Barry Sonnenfeld

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What do the films Men in Black, The Addams Family and Raising Arizona all have in common? They were all shot by cinematographer and director Barry Sonnenfeld. He's responsible for filming and directing some of the biggest movies from the 20th century. He joins us to talk about his new memoir and reflect on his many years in show business.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Ian and Mike, and on the How to Do Everything podcast from the team at Wait Wait,
0:04.9	Don't Tell Me, we will answer any question you have no matter how ridiculous.
0:09.1	Like maybe you want to get a haircut in space and you're not sure how.
0:13.1	Astronaut Frank Rubio has had a haircut in space.
0:15.7	We plan for everything, right?
0:17.1	And so it's not a pretty haircut for sure,
0:19.0	but it's functional.
0:19.9	Listen to the How to Do Everything podcast from NPR.
0:25.0	Bullsey with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fund.org and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullseye.
0:45.0	Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:48.0	Have you ever seen Blood Simple?
0:50.0	It came out in 1984.
0:52.0	It is a haunting drama about infidelity and murder.
0:55.4	Francis McDormand and Dan Hadaya Star along with great M. Emmett Walsh in the
1:00.9	role he was always meant to play, the slimmiest private investigator in the Lone Star State.
1:07.0	Don't come around you anymore.
1:09.0	If I need you, I'll know what rock to turn over. What rock? It's very good. Give me a call whenever.
1:23.0	Give me a call whenever you want to cut off my head.
1:37.0	I can all crawl around without it.
1:40.0	And if you have seen it, you know that it is great.
1:43.0	Beautifully paced, beautifully shot, beautifully written.
1:46.0	You probably know also that it was the first feature film from Joel and Ethan Cohen,
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