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 Roger Corman member bonus series with a look at the film he produced for first-time director Paul Bartel, a bloody comedy satire on politics, fandom, the media, and of course killer car races – it’s the 1975 film Death Race 2000.
We continue our member bonus series celebrating Roger Corman with one of the many women-in-prison films he distributed. We’re looking at Jonathan Demme’s first film Caged Heat from 1974.
Cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, who has crafted incredible images in projects like TÁR and True Detective season 4, joins us to discuss his career as well as one of his favorite films, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror.
We wrap up our brief return to our Disease Films series with George Pan Cosmatos’ turn to tackle the 70s disaster film. We’ve got a disease on a train. We’ve got the pursuit of a drug mule. And we’ve got Lee Strasberg carrying lots of expositional weight. It’s The Cassandra Crossing.
We continue our One-and-Done series with Bruce Lee’s single turn in the director’s chair. That’s right, we’re heading to the Coliseum as Bruce takes on Chuck Norris in Lee’s 1972 film The Way of the Dragon!
Dalton Trumbo’s Controversial Anti-War Classic In 1971, blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo adapted his own 1939 anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun for the big screen.
We continue our One-and-Done series, looking at filmmakers who only directed one feature film, with Barbara Loden’s cinema verité film “Wanda” from 1970, a film that feels experimental and is divisive for viewers.
We continue our One-and-Done series looking at Leonard Kastle’s fictionalized recounting of the Loney Heart Killers’ brutal crimes in the 40s with his only film, The Honeymoon Killers.
Actor Patrick Fabian, star of Better Call Saul and The Last Exorcism, joins us to talk about his career and one of his favorite movies – John Huston’s brilliant adventure film from 1975, The Man Who Would Be King.
We conclude our series looking at the Hugo Award nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation in our conversation about Norman Jewison’s 1975 dystopian future sports movie, Rollerball.