The BW/DR Podcast

Episode #67: Seven (with Adam Nayman) This month, Adam Nayman—Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of David Fincher: Mind Games—joins us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Seven (1995).

This month on the pod: special guest Adam Nayman—Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of David Fincher: Mind Games—joins us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SEVEN

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hey if you're up late we've got a treat for you: we just released a brand new pod celebrating/unpacking the 30th anniversary of SEVEN, with the always wonderful Adam Nayman open.spotify.com/episode/2Oir...

Oh hell yeah! Relatively speaking Rope was a “new” Hitchcock for me first watching it like only a couple years ago. But I’ve probably watched it at least 6 times since. Might watch it again today!

an amazing scene/shot from ROPE that we highlight on the pod:

Oh y'all I gasped.

Episode #66: Rope (with Michael Koresky) Hello, champagne. This month we welcome back Michael Koresky, the author of "Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness," to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.

We get into: ways around the Production Code, that Technicolor sunset, Farley Granger’s offscreen persona, Hitchcock’s lost Holocaust doc, the film version of trompe l’oeil, teaching classical Hollywood in a contemporary classroom, the lesser-seen These Three (1936) and Crossfire (1947), and more...

Rope (with Michael Koresky) Podcast Episode · The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · 09/08/2025 · 46m

New pod is here!!

Join us as we sit down with the wonderful Michael Koresky to discuss Hitchcock’s ROPE—which Michael writes about extensively in his fantastic new book, Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

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A new bite-sized episode of the podcast is here!

This month, Chad & Veronica take a loving look at Mike Mills’ BEGINNERS and its “melancholic smile”

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (with Bilge Ebiri) Podcast Episode · The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · 07/02/2025 · 1h 14m

🚨 New pod! 🚨

Your mission, if you choose to accept it:

@bilgeebiri.bsky.social—the man, the myth, the legend—joins the show to bookend his discussion of all things MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE with us from a couple of summers ago, on the occasion of the final (?) film of a nearly 30 year franchise.

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If you’re wondering if you will have a new Mission:Impossible podcast with @bilgeebiri.bsky.social to listen to before the end of tonight, the answer is yes, yes you will

The BW/DR Podcast, Episode #63: Trouble in Paradise (1932) On this month's mini-episode we zoom in on a snappy, passionate moment from Ernst Lubitsch's effervescent screwball, Trouble in Paradise.

Get away from it all for 20 minutes with a new mini-episode on one of the most wonderful movies ever made, Ernst Lubitsch's "effervescent and delicious" pre-code screwball comedy, TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Speed (with Travis Woods) The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · Episode

Pod quiz, hot shot:

The inimitable @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins the pod for a lively chat about the glories of SPEED (1994)!

We get into: repetition compulsion & classical Hollywood storytelling, Keanu’s peak hotness, does Jeff Daniels close his eyes?, what it means to “become bomb” & more...

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SPEED pod coming your way within the hour…

Join Veronica & Chad for a conversation about THE PASSENGER tomorrow!

Coming next Tuesday:

Join us for a live chat about Antonioni’s THE PASSENGER over at @galerie.com!

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Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Angelica Jade Bastién) The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · Episode

New today for your ears:

A brand new episode of @bwdrpod.bsky.social, featuring @angelicabastien.bsky.social talking BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!!!

Had a wonderful time talking with Justin & Laura about life, parenting, music, empathy, Mike Mills, and one of my very favorite movies!

The Celebration (1998) The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · Episode

A brand new bite-sized podcast is here! This month, we're zooming in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, THE CELEBRATION.

We get into: Dogme 95, family gatherings as horror movies, the generative energy of stylistic constraints, dynamic chaos, ghostly POVs, and more...

YouTube video by Creature Features Dracula Encounters Mina | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Creature Features

Recording a brand new episode today with a very special guest we're VERY excited about 🧛‍♂️

#SeeMeNow #Moviesky #Filmsky

A Different Man (with Frank Falisi) Podcast Episode · The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · 02/04/2025 · 1h

🚨🚨New pod!🚨🚨

This month, we're looking at the Kafkaesque body swap, A DIFFERENT MAN with critic/actor/BWDR darling @frankfalisi.bsky.social⁠.

We get into: Adam Pearson’s Oscar snub, The Substance for boys, if you want to dance the mask, the humanism of karaoke, self-image as self-esteem, and more!

A Different Man (with Frank Falisi) Podcast Episode · The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · 02/04/2025 · 1h

🚨🚨New pod!🚨🚨

This month, we're looking at the Kafkaesque body swap, A DIFFERENT MAN with critic/actor/BWDR darling @frankfalisi.bsky.social⁠.

We get into: Adam Pearson’s Oscar snub, The Substance for boys, if you want to dance the mask, the humanism of karaoke, self-image as self-esteem, and more!

Always happy to be talking about SOME LIKE IT HOT

Episode #57: Some Like It Hot (1959) Our first mini-episode of 2025 is a look at Billy Wilder’s subversive farce, Some Like It Hot. We get into the unlikely modernity of Hot’s sexual politics, Orry-Kelly’s naked dresses, is this the grea...

A new pod for your ears!

Our first bite-sized episode of 2025 is a look at Billy Wilder’s subversive farce, SOME LIKE IT HOT. We get into: the unlikely modernity of its sexual politics, Orry-Kelly’s naked dresses, is this the greatest comedy of all time, and more...

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Our final pod of 2024 is here!

Join us as we sit down with wonderful human, podcast extraordinaire, and amateur Russell Crowe historian @oneblakeminute.bsky.social to discuss Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR (2000).

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We mortals are but shadow and dust…

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Our final pod of 2024 is here!

Join us as we sit down with wonderful human, podcast extraordinaire, and amateur Russell Crowe historian @oneblakeminute.bsky.social to discuss Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR (2000).

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Eyes Wide Shut (with Elizabeth Cantwell) Podcast Episode · The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · 12/24/2021 · 1h 9m

From the archives:

MERRY CRUISEMAS/Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie.

We chat with @eccantwell.bsky.social about color & Christmas lights, shooting London for NYC (for Vienna), Tom Cruise’s dubious sex appeal, the complexities of marriage, whether the weed makes you aggressive, and much more.

Episode #55: Don't Look Now (1973) This month’s mini-episode takes us into the rich opening sequence of Nicolas Roeg’s Venetian nightmare, Don’t Look Now.

New pod!

This month's mini-episode takes us into the rich opening sequence of Nicolas Roeg’s Venetian nightmare, DON'T LOOK NOW.

We get into: Graeme Clifford’s expressionist editing, celebrating movies for grownups, the color red, non-chronology & what lies “beyond the fragile geometry of space.”

Episode #51: Something Wild (1986) This month, we take a loving look back at the gear-shifting, hybrid charms of Jonathan Demme's screwball noir, Something Wild.

also: something wild on @bwdrpod.bsky.social

Rewind: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Podcast Episode · The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · 12/08/2024 · 41m

Over at @bwdrpod.bsky.social, we just republished a delightful audio essay of @ethanwarren.bsky.social's "⁠A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol⁠" for your holiday ears.

Written & read by ⁠Ethan himself⁠, with music by ⁠Ryan Pollie⁠!