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Special Report: Christine La Monte on Viva Verdi! (2025)

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The Projection Booth

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

4.6709 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Christine La Monte discusses her career and her latest work producing a pair of opera-themed documentaries, the uplifting Viva Verdi! (2025) and the stunning Ai Weiwei's Turandot (2025). La Monte talks about the importance of opera in the modern world and the Oscar-nominated song "Sweet Dreams of Joy."

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys. My name is Hunter. In this podcast, I'll be joined by a different guest each week to discuss a classic Western movie or TV show.

0:09.8

I've been a fan of classic Westerns for as long as I can remember, and in recent years, they've become very nostalgic for me.

0:15.0

I love the aesthetic, the tropes, and I love seeing different filmmakers' takes on them. At their best, they're incredibly entertaining, re-watchable, and some of my all-time favorite movies are westerns. We'll mostly focus on Western movies made in Hollywood, but we'll also be covering spaghetti westerns, and one thing I'm very excited to get into are Western TV shows. I've got some amazing guests coming on the show, film professors, historians, and podcasters,

0:38.2

and tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys is part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network,

0:42.5

and many guests on the show will be from other shows on the network.

0:46.2

Thanks for listening.

0:47.6

If you're looking for more horror outside of the mainstream,

0:50.8

look no further than Unsung Horrors, a podcast about underseen horror movies.

0:56.5

I'm Lance.

0:57.6

And I'm Erica.

0:58.6

Every other week, we'll cover a horror movie with fewer than 1,000 views on Letterboxed.

1:03.5

We'll even give you double feature recommendations to pair with the movies we discuss.

1:07.6

From Gothic to shot on video, from slasher's to comedies, from Gialo to Jhore.

1:13.4

We'll cover all the subgenres. So join us as we unearth these hidden gyms of horror.

1:18.5

Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, all at Unsung Horrors, available wherever you listen to podcasts.

1:25.4

And part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network.

1:33.3

The audio commentary.

1:36.1

It's a dying art form, but here at One Track Mind, I, your wonky yet affable host, Ryan

1:41.8

Luis Rodriguez, analyze film through the prism of these embryonic forms of podcasting,

1:47.8

one audio commentary at a time.

1:51.2

Masterpieces, crapsterpieces, live action, animation, cult classics,

1:56.6

films literally no one has ever heard of.

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