Cosmic Motion
by William Boodell and Colin Dixon
TV & FilmE · Explicit
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025 - RUSTLERS' RHAPSODY (Hugh Wilson, 1985)
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About this podcast
Cosmic Motion is a weekly audio program wherein Writer/Director/Editor William Boodell and Multimedia Editor Colin Dixon discuss films from a filmmaking point-of-view. They often invite other filmmakers to participate in the discussion.
Join them as they traverse the cinematic cosmos in search of gems both established and hidden.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 25 episodes
- 025 - RUSTLERS' RHAPSODY (Hugh Wilson, 1985) · 1 h 18 min · Episode 25Rex O’Herlihan (Tom Berenger) knows how to rescue poor townsfolk from wealthy bad guys. In this self-aware version of an old Western serial, Rex will befriend the town drunk…
- 024 - NIGHT OF THE COMET (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) with Tim Rush · 1 h 45 min · Episode 24Two valley girl sisters (Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney) wake up to find most of the world’s population gone. The comet that has just passed the earth has also wiped…
- 023 - PRISON (Renny Harlin, 1987) with Kevin Rhoades · 1 h 29 min · Episode 23Burke (Viggo Mortensen) is a mysterious prisoner sentenced to live in a prison that is haunted by the ghost of an old inmate who has a score to settle with Warden Ethan Sharpe…
- 022 - COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent, 1970) with Robert Beaucage · 1 h 24 min · Episode 22Dr. Charlies Forbin (Eric Braeden) and his associates build and engage an AI supercomputer known as “Colossus” whose purpose is to protect the United States in the event that…
- 021 - VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Jaromil Jires, 1970) with Alison Star Locke · 1 h 33 min · Episode 21Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) has just had her first period and is becoming a woman. This means she has to traverse a confusing dreamscape of friends, family members and others…
- 020 - THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK (Francesco Barilli, 1974) with Matthew S. Robinson · 1 h 25 min · Episode 20Sylvia (Mimsy Farmer) is a scientist who struggles to keep it together as she appears to her lover, friends and neighbors to be losing her mind. Is she? Join Bill, Colin and…
- 019 - FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975) with DM Harring · 1 h 31 min · Episode 19Florinda Bolkan plays Alice, a translator who seems to be living events and going to places she can’t fully recall. She’s also having disturbing dreams connected to a film she…
- 018 - THE BOOK OF STONE (Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1969) with Sean Hood · 1 h 22 min · Episode 18Governess Julia Septién (Marga Lopéz) is hired to watch over Silvia (Lucy Buj), a young girl with a friend named Hugo. However, Julia will come to learn that Hugo is actually a…
- 017 - RED ROCK WEST (John Dahl, 1993) with Frank Merle · 1 h 55 min · Episode 17Michael Williams (Nic Cage) is a broke, wounded Marine vet who wanders into a small-town Wyoming bar to be mistaken by bar owner, Wayne Brown (J.T. Walsh) as a hired killer from…
- 016 - DUEL TO THE DEATH (Siu-Tung Ching, 1983) with Gary Landry Jr · 1 h 5 min · Episode 16Every ten years, a representative swordsman from China and from Japan must duel to the death as a matter of tradition between the two countries. The Chinese Bo Ching-wan (Damian…
- 015 - SHIP OF FOOLS (Stanley Kramer, 1965) with Cindy Freeman · 1 h 35 min · Episode 15An unhappy cruise ship doctor and his crew are surrounded by an amalgam of 1933 Americans, Mexicans and Germans on their way from Mexico to Germany, each with their own lusty…
- 014 - A WOMAN OF PARIS: A DRAMA OF FATE (Charles Chaplin, 1923) with John Bernstein · 1 h 40 min · Episode 14Jean (Carl Miller) and Marie (Edna Purviance) are in love and decide to run off to Paris together. Just as they are about to, Jean’s father dies and Marie leaves for Paris alone…
- 013 - THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY (Vincent Ward, 1988) with BC Jones · 1 h 20 min · Episode 13A small hamlet somewhere in medieval UK is anticipating the coming of the black plague, but a boy who seems to be able to see pieces of the future has visions that could guide…
- 012 - IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Jack Arnold, 1953) with Adam Lima · 1 h 37 min · Episode 12Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and schoolteacher Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) see a space ship crash land and try to convince the authorities and townspeople…
- 011 - DEATH WATCH (Bertrand Tavernier, 1980) with David Draper · 1 h 25 min · Episode 11In a future where nobody dies from illnesses, there’s a reality show named “Death Watch” which convinces a doctor to lie to perfectly healthy author, Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy…
- 010 - NOBODY’S FOOL (Robert Benton, 1994) with Antony Berrios · 1 h 22 min · Episode 10Sully (Paul Newman) is an older man in a small town whose life hasn’t exactly worked out perfectly, but he’s done it his way. He’s also angered and alienated a lot of people in…
- 009 - CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979) with Jacques Thelemaque · 1 h 25 min · Episode 9Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) is a factory worker whose wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) has just given birth to their daughter. The ecstatic new father buys an eight millimeter camera…
- 008 - LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (Uli Edel, 1989) with George Zaver · 1 h 27 min · Episode 8Hubert Selby Jr.’s taboo-smashing 1964 novel jumps to the screen in Uli Edel’s theatrical adaptation starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Ricki…
- 007 - BLAST OF SILENCE (Allen Baron, 1961) with Steve Mitchell · 1 h 48 min · Episode 7Frank Bono (played by the director Allen Baron himself) lives the lonely life of a hired killer. He’s going to New York City to complete a job when he runs into old friends who…
- 006 - CONVOY (Sam Peckinpah, 1978) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 6Trucker “Rubber Duck” (Kris Kristofferson) runs afoul of Arizona Sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) after Wallace extorts money from Duck and his friends. So begins the…
