Celluloid Dreams - the Movie Show

CELLULOID DREAMS 3/7/24 THIS WEEK'S SHOW:   June is a wannabe influencer who's juggling multiple problems: her parents want her to move out, her ex-boyfriend accuses her of stalking him, and two detectives think she may be involved in the robbery of a local pharmacy. DRUGSTORE JUNE is a comedy written and directed by the man who gave the world GRANDMA's BOY amd our first guest: Nicholaus Goossen.  ASLEEP IN MY PALM introduces us to an Afghanistan War veteran and his teenage daughter living off the grid during a very wintery Ohio must confront the challenges of her sexual awakening and the reckoning of his conflicted and violent past. We're joined by actor Tim Blake Nelson for the feature directorial debut of his son Henry.  The Oscars are here! So, we pop back to 2019 for our chat with the director of that year's Academy Award-winning film. In the Roma district of Mexico City in the early 1970s, scenes of family life and the strain of marriage are conveyed through the eyes of the family's maid. Writer/director/cinematographer (also editor and producer!) Alfonso Cuarón speaks on his autobiographical film ROMA. Then, "Screen Scene" movie reviews including SPACEMAN [Netflix]; ENNIO; RICKY STANICKY [Prime Video]; SHAYDA; MIGRATION [4K][Universal Home Entertainment] and CONTAGION [4K][Warner Home Entertainment].  * * * * * * * * This week's featured classic soundtrack: NYAD (music by Alexandre Desplat) [Netflix Music]

CELLULOID DREAMS 2/29/24 THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Sexy silliness and a few bonus inches-- er, MINUTES!  Ethan Coen's first film as solo director, DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS tells of two lesbian best friends who decide to escape their lives via a road trip to Tallahassee. Unwittingly, their rental car is carrying some shady cargo and pursued by a pair of killer goons. We sit down among historical sex toys (really!) with DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS' three leading ladies, Beanie Feldstein, Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan to discuss the lesbian dramedy and... plaster casting.  AND (since we were already there), we meet up with Dr. Carol Queen, Good Vibrations Staff Sexologist, Historian and Curator of the Antique Vibrator Museum for a lively chat covering sexual repression, female orgasm, the origin of the word "hysteria" and-- of all things!-- the history and development of the vibrator.  Then, "Screen Scene" movie reviews including DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS; STOPMOTION; GOD SAVE TEXAS: Hometown Prison; DUNE PART TWO; THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER; WONKA [4K][Warner Home Entertainment] and COLUMBIA CLASSICS COLLECTION VOL. 4 [4K][Sony Pictures Home Entertainment].  * * * * * * * * This week's featured classic soundtrack:THE TAMARIND SEED  (music by John Barry) [Silva Screen Records]

CELLULOID DREAMS 2/22/24 THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Boys, bonds... and a zombie.  El Paso, Texas, Summer 1987: Two loner teens form an instant connection and explore their friendship and the challenging road to self-discovery, which involves brushes with racial identity, family and sexuality. Based on the YA novel, ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE is now streaming and joining us is its director/screenwriter Aitch Alberto. [from 9/7/23 show] From 2006: Ever wish the worlds of Leave It to Beaver and Pleasantville were filled with the walking dead? In 2007, director/co-writer Andrew Currie made it happen! FIDO sets us in 1950s America where space radiation has turned the dead into productive zombies, thanks to domestication control collars. But, not everyone is on board, and occasionally, a collar fails... [from 10/26/20_r > 5/26/14_r - 6/11/07] Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews including BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE; MADAME WEB; 10 CAPITANO; ORDINARY ANGELS; PERFECT DAYS; MCCABE & MRS. MILLER [4K][Criterion Collection]; FOOTLOOSE [4K][Paramount Home Video] ; THE MARVELS [4K][Disney Home Video]; THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES [4K][Lionsgate Home Video] and PRISCILLA [4K][Lionsgate Home Video].  * * * * * * * * This week's featured soundtrack: SUNCOAST (music by Este Haim and Christopher Stracey) [Hollywood Records]

CELLULOID DREAMS 2/15/24 THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  What a long, twangy trip it's been!  From 2001: GRATEFUL DAWG is the story of two longtime friends: Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia and the latter, bluegrass maestro David Grisman, and the special plane on which they met. Through interviews and rare "home movies" of Grisman and Garcia playing for the family, GRATEFUL DAWG shows a lesser-known side of a psychedelic music icon and the shared love for the purely-American genre of bluegrass. We dig deep into the archive for our 2001 chat with director Gillian Grisman and her dad David Grisman.  Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews including LISA FRANKENSTEIN; SUNCOAST; THE TASTE OF THINGS; HOW TO HAVE SEX [Hulu]; LIE WITH ME [VOD 2/15]; TOTEM; IMPERFECT; MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK [the Mostly British Film Festival 2/19]; TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY (2006) [Shout! Factory]; GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL (1957) [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; THE LAST CASTLE (2001) [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; LEVIATHAN (1989) [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics] and MONK: THE COMPLETE SEASON FOUR [Kino Lorber Studio Classics]  * * * * * * * * This week's featured soundtrack: RUSTIN (music by Branford Marsalis)

CELLULOID DREAMS 2/8/24 THIS WEEK'S SHOW:   It's nearing Oscars time, which means it's already time to be talking about the nominees! As one of the longest-running shows of movie talk, this week we dispense with the interviews and have a freewheeling  Oscars roundtable chat! Joining host Tim Sika are Bay Area filmmaker Mark Schwab and horror film expert/film enthusiast Chuckie Snyder, who will be weighing the nominees from POOR THINGS, OPPENHEIMER, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, ANATOMY OF A FALL, THE HOLDOVERS, AMERICAN FICTION, MAY DECEMBER, ALL OF US STRANGERS and the almighty BARBIE. Can we call it a podcast?  (Psst-- "Screen Scene" movie reviews are online this week!) * * * * * * * * This week's featured soundtracks: BEN-HUR; TITANIC; LORD OF THE RINGS ; THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS (music by Miklós Rózsa; James Horner; Howard Shore)

CELLULOID DREAMS 2/1/24 THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Trek back with us 20 years!  Writer/director Nicholas Meyer's contributions to cinema include the movie that singularly ignited the STAR TREK film franchise: STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN. In 2004, his second time at the helm, STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY made its debut on home video, and Meyer sat down with us for the entire show! Now, 20 years later (nearly to the day), we reopen the vault and revisit our conversation. In addition to TREK, Meyer talks about making the momentous TV event movie THE DAY AFTER; adapting the novel of racial fear and prejudice THE HUMAN STAIN; his book and film of the Sherlock Holmes story THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION; why HAMLET begins with a thunderclap and the FATAL ATTRACTION ending that wasn't. Spoilers!  "Screen Scene" movie reviews are online this week!  * * * * * * * * This week's featured soundtrack: SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING (music by Dabney Morris) [Intrada Records]