Pop Screen’s Bowie month ends in the only way it was ever going to: with a lot of talk about Muppets and ‘packages’. Made during a critical and commercial low point in Bowie’s musical career, this elaborate Jim Henson-directed fantasy nevertheless gave him one of his most celebrated screen roles […]
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Lee Chang-Dong (Green Fish & Secret Sunshine)
Onto the finishing strait of season one and its many Patreon cross-migrations, this week Rob is joined by Aidan to discuss the work of Lee Chang-Dong. Lee Chang-Dong had a brief stint with the South Korean government in their culture department, but he is better known for Burning. Such an […]
David Bowie in The Man who fell to Earth – Pop Screen 69
The centrepiece of Pop Screen’s Bowie month could only be one thing: David’s first, extraordinary lead role, as the alien Thomas Jerome Newton in Nicolas Roeg’s trippy science fiction masterpiece. For those unfamiliar with the film, Bowie plays an extraterrestrial sent to Earth to bring water back to his home […]
Larry Cohen (God Told Me To & Bone)
Down to the final month of Patreon Migrations here on Directors Uncut. This week, it is the turn of Gutterpunk legend, Larry Cohen. Joined by Graham (POP SCREEN) and CLIFF (DEVIL TIMES FIVE), the first movie we cover is his oddball 1970s sci fi-religious-cop-horror, God Told Me To – a […]
David Bowie in Baal – Pop Screen 68
Yeah, when we announced a month of David Bowie movies, you weren’t expecting this one, were you? An adaptation of an obscure early Berthold Brecht play that Bowie recorded for the BBC in between Scary Monsters and Let’s Dance, Baal is quite probably the most challenging artefact in his screen […]
Mark Duplass (Puffy Chair & Creep)
This week on the podcast we dip back into the Patreon archive with Mark Duplass, however, given the nature of the body of his work – we decided to have one film from this directorial canon and one from his body of work as a writer-producer. In the first half, […]
David Bowie in the Prestige – Pop Screen 67
Pop Screen kicks off a special month dedicated to the films of David Bowie with perhaps his last great role, as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s equally enigmatic thriller. A story of magic, revenge and dead wives (look, we said it was a Christopher Nolan film), it […]
Karel Zeman (Invention for Destruction & Krabat, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)
Here’s the last brand new episode of season one. The rest will be Patreon migrations with extended new bits at the end, and we couldn’t have picked a better director for this – Karel Zeman. Now, I appreciate this director may not be immediately recognisable. Still, you can bet he […]
Die Antwoord in Chappie – Pop Screen 66
We normally use a still from the film for our episode image, but who could resist this photo from the premiere of Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie? It perfectly encapsulates the bizarre appeal of the film, which assembles an enviable cast of blue-chip movie stars and reliable character actors, then has them […]
Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time & The Day After)
It would’ve been very easy to use the Wrath of Khan as the episode image, but that would’ve built up false expectations from Star Trek fans and this podcast won’t be doing any of that. Star Wars neither. Instead, the image is from a 1973 film he wrote, Invasion of […]