What kind of film do you think the above image is from, listeners? If you answered “Why, a biopic of a 1960s rock band, of course”, congratulations – you are Oliver Stone, and this is an episode of Pop Screen about your 1991 film The Doors. Join Doors fan Aidan […]
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John Waters – Multiple Maniacs & Hairspray (1988) Directors Uncut IV
Once more into the Patreon archives we go, this time we return with our wildest director to date – John Waters. The one of a kind, beautiful soul, that is, John Waters. Rob and Waters diehard Graham talk about two films. The first sees us talk about his early sleazy […]
Norah Jones + My Blueberry Nights (Pop Screen 53)
Back in 2007, Wong Kar-Wai could have done anything for his first American film. What he chose to do was cast easy-jazz chanteuse Norah Jones in a road movie where she would play alongside David Straithairn, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Natalie Portman, and tell her not to take acting […]
Frank Sinatra + The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Pop Screen 52
The 1960s were, depending on your viewpoint, either the best or the worst time to release a film about political assassinations, and there weren’t many wilder examples than John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate. A wildly paranoid tale of a returning military veteran convinced that one of his brothers-in-arms is now […]
Vanilla Ice + Cool As Ice – Pop Screen Episode 51
Looky looky at our black booky: this week Pop Screen is looking at an artefact of the utmost early ’90sness, Vanilla Ice’s first and only starring vehicle Cool As Ice. Deeply influenced by the teen rebel films of the 1950s and shot by Spielberg’s future DoP Janusz Kaminski, these classy […]
Federico Fellini (8 1/2 & Satyricon) Directors UNCUT 3
First things first, apologies about the audio quality. We know what caused it, and it won’t happen again – still, we are sorry. Now that is over and done with, Join Rob and his co-host, Graham, as they look at the highest-profile director we’ve had to date. You know a […]
Nirvana + Cobain – Montage of Heck – Pop Screen 49
Pop Screen makes another foray into the documentary realm this week, with Aidan rejoining regular host Graham to look at Brett Morgen’s Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck. An ambitious film rooted as much in its subject’s imagination as it is the facts of his life, it was highly acclaimed […]
Robert Hamer (It Always Rains on Sunday & Kind Hearts and Coronets)
This week both Rob & Graham (Horrified, Pop Screen) will be performed by Alec Guinness. Yeah, we are impressed too. The lucky director that is the subject of our attention is Robert Hamer, most famous for his work on legendary Ealing comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets. Alongside that titan of […]
Prince + Purple Rain – Pop Screen Episode 50
Pop Screen is 50 episodes old! To celebrate, we’ve got Gav Smith from the My Favourite Film podcast back in to cover one of the big names (in terms of profile, if not in height) that we haven’t covered so far – Prince, and his blockbuster first movie Purple Rain. Gav is […]
The Monkees & Head – Pop Screen 48
A pop movie is normally a chance to consolidate, rather than destroy, an image, which is why the Monkees’ sole trip in front of the camera is such a strange affair. Produced by BBS Productions at the same time as they were making Easy Rider – and with the Dennis […]