Episode 15: TENNIS BALL’S OSCAR MOMENT with animator and radio personality John Schnall from the Midnight Matinee on WFMU

Episode 15: TENNIS BALL’S OSCAR MOMENT with animator and radio personality John Schnall from the Midnight Matinee on WFMU

 

WFMU Midnight Matinee’s John Schnall sat through The Shining fourteen times when it first came out and lived to talk about it 37 years later for this week’s podcast.

 

Download the file here: Shining Episode 15

 

Folk song from Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

 

Commercial from the Keep America Beautiful campaign in the 1970s, with the iconic crying Native American.

 

John Schnall’s highly experimental, totally nutso Midnight Matinee version of The Shining Polka. 

 

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Episode 14: INSIDE ELSTREE with Howard Berry, film historian at Elstree Studios

Episode 14: INSIDE ELSTREE with Howard Berry, film historian at Elstree Studios

Elstree Studios film historian Howie Berry dollops out some amazing inside scoops about the elevator of blood, continuity errors, and some scenes we’ll never see.

Download the file here: Shining Episode 14

A map of where everything was filmed at Elstree Studios.

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Watching the Vision Assist, which captured each day’s takes with Kubrick having to print the film. (He printed most of them anyway!)

The Shining Video Assist

A TV spot with alternate takes never used in the film.

A call sheet from The Shining.

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Inspiration for continuity errors in the film?

From Stephen King’s The Shining

Danny lay awake in his bedroom, eyes open…

His glider floated overhead from a string. On his bureau the VW model, brought up from the roadway setup downstairs, glowed a dimly florescent purple. His books were in the bookcase, his coloring books on the desk. A place for everything and everything in its place, Mommy said. Then you know where it is when you want it. But now things had been misplaced. Things were missing. Worse still, things had been added, things you couldn’t quite see, like in one of those pictures that said CAN YOU SEE THE INDIANS? And if you strained and squinted, you could see some of them—the thing you had taken for a cactus at first glance was really a brave with a knife clamped in his teeth, and there were others hiding in the rocks, and you could even see one of their evil, merciless faces peering through the spokes of a covered wagon wheel. But you could never see all of them, and that was what made you uneasy. Because it was the ones you couldn’t see that would sneak up behind you, a tomahawk in one hand and a scalping knife in the other…

 

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Episode 13: STANLEY DOES IT ALL with Joe Dator from The New Yorker and cinephile Megan Dooley

Episode 13: STANLEY DOES IT ALL with Joe Dator from The New Yorker and cinephile Megan Dooley

 

Joe and Megan converse with me about conversations, we neurologically probe the smell of toast, and we are treated to a ditty by Scatman Crothers.

 

Download the file here: Shining Episode 13

 

 

An interview from 1980 with Mick Garris. Scatman sings at about 3:00.

 

Scatman and Redd Foxx on Sandford and Son in 1975

 

The coin toss scene in No Country for Old Men(2007), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, with Javier Bardem and Gene Jones

 

Orson Welles and James Cotton in The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed.

 

Peter Boyle and Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976)

 

John Huston and Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974)

 

Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999), directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Put the two scenes together…

 

 

Martin Landau and Sam Waterson in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

 

Lots of great conversation scenes in Alex Cox’s Repo Man (1984), here with Emilio Estevez and Fox Harris.

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Episode 12: CHILDHOOD SCARES with Marcus Pinn from cinephile site Pinnland Empire & the Zebras in America podcast

Episode 12: CHILDHOOD SCARES with Marcus Pinn from cinephile site Pinnland Empire & the Zebras in America podcast

 

Marcus Pinn from Pinnland Empire and Zebras in America talks with me about this intense scene, plus the stuff that messed with our brains in childhood.

 

Download the file here: Shining Episode 12

 

 

Trailer for Bob Balaban’s Parents (1989)

 

Trailer for Elem Klimov’s Come and See (1985)

 

Marcus refers to this scene from Alan Clarke’s Scum (1979) with Mick Ford and Bill Dean

 

Marcus refers to this scene in Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) with Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham

 

Scene from Richard Attenborough’s Magic (1978) with Anthony Hopkins and Burgess Meredith

 

Goddamn scary trailer and television commercial (used for both) for Magic

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