The Drunk Projectionist

27/05/2022

12 cabins, 12 vacancies

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12/05/2022

Buster Keaton’s secret power (a vaudeville career as a child) is revealed in our newest episode.

An interview with James Curtis, the author of “Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life.”

17/04/2022

We open our ears to the sounds of silent films with an audio documentary about musicians who compose new scores to movies from a century ago.

Interview with Stephen Park, actor from “The French Dispatch,” “Fargo,” and “Do the Right Thing”

10/02/2022

San Francisco's film community is reeling.

When the new Castro Theater opened on June 22, 1922, a capacity audience packed the house to watch Across the Continent, an auto-racing movie starring silent film actor Wallace Reid.

29/12/2021

Stephen Park on his role in DO THE RIGHT THING. A new episode of the DRUNK PROJECTIONIST.

05/09/2021

The woman who gave me those tapes.

In researching A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere, The Untold Story of the Making of Fargo , I interviewed Jane Drake Brody , an acting coach and casting director. Brody wasn’t the top casting director on Fargo ; John S. Lyons had that honor. But in working with the Coens on The H

25/08/2021

The newest episode!

Todd Melby interviews Glenn Frankel, author of "Shooting Midnight Cowboy"

25/05/2021

Author Glenn Kenny shares the secrets on this 1990 gangster film.

Todd Melby interviews Glenn Kenny, author of "Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas."

06/04/2021

The cover art on this post is from my personal record collection. (Whatever that is worth.)

After writing a book about a movie ( A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere: The Untold Story of the Making of Fargo ), I’ve begun diving into books about movies written by others. At the moment, I’m reading Sholay: The Making of a Classic , a 2001 book by Anupama Chopra about the most maj

16/02/2021

A look back at "Silence of the Lambs" on its 30th birthday.

Thirty years ago, Jonathan Demme’s shocking thriller swept the top Oscars and changed pop culture.

13/10/2020

A conversation with director Charles Burnett about "Killer of Sheep," his remarkable debut film.

In Episode 5 of The Drunk Projectionist , host Todd Melby interviewed Charles Burnett, writer and director of Killer of Sheep , a 1978 film about a man who works in a slaughterhouse. Killer of Sheep is a beautiful and haunting movie. In 1990, it was added to the National Film Registry. This

18/09/2020

Machete don't text.

But he did give director Brett Harvey a peek into his life.

In this episode, we talk to Harvey about his Danny Trejo documentary.

An interview with director of “Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo.”

05/09/2020

Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, and zombies. From the safety of one’s car.

SAO PAULO (AP) — A large Ferris wheel with red lights illuminates a gloomy path at a horror theme amusement park in Brazil. A line of cars carrying spectators moves slowly as actors dressed up as...

16/07/2020

Do you know Amitabh Bachchan? The Bollywood icon has been kicking it for decades, creating memorable screen moments for billions of people. Billions is no exaggeration. He is revered in India and the Indian diaspora. A few days ago, the Big B tested positive for COVID-19. He's in hospital now in Mumbai. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers ... and enjoy these five minutes of Amitabh in action.

Watch superhit dance song "Disco 84" from action movie Inquilaab (1984). Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Kadar Khan, Ranjeet, Shakti Kapoor, Viju Khote,...

07/07/2020

We've got Hitchcock on the brain.

Alfred Hitchcock is best known for inventive camera angles and a fascination with blondes, as evidenced by this clever 2012 British Film Institute video.

13/05/2020

Worth an exploration. Bela Tarr. Kelly Reichardt. Robert Redford. On stage and in-depth film discussions.

07/10/2019

The Honeymoon Killers, The Blob, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Here's what John Waters nabbed from The Criterion Collection closet.

The director of Female Trouble has always been out and proud. Still, John Waters recently ducked into the closet at The Criterion Collection to choose five of his favorite movies to take home. And since I keep a Waters candle and a Divine photograph perched on my desk, I took special note of t

06/12/2018

In this 0:24 promotional video, John Waters calls himself a "quote w***e" and threatens to burn down the house of the viewer who doesn't buy this book.

John Waters, the quote w***e, speaking from the boardroom at the USC School of Cinematic Arts about the national release of the book "John Waters Interviews"...

01/10/2018

In this post, Barbara Kopple tells us how she made HARLAN COUNTY USA, the classic documentary about a Kentucky coal miner's strike.

In Episode 2 of the Drunk Projectionist film podcast , host Todd Melby interviewed Barbara Kopple about Harlan County USA , her impressive first film. The 1976 documentary won an Academy Award. Here is an edited version of that conversation. Barbara Kopple: Harlan County, USA; that was my

30/08/2018

This video about Kelly Reichardt's beloved dog will make you cry.

On the eternal friendship between a woman and her dog.

13/07/2018

San Francisco film addicts: A super cool screening of "​Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal” at the Roxie on Saturday. Because who doesn't love El Santo?

Celebrating the centennial of the birth of El Santo, the most iconic of all Mexican luchadores, RoxCine presents the brand new digital restoration of “Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal” (…

28/06/2018

When the movie is being made, he's the least important person on the set. When the movie is being promoted, he's very important. An interview with the Steve Schapiro, the still photographer on TAXI DRIVER.

What's it like to work as photographer on a movie set? "As a still photographer on a motion picture," says Steve Schapiro, who shot photos on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver , it's not particularly glamorous. "You're like low man on the totem pole. You're not contributing to the actua

06/06/2018

It’s not just TOUCH OF EVIL anymore, baby. This article explains how single-shot takes invaded franchise movies.

Once reserved for auteurs like Martin Scorsese and awards season darlings, seamless one-shot sequences are starting to appear in movies like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘The Last Jedi.’ Here’s how the Oner came back.

30/05/2018

If you like Martin Scorsese (and I do), you gotta love Thelma Schoonmaker, his long-time editor. Over the decades, she's spent untold hours in the editing booth with Scorsese, fretting over cuts. Learn more about Schoonmaker's work in RAGING BULL and GOODFELLAS here: http://bit.ly/2sfdlJR

15/05/2018

Somewhere in a dark screening room outside of Paris, one man is trying to come to terms with Napoléon, the 1927 silent classic. Our interview with George Mourier of La Cinémathèque française is Episode 7 of THE DRUNK PROJECTIONIST podcast.

08/04/2018

Dave, It's Been 50 Years Since You Unplugged Me. (All kinds of cool 2001 stories.)

Fifty years ago, I convinced my mother to let me see 2001: A Space Odyssey . I was 8-years-old and knew nothing about Stanley Kubrick or evolution or much of anything. After dropping me off at the theater, I settled in and waited for cool space stuff to happen. Instead, apes fought.

05/04/2018

We probably should have titled this post "Dennis Hopper's OTHER camera." Turns out the director and actor was quite the shutterbug.

In 1961, Dennis Hopper's first wife bought him a camera. Soon the actor — and future director of 1969's Easy Rider — was clicking photos of nearly everything around him. That everything turned out to be Ike and Tina Turner, Goldie Hawn, Civil Rights demonstrators on the road to Montgomery, A

24/03/2018

John Waters Super Fans: Baltimore Museum of Art is creating an exhibit featuring the world's nastiest filmmaker.

In 2011, filmmaker John Waters curated Absentee Landlord   at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Later this year, Waters, best known as the director of Hairspray and Pink Flamingos , becomes the subject of an art exhibit himself in his hometown. From October 7, 2018, to January 6,

18/03/2018

If you're not familiar with the name Alice Guy-Blaché, you should be.

15/03/2018

20 years ago, many critics just weren't, you know, into the Big Lebowski, man.

They're biased toward naturalism in movies, rather than bizarro versions of the real world.