Best Films With Ferrara Podcasts (2025)

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Emulsion Ep. 15 – Dennis Lim on the 63rd New York Film Festival 36:42

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If you live in New York and care about movies, the beginning of the New York Film Festival—this year, specifically, on Friday, September 26—is perhaps the most exciting moment of any year. Though he served on the committee for a number of years, since 2020, Dennis Lim has shepherded the festival, his dispensation as a journalist and critic carrying…

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Remembering Robert Redford (with Blake Howard) 2:23:14

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In remembrance of the legendary Robert Redford, we're resharing this conversation from 2024 on his extraordinary career and most overlooked performances.Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.Today we talk about the …

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Emulsion Ep. 14 - Filipe Furtado on Brazilian Cinema 45:16

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With exposure to Brazilian cinema being so pitiful, I thought it would be past due to host both an episode and screening that put a bit of spotlight on their rich cinematic history. One of my favorite films I’ve seen in recent years is Carlos Reichenbach’s Movie Dementia, which is both the cinema-induced madness its title suggests and a gritty view…

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The B-Side Ep. 167 – John Frankenheimer (with Blake Howard) 1:45:39

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss John Frankenheimer, a true expert of the craft and a man who could make any kind of film. Our B-Sides today include Prophecy, 52 Pick-Up, Dead Bang, and the HBO Film Against th…

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The B-Side Bonus Ep. – Jordan Harper on She Rides Shotgun 50:48

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars, movie directors, and sometimes––sometimes––movie writers! Today, we speak with author and screenwriter Jordan Harper, whose novel She Rides Shotgun got made into a movie of the same name, directed by Nick Rowland and starring Taron Egerton and Ana Sophia Heger. The film is in theaters this Frid…

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Emulsion Ep. 13 - Dave Kehr on Restoration, Preservation, and MoMA's Silent Movie Week 38:13

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Few people have contributed more to cinema and cinephilia in the last 50 years than Dave Kehr. He’d have some claim to this title solely as a major critical voice, his work remaining currency decades hence––just look at the popular Not Dave Kehr Letterboxd account for a symbol of his enduring prominence. As a film curator at the Museum of Modern Ar…

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The B-Side Bonus Ep. – Christine Vachon & Pamela Koffler of Killer Films 36:28

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars, movie directors, and sometimes - sometimes - the companies that made the movies those stars and directors made! We were lucky to speak with Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler of Killer Films in honor of Metrograph’s 30th Anniversary program, with screenings starting on August 2, 2025.Vachon an…

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Emulsion Ep. 12 - Abel Ferrara on Turn in the Wound 34:45

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You'd have to be very bad at interviews, or really just conversations, to not get something from Abel Ferrara, who's the perfect combination of endearing and pugnacious, amenable to ideas while unable to entertain even a hint of bullshit. He's especially verbose discussing Turn in the Wound, his most recent documentary, which premiered at last year…

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The B-Side Ep. 166 – In Conversation with Embeth Davidtz 33:38

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars and movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Sometimes we are lucky enough to even speak with them about their work. And sometimes, they are both a movie star and a movie director. Today that’s Embeth Davidtz, director of …

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Emulsion Ep. 11 - Restoring Hearts of Darkness with Fax Bahr and James Mockoski 32:33

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Raise the subject of documentaries about filmmaking and you'll probably first go to Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Or the film you’re thinking about instead was directed by somebody was thinking about Hearts of Darkness. Or, assuming the film came out earlier, it was perhaps directed by someone who later saw Hearts of Darkness and wi…

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The B-Side Ep. 165 – Mission Impossible 2:33:51

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we sometimes talk about movie stars! We sometimes talk about movie directors! Today, we talk about both! Specifically, the B-Sides of the Mission: Impossible franchise.It’s just Conor and I today folks, waxing poetic on Tom Cruise’s legendary franchise and the B-Sides that we were inspired to discuss. We’ve chosen one fo…

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Emulsion Ep. 10 - Alex Ross Perry and Clyde Folley on Videoheaven 36:55

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Perhaps no line of dialogue better encapsulates lived experience than this bon mot offered by John Huston’s Noah Cross: “Of course I'm respectable. I'm old! Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”I thought about this line––granted, a line I think about at least once a week––while watching Alex Ross Perr…

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Emulsion Ep. 9 - U.S. Girls on a Life In Movies 46:08

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When people call music cinematic, I think they just mean it sounds like it could be in a movie. About which, fair: being in a movie would do so. But the term is a little frivolous and unevocative. So take me at my word when I say U.S. Girls, the band fronted by American ex-pat Meg Remy, evokes such in its grand, powerful, barreling, vivid sound. I’…

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The B-Side Ep. 164 – Mike Leigh (with Alex Heeney) 1:40:06

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss Mike Leigh, one of our greatest living filmmakers. Born in England in 1943, Leigh remains an artist for the everyday person more than most. And this descriptor is quite reducti…

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Emulsion Ep. 8 - The Jag and Familiar Touch 49:19

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I've spent my offline hours producing The Jag, a new play that runs from June 21 to July 6 at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. Even without some of my fingerprints, this makes a curiously cinema-centered creative team: directed by Paul Felten (Slow Machine) and written by Robin Schavoir (The Plagiarists), it combines the lo-fi grittiness a…

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Emulsion Ep. 7 - Is Tom Cruise Evil? 37:35

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The release of a new Tom Cruise film is less about the film than it is about Tom Cruise. Ceaseless junket and red-carpet interviews with supposed journalists who were perhaps invented on the spot to ask him questions, clips of these interviews that quickly go viral, endless rankings of the movies, and between all of it the… acknowledgement, perhaps…

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The B-Side Ep. 163 – Ryan Gosling Part II (with Cory Everett) 2:04:36

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we return to one of our earlier subjects: Ryan Gosling! Our B-Sides are The Ides of March, Gangster Squad, Only God Forgives, and First Man. Our guest is our dear friend Cory Everett, creator…

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The B-Side Ep. 162 – Clint Eastwood (with Mitchell Beaupre) 2:36:52

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss Clint Eastwood, the director and the movie star. Our B-Sides are Breezy, White Hunter Black Heart, Blood Work, Flags of Our Fathers, and The Mule. Our guest is the impeccable Mitch…

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Emulsion Ep. 6 - Edo Choi and Alexander Fee on Mikio Naruse 44:32

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In a city where the rents are too high, the subways are too slow, and morale barely hovers above cope, repertory options might make such troubles worthwhile. So one thinks while looking over Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, a career-spanning, 35mm-rich, two-cinema retrospective that began last weekend at Japan Society and will continue at Metrog…

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The B-Side Ep. 161 – Maggie Cheung (with Nick Newman) 2:01:43

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. It’s a day to celebrate! We discuss the legend Maggie Cheung! Our B-Sides include Lost Romance (a.k.a. Story of Rose), Full Moon in New York, Green Snake, and Sausalito. Our esteemed guest for this…

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The B-Side Ep. 160 - Debra Winger (with Murtada Elfadl) 1:59:34

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we talk about the great Debra Winger! Our B-Sides include Legal Eagles, Betrayed, The Sheltering Sky, and Forget Paris. Our guest is the inestimable Murtada Elfadl, Culture Writer, Critic, an…

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Emulsion Ep. 5 - Chloë Sevigny & Amalia Ulman on Magic Farm 26:26

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Amalia Ulman has followed El Planeta, one of this decade's most auspicious debuts, with the equal-parts caustic and sincere Magic Farm. With its limited release beginning today, Nick Newman had the fortune of speaking with her and Chloë Sevigny in an interview that highlights the particular relationship between a writer-director-actor and her co-st…

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The B-Side Ep. 45 – Ben Affleck (with Marie Bardi) 2:02:53

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Hello everybody and welcome to The B-Side podcast for The Film Stage, here we talk about movie stars; not the films that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between! And today, with The Accountant 2 out in theaters, we thought we’d revisit our episode on the B-Sides of Ben Affleck! Originally recorded in March 2020, at t…

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The B-Side Ep. 159 - The Coen Brothers (with Stephen Sajdak) 1:56:27

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.Today we talk about two American icons: Joel and Ethan Coen. Our guest is an icon all his own: Stephen Sajdak from the We Hate Movies podcast!We discuss the B-Sides The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man …

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Emulsion Ep. 4 - Zach Lewis on Henry Fonda for President 50:22

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Alexander Horwath's Henry Fonda for President stands among the most notable releases of a still-young year, is certainly the most lauded essay film in recent memory, and was assuredly of personal interest when my friend Zach Lewis offered his approval. As adventurous and open-minded a cinephile as any I know, Zach has equal-parts interest in both t…

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The Encampments Director on Documenting Pro-Palestine Protests 19:01

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An essential document of a moment in time for a story very much still unfolding, The Encampments is a thorough, engrossing portrait of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Beginning in April 2024, the protest was formed by Columbia University students who called for their university to divest from U.S. and Israeli weapons companies that are aiding in th…

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Emulsion Ep. 3 - Edward McCarry on Shinji Somai and Love Hotel 38:39

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The restoration and release of Shinji Somai's Love Hotel is no small occasion, and dovetails nicely with this show's ambition to speak with people outside the well-known confines of film culture. Thus this new episode is an interview with Edward McCarry, whose work at Cinema Guild has made the Japanese master, by leagues and bounds, more accessible…

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The B-Side – Remembering Val Kilmer 2:08:40

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In honor of the legendary Val Kilmer, who has passed away at the age of 65, we're sharing The B-Side's episode from 2022 discussing his career and most overlooked films. Subscribe to The B-Side: https://pod.link/520164968See the original description below:Today, we discuss one of the most intriguing actors of his generation: Val Kilmer! To tackle s…

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Emulsion Ep. 2 - Alan Rudolph on Choose Me 59:41

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This week consecrates a major turn in the 50-year career of Alan Rudolph, which began as an assistant to and screenwriter for Robert Altman before transitioning into decades writing and directing original, romantic, occasionally unnerving American cinema at a time parallel to (if never quite reaching the fame or acclaim of) Martin Scorsese, Steven …

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The B-Side Ep. 158 - Powell and Pressburger (with Katie Walsh) 1:52:45

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.Today we talk about two legends: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger! Our B-Sides include I Know Where I’m Going!, The Small Back Room, Gone to Earth, and The Elusive Pimpernel. Our guest is t…

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The B-Side Ep. 157 - Amy Irving and Peter Riegert on Crossing Delancey 1:15:47

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk to movie stars! About a movie that people love and the hidden gems they've also made!Dan Mecca and Conor O'Donnell were lucky enough to speak with Amy Irving and Peter Riegert, on the occasion of the Criterion release of Joan Micklin Silver’s Crossing Delancey. We discuss the legacy of the film nearly forty years…

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Andrew Davis on Gene Hackman and His New Novel Disturbing the Bones 35:02

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We love speaking with filmmaker Andrew Davis. In late 2023 The Fugitive director came on our podcast The B-Side to discuss a slew of hidden gems as well as the 4K release of the Harrison Ford blockbuster. Davis is back to talk about his novel Disturbing the Bones, a political thriller that reads like an entertaining, extrapolated version of some of…

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Emulsion Ep. 1 - Carson Lund on Eephus + Hesse Deni on CHAOS 39:59

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Presenting Nick Newman's Emulsion, a new podcast from The Film Stage.“WHY on EARTH is there another film podcast?” Is the question you, the reasonable listener, are asking while nevertheless hitting play on this pilot-of-sorts for yet another entry in perhaps the seventh art’s most undignified progeny.Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: here i…

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The B-Side – Remembering Gene Hackman 2:29:07

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In honor of the legendary Gene Hackman, who has passed away at the age of 95, we're sharing The B-Side's episode from 2022 discussing his career and most overlooked films. Subscribe to The B-Side below: https://open.spotify.com/show/4EJFEQMTuLFPIDTbsrbL62https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-b-side-a-film-stage-podcast/id1490472263See the origi…

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Bill Morrison on His Oscar-Nominated Short Incident 32:44

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Welcome to a special new podcast episode from The Film Stage. Here at the site we’ve long been fans of the work of Bill Morrison, who you may best know from his astounding 2016 archival documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time. The New York-based filmmaker received his first-ever Oscar nomination this year for his short film Incident, which reconstruct…

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Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000) 1:10:57

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As a special holiday gift to The Film Stage podcast feed, listen to a new Box Office Bonanza! Here we talk about random box office weekends and where they fit into our lives. The movies, the memories! This episode features Dan Mecca, Conor O’Donnell, Mitchell Beaupre, Jordan Raup, and Cory Everett.The box office weekend in question is July 21, 2000…

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Farewell Episode – Megalopolis 2:15:18

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For the 550th episode of The Film Stage Show, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr have a major announcement: after over 12 years, hundreds and hundreds of guests, and thousand-plus hours of discussions, The Film Stage Show is coming to an end. We bid farewell with a discussion of a film in the works decades before the podcast began: Francis Ford Coppola's Me…

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Ep. 549 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (with Trace Sauveur) 1:57:48

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Trace Sauveur to discuss Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, now in theaters.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray …

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Ep. 548 – Janet Planet (with George W. Myers) 2:14:32

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by George W. Myers to discuss Annie Baker's directorial debut Janet Planet, now on VOD.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu…

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Ep. 547 – Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (with Jen Johans) 2:15:17

1y ago2:15:17

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Jen Johans to discuss Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, now on Max.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or…

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Bonus Ep. - Box Office Bonanza (January 14, 2005) 1:37:40

1y ago1:37:40

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Welcome to a new episode from The Film Stage! It’s not The Film Stage Show. It’s not The B-Side! It’s something else! It’s a Box Office Bonanza from The Film Stage! Here we talk about random box office weekends and where they fit into our lives. The movies, the memories! This episode features Dan Mecca, Conor O’Donnell, Mitchell Beaupre, Jordan Rau…

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Ep. 546 – Trap (with Dan Mecca) 2:17:19

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Dan Mecca for a special dadcast edition of the podcast to discuss M. Night Shyamalan's Trap.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UH…

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Ep. 545 – Longlegs (with Bryan Kluger) 2:07:53

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Bryan Kluger to discuss Osgood Perkins' Longlegs.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray upon joining.The Film Stage Sh…

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Ep. 544 – Twisters (with Conor Clancy) 2:12:17

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Conor Clancy to discuss Twisters.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray upon joining.The Film Stage Show is supported …

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Ep. 543 – Thelma (with Joyce Kulhawik) 1:45:08

1y ago1:45:08

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Joyce Kulhawik to discuss Thelma, now in theaters.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray upon joining.The Film Stage S…

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Ep. 542 – MaXXXine (with David Rooney) 1:57:22

1y ago1:57:22

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by David Rooney to discuss Ti West's MaXXXine.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray upon joining.The Film Stage Show is …

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Ep. 541 – The Bikeriders (with Jesse Hassenger) 1:54:39

1y ago1:54:39

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Jesse Hassenger to discuss Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray upon joining.The Film S…

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Ep. 540 – Hit Man (with Brendan Hodges) 2:02:35

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Brendan Hodges to discuss Richard Linnklater's Hit Man.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray upon joining.The Film St…

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Ep. 539 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (with Sam Cohen) 2:21:44

1+ y ago2:21:44

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Sam Cohen to discuss George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. All new Patreon supporters receive a free 4K UHD or Blu-ray upon joining.The F…

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Classic – Field of Dreams (with Noah Gittell) 2:11:28

1+ y ago2:11:28

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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr discuss Field of Dreams (now streaming on Prime Video) in a special Classic episode featuring guest Noah Gittell, author of the new book Baseball: The Movie.Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contribut…