Dan and Nick give each other one present early: a new yuletide Projexploitaiton episode! Listen for a very Christmassy discussion of the superb French thriller 3615 code Père Noël (aka Deadly Games, or Dial Code Santa Claus, and many more names...)

TIMECODES

00:00:00 / Intro ("Auguries Of Innocence" by William Blake, read by Spencer Parks)

00:02:11 / Theme Song

00:03:30 / Episode Start

00:06:16 / Film discussion: 3615 code Père Noël (1989)

01:02:20 / Intermission

01:04:04 / Film discussion continues

02:10:27 / Segment: The A-List

NOTES/LINKS

Crucial thanks to Spencer Parks for providing the wonderful & winning spoken performance of William Blake's immortal "Auguries Of Innocence". He also has 2 weirdly addictive podcasts that are well worth your attention: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-dictionary https://www.stitcher.com/show/when-im-high

Spencer is also the producer of the show "Whores Talk Horror", in which Sharon (not a whore) & Mindy (also not a whore) discuss new & classic horror films as well as urban legends, ghost stories, horror-themed Americana, etc: https://www.stitcher.com/show/whores-talk-horror

Spencer (& his lovely & amazing wife Sharon) are also also in the midst of producing the film "Unplugged: A Survivor's Story", based upon Paul McComas' novel: https://linktr.ee/unpluggedfilm Point is, people, Spencer is involved in a cornucopia of awesome stuff.

For more information on the annual & much beloved "Christmas Carol" that The Riverfront Playhouse puts on, click here: https://www.riverfrontplayhouse.com/ To listen to "Old Guys Who Love Things", featuring firebreather extraordinaire Shawn Dooley (& his worthy & clinquant co-host Eric Peter Schwartz), click here: https://www.stitcher.com/show/old-guys-who-love-things

To read more about "36.15 Code Père Noël" & other spine-tingling Christmas-tinged horror cinema, check out Spectacular Optical's brilliant book "Yuletide Terror" here: http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/store/product/yuletide-terror-christmas-horror-on-film-and-television-2/

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Nick and Dan find out you truly can't go home again with a look at Jamaa Fanaka's Welcome Home Brother Charles from 1975, a blaxploitation classic about systemic & individual racism, and America's disillusionment about its own penal fixation.

TIMECODES

00:00:00 / Intro

00:02:14 / Theme Song

00:03:33 / Episode Start

00:05:35 / Film discussion: Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)

00:53:11 / Intermission

00:54:17 / Film discussion continues

01:31:15 / Segment: The A-List

NOTES/LINKS

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Nick and Dan drift into the eastern hemisphere without a prayer in the world or a gun in their suit jacket pocket. We discuss Seijun Suzuki's TOKYO DRIFTER from 1966.

TIMECODES

00:00:00 / Intro (w/ clips from interviews with Seijun Suzuki)

00:02:06 / Theme Song

00:03:24 / Episode Start

00:05:25 / Film discussion: Tokyo Drifter (1966)

00:53:42 / Intermission

00:54:51 / Film discussion continues

02:11:55 / Segment: The A-List

NOTES/LINKS Would you like to know more . . . about Seijun Suzuki?

Click here to find Tom Vick's comprehensive & fully-illustrated book "Time & Place Are Nonsense: The Films Of Seijun Suzuki":

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Place-Are-Nonsense-Occasional/dp/0934686335 Click here to read more of Howard Hampton's delirious prose on Suzuki in "Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, & Pop Apocalypses":

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Flames-Termite-Dialectical-Apocalypses/dp/067402317X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=16QIDTG28238G&keywords=termite+dreams&qid=1642645509&s=books&sprefix=termite+dreams%2Cstripbooks%2C143&sr=1-2

Click here to read Chris D's irresistible brainstorms on how Suzuki developed his style: https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Masters-Japanese-Chris-Desjardins/dp/1845110862/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1V0VPTZ7W0DRW&keywords=chris+desjardins&qid=1642645630&s=books&sprefix=chris+dejardins%2Cstripbooks%2C128&sr=1-1

Click here to experience firsthand the unbelievable comedic brilliance of Craig Ferguson on "The Late Late Show" [04/29/2010]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWQppibh-4

Here's the translation from the Japanese of Seijun Suzuki's statements that are sampled in the intro of this episode: "The question is: What do I think about my own films?

            — I make movies that make no sense & make no money.

So I tried a lot of different ideas & styles to accomplish that.

            — I make movies that make no sense & make no money.

I guess that's the strength of entertainment movies. You can do anything you want to, as long as those elements make the movie interesting. That's my theory of the grammar of cinema.

            — I make movies that make no sense & make no money.

I just didn't want to follow everything the company ordered me to do. That's another reason I sued."

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