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Podcasts: August 2008 Archives
A Salute to Manny Farber and Termite Actors
By Alison Willmore on 08/25/2008
In honor of the late critic Manny Farber's idea of termite art, and of the movie doldrums of late August, this week on the IFC News podcast we pay our respects to our favorite working leads in good-bad films. After all, great acting is one thing, but the ability to yell about getting revenge on the guy who killed your wife while flexing your abs and outrunning a fireball is quite another, and worthy of its own kind of appreciation. Download: MP3, 32:23 minutes, 29.6 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]... MORE »
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Our Fall Indie Film Preview
By Alison Willmore on 08/18/2008
Filed under: PodcastsThe season of troubled (but incredibly box office-friendly) superheroes, of IMAX, of fanboys attacking critics, of women (hey!) wanting to see films after all, of some incredibly stupid comedies, of summer is coming to a close. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look ahead to fall and offer ten picks of indie films we're looking forward to, as well as word on ones we've already seen. Download: MP3, 29:56 minutes, 27.4 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
Famously Disastrous Film Productions
By Alison Willmore on 08/11/2008
Filed under: Podcasts"Tropic Thunder" may get its main goofs from the idea of delusionally self-important actors being dropped into an actual war zone to contend with some very real threats to their coddled existence, but it also contains many a nod to the great tradition of film productions going disastrously wrong. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look through some of cinema's most infamous examples, from Martin Sheen's near-fatal heart attack during the making of "Apocalypse Now" to Michael Cimino knocking down and rebuilding a $1.2 million "Heaven's Gate" set because he didn't like how the buildings were spaced. Download:... MORE »
The Passion of the Passion Project
By Alison Willmore on 08/04/2008
Filed under: PodcastsThis week, indie director David Gordon Green tests out the mainstream waters with stoner comedy "Pineapple Express." It's not uncommon to see filmmakers getting their start in the independent world before moving on to studio fare, it's rare that we get to see the opposite scenario. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at those instances where a successful studio director takes a pay and budget cut in order to make, if not necessarily an indie flick, certainly a smaller scale passion project. Download: MP3, 33:54 minutes, 31 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]... MORE »
