3. What Makes a "Successful" Indie Movie? // The Rollers Diaries Vol. 3

Episode 3 | Show Notes

0:00 - 9:00 | Jon and Zay cover Broadway and Jon’s NYC exploits. 9:00 - 33:26 | Zay and Jon cover Zay’s responds to the theoretical haters. What if you’re you’re good enough to make it? What does success look like? What are Zay’s weaknesses as a director? Is there a difference between films and movies? Is it more important to make a critically or financially successful movie? Do you have to choose? How do you cover important issues in movies in a way that has staying power? 33:30 - The Mail Bag (and a little salute to Teddy Bronson) 35:00 - Where do ideas and inspiration come from? 37:05 - 42:10 - Zay recounts his wonderful experience at David Chang’s Restaurant, [Majordomo](https://www.majordomo.la/) 42:10 - 46:15 - Jon and Zay’s Adventures with the homeless (and not-homeless) 46:15 - 57:00 - Project update on Rollers / Zay’s almost got a casting director and he’s talking to producers (and more adventures with the homeless) 59:20 - Zay (who just started playing guitar) plays a horrible cover of “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” This is how the song is supposed to sound.

Links Etc.

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel on Broadway | Website“A Real Nice Clambake” from Carousel The Play That Goes Wrong | Website Hunter Gatherer | Director: Josh LocyTrailer for the movieNew York Times ReviewWatch it online

Annihilation | Trailer Monster Trucks | Trailer "Friday" Music Video | Side note: the video has 123,120,758 views as of today’s date A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | Buy it on Amazon! “HBO Must Get Bigger and Broader, Says Its New Overseer” | Read it on the New York Times Barry on HBO | Watch the Trailer Operation Midnight Climax | This is some crazy shit

Won’t You Be My Neighbor | Watch the Trailer   The David Chang ExperienceMajordomo, Los Angeles | WebsiteMomofuku, New York | WebsiteThe Dave Chang Show Podcast | Website (although don’t listen to it because you should listen to I guess we’ll Do It That Way)Momofuku Cook Book | Buy it on AmazonThe Balthazar Cookbook | Buy it on Amazon An excellent international organization that helps people with mental illness | Website Harmony Korine | IMDB | Correction: The film is called Fight Harm | Wikipedia Santa Sangre | IMDB The Great Comet | Produced by Tara Sickmeier and others Bruce Springsteen has been married for 27 years | "Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa's Love Story Proves They Were Always Meant to be Together"

Credits and Personal Links:

A Mama Bear Studios Production // Mama Bear Studios’ Website Produced and Edited by: Isaiah Smallman Executive Producer: Jon Schimpf Opening music: "The Get Down," Produced by Summer Dregs Outro music: Composed and Recorded by Tom Paulus and Max Belz Cover Art by: Nate Giordano

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