This is our new NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.

Synopsis:

When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

Travis Woods (Host of INCREMENT VICE)

Travis Woods is a Contributing Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room, as well as a writer for The New Beverly Cinema and Cinephilia & Beyond.

He lives and writes in Los Angeles. He has a dog and a tattoo of Elliott Gould smoking. Bob Dylan once clapped him on the back and whispered something incomprehensible. These are the only interesting things about him.

When film critic and podcaster Katie Walsh finally saw the 1981 German sensation “Christiane F” in its 4K restoration reissue this week, she needed to talk about it — and we’re lucky enough that she joined us to do just that. It was also Mike and Jason’s first watch, so listen in as we pick our collective jaws up off the floor over this tough, unsentimental look at life on the fringes of ‘70s-era Berlin.

Nobody but nobody chronicles the making of classic movies as thoroughly and compellingly as Stephen Rebello, author of “Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!,” “A City Full of Hawks,” and the granddaddy of them all, “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.” He joins us to discuss his latest book “Criss Cross,” and the movie it’s about: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train.”

Hang onto your slipcases, because Blake Howard and author William "Bill" Boyle discuss the impact of the neorealist melodrama fusion of CAIRO STATION on us watching and on Bill's latest novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET.

Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama, Cairo Station is a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individual’s search for a place in Egypt’s new postrevolutionary political order.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine (1991), a short documentary by Youssef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim
• New interview with Fahim
• Chahine . . . Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station
• Excerpt from Chahine’s appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by Fahim
• New cover by Mariam El-Reweny

William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street, available now from Soho Crime. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France, and they have been included on best-of lists in Washington Post, CrimeReads, and more. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Hang onto your slipcases because Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions) teams up with the legendary Roxana Hadadi to unbox, unpack and unveil the upcoming IMPRINT FILMS physical media release of HUD.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Hud (1963) – Imprint Collection #432

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To celebrate the Australian release of WENT UP THE HILL, I talk with director Samuel Van Grinsven about 9 months of living with his second feature, what it taught him about the importance of casting for directing, and so much more.

Synopsis:

Abandoned as a child, Jack travels to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother Elizabeth. There he meets her widow, Jill, who has questions of her own. Over the nights that follow, Elizabeth returns and possesses Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other. Jill faces Elizabeth’s suicide, while Jack confronts his abandonment. As they learn she is trapped in limbo, Jack begins to doubt Elizabeth’s reason for returning. Caught in a life-threatening nocturnal dance, Jack and Jill must find a way to let go of Elizabeth’s hold before she pushes them to the edge.

WENT UP THE HILL will be released in Australian Cinemas on September 11.

To celebrate the Australian release of THE TOXIC AVENGER, I talk with director Macon Blair about the winding path to release, his excellent cast and recapturing that "7th grade making movies with your friends" feeling.

Synopsis:

When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze, is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to saviour, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community. In a world where greed runs rampant... justice is best served radioactive.

THE TOXIC AVENGER will be released in Australian Cinemas on August 28.

The bestselling author, Pulitzer finalist, and independent bookseller Matt Zoller Seitz takes a break from his very busy schedule to discuss a movie that not many people talk about, right? I mean, when was the last time you heard anyone talk about Stanley Kubrick’s “2001”? Matt also shares some writing tips and talks to us about MZS.press, the online indie arts bookstore.