The Cinémathèque française — celebrating 90 years and 2 revolutions (rewind)
90 years ago in Paris, a little 50-seat screening room opened its doors... and soon become probably the most important cinema ever. This mon...
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ROSEBUSH PRUNING — Riley Keough eats the rich (and survives MAD MAX)
Cannes-winning actor/filmmaker Riley Keough (THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE) is no stranger to the worlds of wealth or fashion, and in the bloody...
THIS IS ENGLAND — Shane Meadows's 2-Toned look at skins and ska (w/ Jack O'Connell)
Rico gets a primer on the skinhead history—and ska-fueled soundtrack—behind THIS IS ENGLAND: The 2007 indie hit about misunderstood kids in...
Alejandro G. Iñárritu & Rodrigo Prieto look back on AMORES PERROS
Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (THE REVENANT) and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (THE WOLD OF WALL STREET) have a blast telling host Rico Ga...
BELLY — Hype Williams and Soul II Soul bring hip hop "Back To Life"
In the '90s, there was no music video director in hip-hop bigger than Hype Williams. And he concentrated all his visual powers on his first...
ALL OF US STRANGERS — Andrew Haigh believes in the Power of Love
Isolated during the COVID pandemic, director Andrew Haigh (LOOKING) wrote a feature about a man trying to break out of isolation and loss......
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM — Gurinder Chadha shoots and scores
On the opening day of the World Cup, we take a look and a listen to the soccer-centric sleeper BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (2002). Director Gurinde...
CHUNGKING EXPRESS — Wong Kar Wai puts "Dreams" on the menu (rewind)
Shot on a shoestring in six wild weeks, CHUNGKING EXPRESS is the movie that put legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai on the internatio...
DONNIE DARKO — Richard Kelly makes the ultimate ‘80s mixtape (rewind)
Another classic episode about great music in a great movie: DONNIE DARKO. Richard Kelly's genre-busting rookie feature was one of the first...
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Stanley Kubrick finds heavenly music on vinyl (rewind)
While we polish up some brand-new episodes all about iconic movie needle-drops... we're resurfacing some classic episodes that tackled the s...
WHISPER OF THE HEART — Hayao Miyazaki takes “Country Roads”
How'd a 1971 country-pop anthem about West Virginia... inspire a 1995 anime classic about teens in Tokyo? We kick off a season about great m...
MY FATHER'S SHADOW — Akinola Davies Jr. dreams of 90s Nigeria
Akinola Davies Jr. never really knew his dad. But in MY FATHER’S SHADOW , his BAFTA-winning debut feature set in 90s Nigeria, the director i...
THE SECRET AGENT — Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on memory and manguebeat
The Best Picture – nominated thriller THE SECRET AGENT tells a tale of intrigue and absurdity in ’70s Brazil. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho...
LURKER — Alex Russell's outsider look at the in-crowd
Alex Russell just won 2 Independent Spirit awards for LURKER - his debut thriller about a superfan wheedling his way into a pop star's...
SENTIMENTAL VALUE — Joachim Trier’s different kind of meta-movie (w/ Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning & more)
Joachim Trier , co-writer Eskil Vogt , and an all-star cast including Stellan Skarsgård , Renate Reinsve , Elle Fanning , and Inga Ibsdotter...
Wim Wenders LIVE in Berlin: 50 years of rock-n-road movies
Our New Year’s gift to you: Filmmaking legend Wim Wenders returns to the show for a career-spanning interview. Taped before a live audience...
SALAAM BOMBAY! & THE LUNCHBOX — Mira Nair & Ritesh Batra deliver realism and romance
Legendary director Mira Nair and Cannes-winner Ritesh Batra made two very different hit films about very different sides of India's fab...
Kelly Reichardt: THE MASTERMIND behind some of the best movies of the century
The NYTimes just named Kelly Reichardt 's THE MASTERMIND one of the top 10 films of 2025... and in this episode she looks back on the c...
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI... and David Gelb changes how people eat it
Director David Gelb ’s documentary about a tiny, austere sushi joint and its perfectionist chef defined a food-film style... and set off an...
HAL & HARPER — Cooper Raiff comes unstuck
Sibling duo Hal and Harper are best friends, and have been ever since they lost their mother as children. But is there such a thing as being...