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A podcast from Bright Wall/Dark Room, engaging with the business of being alive, one movie at a time. Hosted by Chad Perman & Elizabeth Cantwell.
Bright Wall/Dark Room hosts The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast, a tv show with 75 episodes published.
To kick off our upcoming Summer Blockbusters issue, we invited longtime BW/DR contributor—and podcast five-timer!— Frank Falisi to help us work our way through Disclosure Day , the latest summer blockbuster from Steven S
We're back, and just in time for summer blockbuster season! Join Chad Perman and new co-host Elizabeth Cantwell as they talk their way through one of the biggest/best summer blockbusters of all time, James Cameron's Term
Not only is this Veronica and Eli’s last episode, it’s our fourth annual Cruisemas. With the release of One Battle After Another , we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson’s blank check big swing Magnolia (1999), and get into: yo
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 co
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 into:
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 co-found
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, wi
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 compulsio
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 it’
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 abou
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: Do
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 the
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 into
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 dr
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 Cro
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, celeb
This holiday season, we're revisiting last year's holiday special: an audio essay of one of the most popular articles we've every published on the site: Ethan Warren's A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Caro
On this special mega episode, co-host Veronica sits down with critic Fran Hoepfner and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 62nd New York Film Festival. This is a mainly spoiler-free conversation! We get into: Hard
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