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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.
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Scholar, curator, artist, and Batman expert Ayanna Dozier, Ph.D., joins us to talk about the Caped Crusader and queer comic history. We chat about volcel Batman in The Batman, Prince and Kim Basinger fucking on tape during the '89 soundtrack recording sessions, Andy Warhol and Jack Smith's Batman, and more. This podcast began with a discussion of museum labor in part one. Hosted by fellow Batman scholars Jon Dieringer, film archivist John Klacsmann, and filmmaker/writer Caroline Golum. Th...
1A legendary figure on the Screen Slate Podcast, writer-director Aaron Schimberg appears on mic for the very first time to discuss his critically acclaimed new film A Different Man, opening today in New York and Los Angeles. Hosting this episode are screen actors Jon Dieringer (Johnny Handsome, A Different Man), John Klacsmann (Ostermeier, A Different Man) and Caroline Golum (Karaoke Singer, A Different Man). In this candid discussion, the quartet discuss meeting through Brooklyn's Spectacle ...
Visionary Between the Temples filmmakers Nathan Silver (writer/director) and C. Mason Wells (writer) join host Jon Dieringer for a housewarming pod in the new Screen Slate HQ. We speak about the duo’s long-running collaboration, the family history that inspired the story of an adult bat mitzvah, and casting Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane for performances that are standouts in two illustrious careers. Plus: Chris Wells is nearly killed, and (recording on July 30) Jon receives a chilling sign...
Screen Slate travels to Richard Hell’s East Village apartment to discuss his latest collection of poetry, What Just Happened. We talk about moving to New York to become a poet and his early jobs in bookstores, including Cinemabilia, the movie memorabilia store whose manager Terry Ork played a key role in early punk. We also get into Richard’s film roles, including Smithereens and Nick Zedd’s Geek Maggot Bingo, and what he’s been watching lately. Links Order: What Just Happened RSVP: Reading T...
Criterion Channel '90s Horror programmer Clyde Folley returns to the pod to hack into deep cuts like Def By Temptation, The Rapture, When a Stranger Calls Back, and perennial Screen Slate favorite Demon Knight. We also celebrate the inclusion of essential 2014 artifact Unfriended in the Channel's High School horror series. Plus: Caroline Golum returns as co-host! '90s Horror trailer Unfriended on the Criterion Channel Support the show The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon memb...
Filmmaker Jacqueline Castel joins us to talk about her feature debut My Animal, which unites Amandla Stenberg and Bobbi Salvör Menuez in a haunting, queer werewolf story set in a small town in Northern Ontario. A veteran music video director best known for her many collaborations with Sacred Bones artists like Zola Jesus and Pharmakon along with musician-directors such as Jim Jarmusch and John Carpenter, Castel speaks about the elements that aligned to make her first film. We get into casting...
Ira Sachs visits the pod to talk about his new film Passages, in which the marriage of a gay couple (Franz Rogowski & Ben Whishaw) is thrown into disarray when one of them begins a passionate affair with a woman (Adèle Exarchopoulos). The stylish, sexy drama is one of the hottest films of the summer, not least for its expert direction and impeccable cast. Sachs talks to Screen Slate’s Jon Dieringer about mentorship, his strategy of not rehearsing with actors, the influential films on his ...
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 Caroline Golum co-host. Support the show The Screen Slate Podcast is supp...
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 think of CAM? Related links: Trailer/showtimes/Q&As How to Blow U...
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 - showtimes with Q&As at Film at Lincoln Center & Villag...
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 the Screen Slate pod over Zoom to talk about getting started ...
Artists Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, and Oba, the brain trust behind Empty Metal, visit Screen Slate HQ to speak with Cosmo Bjorkenheim about their latest project, Nosferasta: First Bite. Currently showing at Someday Gallery through October 22 (on the heels of blockbuster screenings at MoMA and Triple Canopy), Nosferasta: First Bite is a radical anti-colonial reimagining of the vampire film with Oba in the title role. On the pod we talk about Christopher Columbus as vampire-pirate, vampiris...
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 child star of a shot-on-video 1990 Thai horror film to renting A Nightmare o...
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 plant location. Hosted by Jon Dieringer. Audio post by C. Spe...
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 their enigmatic actress. To create each of these movies, Barlow en...
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 discovering the essence of a character. An inexhaustible cinephile, Kara...
Our friend Owen Kline visits Screen Slate HQ to talk about his feature directorial debut Funny Pages, about a teenage cartoonist who strikes up a demented friendship with a former low-level comic artist. Plus we call up Adam Resnick (Late Night with David Letterman, Get a Life, Cabin Boy) to shoot the shit and talk about an awkward adolescent father-son filmgoing experience. Funny Pages trailer Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation by Adam Resnick Hosted by Jon Diering...
Hosts: Jon Dieringer & C. Spencer Yeh We speak to queer film historian, archivist, filmmaker, programmer, writer (and occasional Screen Slate contributor) Elizabeth Purchell while she was in town to present a Rosa von Praunheim retrospective. We talk about the pioneering queer German filmmaker before doing a deep dive into adult films: the history, the culture of collecting, tracking down rare films, bringing smut to Letterboxd, and why you hear Pink Floyd and see the same public bathroo...
Hosts: Jon Dieringer (Screen Slate EIC), Caroline Golum (filmmaker/writer), John Klacsmann (film archivist), Maxwell Paparella (Screen Slate managing editor). Jon reports from the Cannes film festival, covering highlights including Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun, Owen Kline’s Funny Pages, and hanging out on (allegedly) the world’s 34th-to-36th-largest yacht. Caroline Golum reviews highlights of the first post-lockdown Nitrate Picture Show, including Detlef Sierck (aka Douglas Sirk)’s Final Chord...
Recorded live on the beach along the Croisette: the great cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt meets up with Screen Slate to discuss his career behind the camera, including his five films with Kelly Reichardt—the latest of which, Showing Up, premiered in competition at Cannes. We talk about his family's multigenerational history on film sets, honing in on a minimalist approach to create space for quiet moments, and how his mentor Harris Savides helped him understand the camera department as m...
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