The NO NOTES Podcast

Director James Watkins joins NO NOTES to talk about his new film, Clayface. He shares why Once Upon a Time in the West is his NO NOTES movie and how seeing Psycho way too young stuck with him. He breaks down the body horror that inspired Clayface, how the script evolved, casting Tom Rhys Harries , and why DC let him tell a self-contained story. He also explains why practical effects still matter i...

Director Kitao Sakurai joins NO NOTES to talk about his new film, Street Fighter. He shares why Akira is his NO NOTES movie and how Robert Altman and Ghost in the Shell shaped him as a filmmaker. He explains what "nostalgic stank" means, what makes Eric Andre so special, and how he kept good vibes with a stacked cast. In the rapid fire round, he guesses Eric Andre 's NO NOTES movie,...

𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻, director of 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦, joins NO NOTES at TIFF to talk her NO NOTES perfect movies and the romances that shaped her. She breaks down her cast: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆, 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲, 𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗼 and 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘇𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿. We get into working with 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻 and 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗕. 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻, and the notes 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 gave her as producer. Plus what she learned shooting 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 and...

𝗔𝗷𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵, the writer of 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, joins NO NOTES to talk 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘺 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 and watching 𝘛𝘰 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 with his mom. He breaks down how a script nobody would read landed 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 and 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗺. We get into the five-day rewrite that turned Rob from producer to star. Plus 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻's NO NOTES movie and what the show says about us today.

Patrick Radden Keefe joins NO NOTES to talk the one note he has on Michael Clayton and dedicate a movie to each of his books, from The Snakehead to London Falling . Plus: how he ended up playing himself in the Industry finale and the line he rewrote on set. We get into Michael Mann 's Miami Vice , Anthony Bourdain 's favorite Boston crime movie, and Lola Petticrew in Furious . And he tells...

John Wilson joins NO NOTES to discuss his new film The History of Concrete. He gives us his NO NOTES pick, reacts to becoming an adjective, and names his favorite How To episodes. We revisit the Avatar support group from How to Remember Your Dreams, his beef with James Cameron over 35mm, and what's been packing the house at Low Cinema. Plus how he gets invited into strangers' homes, how he...

Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw , the creators of 'Adults,' join NO NOTES during Season 2's release week. They give us their NO NOTES picks, then go around the house and pick one for every character. We get into Rebecca 's lifetime ban from Madame Tussauds, courtesy of Wax Paul Now. Then the origin story — writing for Jimmy Fallon , the note from Nick Kroll that changed how they wo...

Scene-stealing Steve Way joins NO NOTES to talk about 'Furious' and his character Alden. He gets into meeting Creator Liz Meriwether , the first table read with Emmy Rossum , playing opposite Lola Petticrew , plus what bits were improvised. We also go back to Ramy — meeting Ramy Youssef in fifth grade right after 9/11 and bonding as outcasts. We discuss able-bodied performers playing disab...

John Early joins NO NOTES to talk about MADDIE'S SECRET, his directorial debut, in which he plays food-media dishwasher Maddie Ralph—a woman who goes viral and slowly comes apart. He gets into screening Showgirls for the cast to give everyone permission to reach; why Conner O'Malley is his favorite comedian alive; the sincere-in-a-silly-movie lesson he took from Wet Hot American Summer; an...

Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol join NO NOTES to talk about NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE—the comedy they made with barely a script, writing backwards from whatever actually happened when they took a camera into the streets of Toronto (yes, they really got up the CN Tower). They get into why they'd never leave Canada, a tribute to the late Catherine O'Hara, and some details about 'Tony,' Matt...

Adrian Chiarella joins Schmear to talk Leviticus , his debut queer horror feature out of Australia. We get into the origin of that biblical title and the sermon scene he cut, why he refused to cast 25-year-olds as teenagers, and how he found his two leads, Joe Bird and Stacey Clausen , including the dual role that meant building a horror entity from scratch. Adrian breaks down the films in the DNA...

Michael Sarnoski —director of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One —sits down with No Notes to talk about The Death of Robin Hood , in theaters now. We get into the centuries-old ballad he first read as a ten-year-old, handed to him by a family friend after his father passed, and how that quiet, mortal ending of an "immortal" folk hero never let him go. Plus: casting Hugh Jackman as a Robin wh...

Hiro Murai sat down with us, and we still can't believe it. The director behind Atlanta, This Is America, Station Eleven, Mr. & Mrs. Smith , and now Apple TV+'s Widow's Bay joins Schmear and Sena to get into all of it. We talk about the cozy-and-terrifying tone of Widow's Bay , working with Matthew Rhys and creator Katie Dippold , and why Hiro chases the feeling of "Is thi...

Curry Barker is the director of OBSESSION — the wickedly funny, deeply unsettling horror film that had us screaming with joy at South by Southwest. Sena and Gabriel sit down with him to talk wishes gone wrong, the comedy-to-horror pipeline, and the breakout performance from Inde Navarrette . Curry walks us through how a story about a couple obsessed with each other curdled into a meditation on mas...

Mile End Kicks star Devon Bostick joins Schmear and Sena for a conversation about one of the most charming Canadian films of the year. Devon shares his NO NOTES perfect movie pick, gets into what it was like to return to the exact era he was filming Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and channel all of that into Archie and raves about co-star Barbie Ferreira and what made her such a special presence on set. Th...

BLUE HERON director Sophy Romvari joins Schmear to discuss her moving new film. They get into why a zoom lens beats a dolly on every setup, the story behind her late brother's real hand-drawn maps and what they mean to the film, and the time jump you won't see coming. Romvari also shares her NO NOTES perfect movie pick, reflects on Spielberg's A.I. as the first film she ever saw in a theater, weig...

Director Marc Munden on his hallucinatory new Netflix adaptation of Lord of the Flies—pulling the infrared filter off the camera and letting the jungle bleed pink. We get into casting with Nina Gold , five weeks of rehearsals, and why Lox Pratt (next up as Draco in HBO's Harry Potter) plays Jack like a spoiled rock star prince. Plus: directing the final episodes of The Sympathizer with Robert...

BEEF Season 2 has arrived, and joining us is Star Charles Melton and Creator Lee Sung Jin . The two share their NO NOTES movies, discuss the ways in which S2 is different from S1, talk about Melton's starring role in MAY DECEMBER, and share NO NOTES movies for the season's new characters. All eight episodes of #beef Season 2 are on Netflix now

Seoyeon Jang stole Season 2 of Beef , and we had to get her on. She joins Schmear and Sena to break down Eunice, the breakout character everyone's been screaming "justice for" online. We get into the now-legendary stretch scene (yes, that's really her, three months of stretching, only two takes), what director Lee Sung Jin told her about who Eunice really is, and whether anything between Eunice an...

(DISCLAIMER—This was recorded prior to S5 renewal announcement!!) Well, we've made it to the Industry S4 finale, and it feels so...bad? The Titans of Industry— Schmear , Sena Adjei , and Jesse Aaronson —parse a uniquely elegiac finale, which brought big wins and huge spiritual and moral losses for nearly all of Industry 's characters. They break down a vitriolic exchange between Kit Haring...

'Industry' composer Nathan Micay joins The Official Unofficial Industry Podcast! Nathan talks about scoring the series, what his workflow is like, how creators Konrad Kay and Mickey Down acquit themselves at nightclubs, and his thoughts on some famous past and present movie scores. WATCH ON YOUTUBE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

' Industry ' composer Nathan Micay joins The Official Unofficial Industry Podcast! Schmear, Sena Adjei , and Jesse Aaronson —The Titans of Industry—reunite to discuss the penultimate episode of the 4th season, "Points of Emphasis." Amongst many topics, the trio discuss Yasmin's manipulation of the media, the fallout of "Dear Henry," Whitney's puppeteering of Hen...

Max Minghella —aka "Whitney Halbertstram"—joins the Official Unofficial 'Industry' Podcast! The trio chats with Minghella about when he first watched 'Industry,' if Whitney cares for Kit Harington 's Henry, what his thoughts on the Ripley comparisons are, and more. They pitch Minghella their Whitney origin story ideas and give Whitney truth serum on some compelling to...

Max Minghella —aka "Whitney Halbertstram"—joins the Official Unofficial 'Industry' Podcast! 'Industry' S4 E6 "Dear Henry" is our favorite episode of the season so far, so it's a HUGE privilege to sit with Minghella for a chat. Prior to that, the Titans of Industry— Schmear , Jesse Aaronson, and Sena Adjei —break down this thrilling, dizzying new episode, fil...

Industry S4 E5 "Eyes Without a Face" travels to Accra, Ghana for a thrilling episode of twists and turns. The Titans— Schmear , Sena Adjei , and Jesse Aaronson —reconvene to break down one of the series's most unique hours, discussing the spotlighting of Miriam Petche 's "Sweetpea" and Toheeb Jimoh 's "Kwabena" as the two characters chase a lead in Africa....