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In We Need to Talk About Oscar you can hear interviews with filmmakers. We are trying to shed some light on a wide range of professions within the industry, so apart from the writers/directors/actors you can also get insights from editors, production designers, composers, and so on. Our aim is to provide an across the board picture on how our favourite films and tv shows come to life. The interviews are conducted by our two co-hosts, Áron and Szilveszter. The credit for the logo and the design goes to Réka Sereghy.
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Is there an “Antidote” to all this?
Next up, we welcome James Jones, the director of the documentary “Antidote” on the show.The film tells the courageous stories of whistleblowers and activists who risk everything to expose Putin's authoritarian regime, facing dire consequences for their bravery.Áron talks with James about the parallels between “Antidote” and the 2022 documentary “Navalny”, shedding light on the relentless pursuit of truth in the face of tyranny. They also delve a bit into the use of AI in documentary filmmakin...
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How the night changes over "The Weekend"
The second episode of our coverage at this year’s Tribeca is here, as Áron sat down with the director, Daniel Oriahi and the two leads, Uzoamaka Aniunoh and Bucci Franklin, of the genre-bending horror thriller, “The Weekend”.In this interview you can learn about Daniel’s inspirations for the visuals of the movie and how the actors coped with the mental challenges of the shootThis fresh take on the ‘nightmare at the in-laws’ -genre will make you second guess your trust in your surroundings and...
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The Rich Tale of a Director Who Decided to Give His Film a Long Title
The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival kicked off this week and in this episode you can hear Áron talking with director Tolga Karacelik and cinematographer Natalie Kingston to discuss their much-anticipated film, "The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer". The story follows a struggling writer in the midst of a divorce who befriends a retired serial killer. The killer unexpectedly becomes both his marriage counselor by day and his advisor on killing for his next book by...
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We Need to Talk About Emmy #9: Weronika Tofilska and Krzysztof Trojnar, the driector and cinematographer of “Baby Reindeer” Eps. 1-4
In this episode, Szilveszter sits down with the director, Weronika Tofilska (0:55), while Áron speaks with the cinematographer, Krzysztof Trojnar (26:23), of the gripping new show 'Baby Reindeer'.This series, adapted from Richard Gadd's acclaimed one-man stage play, chronicles his harrowing experience with a female stalker and the dark, hidden trauma it forces him to confront. Weronika and Krzysztof, who collaborated on the first four of the seven episodes, share their journey of bringing thi...
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We Need to Talk About Emmy #8: Showrunner Steven Knight on how the lies prevail over the truth in "The Veil"
For this episode we got to talk to Steven Knight about his latest limited series, FX’s The Veil, headlined by the one and only Elisabeth Moss.Research, his writing process, generating yet keeping tension under control and homages are among the topics Áron covered with the show's writer, creator, showrunner.Steve has written (and at times directed) films like Locke, Spencer or Eastern Promises, and well-known, critically acclaimed TV shows, such as the Peaky Blinders or Taboo.Just in the last ...
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We Need to Talk About Emmy #7: Marty Beller on scoring S2 of "American Rust"
Creating a score that perfectly matches the atmosphere of a new show is a challenge, but when a series is renewed, the composer faces the additional task of evolving, while maintaining the music’s familiar essence. Our next guest, Marty Beller, found himself in this exact situation transitioning from Season 1 to Season 2 of ‘American Rust’. In this episode, Marty talks to Áron about balancing the differences and similarities between playing in a band like They Might Be Giants and composi...