The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast

It’s officially fall when the NYFF finally ends. In this episode, Veronica sits down with Fran Hoepfner , Frank Falisi , and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 63rd New York Film Festival. This is a spoiler-free...

Happy 30th birthday to David Fincher’s Seven (1995). Joining us to celebrate is special guest Adam Nayman , Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of, among other books, David Fincher: Mind Games (2021). We get...

Hello, champagne. This month we welcome back to the podcast Michael Koresky ( listen here to his first visit, discussing A.I.: Artificial Intelligence ). Michael is MoMI’s senior curator of film, Reverse Shot ’s...

For a taste of summertime sadness, we look at a pick from curator Christos Nikou ( Apples [2020] and Fingernails [2023]): Mike Mills’s semi-autobiographical bleak comedy Beginners (2010). We get into the film’s tonality...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Bilge Ebiri —the man, the myth, the legend—joins us to bookend our discussion of all things Mission: Impossible from a couple of summers ago , on the occasion of the final...

On this month’s bite-sized episode we're zooming in on a snappy/passionate moment from Ernst Lubitsch’s effervescent 1932 screwball comedy, Trouble in Paradise . We get into: sex & pre-code cinema, eye-widening lines...

Pop quiz, hotshot: join us as we welcome back BWDR veteran and De Palma completist ⁠Travis Woods⁠ for a special conversation on one of our all-time favorites, Jan de Bont’s Speed (1994). We get into: repetition...

This month’s micro-episode takes us inside the mysterious, sensual brilliance of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger , a curated pick from director Ezra Edelman : "The idea of wanting to live with purpose, even if...

This month we sit down with Vulture critic Angelica Jade Bastién , author of the newsletter Madwomen & Muses , where she recently started writing about “Movies That Fuck.” In honor of “cinematic sensuality,” we chat...

This month's bite-sized episode zooms in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, The Celebration (1998), one of Palestinian director/writer/producer Annemarie Jacir's curated picks. We get into...

In honor of guest Michael Koresky's new book announcement, we're revisiting this conversation with him from last summer about Steven Spielberg's A.I. Michael's new book, Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and...

We’re back with an episode analyzing writer-director Aaron Schimburg’s Kafkaesque body swap, A Different Man . Joining us is critic, actor, and BWDR darling Frank Falisi , co-founder of Garden State Lantern . We get...

Our first mini-episode of 2025 looks to one of director Andrew Haigh’s curated picks: Billy Wilder’s subversive farce Some Like It Hot . We get into the unlikely modernity of Hot ’s sexual politics, Orry-Kelly’s naked...

Be thankful we did your Gladiator II homework, rewatching Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 1 (2000) with amateur Russell Crowe historian Blake Howard . This is a Gladiator II- spoiler-free conversation: listen as we get into...

This month’s mini-episode takes us into the rich opening sequence of a pick curated by director Andrew Haigh: Nicolas Roeg’s Venetian nightmare, Don’t Look Now . We get into Graeme Clifford’s expressionist editing...