If you look back at his filmography and you see the variety of the stuff, much of it low budget and much of exploitation, but still all really interesting and different and trying to do something that nobody else has done.

Well, they're individualistic. They're clearly Larry Cohen movies. I mean, that's what's interesting about a filmmaker where you can see a movie doesn't tell you anything, but seven or eight movies tells you a lot.

You know, I miss the pictures that he made, I miss his spirit, and I miss the spirit of the Times, which we can say was truly the renegade spirit.

That wonderful sense of really about to spin out of control, maybe go out of control, on

screen, maybe off.

And that kind of erases the line between the picture and the actual experience.

It's almost like you're watching something that has a truth to it that you don't expect.

And that's somewhat dangerous, and it's always exciting. What do you mean, that's it? My career's over.

The moral of it is never give up. If you think you have a good movie,

you just can't listen to other people and let them dissuade you and let them get you discouraged.

You just have to keep annoying people.

The only thing that's important is your own film.

The New Beverly Cinema Presents the Pure Cinema podcast.

God told us to.

God told us to do it.

God told us to do a tribute to Mr. Larry Cohen, which is what we're doing this evening.

Yeah, it was never in question.

I think even though we had just, I think, recorded the episode we were going to be leading next with.

We both kind of knew that this had to be done.

Yeah. I mean, sadly, you know, our process requires a little time, so we couldn't do it immediately,

but we definitely wanted to show Larry some love in the wake of his passing.

Yeah, and he's truly, like people say that every time somebody dies, that they're a one of a kind,

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