Ben Reiser talks to Sofia Theodore - Pierce about HEAR ME SOMETIMES.

The experimental Hear Me Sometimes is lush with beautifully textured images and sounds, addressing themes of motherhood, loss, expectation, care, and legacy. (BS)

Ep 70 - Sofia Theodore - Pierce HEAR ME SOMETIMES Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival

After a “few” drinks at dinner, Ryan and Scott answer questions that Ben collected from the audience at the 10/21 Metro show. Topics include the squandering of Rod Stewart’s God-given gifts, the squandering of Steve Miller’s killer pop instincts, color Kubrick movies in black and white, the firing of Dewey Cole, booze hounds, useless hot sauces, sitting next to Udo Kier, Ben’s man love for Justin Hawkins, Ryan’s shower fantasies, and Gabe says “Fuck this”. This might be the best Road Report ever, but to paraphrase Billy Crudup in “Almost Famous” — we may have been in too truthful a mood.

89. LIFERS - Road Report #14 : Slurry Road

Ho ho ho and all that jazz!

Christmas is here so be of good cheer
More LIFERS you say? Well have no fear!
Far be it for us to brag and to boast
but we've got Steve Economou and Paul Zamost!
That's right, a yuletide visit from The Effigies
On show day at the Metro, if you please.

Plus, Max Headroom, hissing at the Music Box, and a Family Feud edition of WHAT'S THE BEST?!?

202. LIFERS - Christmas with The Effigies

Got It Made

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep 20 — “It’s Alive!” (1974)
 
There’s only one thing wrong with this episode of 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s… IT’S ALIVE!!! Hollywood sound wiz Jeff Kushner joins Mike and Ben to deliver a sprawling, mauling take on Larry Cohen’s killer baby classic, with diversions into ITs two sequels, IT LIVES AGAIN (1978) and IT’S ALIVE 3: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (1987). Among the questions raised:
 
• What’s so funny about a mutant baby living in a sewer?
 
• Which vintage ’70s horror film TV ad caused more cardiac events among schoolchildren: SUSPIRIA; MAGIC; or DAWN OF THE DEAD?
 
• Larry Cohen, John P. Ryan, and Michael Moriarty: Jewish-Irish Love Connection?
 
• How did white go-go boots, psychedelic wallpaper, and dainty Florence Nightingale nurse hats play in punky-disco '77?
 
• Where were YOU the day the filming of Q stopped Manhattan’s morning rush with an unannounced, unlicensed helicopter-vs-machine-guns battle atop the Chrysler building?
 
• Circa-1984, what was Larry Cohen doing hanging out in NYC’s performance art scene with the casts of SMITHEREENS and LIQUID SKY?
 
• What is the connection between Robert Blake’s 1985 NBC series HELL TOWN (where he played a two-fisted priest) and Dee Snider’s STRANGELAND?
 
• Does anybody have any leftover “Super-Vision” 3D glasses from the ’80s?

Ep 20 - It's Alive

From Witch Mountain to the Planet of the Apes; from the Bad News Bears to Billy Jack; from Roller Boogie to Rock-n-Roll High School… 70 MOVIES WE SAW IN THE 70S is “Teen Movie Hell” author Mike McPadden and University of Wisconsin film guru Ben Reiser revisiting the 1970s cinema they experienced as kids in the New York City of Sidney Lumet, Uncle Floyd, the Forty-Deuce, and “Fright Night” on channel 9. Now featuring new co-host, Scott Lucas and a rotating gallery of guests!

Ep 20 - It's Alive

70 Movies We Saw in the 70s

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