Our friends at The Projection Booth Podcast went to the Fantasia Film Festival and have so much to share! “Mike saw a wide variety of films from the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival. Here are some discussions with filmmakers about their work including the fantastic Hundreds of Beavers. “ […]
Hundreds of Beavers (USA, 2023) had me from the trailer. I knew I loved it from the moment when I saw a pair of rabbits—played by actors dressed in rabbit mascot suits—turn and look back at the camera. This was cinema, pure cinema. And the trailer didn’t lead […]
At The New Yorker, Inkoo Kang writes about turbulence in Hollywood. “To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that […]
At Jacobin, Alex Press breaks down what the writers’ and actors’ strike in Hollywood as all about. ‘“There used to be people running these companies who thought of themselves as stewards of the industry,” said the WGA’s Mike Schur, reflecting on what led to the strikes. “They’d think, […]
Our friends at The Projection Booth Podcast have a swell series on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)! “On this special limited series, we read the story transcripts from the Raiders of the Lost Ark story conference wherein George Lucas (Chris Stachiw of The Kulturecast), Steven Spielberg (Author […]
Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Genndy Tartakovsky at the Vulture! “Animator Genndy Tartakovsky is one of our greatest living action directors — a student of Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, and George Lucas who creates family-friendly, populist work that can be described as both terrifying and adorable. Take, for example, […]