The Totally Secret and Hidden Collection of Marc's Film Ed 101 Segments from triple j

(2006-2009)

Who Are The Neistat Brothers

They're 2 american tricksters who brought down a computer giant, and took video blogs to their next evolution

 

Who is Alejandro Jodorowski

Can movies be a religious experience? this man thinks so.

 

Aussie Kung Fu?

Huh? Australia has a Kung Fu History? Yep, and it can be summed up in two words: Short and Hillarious.

 

Interactive Documentaries

Next time your vegetating on the couch watcing the news or a doco, try to imagine being in the story when the bombs go off, and the guns are firing. How do you reckon that would change the way you relate to the world?

 

Oscar Frauds!

Its glitz, glamour and mild fraud.

 

Killer Vegetable Movies

Eat them. Before they eat you.

 

Why French Animator Rene Laloux, thinks youÕre a dick

And a Nazi, you bastard.

 

Why Movies Suck at Predicting the Future

Godamnit. I want a hovercar. And those damn jetsons predicted that i would have one, buy now. What other things did movies and tv promise about the future that we dont have.

 

Two Headed Monsters

Who says two heads are better than one?

 

Central Conflict Theory

Wierd theories on why DVD box sets are evil. Umm. Kinda.

 

Federico Fellini vs Corey Worthington

What does the infamous Melbourne Party Boy have to do with the multi-oscar wining Italian Master filmmaker?

 

History of the Laugh Track

Next time you're chillin watching a re-run of the Brady Bunch - BEWARE - you are listening to dead people.

 

The Church of the Latter-Day Dude (And Other Fake Religions)

A religion based on a movie. Has the world gone mad? Marc investigates the religion 'Dudeism' based on the cult Cohen Bros flick 'The Big Lebowski'

 

Why Ingmar Bergman Loves Soap

He was one of the great masters of the Avant Garde... and also soap commercials.

 

How World War 2 Gave Us Music Videos

You'll never guess. Unless you google it. And where's the fun in that.

 

WhatÕs Your Take on John Cassavetes

Le Tigre Co-Host this weeks film ed (kinda) about America's premiere indie filmmaker

 

The WorldÕs Worst Living Filmmaker

Uwe Boll. Could he be the worst filmmaker in the world today?

 

Willy Wonka Remixed

Marc goes on an adventure to a random warehouse (no this isnt the beginng to Hostel 44) and discovers a remixed, revoiced Willy Wonka.

 

A Brief History of Bloopers

When it exactly did it all start going wrong?

 

Riding the French New Wave

Ow you say... French New Wave? Vas iiis zis? Marc explores how a spare laundry cart can help you revolutionise cinema. kinda.

 

How to Sell Sex (Education)

Marc investigates Kroger Babb and his inventive way of selling the Sex-Education flick 'Mom and Dad' back in the 1940's

 

Self Medicate with the Movies

One of cinema's great contributions to the world is its catalogue of ficticous naughty drugs. Marc road tests the best, worst and wierdest.

 

Errol Morris: HanginÕ with the Crazies

He is one of cinema's greatest doco makers. Why? Well, heres a hint: it involves crazy people.

 

Herschall Gordon Lewis: Baron of Blood

Marc takes us into the deep, dark, bloody world of H. G. Lewis

 

A Foreign Policy You CanÕt Refuse

What movie could hold the answer to America's foreign policy woes? Download and find out.

 

Product Placement for Dummies

Sick of seeing products placed in you're movies and TV? Marc goes shopping through the best and the blurst of 'Branded Entertainment'

 

The Patron Saint of Kung Fu!!!!

Meet Wong Fei Hung, the grandpappy of Martial Arts movies.

 

Alice Guy: Worlds First Woman Filmmaker

And she invented the Close-up too.

 

Commentate This!!!

DVD Commentaries frequently suck. Go on, admit it. Unless you got Martin Scorsese or Terry Gilliam under the hood, they're usually monotone lectures that are roughly as exciting as performing acupuncture on your retina. But not all of them suck. Marc Fennell investigates the more left-field commentaries.

 

Sloooow Motion

If there's one thing we saw too much of in the Olypmics it was slow motion montages. But how did it all start with a Priest who couldnt pay his bills??

 

Most Depraved Filmmaker Ever?

Here's a hint: his name may be Takashi Miike

 

Stupid Gimmicks to Pull You Into a Cinema

What are the strangest, wierdest, dumbest techniques they've used to pull us into the movies? Marc Fennell finds out.

 

Don LaFontaine : Thunder Throat

He is the voice behind the trailers... but who is Don La Fonataine really?

 

A (Very) Brief History of Pixar

Damn Pixar and their cute animals. But how did it all start with Satellites and X-Rays?! Download, and find out.

 

You CanÕt Do That!!! (The Hays Code)

Imagine a time when hollywood WASN'T a den of evil and iniquity. Marc Fennell investigates the 'Hays Code'

 

Duck Soup: The Cure to your Financial Ills

Could classic comics the Marx Brothers have come up with the cure for the common economic meltdown?

 

Zombie Squad

When Zombies Attack... who you gonna call

 

BollyCats

Just like Copy Cats only with Bollywood.

 

Takeshi Kitano

You'd think that loosing half the nerves in your face would kinda damage your career as an actor. Not so for this guy

 

Where Does Your Movie Ticket Go?

Cmon, it's a lot of money to pay for sitting in a dark room with shitty carpet. Marc Fennell investigates where your movie dollar goes.

 

The CIA and Hollywood

Spies and movies go together like a house and marriage.

 

 

Playing Jesus is Hard

Actors have always struggled to fully capture the glory of the holy one, Marc Fennell tries to find out why

 

 

Str8nime

Ever wondered what do you get when you mix claymation, anime, supermario bros, nursery rhhmes and david lynch... in a tub of icecream. Its called Str8nime. And its freakin cool, bitchez.

 

 

Dipping into the Uncanny Valley

Have you ever looked at one of those computer generated Human characters in games or movies like Final Fantasy and the brand-new Beowulf, and thought "Something isnt quite right?" Well that feeling is called the Uncanny Valley and triple j's movie nerd Marc Fennell has all the details.

 

 

 

Kim Jong Ill : Movie Mogul?

Most of us only think of Kim Jong Il as the maniacle North Korean Dictator who stockpiles Nuclear War Heads like they're some kind of radioactive candy to be feasted on come the Apocalypse. And then there was that awkward time he fed UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix to the his pet Sharks in the movie TEAM AMERICA. But he has another pastime...

 

David Lynch Gives Me Nightmares

He is America's highest-profile purveyor of all things surreal and abstract. Somewhere between Dreams and Waking Moments, between Light and Dark lives the world of filmmaker, artist, furniture designer David Lynch. Marc attempts to wrap his works and ideas in plastic.

 

Soda Jerk

VCR = Delorean. If that dont make sense now it will soon. Marc checks out Australia's premiere video remix artists.

 

 

Body Horror

Hello, I want your body. I want to eat up all your flesh, chew your fat and then spit you out like so many semi-digested Happy Meals. This is the personification of the 'Body Horror' genre. He's a little bit creepy. Marc explains.

 

 

Hip Hopera

Its RnB meets YnR (Young and the Restless). In 2005, Rapper and World-class tool R Kelly wrote, sung and starred in TRAPPED IN A CLOSET the world's first hip hop soap opera. Hilarity, Booty shaking and widespread confusion followed. Damn son, you got burned.

 

 

Leni Reifenstahl

Next time you sit down to watch a Grand Final or Olympic games on TV just remember one thing... its all thanks to the Nazis Huh? Wha? *Insert sound of confusion here* Dont worry, grab a dcup of tea and let Marc Fennell (triple j's increasingly Arayan Movie Guy) do the 'splainin, lucy.

 

 

 

Celebrity Sex Tapes

From the Italian stallion to Rob Lowe, sex tapes are a time honoured tradition in Hollywood. But why? and what does the enduring fasication for famous fornication footage say about our society?

 

 

Giallo

Sex and Death. This is what Italian Horror genre Giallo is all about. And boy to they do it well. Marc Fennell gets his hands dirty... literally.

 

 

Leitmotifs

Just think of all those great movie themesongs that you've heard over the years: Star Wars? 007? Pink Panther? Well, great theme-songs didnt start with movies. Triple j's Movie Guy Marc Fennell has the details

 

 

 

Han Hoogerbrugge

He is one of the innovators of online animation but why? triple j's film critic takes a look at the work of Han Hoogerbrugge

 

 

X Rated Animation

That's right, your 8-cents a day of ABC funding has been well spent this week. Marc "investigates' the surprisingly interesting world of X-rated Animation. No, seriously.