Episode 100: John Farrow with Marilyn Ann Moss
Marilyn Moss joins the podcast to discuss “The Farrows of Hollywood: Their Dark Side Of Paradise” her new biography of John Farrow, a director whose films deserve a re-appraisal and whose life is a frightening mystery.
Episode 099: Lily Gladstone on Radio8Ball with Hermina Jean
We look back to 2019 when Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon, Certain Women) was a guest on Radio8Ball with Hermina Jean & Andras Jones
Season 4 : The OTHER Paul Williams
Paul Williams, the director (not the songwriter or the rock critic or the architect…) shares excerpts and outtakes from his memoir “Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen & Holy Men” currently available as part of the Screen Classics collection from the University Press Of Kentucky. Williams is the director of “The November Men” which World is Wrong listeners will already be familiar with, as well as films like “Out Of It” (1969) and “The Revolutionary” (1970) both starring a young Jon Voight. Williams, with his production partner Edward Pressman, was a producer of films like Brian DePalma’s “Sisters” & “The Phantom Of The Paradise” as well as Terrence Malick’s “Badlands”. Beyond the movies, Paul rode the many of the movements of 1960’s, 70’s & 80’s, both political and cultural, with characters as varied as Julie Christie and Huey P. Newton, Fidel Castro and most of the “important” directors associated with New Hollywood
If you’re interested in the story of New Hollywood, Paul’s memoir fills in some major gaps. And if you’re too lazy to read the book, this podcast will give you a taste of what you’re missing.
Episode 089: Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Robert Towne writes and directs a glossy film about a heroic coke dealer and his best friends, an LA cop and a Mexican drug lord.
Episode 088: The Two Jakes (1990)
Jack Nicholson directs and stars in the sequel to “Chinatown”.
Episode 085: The Indian Runner (1991)
Sean Penn interprets a stark Springsteen song as his directorial debut and launches the career of Viggo Mortensen
Episode 083: Spartan (2004)
A lean, mean paranoid political thriller from Mamet and Kilmer.
Episode 079: Deconstructing Harry (1997)
What Charlie Chaplin did to Adolf Hitler in “The Great Dictator” Woody Allen does to himself in “Deconstructing Harry”.
Episode 078: Up Against Amanda (2000) with Michael Rissi, Justine Priestley & Justin Freet
Guest co-host Justin Freet joins the podcast to celebrate this low budget shot-on-video erotic thriller he discovered on Tubi which, despite its meager elements, contains more craft and invention than most big budget movies of its era.
Episode 077: Wild Indian (2021)
During this year’s Noscar Awards Andras nonminated “Wild Indian” as one of the year’s best films and actor Chaske Spencer for giving one of the year’s best performances.
Episode 075: THE 2nd ANNUAL NOSCAR AWARDS
The NOSCAR AWARDS celebrate the best films and film artists that are NOT nominated for Academy Awards. If a film is nominated in any category, it is ineligible in all NOSCAR categories. TV shows are eligible for Noscar Awards.
This year’s NONminators are: Andras Jones, Bryan Connolly, AJ Gonzalez of The Directors Wall podcast, and Jen Brown of Genre Graveyard on Roku TV.
Episode 074: Foxfire (1996) with Jazmyne Moreno
Jazmyne Moreno of The Austin Film Society joins the podcast to celebrate “Foxfire” from 1996. Based upon a Joyce Carol Oates novel the film introduced the world to the overwhelming charisma of Angelina Jolie.
Episode 073: In The Cut (2003)
“In The Cut” is the most maligned film from this year’s Oscar darling Campion. A dreamy paranoid feminist subversion of the erotic crime thriller full of edgy unique performances from all its stars.
Episode 072: Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
“Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff” is one of only two films produced from Polly Platt screenplays. The other was “Pretty Baby”. These two films give a hint of a cinematic voice drawn to explore the dangerous and misunderstood aspects of womens’ sexuality.
Episode 071: “Chameleon Street” director Wendell B. Harris, Jr.
The first feature from Wendell B. Harris Jr. (Chameleon Street) won the grand jury prize at Sundance in 1990. He has yet to be given the opportunity to make a follow-up. In this epic interview Harris shares the lessons gleaned from a life inside and outside of Hollywood, from his meetings with legends like Orson Welles and Chester Himes, to the project he has been working on since “Chameleon Street”, a documentary called “Yeshua vs. Frankenstein In 3D/G-Speak”.
Episode 070: Cosmic Slop (1994)
“Cosmic Slop” from 1994 is a short-lived and difficult to find Twilight Zone style anthology series from HBO and the Hudlin brothers.
Episode 069: Residue (2020)
“Residue” is a film about a man who returns to his DC neighborhood in search of his childhood friends. What he finds are memories of a place that has been gentrified beyond recognition.
Episode 068: Black Cinema with Professor Skinner Myers
Professor Skinner Myers (the director of “The Sleeping Negro”) returns to The World Is Wrong podcast to take us to school on the topic of Black Cinema.
Episode 066: The Hot Spot (1990)
“The Hot Spot” is Dennis Hopper’s interpretation of a 1962 noir written for Robert Mitchum by Charles Williams based upon his novel “Hell Hath No Fury” and, amazingly, this 1990 version starring Don Johnson and Virginia Madsen is probably better than the original could ever have been.
Episode 065: Wrongness (Woody, Sinead & Charlie)
Andras & Bryan attempt to unravel the symptoms of wrongness particularly when artists become the targets of campaigns that mask deeper and more complicated agendas.