Old Movies For Young Stoners

The San Francisco Film Preserve is bringing the Re:Vision Film Festival to the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from September 24-27, so we've got a preview of their most bizarre double bill + we're paying tribute to the great Tim Curry with his most punk movie ever.

First, Re:Vision is bringing a restored print of an El Santo sex film to the Roxie with LOS LEPROSOS Y EL SEXO aka LEPERS AND SEX an extreme oddity from 1970 where Calderon Studios took a lucha libre western and added softcore sex scenes to it for International audiences. It's hard to believe that the movie actually exists and isn't just a fever dream an original negative was discovered in the mid-2010s and restored to all its sleazy glory by Cinema Preservation Alliance and Permanencia Voluntaria in 2022. Known without the sex scenes as SANTO VS. THE RIDERS OF TERROR, this version has escaped lepers terrorizing a small town and breaking in on any couples who are getting it on, and only the masked wrestling legend EL SANTO can restore justice and order! Directed by Mexican exploitation maestro René Cardona, who also baffled audiences with SANTA CLAUS (1959), which we featured in last year's Christmas episode.

LOS LEPROSOS Y EL SEXO screens at the Roxie on Saturday, Sept. 29th at 9 p.m. with Pteryphlegia (1986), a sci-fi short from the Netherlands featuring the prog rock sounds of YES, and lucky for you, we have YES obsessive and Greg's cousin Darren Norris to parse all the needle drops. Find out how to buy tickets at the Roxie's website here: https://roxie.com/film/revision-lepers-sex-aka-santo-vs-the-riders-of-terror/

And find out more about the SF Film Preserve and Re:Vision here: https://filmpreserve.org/revision/

And then, the great Tim Curry left us on August 25th, so we're paying tribute to him with TIMES SQUARE, a punk rock drama with a mostly banger soundtrack set in the sleaze of pre-Disneyfied New York in 1980. Robin Johnson and Trini Alvarado are troubled teens who escape from a mental hospital and start a new wave rebellion and Curry is the sleazy DJ who seeks to exploit them. Directed by Allan Moyle (EMPIRE RECORDS) and featuring the music of The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Gary Neuman, The Cars, and Robin Gibb (!). Yes, Robin Gibb. Good thing Cory and Darren can music geek out and make sense of all this. TIMES SQUARE is part of the Criterion Channel's awesome Girl Bands! collection.

Hosts: Cory Sklar, Bob Calhoun, and Darren Norris

Greg Franklin was at a screening of his award-winning animated short THE WHISTLE and Philena went back to college! We'll get her back after finals.

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"Grassy Hill" by Huma Huma, "Aztec Empress by Jimena Contreras and "Celestial Distortion" courtesy of YouTube Audio Library.

Archival and trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org.

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COYOTE VS. ACME has crushed the box office, or at least exceeded expectations, so GREG FRANKLIN returns to the podcast that he co-created to talk LOONEY TUNES with Bob for this special "mini" episode, which turns out to be our second longest episode ever. It is the MY DINNER WITH ANDRE of OMFYS episodes. Just two dudes talking, and talking and talking. But hey, Cory always tells Bob that "people like long podcasts," so here we are.

In a world of super hero fanboys, Greg is a funny animal guy, and he's an award-winning animator and co-founder of Six Point Harness Studios, so you're getting an expert opinion here. In planning this episode, Greg said, "I can Looney Tunes for hours," and he proves it right here with in-depth analysis of the works of Chuck Jones, Bob Clapmpett, Friz Freling, Carl Stalling and Mel Blanc, just to name a few.

Here is a list of the cartoons discussed by Greg and Bob in this epic episode with the Tubi season and episode numbers, so you can find them more easily. Tubi bundles each short into "episodes" consisting of three cartoons, so these might not be the first Looney Tune in each episode, but they're in there... Somewhere.

S09:E07 - The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946). Bob Clampett

S01:E04 - The Night of the Living Duck

S07:E15 - The Scarlet Pumpernickel

S09:E02 - The Big Snooze (1946). Clampett/Arthur Davis

S10:E06 - Falling Hare (1943)

S13:E09 - Book Revue (1946). Clampett

S10:E01 - Wackiki Wabbit (1943). Jones

S04:E12 - There They Go-Go-Go (1956). Jones

S04:E20 - One Froggy Evening (1955). Chuck Jones

S04:E17 - To Hare Is Human (1956). Jones

S05:E01 - Double or Mutton (1955). Jones

S04:E05 - Three Little Bops (1957). Freling

S04:E06 - Birds Anonymous (1957). Friz Freling

S08:E03 - French Rarebit (1951)

S09:E11 - Draftee Daffy (1945). Clampett

S08:E20 - Easter Yeggs (1947). McKimson

S10:E18 - Eatin' on the Cuff (1942). Clampett

S10:E12 - The Dover Boys (1942). Jones

S06:E12 - Water, Water Every Hare (1952). Chuck Jones

S08:E20 - Birth of a Notion (1947). McKimson/Clampett

S09:E07 - Hair-Raising Hare (46). Jones

P.S. We owe Hell on Frisco Bay a Roxie Theater gift certificate if he actually adds all of these tunes to our Letterbxd page. (Thanks Brian!)

Co-hosts: Greg Franklin and Bob Calhoun

Cory and Philena are on assignment

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Public Domain Looney Tunes audio courtesy of Archive.org

List of public domain Looney Tunes: https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Warner_Bros._cartoons_that_are_currently_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States

List of Looney Tunes shorts on Tubi, in chronological order: https://www.reddit.com/r/looneytunes/comments/1nkawpf/list_of_looney_tunes_shorts_on_tubi_but_in/

NEXT EPISODE: Re:Vision Film Fest with Lepers & Sex AKA Santo vs The Riders of Terror (1970) and Pteryphlegia (1986). Subscribe so you don't miss it!

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Associate producer of DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991) and legendary film programmer FLOYD WEBB is back on the podcast with a pair of movies set in Africa, but only one of them is filmed there. It shouldn't be too hard to guess which one.

First, Mory and Anta, a pair of young lovers dream of leaving the dusty streets of Dakar in Senegal for their fantasies of Paris in TOUKI BOUKI (1973). Director Djibril Diop Mambéty's visual masterpiece starts out hyper realistic but becomes more hallucinatory as Mory and Anta plan their escape. Emergency guest host Darren Norris says that it feels like somebody is telling you their dream. The image of Mory and Anta riding on a motorcycle with a zebu steer skull attached to the handlebars was recreated by Beyoncé and Jay-Z to promote their 2018 world tour and the movie was named the 66th greatest film of all time on Sight and Sound's Critic's Poll in 2022. Streaming on Criterion and HBOMax.

Then Richard Widmark is a Viking conman and Sidney Poitier is a Moorish King and their both after "The Mother of All Voices," a bell made with half of the gold in all the world, in THE LONG SHIPS (1964), an historical epic that's a little heavy on the cheese while being groundbreaking in actually having a Black person portray the ruler of an empire. Directed by Jack Cardiff, the master of Technicolor who was the director of photography of Powell and Pressberger's visual feasts THE RED SHOES (1948), A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (46), and BLACK NARCISSUS (47) along with John Huston's THE AFRICAN QUEEN (51). Hey, he also shot Rambo and Conan sequels in the 80s. Also starring Russ Tamblyn in Viking hotpants and Rosanna Schiaffino in the outfit that inspired Princess Leia's geddup from RETURN OF THE JEDI. Streaming on tubi.

Philena couldn't make it becasue she can't deal with the animal snuff no matter how artfully filmed the graphic slaughter of goats and steers may be, and her dad Greg is on assignment, but so they sent their cousin DARREN NORRIS from the CULTURAL FUTURES EXCHANGE podcast as an emergency guest host! Thanks Darren! CULTURAL FUTURES EXCHANGE does deep dives into pop culture artifacts. Darren and his co-host Jeff recently did a two part episode on the PHANTASM film series that you can listen to pay tribute to REGGIE BANNISTER, everyone's favorite undead-fighting icecream man from all five Phantasm films. Reggie, RIP.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-16-phantasm-part-1/id1610952595?i=1000579814444
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-16-phantasm-part-2/id1610952595?i=1000581278794

We also catch up with Floyd about everything he has going on including the new documentary LEGALLY DRUGGED (2026), an upcoming documentary about Yasuke the Black Samurai, and a martial arts film fest he's bringing to Chicago. You can find out more about Floyd at https://floydwebb.com/

And check out LEGALLY DRUGGED at https://legally-drugged.com/

Cory is currently on tour showing URGH! A MUSIC WAR at an arthouse theater near you. See him and URGH! at the Roxie in San Francisco on Sunday, Aug. 30th at 3 p.m. Click here to buy tickets: https://roxie.com/film/revolutions-per-movie-presents-urgh-a-music-war/


"Wandering and Floating" by Au.Ra and "Tropic" by Public Memory courtesy of YouTube Audio Library.

Archival audio courtesy of Archive.org.

NEXT EPISODE: Stoners vs. ACME where Greg Franklin talks Looney Tunes for the full hour!

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Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY crushed it at the box office this weekend, but this is far from the first film to bring the Greek myths to life on the big screen. While Cory maintains that Nolan ain't stoney, we found some myth movies that are! Plus we've got cannabis comic and mythology nerd Ngaio Bealum to find the right strains to send you on your very own quest for the Golden Fleece.

There is really no other movie we should begin with but this one. It's peak Ray Harryhausen with JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS from 1963. Harryhausen brings us the giant Talos, winged-harpies, the seven-headed Hydra AND the skeleton battle that may be the stop motion wizard's greatest achievement. Streaming on Tubi and Roku Channel (although Ngaio warns that the commercial breaks on Roku are "abrupt.")

Then, horror maestro Mario Bava drags our beloved demigod Hercules straight to hell in HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (1961) aka HERCULES AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (UK version). This entry in Italy's sword and sandal cycle from the early 60s is "totally metal" according to Cory, and it's Bava so it has freaky wraiths rising from the tombs of Hades and trees that bleed bright red Hammer horror blood. English body builder Reg Park is Hercules and Dracula himself CHRISTOPHER LEE is the vampire sorcerer who opposes him. The U.S. version with trippy Filmation credits sequence is on Pluto (appropriately); the UK version is on YouTube; and the Italian cut with subtitles is on Prime. Take your pick.

As always, we begin by digressing with talk of rock shows and rock clubs we have loved, plus what to partake in before Nolan's three hour ODYSSEY and LISTENER MAIL! Please write to us at oldmoviesforyoungstoners@gmail.com. We love getting mail!

Hosts: Cory Sklar, Ngaio Bealum and Bob Calhoun

Greg and Philena are on assignment.

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You can now hear Ngaio on CROSS-POLINATION, a 2-hour showcase of great music and comedy every Tuesday from 10am to Noon on Sacramento's KUTZ 95.7 FM. You can listen on the web at https://www.kutzfm.org.

"Hydra" by Huma Huma and "Heaven and Hell (Part 2)" by Jeremy Blake courtesy of YouTube Audio Library.

Trailer and archival audio courtesy of Archive.org.

Next episode: Documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb joins us once again for the Senegalese psychedelia of TOUKI BOUKI (1973) and THE LONG SHIPS (1964), a Viking epic with Richard Widmark and Sydney Poitier.

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The PhilenApocalypse is back and this time cannabis comic Ngaio Bealum is here to witness it! This year Philena takes a swipe at super heroes just as their box office fortunes are starting to wane. Her first pick puts the trans in transgressive as trans femme comedian Vera Drew violates all manner of copyrights with THE PEOPLE'S JOKER (2022), a stinging satire of Batman and stand-up comedy wrapped in a surprisingly personal coming-of-age tale. It'll all make sense if you just watch it on Tubi, but not before getting your strain recs from Ngaio and Philena.

And then Philena goes a little more mainstream with SKY HIGH (2005), a live-action Disney comedy about a high school for superheroes that is floating in the clouds. Philena thought this was something she dreamed up until rediscovering it recently. It does exist! The movie has one of the most loaded casts ever with Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Bruce Campbell (!), Lynda Carter (!!), Chloris Leachman (!!!), Mary Elizabeth Winstead + Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald from "The Kids in the Hall"!!! Even with Philena controlling the horizontal and the vertical, she has to endure Ngaio and Bob descending into fanboy talk as they go way too deep into Legion of Super Heroes lore for a while, but Philena was fascinated by the tragic tale of Triplicate Girl and Duo Damsel at least. SKY HIGH is streaming on Disney+.

Philena, Ngaio and Bob also discuss the zero-budget hit horror movies BACK ROOMS and OBSESSION. Are the Zoomer YouTubers taking over Hollywood, or is everyone is just sick of super heroes and STAR WARS??? The OMFYS trio entertain and inform as they grasp at answers.

You can now hear Ngaio on CROSS-POLINATION, a 2-hour showcase of great music and comedy every Tuesday from 10am to Noon on Sacramento's KUTZ 95.7 FM. You can listen on the web at https://www.kutzfm.org.

Hosts: Philena Franklin & Bob Calhoun. Cory Sklar & Greg Franklin are on assignment.

Much love to Rosemary Picado, Tigger Franklin and Buddy Sklar.

Old Movies for Young Stoners and PhielnApocalypse themes courtesy of Chaki, the Funk Wizard.

"Heaven and Earth" by Jeremy Black, "Jacoby" by Schwartz, and "Saving the World" by Aaron Kenny courtesy of YouTube Audio Library.

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Next episode: Greek Odysseys with JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) and some crappy Italian Hercules movie. Subscribe wherever you cast pods so you don't miss it!

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