Posts Tagged ‘Frank Capra’

Filmdogs Interview | Oscar Nominated Writer/Director Luke Matheny talks about his short “God of Love”

Writer/Director Luke Matheny has had a pretty good year. Not only did he graduate from NYU’s prestigious film program, but his thesis film God of Love won the Student Academy Award last May. The good tidings don’t stop there however, as winning that award led his film receiving an Academy Award nomination this year in the live action short category. Word on the street is that he has a  pretty good shot at taking home that statue as well…A few days ago I had the opportunity to talk to Luke the movie, which concerns the romantic misadventures of a lounge singer turned cupid, and discuss what it’s like to be an Oscar Nominee.

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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 32 – It’s a Wonderful Podcast

Ho Ho Ho! The Filmdogs Podcast is here to make your Holiday bright with it’s very first Christmas episode, in which the gang offers up some of our personal seasonal favorites to you the listener. Some of the topics discussed in addition to Christmas movies past are: “How much Christmas makes a Christmas movie?” (Samples: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon), Why you should never make a sequel to a Christmas film (Samples: Home Alone 2, The Santa Clause Sequels), and why you should NEVER cast Steven Tyler as an Elf… It’s a tightly packed 50 minute episode that is sure to make a great stocking stuffer. Merry Christmas folks!

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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 19 – School’s Out

The 19th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is threaded and ready to roll. This week we chat about new projects from Chris Pine, Gulliermo Del Toro, Robert Rodziguez, and Spielberg in the News. Then we discuss the bearded ones’ 1991 film Hook for In Defense of. It’s our 5 favorite screenplays in our Featured Topic, and to close it out we have a famous convo from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in our The One Liner of the Week.

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