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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

On a special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with filmmaker Steve Mitchell about his 2017 documentary King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen. Mike also speaks to the film's subject, Larry Cohen, about his work on "Branded" and "Columbo" as well as several of his films.



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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.5

Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.

0:07.2

Anybody here like me?

0:08.7

If you had never seen a Larry Cohen film,

0:11.2

you're going to be in for some really radically unique entertainment.

0:16.1

Larry started as a writer, eventually became a director to protect Larry the writer.

0:21.5

Yeah, shut up. We don't need all this bullshit.

0:25.5

Bow, what was that?

0:27.0

Larry Cohn is so much the invisible man.

0:29.5

It's entirely possible to have seen a lot of his work without knowing you were seeing his work.

0:33.4

His movies have this energy and this attack.

0:39.0

Larry Cohen. It's like the white Martin Luther King for movies.

0:43.3

I don't know what black exploitation means.

0:45.3

Every movie is exploitation.

0:47.2

So what?

0:49.0

He's a madman, but he makes these great little films.

0:51.8

There's a brilliance, there's a childish, naughtiness about him.

0:56.5

He would do things that were dangerous.

0:58.8

Larry would not only shoot in the streets of New York,

1:00.5

he would drive cars up on the sidewalk on the streets of New York.

1:02.8

This is New York City.

1:04.1

Just get out of the way when you're coming.

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