Tuesday, November 3, 2026
The Fortune Cookie
Season 2 · Episode 7
After the box-office failure of Kiss Me, Stupid, Billy Wilder decided to leave sex out of The Fortune Cookie (1966). He went back to the premise that ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Kiss Me, Stupid
Season 2 · Episode 1
When a star singer stops for gas in small-town Nevada, two struggling songwriters hatch a plot that is in no way problematic: they hire a local prosti...
Friday, October 9, 2026
The Social Reckoning Review
Episode 78
Sixteen years after winning an Oscar for writing “The Social Network,” Aaron Sorkin follows up by writing AND directing “The Social Reckoning.” He cla...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Interview with Paul Diamond, son of Billy Wilder’s writing partner, I. A. L. Diamond
Season 2 · Episode 24
Paul Diamond knew Billy Wilder well—his dad was Wilder’s writing partner, I. A. L. Diamond. A novelist, screenwriter, and movie producer himself, Paul...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Irma La Douce
Season 2 · Episode 23
Billy Wilder’s last film, a savage satire of capitalism, was a flop. With Irma la Douce, he returned to the subject that gave him his greatest success...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Wilder Inspires: Jerry Maguire
Episode 77
It's no secret that Billy Wilder was an important inspiration in Cameron Crowe's life and work. Crowe did, after all, write a book on Wilder. But how ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
It Ends Review
Episode 76
Part existential road trip, part liminal horror nightmare, It Ends captivated audiences during its festival run and is hoping to build on that success...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
One, Two, Three
Season 2 · Episode 22
It's 1961, and Hollywood is changing. Foreign films are wooing critics and audiences alike, and a new wave of filmmakers is starting to emerge. But wh...
Monday, August 10, 2026
The Samurai and the Prisoner Review
Episode 75
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's The Samurai and the Prisoner is an equally epic and intimate story of war, nobility, and murder in 16th-century Japan. Mike and Kev...
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
The Apartment
Season 2 · Episode 23
By 1960, nearly twenty years into his career as a writer/director, Billy Wilder had made one unforgettable film after another. And yet, his latest eff...
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Secrets and Lies With Nathan Deming
Episode 74
Nathan Deming is one of our favorite up-and-coming filmmakers. We previously discussed his film February, and now he's back with a new movie, Winter H...
Thursday, July 23, 2026
The Odyssey of Christopher Nolan
Episode 73
A movie as big as The Odyssey cannot be contained to just one episode. Since we've already reviewed Christopher Nolan's masterful epic, we're going to...
The Filmographers Podcast
