Episode 242 - Road to Roma and Top 5 Obsession Movies
Last time an American cared this much about what a Mexican thought, we were defending the Alamo. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss ROAD TO ROMA and share their top 5 obsession movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a highly regarded Mexican director who makes beautifully ambitious films, and then you decide to make a ‘making of’ documentary about your latest autobiographical movie which you wrote, directed, shot, and co-edited, and you go on and on about how you wanted to replicate everything down to the most minute detail, not only the furniture in your living room, but the food in the refrigerator when you were a kid and even finding the right tiles in your bathroom, and you talk about the casting and what the characters wore and why you like those long takes of yours along with moments of spontaneity, and how you lied to your actress and said her baby is dead just to make her fucking cry in the damn scene, yep you’re not only obsessed, you’re kind of a mean prick, and then this passion project of yours went on to be nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including best movie, and won Oscars for director, cinematography, and foreign language film, then this podcast is for you!