For all you proper film enthusiasts who would like to peruse the films of TruStory FM’s entertainment podcasts by release year. Get ready for a firehose of film history in these here stacks.
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.
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.
We continue our exploration of the films nominated at the 1976 Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation. Today, we laugh along with one of our favorites – Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Still works as well as ever, and we even try saying a few smart things about it along the way.
For our November member bonus episode, we add a ‘what if?’ to our run of 1976 Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Nominees series, talking about Bryan Forbes’ 1975 film The Stepford Wives. How does it compare to the nominees?
We kick off our next series exploring the nominees for the Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation award, starting with a bonkers post-apocalyptic film, L.Q. Jones’ A Boy and His Dog. Don Johnson and a telepathic dog? Jason Robards as leader of an underground society? We’re in!
Are there signs right away that signify this is a Cronenberg film? How effective is the body horror? Or is it just a low budget horror movie? Tune in to this week’s show to get these answers and more.
There have been a good number of films made about the film industry, but few have taken such a dark and surreal look at the Hollywood machine as John Schlesinger’s 1975 “The Day of the Locust” did. While it’s based on the Nathanael West book from 1939 and takes place at that time, it feels like a modern — or possibly even timeless — story of the business and the fringe-dwellers who want to be a part of its magic. Join us — Pete Wright and Andy Nelson — as we begin our Richard Dysart series with Schlesinger’s film.
When someone says the word ‘jaws’ to you, it inevitably conjures up the man-eating great white shark in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller masterpiece. It’s hard to imagine a time when the word ‘jaws’ didn’t do this. But that’s what Spielberg’s film “Jaws” did, as well as birth the notion of the summer blockbuster and make people not want to swim in the ocean. Join us—Pete Wright and Andy Nelson—on this week’s episode as we chat about this film, the next in our Richard D. Zanuck series.