Screen Slate Podcast

A 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 theater, Schimberg's challenges completing and releasing his ambitious microbudget features Go Down Death and Chained for Life, and his experiences making A Different Man on a larger scale with many of the same collaborators in front of and behind the scenes. We also declare the end of the Screen Slate podcast and speculate as to what all of our futures may hold. Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 of Alain Delon's impending death.Between the Temples opens today in theaters nationwide.TrailerVenues & showtimesSupport the Show.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Princely filmmaker Lance Oppenheim speaks with Jon Dieringer about his new HBO docuseries Ren Faire. We talk about the genesis of the project, the research project, making it alongside his recently released feature Spermworld, and all the layers of palace intrigue within its unexpectedly twisty, treacherous story.Support the Show.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Uncompromising masterwork? Historically poor use of 150 million dollars with a direct-to-Tubi aesthetic? Or somewhere in between? Screen Slate's Jon Dieringer and Filmmaker Magazine's Vadim Rizov attended the first Cannes screening and sat down to discuss their impressions of this sui generis late-late-style work.Support the Show.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Documentary filmmakers Brian Becker and Marley McDonald visit Screen Slate HQ to talk about Time Bomb Y2K, their fantastic new movie that deftly employs all archival footage to offer a panoramic view of turn-of-the-millennium digital hysteria. On the episode we share Y2K memories, dig into archival research, discuss the wider cultural context that precipitated the moment, and the films featured in the accompanying documentary series Cyber Spaces & Millennial Traces.Time Bomb Y2K opens for a weeklong run December 15 at DCTV then airs on HBO December 30 before landing on Max. Screen Slate founder/pod host Jon Dieringer hosts a Q&A with the filmmakers Saturday, December 16 at 8pm.This episode is sponsored by Film at Lincoln Center and the retrospective Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang, running December 22-January 4.Pod editor: AJ McKeonRelated linksTime Bomb Y2K trailerTime Bomb Y2K tickets & showtimesCyber Spaces & Millennial Traces seriesThe Net write-up on Screen Slate   1995: The Year the Internet Broke seriesSupport the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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.LinksOrder: What Just HappenedRSVP: Reading Thursday, October 26 at POWERHOUSE ARENARead: Richard Hell, “My Godard” Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 trailerUnfriended on the Criterion ChannelSupport the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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, getting hooked up with screenwriter Jae Matthews of Boy Harsher, scouting the perfect eerie town,  shooting the breathtaking moon photography, and the unexpected fitness documentary that influenced the film.My Animal trailer & screeningsJacqueline Castel websiteMy Animal opens in select theaters Sept. 8 and is available to buy on digital Sept. 15Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 cinematic “cheat sheet,” censorship, and filming heated love scenes.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Mary Bronstein visits Screen Slate HQ to talk about Yeast, her bracingly funny, often excruciating, and authentic 2008 portrait of toxic female friendship, which has had a recent string of sold-out repertory screenings in Los Angeles, New York, and London. On this episode we discuss how the cast and crew came together, channeling anger into creativity, and how the film is in many ways a response to the insular, male-centric mumblecore scene of the late 2000s and early 2010s. We also hear some exciting info about Mary's second feature, due to shoot later this year.Yeast is streaming for free on Le Cinema Club (www.lecinemaclub.com), co-presented by Mezzanine, June 9-15. For a full-length bonus episode with Mary that gets deeper into the late 2000s indie film scene, Kim's Video, and our favorite late-period Clint Eastwood movies, visit patreon.com/screenslate.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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. We also get into how indie filmmaking functions differently in NY and LA, the festival's capitulation to TikTok influencer culture, festival director/Judo expert Thierry Frémaux's run-in with the police, and veteran party crashing tips from Jason's dad, Commando director Mark L. Lester. Plus discussion of Todd Haynes's superlative, tabloid-y May December, Jonathan Glazer's acclaimed The Zone of Interest, and the Friedkin/Ferrara knock-off Black Flies.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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, and where the film sits in his overarching project of chronicling America through its corrupt institutions.We also talk about the general themes of tyranny and absolute power running through the 2023 Cannes Film Festival (with shoutouts to the unintentional hilarity of Firebrand) and repertory film culture in Paris, including the joy of watching shitty torrent rips at the Cinematheque Franciase.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 John Klacsmann's place in the Arnow cinematic universe.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Bret 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 MOHV's online video variety show, or “college radio for the eyes,” as Bret calls it.Museum of Home VideoThe American Genre Film Archive[Patreon only] Bonus episode (link forthcoming)[Patreon only] 2020 Microcinema Streaming Summit ft. Screen Slate, MOHV & SpectacleSupport the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt.Links:Showing Up trailer and showtimesSupport the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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&AsHow to Blow Up a Pipeline bookSupport the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 & Village EastBait trailer - showtimes with Q&As at Film at Lincoln Center & Village East Mark Jenkin's The Cinematic DNA of Enys Men season at BFISupport the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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. We also talk about 35mm projection, 70mm blow-ups, the projectionist as mechanic vs. magician, and how the repertory experience is changing.A full-length bonus episode about Regal Union Square, Peter Kubelka's Invisible Cinema, ChatGPT, and New York slasher movies is coming soon for our Patreon subscribers. Hosts: Jon Dieringer & John Klacsmann; Editor: John Klacsmann; Producer: Marielle IngramLinks:Genevieve Havemeyer-King websiteDigital Rocks (Will Tavlin, n+1)Why New Yorkers Still ❤️ Film (Ted Alcorn, New York Times)Bad Projection Is Ruining the Movie Theater Experience (Lane Brown, Vulture)Avant-garde film preservation (Klax & JD in discussion on Screen Slate)Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 as a filmmaking, finding his unique voice, the YouTube analog horror movement, straddling the line between narrative and dream logic, and his response to the film going viral before its release.LinksSkinamarink trailerBitesized NightmaresHeck (Skinamarink proof-of-concept short)Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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.Thank you to our listeners for a great first year!Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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 discuss the needle drops that did and didn't make it into the film, and Blair ignites beef with Liam Gallagher.Aftersun trailerSupport the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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, vampirism as time travel, developments regarding Marvel's Blade and Robert Eggers's Nosferatu remake, and why artist Michelangelo belongs in the Nosferasta cinematic universe. Halfway through the pod Oba—who happens to be Screen Slate HQ's neighbor—gets a call that “The Godfather 4” is shooting outside and he has to move his car to avoid being towed. At that point Jon Dieringer hops on mic to co-host and speaks with Khalil & Sweitzer about their collaborative history, how the hierarchy of film sets can be reimagined, Khalil's work with New Red Order, and more.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

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.To listen to the full episode sign up for our Patreon, which not only supports the pod, but the whole Screen Slate operation including paying writers, maintaining our listings platform, and the daily email.Support the show

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 on Elm Street II: Freddy's Revenge as a  four-year-old in Soldotna, Alaska.Then we do a deep dive into three films in the series: Strange Behavior (Michael Laughlin, 1981), Wolfen (Michael Wadleigh, 1981) and Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell, 1988). The later is highlighted by an soliloquy by Caroline Golum rhapsodizing about the film she considers to be one of the "top five Russell" movies.The episode continues on Patreon, with a bonus episode with extended discussion of Ken Russell, and short takes on other series deep cuts such as The Fan (Ed Bianchi, 1981) and Dream Demon (Harley Cokeliss, 1988).Guest: Clyde Folley; Hosts: Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum & John Klacsmann; Audio: C. Spencer YehThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.Support the show

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. Spencer YehThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.God's Creatures opens today at Angelika Film CenterSupport the show

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 enlisted writers Allan Scott (Don't Look Now, The Witches), Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway) and Amelia Gray (Mr. Robot, Maniac).On the pod, Barlow and Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer discuss the cinematic legacies of unfinished films, the influences of filmmakers like Peter Greenaway and Krzysztof Kieślowski, the complex writing and production processes of shooting—and dicing up—three period genre pieces, and how “auteurism” functions in the games industry.Hosted by Jon Dieringer. Audio post by C. Spencer Yeh.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the show

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, Karaszewski also fills us in on LA's booming film culture, the new Academy Museum, and how he never lets an opportunity to rope a famous actor into a screening of their most obscure movie go to waste.Miloš Forman 90 runs September 9 through 22 at Film Forum. On Monday, September 12, Karaszewski appears for a Q&A with The People vs. Larry Flynt and an intro for Man on the Moon. Additionally, he'll do a convo and Q&A with Ed Wood Monday, September 7 and Dolemite Is My Name on Saturday, September 10.Hosted by Jon Dieringer. Audio post by C. Spencer Yeh.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the show

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 trailerWill Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation by Adam ResnickHosted by Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, and John Klacsmann with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the show

Hosts: Jon Dieringer & C. Spencer YehWe 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 bathroom in every gay porn film from the 70s. Ask Any Buddy on InstagramElizabeth Purchell on Letterboxd & TwitterPersonal websiteScreen Slate author pageC. Spencer Yeh's trailer for Drive (Jack Deveau, 1974)The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the show

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, Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown, and Marcel Carné's Daybreak, plus controversial thoughts about the culinary scene in Rochester, NY. And Maxwell Paparella shouts out BAMCinemaFest highlights including Tyler Taormina's nocturne Happer's Comet and Rita Baghdadi's Middle Eastern metal doc Sirens.For more, our Patreon-exclusive bonus episode contains an extended discussion of Crimes of the Future, Top Gun: Maverick and Jon speed-ranking everything else he saw at Cannes. Join to listen.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the show

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 more than just a trade. Plus: musings on Cannes, meeting Mr. T, and why his manager wants him to stop making so many friends.Host: Jon Dieringer. Editor: C. Spencer Yeh.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the show

We welcome sex educator, journalist, and artist Zoë Ligon, aka the Dildo Duchess, to Screen Slate HQ. We talk about movies, sex, early Spectacle, late 285 Kent, and leaving New York to start sex-positive toy store Spectrum Boutique. Plus: an invitation to join her Discord for Effed Up Film Heads.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh on mic.Zoë Ligon @Thongria on InstagramSpectrum BoutiqueEffed Up Film Heads DiscordThis episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the show

For Patreon members | Full episode 20 min | We turn the mic on co-host John Klacsmann, who is on the bargaining committee of the Anthology Film Archives union, for updates on the workers' situation. We talk about how people can support Anthology staff by continuing to attend screenings there and let their support for a fair contract be known to the AFA board and management. Plus: JD runs into a millennial politician from our dating episode, and Caroline Golum on Mets commentators' film criticism. Anthology Film Archives UnionTwitter: @AFAworkersInstagram: @afaunion Film Forum Unionfilmforumunion.orgTwitter: @FilmForumUnion Instagram: @filmforumunionFilm at Lincoln Center Unionflcunion.orgTwitter: @flcunionInstagram: @flcunionBAMunionbamunion.orgTwitter: @BAM_unionInstagram: @bamunionBecome a Patreon member to listen to the full episode.Support the show

We talk to Prismatic Ground founder Inney Prakash about starting a new experimental/documentary film festival with no budget that pays filmmakers, actually programs from submissions, and is free and accessible to all worldwide. We also talk about how visiting the Criterion Closet changes you,  a New York niche celebrity performing lewd sexual acts on Succession, and more.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer, film archivist John Klacsmann, and filmmaker Caroline Golum. Audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.Prismatic GroundWhy I Started a Film Festival in 2021 by Inney PrakashThis episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the show

Sound and music supervisor Dean Hurley, best known for his work with David Lynch, joins the pod to exalt in audiovisual euphoria. We get into Lynchland: Inland Empire, the non-existent new Cannes film, Weather Report truthers, and how ZZ Top's Eliminator figures into the filmmaker's sonic universe. We also celebrate the visual and aural patinas of different eras of image and sound technology—from 35mm optical release prints to early YouTube compression of VHS dubs—and how armchair conservationists help to preserve these experiences. Plus shoutouts to Lethal Weapon 4, Scanner Cop 2, the Alphaville voice, Hurley's new release with Romance, and much more.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer and film archivist John Klacsmann. Audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.Dean Hurley websiteScan-It-Yourself: An Ode to 35mm Release Prints by Dean HurleyThe Frequency of Fear: Dean Hurley InterviewRomance & Dean Hurley - In Every Dream Home a Heartache on BandcampLethal Weapon 4 opening scene on YouTubeThis episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)

Scholar, curator, and artist Ayanna Dozier, Ph.D., joins us for a two-part episode that begins with a discussion about front-of-house museum work prompted by the recent attack at the MoMA Film Desk. What does cultural labor really entail? What protections do workers have? How do architecture, outsourcing, and management trends shape museum workplace culture?This podcast was originally planned as a discussion of Batman and queer comic book history, which continues in part two.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer, film archivist John Klacsmann, and filmmaker/writer Caroline Golum.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Correction: one of the MoMA assault victims was previously misgendered in this podcast. We sincerely apologize for this error and have edited two places where it occurred.Support the show

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.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)

Hosted by Jon Dieringer and audio engineer C. Spencer YehWe visit Monday Night Books, Thomas Beard's speakeasy bookstore tucked in the back of Light Industry, to speak to cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw about Cryptozoo, Hungarian animation, and drawing inspiration from Starship Troopers and video game playthrough videos. And Beard (a former Desert Island Comics employee)  fills us in on Light Industry's upcoming move and his pivot to becoming "the laziest bookseller alive."Cover photo by Ed Halter.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the show

Hosted by Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and audio engineer C. Spencer YehAnthology Film Archivist John Klacsmann's multi-year quest to retrieve Jonas Mekas's files from the FBI vault bears fruit. We also call up programmer Inney Prakash for a scene report from the Berlinale and hear about new movies from Claire Denis, Bertrand Bonello, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, and Tyler Taormina. Plus: a karaoke recap, Moonfall, Golum on pre-code, and more.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)

Special guest: John Wilson of HBO's How to with John Wilson. Hosted by Jon Dieringer, John Klacsmann, and Cosmo Bjorkenheim, with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.Our friend John Wilson joins us to talk about being a Craigslist first responder, keeping his eye sharp in the off-season, why his A.D. fears Cosmo, and how fast food decor changes but motel decor stays the same. We also celebrate spending HBO's money on a coin-op kitchen stove pop-up, proudly salute our sanitation workers, and allow our guest to set the record straight on allegations of glue trapping. Plus: Cosmo has more of a comment than a question.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Join us for Valentine's Karaoke hosted by John Wilson and MC'ed by C. Spencer Yeh February 11, 2022. And to listen to a full-length bonus episode with Wilson, become a member on Patreon.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)

Exclusive for our members: patreon.com/screenslate | Full ep. 37 min. |  In part two of our John Wilson episode, Ridgewood's favorite son discusses "The Gottscheer Variant" and dipping out of the TIME 100 Gala to stare at his own billboard after meeting Elon & Grimes's baby.  We take calls from the Hot Take Hotline on our most eligible listeners' worst movie dates, including one with potentially explosive consequences for the future of New York state politics. Plus: a certain love-bombing furniture designer returns from the ash heap of recent history.Movies discussed:Project X (2012)Timecode (2000)Raw (2016)Still Alice (2014)Funny Games (2007)Straw Dogs (2011)Jurassic Park (1993)Bushwick (2017)The Love Witch (2016)A Goofy Movie (1995)The Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of theGoethe-Institut and German Films.Join us for Valentine's Karaoke hosted by John Wilson and MC'ed by C. Spencer Yeh February 11, 2022. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)

Subscribe to our Patreon for all bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/screenslate ━━━ Guest: Cristina Cacioppo with Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and engineer C. Spencer Yeh. Full runtime 22 min. ━━━ Introducing the hot take hotline. We discuss PA stories and fanfic. A caller disses Memoria. Deepfake Werner Herzog leaves a message.  Jon briefly convinces everyone Eadweard Muybridge f*cked the horse.Support the show

Special guest: Cristina Cacioppo. Call-in guest: Alex Ross Perry. Hosted by Jon Dieringer, John Klacsmann, and Caroline Golum.Our friend Cristina Cacioppo joins us to talk about her programming career, from Ocularis microcinema to 92YTribeca to Alamo Drafthouse and now Nitehawk Cinema. We get into the late-aughts/early-tens NYC film scene before calling up filmmaker Alex Ross Perry to discuss his memories of Peter Bogdanovich. Then Cristina talks about how programming has changed post-Covid reopening, and adapting her Screen Slate column The Outskirts into a new series at Nitehawk Cinema.To access bonus content support us at www.patreon.com/screenslateSponsored by the German Film Office. Subscribe to their newsletter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)

Subscribe to our Patreon for all episodes: www.patreon.com/screenslate // Episode 0.5: Chakiris Pizza. Full runtime: 61 min. Featuring Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and engineer C. Spencer Yeh.  The San Fernando's own Caroline Golum on Licorice Pizza's verisimilitude, meeting PTA & Maya Rudolph on the beach, and whether Encino Man is a better Valley movie. Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer comes clean about his family's once-proud, now shameful history with the West Side Story legacy. Film archivist John Klacsmann explains 70mm projection and why Licorice Pizza is a terrible film title. C. Spencer Yeh reads the Alamo Drafthouse menu.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/screenslate)