7 episodes
- In Part Two - Nia DaCosta continues her exploration of 28 Days Later and how it informed her direction and choices in filming the acclaimed latest release in the franchise, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
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(00:24) 28 Days Later
(01:10) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(02:46) 28 Years Later
Hosts: Becky D'Anna & Jon Laubinger
Producer: Rob Jenners
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - In honor of the film's 50th Anniversary, Amy Heckerling (director of FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, CLUELESS, and LOOK WHO'S TALKING, and a proud New Yorker!) - covers all things TAXI DRIVER, her love of Scorsese and the unexpected connections between the dark work of Travis Bickle and the carefree fun of CLUELESS.
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Hosts: Becky D'Anna & Jon Laubinger
Producer: Rob Jenners
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - Nia DaCosta, director of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, discusses one of her early favorite classics, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. Nia explains how this film kickstarted her love of cinema and wanting to be a director, plus we discuss infected kills, soft drinks, the lost art of the DVD and much, much more.
Get 28 Days Later on Digital:
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/28dayslater
Be one of the first to experience #28YearsLater: The Bone Temple exclusively in movie theatres 1.16. Get tickets now.
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Hosts: Becky D'Anna & Jon Laubinger
Producer: Rob Jenners
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Will Gluck, director of Anyone But You and Easy A, revisits one of his favorite films: Joel Schumacher’s coming-of-age classic, St. Elmo’s Fire – and explains why it is a far more jaded and mature take on growing up; standing out from other “Brat-Pack” films of the eighties.
St. Elmo’s Fire is available on disc and digital – https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/stelmosfire
Hosts: Becky D'Anna & Jon Laubinger
Producer: Rob Jenners
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - Director Benny Safdie joins Becky and an appropriately-blue-suited Jon to discuss a film crucial to his development as a filmmaker, Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love. Often lauded as one of the greatest films of the 21st century, it relaunched Adam Sandler as a dramatic actor, eventually leading to his acclaimed role as Howard Ratner in the Safdie-directed Uncut Gems.
Punch-Drunk Love is available on disc and digital – https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/punchdrunklove
Hosts: Becky D'Anna & Jon Laubinger
Producer: Rob Jenners
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