Episodes

Gee Malik Linton spent nearly a decade trying to make his first film before finally getting one, Daughter of God, off the ground with backing from Keanu Reeves—only to lose control of it mid-production after unknowingly signing away his final cut. What the studio thought they were buying and what Linton delivered were two entirely different movies. In this episode he tells the story of his film, which starred Reeves and a then unknown Ana de Armas, how it got away from him, and how he was able t...

When Bonnie and Clyde arrived in 1967, it sparked a fierce debate among film critics. At the center of that debate was New York Times critic Bosley Crowther, who publicly opposed the film even as its reputation grew. This episode looks at Crowther’s battle with the movie, the critics who disagreed with him, and what the controversy reveals about a changing era in American cinema. Sources in this Episode Times Announcement. “Crowther Named Critic Emeritus; Renata Adler of New Yorker to Review F...

The making of the quirky heist comedy The Linguini Incident is not a pleasant memory for writer-director Richard Shepard. Yes, he had a great cast including David Bowie and Rosana Arquette. He also was under funded and overwhelmed and eventually lost final cut. However, the sting of this failure never fully left him and thirty years later he set out to correct it. Shepard and Linguini Incident co-star Eszter Balint help tell this story of a missed opportunity and what it means to reclaim your pa...