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Download Girl%20Wired%20Interview%20Final%20Edit.mp3 This week Cody contacts writer/director Tony D'Alessio to discuss his feature debut Girl, Wired! In this interview you can hear Tony discuss how difficult financing a first time feature can be, as well as dealing with scams, and how he
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Download 3D%20Archive%20Interview%20Final.wav Cody welcomes Bob Furmanek to the Film Assist Podcast as he conducts his first interview! Before getting into the juicy discussion Cody has to go over some changes for his podcast and site. They talk about many interesting aspects in the field of 3-
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Hello my wonderful readers! It has been far too long. And I mean far too long. I've missed writing and interacting with all of you, but sometimes you have to side with a job that leaves you with no life. The good news is that that job is
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Hello, my fellow bloggers. I know it has been a while, but I wanted to share with you all that I'll be coming back to the Film Assist Blog with some fun new content soon enough. Starting September 8th new posts will be dropping every week. Essays, lists,
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Film means a lot to me and for the last few years I've had an on again/off again blog about it. Within the last year I've really hunkered down and produced some of my favorite blog posts for this site that I'm really
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Hello all. If you have been reading my posts lately then you'll be familiar with my weekly schedule of TV posts on Monday, Movie posts on Wednesday, and podcasts on Fridays. Unfortunately after thinking about this for a few weeks I've decided to end the Film
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Download Scorsese%20ep%206%20Taxi%20Driver.mp3 The seminal film that made Martin Scorsese is here, and Cody has seen it before. For the first time going through his filmography Cody is revisiting a classic that he had mixed feelings about. Will he change his mind after years of hating
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Download scorsese%20ep%205%20alice.mp3 Cody journey's through the 70s with Martin Scorsese by quickly examining his film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as well as getting a breakthrough on what makes Scorsese so special to film. https://ia801406.us.archive.org/35/items/ScorseseEp5Alice/
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Download scorsese%20ep%204%20Italian%20american%20plus%20shorts.mp3 Cody takes a step back and provides a soothing, more relaxed, podcast episode as he covers the short documentary ItalianAmerican and a few of Scorsese's previous shorts. https://ia601404.us.archive.org/8/items/ScorseseEp4ItalianAmericanPlusShorts/scorsese%20ep%204%20Italian%
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Download scorsese%20ep%203%20mean%20streets.mp3 The Scorsese-a-thon continues with the big man's third feature, Mean Streets. Arguably the film that put him on the map, Mean Streets is talked about mostly in detail by production rather than plot. Cody also comments on his last
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Download Scorsese%20ep%202%20Boxcar%20Bertha.mp3 Cody takes a different approach to podcasting this episode and focuses on a shorter and more tight approach, and a script! He goes over Scorsese's second narrative film, Boxcar Bertha, and compares it to his debut as well as how this
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The ending shot of The Beach Bum shows Moondog dozing off in a boat being rocked by waves, and in many respects that's the thesis this movie is trying to explore. Directed by Harmony Korine, The Beach Bum stars Matthew McConaughey as the titular character Moondog as he