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It's golden-oldies week on I Know That Face. Take a step back in time to the Golden Age of Hollywood with Andrew and Stephen to revisit the career of Edward G. Robinson, see? Known for his tough-guy gangsters in films like Little Caesar and Key Largo, Robinson starred in 101 movies over the course of 50 years from gambling dramas like The Cincinnati Kid to sci-fi thrillers such as Soylent Green. Across hundreds of roles on stage and the big and small screens, Robinson is best-loved by Stephen and Andrew for his role as motor-mouth claims adjuster Barton Keyes in Billy Wilder's pitch-perfect noir Double Indemnity.

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Hard to believe we've been doing this over a year and this is our first big disagreement. This week on I Know That Face Andrew and Stephen break down the career of Christopher Abbott from his Broadway beginnings to his consistent indie output. Stephen's a big fan. Andrew is not. Whether it's dramas like James White and Tyrel or thrillers such as It Comes At Night and Sweet Virginia or horrors like Piercing and Possessor, Stephen has been consistently impressed by Abbott. Andrew has not. So, in the words of former I Know That Face subject Ken Watanabe: "Let them fight!"

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Joined by returning guest Mia Sherry, the I Know That Face crew dive deep into the career of Meth Damon himself, Jesse Plemons! Beginning his career as a child actor Plemons came to attention as Landry in Friday Night Lights. He quickly followed that show's end in 2011 with a heel turn into one of Breaking Bad's most venomous villains, Todd Alquist. It's been quite a decade for Plemons with roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, and Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things. His best-supporting work has come in the likes of Hostiles, Black Mass, Game Night, and Vice. Though his only lead role was in 2016's Other People he will re-team with Scorsese to play the main character in his epic western Killers of the Flower Moon which began shooting just a few days ago.

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In this special I Know That Face episode, Stephen Porzio chats with writer-director Corinna Faith about her brilliant debut feature The Power, streaming on Shudder now. A 70s-set horror, it centres on a young nurse forced to work the night shift during a blackout. Already scared of the dark due to a traumatic event in her past, she soon realises an angry spirit is haunting the hospital. Here, the filmmaker discusses where the idea for the movie came from, her relationship with horror, her influences and, how she shot one of the movie’s many bravura set-pieces.

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This week Stephen and Andrew are joined by screenwriter, producer and filmmaker Niall Cassin to talk about the evergreen career of Bruce Greenwood. Capable of switching from cool authority figures like JFK in Thirteen Days to monstrous husbands in Double Jeopardy and Gerald's Game to sensitive working class men such as Billy Ansel in The Sweet Hereafter, Greenwood has carved out a path for himself as a reliable jack-of-all-trades in both film and TV. What's more our guest Niall Cassin has worked with him on a TV pilot and as well as being an incredibly versatile actor, Greenwood has a presence off-camera as calming as his most authoritative roles and a knack for guitar playing too. With three films he's written coming to streaming later this year, a super secret American TV show coming this autumn and a horror film he scripted and produced shooting soon it might not be long before Niall - who has production credits on Deadpool, Tully and The Last Duel - finds himself working with Greenwood again.

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This week we're travelling from feudal Japan to the surface of the sun with the career of Hiroyuki Sanada. Sanada began acting at the age of six, rapidly fulfilling his childhood dream as an action star. After a slew of samurai films in the 1970s he went west to Hong Kong to star in martial arts films like Ninja in the Dragon's Den and In the Line of Duty: Royal Warriors. He became a well-respected actor in genre circles in the west after his performance in the 1999 J-Horror Ring. Sanada's desire to push himself saw him leave martial arts mostly behind in the 2000s as he went to Hollywood for films like The Last Samurai, The White Countess and Danny Boyle's Sunshine. He has mostly continued to act in western-financed blockbusters ever since like Speed Racer, The Wolverine and Life. The now 60 year old will return to action this year with Mortal Kombat, Zach Snyder's Army of the Dead and David Leitch's Bullet Train.

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This week Andrew and Stephen discuss the programme for the 2021 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, running from March 3 - 14. They each pick five gems from the line-up to check out. Then, in the second half, Stephen chats to actor and writer Les Martin and director Cathal Nally about their Dublin-set drama-thriller and DIFF highlight Be Good or Be Gone. They talk about the movie's festival homecoming, shooting in the capital and the long road to getting their film made.

Andrew's picks: Boys from County Hell, Deadly Cuts, Dinner in America, Jumbo and Wild Swords

Stephen's picks: Apples, Be Good or Be Gone, Beasts Clawing at Straws, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time and Son

HeadStuff's Be Good or Be Gone review

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Stephen

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Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez

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For this bonus episode, Stephen got to speak with Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stamboel - best known for his bone crunching action flick Headshot. He has a new horror out on Shudder now called The Queen of Black Magic, a reimagining of the older cult film of the same name. Kimo talks to Stephen about his approach to remaking a classic, how prevalent black magic is in Indonesia and how streaming services are helping Western audiences discover the country's great genre movies. He also reflects on Headshot's impact on action cinema.

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Two iconic French women are on the podcast. First time guest, long time I Know That Face editor and filmmaker in her own right Charline Fernandez joins us this week to talk the incomparable Isabelle Huppert. With a career stretching over nearly 50 years Huppert has been a constant in French and world cinema since her BAFTA winning breakthrough performance in La Dentelliere. She has worked in France, America, the Phillipines, South Korea, Italy, Cambodia and Russia with acclaimed directors from Michael Cimino to Paul Verhoeven to Hong Sang-soo. She has won Best Actress at Cannes for Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher and was showered with awards in 2016 for both Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Love's Things to Come, the former winning her a Golden Globe. Although best known for high-brow, complex films Huppert has appeared in the American action vehicle Dead Man Down, Neil Jordan's send-up of 90's thrillers Greta and also starred in the 11th season finale of Law & Order: SVU and an episode of French film industry themed sitcom Call My Agent.

This episode is sponsored by the SEAI podcast 180 Degrees.

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Charline's documentary Maria is available to stream here.

Andrew

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Stephen

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Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez

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In this special episode of I Know That Face, Stephen Porzio chats with Dublin based Italian writer-director Chiara Viale about her film The New Music. Now available on VOD, the coming-of-age drama centres on a classically trained pianist. After being diagnosed with Parkinson's, he embarks on a path of self-discovery which leads him to join a punk band. Chiara tells I Know That Face about the research that went into portraying Young Onset Parkinson's onscreen, what punk means to her, her love of Dublin and how ecstatic she was to screen the film in the Irish Film Institute pre-pandemic.

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Where you can watch The New Music.

Stephen

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