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Pure Cinema Podcast

A weekly film podcast hosted by Elric Kane (of the Shock Waves podcast) and Brian Saur (of the Rupert Pupkin Speaks film blog) featuring discussions of new films, old films, double features, cult movies, filmmakers and movie lists among a smorgasbord of other Cinema-related things.
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Now displaying: April, 2025
New Beverly Calendar: May 2025 0
Apr 28, 2025

Elric, Brian and Phil are back to talk about the films playing at the New Beverly and May's calendar brings a delightful variety of classic cinema (comedy, horror and more), arthouse, 70s and 80s genre all-timers, Carl Franklin, Gene Hackman and more.

Check out all things New Beverly here: https://thenewbev.com/

If You Enjoy the show, You can help support us at Pure Cinema by going to: https://www.patreon.com/purecinemapod

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BONUS EPISODE: A Desert w/ Joshua Erkman 0
Apr 25, 2025
On a special bonus episode Elric is joined by Director Joshua Erkman to discuss his neo-noir horror film 'A Desert'. They discuss photography, the challenges of indie filmmaking and Josh delivers an intriguing 5 Films Because. 
 
A Desert is released by DARK SKY FILMS and will be in limited theaters in May. 

Consider supporting Pure Cinema (and getting monthly bonus content) via our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purecinemapod

This episode is sponsored by MUBI! Get 30 days of great cinema free at https://mubi.com/purecinema (and we'd love it if you would give them a try!)

This month we also have another new sponsor - DIABOLIKDVD: https://diabolikdvd.com/

Brian's Directed By shirts can be found here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/filmmakershirts

The show is now on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/purecinemapod.bsky.social

As are Brian: https://bsky.app/profile/bobfreelander.bsky.social

Elric: https://bsky.app/profile/elrickane.bsky.social

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The Year 2000 0
Apr 1, 2025

In this episode, Brian and Elric look back at a bunch of movies that are turning 25 this year and run down some of their favorite recent new watches from the year 2000 as well as their individual top 10s from that banner year.

Consider supporting Pure Cinema (and getting monthly bonus content) via our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purecinemapod

This episode is sponsored by MUBI! Get 30 days of great cinema free at https://mubi.com/purecinema (and we'd love it if you would give them a try!)

This month we also have another new sponsor - DIABOLIKDVD: https://diabolikdvd.com/

Brian's Directed By shirts can be found here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/filmmakershirts

The show is now on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/purecinemapod.bsky.social

As are Brian: https://bsky.app/profile/bobfreelander.bsky.social

Elric: https://bsky.app/profile/elrickane.bsky.social

and the New Beverly: https://bsky.app/profile/newbeverly.bsky.social

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