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Podcasts: June 2008 Archives
The Wide World of Drug Movies
By Alison Willmore on 06/30/2008
In this week's "The Wackness," one-time Nickelodeon star Josh Peck plays a teenager who spends the summer of 1994 dealing pot out of an ice cream cart and consuming plenty of his own product. In honor of the film, and in particular of Ben Kingsley's admirably fried performance as a shrink who accepts weed in lieu of cash for sessions, we're spending this IFC News podcast in the world of drug movies, from stoner comedies like "Smiley Face" to meth dramas like "Spun." Download: MP3, 35:06 minutes, 32.1 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]... MORE »
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Taking on AFI's 10 Top 10s
By Alison Willmore on 06/23/2008
Filed under: PodcastsAccording to the AFI's latest list, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is the best American animated film, ever, while "Raging Bull" is the greatest sports flick and "Lawrence of Arabia" is the most epic epic. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look over their picks, agree with some, disagree with others, and dissect whether "epic" is really even a genre anyway. Download: MP3, 32:10 minutes, 29.5 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
On Child Actors
By Alison Willmore on 06/16/2008
Filed under: PodcastsThis week on the IFC News podcast, we're inspired by the upcoming release of "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," starring current reigning child star Abigail Breslin, as well as the recent passing of "It's a Wonderful Life"'s Bobby Anderson and the arrest of Tatum O'Neal, to take a look at child actors on screen, how to best make the leap into adult stardom and what happens when you can't. Download: MP3, 34:07 minutes, 31.2 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
Physical Disability in Film
By Alison Willmore on 06/09/2008
Filed under: PodcastsIn "Quid Pro Quo," opening this week, Nick Stahl plays a wheelchair-bound reporter who begins a journalistic investigation into a group of handicap wannabes who long for disabilities of their own. Intriguing look into an unexplored subculture, or recycling of film stereotypes about the disabled? It got us thinking, and so this week on the IFC News podcast we examine how people with physical disabilities have been portrayed in movies, from "Freaks" to "My Left Foot" to "Rory O'Shea Was Here," and discuss whether actors playing disabled characters is the new blackface. Download: MP3, 30:26 minutes, 27.8 MB Subscribe to... MORE »
The Art of Online Video
By Alison Willmore on 06/02/2008
Filed under: PodcastsThis week on the IFC News podcast, we take a look at short-form web video, which, if the hype is to be believed, is either the future of entertainment or the destroyer of all things. We take a look at online projects from indie talent like Isabella Rossellini, mumblecore figurehead Joe Swanberg and "The Blair Witch Project"'s Daniel Myrick, and debate how much of what's arisen from the web so far has artistic staying power. Download: MP3, 30:30 minutes, 27.9 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]... MORE »
