{"id":54,"date":"2013-02-05T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/blog\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2013-02-05T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T20:36:51","slug":"fifth-season","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?page_id=54","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>209.) (rerun) 3rd Anniversary show<\/p>\n<p>210.) Errol Morris interview<\/p>\n<p>211.) Fourth anniversary show-best of foreign, clips, rarities, interviews<\/p>\n<p>212.) Kim Novak tribute. Scenes from her movies, commentary, and a rare clip of an appearance on &#8220;The Steve Allen Show&#8221; in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>213.) Halloween special: Alice Cooper on the &#8220;Snoop Sisters,&#8221; &#8220;Dead People&#8221; (another one that deserves a cult; creepy grindhouse bleeding-eye zombie flick from Willard\/Gloria Huyck); &#8220;Spider Baby&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>214.) Deceased Artiste: Shirley Clarke. &#8220;The Connection&#8221; is shown at length<\/p>\n<p>215.) Video review round-up: Ida Lupino &#8220;Queen of the Bs,&#8221; Mike Leigh&#8217;s &#8220;Meantime,&#8221; and &#8220;The Best of the Uncle Floyd Show&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>216.) &#8220;The Falls,&#8221; Peter Greenaway&#8217;s epic-length mock-documentary 217.) &#8220;A Night to Dismember,&#8221; Doris Wishman&#8217;s most amazing accomplishment (revisited)<\/p>\n<p>218.) Clips from an amusing, gimmicky British game show, &#8220;In the Dark with Julian Clary&#8221; (contestants make fools of themselves in the dark while a foppish British standup star mocks them to their face); Johnny Lydon&#8217;s appearance on the &#8220;Judge Judy&#8221; show; review of the indie feature &#8220;Bang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>219.) Clips from and discussion of the British fantasy miniseries &#8220;Neverwhere,&#8221; scripted by comics scribe Neil Gaiman (&#8220;The Sandman&#8221;). Also: discussion of comics, specifically Gaiman and Alan Moore&#8217;s work<\/p>\n<p>220.) Alan Rudolph interview (what a nice, soft-spoken guy!)<\/p>\n<p>221.) (rerun) Xmas episode: variety shows, &#8220;Dufo,&#8221; and Jean Shepherd<\/p>\n<p>222.) New Years rant. Deceased Artistes: Kathy Acker, Sally Maar, Stubby Kaye.<\/p>\n<p>223.) &#8220;Gershwin,&#8221; a French TV documentary directed by Alain Resnais<\/p>\n<p>224.) Hugo Haas, part 3. Scenes from &#8220;Hold Back Tomorrow&#8221; and the very noir &#8220;The Other Woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>225.) Deceased Artistes: cinematographer Stanley Cortez, Toshiro Mifune, Sonny Bono (not a reverent treatment of the latter)<\/p>\n<p>226.) Godard: &#8220;Tout Va Bien,&#8221; &#8220;Every Man for Himself&#8221; and a fave scene from &#8220;Pierrot Le Fou&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>227.) Dino Risi&#8217;s &#8220;Il Sorpasso&#8221; (the Easy Life) 1962 Italian film about a swinging middle-aged bachelor (Vittorio Gassman) who gives life lessons to a wimpy law student (Jean-Louis Trintignant)-both liberating and corrupting him. Great bouncy twist-music score.<\/p>\n<p>228.) Radley Metzger tribute. Reviews of and scenes from video rereleases of &#8220;Dark Odyssey,&#8221; &#8220;The Alley Cats,&#8221; &#8220;Therese and Isabelle,&#8221; and &#8220;Score.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>229.) Fred Blassie interview, with clips from the WWF, &#8220;The Dick Van Dyke Show&#8221; and the always inspiring &#8220;My Breakfast with Blassie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>230.) &#8220;On the Death of Federico Fellini.&#8221; Italian TV documentary covering the funeral of Il Maestro, with film clips. 231.) John Sayles interview (in conjunction with opening of &#8220;Men with Guns&#8221;); review of &#8220;East Side Story,&#8221; documentary about Soviet musicals<\/p>\n<p>232.) German theme episode: reviews of home-video releases of work by Margarethe Von Trotta and Wim Wenders, plus &#8220;Nico Icon&#8221; and a &#8220;Deceased Artiste&#8221; tribute to Falco<\/p>\n<p>233.) &#8220;Hellzapoppin&#8221;-scenes from this rarely-screened classic comedy, plus commentary<\/p>\n<p>234.) &#8220;Beat&#8221; Takeshi tribute-scenes from four Takeshi Kitano films (plus reviews and biographical commentary): &#8220;Violent Cop,&#8221; &#8220;Boiling Point,&#8221; &#8220;Sonatine,&#8221; and &#8220;Fireworks&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>235.) (rerun) Rudy Ray Moore interview<\/p>\n<p>236.) Stella Stevens interview, part 1<\/p>\n<p>237.) Fourth Easter show. Collection of wonderful Christian toys and more videos: &#8220;Sing and Play Jamboree,&#8221; &#8220;The Donut Hole,&#8221; and the absolutely amazing Carman, Christian singer (country, gospel, metal, rap-he does &#8217;em all and at the same white-bread, kick-ass, Christ-lovin&#8217; level!)<\/p>\n<p>238.) Stella Stevens interview part 2, introductory promo for NY Women&#8217;s Film Festival<\/p>\n<p>239.) &#8220;fear of Mickey Rooney&#8221;-scenes from &#8220;Skidoo,&#8221; &#8220;Revenge of the Red Baron,&#8221; and a discussion of the nightmare that is &#8220;The Manipulator&#8221; (aka &#8220;B.J. Lang Presents&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>240.) tribute to Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki, with clips<\/p>\n<p>241.) Sam Fuller &#8220;Deceased Artiste&#8221; tribute, part 1&#8211;spotlighting Fuller&#8217;s early works as a director<\/p>\n<p>242.) More Marco Ferreri-in this case, his odd allegories about the battle of the sexes, &#8220;I Love You&#8221; and &#8220;La Carne (the Flesh)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>243.) Sam Fuller tribute episode, part 2-spotlighting Fuller&#8217;s work as an actor and his influence on later generations of cinephiles and directors<\/p>\n<p>244.) Video Roundup: reviews of the rerelease of &#8220;Emmanuelle,&#8221; Radley Metzger&#8217;s &#8220;Lickerish Quartet&#8221; and &#8220;Little Mother,&#8221; and &#8220;Irma Vep&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>245.) &#8220;The Legendary Joe Meek&#8221; U.S. premiere of &#8220;Arena&#8221; documentary on the life of &#8217;60s British pop producer Joe Meek (with clips of his proteges The Tornadoes, Screamin&#8217; Lord Sutch, and the Honeycombs)<\/p>\n<p>246.) interviews with French actress Vahina Giocante (&#8220;Marie Baie Des Anges&#8221;) and filmmaker Hal Hartley; review of Hartley&#8217;s &#8220;Henry Fool&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>247.) Father&#8217;s Day theme show-&#8220;W.C. Fields: Great American Dad,&#8221; hosted by Ed and his own pater<\/p>\n<p>248.) Video roundup: review of Kino&#8217;s impressive &#8220;Slapstick Encyclopedia&#8221; (vols. 1-4) with emphasis on Fatty, Mabel and Keystone<\/p>\n<p>249.) (rerun) &#8220;Night Train to Terror&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>250.) &#8220;Deceased Artistes&#8221;-director Harrison Marks, distributor Henry G. Sapirstein, director Gene Fowler Jr., producer Anatole Dauman, John Derek, Maureen O&#8217;Sullivan, Lloyd Bridges (focus on &#8220;Home of the Brave&#8221; and the wildly underrated noir &#8220;Try and Get Me&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>251.) Interview with filmmaker Mark Rappaport (&#8220;The Silver Screen\/Color Me Lavender&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>252.) &#8220;Deceased Artistes&#8221;-Linda McCartney, Tammy Wynette, Alice Faye, and Wendy O. Williams<\/p>\n<p>253.) even more &#8220;Deceased Artistes&#8221;-Mae Questel, Bella Abzug, Maidie Norman, Phil Hartman, Jack Lord; also: WWII propaganda short, &#8220;Shickelgruber does the Lambeth Walk&#8221; and scenes from &#8220;For Your Height Only&#8221; (Filippinio James Bond parody starring a midget)<\/p>\n<p>254.) (rerun) &#8220;The Executioner&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>255.) (rerun) interview with Marco Ferreri<\/p>\n<p>256.) Video roundup: reviews of Godard&#8217;s &#8220;Detective,&#8221; &#8220;First Name: Carmen,&#8221; and &#8220;Passion,&#8221; and Wong Kar-Wai&#8217;s &#8220;Happy Together&#8221; and &#8220;Fallen Angels&#8221;; also: review of the theatrical rerelease of &#8220;The Young Girls of Rochefort&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>257.) &#8220;editorial&#8221; segment; mini-trib. to comedian\/director Eddie Buzzell with clips from amazing 1930 short &#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Cabaret&#8221; (which includes musical numbers set in hell) and his work with the Marx Bros.<\/p>\n<p>258.) Fifth annual Jerry Lewis tribute. Inspirational readings from Jerry&#8217;s autobio; even more Jerry collectibles; clips from TV appearances (including a mid-&#8217;70s appearance on &#8220;The Stanley Siegel Show&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>259.) Fred Olen Ray interview, part 1<\/p>\n<p>260.) Ed&#8217;s appearance on PBS show &#8220;Freedom Speaks&#8221;; appearance of &#8220;Media Funhouse&#8221; Wong Kar-Wai interview footage on Sundance Channel documentary on Asian directors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>209.) (rerun) 3rd Anniversary show 210.) Errol Morris interview 211.) Fourth anniversary show-best of foreign, clips, rarities, interviews 212.) Kim Novak tribute. Scenes from her movies, commentary, and a rare clip of an appearance on &#8220;The Steve Allen Show&#8221; in 1956. 213.) 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