REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

On this week’s episode, we look at the ultimate song and dance man, Andy Kaufman , and the new documentary about him, Thank You Very Much , directed by this week’s guest, Alex Braverman . We discussed Alex’s parents working on the filming of Andy Kaufman’s Carnegie Hall stage show and how Alex discovered Andy through that VHS sitting on his parent’s shelf, how most of Andy’s comedy was infused wit...

On this week’s episode, we are joined by the legend  Kevin McDonald  of  The Kids In The Hall,  who talks about his upcoming rock opera,  Superstar (A Rock Opera) , and the films and music that influenced it.  We also discuss Kevin’s love of musicals, why comedians want to be musicians and vice versa, Kevin discovering  Jesus Christ Superstar  and...

This week, we are joined by PULP 's MARK WEBBER  to discuss what was to be the most influential documentary of his life, THE SOUTH BANK EPISODE ABOUT THE VELVET UNDERGROUND .    We discuss Mark’s path from making fanzines (including interviewing  Mo Tucker ), & running the Pulp fanclub to eventually joining  PULP  as they embarked on their classsic records ( DIFFE...

This week, we are joined by musician, producer, composer, and filmmaker Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites Of Spring, The Messethics) , who chose the wildly unexpected outlaw country documentary HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS to discuss. We also get to discuss the importance of his bands Rites Of Spring & Fugazi , Chris seeing Fugazi in a hippie cafeteria on their first tour, playing videogames with Elliot...

This week, we are joined by MARTIN WONG (co-creator and editor of GIANT ROBOT magazine and self-proclaimed ‘shitworker’ for THE LINDA LINDAS ) to discuss the music narrative punk film LINDA LINDA LINDA . We discuss Martin’s past writing for FLIPSIDE magazine and his initial exposure to punk music, how Giant Robot was started, our favorite obscure Asian cinema and music, how James Iha of Smash...

This week we are joined by the director and producers of the amazing  Gary Young/Pavement  documentary ‘ LOUDER THAN YOU THINK,'  one of the best music documentaries I have seen in recent years and also one of the most enlightening about Pavement. We discuss how surprisingly open the members of Pavement were to discussing Gary, Gary’s legendary hom...

This week, we are joined by actor, writer & comedian CLARE O’KANE (whose latest comedy album, Everything I Know How To Do , was released on Eugene Mirman ’s record label) about the classic 1968-directed film MONTEREY POP ! We discuss Clare’s Bay Area upbringing and being too uptight to be a hippie, our history with comedy records and what its like for Clare to make one, we share our weirdo pre...

This week, we are joined by musician STEVE MICHENER ( Big Dipper, Volcano Suns, Dumptruck, Barbara Manning ) to discuss a documentary featuring one of Steve’s old bandmates, T HIS IS NOT A PHOTOGRAPH: THE MISSION OF BURMA STORY !!!! We discuss the makeup of the Boston music scene of the 80s, Steve’s time in post-Burma band VOLCANO SUNS with Peter Prescott , the genesis of BIG DIPPER , how it...

This week, we are joined by RONNIE BARNETT of THE MUFFS, who chose the classic music documentary ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL to discuss! We also discuss the sides of Double Nickles On A Dime , Ronnie's high-school metal & new wave band roots, Creem magazine, Ian McKaye’s love of Ted Nugent, trying to understand Van Halen, turning your back on metal during the punk wars, how most bands suck...

This week, we’re joined by musician & arranger  Kyleen King . As a backing performer for such acts as Brandi Carlile, The Decemberists & Drive-By Truckers, Kyleen picked a film that strikes close to home,  20 Feet From Stardom . We discuss what it feels like to serve other musician’s visions even if they can’t articulate what they want, zoning out on stage, pre-show rituals...

This week, we are joined by one of the legends of the American Underground, STEVE WYNN ( The Dream Syndicate ), who picked the jaw-dropping THE TAMI SHOW from 1964 to discuss. We also talk about the excitement of being young in the studio for the first time, the four elements that make a great record and how The Fall inhabited all of them, working with Peter Buck, being a snobby music snob, C...

On this week’s bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie (released for fun on Chris' birthday), we are joined by director Jeff Feuerzeig ( The Devil And Daniel Johnston, AUTHOR: The JT LeRoy Story, Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King ) to discuss a very mysterious, litigious, and glorious documentary KISS IN CADILLAC, MICHIGAN 1975 ! We get to discuss Jeff’s origin story with Kiss, his childho...

This week, we are joined by Paisley Underground legend MATT PIUCCI  (Rain Parade, Crazy Horse) to discuss the TODD HAYNES ’ documentary, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND . We also talk about Haynes’ body of work including Velvet Goldmine & Safe , the perfect run of Velvet Underground records, Chris’ emotional breakdown after seeing the film in the theater, Roky Music & The Doors, does a bi...

This week we are joined by superforce musician, actor, writer & podcaster SEAN NELSON (Harvey Danger, The Wonder Of It All) to discuss one of the most divisive music biopics of all time, Oliver Stone’s THE DOORS . We delve into seeing the film in the theater when it first came out in 1991 and how it was wiped off the culutral map shortly after its release, the divisiveness of The Doors’ m...

Happy holidays, everyone! I wanted to thank everyone who has supported and listened to the show, all of you incredible folks who have gone the distance & subscribed to the show's Patreon (again, thank you thank you thank you!), written kind reviews, turned other people onto the show, and generally just cheered this show along as I work on the show. I also want to give much love and thanks to m...

This week, we are joined by documentary filmmaker SCOTT CRAWFORD to discuss the director’s cut of his D.C. hardcore punk documentary, SALAD DAYS !!! We discussed Scott’s punk fanzine that he published in 7th grade, unlocking the mystery of VOID , the sadness of MINOR THREAT ’s final EP Salad Days , Trouser Press Magazine, devouring punk rock scene reports, seeing FUGAZI play in a hippie cafet...

This week, we are joined by legends Jeff & Steven McDonald of REDD KROSS and Andrew Reich, the director of the new Redd Kross documentary ‘ BORN INNOCENT: THE REDD KROSS STORY .' A band very close to my heart and record collection, we discussed so much in this episode, including the Elks Lodge Punk Rock riot and the story of their parents rescuing them from it, Andrew’s gateway into hearing th...

This week, we talk to director, comedian, visual artist, writer, and conjurer of groovy worlds, RACHEL LICHTMAN (Programme 4, Easy AM 66), about one of the most surreal episodes of the fabulous variety series The Hollywood Palace !  Our deep dive leads us into one of the strangest and funniest episodes ever of Revolutions Per Movie, where we take apart (and at times destroy ‘with love’) the s...

This week, we are joined by New Zealand musician & composer LUKASZ PAWEL BUDA ( Hunt For The Wilderpeople; The Phoenix Foundation) , who picked the Dave Markey music documentary 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE to discuss. We talk about discovering Nirvana & Sonic Youth, what it’s like for Luke to compose music for director Taika Waititi ’s films, 1991’s director Dave Markey’s history with S...

This week, we are joined by comedian, musician, and the proud creator of 31 Videos In One Day , JOE KWACZALA , who picked the Lonely Island music comedy biopic POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING to discuss. We also talk about what leads the charge for Joe—comedy or music, Joe’s obsessions with classic rock radio, getting your rock shirts at JcPenneys, Joe cracking classic rock station trivia...

This week, we talk to Nick Brine (who, as a teenager, worked on The Stone Roses ’ 2nd LP & Oasis ’ What’s The Story Morning Glory and has worked with everyone from Nick Cave to Bruce Springsteen ) about the legendary Welsh recording studio that Nick got his start in the doc Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm . We discuss all the legends that have recorded there from Hawkwind to Queen from...

This week, we talk to journalist and author KATHERINE YESKE TAYLOR ( She’s A Badass: Women In Rock Shaping Feminism ) about the much-requested film PURPLE RAIN !!! We get to discuss Katherine’s start at interviewing bands at age 16 and fighting against her highschool newspaper to do so, how she put her book together (interviewing Suzie Quatro to Lydia Lunch to Death Valley Girls), seeing Purp...

This week, we talk to author and music critic  MARC MASTERS  ( High Bias: The Distorted History Of The Cassette Tape , Pitchfork, The Wire)  about the film  THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON  and the cassette tape culture surrounding Daniel. We also discuss our elaborate tape trading stories and sequencing your perfect mixtape, Bananafish magazine, Sebadoh, Homestead Reco...

This week, we talked to documentary filmmaker Katherine Linton about her Sundance Channel documentary Follow My Voice: The Music of Hedwig, which follows the students of the Harvey Milk School in NYC and John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask of Hedwig & The Angry Inch (and Revolutions Per Movie host Chris Slusarenko) putting the charity album together. We discuss the stress of not let...

This week, we talk to actor, writer, and comedian DC PIERSON ( Community, Derrick Comedy & author of The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To) about the legendary THIS IS SPINAL TAP ’! We discuss the genesis of the project and the trials of making the movie, the original 4 1/2-hour cut of the film and the significant changes throughout the film, the similarities/differences between the...