NitrateVille Radio

Vintage Directors! Christine Leteux, author of Maurice Tourneur: Weaver of Dreams • David Meuel, author of Assembly-Line Auteur: The Pre-Code Films of William Wellman (96:51)

Michael Gebert, author of The Chicago Way: An Oral HIstory of Chicago Dining • J.B. Kaufman, author of Worlds to Conquer: The Art and Making of Walt Disney's Fantasia • Thomas Gladysz: Focus on Louise Brooks (92:26)

Scott Eyman, author of Joan Crawford: A Woman's Face • Dennis Bartok and Craig Rogers , founders of the Deaf Crocodile label (110:12)

Top Ten in Physical Media 2025 with Bruce Calvert • Pre-Code Essentials, with Danny Reid (94:26

Restoring Beau Geste (1926), with Robert Harris and James Mockoski • 2025 Pordenone Silent Film Festival Report, with Lokke Heiss and Lea Stans • Six Degrees of Charlie Chaplin, with Steve Massa and Uli Ruedel (93:26)

The Hitchcock Episode: Steven C. Smith, author of Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinem • Stephen Rebello, author of Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train (105:49)

!23: Emily Laurance on The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium • Lukas Foerster on Champagne and Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies • Ben Urish and Rick Geary on The Movie Girls, by Jan Wahl (87:38)

122: Richard Koszarski on Made in New Jersey • Dennis Doros on New Jersey, Queen Kelly and Missing Movies • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton (98:24)

Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven, author of Early Buster Keaton: From the Vaudeville Stage to Comique Films, 1899-1920 (84:28)

Eddie Muller, author of Dark City Dames • Ben Model, author of The Silent Film Universe

Mary Mallory, author of First Women of Hollywood • Thomas J. Slater, author of June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary (87:33)

Nasty Women Return! Karen Pearlman on Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection • Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong (92:56)

Steve Massa on a Roscoe Arbuckle DVD/Blu-ray Kickstarter • Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (92:14)

Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project preservation festival • Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Authors Michael Benson and Craig Singer on Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck (90:33)

Top Ten in Physical Media 2024, with Bruce Calvert • James Harrison on South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp! (96:58)

Josh Frank, creator of Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024, with Lokke Heiss • Thomas Waksh on pioneering art director Ben Carré (93:32)

Michael F. Blake, author of The Cavalry Trilogy: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Making of Three Classic Westerns • Kathy Fuller Seeley on Francis Ford • Thomas Reeder, author of Poverty Row Royalty: The Films of Producer Sigmund Neufeld and His Brother, Director Sam Newfield (90:33)

Bruce Calvert on the new restoration of Napoleon (1927) • Kurt Jensen, author of Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood and Broadway • Christopher S. Connelly, author of Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star (91:14)

Dave Glass on silent comedian Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on silent star Patsy Ruth Miller (78:25)

Vitagraph Comedies, with Rob Stone, George Willeman and Lynanne Schweighofer • Peter Flynn, director of Film is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis, author of Stumbling Into Film History (99:54)

Donald Brackett, author of Double Solitaire: The Films of Brackett and Wilder • Alain Silver and James Ursini, authors of From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (99:22)

Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Maggie Hennefeld on Women and Death by Laughter • Sam Dunn on the Deadly Doings of Tod Slaughter (87:20)

Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene (85:52)

Donald Bogle, author of Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed • Tracey Goessel on restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson, author of BFI Film Classics: The Red Shoes (96:44)

Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert and Michael Gebert • Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties, on Movie Culture in the 50s (97:11)