Perf Damage

Send us Fan Mail Adam is back with a new podcast coming June 29th, featuring rotating co-hosts. We trace topics through pop culture, focusing on newer movies, television and video games. New topics, new hosts, same silly voices! Contact Us At: www.perfdamage.com Email : [email protected] Twitter (X) : @perfdamage Instagram : @perf_damage Letterboxd : Perf Damage Check Out our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PerfDamagePodcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Adam and Charlotte discuss the later years of Technicolor with their special guest, author Bob Hoffman. Bob wrote a book that focuses on the post-1950s era of Technicolor, after they had abandoned their film cameras and embraced film print manufacture. Bob's book Alchemy In Technicolor also examines Technicolor's forays into other countries and the downfall of physical prints. And of course, you cannot discuss Technicolor without discussing Natalie Kalmus, alo...

Send us Fan Mail Adam and Charlotte had a wonderful opportunity to introduce Charlotte's amazing new Restoration of Popeye (1980) at the American Cinematheque's Friend of the Fest movie festival in August. Now in celebration of that restoration appearing on the Criterion Channel, we want to share it with you. So grab some popcorn and wine, sit back and watch our intro, and then head over to the Criterion Channel to check out Popeye. It will be just like you were there in Los Angeles at the s...

Send us Fan Mail VistaVision is back—and you won’t believe how epic it looks on the big screen! In this episode of Perf Damage, we break down every way you can watch Paul Thomas Anderson's new film One Battle After Another: the ultra-rare 8-perf horizontal VistaVision screenings (only four theaters in the world!), massive 70mm, towering IMAX 15-perf film, and DCP. Charlotte—recently quoted as the VistaVision expert—explains why this is a historic film event that hasn’t happened since Strategi...

Send us Fan Mail Step into the world of faded glory and timeless brilliance as Charlotte and Adam dive into the restoration of Billy Wilder’s masterpiece, Sunset Blvd. (1950). Charlotte takes you behind the scenes of the meticulous restoration process—sharing the challenges with picture and audio, and triumphs of bringing this classic back to life—while Adam peels back the curtain on the original production, with tales of Wilder, Swanson, Holden, and the making of one of Hollywood’s sharpest ...