Screen Slate Podcast

Hosted by Jon Dieringer and audio engineer C. Spencer YehWe visit Monday Night Books, Thomas Beard's speakeasy bookstore tucked in the back of Light Industry, to speak to cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw about Cryptozoo, Hungarian animation, and drawing inspiration from Starship Troopers and video game playthrough videos. And Beard (a former Desert Island Comics employee)  fills us in on Light Industry's upcoming move and his pivot to becoming "the laziest bookseller alive."Cover photo by Ed Halter.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.

Hosted by Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and audio engineer C. Spencer YehAnthology Film Archivist John Klacsmann’s multi-year quest to retrieve Jonas Mekas’s files from the FBI vault bears fruit. We also call up programmer Inney Prakash for a scene report from the Berlinale and hear about new movies from Claire Denis, Bertrand Bonello, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, and Tyler Taormina. Plus: a karaoke recap, Moonfall, Golum on pre-code, and more.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.

Exclusive for our members: patreon.com/screenslate | Full ep. 37 min. |  In part two of our John Wilson episode, Ridgewood's favorite son discusses "The Gottscheer Variant" and dipping out of the TIME 100 Gala to stare at his own billboard after meeting Elon & Grimes's baby.  We take calls from the Hot Take Hotline on our most eligible listeners' worst movie dates, including one with potentially explosive consequences for the future of New York state politics. Plus: a certain love-bombing furniture designer returns from the ash heap of recent history.Movies discussed:Project X (2012)Timecode (2000)Raw (2016)Still Alice (2014)Funny Games (2007)Straw Dogs (2011)Jurassic Park (1993)Bushwick (2017)The Love Witch (2016)A Goofy Movie (1995)The Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of theGoethe-Institut and German Films.Join us for Valentine's Karaoke hosted by John Wilson and MC'ed by C. Spencer Yeh February 11, 2022. 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.

Special guest: John Wilson of HBO's How to with John Wilson. Hosted by Jon Dieringer, John Klacsmann, and Cosmo Bjorkenheim, with audio engineer C. Spencer Yeh.Our friend John Wilson joins us to talk about being a Craigslist first responder, keeping his eye sharp in the off-season, why his A.D. fears Cosmo, and how fast food decor changes but motel decor stays the same. We also celebrate spending HBO's money on a coin-op kitchen stove pop-up, proudly salute our sanitation workers, and allow our guest to set the record straight on allegations of glue trapping. Plus: Cosmo has more of a comment than a question.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Join us for Valentine's Karaoke hosted by John Wilson and MC'ed by C. Spencer Yeh February 11, 2022. And to listen to a full-length bonus episode with Wilson, become a member on Patreon.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.

Subscribe to our Patreon for all bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/screenslate ━━━ Guest: Cristina Cacioppo with Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and engineer C. Spencer Yeh. Full runtime 22 min. ━━━ Introducing the hot take hotline. We discuss PA stories and fanfic. A caller disses Memoria. Deepfake Werner Herzog leaves a message.  Jon briefly convinces everyone Eadweard Muybridge f*cked the horse.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.

Special guest: Cristina Cacioppo. Call-in guest: Alex Ross Perry. Hosted by Jon Dieringer, John Klacsmann, and Caroline Golum.Our friend Cristina Cacioppo joins us to talk about her programming career, from Ocularis microcinema to 92YTribeca to Alamo Drafthouse and now Nitehawk Cinema. We get into the late-aughts/early-tens NYC film scene before calling up filmmaker Alex Ross Perry to discuss his memories of Peter Bogdanovich. Then Cristina talks about how programming has changed post-Covid reopening, and adapting her Screen Slate column The Outskirts into a new series at Nitehawk Cinema.To access bonus content support us at www.patreon.com/screenslateSponsored by the German Film Office. Subscribe to their newsletter.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.

Subscribe to our Patreon for all episodes: www.patreon.com/screenslate // Episode 0.5: Chakiris Pizza. Full runtime: 61 min. Featuring Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, and engineer C. Spencer Yeh.  The San Fernando’s own Caroline Golum on Licorice Pizza’s verisimilitude, meeting PTA & Maya Rudolph on the beach, and whether Encino Man is a better Valley movie. Screen Slate editor Jon Dieringer comes clean about his family’s once-proud, now shameful history with the West Side Story legacy. Film archivist John Klacsmann explains 70mm projection and why Licorice Pizza is a terrible film title. C. Spencer Yeh reads the Alamo Drafthouse menu.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.