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Cosmic Motion009 - CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979) with Jacques ThelemaqueFilip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) is a factory worker whose wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) has just given birth to their daughter. The ecstatic new father buys an eight millimeter camera, and his life begins to change. Filip begins to use the camera all the time, and his boss wants him to film pieces for the factory. Before you know it, Filip’s films are playing well at a film festival, and his amateur hobby begins to threaten the simple happiness he had with his wife and daughter. Is Filip’s awakening to movie art selfish or is he somehow growing into an a...2025-07-251h 25
Cosmic Motion009 - CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979) with Jacques ThelemaqueFilip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) is a factory worker whose wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) has just given birth to their daughter. The ecstatic new father buys an eight millimeter camera, and his life begins to change. Filip begins to use the camera all the time, and his boss wants him to film pieces for the factory. Before you know it, Filip’s films are playing well at a film festival, and his amateur hobby begins to threaten the simple happiness he had with his wife and daughter. Is Filip’s awakening to movie art selfish or is he somehow growing into an a...2025-07-241h 25
Cosmic Motion008 - LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (Uli Edel, 1989) with George ZaverHubert Selby Jr.’s taboo-smashing 1964 novel jumps to the screen in Uli Edel’s theatrical adaptation starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Ricki Lake and many others in an ensemble piece about poverty-stricken troubled souls in 1950s Brooklyn. What emerges is dark and disturbing and yet thoroughly human. Join Bill, Colin and writer/director George Zaver as they take a long walk down some shadowy streets.2025-07-171h 27
Cosmic Motion007 - BLAST OF SILENCE (Allen Baron, 1961) with Steve MitchellFrank Bono (played by the director Allen Baron himself) lives the lonely life of a hired killer. He’s going to New York City to complete a job when he runs into old friends who cause him to rethink his life. Joining Bill and Colin this week is writer/director Steve Mitchell to explore a classic American crime indie that depicts a killer’s contract where the job and the killer begin to unravel.2025-07-111h 48
Cosmic Motion006 - CONVOY (Sam Peckinpah, 1978)Trucker “Rubber Duck” (Kris Kristofferson) runs afoul of Arizona Sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) after Wallace extorts money from Duck and his friends. So begins the latest in a series of conflicts between Rubber Duck and Wallace, including the sherriff trying to detain his friend Spider Mike (Franklyn Ajaye), with Wallace in hot pursuit as Duck and company hightail it for the New Mexico border to avoid getting arrested. Various friends and admirers join Rubber Duck’s escape and form a convoy of support. The convoy takes on a larger meaning for all kinds of working class gripes with the st...2025-07-041h 04
Cosmic Motion005 - CLEAN, SHAVEN (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993)Peter Winter (Peter Greene) has a lot going on in his head and most of it is painful. It’s all he can do to try to appear “normal” when he isn’t alone. Despite all this, Peter wants to find the daughter who was taken away from him. Meanwhile an investigator searches for a child murderer and his suspicions are beginning to point to Peter. Is Peter’s daughter in trouble? Join Bill and Colin as they investigate Lodge Kerrigan’s debut, a gripping, experimental dramatic thriller.2025-06-261h 03
Cosmic Motion004 - MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, 1989)Trombone player Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) has just met Julie Peters (Mare Winningham) at the La Brea Tar Pitts in the Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, and it looks like this could be instant true love. Yet the night they’re supposed to go on a date, by complete coincidence Harry finds out that the U.S. is beginning a nuclear war in less than an hour…or is it? Now Harry has to find Julie and take shelter for a possible end-of-the-world scenario that he’s not even sure is going to happen. Join Bill and Colin as they t...2025-06-191h 29
Cosmic Motion003 - DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE / CEMETERY MAN (Michele Soavi, 1994)DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (aka CEMETERY MAN) relates the story of melancholy and discontented Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett), who watches over a cemetery in a small European town where the dead won’t stay buried. He takes it upon himself to put “returners” back into their graves. One day he stumbles upon the love of his life (Anna Falchi) burying her husband. When said husband returns from the dead and kills her, Francesco begins a series of relationships with various iterations of her and a dialogue with death that drives him to kill the living. In what is sure to go down a...2025-06-132h 04
Cosmic Motion002 - EXCALIBUR (John Boorman, 1981) with Dave WoodsJohn Boorman has built an eclectic body of work ranging from the experimental and deconstructionist POINT BLANK (1967) to the coming-of-age military drama QUEEN & COUNTRY (2014). In this episode, Bill and Colin explore his less-talked-about EXCALIBUR, a strange and inspired Arthurian fantasy drawing from various mythological sources. The cast is an embarrassment of riches including Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart, Ciarán Hinds and Nigel Terry. Joining us is Producer Dave Woods to help the lads in this battle for truth and honor.2025-06-051h 42
Cosmic Motion001 - THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER (Timothy Carey, 1962)Welcome to our first episode! Timothy Carey was a beloved character actor and all-around eccentric who tore his way through a number of television shows and films including various from the likes of auteurs Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes. Yet Carey had an interest in making his own films as well, and he wrote, directed and starred in this uniquely bizarre and, in many ways, effective take on the perils of powerlust and the cult of personality. We're delighted to explore it with you...2025-05-301h 18