Screen Slate Podcast
Bi-weekly podcast covering the film scene in New York and beyond. Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer and a revolving cast of contributors in conversation with different guests. Sponsored by the German Film Office.
Episodes
Recorded live from the Screen Slate Villa at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, this pod features Roxy Cinema New York programmer Illyse Singer and filmmaker Jason Lester in a frank discussion about “the different Cannes within Cannes.”
Jason covers the history of the Cannes market and how it’s adapted to changing distribution models. And Illyse talks about being a programmer at Cannes and New York representation at the 2023 festival. W...
New York Magazine/Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri joins Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer for a discussion of Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. In this spoiler free-ish discussion, we cover how the film fits into the Goodfellas crime mold and smartly diverges from the book to center the Osage characters. We also talk about where DiCaprio and De Niro's performances fit within their body of work for Scorsese, an...
In our first Cannes audio dispatch, Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer speaks to Joanna Arnow about her film The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, a breakout hit of Quinzine 2023. We cover her shift from documentary self-portraiture to autofiction, casting, and finding the right moment to enter and exit scenes in editing. Plus: the inside scoop on Arnow’s Harry Potter musical and frequent Screen Slate pod co-host...
Prismatic Ground founder Inney Prakash returns to talk about the latest installment of the annual festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film. We talk about the (sold out) opening night film, Soda Jerk's Hello Dankness, new work by Tsai Ming-Liang, assembling a supergroup of venues to stage this year's roving fest, a heretofore unannounced new Prismatic Ground venture, and more. John Klacsmann and C...
This 44 min. Patreon-exclusive bonus that goes deeper into LA film culture, including the cursed history of The Silent Movie Theater (where Bret and Caroline both worked in different iterations); Kenneth Anger mailing weird shit to Klax; Klax’s scene report on Dimes Square turning out for an invite-only Martin Scorsese screening; and discussion of new releases Beau is Afraid and Showing Up.
Support the showBret Berg of The American Genre Film Archive and Museum of Home Video visits Screen Slate HQ along with returning co-hosts Caroline Golum and John Klacsmann. A beloved fixture of the LA film scene, Bret gives us an insider report on its resurgent rep film culture. We also talk about AGFA’s film restoration projects (including Joe Dante’s The Movie Orgy and something called Bat Pussy), the nuts-and-bolts of film programming, and MOH...
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Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt joins the pod over Zoom to discuss her new film Showing Up. We talk about how the art school setting bred on-set creativity, shooting in familiar Portland haunts, artist-landlords, turning Outkast's Andre Benjamin into a certified ceramics guru, and the film's discrete shoutout to Light Industry co-founder Ed Halter. And much more!
For more on Showing Up, see our earlier pod with cinemat...
Our friends Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer, Daniel Garber, and Jordan Sjol visit Screen Slate HQ to talk about their new film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which adapts Andreas Malm's nonfiction book of the same name into a heist-style eco-thriller. We get into the research and adaptation process, stealing locations, balancing Barer’s screenwriting and actor roles, and the art of editing as edging. Plus: what does Andreas Malm th...
Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin joins the pod to talk about his new film Enys Men, now playing nationwide. We talk about the legacy of big, scary stones in British horror, working with a skeleton crew, hand-processing 16mm film, eco-friendly filmmaking, and creating soundtracks entirely in post. We also discuss his remarkable BAFTA-winning previous feature Bait, which returns to select theaters this weekend.
Enys Men trailer...
Projectionist Genevieve Havemeyer-King joins us to talk about recent articles on theatrical film exhibition in The New York Times, Vulture, and n+1. Along with co-host John Klacsmann of Anthology Film Archives, we get into how pre-digital trends toward multiplex automation, corporate union busting, and studios stacking the deck in their favor with the DCP specification have shaped the current state of theatrical film presentation. ...
Five years ago Kyle Edward Ball started making short horror videos inspired by people’s nightmares and posting them on YouTube. His debut feature Skinamarink—shot for just $15,000 in his childhood home in Edmonton, Canada—was the breakout hit of last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, and came from out of nowhere to become one of the most anticipated upcoming horror films.
Ahead of the film’s theatrical release this Friday, Ball joined ...
For the final episode of Pod Year 1, animator Jodie Mack visits Screen Slate HQ to spread holiday cheer and talk about ghosts, spiritualism, ecoplasm, orgasms, and favorite Christmas movies. Midway thru we take a break to call up filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic for a live report from the East Village on SantaCon 2022. Plus chatter on the Sight & Sound and the yet-to-be-released superior Screen Slate poll.
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Aftersun director Charlotte Wells and editor Blair McClendon visit Screen Slate HQ to talk about the remarkable new film, opening this weekend from A24. We get into the genesis of the father-daughter story, casting the remarkable young actress Frankie Corio, how MiniDV is the look of childhood memories for a certain generation, and constructing a turn-of-the-millennium period piece without overplaying it. Plus Wells and McClendon d...
Extended discussion of "Pervert King" Ken Russell from Caroline Golum, Criterion '80s Horror curator Clyde Folley, and the rest of the Screen Slate gang. Plus Clyde and Jon on other series deep cuts The Fan and Dream Demon. Full episode: 27 min.
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The whole gang returns to the pod to welcome Clyde Folley, curator of the Criterion Channel's '80s Horror series. Folley, who is also a video editor at Criterion, chats with us about programming for streaming, how the video store and special effects advances defined the era, and getting elusive titles like Michael Mann's The Keep. We also learn about his personal points of entry into the genre, from being cast as the...
Filmmakers Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer visit Screen Slate HQ to talk about their new feature God’s Creatures, a disquieting family drama set in a tightly knit seaside Irish fishing community. Our discussion included working with actors Emily Watson and Paul Mescal, the influence of dance and choreography on their visual storytelling, and how a last-ditch trip to Google Earth helped them find the perfect coastal fish processing...
Sam Barlow is the designer of the acclaimed independent games Her Story (2015), Telling Lies (2019), and Immortality (2022). Often cited as reviving interest in live-footage games, Barlow takes the cinematic underpinnings of his earlier titles to new extremes in Immortality, which tasks the player with assembling rushes, behind-the-scenes, and rehearsal footage from three incomplete films in order to piece together the fate of thei...
Screenwriter Larry Karaszewski and his career-spanning collaborator Scott Alexander reinvited the modern biopic with films like Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, and Dolemite is My Name. On the eve of a trip to NYC for Film Forum’s Miloš Forman retrospective, Karaszewski spoke to Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer about working with the great Czechoslovak filmmaker, subverting the Great Man cliché, and discoverin...
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