Screen Slate Podcast

Extended discussion of "Pervert King" Ken Russell from Caroline Golum, Criterion '80s Horror curator Clyde Folley, and the rest of the Screen Slate gang. Plus Clyde and Jon on other series deep cuts The Fan and Dream Demon . Full episode: 27 min. To listen to the full episode sign up for our Patreon , which not only supports the pod, but the whole Screen Slate operation including pa...

The whole gang returns to the pod to welcome Clyde Folley, curator of the Criterion Channel's '80s Horror series. Folley, who is also a video editor at Criterion, chats with us about programming for streaming, how the video store and special effects advances defined the era, and getting elusive titles like Michael Mann's The Keep . We also learn about his personal points of entry in...

Filmmakers Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer visit Screen Slate HQ to talk about their new feature God’s Creatures , a disquieting family drama set in a tightly knit seaside Irish fishing community. Our discussion included working with actors Emily Watson and Paul Mescal, the influence of dance and choreography on their visual storytelling, and how a last-ditch trip to Google Earth helped them find...

Sam Barlow is the designer of the acclaimed independent games Her Story (2015), Telling Lies (2019), and Immortality (2022). Often cited as reviving interest in live-footage games, Barlow takes the cinematic underpinnings of his earlier titles to new extremes in Immortality , which tasks the player with assembling rushes, behind-the-scenes, and rehearsal footage from three incomplete films in orde...

Screenwriter Larry Karaszewski and his career-spanning collaborator Scott Alexander reinvited the modern biopic with films like Ed Wood , The People vs. Larry Flynt , Man on the Moon , and Dolemite is My Name . On the eve of a trip to NYC for Film Forum’s Miloš Forman retrospective, Karaszewski spoke to Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer about working with the great Czechoslovak filmmaker, subverti...

Our friend Owen Kline visits Screen Slate HQ to talk about his feature directorial debut Funny Pages , about a teenage cartoonist who strikes up a demented friendship with a former low-level comic artist. Plus we call up Adam Resnick ( Late Night with David Letterman , Get a Life , Cabin Boy ) to shoot the shit and talk about an awkward adolescent father-son filmgoing experience. Funny Pages trail...

Hosts: Jon Dieringer & C. Spencer Yeh We speak to queer film historian, archivist, filmmaker, programmer, writer (and occasional Screen Slate contributor) Elizabeth Purchell while she was in town to present a Rosa von Praunheim retrospective. We talk about the pioneering queer German filmmaker before doing a deep dive into adult films: the history, the culture of collecting, tracking down rare...

Hosts: Jon Dieringer (Screen Slate EIC), Caroline Golum (filmmaker/writer), John Klacsmann (film archivist), Maxwell Paparella (Screen Slate managing editor). Jon reports from the Cannes film festival, covering highlights including Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun , Owen Kline’s Funny Pages , and hanging out on (allegedly) the world’s 34th-to-36th-largest yacht. Caroline Golum reviews highlights of the...

Recorded live on the beach along the Croisette: the great cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt meets up with Screen Slate to discuss his career behind the camera, including his five films with Kelly Reichardt—the latest of which, Showing Up , premiered in competition at Cannes. We talk about his family's multigenerational history on film sets, honing in on a minimalist approach to create spac...

We welcome sex educator, journalist, and artist Zoë Ligon, aka the Dildo Duchess, to Screen Slate HQ. We talk about movies, sex, early Spectacle, late 285 Kent, and leaving New York to start sex-positive toy store Spectrum Boutique. Plus: an invitation to join her Discord for Effed Up Film Heads. Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh on mic. Zoë Ligon @Thon...

For Patreon members | Full episode 20 min | We turn the mic on co-host John Klacsmann, who is on the bargaining committee of the Anthology Film Archives union, for updates on the workers' situation. We talk about how people can support Anthology staff by continuing to attend screenings there and let their support for a fair contract be known to the AFA board and management. Plus: JD runs into...

We talk to Prismatic Ground founder Inney Prakash about starting a new experimental/documentary film festival with no budget that pays filmmakers, actually programs from submissions, and is free and accessible to all worldwide. We also talk about how visiting the Criterion Closet changes you,  a New York niche celebrity performing lewd sexual acts on Succession , and more. Hosted by Screen Slate e...

Sound and music supervisor Dean Hurley, best known for his work with David Lynch, joins the pod to exalt in audiovisual euphoria. We get into Lynchland: Inland Empire , the non-existent new Cannes film, Weather Report truthers, and how ZZ Top’s Eliminator figures into the filmmaker’s sonic universe. We also celebrate the visual and aural patinas of different eras of image and sound technology—from...

Scholar, curator, artist, and Batman expert Ayanna Dozier, Ph. D., joins us to talk about the Caped Crusader and queer comic history. We chat about volcel Batman in The Batman , Prince and Kim Basinger fucking on tape during the '89 soundtrack recording sessions, Andy Warhol and Jack Smith's Batman , and more. This podcast began with a discussion of museum labor in part one . Hosted by f...

Scholar, curator, and artist Ayanna Dozier, Ph. D., joins us for a two-part episode that begins with a discussion about front-of-house museum work prompted by the recent attack at the MoMA Film Desk. What does cultural labor really entail? What protections do workers have? How do architecture, outsourcing, and management trends shape museum workplace culture? This podcast was originally planned as...

Hosted by Jon Dieringer and audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh We visit Monday Night Books , Thomas Beard's speakeasy bookstore tucked in the back of Light Industry , to speak to cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw about Cryptozoo , Hungarian animation, and drawing inspiration from Starship Troopers and video game playthrough videos. And Beard (a former Desert Island Comics employee)  fills us in on...

Hosted by Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh Anthology Film Archivist John Klacsmann’s multi-year quest to retrieve Jonas Mekas’s files from the FBI vault bears fruit. We also call up programmer Inney Prakash for a scene report from the Berlinale and hear about new movies from Claire Denis, Bertrand Bonello, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, and Tyl...

Exclusive for our members: patreon.com/screenslate | Full ep. 37 min. |  In part two of our John Wilson episode, Ridgewood's favorite son discusses "The Gottscheer Variant" and dipping out of the TIME 100 Gala to stare at his own billboard after meeting Elon & Grimes's baby.  We take calls from the Hot Take Hotline on our most eligible listeners' worst movie dates, inc...

Special guest: John Wilson of HBO's How to with John Wilson . Hosted by Jon Dieringer, John Klacsmann, and Cosmo Bjorkenheim, with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh. Our friend John Wilson joins us to talk about being a Craigslist first responder, keeping his eye sharp in the off-season, why his A.D. fears Cosmo, and how fast food decor changes but motel decor stays the same. We also celebrate sp...

Subscribe to our Patreon for all bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/screenslate ━━━ Guest: Cristina Cacioppo with Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and engineer C. Spencer Yeh. Full runtime 22 min. ━━━ Introducing the hot take hotline. We discuss PA stories and fanfic. A caller disses Memoria . Deepfake Werner Herzog leaves a message.  Jon briefly convinces everyone Eadweard Muybridge f*...

Special guest: Cristina Cacioppo. Call-in guest: Alex Ross Perry. Hosted by Jon Dieringer, John Klacsmann, and Caroline Golum. Our friend Cristina Cacioppo joins us to talk about her programming career, from Ocularis microcinema to 92YTribeca to Alamo Drafthouse and now Nitehawk Cinema. We get into the late-aughts/early-tens NYC film scene before calling up filmmaker Alex Ross Perry to discuss his...

Subscribe to our Patreon for all episodes: www.patreon.com/screenslate // Episode 0.5: Chakiris Pizza. Full runtime: 61 min. Featuring Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and engineer C. Spencer Yeh.  The San Fernando’s own Caroline Golum on Licorice Pizza’s verisimilitude, meeting PTA & Maya Rudolph on the beach, and whether Encino Man is a better Valley movie. Screen Slate editor...