Old Movies For Young Stoners

By: Bob Calhoun
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  • The podcast that makes cannabis a gateway drug to classic cinema. Co-hosted by Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar & Greg Franklin
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  • S3E17 Nosfera-Two Christmas with Nosferatu (1922 & 1979) featuring Matthew Zoller Seitz

    S3E17 Nosfera-Two Christmas with Nosferatu (1922 & 1979) featuring Matthew Zoller Seitz
    Dec 7 2024
    Robert Eggers' remake of NOSFERATU will be stalking movie theaters on Christmas Day 2024, so Bob and Greg sit down with movie critic Matthew Zoller Seitz of Vulture/New York Magazine and www.RogerEbert.com to discuss the previous versions of the defining vampire classic. But before we get into that, Matt talks about his love of Robert Eggers as a filmmaker, and takes a deep dive into THE NORTHMAN (2022), Eggers' retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a bloody and ironic Viking tale. We also talk about Eggers' THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) as slapstick comedy, and different takes on DRACULA, as NOSFERATU started as an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic horror novel. As the only one of us who's seen the new NOSFERATU, Matt dishes about that as well without any giving any spoilers, and talks about interviewing WILLEM DAFOE who plays the vampire hunter in the upcoming vampire epic. Dafoe is definitely a guy who's been in a lot of movies to get stoned to. For our old movies--or the classic films if you prefer--we pair cannabis with the film that started it all, F.W. Murnau's original NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR from 1922, a film that continues to impact horror movies today despite being over 100 years old. And then we pivot to 1979 with Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU THE VAMPIRE with KLAUS KINSKY as the bald and brooding bloodsucker in a movie that is incredibly faithful to its source material while still being pure Herzog. This is a brisk episode at just over an hour long, so Bob didn't get the chance to ask Matt and Greg who would win in an UNDEAD HELL IN A CELL MATCH between Max Schreck (1922), Klaus Kinski (79) and Bill Skarsgård (2022), although Bob did have that question in his notes at taping time. Hosts: Bob Calhoun and Greg Franklin Cory Sklar is on assignment and Philena Franklin called in sick but arranged for her dad (Greg, duh) to sub for her. Get well soon Philena. Special guest: MATT ZOLLER SEITZ. Please check out Matt's cinema and arts bookstore, www.MZS.press. You will not regret it. "O Nosferatu: A Christmas Carol of Horror:" vocal by Rosemary Picado set to "O Come All Ye Faithful" performed by DJ Williams. Lyrics by Calhoun and Picado. Movie trailer and archival audio courtesy of Archive.org. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • S3E16 Black Friday with Black Friday (1940)

    S3E16 Black Friday with Black Friday (1940)
    Nov 29 2024
    As shoppers are sacrificing themselves at America's remaining retail stores and half-closed shopping malls in their holy quest for suspect bargains, Bob and Greg celebrate another BLACK FRIDAY by smoking lots of weed and watching BLACK FRIDAY (1940) in this surprise mini-episode. BLACK FRIDAY is an utterly batshit cross between a Universal horror movie and a Warner Bros gangster flick. It stars BORIS KARLOFF as a well-meaning but appropriately mad scientist who transfers the brain of a mobster into the body of a kindly English professor played by Stanley Ridges (???) in a dual role as as he transforms from the prof into the vicious hood. BELA LUGOSI is underused as a mob boss, but you'll take this little bit of Bela and like it. Don't try to make too much sense of this one. Just vape and enjoy the craziness from Curt Siodmak, who wrote the Universal monster classic THE WOLF MAN the very next year. Bob and Greg also talk about the new SALEM'S LOT on Max, as well as A RETURN TO SALEM'S LOT (1987) where iconoclastic director SAM FULLER (40 GUNS) stars as a Nazi/vampire hunter--or I should say "NAZI KILLER." Yeah, THE Sam Fuller, staking Nazi vampires and shooting them with a Luger he took off a slain SS officer. Four stars. This episode was recorded totally spur of the moment, so we couldn't round up the full cast. Please let us know if you want us to do more of these mini-eps. Come back next month for our NOSFERA-TWO CHRISTMAS where MATT ZOLLER SEITZ joins us to pair weed with the 1922 and 1979 versions of the vampire epic in anticipation of the release of Robert Eggers' new version on CHRISTMAS DAY. Talk about counter-programming! Trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org. Extra thanks to "BittyFromATitty" for their compilation of Black Friday shopper riot TV news stories on Archive, which was a big help with this episode's opening segment. Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): @OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT comzzz
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    52 mins
  • S3E15 Bogart Noirvember feat. AP Mike w/ The Maltese Falcon (1941) & In a Lonely Place (50)

    S3E15 Bogart Noirvember feat. AP Mike w/ The Maltese Falcon (1941) & In a Lonely Place (50)
    Nov 12 2024
    AP Mike from THE BEST SHOW joins us once again for our #Noirvember episode and he's bringing Humphrey Bogart with him. Mike has chosen two wildly different takes on the Bogart persona from two of Hollywood greatest directors. First, it's the classic mystery that made Bogie a star with THE MALTESE FALCON from first-time director John Huston in 1941. Bogart is San Francisco private dick Sam Spade in this veritable blueprint for all the detective noir that followed it. Bogie is backed by an amazing cast with Mary Astor as femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy; Petter Lorre as Joel Cairo; Sydney Greenstreet making his film debut at 62 years old as Kaspar Guttman; and Elisha Cook, Jr. playing shifty thug Wilmer Cook. All of these characters are on an existential quest the big, black bird--the stuff that dreams are made of--and several of them will do anything to get it. Then, Bogart goes grim dark in Nicholas Ray's IN A LONELY PLACE (1950). Bogie plays Dixon "Dix" Steele, a hasbeen Hollywood script writer with severe anger management issues. Dix is dragged in for questioning after Mildred, the hat-check girl he took back to his apartment, turns up murdered, and Bogie’s wise-cracking ways take on an air of extreme menace as he jokes his way through the police interrogation. His neighbor, Laurel Gray played by Noir princess Gloria Grahame, falls for him despite the allegations because she saw that he didn't leave with the victim. But as Dix grows more violent and domineering, she, and the audience, start to question all that we've seen. Mike details the differences between the movie and the novel that it's based on. Eddie Muller's favorite film of all time. In our opening segment, we attempt to sort out the wreckage of our society, and our world, post-election before the conversation devolves into more recent movie recommendations. Cory really wants everyone to see CONCLAVE, while Bob says to get really high and watch HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS on Fandor or tubi. Meanwhile, Philena is plotting her escape to Ireland. With Robert Eggers' remake of NOSFERATU hitting theaters next month,OMFYS will be back next month for NOSFERATU CHRISTMAS. Movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz of MZS.press will join us to pair weed with FW Murray's original expressionist vampire epic from 1922 and Werner Herzog's 1979 remake with Klaus Kinski. Please subscribe so you don't miss it. Hosts: Cory Sklar, Philena Franklin and Bob Calhoun Greg Franklin is on assignment Old Movies for Young Stoners and TikTok Report themes by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Hard Times" by Mike Lisk & Chaki the Funk Wizard with additional dialog by George C. Scott "Smoke Jacket Blues" by TrackTribe and "The Black Cat" by Aaron Kenny courtesy of YouTube Audio Library Trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): @OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com
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    1 hr and 57 mins

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