Podcasts TV Movie Meltdown 181: She's a Firecracker

181: She's a Firecracker

Published: June 23, 2012, 12:41 a.m.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 181

\nThis week we come to you \u201clive\u201d from Flyover Film Festival, and we are joined by special guest co-host director Martha Stephens! First we talk to Martha about getting into filmmaking and discuss her recent film \u201cPilgrim Song\u201d. Then she joins us for this week\u2019s Sofa Theater feature: \u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter\u201d. There we discuss Sissy Spacek\u2019s Academy Award winning performance and the snapshot of Americana that is Michael Apted\u2019s early life story of singer Loretta Lynn. And before we\u2019re done we also end up discussing baseball, Bruce Springsteen, the film fest circuit, unmade biopics, weird roadside attractions and having your own private Wigwam. \xa0\n

Plus somewhere in the mix, we also mention... a love song to Kentucky, Patsy Cline, the projects of England, The 13th Floor Elevators, Barry Lyndon, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it\u2019s a Jeep thing, the company store, Kirstie Alley, not getting \u201cthe talk\u201d, tender but troubled, Mishima, apple pie, wearing some pretty amazing dresses, a fantasy baseball league, Low and Clear, North Carolina, European Appalachia?, better because it\u2019s different, a patchwork of things from life, Levon Helm, being stalked by Loretta Lynn, I\u2019m Not That, early product placement, West Virginia, not singing... for about an hour, Clark Griswold\u2019s wife, Jesco White, Frank Redford, how many different hats can we put Russell Crowe in?, 1970\u2019s zooms, birth control, weirding out Sissy Spacek, Prometheus and Cave City.

Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for \u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter\u201d and/or the actual life of Loretta Lynn.

\u201cI like creating my own world... in writing.\u201d

For more on Martha\u2019s film, go to: http://www.pilgrimsongthemovie.com \xa0

For more on Flyover Film Festival: http://www.flyoverfilmfestival.com