Retake with John Horn

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Retake with John Horn episodes

May 03, 2023 BONUS: The Writers Guild Launches a Strike
All the updates on the WGA strike. Is the strike affecting you? Share your story here.

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21 min
April 28, 2023 Can the movie theater business model survive? Plus protecting Wild Life in South America.
Direct from Cinemacon, John reports on the gradual recovery of the movie theater business. And Oscar-winning documentarian Chai Vasarhelyi, and Kris Tompkins, conservationist and former CEO of Patagonia, discuss their new film Wild Life.

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29 min
April 21, 2023 Cheryl Strayed on learning hard lessons, plus “it may get really rough”- the impact of a possible writers’ strike
Author Cheryl Strayed and showrunner Liz Tigelaar on the new Hulu series Tiny Beautiful Things. And as Hollywood faces a looming Writers Guild strike, a production slow down has already begun.

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25 min
April 14, 2023 Sex and Hollywood: ‘Erotic 90s’ & Zoe Lister-Jones
Sex on the screen: You Must Remember This podcast host Karina Longworth on her latest season, Erotic 90s, plus actor/filmmaker Zoe Lister-Jones on her new streaming series Slip and a cosmic form of transportation: orgasms.

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31 min
April 07, 2023 How to Blow Up a Pipeline: a new movie asks if this sort of rebellion might be necessary
Creators Ariela Barer and Daniel Goldhaber on their new film about eco-terrorism How to Blow Up A Pipeline. And how a potential Oscars rule change meant to boost movie-going could impact the smallest distributors. Plus, a trip to Desert X.

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20 min
March 31, 2023 Judd Apatow as Possible WGA Strike Looms: ‘It’s Moving in the Worst Possible Direction,’ plus Kyra Sedgwick
Sedgwick on directing her new film, the challenges of getting financing, and the rewards of making a movie that serves a greater good. Apatow warns the bleak future of writers if things don’t change and doing work that makes him feel inspired.

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27 min
March 24, 2023 Tom Hanks talks Covid, ‘Elvis,’ puzzles and public radio
Tom Hanks talks about being a “covid canary in a coal mine”, why predicting a movie’s success can give you an ulcer, and how listening to radio as a kid helped him tell stories today.

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30 min
March 14, 2023 The Oscars teachable moment, plus Willem Dafoe
“Everything, Everywhere” won nearly everything, everywhere at the Oscars. Will it be a teachable moment for Hollywood? Plus, actor Willem Dafoe on his new film “Inside.”

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21 min
March 11, 2023 Listen before filling out your Oscar ballot!
New York Times awards season columnist Kyle Buchanan and I give you all our tips and predictions ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards.

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33 min
March 04, 2023 The composer of ‘Babylon’ and the subject of ‘Argentina, 1985’
In this episode: With the Academy Awards just a little more than a week away - we’re again bringing you conversations with some leading Oscar nominees…

Later in the show, you’ll hear from Luis Moreno Ocampo, a lawyer at the center of the true story behind ARGENTINA 1985, nominated for best international feature film.
30 min

About Retake with John Horn

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“Retake with John Horn”, a new podcast from LAist Studios, asks the question: do the stories that Hollywood tells about itself really reflect what's going on? Each week, host John Horn offers a…