The Filmographers Podcast

Welcome to the Filmographers Podcast, where we study a director’s entire career, one film at a time. In each episode, we discuss why a single film suc... more
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Remembering Rob Reiner + Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery In the wake of Rob Reiner's tragic passing, we discuss his wonderful career and the movies that have impacted us. We also look at Rian Johnson's lates...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025 A Foreign Affair Many have called Billy Wilder's work "cynical." Some have even called it "mean." But Wilder, well, he'd say he's just being honest. If that's the case...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025 The Emperor Waltz After a blistering noir and a searing portrait of alcoholism, Billy Wilder’s next film was . . . a Technicolor musical comedy starring Bing Crosby! Wh...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Billy Wilder at War Just as World War II was ending, Billy Wilder was made a colonel in the United States Army. HIs job? Simple: Root Nazis out of the German film industr...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025 The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder, the refugee who arrived in Hollywood unable to speak or write English, is now an A-lister. But will he be able to maintain that status w...
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Friday, November 7, 2025 Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein + Top 5 Gothic Movies Guillermo del Toro's long-gestating Frankenstein adaptation is finally, well...it's alive! Has this project spent too much time in the oven, or has th...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025 Double Indemnity With only his third film as director, Billy Wilder made an all-time classic: “Double Indemnity.” But it wasn’t easy. He had to do it without his writi...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Five Graves to Cairo For his second movie, Billy Wilder made a hard turn away from fluffy comedy and set his sights not only on the action genre, but also on the burgeonin...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025 The Major and the Minor Billy Wilder quickly became one of Hollywood’s hottest screenwriters after teaming with Charles Brackett. But if he wanted to keep directors from chan...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Billy Wilder: Mythmaker Billy Wilder’s true story was colorful enough, but the born storyteller couldn’t help making things even more interesting. Join us as we kick off Seas...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Season 2 Announcement! The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here: We're announcing the director we'll be studying, one movie at a time, throughout our second sea...
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Friday, August 22, 2025 Season 2 Preview and Honey Don't! Review Here we go, Filmographers listeners: We're finally pulling back the curtain on Season 2. While we're not revealing the director we chose just yet, we ...

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