Episode 41 - Crossing Heaven Head On (The Fatih Atkin special)

Born in Germany as the son of Turkish parents, the 30-year-old director is a child of globalization: like the musician Manu Chao, he samples and remixes elements from a diversity of cultures, material easily available to his generation for the first time. «We grew up with the video recorder - and my great role models were not from Europe. Neo-Realism or Film Noir, that didn't come until later. In the beginning I was really keen on American cinema: love, violence, action, simply good stories!» And making films enabled him to approach his own roots and arrive at the insight that tradition need not mean just raking in the ashes: «I was lucky, I had the opportunity to work in Turkey and to get to know the country in that way. We German-Turks are like aliens for those over there in Turkey. So we have to keep on going over there and examining our own history. We can learn a lot and then make it into something new.»

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Play List

1-Half Time Intro

2-Fadih Atkin bio

3-Edge of Heaven trailer

4-Edge of Heaven review

5-Mercan Dede - AB-I Haya

6-Crossing The Bridge review

7-Ceza – Holocaust

8-Head On review

9-Wrap up

10-Brenna Maccrimmon - Dilala

11-Outro

Episode 40 - Hollywood blacklists (The Jules Dassin special pt.1)

Episode 40 - Hollywood blacklists (The Jules Dassin special)

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One of the most defiantly visible survivors of the Hollywood Blacklist was American director Jules Dassin. Following high school in the Bronx and drama school in Europe, Dassin made his stage debut at age 25 with the Yiddish Theatre in New York. In Hollywood, Dassin worked his way up to a directorial spot at MGM's short subjects unit, where he handled a brilliant 20-minute adaptation of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart (1941). This led to a promotion to features like Nazi Agent (1942), Reunion in France (1942) and The Canterville Ghost (1944). From MGM, Dassin went to work for producer Mark Hellinger at Universal Studios, where he turned out two full-blooded crime classics: Brute Force (1947) and The Naked City (1948). Unfortunately, the late 1940s were difficult times for anyone with even the slightest leftist political leanings. After being identified as a communist by director Ed Dmytryk during a House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearing, Dassin found himself completely shut out by Hollywood. The last 1950s film which Dassin directed for a major studio was 20th Century-Fox's Night and the City, which was shot in London. Then he moved to France, where he helmed one of the most influential "crime caper" movies ever made, Rififi (1954). So successful was this melodrama that it spawned numerous rip-offs (Rififi in Tokyo was one of the most blatant) and parodies, including Dassin's own Topkapi (1964). Operating in Greece by 1959, Dassin directed his second wife Melina Mercouri in Never On Sunday (1960), a robust comedy about a joyous prostitute; Mercouri's performance was superb enough for viewers to forgive Dassin's own lackluster performance as a stuffy American moralist. Permitted back in the U.S.-studio system in the mid-1960s, Dassin directed Uptight (1968), a black-oriented remake of The Informer which proved beyond doubt that Dassin's alleged "communistic" tendencies were just a bit old hat. Not many of Jules Dassin's later, more personal films (notably an indictment of the Greek junta leaders, The Rehearsal [1974]) were seen in America, but the director's reputation, so idiotically maligned in the early 1950s, had been completely restored so far as Hollywood was concerned--even though the man himself chose to shun the U.S. for self-imposed Swiss exile.

Playlist

Intro

Persepolis Trailer

Persepolis review

Brigitte Bardot – Làppareil a sous

Jules Dasin Bio

Brute Force Trailer

Brute Force review

Brute Force sound byte

Joe Dassin – Aux Champs Elysses

Brute Force sound byte

Naked City review

Naked City sound byte

Joe Dassin – Salut Les Amoureux

Naked City sound byte

Rififi review

Jules Dassin interview

Rififi sound byte

Jules Dassin interview

Brute Force sound byte

Brigitte Bardot – Moi Je Joue

Episode 39 - The Happening

Episode 39 - The Happening ( M Night Shyamalan special pt. 2)

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The second of out two part special on director M. Night Shyamalan. Will Ricky continue to defend the film maker and his three previous films and more importantly will Simon deliver the havoc he promised last week, and tear them all apart?

What is the real cause of The Happening? Was there a side message commenting on how we as a society have problems in communicating amongst each other?

Tune and get ready to send us some feedback.

WARNING: The following episode may further cause high blood pressure amongst some listeners.

Play List:

Intro

The Village Trailer

The Village review

Making of the ``original score`` to the Village

My Morning Jacket Bio

My Morning Jacket – The Bear

Lady In The Water Trailer

Lady In The Water review

M Night interview clip

The Happening Trailer

The Happening review

My Morning Jacket – Heartbreak man

Episode 38 - Be Kind Rewind! (Director Michel Gondry special)

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There are many ways to crack a Rubik's Cube. Michel Gondry did it with his toes. A year ago, the film director posted a short video on YouTube showing this skill ...

Things aren't always as they appear in a Gondry film.

Tune into our special on director Michel Gondry. a French Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.

Play List

Intro

Michel Gondry bio

Be Kind Rewind Trailer

Be Kind Rewind review

Be Kind Rewind sound byte

Polyphonic Spree - The Sun

Be Kind Rewind sound byte

Science of Sleep trailer

Science of Sleep review

Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind review

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind sound byte

Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind sound byte

Block Party review

Talib Kweli - The Blast

Outro

Episode 37 - The Dark Night (M. Knight SHyamalan special pt 1)

Episode 37 -The Dark Night - (M.Night special pt. 1)

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M Night Shyamalan

The modern
The studio pet who could do no wrong? At one point Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan was shaping up to be the new Spieldberg/Hitchcock: A master storyteller with a gift for twists and a keen understanding of public taste.

Nowadays movie critics despise him and his audience grows smaller and smaller.

M Knight:

"I'm going to stop making movies if they end the cinema experience. If there's a last film that's released only theatrically, it'll have my name on it. This is life or death to me. If you tell audiences there's no difference between a theatrical experience and a DVD, then that's it, game's over, and that whole art form is going to go away slowly. Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters."
Listen to the first part of our M . Knight special. Will Ricky & Simon defend the so called master of thrillers or will they just tear him to shreds. Tune in and find out!

Play List

Halftime Intro

M. Night Bio

M. Night Interview Clip

Rahul Dev Burman - Dance Music

Sixth Sense sound byte

Sixth Sense review

M. Night interview clip

Asha Boshle - Dum Marco Durm

Naked Lunch ID

Unbreakalbe review

Unbreakable sound byte

Ramasutra - Low

Unbreakable sound byte

Signs review

Signs sound byte

Signs review

Signs sound byte

Wrap up

Rahul Dev Burman - Shalimar

Episode 36 - The Incredible Hulk vs. The Hulk?

Episode 36 - The Incredible Hulk vs. The Hulk

Tune into our review of The new Hulk movie as well as a look back to the 2003 film!

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The Hulk debuted in The Incredible Hulk #1, by writer Stan Lee, penciller and co-plotter Jack Kirby, and inker Paul Reinman.

The original series was canceled after six issues, with the finale cover-dated March 1963. Lee had written each story, with Kirby penciling the first five issues and Steve Ditko penciling and inking the sixth. The character immediately guest-starred in Fantastic Four #12 (March 1963), and months later became a founding member of the Avengers appearing in just the first two issues of that superhero team's eponymous series , and returning as an antagonist in issues #3 and #5 (Jan. & May 1964). He then guest-starred in The Amazing Spider-Man #14 .

Around this time, co-creator Jack Kirby received a letter from a college dormitory stating the Hulk had been chosen as its official mascot. Kirby and Lee realized their character had found an audience in college-age readers.

The Hulk than became the backup feature in Tales to Astonish in issue #60 until taking over the series and also renaming the book to The Incredible Hulk by issue #102!

Play list!

Incredible Hulk TV show sound byte

Naked Lunch Intro

History of The Incredible Hulk

Stan Lee interview clip

Incredible Hulk trailer

Incredible Hulk review

Band of Horses - Monster

Simpsons sound byte

Hulk vs.The Incredible Hulk

Stan Lee Interview clip

Wolf Parade - The Grey Estates

Stan Lee interview clip

History of the Hulk TV Show

Incredible Hulk wrap up

Robyn Hitchcock – Dark Green Energy

Episode 35 - Anti Establishment movies of the 90's Made By the Establishment.

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The following are five films that my friends and I grew up with. Each film was granted repeat viewings through out the years. They all share common themes.

They all feature a great sound track not to mention numerous tracks that appeared on each film that never made the official soundtrack cd. They all were coming of age films and considered part of the the Gen X momement. They were all produced within the Hollywood system and both early and breakthrough films for each director. Each screenplay was filled with witty dialogue, and a young all star cast of which many went on to make bigger names for themselves. More importantly they all geared to be Anti Establishment film although made by the establishment. We ill take a trip down memory lane and review all five films. We will let you know if we think they still stand the test of time or were we just nieve and young in thinking they were great?

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Empire Records

" I went to Rock N Roll heaven and I wasn't on the guest list." Debra (Robin Tuney )

High Fidelity

"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? Rob Gordon (John Cusak)

Pump Up The Volume

Guess who? It's 10 o'clock, do you care where your parents are? Mark Hunter A.K.A. Hard Harry (Chrstian slater)

Reality Bites

"There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt " Trou Dyer (Ethan Hawke)

Hackers

"Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. Ginsberg" Dade Murphy (Johnny Lee Miller)

Play List!

Pump up The Volume sound byte

Naked Lunch Intro

News!

Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows

Movieland add

Pump up the Volume Trailer

Pump Up The Volume review

Pump Up The Volume sound byte

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation

Naked Lunch show ID

Empire Records sound byte

Empire Records review

Martinis - Free

Hackers Trailer

Hackers Review

Hackers Manifesto

Hackers Sound byte

Squeeze - Heaven Knows

Reality Bites Review

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

The Making of Reality Bites

Naked Lunch ID

High Fidelity

High Fidelity Review

Interview clip with Stephen Frears pt 1

High Fidelity sound byte

High Fidelity review

Interview clip with Stephen Frears & John Cusak

Beta Band - Dry The Rain

High Fidelity wrap up

Interview clip with Stephen Frears pt 2

Top 10 Coming of Age films

Stereolab - Lo Boob Oscillator

The Kinks – Everyone`s Gonna be Happy

Outro

Episode 34 - French, SEx MuRDErs!

Episode 34 - French, SEx MuRDErs!

Two more weeks left of our Naked Lunch midnight special and what better idea than to take you all on a trip to France.

France has long been a gathering spot for artists from across Europe and the world. For this reason French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations. We have thus brought you specials on some of the Directors who have crossed over to France to make films. Including Poland`s Krzysztof Kieslowski and Austria`s Michael Heneke.

It`s the country that brought you Jean Luc Godart, Jean Pierre Melville, Francois Truffault and many other great directors. Now in the 21<sup>st</sup> century they take from the pages of Italian film makers of the 70`s and bring us the most gruesome, gut wrenching, blood splattering, sick and twisted horror films of the past decade. It's pure, unadulterated carnage and we intend on reviewing every frame, every drop of blood, every scream while spinning the best of Frnech Indie rock!

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PLAY LIST

1- fRENCH hORROR oPENINg

2- nAKED lUNCh iTNRO

3- uLTRA oRANGe eMMaNuELle - rOSEmARY's lULLabY

4- reVieW OF iNSidE

5- hISTorY oF fREnch hOrrOR fILMs

6- fReNCh cOwBY - eND OF tHE sTORy

7- cALL Me pOUOPEE bIO

8- cALL mE pOUPEE - sINGAPORe slang

9- hISToRY OF fRENCH HOrror FILMs

10- hIGH tENSION REVIEw

11- caRAVAN pALaCE - eNDED wITH thE nIGHT

12- sHEItan REvieW

13- auTOUR DE luCIE - iMMObile

14- cALVAIre REVIEw

15- sIBYL VANe - I'M DERANGED

16- maLAJUBE BIO

17- mALAJUBE - ETIENNE D'AOUT

18- dEAD eND REVIEw

19- sTEREo total - relaX BAby be cooL

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MOVIES REVIEWED:

SHEITAN

HIGH TENSION

INSIDE

CALVAIRE

DEAD END

EPISODE 33 - Rambo & Son of Rambow have SEX in The City with STrangers on Prom Night!

A little something for everyone...

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Reviews on Sex and The City, Son of Rambow, First Blood, Prom Wars and the Strangers. Also a special interview with director Phil Price and screenplay writer Myles Hainsworth. Be prepared for a heated debate between Simon and Rick plus some great music from artists such as Gillian Welch and Joanna Newsome.

Play list:

Sex & The City Theme Song

Naked Lunch Intro

Sex and The City Trailer

Sex and The City Review

Rhonda Harris - China Girl

Movieland add

Prom Wars review

Interview with Phil Price & Myles Hainsworth

Naked Lunch ID

Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow review

The Cure - Hanging Garden

Son of Rambow sound byte

Naked Lunch ID

First Blood Trailer

First Blood review

Stallone acting sound byte

First Blood review

The Jam - The Bitterest Pill I ever Had To Swallow

Top 10 Sylvester Stallone character roles

The Strangers Trailer

The STrangers review

Gillian Welch - My First Lover

Joanna Newsome – The Sprout and The Bean

Episode 32 - Bullwhips & Fedoras. The History of Indiana Jones!

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Episode 32 -A History of Indiana Jones!

Our first Steven Spieldberg special. Tune in as we take you on a journey through the history of one of cinema’s most iconic figures and as we enter The Raiders of The Lost Arc into our Masterpiece Cinema page. Reviews on all four films plus facts, trivia, rumors, etc.

All this and the best of ``Alt Country`` including such bands as My Morning Jacket and Calexico!

The crystal skulls are a number of human skull models fashioned from blocks of clear or milky quartz crystal rock, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts by their alleged finders. Contemporary mainstream scientific opinion is that the skulls are instead of 19th century or later European manufacture. None of the specimens made available for scientific study have been authenticated as pre-Columbian in origin.^[1] Despite some claims presented in an assortment of popularising literature, legends of crystal skulls with mystical powers do not figure in genuine Mesoamerican or other Native American mythologies and spiritual accounts.

The skulls are often claimed to exhibit paranormal phenomena by some members of the New Age movement, and have often been portrayed as such in fiction. Perhaps the most widely known of such portrayals occurs in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Play list

Conan O`Brien sound byte

Naked Lunch Intro

History of Raiders of The Lost Arc

Raiders of The Lost Arc review

Raiders of The Lost Arc sound byte

Neco Case - Hold On! Hold On!

Raiders of The Lost Arc review

My Morning Jacket - X-mas Curtian

History of The Temple of Doom

Temple of Doom review

Temple of Doom sound byte

Calexico - Crystal Frontier

Temple of Doom review

Castanets - Strong Animal

Naked Lunch half time intro

Histroy of The Last Crusade

The Last Crusade review

The Stunt Men of the Indiana Jones Franchise

Last Crusdae review

The work of John Williams

History of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Steven Spieldberg interview

Kingdom of The Crystal Skull review

Gene Clark - From A Silver Phial

Steven Spieldberg interview

Kingdom of The Crystal Skull review

The work of John Williams

Pinetop Seven - Born Among The Born Again

outro

Episode 31 - Art School Confidential

Episode 31 - Art School Confidential (1st Hour)

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The term "alternative comics" is one of several labels applied to a range of comics that have appeared since about 1980, in the wake of the undergound comix movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. Typically, these are authored independently by a single creator; they are aimed at adult readers and are often formally experimental. The works in question have variously been labelled "post-underground," "independent," "small press"," "new wave," or "art comics." - Wikipedia

Tune in to the Naked Lunch (After Hours) this week as we will be stepping outside the mainstream in our History of Comic Book Films marathon! Special guest August from "Rein In August will join Sic Ric and discuss the works of Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Ralph Bakshi and many more. Also the best in Jazz music and talk on Chasing Amy, American Splendor, and ton of other surprises!

movies reviewed:

Ghost World

Crumb

Play list

American Splendor sound byte

Naked Lunch Intro

Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong & Frank Sinatra - Heaven

History on Robert Crumb part 1

Crumb & Jazz review

Movieland add

History on Robert Crumb part 2

Janice Joplin - Summertime

Robert Crumb bio

The Rolling Stones - Around and Round

Jazz & Blues artists whom inspired Crumb

Vinyl collecting

Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder

Rein In August add

Jazz Film Festival review

Robert Crumb's music

Robert Crumb and his Blue Suit Serenaders - Cheap Suit Blues

Movieland Add

Ghost World Trailer

Ghost World review

Mohammed Rafi - Jean Pehechaan

Ghost World sound byte

Ghost World review

Ghost World sound byte

Benny Goodman - King Porter Stomp

Making of Ghost Wolrd

Memphis Minnie - Bamblebee Blues

Toby Randloff The Nerd

Episode 31 - Art School Confidential (2nd Hour)

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movies reviewed:

American Splendor
Chasing Amy

Play list

The Naked Lunch half time Intro

American Splendor trailer

History of American Splendor

American Splendor review

Howling Wolf - I'm Leaving You

Movieland add

Rein In August add

American Splendor sound byte

American Splendor review

American Splendor sound byte

Johnny Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

Definition of Alternative Comics

History of Blondie

Chasing Amy sound byte

Chasing Amy review

Chasing Amy sound byte

Charlie Parker -a Don't Blame Me

Thirty-six legendary blues musicians painted by Robert Crumb with concise biographies on reverse. Featured are such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Jellyroll Morton, King Oliver, Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Bennie Moten, Mary Lou Williams, Jimmy Noone and Benny Goodman as well as Fletcher Henderson, Joe Venuti, Alex Hill, Eddie South, Ernest "Punch" Miller, Frank Trumbauer, Lammar Wright, Muggsy Spanier, Freddie Keppard, Tiny Parham, James P. Johnson, Jimmy Blythe, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Steve Beown, "Pops" Foster, Joe "Wingy" Mannone, Jabbo Smith. Roy Palmer, Ikey Robinson, Junie C. Cobb, Eddie Lang, Johnny Dodds, Lil Hardin and Coleman Hawkins.On this show August from the award winning Jazz show Rein In August will help Ricky D spin some classic JAzz tunes! Tune in to what is promising to be our best show yet!

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