The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast
1) The 63rd New York Film Festival (with Fran Hoepfner, Frank Falisi, and Eli Sands)
It’s officially fall when the NYFF finally ends. In this episode, Veronica sits down with Fran Hoepfner, Frank Falisi, and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 63rd New York Film Festival. This is...Show More
2) Seven (with Adam Nayman)
Happy 30th birthday to David Fincher’s Seven (1995). Joining us to celebrate is special guest Adam Nayman, Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of, among other books, David Fincher: Mind Games (...Show More
3) Rope (with Michael Koresky)
Hello, champagne. This month we welcome back to the podcast Michael Koresky (listen here to his first visit, discussing A.I.: Artificial Intelligence). Michael is MoMI’s senior curator of film, Revers...Show More
4) Beginners (2010)
For a taste of summertime sadness, we look at a pick from curator Christos Nikou (Apples [2020] and Fingernails [2023]): Mike Mills’s semi-autobiographical bleak comedy Beginners (2010). We get into t...Show More
5) Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (with Bilge Ebiri)
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Bilge Ebiri—the man, the myth, the legend—joins us to bookend our discussion of all things Mission: Impossible from a couple of summers ago, on the occasion o...Show More
6) Trouble in Paradise (1932)
This month's micro edition zooms in on a snappy, passionate moment from Ernst Lubitsch's effervescent screwball,Trouble in Paradise. We get into: sex in pre-code cinema, eye-widening lines, wikipedia ...Show More
7) Speed (with Travis Woods)
Pop quiz, hotshot: join us as we welcome back BWDR veteran and De Palma completist Travis Woods for a special conversation on one of our all-time favorites, Jan de Bont’s Speed (1994). We get into: ...Show More
8) The Passenger (1975)
This month’s micro-episode takes us inside the mysterious, sensual brilliance of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger, a curated pick from director Ezra Edelman:"The idea of wanting to live with pur...Show More
9) Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Angelica Jade Bastién)
This month we sit down with Vulture critic Angelica Jade Bastién, author of the newsletter Madwomen & Muses, where she recently started writing about “Movies That Fuck.” In honor of “cinematic sensual...Show More
10) The Celebration (1998)
This month's bite-sized episode zooms in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, The Celebration (1998), one of Palestinian director/writer/producer Annemarie Jacir's curated pi...Show More