This week, Pop Screen is warming up its fingers to peruse the lexicon of love with Mantrap, a short film starring ABC – but mostly their lead singer Martin Fry – and directed by Pop Screen’s patron saint Julien Temple. Once again, we’re joined by Gav Smith from the very […]
Podcasts
Kate Bush Double Bill – Pop Screen 71
It’s in the trees! It’s coming! Yes, this week Pop Screen is gleefully hopping on board the Kate Bush bandwagon – what else were we going to do, wait for a new album or tour? – with a look at the Blessed Kate’s two main acting credits. The Line, The […]
Alexander MacKendrick (The Man with a White Suit & Sweet Smell of Success)
Season Finale Baby! This week, I am joined by Graham (POP SCREEN) and Aidan (LB) to talk about Ealing man turned award-winning educator, Alexander MacKendrick. A man whose teachings have been turned into one of the definitive filmmaking books, “on Filmmaking” it’s called, funnily enough. As for his films, we […]
Jackie Chan (Police Story & Who Am I?)
The penultimate episode of Season One, ladies and gentlemen. This time it’s Jackie Chan’s turn, the martial arts cinema legend held together by sellotape and good luck has helmed a few films behind the camera too. And on this episode, we talk about one of his finest achievements in Police […]
David Bowie in Labyrinth – Pop Screen 70
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 […]
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, […]