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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So: @eccantwell.bsky.social & I watched Hunt for Red October and talked about it on the Bright Wall podcast… just know that 20 min into the film Elizabeth said “Wait so Sean Connery is NOT on the Red October…” and we had to pause the movie and deal with that

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Reposting this in case you missed it yesterday ... it would make good listening for the July 4th weekend! (also, do you think I can get a mention of X-Files into every pod we do?)

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🚨👽New pod is here!👽🚨 Chad & Elizabeth sit down with @frankfalisi.bsky.social to discuss all things DISCLOSURE DAY We get into: empathy, aliens, camera movements, CGI animals, post-Fabelmans Spielberg, not overthinking it, are we alone in the universe, does the ending work, and much, much more…

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Disclosure Day (with Frank Falisi) | The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast | Episode 71

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 blockbu...

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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It was great to get back into the swing of things after 6 months away from podcasting, and to talk with Elizabeth about the first rated-R movie I ever saw in a theater so many moons ago—and one of the greatest summer blockbusters ever made, which still *very* much holds up!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In which we ponder many things, including our T2 vs T1 feelings, momstagram, looksmaxxing, Rodney King, and James Cameron’s obsession with drowning his characters! Give it a listen!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This wasn't really THAT true two months ago, was it? But ... it is now REALLY REALLY true! We have recorded an episode! We figured you guys just needed time to catch up on all your OTHER podcasts, you know?

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Don’t worry, we’re coming back soon, stay tuned!

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 04/01/2026

We get into: young PTA & the New New Hollywood, sincerity and good listening, Fiona Apple as PTA’s Polly Platt, we desperately want a Tom Cruise coconut cake, life imitating art, Melora Walters’ enigmatic smile, the bleak prescience of Seduce & Destroy, how to pace a 3+ hour runtime, and more.

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Episode #69: Magnolia (1999)

Not only is this Veronica's last episode, it’s also our 4th annual "Cruisemas" show—join us as we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia!

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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I've loved talking with Veronica about so many different movies over the last 4+ years, and when she suggested MAGNOLIA for our last episode together, I couldn't possibly have said yes faster. And though the show will go on (after a short break), I'll always treasure the years w/ Veronica & Eli 🙏

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 01/01/2026

A brand new episode of The BW/DR Podcast is ready for your ears! Not only is this Veronica & producer Eli’s final episode, it’s also our 4th annual "Cruisemas" show—so please join us as we revisit PTA's blank check big swing MAGNOLIA (1999) and reflect a bit on the end of an era 🥹

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The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast | Magnolia (1999)

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 (1...

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

New pod coming soon! Cruisemas returns!

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 06/11/2025

Our annual NYFF episode is here! On this very special pod, Veronica sits down with @franhoepfner.bsky.social, @frankfalisi.bsky.social, and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 63rd New York Film Festival.

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The 63rd New York Film Festival (with Fran Hoepfner, Frank Falisi, and Eli Sands)

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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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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).

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 05/10/2025

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...

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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!

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Pollitt @pollitt.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Oh y'all I gasped.

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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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Rope (with Michael Koresky)

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 21/07/2025

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” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 02/07/2025

🚨 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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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (with Bilge Ebiri)

Podcast Episode · The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast · 07/02/2025 · 1h 14m

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 02/07/2025

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

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 22/06/2025

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

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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.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 04/06/2025

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 (with Travis Woods)

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 16/05/2025

Coming next Tuesday: Join us for a live chat about Antonioni’s THE PASSENGER over at @galerie.com! www.galerie.com/discuss/the-...

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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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...

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The Celebration (1998)

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨🚨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!

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A Different Man (with Frank Falisi)

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A Different Man (with Frank Falisi)

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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Always happy to be talking about SOME LIKE IT HOT

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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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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...

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

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Blake Howard @oneblakeminute.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

We mortals are but shadow and dust…

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

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.

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Eyes Wide Shut (with Elizabeth Cantwell)

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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.”

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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.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 09/12/2024

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!

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Rewind: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Michael Koresky joined us to discuss watching A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE six times in theaters, how both Spielberg & Kubrick do "sentimentality with a point," Jude Law’s dialogue, parables of loss, and how this "unexpected sledgehammer" of early '00s filmmaking still sticks with him today.

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Episode #45: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (with Michael Koresky)

Michael Koresky—co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot & Editorial Director at Museum of the Moving Image—joins us to proselytize Steven Spielberg’s A.I.

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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

i would highly recommend recording a podcast with @oneblakeminute.bsky.social, a guy who truly makes anything instantly that much better just by being who he is. (also his screen froze near the end, so we all got to look at him doing this instantly iconic Frozen Blake pose for 15 minutes)

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The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🎙️Our annual NYFF episode is here! On this special pod, Veronica sits down with the always wonderful @franhoepfner.bsky.social + our producer Eli to postmortem this year's NYFF. Hard Truths, Caught by the Tides, Nickel Boys, The Brutalist, The Shrouds, Queer, Anora, The Room Next Door, and more!

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Episode #54: The 62nd New York Film Festival (with Fran Hoepfner & Eli Sands)

On this special mega episode, Veronica sits down with critic ⁠Fran Hoepfner⁠ & producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 62nd New York Film Festival.

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