The Black List Podcast

About The Black List Podcast

The Black List founder Franklin Leonard talks movies with people who love them and people who make them. He and Black List Director of Community Kate Hagen speak with filmmakers, producers, and creators of all kinds, deep diving on movie watching rituals, sharing career highs, and revisiting highly regarded films from the Black List itself. Guests include: Spike Lee, Janelle Monae, Ed Helms, Lulu Wang, Jason Hehir, Rhada Blank, Bowen Yang, Katrina Longworth, Gabrielle Union, and many, many more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Franklin Leonard | Luminary | Ninth Planet Audio

Category

society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 May 2020

Latest episode

8 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 77 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Jul 2025

   Spike Lee

   Director Spike Lee discusses narrative filmmaking, collaborations, and the Black Lives movement with Franklin Leonard and Kate Hagen, exploring the cultural impact of films like *Do the Right Thing* in this interview.

2. 

   1 Jul 2025

   Director Kirby Dick

   Director Kirby Dick speaks with Franklin Leonard and Kate Hagen about investigative journalism's role in film and storytellers' responsibility to speak truth to power in this interview.

3. 

   24 Jun 2025

   Kaufman Charlie, Screenwriter with an Eternally Spotless and Brilliant Mind

   Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman explores his career, including his work on *Being John Malkovich* and *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*, in a discussion with Franklin Leonard and Kate Hagen about his creative process in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Adam Rippon Unplugged

Published 9 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I don't feel like I'm going to ruin it for you. Like one of the actors is like Benjamin Franklin. It's pretty old. But it's fantastic because it's just, I don't know. It's just, that's a really, really good skating movie. What is it that makes it so good as someone who did this at the level that you did? Is it just like accurate? Is it emotional? Like what is it that makes ice castles better than cutting edge? I think that's for the record. Right. I think the authenticity of ice castles kind of helps it as a skater for me to not get lost. So sometimes it feels that when you watch a skating movie that is not performed by a skater, a lot of the elements won't make sense consecutively when they show it in like sort of a montage of things that that character is doing. […]

Who has been a guest on The Black List Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kirby Dick
• Charlie Kaufman
• Jay Ellis
• Jeremy O Harris
• Lee Isaac Chung

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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Books guests

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