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In episode 31, Johnny talks to New Zealand director Michael Duignan.
Michael’s debut feature - The Paragon - premiered last year at the New Zealand International Film Festival, and blew audiences away.
Made for a budget of just $25,000 NZD - the dictionary definition of making something ‘off the smell of an oily rag’ - The Paragon is a sci-fi-comedy that punches well above its weight. You can see the film in theatres in five American cities - L.A., New York, Austin, Chicago and Portland - from the 6th of September 2024, or online from Music Box films, and AroVision in New Zealand.
Not surprisingly Johnny and Michael's talk covers the trials and tribulations of making a low-budget psychedelic fantasy film in New Zealand, they discuss the work of Michael Mann - always a favourite subject - and his lasting impact on cinema, and they take a spoiler-filled look at the latest Alien film, Alien Romulus.
This conversation was recorded face to face in late August of 2024. We recorded in the garden of Michael’s house - AKA the Paragon house - and so there’s a lovely soundtrack of birds, ducks and the occasional car driving past.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 30, Johnny talks to Academy Award-winning art director and production designer Grant Major.
Described by Vanity Fair as ‘the architect of New Zealand’s greatest cinematic achievements’, Grant has an impressive body of work.
His work in the early 1990s on Jane Campion’s An Angel At My Table led him to work with Peter Jackson on Heavenly Creatures. He remained in the Peter Jackson fold on The Frighteners, followed by the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and King Kong. He also worked on Niki Caro’s Whale Rider in the early 2000s, and recently reprised his collaboration with Jane Campion on the Oscar-nominated The Power Of The Dog.
Grant has been nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Oscar in 2003 for his work on The Return Of The King.
Their talk covers Grant’s career from working in New Zealand television in the 1970s and the BBC in the 1980s, to conquering Hollywood with Jane Campion and Peter Jackson throughout the 1990s and beyond. They discuss Grant's influences from filmmakers like David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick and Ray Harryhausen, and Grant shares what it’s like to witness the first and only take of a devastatingly emotional Oscar-nominated acting performance!
This conversation was recorded online in mid-July 2024.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 29, Johnny talks to Dave Wain, one of the last bastions of the video rental industry.
Dave runs Snips Movies, one of the UK’s last video stores. The shop, situated in the Wirral near Liverpool, boasts an impressive selection of over 15,000 movies, all available to rent for the great price of 3 for £5. The depth of the range available is eye-watering and is just the tonic against the dull, predictable and limited selections available on the popular streaming services.
Johnny's talk with Dave covers the trials and tribulations of running a video rental store in the 21st century, an enterprise that’s going from strength to strength with an ever-changing profile of appreciative customers.
They also discuss the directors Joe Dante, Quentin Tarantino and William Friedkin, and they lift the lid on Orson Welles editing lesbian shower sequences for porn films in his spare time...
This conversation was recorded online in mid-July 2024.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 28, Johnny talks to Stevee Taylor, a fellow Kiwi cinephile and a member of the Letterboxd crew here in New Zealand.
A couple of years ago, Stevee interviewed Johnny as part of her Masters thesis exploring how movie-watching had changed during the COVID pandemic, and it felt like the right time to return the favour and get Stevee on the show.
Johnny's talk with Stevee covers Luca Guadagnino's Challengers and its banging soundtrack score, they discuss the cinema of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s - three powerhouse decades that sometimes get forgotten about almost 100 years on - and like addicts enabling one another, they talk at great length about David Fincher and his long-time musical collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. An absolute Fincher-fest! In fact, there’s a parallel universe where they're still talking about this subject right now!
This conversation was recorded online in late-May 2024.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 27, Johnny talks to Michele Kaufman, one half of the team behind Enjoy The Ride Records.
Michele works alongside label founder Ross Shotland at Enjoy The Ride in Long Island, New York. The label specialises in releases in a variety of genres and formats - movie soundtracks, TV soundtracks, video game soundtracks, and stand-up comedy, all on Vinyl, CD, cassettes, Blu-Ray, and a range of other associated merch.
Johnny's talk with Michele covers Ron Howard, Sofia Coppola, Robin Williams and Pierce Brosnan, they talk about Michele’s recent trip to Hawaii to see Michael Giacchino conducting the 20th anniversary concert for the TV show Lost, and we hear yet another example of somebody finding their career through a strange set of circumstances (the third or fourth such example we’ve heard on this very show this year)...
This conversation was recorded online in mid-May 2024.
You can find the Songs, Bond Songs release we spoke about here on the Enjoy The Ride website.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 26, Johnny talks to Mutant Records co-founder Mo Shafeek.
Mo started Mutant Records earlier this year with fellow founding members of Mondo’s poster and vinyl divisions. They really are the hot new label in town, and it’s been great to see them hit the ground running with some big name releases already.
Johnny's talk with Mo covers the Wachowskis, Josie & The Pussycats, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ awesome music to Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. They talk about Mo’s recent trip to Hawaii to see Michael Giacchino conducting the 20th anniversary concert for the TV show Lost, and they discuss the process of getting artwork approved by the great Tom Cruise...
This conversation was recorded online in early May 2024.
A huge thank you to Brad and Ryan at Mutant for helping facilitate Mo's time for the interview. Thanks also to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 25, Johnny talks to music A&R man Martyn James.
Martyn works for Universal Music in London and is one of the lucky few who gets to dig into the vaults of bands and solo artists to find things to put out on reissues and box sets.
He was also part of the team that put together the Oasis documentary Supersonic back in 2016, directed by Mat Whitecross.
Johnny's talk with Martyn covers Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve and Hans Zimmer, they talk about how you can get into the music business through teaching pilates, and they discuss having to lie for a whole year about seeing Terminator 2 as an 11-year-old when you really went to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze.
This conversation was recorded online in mid-March 2024.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 24, Johnny talks to music supervisor Ron Payne.
Ron started his Hollywood career as a Production Assistant for John Hughes in 1984.
He went on to be a set P.A. on Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Pretty In Pink, and then a music supervisor / music co-ordinator on Some Kind Of Wonderful, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, She’s Having A Baby, The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and a post-production supervisor on Home Alone.
Johnny's talk with Ron covers the Marx Brothers, the Beatles, and John Ford, accidentally slipping a Monty Python quote into a John Hughes film, and they discuss whether you should ‘Yes’ when Molly Ringwald wants to swap sunglasses with you seconds before she’s due to do a take on Pretty In Pink.
This conversation was recorded online at the beginning of March 2024.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 23, Johnny talks to returning My Movie DNA alumnus Daíbhid MacCann.
In what is becoming an annual tradition, this episode is Johnny and Daíbhid's round-up of the Academy Awards nominees for films released in 2023. They go through the major categories to declare what they think will win, but also what they think should win, on the night.
Their talk covers boogying out of a window to 50 Cent’s P.I.M.P., blowing Einstein’s hat off his head, and they discuss what might have won this year’s Academy Award for Best Ensemble Thirst Trap.
This conversation was recorded online at the beginning of March 2024.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Twitter/X @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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In episode 22, Johnny talks to music supervisor, movie producer and music manager Tarquin Gotch.
Tarquin’s career saw him rise to Head of A&R at Arista Records in the 1980s - overseeing acts like The Thompson Twins, Simple Minds, The Stray Cats, and The Beat. He then moved to Warners, transitioning Prince, Madonna and many other American acts into the UK.
Moving into music management he oversaw The Beat, Stephen Duffy, The Dream Academy, Hugh Harris, General Public, XTC, Roger McGuinn from the Byrds and Jon Lord from Deep Purple.
In a chance encounter in 1984, through his actress and model friend Kelly LeBrock, Tarquin met writer-director John Hughes on the set of Weird Science. He went on to become music supervisor on the John Hughes films Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She’s Having A Baby, The Great Outdoors and Uncle Buck.
Running John Hughes’ film company in the 1990s, Tarquin executive produced the films Curly Sue, Dutch, Only The Lonely, and Home Alone.
He has since produced both film and TV including the 1998 film Still Crazy, the TV series Crocodile Shoes with Jimmy Nail, the documentary series Cars That Rock with Brian Johnson, and the return of prison sitcom Porridge for the BBC.
Tarquin currently manages Brian Johnson of AC/DC, and founding members of the Police, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland.
Johnny's talk with Tarquin covers his work curating Life Moves Pretty Fast, a boxset celebrating the music of John Hughes soundtracks, released on Demon Records in 2022.
They discuss Tarquin's time working alongside John Hughes and John Candy, his process of putting songs in front of John Hughes for consideration, and which composer he believes revolutionised the art of film scoring.
This conversation was recorded online at the beginning of February 2024.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Twitter/X @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].
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Following East Auckland DJ Phil Taylor's appearance on episode 19 of My Movie DNA, Phil returned the favour and invited Johnny to be a guest on his She'll Be Right radio show on East FM in late November 2023.
This was a four-hour show, full of soundtrack picks, good chat, and Johnny even tackles a couple of songs on the guitar.
Thanks to Phil Taylor for the invitation and many thanks to station manager Michael Rowse for supplying the recordings.
Thanks also to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Twitter/X @mymovieDNA or email [email protected]. -
Following East Auckland DJ Phil Taylor's appearance on episode 19 of My Movie DNA, Phil returned the favour and invited Johnny to be a guest on his She'll Be Right radio show on East FM in late November 2023.
This was a four-hour show, full of soundtrack picks, good chat, and Johnny even tackles a couple of songs on the guitar.
Thanks to Phil Taylor for the invitation and many thanks to station manager Michael Rowse for supplying the recordings.
Thanks also to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Twitter/X @mymovieDNA or email [email protected]. -
In episode 21, Johnny talks to arthouse cinema programmer Gorjan Markovski.
Gorjan can be found curating Auckland's Academy Cinema, a subterranean theatre that caters for arthouse / festival movies and retro / classic screenings.
Johnny's talk with Goran covers Tarantino, Polanski and Godard, the absence of Kiera Knightley in movies made in the last decade, and they discuss whether it’s appropriate to shush Quentin Tarantino if he’s talking at a screening in the cinema he owns…
This conversation was recorded face to face at the beginning of December 2023.
Find out more about the link between Italian dubbing and Mussolini here and you can watch Gorjan's short films Therese and The Prince on his Vimeo channel.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
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In episode 20, Johnny talks to London rapper Jelani Blackman.
An accomplished vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Jelani has just released his fantastic debut album The Heart Of It.
This comes after a busy few years in the industry that saw him collaborating with - among others - Damon Albarn and Gorillaz, and with producers Fred Again and Brian Eno.
Johnny's talk with Jelani covers Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese, Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio, and they discuss the power that Scampi and Chips and Prosecco has on a movie...when you’re suffering with a hangover.
This conversation was recorded online at the end of November 2023.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
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In episode 19, Johnny talks to Phil Taylor, East Auckland Radio DJ, quizmaster, journalist and all-round community champion.
You can find Phil - or PJ - presenting the She’ll Be Right show on Saturday afternoons on East FM, broadcast locally in Auckland, but also online and on I Heart Radio.
They talk about comedy from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all the way up to John Candy and Bill Murray, and because Phil’s a big music guy, the discussion also covers what feels like every music movie under the sun.
This conversation was recorded face to face at the end September 2023.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music, (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
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In episode 18, Johnny talks to Darren Waugh, a fellow Auckland film nerd, and co-host of the labyrinthine movie podcast Ludicrously Specific.
Darren has been co-hosting Ludicrously Specific since 2020 alongside his friends Doug Dillaman and Steve Skeet.
I urge you to check it out if you like falling down cinematic rabbit holes, and hearing about films with ludicrously specific connections.
Our discussion covers the Coen Brothers, John Frankenheimer, and Guillermo del Toro.
There’s also lots of horror chat, just in time for Halloween….
…and in a first for My Movie DNA, we’re joined halfway through the episode by a very special guest, who adds nothing to the conversation but immediately sits on my head.
This conversation was recorded face to face in late September of 2023.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music, (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
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In episode 17, Johnny talks to Jasher and Mykah Drake, hosts of the world’s leading Godzilla podcast, Podzilla.
Brothers Jasher and Mykah love all things Godzilla, and their enthusiasm for monster movies and all of cinema in general, is infectious.
We cover Edgar Wright, John Carpenter, and the current state of the MCU and blockbusters in 2023 - and we're left to wonder whether Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone should be digitally recast as some of the potatoes in Ridley Scott's The Martian.
You can also check out Jasher's other podcast - 1978: A New Zealand Film Podcast - where he delves into Kiwi cinema alongside co-hosts Larissa Kate Gray and Chris Wetere.
This conversation was recorded face to face in early September of 2023.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music, (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
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In episode 16, Johnny talks to Stuart Buchanan, an award-winning artist born and raised in Glasgow.
Today, Stuart lives in Catterline, an old fishing village in the North East of Scotland, where he paints from his studio overlooking the North Sea.
Stuart’s work is quite well known in the British art scene, so a quick Google search will show you some great examples of his style - lots of peaceful, solitary figures standing in serene and bewitching landscapes. Go and have a look!
This conversation was recorded online in late August of 2023.
We cover Star Wars, Quentin Tarantino and the Rocky films, we talk at length about two gems of British film history - Local Hero and Withnail And I - and we discuss the excitement of putting on an impromptu arts festival in the former Soviet state of Georgia with Vanessa Redgrave.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music, (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
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In episode 15, Johnny talks to Ross Williams, director and founder of The Daily Jaws.
If you’re a big Jaws fan, you might already follow one of the Daily Jaws social media accounts, where Ross and his colleague Dean Newman provide daily updates to their loyal fan base of hundreds of thousands of Jaws heads.
This conversation was recorded online in early July 2023.
We talk about Alien and Aliens, the holy trinity of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and David Fincher, and not surprisingly there’s plenty of Jaws chat…
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music, (check out James' Loco Looper game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
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In episode 14, Johnny talks to New Zealand filmmaker Fraser Grut.
Fraser has just completed work as a director on 'Hot Potato', an upcoming film about Australian supergroup the Wiggles, which will be releasing on Amazon later in the year.
And over on Fraser’s Instagram you can find all the latest instalments of his 10,000 Dreams project - something that is almost too crazy to even imagine (but Fraser is absolutely killing it).
This conversation was recorded online in early July 2023.
We talk about the latest Indiana Jones film, the living legend that is Tom Cruise, and we debate the merit of arthouse films when all you want to watch is a good old chick-flick.
Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant music, and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
You can contact My Movie DNA on Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected]. - Visa fler
