ATTENTION SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. Frank and Tim FINALLY did another STAR WARS podcast. This time we speak about the new standalone film, ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY. We dive in deep about the emotional impact, the cinematic influences, and where Disney takes the STAR WARS brand from here!
Podcasting Them Softly is extremely excited to present a chat with editor, filmmaker, and movie buff Peet Gelderblom, who most recently re-cut Brian De Palma’s 1992 thriller Raising Cain as a passion project. Indiewire posted the re-cut on Vimeo, it went viral, De Palma saw it, and it became a director approved special feature on the newly released Shout! Factory Special Edition Blu-ray. Raising Cain had a troubled production history, with changes made to the overall narrative after poor test screenings; De Palma has long felt that the released version was in a compromised state. Peet is a massive De Palma aficionado, so this was an especially fun chat to record. And considering that this personal experience for Peet is something of a surreal dream come true, we couldn’t help but gush a bit — it was very enjoyable to speak with someone who shares the same sense of cinematic excitement as all of us do at PTS. Check out Peet’s work at http://www.directorama.net/ If you’ve not seen Raising Cain, you can order it right here https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-crime/raising-cain-collector-s-edition And then check out Peet’s version, as De Palma himself says it’s the best way to see it!
Podcasting Them Softly is thrilled to present a passionate cinematic discussion with independent filmmaker Damian K. Lahey! A Jacksonville, Fl. native, Damian graduated from Douglas Anderson School Of The Arts High School and is an alumnus of The University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts Film School. Damian has produced and/or written several independent films including festival blazing cult faves ‘Ding-A- Ling- Less’ (2002) directed by indie maverick Onur Tukel and the critically acclaimed anti-drug film ‘Cocaine Angel’ (2006), directed by indie stalwart Michael Tully which premiered at Rotterdam International FF and South By Southwest. Damian was a staff writer/contributing editor for IndieSlate Magazine from 2006-2011. In 2008 he won a Creative Excellence Award for screenwriting at Slamdance. Damian has also worked as a freelance screenwriter, director and UPM on several commercials, music videos and shorts over the years including ‘Children For A Day'(2008), which finished up a successful festival run in 2010, winning a slew of awards. The last feature film he wrote and directed, the holiday comedy/drama ‘The Heroes Of Arvine Place'(2012), was shot in Jacksonville, Fl. and also had a very strong festival run, winning several awards and was picked up for distribution and released in December of 2014 on Blu-Ray and multiple online platforms. In July of 2014, Lahey wrote and directed the short comedy/horror piece ‘Soccer Moms In Peril’ in Los Angeles, which had its world premiere at Dances With Films in Hollywood in June of 2015. It recently finished a successful festival run, even winning a Jury Award at the prestigious Indie Memphis Film Festival and best comedy/horror film at The Chicago Horror Film Festival. Damian kicked off 2016 shooting another short film, ‘District Quarantine’ in Los Angeles, which was recently completed and will begin its festival run in 2017. Damian is currently in pre-production on another short film, ‘Captain Traer Smiles At The Stars’ which will shoot in Los Angeles in February of 2017. That will complete a trilogy of genre short films titled ‘Three Slivers Of The Moon’ which all feature star Tarah DeSpain, Damian’s long time cinematographer Tarina Van Den Driessche, sound designer Joshua Chase and editor, co-producer and all around collaborator Craig Moorhead. We hope you enjoy this exciting and entertaining chat!
Podcasting Them Softly is thrilled to present a chat with special guest Jeremy Pikser. Jeremy is the Oscar nominated co-writer of Warren Beatty’s hilarious and more relevant than ever political satire Bulworth. He also served as a creative consultant and did uncredited writing work on Beatty’s epic drama Reds. Other screenwriting credits include War Inc. and The Lemon Sisters with multiple new projects in the pipeline. Jeremy teaches graduate screenwriting at Johns Hopkins University, and before that, was a screenwriting teacher at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He’s serves as Vice President of Writers Guild of America East, and he’s also a regular adviser at the Sundance Film Festival’s Screenwriter’s Lab. A lifelong political activist and graduate of Oberlin College, Jeremy was one of the original organizers of the Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience, which opposed the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, while he’s written posts for The Huffington Post, The Guardian and CounterPunch. We hope you enjoy this fantastic discussion about films and politics!
Podcasting Them Softly is thrilled to present a chat with veteran film editor Mick Audsley! His latest feature, which he co-edited with Jeremiah O’Driscoll, is the Robert Zemeckis-directed WWII action-romance Allied, which hits theaters this weekend! He’s worked numerous times with filmmaker Stephen Frears, with credits that include The Hit, My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick Up Your Ears, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Dangerous Liasons, The Grifters, Hero, The Van, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things, Tamara Drewe, Lay the Favorite, and Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight. He’s also collaborated with director Mike Newell on Love in the Time of Cholera, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mona Lisa Smile, and Prince of Persia. He’s teamed up with director Neil Jordan on We’re No Angels and Interview with the Vampire, and has crafted multiple films with director Terry Gilliam, including the sci-fi classic 12 Monkeys, The Zero Theorem, and the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. He also cut last year’s superb mountain climbing disaster film Everest, which was shot by cinematographer and friend of Podcasting Them Softly Salvatore Totino. And we also learned about Sprocket Rocket Soho, an online networking organization for filmmakers, actors, and craftspeople, which he co-founded with his wife as a way of keeping open communication between various artists. Check out the site at Sprocket Rocket Soho We hope you enjoy this fabulous hour of passion and cinema love!
Podcasting Them Softly is beyond excited to present a conversation with filmmaker, actor, and teacher Terry McMahon! Terry‘s two feature films, Charlie Casanova and Patrick’s Day, are some of the best pieces of cinema to come out of Ireland in recent years, with Patrick’s Day making a big splash over the last two years as both a brilliant piece of cinema and enduring conversation piece. Terry‘s a filmmaker who is interested in society, people, and how we all relate and communicate with one another, and his keen eye and sharp voice can be seen and heard in everything he does. An actor, producer, writer, and director, Terry is a true talent, which was solidified when Patrick’s Day, which premiered at the 2014 South By Southwest Film Festival, was nominated for 9 Irish Film and Television Awards, and winning three, for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Actor for Moe Dunford. Terry also made an appearance in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, and serves as an acting coach for Dublin-based performers. We hope you enjoy this informative, passionate, and humorous chat with one of the biggest personalities that we’ve had the pleasure of speaking with thus far!
Podcasting Them Softly is thrilled to present a chat with filmmaker Oren Shai, whose debut feature THE FRONTIER is playing in limited release in select cities right now, and is also available for streaming via ITunes, Amazon, VUDU, and Hulu, with a DVD and Blu ray release via Kino Lorber set for December 6, 2016. Co-written by Shai and Webb Wilcoxen, The Frontier is an extremely stylish and wildly entertaining neo-noir with juicy performances, twists and turns, and lots of hard-boiled dialogue. Reminiscent of films such as Blood Simple and Red Rock West, The Frontier pays respects to various genre classics while carving out its own distinct piece of the pie. We hope you enjoy this exciting discussion about a very exciting new cinematic voice!
Podcasting Them Softly is beyond thrilled to present a chat with screenwriter Eric Heisserer, whose new science fiction film, Arrival, hits theaters this weekend! Riding a wave of stellar reviews and showcasing the directorial talents of Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario, the upcoming Blade Runner 2049), Arrival has all the makings of an instant genre classic, and we were honored to be invited to take part in the official media junket for the first time. We’d like to extend an extra special thanks to the publicity departments of Sony Pictures and Paramount Pictures, Lauren Woods at PMKBNC, and Eric himself for making this happen! Hope you enjoy this fast but informative discussion about one of our most anticipated films of the year!
Podcasting Them Softly is thrilled to present a discussion with production designer Chad Keith! Chad‘s newest film, Loving, from writer/director Jeff Nichols, hits theaters this weekend in limited release, with more cities being added each week to its nationwide roll-out. Some of Chad‘s other superb credits include this year’s absolutely incredible Midnight Special, Kumiko The Treasure Hunter (a PTS fave!), Take Shelter, Begin Again, At Any Price, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Goodbye Solo. Chad has also worked on various short films, including Plastic Bag, from executive producer Werner Herzog and director Ramin Bahrani, and if you haven’t seen this little gem, head on over to YouTube and check it out, as it’s absolutely remarkable and thought provoking. This was a total treat and honor to be joined by Chad for a chat, and we hope you all enjoy!
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