This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we preview our upcoming Patricia Mazuy retrospective with programmer Madeline Whittle. She discusses the French director's singular filmography, which will be presented starting this Friday with free screening of Travolta and Me followed by The King’s Daughters, starring Isabelle Huppert, and continuing throug ... Show More
Sep 2024
#636 ft. Saoirse Ronan & Paapa Essiedu, Josh Greenbaum, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
It's another jam-packed banger on the Empire Podcast this week, folks, as Chris Hewitt sits down for a triple whammy of interviews. First, there's Saoirse Ronan, star/producer of affecting drama The Outrun, and her co-star Paapa Essiedu, who talk about bonding, improvisation, and ... Show More
1h 58m
Nov 2024
‘Conclave’ Crackles, and Christopher Nolan’s Helicopter Movie Takes Off
Sean is joined by Chris Ryan to discuss the latest rumors about Christopher Nolan’s next film (1:00) and wishcast some lost IP remakes for current hot directors (7:00). Then, they discuss one of the most exciting movies at the box office right now, Edward Berger’s ‘Conclave,’ the ... Show More
2h 9m
Sep 2021
#481 — Phyllida Lloyd and Clare Dunne, Nia DaCosta
This week's Empire Podcast sees Phyllida Lloyd, director of the excellent drama Herself, sit down with her star and writer, Clare Dunne, for an interview with Chris Hewitt about how they pulled off one of the year's best films. And when we say she sits down, we mean it. They were ... Show More
1h 34m
Mar 2023
#554 — Damien Chazelle & Justin Hurwitz, Christopher Landon, Michael B. Jordan
This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees another onslaught of incredible guests, as Ian Freer chats with Babylon's director-composer duo of Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz about their working relationship and long friendship, and Chris Hewitt talks scary VHS covers with ... Show More
1h 46m
Dec 2023
Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt on Oppenheimer: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is one of the biggest and best films of the year, and in this very special episode of the Empire Podcast, Chris Hewitt sits down for an audience with its stars, Cillian Murphy, who stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and ... Show More
29 m
Oct 2023
#588 — Eddie Izzard, Matt Johnson, Greta Gerwig
It's not so much a hat-trick of amazing guests on this week's Empire Podcast, more a hat-treat as our bumper-sized Halloween edition brings you, tucked away at the episode's end (should you wish to skip there immediately), Ben Travis' warm and wonderful chat with Greta Gerwig, di ... Show More
2h 7m
Dec 2024
Nosferatu with Robert Eggers and Chris Columbus (Ep. 523)
Director Robert Eggers discusses his new film, Nosferatu, with fellow Director Chris Columbus in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses shooting in the real-world castle from the original story as well as channeling his Production Design team t ... Show More
34m 48s
Oct 2022
“Vesper” – the hustle behind making an epic sci-fi feature film with the writer-director duo Kristina Buozyte & Bruno Samper
Today, we welcome the writer-director duo Kristina Buozyte & Bruno Samper to the show! Together, they made the epic post-apocalyptic sci-fi feature film Vesper (2022), starring Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, and many, many more. The film is about to come out in t ... Show More
1h 1m