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Great music and film related malarkey. First broadcast on Uckfield FM.
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Finally! Kevin and Mike take on Leone's "masterpiece" western and don't always see eye to eye. So narrow your eyes menacingly and make dubbed grunting noises as we travel back to 1968ish. This is a good one. Honest.
It's Haloween! Kevin and Mike take a good look, through their fingers, at Richard Donner's rather excellent 1976 thriller, horror. Lots to discuss, not least the casting coup that is Hollywood legend Gregory Peck, severed heads and scary doggies. Take journey to the dark side. Please.
Mike and Kevin dig into Raiders of the Lost Ark. Let's face it one of the greatest action adventure films of all time. Mike fanboys all over the place and Kevin does a terrible Mark Cousins impression. We also delve into 1981, and the fast approaching nadir of the UK cinema industry. Any other podcast means you are digging in the wrong place.
Kevin and Mike join the Jaws at 50 celebrations and dive into the film that is possibly year zero for movies. They also take a good hard stare at 1975, one of the greatest years for cinema. Exept for British cinema, which was mostly rubbish.
Restored in all of the K's, Kubrick's "coffee table book of a film" is as magisterial as ever and demands to be seen on the big screen. Kevin and Mike are back with some searing insights.* As well as a peek at what's coming up in the new big screen season. *may not be true.
A real big screen treat, Ridley Scott's box office flop turned mega cult hit Blade Runner. Mike and Kevin talk longevity, incept dates and all manner of nonesense. That and a dive into September 1982, when cinema in the UK was on its knees. What fun.
This month it's a journey up the river to meet the big bald Col Walter E Kurtz and lop his head off basically. Of course this masterpiece is way more than that, so hop on board and Join Kevin and Mike for a discussion and a few laughs as we also delve in to the cinema landscape of 1979. The horror, the horror.
Billy Wilder's follow up to Some Like it Hot was a double whammy of genius. Best picture Oscars and all the box office. It remains one of the great American films. Kevin and Mike explore the themes and talk other nonsense from 1960. That's the way it crumbles, podcast wise.
Get on board your camels and take a trip into the desert as Mike and I bang on about one of the most spectacular films ever made. Davis Lean's masterful 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia. Still selling out in Uckfield after all these years. Mad. Lots of other Epic chat too, with some soundtracks thrown in.
Kevin and Mike talk all things film noir, even if Chinatown isn't really film noir. Discuss. The greatest screenplay ever written? You decide, because we can't.
Like the film itself, shorter than the first half. Kevin and Mike travel back in time to the year 2001 came out, 1968. What other films were showing? What were the box office hits and what films were playing in sleepy Uckfield while all this was going on? Some film score favourites and the usual old guff. It's fun. Honest.
An epic film means an epic pod. Kevin & Mike discuss the greatest SciFi of them all and do a deep dive into what it all means. A film Kevin claims to have seen when he was 8 years old and remains one of his most favourite. It's a film like no other. Open the Pod bay doors and throw yourself into the airlock of chat. Or something.
As a companion to our big screen 4k season at The Picture House, me and Mike Bradbury talk Close Encounters specifically and Sci Fi in general, adding chat about our favourite Sci Fi scores and a couple of suggestions of films you may have missed. We also go into the Time Tunnel, what we were showing in Uckfield and flick through Films Illustrated from March 1978, the year and month Close Encounters was released. What fun!
A most excellent chat with award winning journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed about her memories of cinema visits across three continents. It was an absolute joy to reminisce about all manner of films from The Wizard of Oz to Beneath The Planet of The Apes and points in between.
The prodigiously talented actor, writer, director Andy Nyman talks to me about some of his special memories of being in a cinema, including Jaws and The Devils as well as old Leicester cinemas, frightfest and the wonderful thing that is Medicinema. It was a joy.
Film & TV Composer H. Scott Salinas joins Phil & I from LA. A really entertaining and insightful look at film music, the influences and the that go into making a great score. With some cracking tunes.
I'm joined this week by composer, conductor and friend of The Picture House Terry Davies. We have a lovely chat about some great film music by Malcolm Arnold, Bernard Hermann, Alex North and Dave Grusin among others. Terry remains erudite, I blather as usual.
Part two of Phil and I banging on about some of the best scores of 2020. Just as February looms large. Some fine music and inane chat if that's your thing. Please subscribe and like and tell your friends. Let's keep cinema alive!
We're back with a new name and hopefully some more entertaining podcasts from one of the UK's oldest cinemas. Here is part one of a look back at some of the great scores from 2020. I'm joined by film and TV maker Phil Lott from Los Angeles for some frankly wildly meandering but hopefully fun chat with music. Only you can decide.
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