Filming Ladies: Party Song!
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk party songs! Listen here.
Darr: Frightfully Great
Of all the things to admire about Darr (1993) (trailer)—its uncompromising tension and insistence on menace, the superstar-confirming work by a young Shah Rukh Khan, its creative sequences of characters’ imaginations, the wonderful use of background score—my favorite is how this film disrupts its maker’s own persona. Respected, […]
Filmi Ladies: Dance Dance!
On the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss “two films in which dancing is a plot element: Disco Dancer and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. That’s about all they have in common, other than being fairly lightweight concoctions that we enjoy very much. Episode […]
The Projection Booth Podcast: Josie & The Pussycats
Our friends at the Projection Booth Podcast watch Josie & The Pussycats (2001) with Chris Cummins and friend of the Gutter Emily Intrava! “On this episode Emily Intravia and Chris Cummins join Mike to discuss the 2001 film from writer / directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Josie […]
Filmi Ladies: Baaziger 30th Anniversary
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins on the classic Hindi film, Baaziger (1993): “We are celebrating Baazigar’s 30th Anniversary with this episode! 30 years of Machiavellian Shah Rukh Khan, vendetta, Abbas Mastaan’s clever direction, big hair, colored contact lenses, weepy Rakhee, race […]
“The Pipe Organ Sounds The Call of Halloween!”
Organist Stephen Warner discusses the use and history of the pipe organ in movie theaters. “The way a theater organ is set up and laid out and mechanically disposed is quite different and providing a lot of different opportunities for how the organist uses it. It is actually […]
