Episode 169 – The Nashville Film Festival / BUCK / An Interview with Director Cindy Meehl / THE CONSPIRATOR
In today’s show Gareth and I talk with Cindy Meehl, the director of the Sundance and Full Frame Audience Award Winning documentary BUCK as part of the 2011 Nashville Film Festival and muse slight on Robert Redford’s new historopic THE CONSPIRATOR.
NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL Day 1
My first day of The Nashville Film Festival was filled with some pretty spectacular cinema. Takashi Miike’s new film 13 ASSASSINS is a few dials less crazy than his average fair and a few notches more assured. Cut from the SEVEN SAMURAI mold, the film follows a group of samurai as they plot to kill [...]
Episode 167 – An Interview with Monte Hellman / ROAD TO NOWHERE
In this week’s show Gareth and I join director Monte Hellman to discuss his film ROAD TO NOWHERE as part of the 2011 Nashville Film Festival.
TFT 130 – TRASH HUMPERS / Harmony Korine Interviewed
TFT 130 – TRASH HUMPERS / Harmony Korine Interviewed – – – TFT 130 running time: 31 minutes 43 seconds TRASH HUMPERS starts at 3 minutes 15 seconds Harmony Korine Interview starts at 14 minutes 48 seconds – – – TRASH HUMPERS is at the Belcourt Theatre May 28th TRASH HUMPERS – Official Site
Harmony Korine Picks the Films You Need to See in Nashville
UPDATE: You can listen to our Harmony Korine interview here: TFT 130 – TRASH HUMPERS / Harmony Korine Interviewed – – – We’ll be interviewing Harmony Korine on today’s show – if you’re a fan of his aesthetic world view than you’ll want to check out two films he’s picked to screen at the Belcourt [...]
TFT 127 – Flooded Nashville Edition: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET / CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY
TFT 127 – Flooded Nashville Edition: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET / CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY – – – DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET / CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY / NASHVILLE FLOOD RELIEF
TFT 125 – Kathleen McNamara / WHY ISN’T CHRIS VON SNEIDERN FAMOUS? / Fest Picks / Nashville Film Festival Day 8
TFT 125 – Kathleen McNamara / WHY ISN’T CHRIS VON SNEIDERN FAMOUS? / Fest Picks / Nashville Film Festival Day 8 – – – DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: WHY ISN’T CHRIS VON SNEIDERN FAMOUS? / NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL GET THE iPHONE APP – FREE TILL APRIL 22ND VISIT OUR DEDICATED 2010 NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL PAGE
TFT 124 – Jim Barham / FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG / Steven Condon / The Shawn and Hobby Band / RADIO ON / Nashville Film Festival Day 7
TFT 124 – Jim Barham / FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG / Steven Condon / The Shawn and Hobby Band / RADIO ON / Nashville Film Festival Day 7 – – – DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG / THE SHAWN AND HOBBY BAND GET THE iPHONE APP – FREE [...]
TFT 119 – NOWHERE BOY / Brian O’Halloran / 2010 Nashville Film Festival Day 2
TFT 119 – NOWHERE BOY / Brian O’Halloran / 2010 Nashville Film Festival Day 2 – – – DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: NOWHERE BOY / BRIAN O’HALLORAN GET THE iPHONE APP – FREE TILL APRIL 22ND VISIT OUR DEDICATED 2010 NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL PAGE
'The Film Talk Lounge' – The Place to Be at this year's Nashville Film Festival!
Hey there folks – we’ve got some exciting news – I’m pleased to announce we’re partnering with the 2010 Nashville Film Festival to bring you The Film Talk Lounge! Every day at Noon we’ll be at the TFT Lounge (in the Whole Foods Tent) interviewing the creative movers and shakers of the Fest! We’re going [...]
'My Son My Son What Have Ye Done' – Starting Tomorrow at The Belcourt
It’s a story of crime inspired by a real crime story. A young man does something terrible one morning in suburbia – in the hostage situation that follows, the police and the young man’s friends struggle to understand his actions. That could be the plot of some witheringly tired corporate product – yet look at [...]
Belcourt Screenwriter Membership Up for Grabs
If ya haven’t listened to this week’s podcast: TFT 104 – EVERYBODY’S FINE / PAPER HEART you may not know that the fine folks at that great repertory cinema The Belcourt Theatre here in Nashville, are offering an absurdly wonderful gift to a new ‘The Film Talk’ Member this week, (it could be you!). As [...]
A Week in the Life of The Film Talk, Part 2: Antichrist and Arthur
Four New TFT Members of the Week We’ve been busy this week at TFT Central – so busy, in fact, that we haven’t managed to produce posts as regularly as we’d like. Jett and I spent last night at a cabin in the woods of Tennessee, a perfect location to ruminate on our shared expereince [...]
TFT 101 – 2012 / ANTICHRIST / GAIA
TFT 101 / MP3 30.2mb / 1hr 3min / DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: 2012: IMDB / on TFT: Oh 2012, What Is It About You That Makes Me Love You So? – 2012 – Raising Arizona Mashup ANTICHRIST: IMDB / on TFT: Antichrist Poster Mashup / at The Belcourt GAIA: IMDB / OFFICIAL SITE / [...]
'Antichrist' – Part 1
We’ll be covering the now notorious new film by Lars von Trier: ‘Antichrist’ in an upcoming show. In the meantime I provide a little taster – an ‘Antichrist’/ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ mashup by SamsMyth. – – – The Belcourt Theatre here in Nashville will be screening ‘Antichrist’ for four days, starting this Friday
TFT 100 – An Interview with Ben Foster on 'The Messenger' / 'The Box' / Our Favourite Films of the Past 100 Episodes
[I'll be introducing 'The Messenger' at its 7:30 Premiere this Friday here in Nashville at The Belcourt Theatre] In this week’s action-packed, adrenaline-fueled thrill-ride of an episode Gareth and I talk with actor Ben Foster about his experience of making the extraordinary new film The Messenger’, why he wants listeners to write a romantic comedy [...]
Sundance at the Belcourt, The Film Talk on Facebook and Schwarzenegger in Star Wars
My posts are a bit thin this week has have been busy cobbling together ‘The Film Talk Project X’ which Gareth and I have alluded to these last few weeks on the show, (ahhh…the mystery). We’ll be unveiling it on the next episode so make sure to listen in – there are fabulous prizes to [...]
What to Watch this Halloween
Halloween’s soon upon us Dear Listeners, so it is incumbent upon me to make recommendations for that most scary and spooktacular of nights! First off – let’s say you’re staying in and can’t be bothered with all the boisterous bewitching out there. Then you have no choice but to turn off the lights and watch [...]
'The Room' – Screening at Midnight this Friday and Saturday in Nashville – Is it Right to Laugh at Others Dreams?
Ok, so I couldn’t wait to see ‘The Room’ tonight at The Belcourt right? This bad film to end all bad films is supposed to be a riot, with Midnight audiences across the Country and Europe erupting in peals of laughter at its shoddy writing, one-dimensional acting, multiple plot strands that go nowhere and just [...]
Mental Illness and the Movies
Just a brief post from me as I’m on my way to Nashville to, among other things, meet up with the maestro for a screening of recent cult film ‘The Room’ at the glorious Belcourt Theatre. Meantime, I’d like to recommend the gutsy article at the Huffington Post from Glenn Close on the cinematic portrayal [...]
'Big Fan' – Starting this Friday at The Belcourt
In association with Filmmaker Magazine next Monday’s Podcast spends some time discussing the merits of collaboration in cinema. I bring this up because the podcast uses as an example ‘Big Fan’; the first film directed by Robert D. Siegel, (screenwriter of ‘The Wrestler’), which is screening at The Belcourt from this Friday: Big Fan Tickets [...]
'Andrei Rublev' this Sunday and Monday at the Belcourt
At the start of every week’s show my voice proclaims during the title sequence that Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rublev’ is the best film ever made. That sounds a bit limiting though – I’ll go further and say it’s one of the greatest of all artworks – and feeling the way I do about it I’ll have [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Is ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ the greatest film ever made? No, just the most entertaining one. It’s a wonderful depiction of the truism that life is just one damn thing after another. This picaresque adventure of three competing men, zipping and zapping back and forth through a surrealistic Western war zone in [...]
Il divo
“I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants,” says Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s dominant post-Second World War politician, in Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Il divo‘, the most exciting narrative fiction feature film I’ve seen this year. Sorrentino’s films look like Edward Hopper paintings, dreamed by [...]
