Screen Slate Podcast

Our friend Owen Kline visits Screen Slate HQ to talk about his feature directorial debut Funny Pages, about a teenage cartoonist who strikes up a demented friendship with a former low-level comic artist. Plus we call up Adam Resnick (Late Night with David Letterman, Get a Life, Cabin Boy) to shoot the shit and talk about an awkward adolescent father-son filmgoing experience.Funny Pages trailerWill Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation by Adam ResnickHosted by Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, and John Klacsmann with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Hosts: Jon Dieringer & C. Spencer YehWe speak to queer film historian, archivist, filmmaker, programmer, writer (and occasional Screen Slate contributor) Elizabeth Purchell while she was in town to present a Rosa von Praunheim retrospective. We talk about the pioneering queer German filmmaker before doing a deep dive into adult films: the history, the culture of collecting, tracking down rare films, bringing smut to Letterboxd, and why you hear Pink Floyd and see the same public bathroom in every gay porn film from the 70s. Ask Any Buddy on InstagramElizabeth Purchell on Letterboxd & TwitterPersonal websiteScreen Slate author pageC. Spencer Yeh's trailer for Drive (Jack Deveau, 1974)The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Hosts: Jon Dieringer (Screen Slate EIC), Caroline Golum (filmmaker/writer), John Klacsmann (film archivist), Maxwell Paparella (Screen Slate managing editor).Jon reports from the Cannes film festival, covering highlights including Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun, Owen Kline’s Funny Pages, and hanging out on (allegedly) the world’s 34th-to-36th-largest yacht. Caroline Golum reviews highlights of the first post-lockdown Nitrate Picture Show, including Detlef Sierck (aka Douglas Sirk)’s Final Chord, Ernst Lubitsch’s Cluny Brown, and Marcel Carné’s Daybreak, plus controversial thoughts about the culinary scene in Rochester, NY. And Maxwell Paparella shouts out BAMCinemaFest highlights including Tyler Taormina’s nocturne Happer’s Comet and Rita Baghdadi’s Middle Eastern metal doc Sirens.For more, our Patreon-exclusive bonus episode contains an extended discussion of Crimes of the Future, Top Gun: Maverick and Jon speed-ranking everything else he saw at Cannes. Join to listen.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Recorded live on the beach along the Croisette: the great cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt meets up with Screen Slate to discuss his career behind the camera, including his five films with Kelly Reichardt—the latest of which, Showing Up, premiered in competition at Cannes. We talk about his family's multigenerational history on film sets, honing in on a minimalist approach to create space for quiet moments, and how his mentor Harris Savides helped him understand the camera department as more than just a trade. Plus: musings on Cannes, meeting Mr. T, and why his manager wants him to stop making so many friends.Host: Jon Dieringer. Editor: C. Spencer Yeh.The Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts, event invitations, and more.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

We welcome sex educator, journalist, and artist Zoë Ligon, aka the Dildo Duchess, to Screen Slate HQ. We talk about movies, sex, early Spectacle, late 285 Kent, and leaving New York to start sex-positive toy store Spectrum Boutique. Plus: an invitation to join her Discord for Effed Up Film Heads.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh on mic.Zoë Ligon @Thongria on InstagramSpectrum BoutiqueEffed Up Film Heads DiscordThis episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

For Patreon members | Full episode 20 min | We turn the mic on co-host John Klacsmann, who is on the bargaining committee of the Anthology Film Archives union, for updates on the workers' situation. We talk about how people can support Anthology staff by continuing to attend screenings there and let their support for a fair contract be known to the AFA board and management. Plus: JD runs into a millennial politician from our dating episode, and Caroline Golum on Mets commentators' film criticism. Anthology Film Archives UnionTwitter: @AFAworkersInstagram: @afaunion Film Forum Unionfilmforumunion.orgTwitter: @FilmForumUnion Instagram: @filmforumunionFilm at Lincoln Center Unionflcunion.orgTwitter: @flcunionInstagram: @flcunionBAMunionbamunion.orgTwitter: @BAM_unionInstagram: @bamunionBecome a Patreon member to listen to the full episode.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

We talk to Prismatic Ground founder Inney Prakash about starting a new experimental/documentary film festival with no budget that pays filmmakers, actually programs from submissions, and is free and accessible to all worldwide. We also talk about how visiting the Criterion Closet changes you,  a New York niche celebrity performing lewd sexual acts on Succession, and more.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer, film archivist John Klacsmann, and filmmaker Caroline Golum. Audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.Prismatic GroundWhy I Started a Film Festival in 2021 by Inney PrakashThis episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Sound and music supervisor Dean Hurley, best known for his work with David Lynch, joins the pod to exalt in audiovisual euphoria. We get into Lynchland: Inland Empire, the non-existent new Cannes film, Weather Report truthers, and how ZZ Top’s Eliminator figures into the filmmaker’s sonic universe. We also celebrate the visual and aural patinas of different eras of image and sound technology—from 35mm optical release prints to early YouTube compression of VHS dubs—and how armchair conservationists help to preserve these experiences. Plus shoutouts to Lethal Weapon 4, Scanner Cop 2, the Alphaville voice, Hurley’s new release with Romance, and much more.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer and film archivist John Klacsmann. Audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.Dean Hurley websiteScan-It-Yourself: An Ode to 35mm Release Prints by Dean HurleyThe Frequency of Fear: Dean Hurley InterviewRomance & Dean Hurley - In Every Dream Home a Heartache on BandcampLethal Weapon 4 opening scene on YouTubeThis episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Scholar, curator, and artist Ayanna Dozier, Ph.D., joins us for a two-part episode that begins with a discussion about front-of-house museum work prompted by the recent attack at the MoMA Film Desk. What does cultural labor really entail? What protections do workers have? How do architecture, outsourcing, and management trends shape museum workplace culture?This podcast was originally planned as a discussion of Batman and queer comic book history, which continues in part two.Hosted by Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer, film archivist John Klacsmann, and filmmaker/writer Caroline Golum.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Correction: one of the MoMA assault victims was previously misgendered in this podcast. We sincerely apologize for this error and have edited two places where it occurred.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.

Scholar, curator, artist, and Batman expert Ayanna Dozier, Ph.D., joins us to talk about the Caped Crusader and queer comic history. We chat about volcel Batman in The Batman, Prince and Kim Basinger fucking on tape during the '89 soundtrack recording sessions, Andy Warhol and Jack Smith's Batman, and more. This podcast began with a discussion of museum labor in part one.Hosted by fellow Batman scholars Jon Dieringer, film archivist John Klacsmann, and filmmaker/writer Caroline Golum.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.