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Supporting Characters

by Bill Ackerman

Host Bill Ackerman talks to writers, bloggers, podcasters, fanzine publishers, programmers, preservationists and more about their creative endeavors and today’s film culture.

Episodes

Episode 9: Kier-La Janisse

2h 58m · Published 27 Jun 12:02

Bill speaks to writer/film programmer Kier-La Janisse about her many contributions to film culture, from her Cannibal Culture fanzine and Cinemuerte film festival to co-founding venues like the Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Centre, schools like The Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies and her small-press publishing company with fellow writer Paul Corupe, Spectacular Optical Publications. We talk about the origins of her books A VIOLENT PROFESSIONAL - THE FILMS OF LUCIANO ROSSI and the acclaimed HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN, and her experiences in documentary film, whether as a co-producer, an interviewee or as the subject. Other topics covered include movie parties, bootleg collecting, the peculiar boasts of Rico Boido, programming for the Alamo Drafthouse, objectifying Richard Stanley (and subsequently apologizing for it), “elevated horror”, the Bloodshots 48-hour horror movie challenge, the economic realities of a life in film culture and details about some of her upcoming projects. It’s likely the only time you’ll hear the names Manny Farber, Jorg Buttgereit AND David Cassidy mentioned within the same conversation.

LINKS

Buy the Kier-La Janisse books House Of Psychotic Women and A Violent Professional:

http://www.amazon.com/Kier-La-Janisse/e/B00J9CLXY2/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

Visit the official site for Spectacular Optical:

http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/

Watch Bloody Breasts Presents: Women In Horror Panel, where Kier-La Janisse joins Jovanka Vuckovic (THE CAPTURED BIRD, former editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue magazine), Izabel Grondin (FANTASME), and Elza Kephart (GRAVEYARD ALIVE: A ZOMBIE NURSE IN LOVE) and Maude Michaud (HOLLYWOOD SKIN).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrzvglwMiDY

Buy CELLULOID HORROR, the documentary about Kier-La Janisse’s Cinemuerte Film Festival:

http://breedproductions.com/celluloid-horror-dvd-now-available/

Read Kier-La Janisse’s SHINDIG article about the career of cult film actress Joy Bang:

http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/2016/01/the-big-bang-the-too-short-career-of-actress-joy-bang/

See a slideshow of various Toronto Film Cult Film Locations taken by Kier-La Janisse and Bill Ackerman:
http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/2014/07/canuxploitation-toronto-film-location-tour-slideshow/

Visit the official site for the Monsterthon Film Festival:

http://www.monsterfest.com.au/

Visit the official site of The Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies:

http://www.miskatonicinstitute.com/

Hear Kier-La Janisse on The Projection Booth discussing THE HAUNTING OF JULIA (aka FULL CIRCLE):

http://projection-booth.blogspot.com/2012/09/episode-81-haunting-of-julia.html

Order the FAB Press re-issue of Satanic Panic:

https://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Panic-Pop-Cultural-Paranoia-1980s/dp/1903254868/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466709545&sr=1-1&keywords=satanic+panic+pop-cultural+paranoia+in+the+1980s

Buy the first Spectacular Optical book Kid Power!
http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/store/product/spectacular-optical-book-one-kid-power/

Read Samm Deighan’s 2012 interview with Kier-La Janisse:

Satanic Pandemonium: House of Psychotic Women: Interview with Kier-La Janisse

Episode 8: Mike White

2h 10m · Published 13 Jun 01:00

Bill speaks to writer/podcaster Mike White about his various projects and pursuits in the world of film culture, from WHO DO YOU THINK YOU’RE FOOLING? and Super Happy Fun to Cashiers du Cinemart and The Projection Booth. They also discuss film festivals, bootleg culture of the early 2000s, adult films, Bruce Campbell, underappreciated filmmakers, Mike’s documentary appearances, unhelpful publicists, Greydon Clark, film theory, pranking the IMDB and much more.

See the official site for The Projection Booth podcast:
The Projection Booth Podcast

Read Mike White's blog:
ImpossibleFunky Productions

See the official site for Cashiers du Cinemart:
Cashiers du Cinemart - Home Page

Watch Mike White's short film comparing Ringo Lam's CITY ON FIRE and Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING?

Who Do You Think You're Fooling?

Official page of filmmaker Matthew Silver:

http://www.maninwhitedress.com/

Official page of filmmaker Cory McAbee:

Cory McAbee

Episode 7: Daniel Griffith

1h 17m · Published 30 May 23:56

Bill talks to documentary filmmaker Daniel Griffith of Ballyhoo Motion Pictures. Griffith explains how his independently-made documentary on film producer K. Gordon Murray opened the door to an ongoing career producing DVD/Blu-Ray supplements (for companies like Synapse Films, VCI Entertainment and Shout Factory) and documentary features on subjects like John Carpenter’s DARK STAR, Florida filmmaker William Grefe, Charles Band’s Empire International Pictures, and teenagers making Super 8 genre movies in the 1970s.

See Daniel Griffith's official website:
http://www.ballyhoomotionpictures.com/

Episode 6: Eric Bresler

1h 53m · Published 17 May 16:30

Bill talks to film programmer and PhilaMOCA curator Eric Bresler. They have a conversation about his wide variety of projects, including his Video Pirates found-footage comedy shorts, the documentary OTAKU UNITE!, the Cinedelphia Film Festival and his work at PhilaMOCA. Other topics discussed include Philadelphia film culture and exhibition, tape trading, Eric’s admiration for the band Sparks, TLA Video, Pia Zadora, Eraserhood Forever (including this year’s headliner), visits from both South Philly gangsters and David Lynch to PhilaMOCA, Brian Schmidt’s THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE OF JOJO (AND HIS ANNOYING LITTLE SISTER), and the especially shady casting process for an independent film.

See Eric Bresler’s Video Pirates short film, HORRORS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTPjCrF9Vjw

See the Eric Bresler-directed video for Psychic Teens’ “Everything”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00e8xuOqt4I

See ERASERHEAD’s The Lady In The Radiator perform “In Heaven” at PhilaMOCA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xLCbZZ_iO0

Buy Eric Bresler’s Video Pirates Philadelphia DVD:
http://www.diabolikdvd.com/category/Cult-Favorites/Video-Pirates-Philadelphia-(Cinedelphia)-DVD-(NTSC-All-Region).html

Buy Eric Bresler’s documentary OTAKU UNITE!
http://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Unite-Steven-R-Bennett/dp/B000DZ7XXE/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1463490292&sr=1-1&keywords=otaku+unite

Visit Eric Brelser’s webite:
http://ericbresler.com/

Episode 5: J.A. Kerswell

1h 50m · Published 02 May 14:09

Bill welcomes author J.A. Kerswell onto the show. Kerswell’s love for slasher movies inspired him to create the first website devoted to them (Hysteria Lives!), write a book (Teenage Wasteland, aka The Slasher Movie Book), co-host a podcast (The Hysteria Continues), and appear on the bonus features of numerous DVD/Blu-Ray releases for labels like Vinegar Syndrome, Arrow Films and 88 Films. In addition to discussing these endeavors in detail, other topics include growing up in the era of Video Nasties, arthouse/horror hybrids, responding to criticisms, nostalgia among horror fans, and how to prevent one’s passion projects from devolving into drudgery.

Read J.A. Kerswell’s reviews:

http://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/

Buy J.A. Kerswell’s book:

http://www.amazon.com/Slasher-Movie-Book-J-Kerswell/dp/1556520107

Hear J.A. Kerswell’s podcast:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hysteria-continues/id418884138?mt=2

Episode 4 : Travis Crawford

1h 57m · Published 21 Apr 16:00

Bill speaks to writer/film programmer Travis Crawford about his writing career, underground genre film and music publications, glossier magazines like Fangoria and Film Comment, books like 1001 Films To See Before You Die, and websites like The Calvert Journal. They also discuss Crawford’s popular Danger After Dark festival series, his work with Artsploitation Films, Danny Peary’s Cult Movies, Dario Argento, the depressing state of foreign film distribution, his ill-advised visit to Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum with an iconic horror film director, and more.

See Travis Crawford discuss Danger After Dark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vufXeX5ug

Read Travis Crawford on Yury Bykov's THE FOOL:
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/release-me-the-fool

Travis Crawford's interviews with Dario Argento, Lars Von Trier and William Friedkin

http://filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/spring2008/mothertears.php#.VxOE9SMrJPM

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/william-friedkin

http://www.moviemaker.com/archives/moviemaking/directing/articles-directing/the-natural-lars-von-trier-on-dogville-2928/

Buy Artsploitation DVDs here:
http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/films/

Episode 3: Heather Drain

1h 28m · Published 04 Apr 17:30

Bill speaks with Heather Drain about her path as a writer from childhood capsule reviews of B-movies in crayon to writing professionally for people like Video Watchdog and Dangerous Minds, the influence of Baxter Phillips' book Cut: The Unseen Cinema, the work of filmmaker Stephen Sayadian, her involvement with The Projection Booth podcast, David Schmoeller's CRAWLSPACE, peers she admires, early music videos, adult cinema, Lester Bangs, and details about a few of the upcoming projects she has in the works

Episode 2: Samm Deighan

1h 10m · Published 22 Mar 13:45

Bill speaks with writer Samm Deighan about an adolescence informed by Eurocult bootleg tapes, Exhumed Films marathons, James O'Neill's Terror On Tape and THE LAST UNICORN. They discuss the extensive filmmaker/genre overviews of her Satanic Pandemonium site, the origins of her new Daughters Of Darkness podcast and upcoming book on World War II cult cinema, her René Cardona Jr.-inspired death wish, Arrow Films, fellow genre film writers that she admires, the state of horror film culture today and much more.

For links and more info: http://nowplayingnetwork.net

Episode 1: Daniel Bird

1h 24m · Published 11 Mar 19:30

Bill speaks with writer and film scholar Daniel Bird about Andrzej Zulawski, ‘Eyeball’ magazine, the influence of Pete Tombs, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, HARD TO BE A GOD, and the future of film.

Supporting Characters has 69 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 147:57:27. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 12th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 8th, 2024 20:12.