The legendary director of Two-Lane Black Top, Cockfighter, and many other classic American films, Monte Hellman, is the guest on this year-end episode.

Guests on this episode of the podcast include indieWire's Eric Kohn; Winter Sleep director Nuri Bilge Ceylan; and Ida director Pawel Pawlikowski.

Comedian Pauly Shore discusses a documentary he has directed called Pauly Shore Stands Alone; journalist John Anderson and I discuss the career of Todd Haynes. A new Criterion edition of Safe has recently become available.

Guests on this Reel Works sponsored episode of the podcast include Field Niggas filmmaker Khallik Allah, and in the second segment Frances Bodomo & Alexandre Rockwell.

Guests include actress & director Liv Ullmann with her new film Miss Julie; documentary filmmaking legend Chuck Workman with his new film about Orson Welles, Magician; and Göran Olsson (Black Power Mix Tape) with his new doc, Concerning Violence.

The father of underground cinema in America, Robert Downey, Sr., is the guest on this special episode of the podcast.

Actor Robert Longstreet is the guest in this feisty Thanksgiving holiday episode of the podcast.

The director of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour & her lead actress, Sheila Wand in the first segment; actor Jason Ritter who is in a new film, Always Woodstock, is the second segment; animator Maya Erdelyi in the last segment.

In this episode sponsored by Reel Works, guests include Lacey Schwartz with her documentary Little White Lie; Brian Wilson & Tony Hale discuss the screening of their film A Will For the Woods; and the subject of a new documentary, Monk With a Camera, Nicky Vreeland.

Filmmaker Josephine Decker discusses her two new film, Butter on the Latch & Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, on this Fandor-sponsored episode of the podcast.