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It's a whole new year and we've got a whole new episode for you! This week we spoke remotely with special guest and fellow HeadStuff alumnus Mark Conroy about the flourishing career of Bill Camp. Known best as a stage actor throughout the 90s and 2000s, he began to appear in bit parts in films like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman in the early 2010s. From 2015 onwards he became a popular player with Jeff Nichols who cast him in Midnight Special and Loving as well as Scott Cooper who hired Camp for both his crime thriller Black Mass and his western Hostiles. More significant roles came in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Molly's Game, Wildlife and last year's Dark Waters. He has also made a name for himself on TV with vital supporting roles in The Night Of, The Looming Tower, The Outsider and The Queen's Gambit.

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We spend a lot of time on I Know That Face looking back into the past. For our last episode of 2020 we thought it'd be fun to look forward to next year and all the great movies we'll hopefully get to see - from the return of old masters like Paul Verhoeven and Ridley Scott with Benedetta and The Last Duel respectively to younger guns like Sam Levinson with Malcolm & Marie and Olivia Wilde with her sophomore feature Don't Worry Darling. 2021 will also see the resurgence of the erotic thriller with Adrian Lyne - the father of the genre - returning to filmmaking after a near 20 year hiatus with Deep Water starring real life couple Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. For those of us who just want to see two big animals fight until one falls over Godzilla vs Kong has us covered. Meanwhile the Guillermo del Toro-produced Antlers and Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho have us pretty hyped. And of course who can forget 2020's greatest loss, Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch? All that and more in this episode, see you at the movies!

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Thanks to the kind folks over at horror streaming service Shudder, I Know That Face co-host Stephen Porzio got to chat with some filmmakers with new projects on the platform. First to be interviewed was indie legend writer-director Larry Fessenden. Known for films like Wendigo and The Last Winter, his latest Depraved is a new take on Frankenstein set in modern day New York. He discusses it, as well as his side-career as a producer and mentor to filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ti West and as a character actor who has worked with Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch and Neil Jordan. Then in the latter half of the show, Stephen speaks with director Justin G Dyck and writer Keith Cooper about their acclaimed movie Anything for Jackson. TV Christmas movie experts turned horror maestros, the pair discuss the transition to more scary fare.

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Another trip around the sun, another best of list. The only difference is you have to listen to this one. This week, to close out a terrible year filled with amazing films, the I Know That Face crew take you through some of their favourites. With Emma, Little Women and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Andrew discovered a hidden love for period dramas. Horror lovers will get their fix as Stephen talks about Host and Saint Maud while Andrew waxes lyrical about The Lighthouse. Those in need of a good cry need look no further than Stephen's recommendation of Babyteeth. Ever wanted to hear Andrew talk at length about his obsession with Chinese neo-noirs like Long Day's Journey into Night and The Wild Goose Lake? Now you can! Although both Andrew and Stephen agreed on True History of the Kelly Gang as one of their favourites both of their number one spots are different. Listen in to find out what they are...

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Andrew's Top 10: 10. Long Day's Journey Into Night / 9. Emma / 8. Uncut Gems / 7. The Lighthouse / 6. The Wild Goose Lake / 5. True History of the Kelly Gang / 4. Promising Young Woman / 3. Little Women / 2. Parasite / 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Stephen's Top 10: 10. Host / 9. The Personal History of David Copperfield / 8. True History of the Kelly Gang / 7. Saint Maud / 6. Da 5 Bloods / 5. Babyteeth / 4. Ema / 3. Uncut Gems / 2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 1. Parasite

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As his career has moved through decades and crossed into a new century Willem Dafoe has only become more experimental and varied in his parts as he's aged. This week Stephen and Andrew tackle the vast array of roles he's played from 2000 to the present day. Beginning in 2000 with his Oscar nominated role in Shadow of the Vampire, Dafoe went on to play a second iconic villain as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man. His rarely used comedic talents were put to the test in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and in 2007 with Mr Bean's Holiday. 2009 saw him in seven films including Lars Von Trier's Antichrist while his third Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod came in 2014 with Sean Baker's The Florida Project. 2018 saw a Volpi Cup win in Venice and his first Best Actor nomination at the Oscars as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate. In 2019 he starred opposite Robert Pattinson in Robert Eggers' salty, smoky seadog horror The Lighthouse and in Edward Norton's noir drama Motherless Brooklyn.

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In this special bonus episode, co-host Stephen Porzio chats with acclaimed documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe about his new film Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist. Now streaming on Shudder, it sees the director of the iconic horror talking about his influences, how the classic movie was put together and his feelings on it now. Here, Alexandre discusses with Stephen his time spent with the legendary Friedkin, what he wanted to do differently with this doc and what’s next for him.

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In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio chats with Catherine S. McMullen, the writer of The Other Lamb. Now streaming on Mubi UK and Ireland, it centres on a girl (Raffey Cassidy - The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Vox Lux) born into an all-female cult led by a man (Michiel Huisman, The Invitation). In the cult’s compound hidden away in the woods, she begins to question his teachings and her own reality. Catherine discusses what inspired her to write the psychological thriller, how her script getting chosen for the Black List helped progress her career, the transition from page to screen and the movie being shot in Ireland. 

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Call us Ishmael, because we've just landed our first white whale! In celebration of our first anniversary we've decided to cover the inestimable Willem Dafoe. Over two episodes we'll be looking at his long, varied screen career with Part One covering his work in the 80s and 90s. From Kathryn Bigelow's biker drama The Loveless to William Friedkin's amoral masterpiece To Live and Die in L.A. Dafoe's early film years were dominated by villains and dirtbags. This changed with Oliver Stone's Platoon scoring him his first of four Oscar nods and his first role as Willem Dafriend. More varied roles came in the tail end of the 80s with Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning. This led to his role as Bobby Peru in David Lynch's Wild At Heart, his first collaboration with Paul Schrader in 1992's Light Sleeper and his first collaboration with Abel Ferrara in New Rose Hotel. His ceaseless work ethic, iconic features and desire for challenge put him in good stead as the 90s gave way to the 2000s.

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Andrew's To Live and Die in L.A. article

Andrew's William Friedkin article

Stephen's interview with Abel Ferrara - print and podcast

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In their final frightening episode of the Halloween season the I Know That Face crew take a look at the career of the Re-Animator himself: Jeffrey Combs. The actor's big break came in 1985 with Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator in which Combs played the title character. He would return to the role twice more in Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator. He is best known to horror fans for his work in adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's stories such as From Beyond, The Dunwich Horror and Necronomicon in which he played the writer himself. He has also appeared in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners and has collaborated with Stuart Gordon multiple times in The Pit and the Pendulum and Castle Freak. Star Trek fans will know him as one of the series' most prolific guest stars.

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Steele yourselves as the I Know That Face crew take on the terrifying career of Barbara Steele. The British actress landed her first starring part in the dual role of the innocent Princess Katja and her evil Satanic ancestor Asa in Mario Bava's directorial debut Black Sunday. A string of Italian horror films followed including The Long Hair of Death, Castle of Blood and Terror-Creatures from the Grave, as well as a role in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. She also starred in Roger Corman's Poe adaptation The Pit and the Pendulum, Michael Reeves' debut The She Beast and the Hammer horror Curse of the Crimson Altar. She became more selective in the 1970s appearing as the villainous prison warden in Jonathan Demme's debut Caged Heat and as the lonely lesbian Betts in David Cronenberg's Shivers. Although mostly retired Steele has appeared in 2012's De Palma-esque thriller The Butterfly Room, Ryan Gosling's feature Lost River and in Netflix's Castlevania. 

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