190: Chris Wilcha — from "This American Life" to "Flipside"
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"Flipside" is a personal essay film in which director Chris Wilcha grapples with middle age by trying to document the New Jersey record store where he worked as a teenager. In the process, he returns to multiple other documentary projects that never came to fruition - interweaving interviews with jazz photographer Herman Leonard, TV writer David Milch, radio host Ira Glass, writer Starlee Kine, director Judd Apatow, comedian Uncle Floyd, and others. This subject hits close to home for Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers who was once was featured in the New York Times article Untold Stories, Abandoned Films about his own unfinished films. Flipside is now playing in theaters from Oscilloscope Laboratories. Subscribe to our Substack newsletter Doc Voices. On Instagram: @purenonfiction @thompowers1
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