In this extended version of our conversation with Craig "Spike"
Decker and documentarian Kat Alioshin, we hear more about the history of
the Spike and Mike Festival of Animation.
Spike teamed up with Mike Gribble in the 1970's to launch the Spike and Mike
Festival (a...
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Thousands of film industry crew members and actors have learned the ropes
working for Lloyd Kaufman and his independent studio Troma Entertainment.
The low-budget movies that Lloyd has directed and produced include Class
of Nuke ‘em High, Sergeant Kabukiman, and four...
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In this extended conversation with Troma Entertainment co-founder Lloyd
Kaufman, we feature 50% more fun.
For the past half-century, thousands of film industry crew members and
actors have learned the ropes working for Lloyd and his
fiercely independent New York stud...
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Portland's Clinton Street Theater is a fabled community space and the
oldest single-screen cinema west of the Mississippi river. It's been
fiercely independent for over a hundred years, bucking trends that have taken
down huge corporate theater chains.
Aaron Colter ...
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Jan Haaken is a clinical psychologist who also happens to be an author and
documentary filmmaker. Her films include Guilty Except for Insanity, a look
behind the walls of a hospital for the criminally insane; Mind Zone, a
portrait of therapists with the 113th Army Co...
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"There's nothing silent about.. silent films," says Dean Lemire. Dean and
a crew of Portland-area musicians and tinkerers are on a mission to preserve
and showcase the classic pipe organs that originally provided soundtracks to
silent films. Through Pipe Organ Pictu...
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In this hour-long special, British comics artist Darryl Cunningham tackles
the topics of economic and political corruption. His graphic non-fiction
books include The Age of Selfishness, How to Fake a Moon Landing,
Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful, and...
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From member of the Chicago underground comics scene to New Yorker cover
artist and college professor, Ivan Brunetti has been challenging readers with
his scathing satire and sharp intellect for decades. Now, he's brought his
theories of comics structure to the mains...
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In the wake of recent book bannings in school libraries, most notably of Art
Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel Maus, S.W. Conser and Bill
Dodge revisit their earlier Words and Pictures conversations with
Spiegelman.
Included in this episode are excerp...
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