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Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. From screenwriting to film language to cinematography, we'll be examining the innovative ways today's best filmmakers are getting their visions out into the world.

Recent Episodes
  • 'The Shrouds' Director David Cronenberg
    Apr 24, 2025 – 39:48
  • 'Sinners' Director Ryan Coogler
    Apr 17, 2025 – 24:37
  • 'Drop' Director Christopher Landon
    Apr 10, 2025 – 28:58
  • What Does a TV Director Actually Do? 40-Year Vet Bethany Rooney Explains
    Apr 4, 2025 – 38:02
  • Why Indie Filmmakers Can't Make a Living Anymore with Producer Alex Saks
    Mar 31, 2025 – 33:31
  • 'Audrey's Children' Director Ami Canaan Mann
    Mar 27, 2025 – 43:17
  • 'The Actor' Director Duke Johnson
    Mar 20, 2025 – 30:17
  • 'Novocaine' Directors Dan Berk & Robert Olsen
    Mar 13, 2025 – 45:15
  • 'Mickey 17' Director Bong Joon Ho
    Mar 7, 2025 – 43:46
  • 'Eephus' Director Carson Lund
    Mar 6, 2025 – 34:15
  • 'Compensation' Director Zeinabu irene Davis
    Feb 27, 2025 – 42:16
  • 'Universal Language' Director Mathew Rankin
    Feb 20, 2025 – 37:54
  • 6 Films That Inspired 'The Substance' with Director Coralie Fargeat
    Feb 14, 2025 – 23:51
  • 'Black Box Diaries' Director Shiori Itō
    Feb 12, 2025 – 25:55
  • 'The Substance' Director Coralie Fargeat
    Feb 10, 2025 – 37:19
  • 'Flow' Director Gints Zilbalodis
    Feb 6, 2025 – 29:50
  • 'Companion' Director Drew Hancock
    Jan 30, 2025 – 34:26
  • 'Presence' Director Steven Soderbergh
    Jan 24, 2025 – 51:01
  • 'Wolf Man' Director Leigh Whannell
    Jan 21, 2025 – 30:53
  • 'Babygirl' Director Halina Reijn
    Jan 17, 2025 – 42:33
  • 'Unstoppable' Director William Goldenberg
    Jan 16, 2025 – 27:00
  • 'American Primeval' Director Peter Berg
    Jan 10, 2025 – 32:01
  • 'Sing Sing' Director Greg Kwedar
    Jan 8, 2025 – 01:16:49
  • 'All We Imagine As Light' Director Payal Kapadia
    Jan 6, 2025 – 31:32
  • 'A Complete Unknown' Director James Mangold
    Jan 3, 2025 – 28:03
  • 'Nosferatu' Director Robert Eggers
    Dec 30, 2024 – 33:01
  • 'Inside Out 2' Director Kelsey Mann
    Dec 23, 2024 – 34:34
  • 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet
    Dec 20, 2024 – 28:20
  • 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' Director, Star, & VFX Supervisor
    Dec 17, 2024 – 28:41
  • 'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross
    Dec 13, 2024 – 41:35
  • 'Maria' Director Pablo Larraín
    Dec 11, 2024 – 31:17
  • 'Sugarcane' Directors Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie
    Dec 10, 2024 – 38:59
  • 'Nightbitch' Director Marielle Heller
    Dec 6, 2024 – 29:24
  • 'Queer' Director Luca Guadagnino
    Dec 3, 2024 – 33:39
  • 'Witches' Director Elizabeth Sankey
    Nov 27, 2024 – 43:51
  • 'Wicked' Director Jon M. Chu
    Nov 25, 2024 – 35:42
  • 'Leonardo DaVinci' Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon
    Nov 22, 2024 – 45:47
  • 'A Real Pain' Director Jesse Eisenberg
    Nov 19, 2024 – 34:01
  • 'Anora' Director Sean Baker
    Nov 14, 2024 – 31:02
  • 'The Penguin' Executive Producer Matt Reeves
    Nov 11, 2024 – 01:03:17
  • 'Disclaimer' Director Alfonso Cuarón
    Nov 9, 2024 – 31:02
  • 'My Old Ass' Director Megan Park
    Nov 8, 2024 – 34:46
  • 'No Other Land' Directors Basil Adra & Yuval Abraham
    Nov 7, 2024 – 47:06
  • 'Conclave' Director Edward Berger
    Oct 25, 2024 – 37:44
  • 'Hit Man' Director Richard Linklater
    Oct 17, 2024 – 39:00
  • 'Speed' Director & Stars Jan de Bont, Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock
    Oct 15, 2024 – 52:36
  • 'Pachinko' Creator Soo Hugh
    Oct 11, 2024 – 31:13
  • 'A Different Man' Director Aaron Schimberg
    Oct 3, 2024 – 01:04:15
  • 'Industry' Creators Konrad Kay and Mickey Down
    Sep 30, 2024 – 39:14
  • 'Will & Harper' Director Josh Greenbaum
    Sep 29, 2024 – 47:05
Recent Reviews
  • k!k!m@su
    Jonathan Glazer
    Fascinating interview! Understanding Glazer’s view is critical when watching this movie. Upends the whole holocaust trope.
  • La Escuelita
    Top Level Interviewers
    You all always ask the right questions. Appreciate the thoughtfulness + preparation you bring to the interviews.
  • pjmouer
    Excellent podcast, terrible sound
    These interviews are thoughtful and inspiring but you guys have a serious problem with your audio normalizing. The ads will blast my ears out and then the interviews will be so quiet I can’t hear it. And between host and interviewees there will often be large discrepancies as well. I understand their audio is likely coming from different sources but it can be leveled it out. There’s just no excuse for it to be this bad in the year of our lord 2023–good audio can be had cheaply and easily. And people have been pointed this out for years. Hope it gets fixed because it deters me from listening often.
  • Shaking with laughter
    Amazing show! Love the production talk.
    This sparked my love for filmmaking. Thank you for being one of the only shows I can find that actually talks about production, and thank you for letting me hear about the insights from the greatest filmmakers out there. I am indebted to this podcast. The greta gerwig and guillermo del toro episodes made me fall in love with moviemaking. Thank you so much for making this podcast!!
  • rsilva07
    Please fix the audio!!!
    The conversations are great, but it drives me nuts having to change the audio multiple times within the same episode! Come on guys!
  • Cupcakeluver102
    Great Interviews with Filmmakers
    I love interviews with Directors when a good interviewer like Chris asks the right questions!
  • Matt52083
    Wonderful - but one issue
    Love the podcast and the thoughtful interview questions and the breadth of filmmakers featured. The sound mix - specifically the host’s mic - is absolutely awful. It’s extremely hard to hear and follow questions on occasion.
  • Collind1123
    Relaxed and probing
    He really gets his famous guests to relax because he has such a relaxed nice voice. Keep it up.
  • twa333
    Fantastic!
    Such great conversations.
  • silverships
    Great interviews, with some minor drawbacks
    This podcast is a fantastic way to hear some of the most exciting filmmakers out there discuss their process in a practical nuts-and-bolts approach that doesn’t get bogged down with armchair analysis. I know I don’t need to hear another film critic sound off with their review of a new film (what credentials do you actually need to become a film critic these days?) but I DO need to hear the filmmakers themselves, which is why I love this podcast. The host asks thoughtful and informed questions most of the time and seems to have a healthy knowledge of what it takes to make a film, but can be prone to spending a little too much time on his own opinions (again, let’s just hear from the filmmakers). Lastly, the recording quality is not great. For a filmmaking podcast you think they could get a decent sound person or at least a good podcasting setup. Despite these drawbacks, it is still one of the better filmmaking pods I’ve found out there.
  • MarkElijah
    Smart behind-the-scenes film talk
    I love these straightforward candid and wide-ranging discussions of cinema with some of the most interesting directors working today.
  • Tyler-Cinephiliac
    Great
    Needs more Ehrlich!
  • clauderidder
    Pretentious
    The interviewer asks the most pretentious uninteresting questions despite having some interesting people to talk to.
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