The Film Experience

Better late than never might not actually apply this time with Oscar night almost upon us. But here's a lost file from January wherein Nathaniel Rogers, Eric Blume, and Chris Feil discuss the Oscar nominations from Barbie to Killers of the Flower Moon...

Nathaniel chats with Ben Miller, Baby Clyde, and Christopher James about the highs and lows of Oscar night... and the season in general. Hope you enjoy.

In this very random edition of our hibernating podcast, Nick Davis returns to talk to Nathaniel about the Golden Globes and their gracious career-long speeches as well as five of his favourites of the year including EO and Aftersun.

The Supporting Actress Smackdown hits the landmark year of 1997, now 25 years in the rearview mirror if you can believe it. We welcome back all-star guests of the past: comedian Louis Virtel (Keep It!, Jimmy Kimmel Live), journalist and author Kyle Buchanan (The New York Times, "Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road" ) and podcaster Chelsea Eichholz (Cinema Gals). We're discussing the Titanic phenomenon, the huge hit Good Will Hunting, In & Out's gay comedy and Oscar-specific plotline, and critical darlings LA Confidential and Boogie Nights. And of course we're talking the careers and performances of Kim Basinger, Joan Cusack, Minnie Driver, Julianne Moore, and Gloria Stuart.

Team Experience met 24 hours after the Emmy nominations to discuss. Why are so few shows dominating so much. We talk rules, favourites, snubs, and much more.

Nathaniel R and Nick Davis try to make peace with Oscar night such as it was. It's the only Oscar podcast you'll hear that doesn't discuss the incident! Instead we discuss our first Oscar nights as children as well as what we liked about Sunday's show (yes, there were a few things). The conversation drifts to the future, too. What we hope to see from some of the actors and directors in the future.

The Supporting Actress Smackdown is back for another season. We begin with the current Oscar race, discussing Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog), Judi Dench (Belfast), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Aujanue Ellis (King Richard), and Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter). We also name actresses that should have been nominated. The panelists for this episode: Rebecca Alter (Vulture), Sophia Ciminello (Oscar Wild), Ryan McQuade (Awards Watch) and Cláudio and Nathaniel from TFE.

Nathaniel chats with several Team Experience members on the night of the Oscar nominations. We discuss Drive My Car's nominations, the most exciting and unpredictable category (Actress!), and talk release strategies and a couple of snubs.

Part 3 of 3 - Nathaniel's reunion with Nick Davis comes to a close (for now) as we discuss West Side Story, Annette, The French Dispatch, Don't Look Up, The Tender Bar, and other new films. We also discuss our favourite Faye Dunaway and Gena Rowlands performances as a retro sidebar.

Round 2 (of 3!) with special guest Nick Davis catching up with Nathaniel on 2021 movies. In this episode they discuss The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Lost Daughter, Test Pattern, No Time To Die, Being the Ricardos, and Mass. And of course, being actressexuals, impassioned odes to the talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Martha Plimpton.

In this special impromptu edition of the podcast, Nick Davis returns (gasp!) to catch up with Nathaniel about the Oscar hopefuls they've both seen but not yet discussed together. This conversation was recorded in early December and includes Passing, Power of the Dog, Spencer, Worst Person in the World, and Zola.

On the 1937 edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we discuss Best Picture nominated classics Stage Door and Dead End, plus the blockbuster disaster epic In Old Chicago and acting nominated mysteries and melodramas with Night Must Fall and Stella Dallas. Thanks to Chelsea Eichholz, Pamela Hutchinson, Boyd Van Hoeij, and Tim Robey for being fabulous and very funny guests.

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking the 1986 Oscars and specifically the actresses Tess Harper, Piper Laurie, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Maggie Smith, and Dianne Wiest. We discuss Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters and the play adaptation Crimes of the Heart, diametrically opposed in quality but both about neurotic sisters. We also gather round the pool table for Martin Scorsese's underdiscussed The Color of Money and consider the groundbreaking (at the time) deaf drama Children of a Lesser God. Nathaniel Rogers, Cláudio Alves, and Lynn Lee from the Film Experience welcome special guests Jonathan Diaz and Rob Kirby.

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking the 1998 Oscars. Shakespeare in Love and Saving Private Ryan battled it out for Best Picture but we're talking (mostly) about the supporting actress race. Here to discuss Gods and Monsters, Primary Colors, Little Voice, Hilary & Jackie, and the Best Picture winning "rom-com for theater nerds" are special guests writer/director Leslye Headland, actor Mitch Silpa, writer Jenelle Riley, illustrator Dashiell Silva, and DJ Rob Champion.

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking 1946 which turns out to be not just the most racially problematic lineup ever in the category but also the most bonkers in terms of the movies themselves: Duel in the Sun, The Razor's Edge, Saratoga Trunk, Spiral Staircase, and Anna and the King of Siam. Playwright Peter Duchan, film critic Guy Lodge, actor Tory Devon Smith, and writer Allen Nguyen join Nathaniel to talk Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, and a wild post-war film year.

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking about the Oscar race of 2000 and the actresses Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Judi Dench, and Julie Walters. The panelists are (in alpha order): director Eric Blume, journalist Kyle Buchanan, actor Nicholas D'Agosto, actress Vella Lovell and your host Nathaniel Rogers.

Our Oscar-vintage series continues with the premiere of the final season of the "Supporting Actress Smackdown". This time we're featuring the current Oscar race honoring the films of 2020. Joining Nathaniel to discuss Glenn Close, Maria Bakalova, Amanda Seyfried, Youn Yuh-Jung, and Olivia Colman are actress/playwright/comedian Grace Aki (Tell Me On A Sunday), writer/producer Peter Knegt (CBC Arts), writer/podcaster Jorge Molina (Just To Be Nominated), and awards pundits Scott Feinberg (The Hollywood Reporter) and Matt Neglia (Next Best Picture).

Murtada and Nathaniel talk Gary Oldman as Mank. Plus supporting performances from Amanda Seyfried and Charles Dance. But what of the wide open Best Director race?

Our Oscar-vintage series continues with the season finale featuring 1987. It's a look back at Fatal Attraction, Moonstruck, Throw Momma From the Train, Gaby, and The Whales of August. To discuss those five films and the bygone days of erotic thrillers, misogyny as comedy, and intimate dramas at movie theaters, Nathaniel sits down with actor Ato Essandoh (Away, Tales from the Loop), author Manuel Betancourt (Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall (33 1/3), and critics Kathia Woods and Naveen Kumar. We hope you enjoy!

Murtada and Nathaniel discuss the Gotham Award Nominations with First Cow leading before discussing two new Netflix films, Ron Howard's loud overacted Hillbilly Elegy and Sophia Loren's comeback vehicle The Life Ahead.

Our Oscar-vintage series continues with a look back at the women of The Sound of Music (Peggy Wood, Eleanor Wood, and Julie Andrews), A Patch of Blue (Shelley Winters), Othello (Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman), and Inside Daisy Clover (Ruth Gordon and Natalie Wood). To discuss those four films as well as topics like "blackface," movie stars pretending to be other movie stars, dubbing in musicals, and the rewatchable joy of The Sound Of Music, TFE's Nathaniel R and Baby Clyde are joined by the actor Spencer Garrett (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood), and writers Kayleigh Donaldson (Pajiba, The Hollywood Read), Kevin Jacobsen (And the Runner Up Is..., Gold Derby), and Terence Johnson (LeNoirAuteur.net, Vampyr Resistance Corps).

Murtada and Nathaniel talk the hottest festival title, Chloe Zhao's Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, plus virtual screening pros and cons, Ivory Coast's Oscar submission Night of the Kings, and the new Jude Law and Carrie Coon drama, The Nest.

Our Oscar-obsessed time machine takes us back to post Depression / pre World War II Hollywood when You Can't Take It With You beat Jezebel to the Best Picture prize. To discuss those two films as well as The Great Waltz, Of Human Hearts, and Merrily We Live, and the Best Supporting Actress race, TFE's Nathaniel R and Cláudio Alves are joined by the actors Steven Weber (Wings, Jeffrey) and Britney Young (GLOW) and Vanity Fair's Joanna Robinson. Topics include: screwball comedy, jukebox musicals, and Hollywood's obsession with the Antebellum South.

Travel back with us to 2005 as we discuss the first nominations for Amy Adams, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz. Who deserved to win? To discuss this cinematic vintage, which included Brokeback Mountain, North Country and Capote, Nathaniel welcomes the actress Kerry O'Malley (Snowpiercer, Boardwalk Empire) along with Cinematheque of Tangier's Ali Benzekri, Los Angeles Times' Justin Chang, and Awards Daily's Joey Moser.

Surprise. It's a regular episode of the Podcast again in this summer of intense Smackdowning. Murtada and Nathaniel talk Emmy nominations, 2020 cinema (what there is of it of course) and whether or not there will be an Oscar ceremony next year.

On this "Supporting Actress Smackdown" edition of the podcast, Nathaniel welcomes award winning actors Nikki M James (The Book of Mormon, The Good Fight), Rory O'Malley (The Book of Mormon, Hamilton), and Nick Westrate (Casa Valentina, Turn: Washington's Spies) as well as Vanity Fair's deputy editor Katey Rich, and New York Magazine's Mark Harris. We're talking the films of 1991 including two auteurist pictures, Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King and Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear and three tales of the south, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Prince of Tides, and Rambling Rose. And of courses the actresses that starred in them: Mercedes Ruehl, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Tandy, Kate Nelligan, and Diane Ladd.

On this "Smackdown" edition of the podcast we talk 1957 and the anti-miscenegation movie Sayonara, soap opera smash Peyton Place, gritty NYC night on the town drama The Bachelor Party (with pre-Mortician Addams, Carolyn Jones), and the all-star whodunnit Witness for the Prosecution (with post Bride of Frankenstein Elsa Lanchester). For the panel Nathaniel welcomes filmmaker Q Allan Brocka (Boy Culture, Rick & Steve), video essayist Izzy ("Be Kind Rewind"), film critics Kimberly Pierce and Kenji Fujishima, and archivist/filmmaker Brett Wood (Kino Lorber).

On this "Smackdown" edition of the podcast Nathaniel welcomes comedian/actors Joel Kim Booster (Shrill) and Matt Rogers (Gayme Show), as well as journalist/editor Jazz Tangcay (Variety), and critic Emily VanDerWerff (Vox). We discuss the film year of 2002 but especially the razzle-dazzle 'em joys of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah in Chicago, super-depressed Julianne Moore (and other actresses) in The Hours, Kathy Bates shaking up Alexander Payne's About Schmidt, and the peculiar magic of Meryl in the Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze whatsit Adaptation.

On this "Smackdown" edition of the podcast -that it's episode '47 featuring the year 1947 is accidental! -- Nathaniel welcomes actors Dana Delany (The Code, China Beach) and Patrick Vaill (Oklahoma), as well as lyricist Thomas Mizer (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) and culture critic Angelica Jade Bastién. We discuss the film year of 1947 but especially anti-semitic dramas Crossfire and Gentleman's Agreement (which competed for Best Picture), the Hitchcock courtroom thriller The Paradine Case, and the farm comedy The Egg and I.

On this special "Supporting Actress Smackdown" edition of the podcast Nathaniel welcomes actors Sean Maguire (The Magicians) and Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as well as Eric Blume, Amir Soltani, and Boyd Van Hoeij to discuss (and okay argue) about films and performances of 1981 from Only When I Laugh, Absence of Malice, Reds, Ragtime, and On Golden Pond.

Murtada and Nathaniel are both self-quarantined in NYC but meet over Skype to talk Emma (2020) and Cactus Flower (1969) and share the odd feeling of being stuck inside for days on end.

Hollywood High Holy Night has come and gone. Murtada, Nick, and Nathaniel talk it out from favourite speeches to reaction shots to Parasite's big win and what we hope it means for the future.

Murtada is away at Sundance so Nick and Nathaniel do some navel-gazing about making list and naming "Bests" and talk about the Best Picture race and other Oscary topics as the season approaches its finale.

Nathaniel and Murtada react, rant, and rave about various nominations

Greta Gerwig has another hit on her hands. Murtada, Nathaniel and special guest Kim Rogers discuss.

Nathaniel and Murtada welcome back long lost co-host Nick Davis to discuss the first wave of critics prizes and the Globe and SAG nominations and what it all means.

New movies including A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and the Best Cinematography category.