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Two weeks ago friend of the Podwits, Randy Jurgensen screened a ultra-rare 35mm print of his even rarier 1987 film Heart, which starred Brad Davis, Frances Fisher and Steve Buscemi. In a nutshell the film is basically about the reality for many aspiring prizefighters hoping for the Rocky title shot happy-ending. It was screened at 92YTribeca, which [...]

I was lucky enough to attend a very small screening of William Friedkin’s rarely-shown 1977 cult classic Sorcerer, a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s French classic Wages of Fear, which has been called the most suspenseful film of all time. What made this screening such a treat was not only seeing a 35mm print of Sorcerer, but the rare Q&A by the [...]

“Welcome True Believers!“  I recently had the luck to travel over to Los Angeles with Podwits contributor J. Blake on what proved to be one of the most exciting, and rewarding trips that I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy. The bulk of that is due to the GREAT content we were able to gather and will be [...]

In Part 2 of this Podwits EXCLUSIVE, NYPD veteran and Film icon Randy Jurgensen give his opinion of the mindset of the police brass that made it so hard to be a policeman in New York City in the 60′s and 70′s. The author then talks about why it was so easy for him to [...]