Thanks for listening to Checkout Cinema, a podcast where two librarians check out movies and review them! Today's episode is a meta episode of sorts where we discuss some upcoming guest episodes, projects, and some films we recently watched locally in Knoxville.
Thanks to Darrell Winfree for editing this episode. Support your local library -- and projectionist!
00:00 Intro / "Season Preview"
01:30 Upcoming Guest: Giveaway winner Joey, discussing AMELIE (2001)
03:09 Upcoming Guest: Crew Smith, director of ANGEL OF LIGHT (2024)
04:05 Amelia's Acting Project
05:55 Knox Horror Fest / Central Cinema / Film Fest Knox shoutout
06:30 Knoxville is a film town! CHROMA and Public Cinema
07:52 CHROMA introduction by Amelia
09:28 FIREWORKS (1947, dir. Kenneth Anger) and NOWHERE (1997, dir. Gregg Araki) - CHROMA showing discussion
16:50 TWILIGHT (2008) and fandom discussion
21:17 JUPITER ASCENDING (2015) as the ultimate middle school girl wish fulfillment
22:23 Back to NOWHERE (1997) and discussing the inversion of teen movie stereotypes
25:18 Amelia's new substack: BABE CINEMA http://babecinema.substack.com/
28:40 Checkout's new project: PERF! https://www.instagram.com/perf_cinema and discussion of film projection
34:34 Outro / Links
