Sep 2

Tom Freston

Tom Freston is a media executive, investor, and the cofounder of MTV Networks. His route to television began after an early entrepreneurial venture sourcing and exporting apparel in South Asia, before he joined the team that made MTV a defining global youth brand and grew the com ... Show More

1h 45m

Aug 26

Roger Avary

Roger Avary is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known for co-writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, he shared the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Avary made his feature-directing debut with the 1994 crime thriller Killing Zoe. ... Show More

2 h

Aug 21

Tyler Cowen: On the Sound of Patriotism - A Musical History

To honor the 250th anniversary of America, Tyler Cowen plays Rick patriotic music from the United States and around the world in this special listening episode. In addition to his work as an economist, professor, and bestselling author, Tyler Cowen is a longtime music enthusiast ... Show More

1h 59m

Jan 2021

214 The Life and Films of Francis Ford Coppola

The Cine-Files is starting off their Month(s) of Coppola with an exploration of the man himself. Francis Ford Coppola is not only one of the most important directors of all time he is also, in many ways the elder statesman of an entire generation of filmmakers. His life, triumphs ... Show More

1h 5m

Jan 2021

'The Godfather Coda' and Top Five Director's Cuts

In December 2020, Francis Ford Coppola oversaw the release of 'The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,' a reconfiguration of his film 'The Godfather: Part III' and the latest in a long line of director's cuts. What is a director's cut? What is its purpose? And what are ... Show More

1h 18m

Jan 2021

217 The Godfather Act 3

The Cine-Files are proud to bring you the conclusion of their epic discussion of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, The Godfather. This is one of the greatest films ever mad and John and Steve took these episodes as a serious responsibility and yet, the amazing thing about cinem ... Show More

1h 46m

Oct 2021

#298: Family History, Pt. 1 – The Godfather, Part II

The new Sopranos-inspired film THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK is both a prequel and a follow-up to one of the most acclaimed and influential mafia stories ever told, a description that also applies to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film THE GODFATHER: PART II. Coppola’s follow-up to his ... Show More

1h 7m

Sep 2020

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, The Virgin Suicides) is an Academy Award & Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and actress. Sofia chats with the Armchair Expert about spending her childhood on set, how comfortable she always felt the ... Show More

1h 8m

Jun 2017

'The Godfather’ Made Sofia Coppola Protective of Actors

Before Sofia Coppola could talk, she was in movies, famously playing an infant in her father Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece The Godfather. She’d appear in the next one too, as an immigrant girl, but it was her role in The Godfather: Part III that ... Show More

36m 49s

Sep 2021

Apocalypse Now (Directed by Francis Ford Coppola) - Boys with (Horror) Toys

CLASSIC ALERT! We get into Francis Ford Coppola's all-time classic APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) on this one. Enjoy this wide-ranging talk that goes from Hearts of Darkness (the doc) to the meaning of the Jungle to the wild, weird adventure-horror (both on-screen AND off) this movie take ... Show More

1h 9m

Jan 2022

‘The Godfather Part II’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, and Brian Koppelman

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan are joined by writer and filmmaker Brian Koppelman to keep their friends close but their enemies closer as they honor the greatest movie ever made, ‘The Godfather Part II,’ starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Robert Du ... Show More

2h 33m