Bill Hader on
Being There 1979
Hader's example of a loose, meandering '70s film that still runs on tight structure.
The Big Picture · Interview
Bill Hader on ‘Barry,’ and Mary Kay Place and Kent Jones on ‘Diane’ | Interview
April 1, 2019/ 69 min/ Sean Fennessey
A double interview: Bill Hader on writing 'Barry' and the old movies behind it, then Mary Kay Place and Kent Jones on their film 'Diane.'
22 films across 2 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Bill Hader on ‘Barry’
Bill Hader on
The Last Detail 1973
The other Hal Ashby he cites: a quest movie under an emotional surface, maybe outlined from Robert Towne's script.
Bill Hader on
It's a Wonderful Life 1946
His model for the 'clean pitch': a complicated story you can still summarize in a breath, and shot for it.
Bill Hader on
Where Is the Friend's House? 1987
Kiarostami. Hader watched it three times on FilmStruck and told Alec Berg to; a kid returning a classmate's notebook, and the writing he keeps striving for.
Bill Hader on
Roma 2018
His favorite of the prior year: the anti-Barry, structured like a Tarkovsky mood you let wash over you.
Bill Hader on
Shoplifters 2018
Named alongside Roma as a film you sink into rather than plot tightly.
Bill Hader on
Woman in the Dunes 1964
The Blu-ray he watched the night before: a 'super disturbing Japanese movie' he rewatches between the freeway TV.
Bill Hader on
Bull Durham 1988
First-time watch; likes that it isn't really a baseball movie, and calls it Kevin Costner's best.
Bill Hader on
Hangmen Also Die! 1943
The Fritz Lang he'd recommend; Brecht co-wrote it, a fictional telling of a Nazi assassination and the hostage reprisals that follow.
Bill Hader on
The Big Heat 1953
His proof Lang had seen real violence: Lee Marvin throwing scalding coffee in a woman's face.
Bill Hader on
Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985
The film his truck-driver father loved and broke down unpretentiously, the way Hader learned to talk about movies.
Bill Hader on
The Skeleton Twins 2014
The Hader movie HBO liked, which led to the meeting that became Barry.
Mary Kay Place and Kent Jones on ‘Diane’
Mary Kay Place & Kent Jones on
Diane 2018
Jones's first narrative feature, written for Place: the world of his New England aunts and uncles, and a life nearing its end.
Mary Kay Place & Kent Jones on
The Big Chill 1983
Where Sean recalls Place from; part of 40 years of steady work.
Mary Kay Place & Kent Jones on
The Rainmaker 1997
Place as Dot Black in the Coppola film, the role that made Jones think she could play his mother.
Mary Kay Place & Kent Jones on
Time Out of Mind 2014
The Oren Moverman film Jones admired before Moverman's company, Sight Unseen, backed Diane.
Mary Kay Place & Kent Jones on
Hitchcock/Truffaut 2015
Jones's documentary; he cut a late, sick-sounding Truffaut radio interview about filmmaking as a fugue state.
Mary Kay Place & Kent Jones on
The Letter 1940
One of the William Wyler films Jones revisited (a director who only grows for him).
Mary Kay Place & Kent Jones on
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
The Wyler he knows by heart and found more shattering than ever; his father lived the coming-home experience it depicts.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing Certified CopyTaxi DriverRaging BullPredatorPolice Academy 5: Assignment Miami BeachDoberman CopHateship LoveshipBoyhood
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV BarrySouth ParkSaturday Night LiveSilicon ValleyDeadwoodAtlantaThe SopranosBreaking BadBodyguardSex EducationLady Dynamite
Theater True WestThe PrisonerThe Waverly Gallery
Promos The Bill Simmons PodcastThe RewatchablesWinging It