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For the final episode of Season 2, I talk to ZACH KUPERSTEIN.
He’s a brilliant cinematographer who helped create the instant horror classic, BARBARIAN (which I spoke to Zach and the writer/director of Barbarian in episode 1 of this season).
But long before BARBARIAN, Zach had already created an amazing body of work. He shot the fantastic horror film, THE VIGIL, the wonderfully disturbing black and white movie, THE EYES OF MY MOTHER, and the painfully funny bromance gone wrong called THE CLIMB.
These films are all different genres, styles, and stories…but what they do have in common, is how the imagery tells a story and makes you laugh, cry, and scream.
Zach is a chameleon in the best sense of the word, and his work proves, that you can’t put him in a box of any kind.
It’s a great talk about how he became a cinematographer, his process, and how he’s always looking for something he’s never seen before.
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Today, I speak with Monika Gossman.
An incredible actor who I first became of aware of after seeing her wonderful performance in David Fincher’s MANK. We discuss her collaboration with Fincher, as well as her incredible work alongside Gary Oldman.
We talk about how actors are storytellers and filmmakers, how she discovered her calling as an artist, and how she feeds her soul as an artist.
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Today, I talk to LYNDA ARMTRONG. She’s a Hair & Makeup Artist & Designer.
Her credits range from the original BATMAN & LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS — to the more modern classics like STRANGER THINGS & ATLANTA. Most recently, she worked with Actress Joey King and a very talented cast of actors and filmmakers to create Hulu’s THE PRINCESS.
It’s a great talk about how she found her way as an artist and filmmaker, how she learned from masters who gave her chances along the way, and how a life in film is really about never giving up.
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Today, I sit down with a film producer who has helped make some truly legendary films with a legendary filmmaker.
Fred Fuchs worked with Francis Ford Coppola on films like THE GODFATHER 3, BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA…as well as Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.
Somebody once said, that a producer is an enabler of art, and Fred is no exception.
It’s a great conversation about what a producer does, and how circuitous and unpredictable a life in the arts can be.
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Today, I’m talking with cinematographer Adam McDaid, and production designer Joshua Petersen. Together these two helped create the world of the new Freeform 1/2 hour comedy, EVERYTHING’S TRASH created by Phoebe Robinson.
Most people don’t realize, these artists are the right and left hand of a director or a showrunner. While creators imagine a world in their head, a production designer builds it, and the cinematographer films it.
They make art exist in the most concrete way.
At its best, the cinematographer & production designer are working in total harmony to develop a color palette, textures, lighting, and all of the details that make something that is inherently artificial, totally real.
This is a great talk about filmmaking and process, and how every artist has a different way into their art.
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Today we’ve got not one, but two guests: Composer Ben Lovett & Film Editor David Marks.
They were part of the team that brought us the fantastic new horror film, THE NIGHT HOUSE.
It stars Rebecca Hall in an unforgettable performance reminiscent of Julie Christie in DON’T LOOK NOW.
Movies are sight and sound…music and imagery spliced together to tell a story…and without the crafts of music and editing…well, we really wouldn’t the movies.
It's a great conversation about how a composer and an editor collaborate not just with a director, but with each other. We talk about how both of these artists found their way into filmmaking, and what inspires them to keep creating.
It’s a great talk!
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Today I talk with Meghan Kasperlik. She’s a Costume Designer whose worked in film in TV but she is best known for her work on the Home Box Office Channel, better known as HBO.
She designed the dystopian nightmare of FAHERNHEIT 451 (for which she received her first Emmy Nomination).
Damon Lindlelof’s astonishing remix of the WATCHMEN.
And most recently, the critical and cultural juggernaut MARE OF EAST TOWN (for which she received her second Emmy nomination).
I had a blast talking to Meghan about her craft and filmmaking, and her very special relationship with actors like Kate Winslet and Jeanne Smart.
Because a Costume Designer doesn't just create worlds out of whole cloth, but also characters.
It’s a great talk!
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Today I’m talking to Ellen Arden. She’s a makeup artist who helped create the completely original world of Marvel’s WEREWOLF BY NIGHT.
Just when we think we’ve seen it all — a movie comes along that takes an old form and re-shapes it in such a different way that it’s suddenly thrilling/really exciting…in this instance, I’m talking about WEREWOLF BY NIGHT. It’s a crazy experiment by Marvel Studios, and the directorial debut of composer Michael Giacchino. Gael Garcia Bernal stars along with a flawless cast of actors. It’s both beautiful homage to the black & white Universal monster movies of old, and a genre mashup. The result is an action-horror film that feels like AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON meets THE HATEFUL EIGHT.
Ellen who created a murderer’s row of faces for this film. Because in this rogue’s gallery, all of our character’s faces and war paint are how we meet them, and ultimately how we understand them.
She’s a master makeup artist whose other credits include: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL.3, HAWKEYE, FEAR STREET, & OZARK.
It’s a great talk!
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My guest today is a special one. He’s absolutely one of the most unsung heroes in the world of films and filmmaking, and particularly in this age when movies being shot and projected on film is a rarity.
Benjamin Tucker is a film projectionist. But he also happens to be the Chief Projectionist at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles…and is responsible for projecting some of the most memorable and important films and creating an experience that is truly the definition of movie magic.
It’s a fascinating talk that delves into the purest passions of why we love movies, and why seeing them projected in a theater with an audience can be a religious experience…
Church is session, no heretics allowed!
It’s a great talk!
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My guest today is Tamara Deverell. She’s a Production Designer for film & television, and a longtime collaborator of the visionary Guillermo Del Toro.
We get into her work on the beautifully dark NIGHTMARE ALLEY, and her long relationship with Guillermo which goes all the way back to MIMIC.
This is a great talk about production design, dreaming and building the world of a film alongside its director, and how art in all its shapes informs Tamara’s life and work.
It’s a great talk!
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Today we have two very special guests.
Michael Sarnoski, a writer/Director whose debut film is none other than PIG — starring Nicolas Cage playing a culinary Buddha in a beautifully restrained performance alongside a frenetically ambitious Alex Wolff—it’s co-written by Vanessa Block and I think it’s the first in a sub-genre I like to call Chef-Noir.
My other guest is PIG's editor Brett Bachman (who also edited MANDY & THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE). He’s seen more sides of Nicolas Cage than most of us can comprehend.
This is a great conversation that lets you in on the key collaboration between director and editor, and in this case, the result was a fantastic film.
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Today I talk with legendary Music Editor, Suzana Peric.
She’s worked on some of my favorite films with some of my favorite directors and composers!
She talks about her amazing life, and how she found her way into the arts.
We talk about her lifelong relationship with the incomparable Jonathan Demme, working with Ennio Morricone in Rome, and how she still has an insatiable passion for music and films and life itself.
It’s a beautiful conversation with a truly beautiful artist and woman.
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Very excited about today’s episode, because it’s with one of the most talented and inventive Costume Designers working today: Malgosia Turzanska
She helped re-imagine the world of Arthurian legend with her incredible work on David Lowery’s THE GREEN KNIGHT (which is what we mostly discuss). She also worked on STRANGER THINGS, AINT THEM BODIES SAINTS, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, and HELL OR HIGH WATER.
And since I spoke to her, she designed the alternate universes of Ti West’s X and PEARL.
This is a really emotional talk where Malgosia talks about her Polish roots, being mentored by Agnieszka Holland, and what her life in the arts has been like.
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This episode is truly special, because I was lucky enough to speak to one of the industry’s up and coming stars,
Charlese Antoinette Jones.
If there is a new wave of talent helping to re-shape films and filmmaking, Charlese is at its peak.
She designed one of my very favorite films…the Oscar-Nominated JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH (which is what we mostly discuss in this episode) but in the meantime, she also designed WHITNEY HOUSTON: I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY, Sundance darling NANNY, and one of the most talked about films this year, Ben Affleck’s AIR.
We talk about her process, where fashion and film meet, and how against all odds, Charlese rose from humble beginnings to become one of the top artists in her field.
And hopefully she’ll come back to talk about AIR!
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Today, I’m sitting down with Wayne Pashley, the Oscar-Nominated Sound Editor & Sound Designer best known for Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS. We talk about the immense technical undertaking of re-creating Elvis’s iconic music and voice, and why this ELVIS wasn’t a biopic, but an opera.
He’s had a legendary career with Director Baz Luhrmann, but he also created the sonic chaos of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.
Wayne tells us how he got his start in the business, about being a part of the Australian New Wave of Movies, and what it means to create sonic glue!
This is a great talk with a fabulous artist, so please listen, share, and enjoy.
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Today we’re talking to Liz Toonkel.
She’s a production designer who helped create what I think is an truly profound film…it’s A24’s Marcell the Shell with Shoes On.
When I saw this film, my heart exploded. We discuss this incredible handmade film, and all the artists behind it. So if you’re a fan you’re going to love it.
We talk about the power of cinema, finding your way as an artist, and why the best films are made by families of artists and how that love shows up on the screen.
It’s an amazing talk so please listen, share, and enjoy!
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New Podcast Episode!
There are a few filmmakers for me, when they make a new movie, it’s an event.
Spielberg…Scorsese…Tarantino…PTA...Guillermo Del Toro...And now Jordan Peele.
He’s made three films and each one of them are beautiful personal mystery boxes. His latest film NOPE might be my favorite of his so far, and today we’re talking with two of his most important collaborators.
The very talented film editor Nicholas Monsour (who’s been with Jordan since Key & Peele).
And the legendary Sound Designer Johnnie Burn, who is best known for his work on the sci-fi masterpiece UNDER THE SKIN.
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Today we’re talking to two very exciting filmmakers — the writer/director(Zach Cregger) & the cinematographer(Zach Kuperstein) of the wildly inventive horror film, BARBARIAN.
I grew up on horror movies, it’s the reason I wanted to make movies…movies like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Evil Dead 2…movies that are perfect because of how terrifying they are, but also how original they are — and BARBARIAN sits in the same class as those films. It’s scary, it’s disturbing, it’s surprising and in its own beautiful batshit way, it’s hysterical…so without further adieu, the real landlords of 476 Barbary Lane — Zach Cregger & Zach Kuperstein.
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Today we welcome back one of my favorite guests, Film Editor BRETT BACHMAN. Last time he was on we spoke about his entire career including MANDY & PIG! But today is a special Halloween episode, and I wanted to do a deep dive into a film he edited…called THE VIGIL. It’s a masterful folk-horror tale — written & directed by Keith Thomas , photographed by Zach Kuperstein with amazing performances by Dave Davis & the late, great Lynn Cohen.
It’s a wonderfully unique movie and if you love horror movies like I do, please go check it out.
We talk about how Brett approached cutting scenes in Yiddish when he didn’t speak it, how he worked with Keith Thomas to build tension and dread, and how horror should always be about people and emotions if it’s going to work.
It’s a great conversation about the joys and pains of making a film and how every single movie is a custom job and a life experience unto itself. Dig it!
RECOMMENDED VIEWING: The Vigil, Jaws, Don’t Look Now, The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, and oh, the movie that pulled Brett kicking and screaming into the genre: Drag me to Hell.
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Today we welcome back the legendary ERIC ROTH. An Oscar-Winning Screenwriter & Producer.
We talk about how he writes, and blends craft with pure inspiration. He talks about working with Robert Redford. We re-visit MUNICH & THE GOOD SHEPARD. He talks about being re-written, and his unique creative partnership with Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga on A STAR IS BORN. And last but not least, we talk about writing the new DUNE film which he thinks just might be something very special.
It’s a wonderful conversation with one of the very best working in Hollywood today, whose generous not only with his talent, but his spirit. Dig it!
RECOMMENDED VIEWING: The Horse Whisperer, Munich, The Good Shepard, A Star is Born (2018), and DUNE (See it in IMAX on 10.22.21)
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