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Now displaying: May, 2017
May 22, 2017
Bill speaks with writer and film programmer Ashley Clark about his pursuits, from his early blog Permanent Plastic Helmet and programming screenings at the movie theatre where he worked to writing for publications like The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Reverse Shot and Vice and programming for the BFI and MOMA. Other topics covered include: THE HATEFUL EIGHT, Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s CHAMELEON STREET and the emotional side of curation, his book “Facing Blackness – Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s BAMBOOZLED”, TAXI DRIVER, the importance of editors, organizing the Black Star series at London's BFI Southbank, Ed Guerrero’s Framing Blackness, and having a smaller trailer than Billy Zane as a child actor.
 
Visit Ashley Clark’s official site:
 
Read Wendell B. Harris’ essay “Who Killed CHAMELEON STREET?”
 
Buy Ashley Clark’s book “Facing Blackness – Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s BAMBOOZLED”:
 
Buy the BFI DVD/Blu-Ray TWO FILMS BY LINO BROCKA, featuring liner notes by Cathy Landicho Clark.
 
Buy Ed Guerrero’s book Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film
 
Watch Ashley Clark discuss BAMBOOZLED with Spike Lee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jxa83KgAy4&t=9s
 
Hear Ashley Clark on The Film Comment podcast:
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-podcast-identity/
May 8, 2017
Bill speaks with Elric Kane about the wide variety of film culture projects he’s been involved in, from hosting podcasts like Killer POV, Shock Waves and Pure Cinema, to directing films, producing and hosting interview shows like This Week In Horror and Inside Horror, teaching film, working at Facets, launching an entrepreneurial venture with Jump Cut Café, and much more. Other topics covered include New Zealand film culture, female horror film directors, Monte Hellman, the Hollywood Underground Film Festival, POSSESSION and having tuna fish sandwiches with the director of CHRISTMAS EVIL.
 
Hear Shock Waves:
 
Hear Killer POV:
 
Hear Pure Cinema Podcast:
 
Hear Elric Kane discuss SUSPIRIA on Scream Addicts:
http://www.screamaddicts.com/suspiria-with-shock-waves-elric-kane/
 
Hear Elric Kane on The Projection Booth
 
Buy Monte Hellman’s IGUANA, which includes a bonus feature with Elric Kane in conversation with Hellman:
 
Watch Inside Horror with guest Joe Dante:
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