A Very Special Halloween Episode! The writer-producer Val Lewton produced and ghost-wrote 11 films in just three years as head of the horror unit at RKO, many of which — Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher — were huge hits, helping to keep the troubled studio afloat in the early 1940s, and becoming influential g ... Show More
May 23
Presenting Cautionary Tales | Lights, Camera, Tax Break
If you like You Must Remember This, you might also enjoy Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, a podcast about stories of historic human error, catastrophes, and heists, and the lessons we can learn from such mishaps. In this episode of Cautionary Tales, Tim examines what happens wh ... Show More
46m 48s
May 2
Welcome to Hollywoodland: John Waters: Subversion, Shock, and the Ultimate Outsider
If you’ve finished all episodes of The Old Man is Still Alive, I’ve got another treat for you from Jake Brennan at Hollywoodland. Have a listen to this episode of Hollywoodland about John Waters, from his beginnings in X-rated art films to cult classics like Hairspray and Crybaby ... Show More
41m 10s
Apr 24
John Huston, Part Two: 1975-1987 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 15)
In part two of our season finale, we explore the final decade of John Huston’s life and career. As he was slowly dying of emphysema and undergoing massive turmoil in his personal life, Huston continued to work almost compulsively on both passion projects (The Man Who Would Be Kin ... Show More
54m 59s
Oct 2023
Thelma Schoonmaker, Peeping Tom, Typist Artist Pirate King, Cat Person & Five Nights at Freddy’s
This week, certified film royalty is in the studio! Mark and Simon sit down with Martin Scorsese’s legendary film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, who is here to discuss restoring her late husband director Michael Powell’s equally legendary body of work as part of the iconic filmmakin ... Show More
1h 20m
Oct 2020
Saison 2 - 3. "Elephant Man", les secrets de fabrication du chef-d'œuvre de David Lynch
Le chef-d'œuvre de David Lynch fête cette année ses 40 ans. L'histoire vraie mais quelque peu romancée de John Merrick, dans le Londres de la fin du 19e siècle. Un homme atteint d'une maladie génétique rare et incurable, la neurofibromatose, qui produit de nombreuses difformités ... Show More
12m 16s
Apr 2020
Anjelica Huston on Modeling, Movie-Making, and a Life in the Spotlight
Anjelica Huston has lived many lives, all with grace and charisma. As the daughter of John Huston (director of The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, and more) she was movie royalty from birth. But she grew up in rural Ireland and went to high school in Swinging-Sixties London. T ... Show More
48m 25s
Oct 2019
Eyes Wide Shut, l’odyssée de l’énigme
Comme tous les films qui ne se révèlent qu’avec le temps, le cultissime « Eyes Wide Shut » de Stanley Kubrick provoque encore interrogations, théories conspirationnistes et enquêtes minutieuses. Comme celle du journaliste Axel Cadieux, qui signe l’ouvrage « Le dernier rêve de Sta ... Show More
45m 53s
Dec 2022
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses, White Noise, Nil By Mouth, Tori & Lokita, & Violent Night
Why eating nineteen bowls of noodles helped Gary Oldman get into character for Jackson Lamb – he joins Mark and Simon in the studio, fully in character for ‘Slow Horses season two’. Gary talks filming the new series, as well as the 25th anniversary of ‘Nil by Mouth.’ Mark reviews ... Show More
1h 21m
Nov 2020
Zodiac with James Vanderbilt
This week we’re joined by the excellent James Vanderbilt, screenwriter of the 2007 David Fincher thriller, Zodiac. James has had an impressively eclectic Hollywood career: on top of writing action adventures like White House Down, detective comedies like Murder Mystery, sci-fi se ... Show More
1h 5m
Sep 2019
#248 - NYFF57 Day 3: Cinematography Now with Rodrigo Prieto, Ashley Connor & Chris Teague
On Day 3 of our New York Film Festival daily podcast, we're exploring the craft of cinematography. In the introduction Eugene Hernandez, FLC Deputy Director and Co-Publisher of Film Comment, is joined by programmer Dan Sullivan to discuss NYFF's Retrospective selections this year ... Show More
1h 26m