In this episode, Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament, Author of The Foley Grail and Foley artist on such films as Die Hard, Platoon, and Predator, catches up with Foley artist Ellen Heuer, who has worked on such films as Iron Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Fatal Attraction, Purple Rain, as well as Michael Jackson's 2 Bad Music Video. Over the course of the conversation, Ellen shares how she got into Foley after being a musician and a dancer and recounts production stories that will part of her upcoming memoir, If These Shoes Could Talk. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Performative Film Sound.

In this episode, Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament, author of The Foley Grail and Foley Artist on such films as Die Hard, Platoon, and Predator, discusses the film Young at Heart with Dr. Dana Polan, professor at NYU's Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. Vanessa and Dana share their thoughts on Warner Bros.'s 1954 musical, Young at Heart, starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra. Of particular interest, the conversation centers around how Young at Heart is a remake of Michael Curtiz's 1939 film, The Four Daughters--and how the remake reconsiders the story as a musical, the impact of casting Doris Day and Frank Sinatra, and the changed political and cultural climate of the 1950s. The podcast does contain some spoilers about the plot changes to the remake, so please be aware of that if you have seen the film. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Performative Film Sound.

In this episode, Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament, author of The Foley Grail and Foley Artist on such films as Die Hard, Platoon, and Predator, discusses the Carney Awards and Cats Don't Dance with Movie Producer Jim Katz. Vanessa and Jim start the conversation by discussing The Carney Awards, a ceremony, co-started by Jim Katz, that honors character actors. Then Vanessa and Jim return to the film Cats Don't Dance. As producer of the film, Jim concludes our three-part retrospective into the seldom seen animation film from 1997, Cats Don't Dance. Jim shares behind the scenes stories from the film from casting decisions, to the politics behind the film that has kept this film from garnering its proper popular and critical reception. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Performative Film Sound.