River City Stories collaborator Vanessa Codorniu joins Wally to talk about the movies they watched as young people — everything from Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and the lasting impressions those films left at an early age.
00:01:26 An update on River City Stories
00:06:06 Billy Elliott and Bend It Like Beckham
00:07:17 Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful
00:13:17 Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate
00:25:39 What we inherit from our ancestors
00:31:27 Improv comedy and the power of performance
00:41:51 Solange Knowles and Cranes in the Sky
00:57:00 Roman Polanski's Chinatown
00:59:00 Luis Puenzo's The Official Story
01:03:27 Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
01:05:40 Emotional Processing and the Myth of the Minotaur
01:06:08 John Duigan’s Wide Sargasso Sea
01:10:44 The Biz Bruja
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