Talking Pictures

Bill Hader

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Director, actor, Saturday Night Live veteran, and cinephile Bill Hader joins host Ben Mankiewicz to talk about his heroes (Stanley Kubrick, Joel and Ethan Coen), about writing and directing his HBO show Barry, and if you’re hoping for a few of his expert impressions, you won’t be disappointed. Hader also ventures into his movie-watching past by answering our Super 8 questionnaire.


Films Mentioned:

  • Top Gun (1986)
  • Superbad
  • Trainwreck*
  • Inside Out
  • Barry*
  • The Shining
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey*
  • Dr. Strangelove*
  • A Clockwork Orange* 
  • The Natural
  • Oliver! 
  • Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • Paths of Glory
  • Mars Attacks!
  • Evil Dead
  • Rashomon*
  • Seven Samurai*
  • Ikiru*
  • It’s A Wonderful Life
  • Bad News Bears
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
  • Barton Fink
  • A Serious Man*
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Intolerable Cruelty 
  • Hail, Caesar!
  • Burn After Reading
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • The Apartment
  • Five Graves to Cairo
  • Double Indemnity
  • One, Two, Three
  • Sunset Boulevard 
  • Kes
  • To Kill A Mockingbird
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Von Ryan’s Express
  • Dreams (1990)
  • The Last Detail
  • The Great Muppet Caper
  • Midnight Run
  • The Black Hole (1979)

    • *Available on Max as of 3/19 (Availability of titles subject to change)

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