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You Are Good

Being John Malkovich w. Sela Shiloni

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

"Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate." In which Sela Shiloni joins us to discuss the Spike Jonze of it all.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you welcome to you are good at feelings podcast about movies.

0:14.3

Today we are talking about being John Malkovich, and we're talking about it with Sella

0:18.8

Shaloney. I am your host, Alex Steed. Welcome. You are good. A

0:23.9

Feelings podcast about movies is exactly what it sounds like. We are talking about movies. We're

0:28.7

talking about how they make us feel. We are not film critics. We're not here to say this was good

0:32.6

or this was bad, although we really enjoyed this movie. And there is a lot to unpack in Being John Malkovich.

0:39.1

Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American surrealist fantasy comedy drama film. Thank you so much,

0:44.9

Wikipedia.org, directed by Spike Jones and written by Charlie Kaufman, both making their feature

0:50.9

film debut. Sela Shulani is an amazing photographer based here in Los Angeles, California.

0:57.1

Sala will talk more about his work in our introduction, but I am a huge fan.

1:03.6

How are you doing?

1:04.5

How are you feeling?

1:05.3

What's going on in your world?

1:08.5

I've largely just been watching movies, reading books, thinking about things.

1:14.0

Started rereading a semiotext after the internet recently by Tiziana, Taranova. I am,

1:23.7

yeah, it feels important for these times.

1:29.4

That's what's been going out of my brain.

1:31.7

What is going on in your brain?

1:38.2

I also watched Happy Feet recently, not for the show, just to watch and enjoy Happy Feet.

1:44.6

And what an existentially trying children's film that is.

1:51.6

It's weird out there, as always, but just know that you're not alone and feeling like it's weird.

1:53.4

It's weird out there.

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