Ariel Kavoussi's directorial debut is a short comedy called "The Poet and the Professor" which stars herself and Kevin Corrigan. The two are guests on this episode of the podcast. The short may be currently streamed on Indiewire's website.

The cinematographer for "If Beale Street Could Talk", James Laxton is the first guest. James has actually shot all three of Jenkins' feature films at this stage. Then the editor of Peter Farrelly's "Green Book", Patrick J. Don Vito, is the next guest. Patrick has been nominated for an Oscar for his editing on the film.

Morgan Neville is back to discuss two of his recent projects: "Won't You Be My Neighbor" about the beloved Fred Rogers, is available on iTunes & Amazon; "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead" can loosely be referred to as a making of documentary about Orson Welles final movie, "The Other Side of the Wind", both of which are available on Netflix.

Owen Gleiberman is the Chief Film Critic for Variety. He and I discuss the major films that are contenders for awards, most significantly the Oscars. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jonas Mekas who passed away today at the age of 96.

I'm joined by two great documentary filmmakers: Tim Wardle is the director of the Sundance award-winning film "Three Identical Strangers" which airs on CNN on 1/27, 9PM; and Chris Smith ("American Movie") has a new documentary about the failed luxury music festival, "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" which premieres on Netflix on 1/18.

On this episode I'm joined by the documentary filmmaker Rebbie Ratner discussing her film "Borderline" which is currently available on both iTunes and Amazon; more platforms to come. We're joined by returning Filmwax friend, the filmmaker Michel Negroponte ("I'm Dangerous With Love", "The Autobiography of Michelle Maren").

Actor Peter Riegert is the guest. Peter discusses making such classics as "Animal House", "Local Hero", "Crossing Delancey", "Americathon", and his experience directing "King of the Corner". In addition to the dozens of movies he's been in, he's also had great success on television in such series as "The Sopranos", "Damages", and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt".

Musician Mike Viola is the guest on the first episode of 2019. Mike's made over a dozen studio albums & countless EP's and live albums. His latest album was very home made and is called "The American Egypt". This conversation and the live song recorded herein took place at his dressing room in Joe's Pub where Mike was playing later in the evening.

The musician and painter Joseph Arthur is the sole guest. Arthur's most recent musical collaboration was with guitarist Peter Buck for a project called Arthur Buck released earlier this year. Arthur has 3 gigs coming up in the final days of 2018: City Winery DC on 12/29, The Locks in Philly on 12/30, and with Lee Ranaldo at City Winery NYC on 1/1/19.

The legendary songwriter and actor, Paul Williams visits the podcast for the first time. Some decades ago Paul wrote the music for the 1977 HBO special "Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas". The soundtrack has just recently become available for purchase.