http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Soundtracks-Final.mp3 Film Club Rule #799: If you’ve got the music in you, there’s probably a movie for you. We’re talking soundtrack compilations. American Graffiti, Waiting to Exhale, O Brother Where Art Thou, and of course Purple Rain are all part of this episode as we explore the great compilation soundtracks. When did compilations of songs in movies make their first appearances? How did George Lucas change the genre? How do Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson fit in the conversation? Music: bensound.com ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Julianne-Moore_Final.mp3 Film Club Rule #1,814: When you want more there’s always Moore, Julianne Moore. This week we look at the career of one of the greatest working female actors today, Julianne Moore. After a career in television, she turned to film at the age of 29. Early on she worked with Robert Altman on Short Cuts. Her turn in Todd Haynes’ film Safe continues to amaze. In this episode we also discuss Far From Heaven, Still Alice, Savage Grace, and more. music: bensound.com ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/J-Demme_Final.mp3   Film Club Rule #705: When it’s time to start making sense, it’s time to start looking at the films of Jonathan Demme. We recently lost one of America’s great film directors Jonathan Demme. He created some of the darkest films in the last 40 years including Something Wild and Silence of the Lambs. He also directed one of the most heralded concert films Stop Making Sense. In this episode we take a look at the career of Jonathan Demme. music: bensound.com ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1977_Final.mp3 Film Club Rule #777: When selecting a year to celebrate it’s best to go to a galaxy far far away. A year many consider to be a banner year for cinema, 1977 boasted some of the most talked about and influential films of the 20th century. It’s the year Star Wars became the largest grossing film ever, John Travolta strutted down the street to the disco beats of ABBA, and Burt Reynolds was as big a movie star as anyone. We look at the influential films of the year and discuss some similar films that maybe didn’t get as much attention. Join ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/David-Lynch-Final.mp3 Film Club Rule #202: If you’re watching a film by David Lynch at home, call a friend, leave the lights on, cause it’s gonna get weird and scary. Confounding, hilarious, terrifying, surreal, the work of David Lynch is all of this and more.  Starting with his cinematic debut Eraserhead, Lynch displayed a penchant for the confusing and offbeat wrapped in the most basic of human tropes. As we get ready to take in his newest endeavor Twin Peaks: The Return, we take a look at some of our favorite pieces of Lynchopia. Jeff takes a ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SNL_Final.mp3 We discuss the career of Patrick Swayze with particular emphasis paid to Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse, and Point Break. music: bensound.com ..read more

Film Club Rule #1,010: When the temperatures rise, it’s time to cool off with a great film. This episode we offer you some films to watch as you beat the heat. David Gordon Green’s film George Washington is discussed. Jeff wants to revisit Wet Hot American Summer, and Heather reminds us that Joel Schumacher has a well made film set in the summertime in LA, Falling Down. music: bensound.com ..read more

Mank, the latest film from director David Fincher, centers on the Hollywood writer and curmudgeon Herman Mankiewicz, nicknamed “Mank” for short, and the circumstances surrounding his writing of the original screenplay for Orson Welles’ classic film Citizen Kane. In 1940, after a serious car accident, Mankiewicz is put up to convalesce in a Victorville, California bungalow. Confined to a bed with his leg in a cast, looked after by a nurse, and dictating to an English secretary assigned to him by Welles, he gradually cobbles together a script based on his personal knowledge of the powerful milli ..read more

Kirsten Johnson brings us closer to the acceptance of mortality in a mischievous film that uses stunts and special effects to depict various scenarios of her 88-year-old father’s death. Dick Johnson is Dead. Now, that’s a movie title that jumps out at you. Surprisingly, this is a non-fiction film, what we usually call a documentary, although in this case I prefer the term “essay film.” And among essay films, it’s quite unusual. The director, Kirsten Johnson, is best known as a cinematographer, having worked with prominent documentary filmmakers and on TV shows such as Frontline and American E ..read more

A young couple stays at the house of author Shirley Jackson and her husband, getting drawn into their chaotic relationship, in a film that illuminates the mind and creative process of Jackson, a brilliant and eccentric literary figure played by Elisabeth Moss. Shirley Jackson was an American writer whose style and subjects reveal a dark sense of humor, coupled with a strong feeling for the cruelty and inhumanity lying just under the surface in supposedly civilized people. Her life was in some ways as strange as her fiction—she died at the much too young age of 48—but the film from 2020 entitle ..read more