The Deeper Into Movies Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Conversations about cinema with host Steven T. Hanley

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Benny Safdie joins me on the podcast to discuss his new movie THE SMASHING MACHINE.

We also get into folk music, working as an actor for Christopher Nolan and how he almost ditched cinema for physics.

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Musician, actor, writer, and producer joins me on the podcast to talk movies and music.

We discuss M. Night Shyamalan, Sofia Coppola, Spy Kids (2001), William Friedkin, The Strokes, Belly (1998), Uffie, The Minecraft Movie (2025), Bring It On (2000), Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), our go-to McDonald’s orders, and her upcoming film projects with Pete Ohs, Daniel Goldhaber, Aidan Zamiri, and Gregg Araki.

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Paul Banks lead singer and guitarist of Interpol joins us to discuss music, movies, life, boxing and fashion.

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Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon joins me to discuss his new record.

We talk about favourite movies, ambient music, trusting your gut and our love for The Omen. (1976)

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Cazzie David & Elisa Kalani are on the podcast to discuss their debut movie I LOVE YOU FOREVER.

We talk about making your first film, subverting the romantic comedy and the strange beauty that is the TWILIGHT movies.

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Writer Lili Anolik joins us on the podcast to discuss her new book DIDION & BABITZ

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Musician and producer Bobby Krlic joins us on the podcast to discuss his career in music and movies. From growing up watching Greg Arraki movies to working with Ari Aster

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Damien Leone creator of the Terrifer movie series joins us on the podcast to talk about the phenomenal success of the franchise, horror movies and what movies are too much for even him.

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Actor James Duval joins us on the podcast to discuss his career in movies.

We talk about his iconic roles in Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy and his role in the. 1996 blockbuster epic Independence Day

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Nathan Silver joins us on the podcast to discuss his life and career in independent cinema and his new movie BETWEEN THE TEMPLES

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Actress Myha'la Herrold joins us on the podcast to talk about her career and staring in the HBO/BBC series Industry.

We also talk about auditioning, musicals and the cursed movie adaptation of Cats (2019)

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Griffin joins us to discuss his life on and off the screen. We talk about An American Werewolf in London, After Hours, with aunt Joan Didion, growing up in Hollywood and his incredible new memoir 'The Friday Afternoon Club'.

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Chandler Levack the writer & director of I LIKE MOVIES joins us on the podcast to discuss her time working in Blockbuster, the indie sleaze era and making her debut movie.

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Viggo Mortensen joins us on the pod to discuss acting, directing and music.

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Musician and novelist Willy Vlautin joins me on the podcast to talk about his life in music and novels.

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Joshua Eustis aka Telefon Tel Aviv joins us to discuss his life in music and movies.

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Ethan Hawke joins us to discuss his life in acting. The books that inspired him and his new movie WILD CAT based on the life southern gothic novelist Flannery O'Connor

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Writer, director Andrew Haigh joins us to discuss his new movie ALL OF US STRANGERS

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Writer & director Leo Leigh joins us to discuss his new debut film Sweet Sue

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Author and screenwriting duo Ottessa Moshfegh & Luke Goebel join us on the podcast to discuss the incredible adaptation of Moshfegh's novel EILEEN.

We talk about the adaptation process, Hitchcock influences and the Barbie movie.

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Mia joins us on the podcast to talk favourite movies, Christopher Nolan, Batman, Harry Potter and the cinema experience.

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Music video directing legend Grant Singer joins us on the pod to discuss his career in music videos and his directorial debut Reptile, streaming on Netflix now. We also talk about Slowdive, Sky Ferraria, making music videos and the joys of going to the cinema.

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Pauline Chalamet joins us on the podcast to discuss acting and her production company Gummy Films. We also talk about books, ballet, musicals and how Eric Bogosian's play Talk Radio changed her life.

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Actor, writer, comedian Jordan Firstman joins us on the podcast to discuss the dark, outrageous and hilarious Rotting In The Sun.

We also discuss musicals, Woody Allen and instagram.

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New York Documentary film maker John Wilson joins us on the pod to talk about the final season of HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON, working with David Byrne, being a private investigator and public bathrooms.

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Charlotte Regan writer & director of the coming of age movie Scrapper joins us on the podcast to discuss her debut movie.

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The directing duo of TALK TO ME join us on the pod to talk horror movies, Youtube, directing as a team, selling your first movie and navigating the industry.

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The Red Scare co-host Anna Khachiyan joins us on the podcast to discuss The Real Housewives, Michel Houellebecq and Eastbound & Down.

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The GENIUS behind Italians Do It Better joins me on the podcast to discuss his life in music, starting his own label and working with David Lynch.

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Visionary director Robert Eggers joins us on the podcast to discuss the new 4K release of The Lighthouse (2019) theatre, period films and Nosferatu!

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Artist, filmmaker, musican Babak Ganjei joins us on the podcast to discuss the art life. We also talk about The Jerk (1979), Wet Wet Wet, the Die Hard Franchise and pitch some movie ideas.

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Director Andrew Bujalski joins us on the podcast to discuss his career in independent filmmaking his latest movie There There (2022) and we go deep into the making of his masterpiece Computer Chess (2013)

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Composer Nicholas Britell joins us on the podcast to discuss his work Carmen.We also discuss our fav Wu-Tang Clan members, working on Star Wars: Andor and his masterwork (in our opinion) If Beale Street Could Talk.

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Kristoffer Borgli director of the black comedy Sick of Myself built on a pretty simple premise – what if two of the most narcissistic people on the planet date each other?We discuss his journey into film making, his love of Lars Von Trier and why he hates making adverts.

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Gregg Araki joins us on the podcast to discuss the restored and uncut re-releease of his masterpiece The Doom Generation.

We also talk about his love of Shoegaze and where his head was at in the nineties.

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Part 2 of our Meet Me in the Bathroom 2 part specialWriter Lizzy Goodman and I discuss the New York music scene, Joan Didion, collecting, fashion, imposter syndrome and how she came to write the oral history of the 00's New York music scene.

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Part 1 of our Meet Me in the Bathroom 2 part special Directing duo Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern join us on the podcast to talk about adapting Meet Me in the Bathroom for the big screen.

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Chloe Okuno writer & director of the psychological thriller 'Watcher' joins us on the podcast to discuss her debut feature,

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Actress Mia Goth joins us on the podcast to discuss her new movies Pearl and Infinity Pool.

We also discuss her acting choices, growing up in London and bagels.

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Todd Field joins us on the pod to talk TAR, opening credit sequences, working with Stanley Kubrick and ice hockey.

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The godfather of Generation X joins us on the podcast to discuss his first novel in over 10 years The Shards.

We also discuss the state of cinema, book covers and Taylor Swift,

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Cornish director Mark Jenkin is on the pod to discuss his analog film techniques, his new film ENYS MAN and working with The Smile on music videos.

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Canadian filmmaker Jason Eisener joins us on the pod to talk about his sci-fi horror adventure Kids vs. Aliens (2023) He made his directorial debut with the LEGENDARY 2011 Canuxploitation vigilante epic Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

We talk about Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, aliens, The Warriors (1979) and Rutger Hauer.

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The writer, director of FUNNY PAGES joins us on the pod to discuss his debut.

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Documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe joins us to discuss his career making films about movies and lifts the velvet curtain on iconic filmmaker David Lynch’s obsession with his new film LYNCH / OZ

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Musican and filmmaker Oliver Sim joins us on the podcast to discuss The XX, horror movies, growing up in London and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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The actor, writer, director and podcaster joins us on the pod to talk about the process of acting, Red Scare, anime and Kirsten Dunst career.

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The two time winning Palme d'Or director Ruben Östlund joins us to discuss his new film Triangle Of Sadness, awkward situations, bringing a gong to set and Andre Agassi.

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Actor & filmmaker Harris Dickinson joins us on the pod to discuss his role in the palme d'or winning Triangle of Sadness.

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Kathryn Ferguson the director of Nothing Compares – the moving documentary Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how O'Connor fearless and outspoken personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.

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The creators of HBO + BBC Industry join us to discuss creating the show, script writing, unlikeable characters and The Sopranos vs The Wire vs Mad Men

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Director Romain Gavras joins us on the podcast to discuss his career in music videos and his new film ATHENA

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Actor, film maker, curator and maker of awesome movie merch Kentucky Audley joins us on the podcast to discuss his career in independent cinema and his feature Strawberry Mansion.

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Actor, comedian, writer Rachel Sennott joins us to discuss her new A24 horror movie Bodies, Bodies, Bodies breaking into Hollywood and her breakout film Shiva Baby

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The king of Long Island joins us on the podcast to discuss his career in independent cinema, making music videos, retaining control of your work and his new novel.

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Richard Linklater is on the pod to talk about his career in film making and his new movie Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

We also talk about Peter Bogdanovich, Caveh Zahedi, Robert Rodriguez, Scott Rudin, Trees Lounge (1996), Generation X and Henry David Thoreau

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Ti West joins us to discuss his new A24 horror film X the state of indie cinema and his years spent working in TV and his return to movie making.

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Director Andrew Dominik joins us to discuss the 20 year anniversary of Chopper

His new documentary on Nick Cave This Much I know To Be True and his new Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde.

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The legendary New York director joins us to discuss his wild career and his new murky, pandemic set espionage thriller Zeros and Ones.

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Jackass daredevil Johnny Knoxville joins us on the podcast to discuss the new movie Jackass Forever

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The darkwave duo Boy Harsher (Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller) join us to discuss their new film and accompanying soundtrack THE RUNNER.

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Jack Kilmer joins us on the podcast to discuss acting, music movies and the making of the documentary based on his father VAL.

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Author and screenwriter Irivine Welsh joins us to discuss his new TV series CRIME, working as a screenwriter and the legacy of Trainspottting.

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British auteur Mike Leigh joins us on the podcast for a conversation about his 1993 masterpiece Naked.

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Director Todd Haynes joins us to discuss his approach to his new radical and daring documentary on The Velvet Underground.

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Patrick Brice director of Creep, Creep 2, The Overnight and the new Netflix Slasher There's Someone Inside Your House joins us to discuss film school, film criticism, music and movies.

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The prolific indie movie godfather joins us to discuss his career, low-budget filmmaking, VHS, Netflix deals and making 7 movies in one year.

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The director of Censor discusses her debut feature, the video nasties hysteria and film censorship.

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Edgar Wright joins us to discuss his new documentary The Sparks Brothers.

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The prolific British director joins us to discuss his horror movie In the Earth, his classic Kill List, the power of television and how John Carpenter inspired his new film.

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The writer and director of Shiva Baby talks about the struggles of making your first feature, awkward family gatherings and the films she grew up watching.

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Documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim talks to us about his career, influences and his new documentary Some Kind of Heaven.

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Actor Ben Whishaw joins us to discuss his career.

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Actor, writer, director Sam Stillman joins us to talk acting, directing, the craft, Cassavetes and Alan and Larry Clark(e)

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New York Indepedent director Michael M. Bilandic joins us talks about his work.

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Director Henry Blake joins us to discuss his debut feature County Lines

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Stewart Lee joins us to discuss his new documentary KING ROCKER