Framed & Bound

In this episode, writer Colin Dodds joins host Tobias Carroll to discuss director Lasse Hallström's 2006 film The Hoax, inspired by the real-life case of author Clifford Irving and his entirely fictional autobiography of Howard Hughes. Discussed in this episode: fabulism on film, the absurdly good cast of this film, the way certain members of this film's absurdly good cast are underused, the long...

Bell, Book and Candle has it all: a high-powered book publisher! New York's magical underground! Jack Lemmon playing the bongos! And it's (kind of) a Christmas movie! Publicist Lauren Cerand joins host Tobias Carroll for this episode of  Framed & Bound . Bell, Book and Candle is available to watch on the Criterion Channel and Tubi. It stars Kim Novak, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Herm...

In the second episode of  Framed & Bound , host Tobias Carroll and guest Matthew Keeley discussed the 2003 psychological thriller  Swimming Pool. The film was directed by François Ozon and stars Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, and Ludivine Sagnier. Ozon wrote the screenplay with Emmanuele Bernheim. Discussed: editors with fancy houses in the south of France, precisely what kind of mysteries Cha...

"Space creature does not beat creepy clown. In any universe." In the first episode of  Framed & Bound , writer and publisher duncan b. barlow joins host Tobias Carroll for a discussion of  In the Mouth of Madness , director John Carpenter's 1994 take on cosmic horror and metafiction.  Discussed in this episode: can footage of print production be metal? Does  In the Mouth of Madness have the wrong...