Episode description

We're gettin' it together, folks. This week we talk a lot about Matt Damon, Lily Gladstone, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Sofia Coppola, plus Killers of the Flower Moon and Beau Is Afraid.

Movies discussed (* indicates spoilers):

• Air, BlackBerry, The Martian, The Last Duel, Hustlers, Erin Brockovich, The Departed*, Promised Land, Downsizing, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator: Dark Fate
• Beau Is Afraid, Hilma, Showing Up, First Cow
• Killers of the Flower Moon*, Uncharted, The Whale, Certain Women
• Body Double, Phantom of the Paradise, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Wolf of Wall Street, Romeo + Juliet, Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood
• The Night of the Hunter, Far from Heaven, All That Heaven Allows, Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate
• Hereditary, Midsommar, Babylon
• The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, The Bling Ring, Priscilla, The Sweet East, Saltburn, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, American Animals
• May December, The Holdovers, Sideways, You Hurt My Feelings, Master Gardener, Occupied City, Small Axe: Mangrove, Small Axe: Lovers Rock, Small Axe: Education, Bad Education (2019), La mala educación (Bad Education) (2004), An Education, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Starling Girl, White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
• Of An Age, Before Sunset, Ghosted, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Little Mermaid (2023), The Lure
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Book Club: The Next Chapter

Deadline's viral Martin Scorsese interview

Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure by Anna Backman Rogers

The Smartest People in the Room is hosted by Rachel Casey and Maddie Weiner. It is edited by Maddie Weiner. Original theme and interstitial music is by Scott Boice - follow him on Instagram @sc00gle and find more of his work on ⁠Bandcamp⁠.