The MP3 file of Cinebanter Episode 23 is available
here.
In this episode, Michael and Tassoula take their banter to the small screen as they reveal their Top 10 television shows of 2006. Also, Michael offers a special report about his viewings at the 17th Annual Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California.
As Michael discussed in his Cinequest Report, here are the best films he saw at this year's festival.
Fiction:
1) The Melon Route (Put Lubenica) [Croatia--Chinese refugee is sole survivor of capsized boat and must rely on depressed Bosnian war veteran without the help of language]
2) The Road (Fang Xiang Zhi Lu) [China--the story of the Communist Revolution is told with three characters who pine for each other over 40 years on a public bus]
3) Prague (Prag) [Denmark--married couple's relationship unravels as they travel to Prague to retrieve his father's body]
4) Pure Hearts (Rene Hjerter) [Denmark--mental patient believes an old film is real and escapes his hospital to meet its leading lady]
5) Outsourced [USA--Seattle man must travel to rural India to train his replacement].
Non-Fiction:
1) The Ghost Mountain Experiment [USA--In the 1930s a man moves his family to desert mountain to live as hermits]
2) Urban Explorers [USA--explores subculture of people who map, photograph, and meet in places unknown to must city dwellers].
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Special thanks to Brad Daane and Mark Cummins for providing the music in this episode.
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Labels: 2006, Cinequest, film festival, podcast, San Jose, Special Edition, Telebanter, television, The Wire
The MP3 file of this show is available here. 
