Posts Tagged ‘The Princess Bride’
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #601
November 19, 2018 | 
Author On the agenda in another action-packed installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour is a full report on Dean and Phil’s movie The Lady Killers at the historic BAL Theatre, and a full report on what makes that theater so darn historic, the aftermath of the devastating California fires, Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, movie pacing, and in “Celebrity Deaths”, an innovator in motion picture title design, a country music and television icon, a screenwriting legend, a beloved television villainess, and a Shakespearean actor who gave one of the all-time great big screen performances without actually appearing on-screen are all remembered.
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Tags: A Clockwork Orange, acting, All the President's Men, art, Bal Theatre, Ben Affleck, box office, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Canada, comedy, country music, Dan Dillman, Dean Haglund, directing, Douglas Rain, Dr. Strangelove, film distribution, filmmaking, Gene Autry, George Drummond, Good Will Hunting, Grand Ole Opry, graphic design, Hal 9000, Harvey Weinstein, Hee Haw, independent film, Katherine MacGregor, Little House on the Prairie, magic, Marty Ballin, Matt Damon, Men in Black, movies, Pablo Ferro, Rene T. Lamarre, Roy Clark, S. Morgenstern, San Leandro, screenings, screenwriting, script doctors, Shakespeare, show business, Spike Lee, Stan Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stratford Festival, television, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Princess Bride, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, title design, Trilon records, UFO X Fest, Vincent G. Raney, William Goldman, Winnipeg, writing | 
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #542
Everyone loves a good sequel, right? This week is part 2 of a theme show where Dean and Phil examine the British Film Institute list of “The 50 Films you should see by the age of 14.” The list was created in 2005 to inspire parents and educators to take movies as seriously as other forms of art and included the opinions of more than 70 experts including film producers, teachers, authors and critics. Of course, YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour was not around back then, so the BFI had to make do without input from your friends in podcasting. Until now. There are times Dean and Phil strongly agree with the list, other times they realize they have holes in their own cinematic educations, and times when they disagree with the list and/or note its particular European and British slant on the subject. All in all, a fascinating discussion of the art form, of education, of parenting and more. Part 2 picks up where Part 1 left off – 1971 (and Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout) – and goes through the final entry, 2003′s Finding Nemo.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, animated movies, Au revoir les enfants, Back to the Future, Beauty and the Beast, BFI, Billy Elliot, British Film Institute, Chaplin, children, coming of age, Dean Haglund, directing, Disney, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrail, Edward Scissorhands, filmmaking, films, Finding Nemo, foreign language film, Francois Truffaut, Fucking Amal, gangster films, independent film, Kirikou and the Sorceress, movies, musicals, My Life as a Dog, My Neighbor Totoro, Neorealism, parents, Phil Leirness, Pixar, producing, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Romeo + Juliet, Show Me Love, silent films, Spirited Away, Star Wars, teachers, The Lone Gunmen, The Outsiders, The Princess Bride, The Secret Garden, The Spirit of the Beehive, The White Balloon, The X-Files, To Be and To Have, Toy Story, Walkabout, Whale Rider, Where is the Friend's Home?, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #449
Happy Holidays, everybody! This week’s extra-long “hour” begins with the reprise of a festive seasonal treats brought back by popular demand. Then, after discussing Dean’s final “pay-per-laughs” improv show of 2015, Phil finally lets loose with a review of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight before celebrating two cinematic classics. Then, Dean and Phil get down to the nitty-gritty, analyzing the Writers Guild of America’s list of the 101 Funniest Screenplays. Join us for this stroll through some of the greatest comedy films of all time, won’t you?
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