Episode 36.
Intro by Sampson Hollander.
This episode is a discussion of the career and works of genius screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Featuring special guest Youssef Gouda!
5 minutes 42 seconds: on our impressions of Kaufman when we first discovered him.
21 minutes: on Kaufman's early life and career in Hollywood.
25 minutes 52 seconds: on Being John Malkovich.
40 minutes 2 seconds: on Kaufman and surrealism.
49 minutes 14 seconds: on Adaptation.
1 hour 1 minute 49 seconds: on Human Nature.
1 hour 14 minutes 26 seconds: on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
1 hour 31 minutes 7 seconds: on Anomalisa.
1 hour 37 minutes 59 seconds: on Orion and the Dark.
1 hour 47 minutes 47 seconds: on I'm Thinking of Ending Things.
2 hours 16 minutes 1 second: on Synecdoche, New York.
26 Aug 2026
The Secret Life of Terrence Malick
Episode 35.
Intro by Sampson Hollander.
This episode is a discussion on the life and career of Terrence Malick!
Opening minutes are about what our first impressions seeing Malick movies were.
7 minutes 35 seconds: on Malick's early life and journey to becoming a filmmaker and artist.
23 minutes 32 seconds: on Badlands and Malick in the 70s.
36 minutes 3 seconds: on Malick's 20 year absence from directing.
45 minutes 47 seconds: on The Thin Red Line.
1 hour 3 minutes 41 seconds: anecdote about how the voice-over for Days of Heaven came about.
1 hour 8 minutes 50 seconds: on Malick's relationship with Heidegger in his films.
1 hour 11 minutes 42 seconds: on The Tree of Life.
1 hour 23 minutes 23 seconds: on Knight of Cups.
1 hour 49 minutes 15 seconds: on the ending of The Tree of Life.
2 hours 4 minutes 10 seconds: on Voyage of Time.
2 hours 6 minutes 16 seconds: on what Malick has been working on the last 7 years.
5 Aug 2026
Her Private Hell reaction
Episode 34. Intro by Sampson Hollander. This episode is a conversation about the new Nicholas Winding Refn movie Her Private Hell. 5 minute 6 second mark: on Too Old to Die Young. 13 minutes 26 seconds: Her Private Hell reaction begins. 16 minutes 51 seconds: on the plot of Her Private Hell. 26 minutes 59 seconds: on the film within a film. 35 minutes 32 seconds: on Charles Melton's role in the film. 46 minutes 23 seconds onwards: "Oh the girls are gonna go out on the town." 53 minutes 19 seconds: getting into spoilers for the film, and talking about one of the craziest scenes in cinema history. 1 hour 6 minutes 38 seconds: on the ending of Her Private Hell. 1 hour 14 minutes 35 seconds: on where Refn stands compared to other directors working today. 1 hour 26 minutes 43 seconds: on the score of Her Private Hell. 1 hour 28 minutes 7 seconds: "Style never stops."
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