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Cosmic Motion
by William Boodell and Colin Dixon
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
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025 - RUSTLERS' RHAPSODY (Hugh Wilson, 1985)
Rex 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, Pete (G.W. Bailey) have to square up against the nefarious, greedy antics of Colonel Ticonderoga (Andy Griffith). He’ll...
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024 - NIGHT OF THE COMET (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) with Tim Rush
Two 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 out everyone who wasn’t protected by metal walls. Those exposed humans who haven’t been turned to dust share the fate of...
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023 - PRISON (Renny Harlin, 1987) with Kevin Rhoades
Burke (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 (Lane Smith). Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Kevin Rhoades (CRAZY TRAIN, THE OVERNIGHT) as they visit the spooky...
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022 - COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent, 1970) with Robert Beaucage
Dr. 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 anyone attacks. Plans go awry when Colossus instead melds with a Russian supercomputer named Guardian with the intent to...
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021 - VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Jaromil Jires, 1970) with Alison Star Locke
Valerie (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 who now look at her with desire. It becomes clear that Valerie must learn how to fend for herself in a predatory…
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020 - THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK (Francesco Barilli, 1974) with Matthew S. Robinson
Sylvia (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 Writer/Director Matthew S. Robinson (MY FRIEND VIOLET) as they try to piece her together.
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019 - FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975) with DM Harring
Florinda 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 once saw wherein an astronaut is left all alone on the moon in a government (or is it a corporate?) experiment. Is Alice...
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018 - THE BOOK OF STONE (Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1969) with Sean Hood
Governess 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 stone statue standing on the family home’s grounds. Silvia’s father, Eugenio (Joaquín Cordero), and stepmother, Mariana...
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017 - RED ROCK WEST (John Dahl, 1993) with Frank Merle
Michael 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 Texas named Lyle. When he agrees to kill Wayne’s wife (played by Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael then doubles the amount…
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016 - DUEL TO THE DEATH (Siu-Tung Ching, 1983) with Gary Landry Jr
Every 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 Lau) and Japanese Miyamoto Ichiro (Norman Chu) are selected as their nations’ best to compete in a fair manner....
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015 - SHIP OF FOOLS (Stanley Kramer, 1965) with Cindy Freeman
An 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, romantic, ideological, human dramas to play out in miniature. By the end, director Stanley Kramer hopes you will learn...
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014 - A WOMAN OF PARIS: A DRAMA OF FATE (Charles Chaplin, 1923) with John Bernstein
Jean (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. A year later Marie has worked her way into being the romantic partner of high society playboy Pierre Ravel (Adolphe...
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013 - THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY (Vincent Ward, 1988) with BC Jones
A 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 them away from a sickly, horrible death by boring into the earth and coming out the other side of it to plant a copper...
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012 - IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Jack Arnold, 1953) with Adam Lima
Amateur 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 that aliens are among them; but no one wants to listen…that is until very strange things begin happening to the locals.…
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011 - DEATH WATCH (Bertrand Tavernier, 1980) with David Draper
In 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 Schneider), that she is dying of a terminal illness so they can film her as she thinks she’s living her last days.…
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010 - NOBODY’S FOOL (Robert Benton, 1994) with Antony Berrios
Sully (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 the process. When his down-on-his luck son, Peter (Dylan Walsh), happens to visit town with his wife and son, Sully gets…
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009 - CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979) with Jacques Thelemaque
Filip 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, and his life begins to change. Filip begins to use the camera all the time, and his boss wants him to film pieces for the...
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008 - LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (Uli Edel, 1989) with George Zaver
Hubert 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 Lake and many others in an ensemble piece about poverty-stricken troubled souls in 1950s Brooklyn. What emerges is dark...
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007 - BLAST OF SILENCE (Allen Baron, 1961) with Steve Mitchell
Frank 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 cause him to rethink his life. Joining Bill and Colin this week is writer/director Steve Mitchell to explore a classic...
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006 - CONVOY (Sam Peckinpah, 1978)
Trucker “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 latest in a series of conflicts between Rubber Duck and Wallace, including the sherriff trying to detain his friend Spider...
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005 - CLEAN, SHAVEN (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993)
Peter Winter (Peter Greene) has a lot going on in his head and most of it is painful. It’s all he can do to try to appear “normal” when he isn’t alone. Despite all this, Peter wants to find the daughter who was taken away from him. Meanwhile an investigator searches for a child murderer and his...
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004 - MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, 1989)
Trombone player Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) has just met Julie Peters (Mare Winningham) at the La Brea Tar Pitts in the Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, and it looks like this could be instant true love. Yet the night they’re supposed to go on a date, by complete coincidence Harry finds out that...
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003 - DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE / CEMETERY MAN (Michele Soavi, 1994)
DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (aka CEMETERY MAN) relates the story of melancholy and discontented Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett), who watches over a cemetery in a small European town where the dead won’t stay buried. He takes it upon himself to put “returners” back into their graves. One day he...
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002 - EXCALIBUR (John Boorman, 1981) with Dave Woods
John Boorman has built an eclectic body of work ranging from the experimental and deconstructionist POINT BLANK (1967) to the coming-of-age military drama QUEEN & COUNTRY (2014). In this episode, Bill and Colin explore his less-talked-about EXCALIBUR, a strange and inspired Arthurian fantasy...
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001 - THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER (Timothy Carey, 1962)
Welcome to our first episode! Timothy Carey was a beloved character actor and all-around eccentric who tore his way through a number of television shows and films including various from the likes of auteurs Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes. Yet Carey had an interest in making his own films as...
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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.
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