Episodes
Sunday May 09, 2021
Alison Willmore - Film Critic - New York magazine/Vulture
Sunday May 09, 2021
Sunday May 09, 2021
Zooming with Chloé Zhao - what could better typify the pandemic era? Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) takes us inside how she did her recent cover story for New York magazine about Zhao. We also hear about what it’s like to be a critic - from panning the remake of Mulan to championing foreign movies that get much less attention in the United States
Countries featured: USA, UK
Publications featured: IFC, IndieWire, BuzzFeed News, New York magazine, Vulture
Alison discusses growing up in the Bay Area with a Singaporean-Chinese mom and British dad (8:22), using Craigslist to get her first apartment and first job at IFC in New York (16:02), getting hired by IndieWire to launch a TV vertical (21:48), Apple Watches and cold hard cash at BuzzFeed News (24:50), the art of the bad movie review (32:48), Bacurau and foreign films (38:15), how being a critic changed how she views movies for pleasure (44:43), a dream assignment involving Martin Scorcese that came at the wrong time (49:10), reporting her profile of Chloé Zhao (51:39) and finally the lightning round (1:01:33).
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Alison’s review of Nobody - https://bit.ly/3o1g6u3
Her essay on Asian American character actors - https://bit.ly/3f1Tc1r
Her interview with Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow - https://bit.ly/3uz5bdc
Her review of Mulan - https://bit.ly/3vY7dnP
Her top 10 movies of 2020 - https://bit.ly/2PZXsG8
Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation - https://bit.ly/2SxUmtT
Alison’s cover story on Chloé Zhao - https://bit.ly/3exJu85
Nick Pinkerton’s Substack - https://bit.ly/33tkNDe
Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day newsletter - https://bit.ly/3hcqQ7b
NYT story on anti-Asian hate crimes - https://nyti.ms/3f8bfDd
The Black Tapes podcast - https://bit.ly/3y7YLnQ
The collection that includes Justin M. Damiano - https://amzn.to/3nZhkG1
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Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats
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