For all you proper film enthusiasts who would like to peruse the films of TruStory FM’s entertainment podcasts by release decade. Get ready for a firehose of film history in these here stacks.
We kick off our return to our heist series with a story about British military veterans who decide to pull of a thrilling bank robbery. It’s Basil Dearden’s 1960 film “The League of Gentlemen.”
Cinematographer and filmmaker Andrew Wonder joins us to talk about his work on Paul Schrader’s new film “Oh, Canada” as well as one of his favorite films, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film “Breathless.”
Re-recording mixer Andy Nelson returns to discuss his work on Wicked, arriving just in time for the holidays, as well as one of his favorite films, George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
We return to our Soviet Sci-Fi series with a film that’s more of a fairy tale featuring a young man who can breathe underwater who falls for the daughter of a pearl diver. It’s Vladimir Chebotaryov’s and Gennadiy Kazanskiy’s 1961 film “Amphibian Man.”
For this month’s member bonus episode, we continue our Roger Corman series with one of the two westerns he produced in 1966 with Monte Hellman directing. Starring Warren Oates, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, and Will Hutchins, it’s The Shooting.
We kick off our member bonus celebration of Roger Corman, which will run all of season 14. Our members voted, and the first conversation is a look at Corman’s 1960 film “The Little Shop of Horrors.”
We kick off our One-and-Done series with the only feature film that Herk Harvey, who mainly directed industrial and educational films, made. It’s the moody, haunted 1962 film ‘Carnival of Souls.’
We wrap up our conversations about the 1965 BAFTAs Best Film From Any Source Nominees with a discussion about John Frankenheimer’s brilliant film The Train. It’s got Burt Lancaster as a French train man helping keep the Nazis from stealing art from their museums near the end of WWII, and holds up exceptionally well. Tune in!
We continue our series looking at the 1965 BAFTAs for the nominees of the Films From Any Source category, this time with a conversation about Jack Clayton’s The Pumpkin Eater. Easy to say we loved this powerful drama.
We kick off our next series looking at the 1965 BAFTA Best Film From Any Source Nominees. First up, it’s a battle between church and state, between friends, between Normans and Saxons. Plus, Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton cavorting like pros. It’s Peter Glenville’s 1964 film Becket! Tune in!