Movies Are Like My Parents with Ari Aster & Bill Hader

JUL 10, 202555 MIN
The A24 Podcast

Movies Are Like My Parents with Ari Aster & Bill Hader

JUL 10, 202555 MIN

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<p>Topics covered include: Steven Soderbergh’s greatest commentary tracks, the first <em>Mission Impossible</em> as a perfect film, writing movies for actors not executives, Ari telling Bill the idea for <em>Eddington</em> outside of an Italian restaurant, Bill laughing at the sound of Toni Collette’s head falling off in <em>Hereditary</em>, being intuitive and impulsive, David Lynch as a great spiritual teacher, using genre film as a shield, Ari’s deep research process in New Mexico before making <em>Eddington</em>, the genius comedy of Christopher Morris, walking into the meat grinder, unmade horror scripts, Bill’s cameo in <em>Beau is Afraid</em>, going beyond the breaking point, Steven Spielberg as the king of shot sequencing, childhood obsession with screenplays, <em>Sturges on Sturges</em>, Bill filming shorts as a kid with his sister in Tulsa, meeting Scorsese at SNL, and 50+ films that shaped them. </p>