A Conversation With Hundreds of Beavers Co-Writer/Director Mike Cheslik
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the May 9, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to present an interview with the director and co-writer of one of the wackiest comedies of 2024, Hundreds of Beavers.
In the Our Feature Presentation:
- BJ’s interview with Mike Cheslik, the director and co-writer of Hundreds of Beavers.
- Hundreds Of Beavers Review: A 19th Century Indie Oddball Hilariously Pits Man Against Beaver [Fantastic Fest]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily today's Thursday May 9th |
| 0:03.2 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we are going to present an interview with the |
| 0:07.0 | director and co-writer of one of the wackiest movies of 2024 |
| 0:10.9 | hundreds of beavers my name is Ben Pearson I am an editor at slashfel.com and I'm joined on today's |
| 0:16.4 | episode by slash film editor B.J. Colangelo. Hi hi hi yeah. All right |
| 0:20.7 | B.J you and I spoke a little bit about this movie on a recent episode of the water cooler on this podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Our review from Fantastic Fest, 2022, says hundreds of beavers, quote, exists at the crossroads of Looney Tunes, |
| 0:34.4 | Benny Hill, Cannibal the Musical, |
| 0:36.3 | blazing saddles, and Adult Swim. |
| 0:39.2 | So this movie is available to watch on VOD right now, |
| 0:43.2 | and I would encourage people to seek it out. |
| 0:45.0 | It's wild, it's fun, it's a great time. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, BJ, do you have any way |
| 0:50.5 | to succinctly describe this movie to people. |
| 0:53.9 | When you tell people about it, how do you describe it? |
| 0:56.2 | So I'm glad that you asked this because I actually got to practice doing this yesterday. |
| 1:00.2 | I was at an event with some other film folks that rate for other publications after we all saw a movie and we had the conversation, |
| 1:09.0 | what have you been watching lately? What's everyone seeing? And I said, what do y'all know about hundreds of beavers? |
| 1:16.3 | And they all kind of stopped for a second and they went, I'm sorry, what did you just say? |
| 1:23.4 | And I said, I know you heard me. |
| 1:26.2 | I said hundreds of beavers. |
| 1:28.2 | So already that is going to get people's attention |
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