Youngblood on Film: Interview with Belcourt Programming Director Toby Leonard
Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre has lived a long and fruitful life, first opening in 1925 as the silent movie house The Hillsboro Theatre. Since then, the Belcourt has housed the Grand Ole Opry, The Children’s Theatre of Nashville, the Nashville Community Playhouse, and the Belcourt Cinema. In 1999, the theatre was forced to close, and a [...]
JOAN RIVERS – A PIECE OF WORK
Every stand-up comedian I know is neurotic. Every one. Love me! Love me! Joan Rivers is no different – if you’re a lover of behind the scenes docs – and intrigued by the unholy grind that is the stand-up’s life then it’s worth taking a look at JOAN RIVERS – A PIECE OF WORK. It’s [...]
July's Member Bonus Shows
Here’s what we’ve got coming up for the Member’s Bonus shows in July folks: Gareth and I discuss what makes a good ‘men on a mission’ movie – including thoughts on GENTLEMEN BRONCOS and THE PROFESSIONALS; We get into AGUIRRE WRATH OF GOD, (thank you listener Eric for the suggestion); and…I finally break down and [...]
TFT 133 – THE A TEAM / Ask The Film Talk on Movie Titles
TFT 133 – THE A TEAM / Ask The Film Talk on Movie Titles – – – TFT 133 running time: 46 minutes 55 seconds – 22.5mb mp3 THE A-TEAM starts at 4 minutes 13 seconds PERSONAL CRISIS UPDATE starts at 31 minutes 15 seconds ASK TFT starts at 34 minutes 29 seconds – – [...]
CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
I’ve spoken about CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE on a couple of episodes. It’s an extraordinary picture that hasn’t had anywhere near the exposure it should have – it’s easily on a par with TIDELAND in it’s absurdly accurate portrayal of the imaginative and important dream life of children. In fact I’d say it’s as [...]
Youngblood on Film: The Emerging Genre of Cinema Anima
In the 90′s and 00′s, a group of international directors began to shape a new genre of cinema . . . unaware of each other or the synthesis they were fumbling towards. They were filmmakers from cinematically-marginalized countries such as Vietnam, Hungary, South Korea, Iran, Taiwan, Mexico, and Thailand. They admired the plot-light, mood-heavy cinema [...]
Who Should Have Played Mr. T in the Big Screen A-Team Adaptation?
Craig Robinson – that’s who. – – – We’ll be reviewing the terrible ‘The A-Team’ in our next show – Click Here for a recommendation on what to watch instead of this latest big-budget debacle
The Terrible A-TEAM Got You Down? Want a Decent 'Men on a Mission' Movie? Then Watch THE PROFESSIONALS
The execrable THE A-TEAM got you down? Wanna watch a decent ‘men on a mission movie’? Then I recommend the solid solid solid 1966 oater THE PROFESSIONALS now on Netflix’s Watch Instantly. I’m talkin’ Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin. That’s right. The villain? Jack Palance. C’mon. Can you do better than that? Can you? I’ll get [...]
Still Here
Gareth and I are still here Dear Listeners – just a quick note to say the show is delayed slightly by a few days as the good Prof. Dr. is traveling in Northern Ireland and I’m in the Bay Area – normal service will resume shortly, (hopefully by this weekend). (Images above and below – [...]
Youngblood on Film: The Nashville Film Festival
Greetings all. My intention for this week’s “Youngblood on Film” was to chart an emerging genre of filmmaking spearheaded by Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Shunji Iwai, and others: Cinema Anima. But the project is proving too ambitious, the story too unwieldy, and the deadline too . . . erm . . .expired. We’ll return [...]
Slow-burning Americana Report: 'Mystery Train' from Criterion
Small town America may rightly fear that it has been overfilmed; certainly after watching Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Mystery Train’, one imagines that it would be difficult to show anything new that isn’t already telegraphed from or curled up inside this vision of Memphis. What a gorgeous, beguiling film – beginning with the incongruous image of a [...]
TFT 132 – SPLICE / SEX AND THE CITY 2 / GET HIM TO THE GREEK
TFT 132 – SPLICE / SEX AND THE CITY 2 / GET HIM TO THE GREEK – – – TFT 132 running time: 57 minutes 07 seconds – 27.5mb mp3 SPLICE starts at 4 minutes 20 seconds SEX AND THE CITY 2 starts at 30 minutes 15 seconds GET HIM TO THE GREEK starts at [...]
Sex and the City 2 is the Most Pro-Muslim, Pro-Middle East Pop Culture Work of the Post 9/11 Era
Or so Gareth says. Podcast Review online later this evening.
Youngblood on Film: Kurosawa Centennial at the Belcourt
Nashville historic Belcourt Theatre continues to impress with astute scheduling choices. Consider last Sunday’s rare screening of Jean Eustache’s 3 1/2 hour The Mother and the Whore, Tarr Bela’s nearly 8 hour Satantango screening from a few years back, and the upcoming Akira Kurosawa 12 film retrospective.
If Kurosawa were alive today, he would be 100 years old; and that is reason enough for the Belcourt to screen 12 of his films. There’s nothing necessarily astute about a Kurosawa retrospective –after all, he’s the undisputed king of art house cinema. What makes the Belcourt’s summer-long retrospective so special is the films they selected. . . and the films they left out.
TFT 131 – PRINCE OF PERSIA / F FOR FAKE / CAT PEOPLE – CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE / [Member Bonus: The Essential Dennis Hopper]
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TFT 131 – PRINCE OF PERSIA / F FOR FAKE / CAT PEOPLE – CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE / [Member Bonus: The Essential Dennis Hopper] – – – TFT 131 running time: 58 minutes 51 seconds – 27mb mp3 PRINCE OF PERSIA starts at 3 minutes F FOR FAKE starts at 32 minutes 50 [...]
Our New Guest Reporter: Youngblood on Film
An Announcement: Jett and I are pleased to welcome Tony Youngblood, our mutual Nashville friend, to the site, with the first of what we hope will be regular dispatches from the front of his cinema-literate, emoto-passionate, and remarkably astute field of vision. (I may have just invented the word ‘emoto-passionate’, but it feels right…) To [...]
Tomorrow's Show: PRINCE OF PERSIA, Some Thoughts on F FOR FAKE and We Say Goodbye to Dennis Hopper
Update – June 3rd: We’ve recorded the show – but it’s over two hours long – as always I’ll my best to tighten it up folks – the eps should online by tomorrow at the latest – really. UPDATE – June 2nd: A thousand apologies TFT fans – I completely forgot that yours truly is spending today [...]
