AYT Cannes Film Festival Edition

June 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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A special Cannes Film Festival edition of AYT, in which Erik chats with friend and colleague Nicholas Bell, writer for ioncinema, about his festival experience and all the must see films that will make their way to the States in the next year (and change). We’ll be back next week with a proper episode of the podcast.

Regular episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

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AYT #63: Only The Summer Forgives

May 2, 2013 By 1 Comment

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This week, Joe and Erik review two new movies on each end of the Summer movie spectrum: Gimme The Loot and Iron Man 3. Then it’s on to their top 5 most anticipated Summer movies of 2013, big and small. Let us know what films you’re anticipating.

New episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

WARNING: Explicit language is used in this podcast.

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Producer  -- Drew Wallner
Co-Host, Segment Editor -- Joe von Appen
Co-Host, Audio Editor -- Erik McClanahan
Presented by -- The Northwest Film Center
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Bruno Recommends: ‘Drive’

March 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This review is republished from Nick Bruno’s blog, The Rain Falls Down on Portlandtown.

Though the man has been making films for more than fifteen years now, it was in 2011 that Nicolas Winding Refn truly arrived with Drive; a cool distillation of 1980s Hollywood action and thriller tropes remixed by a cultural outsider.  Many have already pointed out how Drive pulls from works associated with that decade by Michael Mann, Paul Schrader, Walter Hill and Brian De Palma and, yes, there’s absolutely something valid about that comparison.  But it’s a bit of a stretch to describe the film as just an homage to films like Thief, Hardcore, The Driver and Dressed to Kill.

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Bruno Recommends: ‘Fear X’

March 14, 2012 By 1 Comment

For his third feature, “Fear X,” Danish-born director Nicolas Winding Refn brings his uniquely effective eye for cinematic violence to America.  He couldn’t have chosen two more appropriate symbols for the country than the film’s setting–a shopping mall–and the violence with which the plot concerns itself; it’s located in the past, connoting a history of violence, as well as the dark potential for future mayhem.

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McClanahan Recommends: ‘Pusher III: I’m The Angel Of Death’

March 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“I’m not a crime buff in any way, but I am interested in people, the sociological aspect. With gangsters, it’s life or death which intensifies the drama,” Refn says in the documentary “Gambler,” and while that’s hard to believe, it’s actually the secret to the “Pusher” films.

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Nicolas Winding Refn: An Appreciation

March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Sometimes you just know, but can’t always properly articulate, why a particular film is great. Or, in the case of “Drive”—the latest film from Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling as a movie stunt driver by day and getaway driver by night who falls in love while getting on the bad side of some nasty criminals—when the trailer finally dropped way back in June 2011, we thought the film looked amazing, and never imagined we’d have to explain why. It’s one of those previews you see and it looks like the most badass piece of cinema in years (the trailer is not unlike the one for “The Tree of Life” in its power to capture the imagination and induce puddles of film-loving drool, but for genre movie geeks instead of arthouse nerds), and then you watch it again, and again.

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McClanahan Recommends: ‘Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands’

March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The middle chapter in the Pusher Trilogy follows its most pathetic character. Yet it’s the strongest film of the series, and the darkest in tone and consequences. [Read more...]

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Adjust Your Tracking #8: The Refnening

March 8, 2012 By 7 Comments

Adjust Your Tracking is the podcast produced through the facilities of the Northwest Film Center Newsroom. The show is hosted by Joe von Appen and Erik McClanahan, and produced by Jessica Lyness and Laurel Degutis. Opinions expressed are that of the hosts, and not necessarily of the Northwest Film Center.

In this week’s episode, Joe and Erik discuss the work of excellent Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. His films will screen at the Whitsell Auditorium as part of the Film Center’s new series, Driven: the Films of Nicolas Winding Refn.That series runs from March 8 – 18. Also, a news segment called Make it Stop is introduced and the hosts revisit their picks from last week’s Love It/Hate It.

New episodes of AYT are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/adjustyourtrack. You can download the podcast by right-clicking the link below and selecting ‘Save Link As…’ Once saved, the show can be played in iTunes or any other mp3 player. Or stream it on the embedded player.

WARNING: Explicit language is used in this podcast.

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Bruno Recommends: “Pusher”

March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This review is republished from Nick Bruno’s blog, The Rain Falls Down on Portlandtown.

Fifteen years before Nicholas Winding Refn thrilled audiences with the genre-inspired hit Drive, he kicked off his career with Pusher; the first entry in an eventual triptych focused on the misfortunes of street-level drug dealers in Copenhagen.  Looking at the Pusher trilogy now, it’s possible to trace Refn’s rapid advancement as he learned the tools of his trade, accumulating the distinctive flourishes (especially those based in lighting, cutting and camera placement) that characterize his work to this day. [Read more...]

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