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SMC Pod #175: Adaptation Part 1: Frankenstein (novel) to movie (1931, James Whale, Universal)
Adaptation from one storytelling medium to another is key to cinema. Be it a novel, a play, a TV show, an opera, or beloved legend, the work adapted MUST be…
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SMC Pod #174: Dialogue-less Movies (Pure Cinema)
Today, we look at some of the great "pure cinema" movies with little to no dialogue. Now listen-dialogue is great. Dialogue is cinematic. But to scale the…
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SMC Pod #173: The state of cinema, 2025 (it's rough)
Movies have always had their ups and downs. Every time it looks like cinema is gonna give up the ghost, it somehow roars back and a new era is born. But is…
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SMC Pod #172: Is this Cinema? I: Pasolini's Salo or 120 Days of Sodom
Today, we inaugurate an occasional series "Is this Cinema?" in our podcasts. We'll look at a controversial, shocking, and/or divisive movie that divides…
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SMC Pod #171: Watershed movies
Today, we look at watershed movies: movies that changed the culture. That became juggernauts. Where cinema was clearly changed/different AFTER the movies…
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SMC Pod #170: Bill Murray, the Agony & The Ecstasy
Of all the Saturday Night Live TV actors who have gone on to the movies, Bill Murray has had possibly the most fascinating, long lasting, unpredictable run…
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SMC Pod #169: David Lynch, an appreciation
On January 16, 2025, cinema lost one of its greatest lights. David Lynch passed away in Los Angeles at 78 years old. Like all master moviemakers, Lynch…
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SMC Pod #168: The Lubitsch Touch, a prologue
First and foremost, Secret Movie Club sends everyone affected by the Los Angeles fires (this podcast is posted January 2025) the best. We're here as a…
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SMC Pod #167: Akira Kurosawa, Master Filmmaker, 2025 Edition
Realizing we've all ready done several podcasts on Akira Kurosawa, we're treating this like an addendum to a revised edition. Today, we work to fill in some of…
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SMC Pod #166: 2024, the year in movies
Furiosa, Hundreds of Beavers, I Saw the TV Glow, Anora just to name a few showed that 2024 had lots of genius, fight, promise, vitality, relevancy still for…
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SMC Pod #165: Stanley Kubrick, Director of 2020
Stanley Kubrick may be one of the key patron saints of all cinema (even if he himself was an ardent athiest). Born in the Bronx, New York, a mediocre student…
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SMC Pod #164: Alfred Hitchcock, Director of 2023
Has any moviemaker made more out and out hits, influenced 20th century cinematic pop culture iconography, or so married the pop, commercial, and artistic into…
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SMC Pod #163: Roger Corman's Rules
With the passing of the "Pope of Pop Film" Roger Corman at 98 this year, a key era of American moviemaking left us. Producer/Director Roger Corman famously…
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SMC Pod #162: Thanksgiving special-Giving thanks for the Bravo Channel (early 1990's)
And. . .we're back. After almost a year of radio silence, the Secret Movie Club podcast returns with SMC Pod #162! Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig…
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SMC Pod #161: What is a masterpiece & masterpiece inflation
Secret Movie Club team members Edwin Gomez and Craig Hammill hash out what really IS the criteria that makes a movie a masterpiece? Although they easily agree…
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SMC Pod #160: CRUMB & The dark documentary (A deeper doc dive Part II)
Today, Secret Movie Club Team Members Edwin Gomez and Craig Hammill discuss Terry Zwigoff's breakout 1990's documentary CRUMB about underground comic book…
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SMC Pod #159: Communicating cinematically or ”An idea in every shot”
As part of our final season wrap up on Alfred Hitchcock director of the year, we look at Hitchcock's late career advice to film schools to make sure that young…
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SMC Pod #158: Why PSYCHO is the 2001 of Horror movies
For as popular and perennial as Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO is, 62 years after its initial release, Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill feels it…
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SMC Pod #157: Filmmaker Sensibilities: Blockbuster vs Art House
When you love cinema, it's fascinating how some of your favorite moviemakers are beloved by a small passionate group of "in the know" fans and other of your…
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SMC Pod #156: Sex in American Cinema and the X & NC-17 Rating
While the team re-assembles, Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill goes solo to discuss the history of sex in American cinema and the X and NC-17…
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SMC Summer Podcast #10: Twin Peaks:The Return Parts 9-18 & SMC Pod #115: Tom Cruise
And so, finally, we get to Summer 2023 Pod #10. The number of completion. We look at Parts 9-18 of Twin Peaks: The Return. We discuss how David Lynch managed…
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SMC Summer Pod #9: When Hitchcock experiments & SMC Pod #108 Repost The High Concept Low Budget Film
Alfred Hitchcock is one of American cinema's most daring risk-takers and experimenters. His filmmography is filled with wild experiments from single location…
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SMC Summer Pod #8: Twin Peaks The Return Parts 1-8 & SMC Pod #10000 Repost Favorite pre 23rd Century Movies
Today we continue our TWIN PEAKS masterwork series by looking at 2017's TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1-8. Founder.Programmer Craig Hammill talks about how…
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SMC Summer Pod #7: Personal Favorite movies of the 21st century & SMC Pod #96 re-post Speed Racer
SMC founder.programmer Craig Hammill talks about his personal favorite movies of the 21st century including Catch Me If You Can, Zodiac, No Country For Old…
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SMC Summer Pod #6: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me & The Missing Pieces + SMC Pod #86 repost
SMC founder.programmer Craig Hammill continues the podcast summer mini-series deep dive into David Lynch's & Mark Frost's TWIN PEAKS. Today we talk about…
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SMC Summer Pod #5: Twin Peaks Season 1 & 2 Deep Dive + SMC Pod #85 repost: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
As our Summer podcast series heads into the back stretch, founder.programmer Craig Hammill decides to devote the remaining 4 summer pods to a deep dive into…
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SMC Summer Pod #4: David Lynch, Twin Peaks, & the nexus of TV and Cinema + Defend This Movie #1 repost
Today in our ongoing August "summer break series" something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. . .Secret Movie Club founder.programmer…
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SMC Summer Pod #3: William Friedkin, the passing of the 70’s guard, and SMC Radio Hour #4 repost
Today, we continue our SMC Summer Pod hybrid series of new material and a repost of one our favorite earlier pods by honoring 70's maverick moviemaker William…
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SMC Summer Pod #2: Box Office, Critical Success, Longevity + SMC Pod #15: Spike Lee Repost
Craig riffs on the Barbie/Oppenheimer current pop culture juggernaut but also notes how strange it is that a movie like Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part…
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SMC Summer 2023 Pod #1:When you have to reshape a movie & SMC Pod #1 Repost
As we work feverishly to prep our remaining Summer and Fall 2023 seasons, we're going to do a month of new-repost hybrid podcasts. The first 10 minutes or so…
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SMC Podcast #155: David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY & Directors’ Oddball Entries
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) talk about David Lynch's 1999 G rated Disney movie The Straight…
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DEFEND THIS MOVIE #11: William Friedkin’s CRUISING
The return of our side podcast Defend This Movie! Secret Movie Club team member Edwin Gomez has long loved William Friedkin's controversial 1980 police…
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SMC Pod #154: The Fourth of July and Other Summer Holiday Movies!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) gets beach-ready with films for the summer! The Team agrees that…
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SMC Pod #153: SEVEN SAMURAI Special!
On the heels of Secret Movie Club’s biggest screening to date, SMC programmer and founder, Craig Hammill, sits down with Team member and head projectionist…
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SMC Pod #152: Comfort Food Movies + WE BOUGHT A ZOO!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) returns with some tasty comfort food movies that’ll make you feel…
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SMC Bitesize Pod 4: The Heirs of ”The Wizard of Oz”
1939's The Wizard of Oz (dir by Victor Fleming, MGM) was not only one of the greatest movies in what is considered Hollywood's greatest year but it also has…
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SMC Bitesize Pod 3: The ”Perfect Movie”
Secret Movie Club Bitesize Pod #3 (final bitesize pod #4 next week then the gang returns 6/23/23) finds programmer.founder Craig Hammill looking under the hood…
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SMC Bitesize Pod 2: The Life Cycle of Lord of the Rings as cinema
Part #2 of our four part "Bite Size Pods" series finds founder.programmer Craig Hammill looking at the cinematic life cycle of LORD OF THE RINGS. Craig…
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SMC Bitesize Pod 1: Lars Von Trier’s EUROPA/ZENTROPA (1991)
While the Secret Movie Club team takes a much needed one month break (SMC Pod #152 returns June 23rd), founder.programmer Craig Hammill hosts a mini-four part…
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SMC Pod #151: The 2023 Palm Springs 70mm Getaway Recap!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, and Craig Hammill) welcomes podcast newcomer, Team member, and singer/songwriter Marina Sakimoto…
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SMC Pod #150: BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY + Sequels That Are Better Than the Original!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, A.J. Grier, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) buddies with animation writer (Daniel Spellbound) and…
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SMC Pod #149: Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE + More Passion Projects!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, A.J. Grier, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) does NOT keep quiet about Martin Scorsese’s powerful…
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SMC Pod #148: Russ Meyer’s BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS + Roger Ebert!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) freaks out with Russ Meyer’s kaleidoscope of Hollywood, Beyond the…
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SMC Pod #147: CLERKS + Kevin Smith!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) makes a pit stop in Jersey with native son, Kevin Smith, and his…
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SMC Pod #146: Spring Holiday Movies!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) springs into the season with a menagerie of films for holidays from…
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SMC Pod #145: PURPLE RAIN + Musicians in Film!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) takes stage with Prince’s seminal rock musical, Purple Rain…
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SMC Pod #144: Body Swap Movies!
Sorry this is a day late, it has been a wild one. Here’s the description: “The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig…
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SMC Pod #143: Our 3rd Anniversary + Movies That Our Opinions Have Changed On!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) celebrates the third anniversary of the pod by reflecting on their…
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SMC Pod #142: The 3rd Annual Secret Movie Club Podcast Oscars Special!
It’s the big night and the Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) gets all gussied up for a discussion on the…
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SMC Pod #141: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY + Non-Bond Spy Films!
The Top Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) goes undercover with Tomas Alfredson’s masterful adaptation of…
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SMC Pod #140: Hitchcock’s Disciples
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) worships at the temple of cinema and SMC’s director of 2023, Alfred…
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SMC Pod #139: NOTTING HILL and LOVERS ROCK + Movie Pairings!
The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) gets together to discuss SMC’s recent double feature screening of…