River City Stories collaborator Vanessa Codorniu joins Wally to talk about the movies they watched as young people — everything from Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and the lasting impressions those films left at an early age.

00:01:26 An update on River City Stories

00:06:06 Billy Elliott and Bend It Like Beckham

00:07:17 Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful

00:13:17 Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate

00:25:39 What we inherit from our ancestors

00:31:27 Improv comedy and the power of performance

00:41:51 Solange Knowles and Cranes in the Sky

00:57:00 Roman Polanski's Chinatown

00:59:00 Luis Puenzo's The Official Story

01:03:27 Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

01:05:40 Emotional Processing and the Myth of the Minotaur

01:06:08 John Duigan’s Wide Sargasso Sea

01:10:44 The Biz Bruja

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