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Lichtspielplatz – Der Podcast von Wilsons DachbodenLichtspielplatz #76 – NOSFERATU: Der unsterbliche Mythos (Gast: Filmwissenschaftler Dr. Christoph Seelinger)Der 1922 veröffentlichte Stummfilm NOSFERATU – EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS von F.W. Murnau ist eine Geburtsstunde des Horror-Genres: Die nicht authorisierte Adaption von Bram Stokers Vampirroman DRACULA zählt zu den größten Klassikern der Filmgeschichte, die auch heute immer noch zitiert werden. 1979 wagte sich Regisseur Werner Herzog an eine Neuinterpretation namens NOSFERATU – PHANTOM DER NACHT, in der Klaus Kinski den Blutsauger spielt, und erst Ende 2024 erschien ein Remake von Robert Eggers mit der Titel NOSFERATU – DER UNTOTE. Wir sprechen in der aktuellen Folge über die Hintergründe des Murnau-Films, gehen auf die okkulten Interessen seines Produzenten Albin Grau ein, spreche...2025-02-2200 minLichtspielplatz – Der Podcast von Wilsons DachbodenLichtspielplatz #72 – Ein SPARSCHWEIN für das Klima: Ein Gespräch mit Mockumentary-Regisseur Christoph SchwarzFür seinen ersten Langfilm SPARSCHWEIN begab sich der Wiener Filmemacher Christoph Schwarz auf einen Geldstreik, in dem er ein Jahr lang kein Geld ausgeben, anfassen oder verdienen würde. Ermöglicht hat er sich das ganz einfach: Fürs Filmbudget ein Wochenendhäuschen gekauft, alle Notwendigkeiten zahlt das Umfeld, der Film entsteht mit Low-Budget-Mentalität. Es ist natürlich ein Mockumentary, in dem Christoph mit einem cleveren Erzählstil gängige Dokumentarfilmmuster unterwandert – vor allem, als er sich dann dem Klimaaktivismus verschreibt und im Film tatsächliche Personen wie David Sonnenbaum von der Letzten Generation auftauchen.Wir sprechen...2024-08-2400 min
Talking Pictures#39 – “I Still Don’t Feel the Code Has Been Cracked on How to Adapt These Things”: Screenwriter Dave Callaham on DOOM
Today’s guest is screenwriter Dave Callaham, and our conversation revolves around one of his early screenwriting assignments: the adaptation of the influential video game DOOM by id Software, turned into an action movie starring The Rock in 2005. Dave quickly became an in-demand writer in Hollywood, and his credits include a ton of high-profile action movies and blockbusters – he wrote the initial script of what would then became Sylvester Stallone’s THE EXPENDABLES, he worked on films like GODZILLA and ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP, he was a screenwriter on big comic book movies like WONDER WOMAN 1984, SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE...2024-06-0700 minTalking Pictures#36: “Nobody Said: Wow, We’re Doing Something Revolutionary Here”: Ron Bonk on his Early Found-Footage Film STRAWBERRY ESTATES
Today’s guest is Ron Bonk, best known as the owner of the New York-based underground production and distribution company SRS Cinema. Ron started out as a filmmaker in the shot-on-video world of the 1990’s, writing and directing low-budget genre films like CITY OF THE VAMPIRES and THE VICIOUS SWEET. He went on to direct several independent horror films like CLAY, MS. CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST or the tongue-in-cheek HOUSE SHARK. With SRS Cinema, he’s produced and distributed numerous other films with splendid titles such as AMITYVILLE BIGFOOT, PUPPET SHARK or COCAINE CRABS FROM OUTER SPACE.
Our conversation revolv...2023-10-2200 minTalking Pictures#35: “It’s Good to Be Ahead of Your Time, But Not a Decade”: Director Dean Alioto on Pioneering Found Footage Film UFO ABDUCTION
Today’s guest is Dean Alioto, writer and director of the groundbreaking found footage horror film UFO ABDUCTION, which also became known as THE MCPHERSON TAPE. The film tells the story of a family whose house is surrounded by alien creatures one night, and while the panicked people inside the house become more and more frightened and try to deal with the situation, a family members records the entire event with a 1980’s-style home video camera. Dean made the film on a shoestring budget in 1989 while he was in his mid-Twenties, and while there have been several found footage and...2023-10-2200 minTalking Pictures#33: “We Didn’t Think Anyone Would Watch 1½ Hours of Crappy Video of Running Around in the Woods”: Stefan Avalos on Found Footage Precursor THE LAST BROADCAST
Today’s guest is Stefan Avalos, who was once profiled by Wired magazine as “one of the twenty five people helping to reinvent entertainment”. Together with Lance Weiler, he wrote, produced, directed and starred in the found footage thriller THE LAST BROADCAST, a film which they also shot, edited and scored themselves – and which became the first feature film that was released digitally in commercial cinemas in 1998. The film is a true crime documentary about the two hosts of a cable access show called Fact or Fiction who disappear in search of the mythical Jersey Devil creature. A strange fan who...2023-10-2100 minTalking Pictures#32: “In 1999, There’s a Lot of Things People Don’t Know About”: Brian Leslie on Producing the BLAIR WITCH Follow-up THE BLACK DOOR
Today’s guest is Brian Leslie, producer of the found footage horror film THE BLACK DOOR, which came out in 2001 on the heels of the success of the genre-defining THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. THE BLACK DOOR was directed by Kit Wong, and Brian Leslie was brought on board by his production partner Lucas Lowe. Lowe, best known as the director of martial arts action films like KING OF THE KICKBOXERS and AMERICAN SHAOLIN, had worked with Brian on a horror/mystery anthology series which was originally called THE LEGENDS OF THE BUSHWALKER and was then renamed DIARIES OF DARKNESS, wi...2023-10-2100 minLichtspielplatz – Der Podcast von Wilsons DachbodenLichtspielplatz #68 – Videokameras lügen nicht: Found-Footage-Horror rund um THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Gäste: Dean Alioto, Ted Nicolaou, Stefan Avalos, Ron Bonk, Oliver Hummell & Brian Leslie)Der Sensationserfolg von THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT gab 1999 dem Horrorfilm neue Impulse, die Found-Footage-Ästhetik ist seitdem eine beliebte und gängige Erzählform dieses Genres. Wir schauen uns in unserer aktuellen Folge die Filme rund um diesen Klassiker an. Zum einen sind da Vorreiter wie UFO ABDUCTION von Dean Alioto, der schon zehn Jahre früher den Videolook dieser Spielart bis ins Detail vorwegnahm, oder THE LAST BROADCAST von Stefan Avalos und Lance Weiler, die 1998 mit dem pseudodokumentarischen Videostil spielten. Und dann gibt es Filmemacher, die sofort auf BLAIR WITCH reagierten und in der ersten Found-Footage-Welle mitproduzierten: Ted Nico...2023-10-2100 minTalking Pictures#30: “It Made Me Read THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka”: Actor Sean Patrick Flanery on THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES
Today’s guest is actor Sean Patrick Flanery, and our conversation revolves around his work on the TV series THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES, later re-titled as THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES– a lavishly produced spin-off of the popular Indiana Jones movies which ran from 1992 to 1996, following the adventures of Indy as a boy, played by Corey Carrier, and as a young man, played by Sean Patrick Flanery, encountering numerous famous historical figures and events. Sean appeared in the lion’s share of the episodes, with Indy fighting numerous battles in World War I, joining Sidney Bechet’s jazz ban...2023-08-0500 minLichtspielplatz – Der Podcast von Wilsons DachbodenLichtspielplatz #67 – DIE ABENTEUER DES JUNGEN INDIANA JONES: Geschichten aus der Geschichte (Gäste: Hauptdarsteller Sean Patrick Flanery und Regisseur Carl Schultz)Nach den ursprünglichen drei Kino-Spektakeln startete 1992 eine TV-Serie namens DIE ABENTEUER DES JUNGEN INDIANA JONES, die von der Jugend des Abenteuerers erzählt. Als Kind (gespielt von Corey Carrier) und als junger Mann (Sean Patrick Flanery) ist Indiana Jones Zeitzeuge der Geschichte – er zieht in den Ersten Weltkrieg, lernt die Suffragettenbewegung kennen, nimmt am Osteraufstand in Irland teil und trifft Persönlichkeiten von Theodore Roosevelt und Albert Schweitzer über Howard Carter und Charles de Gaulle oder Thomas Edison hin zu Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, John Ford, Al Capone und vielen anderen mehr. Für die aufwendig produzierte Serie wurden...2023-08-0500 minTalking Pictures#28: Mythology and Spirituality: Rob MacGregor on his Indiana Jones Novels
Today’s guest is not a filmmaker – but his best-known work is closely connected to one of the most popular movie series of all time. It is novelist Rob MacGregor, who wrote the novelization of Steven Spielberg’s third Indiana Jones movie, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE – and then went on to write six more original Indy adventures shortly afterwards, starting with INDIANA JONES AND THE PERIL AT DELPHI in 1991 and then continuing with DANCE OF THE GIANTS, THE SEVEN VEILS, THE GENESIS DELUGE, THE UNICORN’S LEGACY and INDIANA JONES AND THE INTERIOR WORLD throughout 1991 and 1992.
Rob also...2023-06-2400 minTalking Pictures#27: “Nothing Would Ever Top the Ark of the Covenant”: Screenwriter Menno Meyjes on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Today’s guest is screenwriter and director Menno Meyjes, best known for his collaboration with Steven Spielberg in the 80’s. Menno was born in the Netherlands but moved to the United States in 1972 to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. After writing a script for one of the best-known episodes of Spielberg’s AMAZING STORIES TV series – “The Mission”, starring a young Kevin Costner and directed by Spielberg himself – Menno received an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE COLOR PURPLE, as directed by Spielberg. As a screenwriter, he also worked on films like Fr...2023-06-2400 minLichtspielplatz – Der Podcast von Wilsons DachbodenLichtspielplatz Filmfrühstück – Cimino, The Fab Five & The FabelmansWir probieren ein neues Zusatzformat aus: Zu Kaffee und Croissants sitzen wir beim Filmfrühstück beieinander, um uns von dem zu erzählen, was wir zuletzt gesehen haben. Auch filmbezogenes Lesematerial findet hier Platz, ebenso wie Gespräche über gemeinsame Kinobesuche. Den Auftakt zur Sonntagsrunde machen wir mit der neuen Biographie über Michael Cimino von Charles Elton (CIMINO: THE DEER HUNTER, HEAVEN’S GATE AND THE PRICE OF A VISION), Jason Hehirs Basketball-Doku THE FAB FIVE sowie Steven Spielbergs jüngstem Kinofilm THE FABELMANS.Viel Spaß!Das mp3 kann HIER heruntergeladen werden.Musik: Dom...2023-04-2300 min
Radboud Reflects, verdiepende lezingenThe Clock versus BiorhythmWinter time is fast approaching. Time to get back into the discussion about whether or not to set the clock back. Would it be better and healthier for us to follow our own biorhythm, or is following the clock’s rhythm ultimately more beneficial to us? Where does the idea that we have to conform to the rhythm of the clock come from anyway? Come and delve into the conflict between our biorhythms and the rhythm of the clock with science historian Christoph Lüthy and neuroscientist Lisa Genzel.
The Clock versus Biorhythm | Lecture and conversation with science historian Christoph Lüt...2022-11-071h 09