Season 2

Monday, December 22, 2025 The Shop Around the Corner + You've Got Mail

Right in time for the holidays, we discuss one of the best Christmas movies ever made, 'The Shop Around the Corner.' Not only is it a seminal classic,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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