The Important Cinema Club

In the late 1960s, when a wave of revolutionary fervor swept the globe, many international filmmakers asked what role cinema could play in activating social and political change. In America, that filmmaker was Robert Kramer. But though his films like ICE (1970) and MILESTONES (1975) are key documents of their time, he has largely been excluded from American film history. On this interview episode, Will talks to Whitney Strub about his new book "Films That Explode like Grenades: Robert Kramer and the Search for a Radical Cinema."

Buy "Films That Explode like Grenades: Robert Kramer and the Search for a Radical Cinema" - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo267053463.html

Listen to Whitney's previous appearance on this podcast, about Roberta Findlay - https://soundcloud.com/the-important-cinema-club/interview-roberta-findlay-vs

We discuss the work of the Writer/Director of REPO MAN, WALKER and REPO CHICK.

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Woooo boy. If you thought we got personal before, you ain't heard nothing yet.

We watch and discuss Episodes 16, 17 and 18 of Neon Genesis Evangelion - but mostly use the episodes as jumping off point to discuss what our favourite ramen is, how we approach writing, and what our most uncontrollable fears are.

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We discuss Auteur Directors who made commercials: Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Glazer, Spike Jonze, and the super production by BMW called The Hire, which included work by John Woo, Wong Kar-wai, Ang Lee, and more!

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Send us stuff like zines, movie-related books, physical media or memorabilia c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada.

Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576

Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub

Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ

Follow Justin: bsky.app/profile/declouxj.bsky.social

Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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The Laser Blast Film Society, a film screening group Justin used to co-host back in the day, met up for the first time in forever to marathon all of the official Scary Movie films.

Do they survive till the end? How many laughs happen per movie? And what are the guaranteed things that will make them all bust a gut?

Featuring Mathew Kumar (Exp. Zine), Peter Kuplowsky (Programmer, TIFF's Midnight Madness), Pierce Derk's (Cinematographer, A VIOLENT NATURE), Justin Decloux (Scary Movie Fan?) and Archie Decloux (18 months old).