We Need to Talk About Oscar
by Áron Czapek
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Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson give grief a home in ‘Mouse’
Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson give grief a home in ‘Mouse’
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We Need to Talk About Oscar brings you inside the creative process with the artists behind modern film and television. Anchored by the awards conversation but passionate about indie cinema, each episode bridges technical filmmaking with rich, personal storytelling.
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- Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson give grief a home in ‘Mouse’ · 22 minKelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson spent years trying to get ‘Mouse,’ shot in Kelly’s Arkansas hometown, made, and a detour through ‘Ghostlight’ showed them how small a footprint…
- Dan Sallitt makes room for the unsaid in ‘What Can’t Be Mentioned’ · 22 minDan Sallitt returns to Jackie, the young woman at the center of ‘The Unspeakable Act,’ more than a decade later, and he tells how his view of sequels shifted once he made one. He…
- Alex Mechanik writes a love letter to the awkward chase for relevance in ‘This Is the One They’ll Remember Me By’ · 29 minAlex Mechanik worked side by side with wife Samy Burch on short films before the two broke through with ‘May December,’ and his debut feature ‘This Is the One They’ll Remember Me…
- Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson shape the unlikely into something human in ‘Wicker’ · 21 minAlex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson adapt Ursula Wills-Jones’ fable ‘The Wicker Husband,’ a story that already lived as prose and as a London stage production, into the…
- Isabella Ivos finds a fable in a dentist’s chair in ‘None the Wiser’ · 17 minWriter-director Isabella Ivos built ‘None the Wiser’ out of a painful toothache, and she lays out how ideas born from everyday moments like that one survive the journey from…
- Sky Hopinka gathers his community and lets them be seen in ‘Powwow People’ · 19 minFor ‘Powwow People,’ filmmaker Sky Hopinka and his collaborators built the very gathering they filmed, a powwow held over three days at Seattle’s Daybreak Star Indian Cultural…
- We Need to Talk About Emmy #32: Jesse McKeown on holding onto a way of life in 'Below' · 20 minCreator Jesse McKeown built 'Below' around a premise easy to sum up in a sentence, a sea creature terrorizing a small town, and explains how he kept that pitch from overshadowing…
- Thomas Leisten Schneider on what family hands down in 'Love - Love' · 22 minWriter-director Thomas Leisten Schneider makes his feature debut with 'Love - Love,' moving from the quick turnaround of commercials and shorts like 'Point and Shoot' into a much…
- Paula González-Nasser pauses the city one home at a time in 'The Scout' · 22 minWriter-director Paula González-Nasser spent years location scouting before making 'The Scout,' her feature debut following Sofia, played by Mimi Davila, through a single frantic…
- Liz Sargent on family, care, and imagining better in 'Take Me Home' · 25 minWriter-director Liz Sargent built 'Take Me Home' out of the life she and her sister Anna have lived, expanding her Sundance short into a feature. Liz opens up about what it means…
- Greg Vrotsos turns the camera on himself in 'Situations' · 30 minWriter-director-star Greg Vrotsos shot 'Situations' entirely within Silver Lake, and considers how uncommon it's become for a film to present Los Angeles as itself rather than a…
- Joe Swanberg on scaling up and looking back in 'The Sun Never Sets' · 18 minJoe Swanberg sets his first feature in nearly a decade against the vast landscapes of Anchorage, Alaska, a marked departure from the cramped apartments and coffee shops that have…
- Orlando von Einsiedel on destiny and documentary form in 'The Cycle of Love' · 18 minOrlando von Einsiedel, the Academy Award winning director behind 'The White Helmets' and 'Virunga,' turns to romance with 'The Cycle of Love,' recreating PK Mahanandia's 6,000…
- Jess Zeidman and Leo Gallagher find rhythm in fragments in 'Human Theories' · 28 minDirector Jess Zeidman previously wrote 'Tahara' for Olivia Peace to direct, and this time stepped behind the camera herself, working alongside cinematographer Leo Gallagher, who…
- Shatara Michelle Ford and Ludovica Isidori craft a gentler collision for 'Dreams in Nightmares' · 25 minWriter-director Shatara Michelle Ford and cinematographer Ludovica Isidori reunite for their second feature together following 'Test Pattern,' this time following three queer…
- Andrew Patterson on scaling up without selling out in 'The Rivals of Amziah King' · 20 minWriter-director Andrew Patterson follows his lean, celebrated debut 'The Vast of Night' with a sophomore feature running well past two hours, a substantial jump from his first…
- Adam Meeks and Stefan Weinberger on second chances in 'Union County' · 27 minWriter-director Adam Meeks and cinematographer Stefan Weinberger expanded their 2020 short into 'Union County,' a feature starring Will Poulter and Noah Centineo as brothers Cody…
- Stanley Kwan on the ghosts that outlive us in 'Center Stage' · 20 minDirector Stanley Kwan's 1991 film 'Center Stage' returns in a 4K restoration marking its 35th anniversary, revisiting how experimental the biopic was for its time, arriving in…
- Kent Jones on generational friction and late arrivals in 'Late Fame' · 22 minDirector Kent Jones joins us to discuss his second narrative feature 'Late Fame,' working from a script by Samy Burch, who appeared on this show around the time of 'May…
- Lucía Aleñar Iglesias on distance, memory, and imitation in 'Forastera' · 23 minWriter-director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias made her feature debut with 'Forastera' in a place that belongs more to her past than her present, returning to Mallorca and the world of…
