Podcast Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room

For our B-Movies issue–just in time for spooky season–we’re casting an eye back toward RKO darling Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942), one of the studio’s most successful forays into low-budget, low-runtime horror, with film critic and curator Miriam Bale.

Episode #53: Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

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This month’s mini-episode takes us into one of costume designer Sophie de Rakoff’s curated picks: Irvin Kershner’s Eyes of Laura Mars, an American giallo with style to spare.

Episode #9: Down With Love (with Fran Hoepfner)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

Issue 104: Opulence Podcast

This month on the podcast, we’re at the juncture of maximalism and mid-century modern, tackling Peyton Reed’s rom-com Down With Love with special guest Fran Hoepfner.

Episode #64: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (with Bilge Ebiri)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it: film critic 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 of the final film (?) of a nearly 30 year franchise.

Episode #24: Daisies (1966)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

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Welcome to our new podcast series in conversation with, and sponsored by, our friends at Galerie. Every month, we’ll pick a film and zoom in on a single moment to better see the whole. This month: Věra Chytilová's Daisies (Sedmikrásky).

Episode #19: Pain and Glory (with Kelsey Ford)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

Issue 113: Recovery Podcast

Veronica and Chad are joined by writer and Powell's Books managing editor Kelsey Ford to talk about Pedro Almodóvar’s "wildly tender" exploration of autobiography and artistic process, Pain and Glory.

Episode #31: 3 Women (1977)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

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This month we bid goodbye to summer with Robert Altman’s hallucinatory 3 Women (1977), a Palm Springs take on Persona.

Episode #61: The Passenger (1975)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

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This month’s micro-episode takes us inside the mysterious, sensual brilliance of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film, The Passenger. We get into: slow cinema that doesn't feel slow, style & aesthetics, the virility of 70s'-era Nicholson, existential malaise, the unique intensity of traveling relationships, and more.

Episode #69: Magnolia (1999)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·

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Not only is this Veronica & Eli’s final episode, it’s also our fourth annual Cruisemas show—join us as we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson's blank check big swing Magnolia and reflect a bit on the end of an era 🥹

Episode #2: Carnal Knowledge (with Zosha Millman)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

Issue 95: 1971 Podcast

Join co-hosts Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman, and returning special guest Zosha Millman, as they talk their way through Mike Nichols' darkly complex and cinematic battle of the sexes.

Episode #39: Maestro (with Nicholas Russell)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

Issue 127: Best of 2023 Podcast

This month we’re joined by writer, critic, and editor Nicholas Russell to chat about Maestro. We get into: what makes a Bradley Cooper Film, when weird voices work, that epigraph, tension as structure and provocation, what’s going on with the ending, getting moved by Mahler, and more.

Episode #23: Wings of Desire (with Karina Wolf)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·

Issue 118: Siblings Podcast

On this month's show, Karina Wolf joins us to discuss Wings of Desire, the essential decency of Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk’s warmth, transformative romance, whether angels have grandmas, Henri Alekan’s dignifying vision, Wim Wenders’s lack of strategy, how particulars turn universal, and more.