Sam Fragoso

It's been a year for Los Angeles. This week @MayorOfLA joins @TalkEasyPod for a candid conversation. We talk: wildfires, rebuilding the Palisades, ICE raids, 2028 Olympics, and working with President Trump.

Two prolific filmmakers, two students of their craft, and now two @TheAcademy Award winners. Congrats to Ryan Coogler & Joachim Trier on their big wins this weekend. Listen to them talk about both films in their conversations with @SamFragoso on @TalkEasyPod – available wherever you get your podcasts. 🎥: @SinnersMovie & @sentvaluefilm

@franklinleonard thank you sir

One of the best interviewers in the game interviews one of the world’s most interesting people. Lock in.

@RadiantFilm The illustration of Joachim is painted by Krishna Shenoi from an original photograph by Ethan Newmyer for an episode of @TalkEasyPod. talkeasypod.com/joachim-trier-…

Joachim Trier on David Lynch: "There was a moment when I was home alone when I was seventeen or eighteen and I went to the video store and took out all the David Lynch films again. I watched them and was like, damn, you can express so much through movies. And it’s erotic. David Lynch is so deeply about sex and death at the core of everything—they’re the big themes that matter. It’s tactile—you have a sense of the physical world, and they’re psychologically complicated, like Blue Velvet, what a strange tale." — "The Art Form of Memory: A Conversation with Joachim Trier" by Hillary Weston (The Criterion Collection, 2016)

Director Ryan Coogler on how @SinnersMovie came to be.

@SinnersMovie Full talk on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=d9pLXk…

Director Ryan Coogler, this Sunday.

as I told the great @SamFragoso, it was an honor to sit down with him for his @TalkEasyPod. can’t wait for you to listen. talkeasypod.com/jacob-soboroff/

Anderson .Paak on @TalkEasyPod. youtube.com/watch?v=p2_fjn…

Anderson .Paak on @TalkEasyPod this week. youtube.com/watch?v=p2_fjn…

All around dope interview, very insightful youtu.be/p2_fjnFSaxw?si…

@minchoi @neilkatz Is this something you both are interested in? Is the aim to make actors obsolete?

@neilkatz We will see more of that happening I'm sure

It's happening. The MPA just told ByteDance to "immediately cease" Seedance 2.0, calling it "massive copyright infringement." I've been posting Seedance clips all week. The Tom Cruise x Brad Pitt rooftop fight alone has millions of views. Deadpool writer Rhett Reese: "It's likely over for us." But we've seen this movie before. The MPA said the exact same thing about Sora. Then Disney licensed 200 characters to OpenAI. Hollywood's playbook: panic → sue → license → profit. Problem: ByteDance isn't OpenAI. China doesn't take the meeting.

This Sunday, Anderson .Paak!

@Lizglendale @JustineBateman Was 90 minutes always the cutoff for you? Or is this in recent years/since the pandemic?

@SamFragoso @JustineBateman I get bored too easily. If it’s under 90 minutes and the topic interests me then I will watch. Otherwise, not so much.

"The Future of the Film Business (in 30 seconds)" My gift to you today.

@Lizglendale @JustineBateman You don't like movies?

@JustineBateman Not interested in “film,” to be honest. But thanks.

George Saunders on the state of... everything? Our latest @TalkEasyPod now on Youtube. youtube.com/watch?v=lcpUVB…

If you want to be a better writer, listen to this episode of @TalkEasyPod If you want to be a better human, listen to this episode. @SamFragoso talkeasypod.com/george-saunder…

A move completely antithetical to the ethos of the Alamo and to those who love the theatrical experience they provide. This is a profound and upsetting mistake @alamodrafthouse

This Sunday, poet and performer Patti Smith.