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 continue our ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings’ series with a bloody fun film about an axe-wielding mother back for some family bonding. It’s Joan Crawford in William Castle’s 1964 film Strait-Jacket!
Cinematographer and underwater director of photography Ian Seabrook joins us to talk about the complexities of filming underwater, working on his latest film Last Breath, and about Thunderball, one of his favorite movies.
We continue our season-long member bonus Roger Corman series with a look at one of the eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptions he did with American International Pictures, their incredibly successful film The Pit and the Pendulum.
We wrap up our 1968 Crime Films series with a conversation about Anthony Mann’s final film, A Dandy in Aspic, in which Laurence Harvey plays a double agent hired by one side to kill his other side’s alter ego.
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.”