Episode 53: Ashlee Blackwell

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07/27/20 • 103 min

Bill speaks to writer, producer/screenwriter and professor Ashlee Blackwell about her various endeavors, from organizing events like Philly Loves Women In Horror and developing the Graveyard Shift Sisters website to teaching film at St. Joseph’s University and co-writing, co-producing and appearing in the documentary HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR. Topics include: James Bond III, the value in narrowing one’s focus, R. Shanea Williams, THE EXORCIST, Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, unwinding to stand-up comedy and having one’s feminist sensibilities awakened by A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER. Follow Ashlee Blackwell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshleeTakesNote Read Graveyard Shift Sisters: https://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com Watch HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR: https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/horror-noire-a-history-of-black-horror/4548652 Listen to Ashlee Blackwell and Diandra Lazor interview actress Toy Newkirk on Elm Street Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeWEUoYmqek Read "Why We Exist: A Call For Community": https://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com/2013/10/why-we-exist-call-for-community.html Watch the films of R. Shanea Williams: https://vimeo.com/user3681349

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Episode 52: E. Purchell

Bill speaks to film historian, preservationist and filmmaker E. Purchell about their various endeavors, from programming and creating pre-screening short films for the Florida Avalon microcinema to the development of ASK ANY BUDDY, their Artforum 'Best of 2018' Instagram feed and acclaimed collage film companion. Topics include: Gregg Araki, Man Parrish, the Don’t Look In The Closet podcast, the film programming of Jazmyne Moreno, Everything Is Terrible!, Dark Entries Records, Instagram and Vimeo restrictions, Tom DeSimone and the contradictory qualities of adult films. Follow the ASK ANY BUDDY Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/askanybuddy/

Visit the official ASK ANY BUDDY film website:

https://www.ask-any-buddy.com

Follow Evan Purchell on Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/schlockvalue/

Follow Evan Purchell on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/schlockvalue

Read Evan Purchell’s lists for Rupert Pupkin Speaks:

http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2017/09/underrated-77-evan-purchell.html

http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2019/01/film-discoveries-of-2018-evan-purchell.html

http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2020/02/film-discoveries-of-2019-evan-purchell.html

Read A Most Unusual Film List: 50 Years of Radical Queer Cinema:

https://talkfilmsociety.com/articles/a-most-unusual-film-list-50-years-of-radical-queer-cinema

Read Heather Drain’s interview with Evan Purchell:

https://diaboliquemagazine.com/nights-in-black-leather-an-interview-with-ask-any-buddy-creator-evan-purchell/

Watch BFI Flare Programmer Brain Robinson speaks with Evan Purchell about ASK ANY BUDDY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsNxUgeCQQ

Listen to the ASK ANY BUDDY Spotify Playlist:

Ask Any Buddy, a playlist by Evan Purchell on Spotify

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Episode 54: Nellie Killian

Bill speaks to film programmer Nellie Killian about her pursuits in film, from attending Orson Welles and Fritz Lang retrospectives as a child to co-founding the Migrating Forms Film Festival and teaching film courses at the Pratt Institute. They discuss her career in programming, from her work with venues like Brooklyn Academy Of Music to such recent efforts as the acclaimed TELL ME: WOMEN FILMMAKERS, WOMEN’S STORIES, now streaming on The Criterion Channel. Topics include: The Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund, experimental films, the New York Underground Film Festival, producing live subtitles for 35mm Andrzej Zulawski movie screenings, virtual cinema rentals, the publicity work of Michael Lieberman and Ryan Werner, the impact of COVID-19 on New York film culture and moderating Q&As while injured. Watch on TELL ME: WOMEN FILMMAKERS, WOMEN’S STORIES on The Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/tell-me-women-filmmakers-women-s-stories

View Nellie Killian's official site:

https://nelliekillian.com Visit the Screen Slate Twitch page: https://www.twitch.tv/screenslate Watch the Movie Club Q&A with Nellie Killian and Miriam Bale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPFh9CgeErI Read Eric Allen Hatch's interview with Nellie Killian: http://endcrawl.com/blog/shared-histories-popular-obscure/ Read the Artforum article on the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund: https://www.artforum.com/print/202005/thomas-beard-ed-halter-nellie-killian-and-sierra-pettengill-on-the-cinema-worker-solidarity-fund-82816