The Film Experience

Better late than never might not actually apply this time with Oscar night almost upon us. But here's a lost file from January wherein Nathaniel Rogers, Eric Blume, and Chris Feil discuss the Oscar nominations from Barbie to Killers of the Flower Moon...

Nathaniel chats with Ben Miller, Baby Clyde, and Christopher James about the highs and lows of Oscar night... and the season in general. Hope you enjoy. 

In this very random edition of our hibernating podcast, Nick Davis returns to talk to Nathaniel about the Golden Globes and their gracious career-long speeches as well as five of his favourites of the year including E O and Aftersun . 

The Supporting Actress Smackdown hits the landmark year of 1997, now 25 years in the rearview mirror if you can believe it. We welcome back all-star guests of the past: comedian Louis Virtel ( Keep It!, Jimmy Kimmel Live ), journalist and author Kyle Buchanan ( The New York Times, "Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road"  ) and podcaster Chelsea Eichholz ( Ci...

Team Experience met 24 hours after the Emmy nominations to discuss. Why are so few shows dominating so much. We talk rules, favourites, snubs, and much more.

Nathaniel R and Nick Davis try to make peace with Oscar night such as it was.  It's the only Oscar podcast you'll hear that doesn't discuss the incident!  Instead we discuss our first Oscar nights as children as well as what we liked about Sunday's show (yes, there were a few things). The conversation drifts to the future, too. What we hope to see from some of the actors and directors in...

The Supporting Actress Smackdown is back for another season. We begin with the current Oscar race, discussing Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog), Judi Dench (Belfast), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Aujanue Ellis (King Richard), and Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter). We also name actresses that should have been nominated. The panelists for this episode: Rebecca Alter (Vulture), Sophia Ciminel...

Nathaniel chats with several Team Experience members on the night of the Oscar nominations. We discuss Drive My Car's nominations, the most exciting and unpredictable category (Actress!), and talk release strategies and a couple of snubs. 

Part 3 of 3 - Nathaniel's reunion with Nick Davis comes to a close (for now) as we discuss West Side Story, Annette, The French Dispatch, Don't Look Up, The Tender Bar, and other new films. We also discuss our favourite Faye Dunaway and Gena Rowlands performances as a retro sidebar. 

Round 2 (of 3!) with special guest Nick Davis catching up with Nathaniel on 2021 movies. In this episode they discuss The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Lost Daughter, Test Pattern, No Time To Die, Being the Ricardos, and Mass. And of course, being actressexuals,   impassioned odes to the talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Martha Plimpton.

In this special impromptu edition of the podcast, Nick Davis returns (gasp!) to catch up with Nathaniel about the Oscar hopefuls they've both seen but not yet discussed together. This conversation was recorded in early December and includes Passing, Power of the Dog, Spencer,   Worst Person in the World , and Zola . 

On the 1937 edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we discuss Best Picture nominated classics Stage Door and Dead End, plus the blockbuster disaster epic In Old Chicago and acting nominated mysteries and melodramas with Night Must Fall and Stella Dallas . Thanks to Chelsea Eichholz, Pamela Hutchinson, Boyd Van Hoeij, and Tim Robey for being fabulous and very funny guests. 

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking the 1986 Oscars and specifically the actresses Tess Harper, Piper Laurie, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Maggie Smith, and Dianne Wiest. We discuss Woody Allen's  Hannah and Her Sisters and the play adaptation Crimes of the Heart, diametrically opposed in quality but both about neurotic sisters. We also gather round the pool tabl...

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking the 1998 Oscars. Shakespeare in Love and Saving Private Ryan battled it out for Best Picture but we're talking (mostly) about the supporting actress race. Here to discuss Gods and Monsters, Primary Colors, Little Voice, Hilary & Jackie, and the Best Picture winning "rom-com for theater nerds" are special guests writer/director L...

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking 1946 which turns out to be not just the most racially problematic lineup ever in the category but also the most bonkers in terms of the movies themselves:  Duel in the Sun, The Razor's Edge, Saratoga Trunk , Spiral Staircase , and Anna and the King of Siam . Playwright Peter Duchan, film critic Guy Lodge, actor Tory Devon Smith...

On this edition of the Supporting Actress Smackdown we're talking about the Oscar race of 2000 and the actresses Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Judi Dench, and Julie Walters. The panelists are (in alpha order): director  Eric Blume , journalist  Kyle Buchanan , actor  Nicholas D'Agosto , actress  Vella Lovell  and your host  Nathaniel Rogers .

Our Oscar-vintage series continues with the premiere of the final season of the "Supporting Actress Smackdown". This time we're featuring the current Oscar race honoring the films of 2020. Joining Nathaniel to discuss Glenn Close, Maria Bakalova, Amanda Seyfried, Youn Yuh-Jung, and Olivia Colman are actress/playwright/comedian Grace Aki (Tell Me On A Sunday), writer/producer Peter Knegt (CBC Arts)...

Murtada and Nathaniel talk Gary Oldman as Mank. Plus supporting performances from Amanda Seyfried and Charles Dance. But what of the wide open Best Director race? 

Our Oscar-vintage series continues with the season finale featuring 1987. It's a look back at Fatal Attraction, Moonstruck, Throw Momma From the Train,   Gaby, and The Whales of August . To discuss those five films and the bygone days of erotic thrillers, misogyny as comedy, and intimate dramas at movie theaters, Nathaniel sits down with actor Ato Essandoh ( Away, Tales from the Loop ), autho...

Murtada and Nathaniel discuss the Gotham Award Nominations with First Cow leading before discussing two new Netflix films, Ron Howard's loud overacted Hillbilly Elegy and Sophia Loren's comeback vehicle The Life Ahead. 

Our Oscar-vintage series continues with a look back at the women of The Sound of Music (Peggy Wood, Eleanor Wood, and Julie Andrews) , A Patch of Blue (Shelley Winters), Othello (Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman), and Inside Daisy Clover (Ruth Gordon and Natalie Wood). To discuss those four films as well as topics like "blackface," movie stars pretending to be other movie stars, dubbing in musicals, and...

Murtada and Nathaniel talk the hottest festival title, Chloe Zhao's Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, plus virtual screening pros and cons, Ivory Coast's Oscar submission Night of the Kings , and the new Jude Law and Carrie Coon drama, The Nest . 

Our Oscar-obsessed time machine takes us back to post Depression / pre World War II Hollywood when You Can't Take It With You beat Jezebel to the Best Picture prize. To discuss those two films as well as The Great Waltz, Of Human Hearts, and Merrily We Live , and the Best Supporting Actress race, TFE's Nathaniel R and Cláudio Alves are joined by the actors Steven Weber ( Wings, Jeffrey...

Travel back with us to 2005 as we discuss the first nominations for Amy Adams, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz. Who deserved to win? To discuss this cinematic vintage, which included Brokeback Mountain, North Country and Capote , Nathaniel welcomes the actress Kerry O'Malley ( Snowpiercer, Boardwalk Empire ) along with Cinematheque of Tangier's Ali Benzekri, Los Angeles Times' J...

Surprise. It's a regular episode of the Podcast again in this summer of intense Smackdowning. Murtada and Nathaniel talk Emmy nominations, 2020 cinema (what there is of it of course) and whether or not there will be an Oscar ceremony next year.