Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Earn's in-episode description of the rich couple's party: 'a Spike Lee-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut.'
The Big Picture · Discussion · Interview
Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22)
August 18, 2017/ 41 min/ Sean Fennessey · Allison Herman
A warm-up on Janicza Bravo's Atlanta episode 'Juneteenth,' then Bravo and Brett Gelman on the five-year slog to make 'Lemon.'
5 films across 2 segments.
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Setting up Janicza Bravo: 'Juneteenth'with The Ringer's Allison Herman on the Atlanta episode Bravo directed
Get Out 2017
Herman's other reference point for 'Juneteenth': white affluence weaponized into dread, though less visceral here.
In conversation
Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman on
Lemon 2017
The surreal, absurd comedy of failure the couple spent five years making, from a first draft banged out in five days at SXSW off a lie about having a feature. Gelman plays Isaac; Bravo pitches it as 'come watch me fail for 90 minutes,' a rebuke to the loser-white-guy comedy where everything works out.
Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman on
Eat 2011
Bravo's first short, starring Gelman and Katherine Waterston; it played SXSW and started the run that led to Lemon.
Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman on
Gregory Go Boom 2013
The short Bravo wrote for Jash after Lemon's financing collapsed and its lead actor dropped out — her follow-up to a year lost to depression.
Also mentioned raised along the way
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