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The Empire Film Podcast

#76: Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, Shane Carruth - August 30, 2013

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2013

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

You may know him as Community's Dean Pelton, but in real life he's Jim Rash, the man who co-wrote The Descendants with Nat Faxon and won an Oscar in the process. The award-winning pair were in the Empire Podcast booth this week to talk about their directorial debut, The Way, Way Back, but also managed to talk about the final episode of Friends - no, really - and how it feels to dress up as Lady Gaga. Elsewhere, super-indie melon-twister extraordinaire Shane Carruth, who previously brought us time-travelling brain-melter Primer, came in to explain (or not explain) his latest puzzler, Upstream Colour. Top tip: the film has something to do with pigs (though it's not abundantly clear what that something is).

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0:00.0

On the Apple Podcast this week, we get our denom with communities gym rash here to talk

0:18.7

about the way way back with his co-director Nat Faxon, and Shane Karuth, masterfully

0:23.2

esoteric indie puzzler, drops into confound, and can fuddle us. Plus, we review Michael Bay's

0:28.2

pain and gain, your next, and one direction, this is us. On the only movie podcast, it

0:33.4

doesn't know it's beautiful, and that's what makes it beautiful. Hello, pod, I'm Chris

0:37.2

you and welcome to the Empire Podcast, as ever I'm joined by my very own three men and

0:42.2

the little lady. As ever I'm joined by three colleagues, first up is a young whipper

0:49.4

snapper who makes his all sound vaguely professional, like we have to faint his clue what the

0:53.6

hell it is we're doing. It's Ali Plum. Hello, sir. Hi there. How are you? Oh, good

0:58.1

thanks. That is great. I will now move on to the next link. It's our resident arthouse

1:02.8

guru. A man who dedicated to suffering through depressing movies at a snack of choice is

1:06.8

a bag of salted cigarette butts and caramelized broken glass. It's filled with

1:10.3

semolina. Oh, yeah, I've been brushing up. How do they taste those salted?

1:16.7

Caramelized broken glass sounds quite nice, doesn't it? It's better than some of that.

1:20.4

And last but not least, it's our queen of the geeks, a woman who was actually, and I'm

1:23.6

not making this up, looking at a supernatural cross stitching pattern early this week, explain

1:28.4

yourself, Helen or Harrah. I wasn't planning to make it. I can't really

1:31.4

do embroidery, but Dan Jullin's wife made him a cross stitched breaking bad sampler. And

1:38.9

so I was looking at the site that she got the pattern from and there there was a supernatural

1:42.1

one. Okay, let's see from all of these out of the way. All save one. We now have a sponsor

1:46.7

who are delighted to have a sponsor on the podcast. And this episode is brought to you

1:49.5

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