Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:30:10 -0400 George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson http://www.perfectmovie.net Podcast Maker v1.3.8b - http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker Welcome to the ORIGINAL show where you will find only movies WORTH WATCHING! Many years ago, J. Todd Anderson (filmmaker, storyboard artist and bon-vivant) and Geo. Willeman (film archivist, writer, producer, and actor-of-sorts) came up with their Rules for The Perfect Movie. Four simple but defining rules. Thus was born Their List of Perfect Movies! en Frozen Turkey Pictures filmguys@perfectmovie.net http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP_podcast_logo_144.jpg http://www.perfectmovie.net 144 117 TV & Film Performing Arts Podcasting Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect no George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson How about passing the time with a nice game of solitaire? John Frankenheimer's political thriller, based on Richard Condon's novel, is as riveting today as it ever was, remakes notwithstanding. Sinatra is riveting, Angela Lansbury is incredibly evil, and Laurence Harvey plays the ultimate walking dead man as Raymond Shaw. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP085_Manchurian_candidate.mp3 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:52:59 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:13 Film, Classic, Movie, War, brainwashing, Sinatra George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Anthony Mann's groundbreaking film that changed the Western (and James Stewart) forever! Anthony Mann had been building his style for more than ten years in great pot boilers for PRC when he made this film, a western that re-invented both the genre and its star, James Stewart. No more yodeling cowboys with big white hats--this West was a place of sudden, horrible violence, where a good man could be bad as well. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP084_Wchstr73_FINAL.mp3 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:05:34 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:24 Film, Classic, Movie, Western George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson One of the great WB "social message" films, directed with zest by Michael Curtiz and wonderfully acted out by James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart! Pat O'Brien as a priest, James Cagney as a punk and Humphrey Bogart as a sleazy lawyer? How can you go wrong?! Lay it all in the extremely capable hands of Warners' go-to guy, Michael Curtiz, and you've got one fine movie! Whaddaya say? http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP083_AngelsWDF_FINAL.mp3 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:20:42 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:47 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson What a better choice for Friday the 13th than Stanley Kubrick acidic comedy about the destruction of our world via Nuclear Holocaust? http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP082_Dr%20Strangelove_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:29:20 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:17 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson The first and best--often imitated, never equalled. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP081_Raiders_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:29:17 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:23 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Orson Welles--twenty-five years old--comes to Hollywood and makes this film. Amazing. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP080_KANE_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 23 May 2008 22:29:15 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:21 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Philip Kaufman’s EPIC filming of Tom Wolfe’s book about the Mercury Space Program is not only a PERFECT MOVIE, but arguably one of the best films of the 1980s! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP079_The%20Right%20Stuff_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 16 May 2008 22:29:13 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:32 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson From that fateful day in 1975, when Film Guy Geo. Willeman got his Super 8mm print of Metropolis, it was a given that this film would be part of our Perfect Movie List. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP078_Metropolis_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 09 May 2008 22:29:11 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:32 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Denis Sanders created the perfect Elvis Time Capsule with his 1970 film Elvis: That’s The Way It Is. Elvis fan or no, one cannot deny the power and influence this fellow from Memphis had on the world of popular music. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP077_ElvisTTWII_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 02 May 2008 22:29:08 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:27 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson After returning from exile to his native Spain, director Luis Buñuel made one his greatest and most controversial films--Viridiana. After its release, he found himself back in Mexico, where he made this very surreal and angry film. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP076_exterminating%20angel_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:29:06 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:50 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Harsh--gritty--dark--and that’s just the opening credits!! Martin Scorsese’s unflinching portrait of boxer Jake LaMotta won the “Best Picture” award for 1980 and retains all of its power more than twenty-five years later. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP075_raging_bull_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:29:04 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:12 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson GUANINE--ADENINE--THYMINE--CYTOSINE. The four amino acids that make up deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, the stuff that we are made of, to paraphrase Sam Spade. They are also the letters that make up the title of Andrew Niccol’s frighteningly prophetic film http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP074_Gattaca_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:29:02 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:18 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Roger Donaldson’s unfairly overlooked gem is, in our minds, one of the finest stories of the power of the human spirit EVER. Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of Kiwi cyclist Burt Munro is funny and touching and very, very real. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP073_WFIndian_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:29:00 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:03 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman, Bernard Hermann, and Cary Grant--what a glorious quartet! Hitchcock winds up the 1950’s with one of his best films of all, the lively, effervescent, wonderful, perfect North by Northwest. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP072_NxNW_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:28:58 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:10 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Orson & the soon-to-be-ex Mrs. Orson Welles on a cruise of total weirdness. A crazy amalgam of style and mystery and the strangely blonde tresses of the lovely Miss Hayworth. Even in the studio ordered recutting, this film is totally fascinating. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP071_LFShanghai_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:28:56 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:21 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Once again, The Film Guys take to the phones to answer questions about love, life, and movies. The day this show was recorded, the “Blizzard of 2008” struck Ohio, dumping about fifteen inches of snow in less than a day on the startled citizenry http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP070_Bloop%20marks_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:28:54 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:41 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson It was as inevitable as night--in the wake of the Coen Bros. Academy Award triumph with No Country For Old Men, J. Todd Anderson gets his chance to speak about his life as “storyboard artist to the stars!” http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP069_storyboarding_FINAL-1.mp3 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:28:52 -0500 TV & Film no 00:31:23 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson One of New York’s finest cities gets its big moment with the above line of dialogue, snarled at a perp by the out-of-control “Popeye” Doyle, played by Gene Hackman, in his break through role. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP068_French_Conn_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:28:50 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:12 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson It's been way too long since we rummaged around the back of our several cinematic closets to bring to you some films we love, but will never be on the Filmically Perfect List of Perfect Movies. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP067_Guilty%20Pleasures_2_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:28:48 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:43 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson With the Academy Awards only a couple weeks away, what better film to chronicle than the one that made the first "Grand Slam", garnering all five top awards: Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor, and Actress. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP066_IHON_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:28:46 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:02 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Director Fred Zinnemann made only one western during his career, but what a western! An excruciatingly simple and straight-forward tale, High Noon has become so iconic as to have become part of the English lexicon! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP065_High%20Noon_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:28:44 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:05 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Robert Rossen's scalding tale of drunken love and billiards is as powerful today as it was forty some years ago. Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, and The Great One (Jackie Gleason) all bring their roles to gritty life. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP064_The_Hustler_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:28:42 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:05 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson James Whale's 1935 follow-up Frankenstein is a tour-de-force of gothic story-telling. Karloff adds another layer to his portrayal of The Monster while the highly nostrilled Ernest Thesiger weirds everyone out as the alchemist Dr. Praetorius. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP063_%20BOF_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:28:40 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:04 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Mix together equal parts Gable, Monroe, Wallach, and Clift, garnish with Miller and stir with John Huston and you've got one of the most bizarre cinematic cocktails. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP062_Misfits_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:28:37 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:26 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson What better way to start of 2008 than with the Three Stooges?? And here they are in their sole Oscar-nominated short from 1934, Men In Black! Listen to the Film Guys completely befuddle Niki Dakota with their brilliant philosobabble! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP061_MIB_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:28:32 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:17 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson John Lasseter's ground breaking feature set the stage for the digital animation explosion and, for good or ill, this type of animation is here to stay, effectively eradicating traditional animation in its wake. Fo http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP060_Toy%20story_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:28:30 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:37 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson The Film Guys attempt to get a jump on the Christmas Season and give our listeners a few new, cool ideas for DVD giving this year! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP059_DVD_Xmas_2007_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:28:28 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:32 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Once again, Niki Dakota and the Film Guys open up the lines and allow the public into their twisted little world of Cinema! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP058_call-in_3_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:28:18 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:25 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Regardless of what our dear host Niki D. thinks, this is one of the great harbingers of the sci-fi explosion of the 1950's! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP057_The%20Thing_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:28:11 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:35 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson In "the last great B&W action movie," bruised anti-hero Paul Labiche, portrayed by the ever-great Burt Lancaster, rescues a train-load of impressionist paintings from a mean old Nazi bad guy, played with depth and aplomb by the amazing Paul Scofield. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP056_The%20Train_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:28:08 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:18 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson On a very Special Episode of Filmically Perfect, Niki and JT discuss the role of The Library of Congress in Film Preservation with Geo., who is their "inside man" at the new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP055_LOC%20guy_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:28:06 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:48 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson John Huston's entry into the stable of post-war films about desperate losers is this grimy, tough-as-mails crime drama which would seem much more at home at Warner Bros. than the high-falutin' MGM studio. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP054_Asphalt%20Jungle_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:28:04 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:56 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Between West Side Story and The Sound of Music, director Robert Wise created what is arguably one of the best ghost stories ever put to film. A horror film that emphasizes the scariest part of life--just being human. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP053_The%20Haunting_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:28:02 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:57 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Brian De Palma's ode to the problems of puberty. Sissy Spacek's career-making portrayal of the tortured Carrie White is one for the ages, going from pathetic, to blissful, to "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP052_Carrie_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:28:00 -0400 TV & Film no 00:28:34 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Take a measly $300,000, a simple story told in a beautifully simple, albeit scary, fashion and what do you get? One of the major cash cows of film history and a film that has a lot to answer for!! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP051_Halloween_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:27:58 -0400 TV & Film no 00:28:22 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Let's do the Time Warp Again--and Again--and Again--and Again--and Again --and Again--and Again--and Again--and Again --and Again--and Again--and Again--and Again --and Again--and Again--and Again--and Again --and Again, etc. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP050_RHPS_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:27:56 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:57 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Alfred Hitchcock had fallen upon hard times, successfully speaking, so he put every effort into making sure that THIS FILM was a hit. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP049_Strangers_OAT_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:27:54 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:47 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson A raucous comedy with meaning from the creator of “Beavis & Butthead?” What is the world coming to?! Mike judge hits oh so many nails on the head with this little gem that once you’ve seen it, you’ll never look at your cubicle the same again! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP048_Office%20space_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:27:50 -0400 TV & Film no 00:38:31 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Sergio Leone’s fourth and arguably finest foray into the wild west featuring perennial nice guy Henry Fonda as the baddest SOB on the screen. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP047_OUATITW_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:27:48 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:04 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Who woulda thunk it? John Waters, the “enfant terrible” of mondo trasho cinema gaining acceptability?! And to top it off a major Broadway musical and then a musical remake of one of his films? Will wonders never cease? http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP046_Hairspray_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:27:46 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:45 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Filmically Perfect takes a break from our onslaught of Perfect Movies to listen to the Voice of the People! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP045_sound_cues_no02_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:27:44 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:23 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson These three, The Great Train Robbery (1903), The Jazz Singer (1927), and Star Wars (1977), each gave the film biz a badly needed injection of life at a time when revenues were falling. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP044_3%20great%20films_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:27:41 -0400 TV & Film no 00:33:50 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson This movie has meant so much to so many and has affected entire generations throughout the world. Is there any better example of the power of film? http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP043_Star%20Wars_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:27:39 -0400 TV & Film no 00:33:10 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Watch JAWS and witness the birth of a phenomenon: THE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE EVENT!! This annual ritual continues unabated to this day, although the quality of the films has become somewhat questionable as years have passed. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP042_JAWS_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:27:37 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:48 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson We like to think of this as “American Graffiti: The Dark Side.” But seriously folks...As crass and silly as Animal House is, it KNOWS that it is crass and silly and therefore is able to get away with outrageous gags both plausible and implausible. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP041_Animal%20House_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:27:35 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:23 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson What began as a love letter to Berlin by an expatriate filmmaker come home grew into a lyrical albeit existential look into the hearts of men and angels. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP040_Wings%20Of%20Desire_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 25 May 2007 22:27:32 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:15 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Stephen King and George Romero combine forces to celebrate the wonderfully horrific EC Comics! A great cast romps through five spooky stories with such aplomb, how could it not be fun?? http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP039_CREEPSHOW_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 18 May 2007 22:27:30 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:57 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 masterpiece has withstood the test of time and is as fresh, funny, and ferocious as it was twenty years ago. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP038_ROBOCOP_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 11 May 2007 22:27:28 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:16 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson A groundbreaking film that most of the money people in Hollywood had no faith in, it was not only highly successful, but spawned a best selling soundtrack album and gave new life to many musical oldies. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP037_American%20graffiti_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 04 May 2007 22:27:26 -0400 TV & Film no 00:29:04 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Rob Reiner’s picturization of William Goldman’s delightful 1973 novel (screenplay also penned by Goldman) remains as fresh and fun as it was twenty years ago. "Inconceivable!!" http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP036_princess%20bride_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:27:24 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:29 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson While not his first American film, Shadow of a Doubt is arguably Hitchcock’s first “American” film--his first look at the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of an All-American city. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP035_Shadow%20of%20a%20doubt_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:27:22 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:16 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Our first attempt at a call-in show was wildly successful, at least as far as we were concerned! Thanks so much to all who called, especially those who were not able to get on the show! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP034_sound_cues_no01_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:27:18 -0400 TV & Film no 00:27:41 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson One of the most reverential and human films about the subject of religion, Robert Duvall’s The Apostle has rightfully earned its place on the List of Perfect Movies. This is a film about real people, told by an actor with a keen eye. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP033_the%20apostle_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:27:16 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:30 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson A powerful film from one of the hot new directors of the late 1960’s, Arthur Penn. One of the few films that successfully manages to tweak “the old west” while at the same time being highly reverent to the ways of the American Indians. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP032_Little%20Big%20Man_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:27:14 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:23 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson What can we say? This is it--the original article. The one and only real, genuine, except-no-substitutes KING KONG, in glorious, luminous Black & White. Not someone else’s idea of what the story should be but the REAL DEAL. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP031_King%20Kong_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:27:11 -0400 TV & Film no 00:32:04 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Richard Donner’s magnificent, half-finished epic has become the iconic embodiment of The Man of Steel, regardless of the machinations of the suits at Warner Bros. and DC Comics. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP030_Superman_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:27:08 -0400 TV & Film no 00:30:29 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Lewis Milestone’s ground-breaking sound film epic treats WWI not as an allegory, as many of its predecessors had, but as a painfully human story, showing the hopes and fears of a group of young men being thrust into battle. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP029_AQWF_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:27:06 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:17 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson It is thought that these shorts were made so that the executives at Paramount could see just how good or bad W.C. Fields was on the talking screen. I guess he must have impressed them as he was immediately pressed into feature films! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP028_Fatal%20Glass%20of%20Beer_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:27:04 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:10 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Gordon Parks’ breakthrough detective film resonates with as much or more power than it did when it exploded on the scene back in 1971. Richard Roundtree leads the cast as John Shaft, the hero of Ernest Tidyman’s series of novels. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP027_Shaft_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:27:01 -0500 TV & Film no 00:29:14 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Henry Hampton’s fourteen hour journey through the American Civil Rights Movement should be required viewing for all, especially those groups today who feel they are getting a bad break. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP026_Eyes%20on%20the%20prize_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:26:59 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:35 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson “Are you a mod or a rocker?” “I’m a mocker.” Ringo’s exchange sets the tone for Richard Lester’s wild, free and groundbreaking little film. In the pantheon of musical performance films, everything is either before HDN or after HDN. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP025_Hard_Days_Night_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:26:57 -0500 TV & Film no 00:28:09 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Jerry Lewis’ first film with a strong storyline is also one of his best. A film full of flash and color and fun! Jerry takes R.L. Stevenson’s classic tale, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde and turns it on it’s head, giving it his own wacky flavor. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP024_Nutty_Prof_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:26:55 -0500 TV & Film no 00:30:41 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Whom better to make a film about the American South than British director John Boorman? Well, he was arguably the right choice as the longevity of this simple yet harrowing film attests. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP023_Deliverance_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:26:53 -0500 TV & Film no 00:29:28 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Arguably one of Bruce Dern’s finest moments on the screen, Douglas Trumbull’s enviro-cautionary fable still resonates today, more powerfully than more ham-fisted attempts such as The Day After Tomorrow. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP022_silent_running_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:26:51 -0500 TV & Film no 00:27:37 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson They said we were mad! They said we were crazy! Crazy? Yes, crazy like a fox! To include this seventeen-minute Three Stooges short with the likes of to Kill A Mockingbird and Sunrise? You got it, Bunky! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP021_An_ache_in_every_stake_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:26:48 -0500 TV & Film no 00:28:28 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Frank Capra’s first film after WWII was of the utmost importance to him--would audiences still accept what so many critics had labeled “Capra-corn?” In 1946, the answer was “no.” But then, a strange thing happened--television. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP020_IAWL_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:26:45 -0500 TV & Film no 00:29:31 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Ties? A new bathrobe? Socks?? Fuggedahboudit! What every red-blooded cinema fan wants for Christmas (or Hanukkah or whatever celebration you’re into this season) is movies on DVD. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP019_DVDS_4_XMAS_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:26:43 -0500 TV & Film no 00:28:41 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Does it amaze anyone else that one of America's favorite Christmas movies comes from Canada? Or that its director had previously made Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, Black Christmas, and Porky’s? http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP018_Xmas%20Story_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:26:39 -0500 TV & Film no 00:26:31 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson “Chicken Every Sunday?” Do you remember that movie? No? Well, in order to get Miracle on 34th Street made, director George Seaton had to sign on to direct the other film, a project near and dear to Darryl F. Zanuck, the boss of 20th Century-Fox. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP017_Miracle_on_34th_street_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:26:34 -0500 TV & Film no 00:22:15 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson From George Miller, the creator of Mad Max and The Road Warrior comes Babe, a film without a single truck chase or sharp-edged boomerang (although it does have at least one feral child)! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP016_Babe_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:26:32 -0500 TV & Film no 00:23:03 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson The Iron Giant has begun to find its audience: people who are taking this film to heart and give it the place it deserves in the pantheon of Perfect Movies. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP015_the_iron_giant_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:26:30 -0500 TV & Film no 00:24:14 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Telling people that this is a Perfect Movie is like telling them that “the sky is blue.” http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP014_To_Kill_A_Mockingbird_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:26:28 -0500 TV & Film no 00:21:58 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Unlike its many sequels, this film, the story of a resurrected child killer and his relentless pursuit of four teens in their dreams is still truly frightening. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP013_Nightmare_on_elm_st_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:26:25 -0400 TV & Film no 00:20:20 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson We discuss some of the history of horror films and those “disturbing moments” that remain permanently etched in our minds from those classic horror films of the past. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP012_disturbing%20moments_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:26:23 -0400 TV & Film no 00:20:08 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Social Allegory or Zombie Gore Movie? George A Romero’s taut little horror film proves that a “perfect movie” need not be perfect. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP011_NotLD_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:26:21 -0400 TV & Film no 00:21:13 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Director John Landis first wrote this script in 1969, during the time he was working in the film Kelly’s Heroes. The script got him lots of jobs, but none of them involved directing this movie! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP010_American%20Werewolf_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:26:19 -0400 TV & Film no 00:17:52 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson What do you get when you combine Doc Savage, Thomas Pynchon, Orson Welles, H.G. Wells, Saturday Matinee Serials, Rock ‘N’ Roll, “B” Westerns, brain surgery, and Red & Black Lectroids? http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP009_Buckaroo%20Banzai_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:26:16 -0400 TV & Film no 00:23:49 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Near the very end of the SIlent Era, just a month before Warner Bros. turned the film world upside down with The Jazz Singer, F. W. Murnau’s lyrical cinematic tone-poem Sunrise was released. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP008_Sunrise_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:26:13 -0400 TV & Film no 00:26:10 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson A film that has not only demonstrated an enviable lasting power, but has altered the very meaning of the words “groundhog day” in our popular lexicon! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP007_Groundhog%20Day_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:26:11 -0400 TV & Film no 00:17:52 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson On this “very special” episode of Filmically Perfect, the Film Guys sit down with Niki Dakota to discuss some of those terminologies seen in the credits of films that make you scratch your head and go “Hmmm...” http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP006_background%20info_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:26:09 -0400 TV & Film no 00:19:32 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson Listen in as we discuss this film that opened the floodgates for one of the greatest of all genres, the Film Noir! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP005_double%20indemnity_FINAL-1.mp3 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:26:07 -0400 TV & Film no 00:19:53 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson "The Girl Can't Help It" and "Strangler of the Swamp!" What a double feature! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP004_guilty_pleasures_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:26:04 -0400 TV & Film no 00:20:17 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson What can one say about The Wizard of Oz that hasn’t already been said? A Technicolor fantasy from the high-point of “The Golden Age of Hollywood” whose disaster-laden production would itself make a great movie! http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP003_Wizard%20of%20Oz_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:26:01 -0400 TV & Film no 00:21:23 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson John Ford, at a time in his career when many are resting on their laurels, pushed into new territory, reinventing the western and giving us one of the most soul-satisfying films ever. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP002_The_Searchers_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:25:55 -0400 TV & Film no 00:22:40 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect George Willeman & J. Todd Anderson In 1951, director Robert Wise and Producer Julian Blaustein created one of the ultimate science-fiction classics, whose powerful message has not been diminished by the passing years or the onslaught of computer technology. http://www.perfectmovie.net/Filmically_Perfect/FP001_Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still_FINAL.mp3 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:25:50 -0400 TV & Film no 00:19:15 Film, Classic, Movie, Chowder, Cheese, Perfect