Pure Cinema Podcast

Our pals at @letterboxd wrote a really touching article about our show, friendship & 101 Film List and episodes. 🙏 letterboxd.com/journal/pure-c…

A pair of Euro cult classics from Jess Franco! VENUS IN FURS (1969) & SUCCUBUS (1968) screen in 35mm this coming Monday, March 16th. Tickets: buff.ly/dR945sX

@PureCinemaPod love the podcast. Been listening for the past several years. When @ElricKane called out Zachary Ray Sherman’s performance in A Desert, I was so impressed. I’ll take credit for discovering him, I cast him in my short, Cooper and Brady Turn Pro.

#NowWatching Film 95/2026 Thanks for the recommendation @PureCinemaPod 👍🏻🎥🎬

Catching up on podcasts this morning and just heard us get a very lovely shoutout in the latest @PureCinemaPod at 01:20:40. Thanks, gang. Hearing your appreciation for our Rollin releases is lovely... but you ain't seen nothing yet! (LDG and Grapes) 📻 tinyurl.com/y3h94jx9

Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies nytimes.com/2026/02/16/mov… @PureCinemaPod

f you”re in the Boston area Elric will be hosting a round of Movie trivia at the Crystal Ballroom tomorrow night and it’s Free! crystalballroomboston.com/events/cryst...

Brilliant programming move

Eros Theater Calendar!

Film Critic Brian Saur (of @PureCinemaPod) joins All About Al: The Pacino Podcast to talk about The Insider. Brian talks about the performance Pacino gives as Lowell Bergman and how compassionate it is: bit.ly/3M7ORyd

logging off Specters 1987 / Italy / Marcello Avallone 🛌💀sound on💀🛏️

The Dead Thing From Beyond! The erotic double feature from the other side is happening on 35mm at the Somerville Theater (near) Boston. We will have some @ocndistro Discs for sale and to sign & last chance to see the film on 35mm for a bit. Tickets: somervilletheatre.com/production/t...

Primate Horror double bill in 35mm! MONKEY SHINES (1988) & LINK (1986) screen next Monday, January 26th. Tickets: buff.ly/3OuiteO

Takeshi Kitano's top 10 movies of all time: 1. Children of Paradise (1945, Carné) 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick) 3. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick) 4. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa) 5. To Live and D!e in L.A. (1985, Friedkin) 6. Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch) 7. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974, Peckinpah) 8. Darkman (1990, Raimi) 9. Crazy Thunder Road (1980, Ishii) 10. The Railroad Man (1956, Germi) ('Top Ten Lists by Critics and Filmmakers', Combustible Celluloid)

"I’m going to do a Brian De Palma movie. Why not? His mind is sharp. We need to respect this guy." In a long, candid interview, producer Rodrigo Teixeira tells @Nick_Newman about his forthcoming slate: De Palma, James Gray, Michael Almereyda, and films from Argentina, Lebanon, Chile, and Brazil—thefilmstage.com/im-not-seeing-…

A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession in this erotic thriller that "stays with you, even after it’s over" (@THR): Elric Kane's THE DEAD THING is now on blu-ray from @Shudder 💔 vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-d…

Harmony Korine on Alan Clarke: "He was doing something dramatically that I’d never seen before. And his films are so honest — the way the characters speak, as if they just exist, as if they’re organic. Plus, of course, his use of violence is very interesting to me. It’s more than real. And there’s such an energy to his camera, such a fluidity to his movies. The steadicam shots can last for five minutes at a time. Clarke had a real style. And there is no one less prententious. With a lot of British filmmakers politics tends to get in the way of the storytelling, but Clarke seemed to be more interested in telling stories than in solving problems. There are shots in Gummo that I took straight from his work, like the scene where the two girls are walking and talking right after they’ve watched the boy playing the tennis match. The use of the steadicam shot there is pure Alan Clarke — stylistically at least." — Sight & Sound magazine, April 1998 issue ⬇️ Harmony Korine / Alan Clarke / Made in Britain (1982), The Firm (1988).

Paul Thomas Anderson curated a 16-hour film fest for the day after Este Haim’s New Year’s Eve wedding. Selections include ‘Repo Man’ at 9:00 a.m. and ‘Barry Lyndon’ at tea time. vulture.com/article/paul-t…

Kick off the new year with a masterpiece in I.B. Technicolor 35mm! THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) plays nightly through Sunday, January 4th.

Watch the @PureCinemaPod favourite Fever (1991) here: youtu.be/lzaJxJLStP4 #purecinemapodcast

logging on La via della droga (The Heroin Busters) 1977 / Italy / Enzo G. Castellari 💥sound on💥