Description
Director, actor, Saturday Night Live veteran, and cinephile Bill Hader joins host Ben Mankiewicz to talk about his heroes (Stanley Kubrick, Joel and Ethan Coen), about writing and directing his HBO show Barry, and if you’re hoping for a few of his expert impressions, you won’t be disappointed. Hader also ventures into his movie-watching past by answering our Super 8 questionnaire.
Films Mentioned:
Top Gun (1986)
Superbad
Trainwreck*
Inside Out
Barry*
The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey*
Dr. Strangelove*
A Clockwork Orange*
The Natural
Oliver!
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Paths of Glory
Mars Attacks!
Evil Dead
Rashomon*
Seven Samurai*
Ikiru*
It’s A Wonderful Life
Bad News Bears
Shawshank Redemption
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Barton Fink
A Serious Man*
Inside Llewyn Davis
Intolerable Cruelty
Hail, Caesar!
Burn After Reading
Trouble in Paradise
The Apartment
Five Graves to Cairo
Double Indemnity
One, Two, Three
Sunset Boulevard
Kes
To Kill A Mockingbird
From Here to Eternity
Von Ryan’s Express
Dreams (1990)
The Last Detail
The Great Muppet Caper
Midnight Run
The Black Hole (1979)
*Available on Max as of 3/19 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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