Martial artist and Hollywood actor Bruce Lee passed away a mere month before the release of his breakthrough Gung Fu film Enter the Dragon. Easily dismissed as a remake of Doctor No that rehashed a famous scene from Orson Welles’ The Lady From Shanghai, Enter the Dragon has several puzzling loopholes neither the screenwriter, editor, or director could fix. However, this Hong Kong production cashed in on Lee’s California Connections, his personalized style of Jeet Kune Do, and Lee’s absolute determination to finally make a 'western' film his way. Join Mike White of the Projection Booth Podcast as we go scene by scene and discuss how a forgone tragedy turned into not only the film Bruce Lee is most remembered for, but the seminal martial arts movie for an entire generation.

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WORKS CITED
Works Cited
Clouse, Robert. The Making of Enter the Dragon. UP 1983. 
Clouse, Robert. Bruce Lee: the Biography. UP 1983. 
Astarate, Richard John. About Chinese Cinema. Film Quarterly Vol. 62. No. 02. Winter 2008. P72-76. University of California Press. 
Flanagan, B. P. Kung Fu Krazy: or The Invasion of the Chop Suey Easterns’ Cineaste Vol. 6 No. 3 (1974) p8-11. 
Logan, Bey. Hong Kong Action Cinema. The Overlook Press. Woodstock, New York. 1995
Tiana (Thi Thanh Nga). From Wong to Woo: Asians in Hollywood. Cineaste: Race in Contemporary American Cinema. P38-39. 
Thomas, Bruce. Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit. Frog, Ltd. Berkeley.1994.

EP26 - Enter The Dragon

Mike White of the Projection Booth Podcast was nice enough to sit for a Special Report for the Super 70 Podcast. We discuss the career and possible future of Bruce Lee, the importance of Cinema in our lives, and I ask him when the hell does he have time to push out three hour episodes every week on the Projection Booth?

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Special Report With Mike White

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest film critic Nick Pinkerton discuss two underseen foreign genre exercises with a double feature of the French neo-noir procedural POLICE PYTHON 357 (1976) and the Spanish gothic horror THE BELL FROM HELL (1973). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) + THE INNOCENTS (1961), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

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Outro // 1:53:33-1:57:04

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217 - POLICE PYTHON 357 (1976) + THE BELL FROM HELL (1973) ft. Nick Pinkerton

The arguments against Dune are numerous, but the one Mike White of The Projection Booth podcast puts forth in his commentary track might be the most compelling one for. White has an affinity for Herbert’s books and Lynch’s movie and brings an educated eye to each frame with background from the books, the production, the various drafts of the screenplay, etc. It’s film scholasticism with a healthy dose of appreciation.

White loves Dune and wants you to love Dune too. And I must admit, his appreciation is intoxicating. There are many aspects of Dune that work: The pustules pocking the Baron’s face, for instance, are positively repulsive, and MacLachlan’s performance as Paul somewhat paves the way for FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in its earnestness and calculation.

Dune Commentary

I interviewed Cory McAbee in December 2011 about the film The American Astronaut.  We also discussed his film Stingray Sam and an upcoming project. 

The full episode is available for download via www.projection-booth.com or via iTunes or Stitcher. 

Cory McAbee - American Astronaut Interview Outtakes

Interviews conducted by Eric Bresler and Mike White of Iris Recht / Yotvat, Joss Ackland, Menahem Golan, George S Clinton, Catherine Mary Stewart, and Coby Recht all about The Apple.

Mike White's questions have been removed.  Most of Eric Bresler's remain.  Pauses and introductory conversations have been eliminated as well as any "off the record" conversation. 

The Apple - Raw Interviews

Some backward masking on Screamin' Jay Hawkins's "Temptation."  Unless I'm nuts it sounds like he says "I'm Satan" clear as day.

Screamin Jay Satan

The Incredible Shrinking Man - 60 Second Radio Spot

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