrely wholesome FEMALE TROUBLE.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820/1974-fifty-years-later-female-trouble
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
Symptoms
The @26mfhpod.bsky.social crew joins us to diagnose this terror tone poem from Catalan director José Ramón Larraz. With Angela Pleasence threatened by psychosexual hallucinations, it marks a new direction for horror cinema in 1974.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820
Symptoms
The @26mfhpod.bsky.social crew joins us to diagnose this terror tone poem from Catalan director José Ramón Larraz. With Angela Pleasence threatened by psychosexual hallucinations, it marks a new direction for horror cinema in 1974.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820
December 4, 2024 at 2:26 PM
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
Symptoms
The @26mfhpod.bsky.social crew joins us to diagnose this terror tone poem from Catalan director José Ramón Larraz. With Angela Pleasence threatened by psychosexual hallucinations, it marks a new direction for horror cinema in 1974.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820
Symptoms
The @26mfhpod.bsky.social crew joins us to diagnose this terror tone poem from Catalan director José Ramón Larraz. With Angela Pleasence threatened by psychosexual hallucinations, it marks a new direction for horror cinema in 1974.
m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820
We've been talking about films from 1974 all year on the Pink Smoke Podcast. THE NICKEL RIDE, with its rampant paranoia and portrayal of aging blue collar crooks "sitting around talking like plumbers," might be the most 1974 movie of all. More here:
open.spotify.com/episode/785VkQXtvEsZXSrnorm2Vm
open.spotify.com/episode/785VkQXtvEsZXSrnorm2Vm
November 17, 2024 at 4:22 PM
We've been talking about films from 1974 all year on the Pink Smoke Podcast. THE NICKEL RIDE, with its rampant paranoia and portrayal of aging blue collar crooks "sitting around talking like plumbers," might be the most 1974 movie of all. More here:
open.spotify.com/episode/785VkQXtvEsZXSrnorm2Vm
open.spotify.com/episode/785VkQXtvEsZXSrnorm2Vm
Drop some phones
November 17, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Drop some phones
I'm on jury duty today, so...
November 13, 2024 at 7:01 PM
I'm on jury duty today, so...
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
The Nickel Ride
moviekessler.bsky.social enlists cinéastes Felicia Maroni and pulpcurry.bsky.social to discuss one of the most neglected films of 1974, a paranoid thriller that blends noir desperation with French crime drama melancholy.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/197…
The Nickel Ride
moviekessler.bsky.social enlists cinéastes Felicia Maroni and pulpcurry.bsky.social to discuss one of the most neglected films of 1974, a paranoid thriller that blends noir desperation with French crime drama melancholy.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/197…
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST:
The Nickel Ride
moviekessler.bsky.social enlists cinéastes Felicia Maroni and pulpcurry.bsky.social to discuss one of the most neglected films of 1974, a paranoid thriller that blends noir desperation with French crime drama melancholy.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/197…
The Nickel Ride
moviekessler.bsky.social enlists cinéastes Felicia Maroni and pulpcurry.bsky.social to discuss one of the most neglected films of 1974, a paranoid thriller that blends noir desperation with French crime drama melancholy.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/197…