The Next Reel Film Podcast
The Split
We continue our 1968 Crime Films series with a heist film that goes awry when the stolen money disappears. Plus, it’s got a fantastic cast! It’s Gordon Flemyng’s film The Split.
January 16, 2025
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We continue our 1968 Crime Films series with a heist film that goes awry when the stolen money disappears. Plus, it’s got a fantastic cast! It’s Gordon Flemyng’s film The Split.
We return to our 1968 Crime Films series with a wild cinematic experience that’s more fiction than fact in its portrayal of real events, but still an awesome film to check out. It’s Richard Fleischer’s film starring Tony Curtis as ‘The Boston Strangler.’
We end our heist film series with what’s advertised as ‘Rififi in Rio’, a film that sets our criminals stealing $10 million in diamonds during the Carnaval parade in Rio de Janeiro. It’s Giuliano Montaldo’s 1967 film ‘Grand Slam.’
We continue our heist films series with Vittorio de Sica’s move away from his neorealist films with a Neil Simon-written heist comedy starring Peter Sellers as a thief who poses as a film director to pull of a job – it’s the 1966 film “After the Fox.”
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.”