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Sordid Cinema Podcast #22: Director Gregg Araki

Ricky — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:45:50 +0000

Once considered the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent queer cinema, Director Gregg Araki is back with Kaboom, a science-fiction cyber-thriller and self-aware teen sex comedy. On episode 22 of Sordid Cinema (Sound On Sight’s monthly spin-off show) Ricky D, Justine Smith and guest Beverly Brown sit down to discuss Mysterious Skin, Nowhere, Doom Generation, Totally F***ed Up and Kaboom!

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Playlist:

Golden Hair – Syd Barrett

Just One Fix – Ministry

Head On – The Jesus and Mary Chain

Heresy – Nine Inch Nails

How Can You Be Sure – Radiohead

Crystal Visions – The Big Pink

Sound On Sight Radio #238: Howl / The Times Of Harvey Milk

Ricky — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:01:46 +0000

Some 25 years back, Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein made The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary about the titular San Francisco city councilman who was not only the first openly gay elected government official in the United States, but became an outspoken champion of gay rights across the country, until his murder at the hands of fellow councilman Dan White. The documentary wound up winning that year’s Best Documentary Feature prize at that year’s Academy Awards, and of course was also the inspiration for Gus Van Sant’s widely praised biopic Milk. Epstein and Friedman are back with Howl, which made its Montreal premiere at the Image-Nation film festival. It’s an ambitious new fictionalized feature about Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem of the same name, the hardships that went into its composition, as well as the court battle to determine whether or not the piece could be censored under US obscenity laws. We’ll be talking about both the doc and their new foray into dramatic territory.

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Naked Lunch Radio #76 – My Own Private Idol

Ricky — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:39:13 +0000

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A director who is capable of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers, Gus Van Sant has managed to carve an enviable niche for himself in Hollywood. Since debuting in 1985 with Mala Noche, Van Sant has become one of the premiere bards of dysfunction, populating his films with a parade of hustlers, junkies, psychopathic weather girls and troubled geniuses. After two failed attempts, Van Sant has finally brought to fruition his biopic on Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to hold public office as city supervisor in San Francisco until his assassination in 1978. We’ll take this opportunity to not only review his latest opus but to rewind you back to his first film, Male Noche, and his most popular, My Own Private Idaho.

Naked Lunch Radio #75 – Another Gay Film Festival

Ricky — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:18:57 +0000

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Episode 75: Gays Gone Wild

This week sees the arrival of the twenty-first edition of Montreal’s Image+Nation fest, featuring a wide-ranging survey of new films that touch on LGBT themes. To celebrate, we’ll be tackling a few of them, including XXY, (which served as Argentina’s submission for the Academy Awards last year), as well as the gross-out spoof flick Another Gay Sequel (as well as touching on its predecessor, Another Gay Movie) and, perhaps most excitingly, Bruce LaBruce’s gay zombie satire Otto, or, Up With Dead People.

Naked Lunch Radio #55 – Return to the Arthouse (Gus Van Sant pt.1)

Ricky — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:32:46 +0000

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So you really liked Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James. How would you like to watch him fumble around the desert with Matt Damon for 100 minutes, at an average of one minute per shot? That’s a brief but accurate description of Gerry, the first film in Gus Van Sant’s professed “trilogy” of films about death, along with the school shooting drama (and Palme D’Or winner) Elephant and the grungy lament Last Days. We’ll be discussing all three films, as well as his most recent outing Paranoid Park, which may as well be the fourth installment.

Naked Lunch Radio #12 – Superstar! The Todd Haynes Story

Ricky — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:05:25 +0000

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Listen to our broadcast from Thursday Dec. 6th for a very special look at director Todd Haynes and all his movies from Velvet Goldmine to his new smash hit I’m Not There. A ton of great queer related Canadian rock and enough Dylan cover songs to keep you warm under the cold winter.

Hosted by Crystina Benyo & Sic Ric!

Naked Lunch Radio #10 – The missing reel (Gregg Araki special)

Ricky — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:26:11 +0000

due to technical difficulties this show is no longer available.

Naked Lunch Radio #1 – Divine Trash (John Waters special)

Ricky — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:37:02 +0000

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John Waters is a prolific film director, author, photographer and sometimes actor best known for his controversial films, the content of which have sometimes shocked and always entertained an international audience. Listen to the first episode of the Naked Lunch as we look over the director’s career in which nothing is sacred in his field of vision.