BTP: Interview with Brett Ryan Bonowicz (Odyssey Film Institute)
Release Date: 04/14/2025
BTP: Val, Ninjas, Hitchcock
Balboa Theatre Podcast
A 3 piece episode of Balboa Theatre Podcast---1. Val Kilmer tribute with Batman Forever on 35mm, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and The Island of Dr. Moreau on VHS---2. Interview time of a Super Secret Ninja Double Feature with Kai of Super Shangri-LA (the Balboa's longest running speciality program)---3. A deep dive into Hitchcock Fest May 23rd-26th. Episode is a fast, furious, and raw format. Showtimes and events at Balboa Theatre: Instagram: @balboatheater @warpedVHS
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BTP: Surf's up May 2025 Calendar
Balboa Theatre Podcast
The sun and waves and youth rebellion and those Thunderbolts* with The Surfer come to the Balboa Theatre, this month of May. At least once a week we got 16mm or 35mm print running or even both. A new segement phone call from projectionist Harry's Hot Takes. A focus on the youth in revolt cinema this month. Sprinkles of up coming events focusing on Val Kilmer tribute, Hitchcock fest, Samurai Sunday, Gallery 3630, Warped VHS, and Super Shangri-La's Super Secret Ninja Double Feature later this month. So grab a board come hit the cinema waves with us in San Francisco's Richmond District. ...
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BTP: Interview with Brett Ryan Bonowicz (Odyssey Film Institute)
Balboa Theatre Podcast
This month for our interview film conversation at the Balboa Theatre Podcast with film programmer Brett Ryan Bonowicz, the Founder of the Odyssey Film Institute and Theater Manager of the Niles Film Museum. We talk with Brett about his 35mm collection for the month of April 2025 selections from Unforgiven (tribute to Gene Hackman), Ocean's 11 (a love for Steven Soderbergh movies), Blue Velvet (continuing monthly screening on 35mm at Balboa in honor of David Lynch), and ending the month off with From Dusk till Dawn (a true 35mm bloody classic audience banger in collabration with 35...
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April 2025 Calendar & Highlights
Balboa Theatre Podcast
Balboa Theatre April 2025 Calendar is packed with a retrospective movie a day and special programming events all throughout the month. Spring is crime time with many crime style time movies from the past including 35mm print screenings of Unforgiven, Ocean's 11, Blue Velet, and From Dusk till Dawn from the Odyssey Fillm Institute. 16mm screening of Gimme Shelter from See It on 16mm. A tribute month to Gene Hackmen, Jack Nicholson's birthday movie, Samurai Saturdays, Troma special event, 420 screening of Inherent Vice, and many many more. Showtimes and events at Balboa Theatre: ...
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Balboa Theatre Podcast Interview: Unnamed Footage Fest with Russell Fisher
Balboa Theatre Podcast
Welcome to back to Balboa Theatre Podcast episode numero dos and our first interview episode. This episode, Benji hangs out with Russell Fisher from the Overlook Theatre Hour and Footage Foreplay podcast. Russell is one of the founders and programmers of the Unnamed Footage Fest, returning for it's 8th year at the Balboa, this March 28th and 29th. Benji and Russell talk the movie shop, hosting genre film festivals in the Bay Area, making movies, loving found footage aka in world camera movies and all the subgenres, programming from the weird, twisted, and out there submissions. Additional to...
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Very 1st Episode: March 2025 Calendar, Highlights, and UFF8
Balboa Theatre Podcast
The New Balboa Theatre Podcast, it's the very first episode with the March 2025 calendar, highlight events, and the upcoming Unnamed Footage Fest no. 8. Talking about movies, movies, and more movies.
info_outlineThis month for our interview film conversation at the Balboa Theatre Podcast with film programmer Brett Ryan Bonowicz, the Founder of the Odyssey Film Institute and Theater Manager of the Niles Film Museum. We talk with Brett about his 35mm collection for the month of April 2025 selections from Unforgiven (tribute to Gene Hackman), Ocean's 11 (a love for Steven Soderbergh movies), Blue Velvet (continuing monthly screening on 35mm at Balboa in honor of David Lynch), and ending the month off with From Dusk till Dawn (a true 35mm bloody classic audience banger in collabration with 35 Millimurder).
Also an in-depth talk about how seeing a film print in a dark theater as a time machine taking us back to the year that movie first came out and transporting the audience into a different world. IB Technicolor. Benji and Brett's love of Quiz Show from 1994. Brett's search for a 35mm print of Soderbergh's Solaris from 2002. The dream to show a 35mm print of Tim Burton's Ed Wood from 1994, if Disney would give the permission rights. Film print hunting stories. Teaching 16mm film projection classes and much much more.
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Music for this episode from
HALB ††† with the song †his is a †rick