Episode 678: Communion (1989)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Maddrey and Jonathan Penner join Mike to look at Philippe Mora's unusual and challenging 1989 film Communion. Written by Whitley Strieber and adapted from his own book... and his own life... the film stars Christopher Walken as Strieber, a writer who experiences an alien abduction.

Director Phillipe Mora and writer Whitley Strieber discuss the making of the film and its effect on their careers.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:24.6	Turn it off. The
0:40.3	THEIRMANI- Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
0:55.0	Oh!
0:56.0	Oh!
0:58.0	Oh! I can't get out of this! I can't get out of this! It wasn't a dream.
1:40.3	There's a group that meets.
1:42.3	Group?
1:43.3	People who've seen the same sort of things you have.
1:46.0	Which group of aliens have?
1:48.0	Bob, we are not victims.
1:50.0	We are participants.
1:56.0	I don't recall them being human.
2:02.6	I've got to go on my baby screaming!
2:22.3	You're people, you sit there. you're in for one big surprise.
2:27.9	Welcome to the projection booth.
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