A24's filmography is filled with memorable characters but few have made such a huge cultural impact as Black Phillip from Robert Eggers debut feature, The Witch. Actor Daniel Malik shares with Lee Hutchison how he came to be cast as Black Phillip, working with Robert Eggers and the amazing cast of The Witch, the legacy of Black Phillip, life beyond the role, and much more.
Lee and Dallas review Woman Walks Ahead and welcome Kim Morrison to breakdown Hereditary. When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry in Ari Aster's debut feature, Hereditary. We also have an interview with Milly 'Charlie' Shapiro who takes us behind the scenes of the film and the development of her iconic character. Woman Walks Ahead is set In 1890 when Catherine Weldon, a p...
Lee is joined by Valeriia Karaman to discuss her unforgettable performance as the Mermaid in Robert Egger's The Lighthouse. Valeriia shares with us how she was discovered for and won the role of the Mermaid, the process behind preparing for shooting, working on the set of The Lighthouse, working with Robert Eggers, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, the imagery and reaction to the character of the Mermaid, and much more.
Lee and Dallas welcome the founder of The Nerd Party, Tristan Riddell to discuss 'First Reformed' and 'How To Talk To Girls At Parties'. Written and directed by Paul Schrader, First Reformed stars Ethan Hawke as pastor of a small church in upstate New York who starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife. We're also joined by First Reformed stars Elanna White and Delano Montgomery who take us behind the scenes of thi...
Lee sits down with writer/director Trey Edward Shults to discuss his critically acclaimed 3rd feature film with A24, Waves. Waves traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. Lee is also joined by the cast that make up the family at the heart of this drama for a spoiler filled discussion , Sterling K. Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry and Taylor Rus...
Dallas and Lee continue on with A24's 2018 filmography with Lean on Pete and Backstabbing for Beginners. In Lean on Pete, the teenage Charley befriends Lean on Pete, an ageing racehorse, when he arrives in Portland. When Charley learns that the horse is bound for slaughter, he tries to save him. Backstabbing for Beginners is based on the real life story of Michael Soussan, a young United Nations employee, travels to Iraq with his mentor, who wants to show him how successful the UN's Oil-for-Food...
2019 has been a great year for A24 and The Death of Dick Long is one of their highlights. From the co-director of Swiss Army Man, Daniel Scheinert, the film takes place following the death of Dick but Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama We're joined by the three leads of the film who take us behind the scenes on one of this years most unforgettable films for a spoiler free discussion... Michael Abbott Jr. (00:01:1...
Lee and Dallas arrive at 2018 within the A24 filmography and discuss two DirecTV/A24 releases, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall and The Last Movie Star. The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is set over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life as Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace. In The Last Movie Star, an aging screen icon, Vic Edwards played by Burt Reynolds gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville. I...
Lee is joined by The Bling Ring's Katie Chang to discuss her performance as its ringleader Rebecca in Sofia Coppola's film. Katie talks about the audition process, working with Coppola and the amazing ensemble cast, the real life Bling Ring, life after the film, what's coming up next and much more!
Dallas and Lee return to discuss two more A24 films, The Disaster Artist and The Ballad of Lefty Brown. Based on the non-fiction book, The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.ommy decides to write, direct, produce and star in their own movie. That movie is The Room, which has attained cult status as the "Citizen Kane" of bad movie...
Lee is joined by actress Catherine Oliviere to discuss her performance as Kennedy in Eighth Grade, the nemesis of Elsie Fisher's Kayla. Catherine discusses the audition process for Kennedy but also for Kayla, the inspirations and creative choices behind bringing Kennedy to life, working with Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher, life on the Eighth Grade set, the reaction to the film and much more in our interview.
Lee and Dallas are joined by Clara Cook, Iana Murray and Natalia to breakdown two of A24’s best films, Lady Bird and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor’s life in gradually unsettling ways. Lady Bird: Sacramento, 2002. Christ...
Lee is joined by Krisha Fairchild to discuss her titular role in Krisha from a24 regular, writer/director, Trey Edward Shults. Trey Edward Shults debut feature sees Krisha return for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
In Woodshock Kristen Dunst plays Theresa a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss and is torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug. The Florida Project is set over one summer, as a precocious six-year-old Moonee courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World. In A24 Hour News, Lee and Dallas share their e...
Lee is joined by Academy Award winner Guy Nattiv to discuss his A24 film, Skin. Guy talks about how he went from Israel to Hollywood, Skin's origins as an Oscar winning short film, how it then became a feature in the same year and the hurdles the film faced, casting Jamie Bell as white supremacist Bryon Widner, the films place in this current political climate and Guy teases his next project.
Lee and Dallas are joined by Laura Potier from Outtake Magazine to discuss Menashe and Good Time. Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son in Menashe, we also have an interview with its producer and co-writer Alex Lipschultz. The Safdie Brothers sophomore feature Good Time takes place after a botched bank robbery which lands Connie Nika's (Robert Pattinson) younger brother in prison, he embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underw...
Lee is joined by the producer and co-writer of The Florida Project, Chris Bergoch. Chris shares with us how he got his break in the industry, the birth of his relationship with Sean Baker, moving from tv to features and his work on Starlet and the critically acclaimed Tangerine, the long development process of The Florida Project, its origins, the casting and locations, it's popularity, working with A24 and what's to come next.
Lee and Dallas discuss two further A24 films, It Comes At Night and A Ghost Story. Trey Edward Shults follows up Krisha with It Comes At Night. Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorises the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. A Ghost Story from David Lowery sees a recently deceased white-sheeted ghost return to his suburban home to console his ber...
Lee is joined by Adam Pearson, documentarian and actor best known for his performance as 'The Disfigured Man' in the A24 classic Under The Skin. Adam discusses the audition process, developing the character of The Disfigured Man and working with Scarlett Johansson and director Jonathan Glazer to bring it to life, the impact of the film and much more. Adam also speaks with us about his latest show on the BBC, Eugenic's - Science's Greatest Scandal which is screening on October 3rd and 10th on BBC...
Lee and Dallas look at two lesser known A24 films, The Lovers and The Exception. Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple in The Lovers who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance. The Exception sees a German soldier try to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of Wo...
Lee interviews Greg Sestero about his book, The Disaster Artist, which was adapted by James Franco into an award winning feature film. Greg Sestero talks about the origins of the book, his stories from the set of The Room and working with Tommy Wiseau, The Disaster Artist's production and success as a film, becoming a scriptwriter and his work on Best Friends Vol 1 and 2.
Lee and Dallas return to discuss The Blackcoat's Daughter and Free Fire and we have an interview with its director and co-writer Ben Wheatley. In The Blackcoat's Daughter, two Catholic schoolgirls Kat and Rose get left behind at their boarding school over winter break as the other girls leave, where it's rumoured that the nuns are satanists. Brie Larson stars in Free Fire as Justine who has brokered a meeting during 1978 in a deserted warehouse between two Irishmen and a gang led by Vernon and O...
Lee is joined the writer/director of A24's Into The Forest, Patricia Rozema. Into The Forest sees two sisters after a massive power outage learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home. Patricia shares with me about how she went from not watching a movie until she was sixteen to becoming one of Canada's most prominent filmmakers. Patricia talks about the success at Cannes for her debut film, I've Heard The Mermaids Singing, tackling an adaptation of Mansfield Park, working with M...
Lee and Dallas are joined by Hannah Ryan to discuss 20th Century Women and Trespass Against Us. 20th Century Women is set in 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to h...
Lee is joined by composer Richard Vreeland aka Disasterpeace to discuss his work on A24's Under the Silver Lake. Vreeland discusses his early career in video game composing, working on It Follows with David Robert Mitchell and the opportunities that followed, the challenges of scoring and working on Under the Silver Lake, what happened with the release of this film and composing music for a Netflix movie, Triple Frontier.
Dallas and Lee review A24's second music documentary, Oasis Supersonic and The Monster. Oasis: Supersonic details the history of the Britpop band Oasis during their formative years and the height of their success in the 1990s. Zoe Kazan stars in The Monster, which sees a mother and daughter confront a terrifying monster when they break down on a deserted road. In A24 Hour News we discuss The Lighthouse trailer, home video deals in the United States, the success of The Farewell and preview of our...
Lee Hutchison speaks with filmmaker Azazel Jacobs, the writer/director of the A24 produced film, The Lovers. Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance. Azazel discusses coming from a filmmaking family and his early career in shorts and features before working on the HBO/Sky Atlantic series, Doll and Em. Az...
Lee and Dallas are joined by Megan Wilson, writer and podcaster for Screen Queens to breakdown American Honey and the Oscar winning Moonlight. In American Honey, a teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.Moonlight sees a young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles o...
Lee speaks with Jared Moshe, the writer/director of A24 western, The Ballad of Lefty Brown starring Bull Pullman in the titular role. Jared discusses his early career as a producer before transitioning to writer-director with his first Western, Dead Man's Burden. The Ballad of Lefty Brown followed and after its premiere at South By South West, A24 acquired the rights to the film. Jared tells us what it was like to hear A24 was interested in his film, how their marketing team work on a film and w...
Dallas and Lee watch two A24 films for the first time, Morris from America and The Sea of Trees. First up we check out Morris from America, Morris is a 13-year-old African-American who moves to Germany with his dad and falls for a girl at a youth club who encourages him to open up and share his rapping skills. In The Sea of Trees, a suicidal American played by Matthew McConaughey befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji, a popular suicide spot and the two search for a way out. In ...
