BONUS: Ari Aster & Robert Eggers Extended Conversation

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🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Bergman Mission Accomplished. Here's the extended version of last week’s Deep Cuts with Ari Aster & Robert Eggers.

ROB & ARI'S WATCH LIST (in order of appearance)

The Servant (1963) dir. Joseph Losey

The Sacrifice (1986) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Cries and Whispers (1972) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Autumn Sonata (1978) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

The Master (2012) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

The Virgin Spring (1960) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Shame (1968) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Fanny and Alexander (1982) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Scenes from a Marriage (1973) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Andrei Rublev (1973) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Through a Glass Darkly (1961) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Ivan’s Childhood (1963) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Hour of the Wolf (1968) dir. Ingmar Bergman

From the Life of the Marionettes (1981) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) dir. Peter Greenaway

The Snowman (1982) dir. Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami

Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch

A Clockwork Orange (1971) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson

Conan the Barbarian (1982) dir. John Milius

Legend (1986) dir. Ridley Scott

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) dir. Steven Spielberg

Nosferatu (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau

The Bostonians (1984) dir. James Ivory

Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Lost Highway (1997) dir. David Lynch

The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan

A Life in Suitcases (2005) dir. Peter Greenaway

The Falls (1980) dir. Peter Greenaway

Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman

The Silence (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Seventh Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa

Last Year at Marienbad (1963) dir. Alain Resnais

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, this is Robert Eggers. This is Ariaster. And yeah, we're doing the A24
0:08.7	podcast, which is cool. We're doing it together. Yeah, which feels appropriate given that we're both friends.
0:15.6	Totally and...
0:17.6	Who's seen to like each other's work and the same stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:21.8	Yeah. Speaking of which we have a goal, which is we're trying to orient this discussion around the work of
0:30.0	Ingmar Bergman. We probably won't succeed, but we're going to give it a shot.
0:35.0	Yeah, I thought you were joking when you first suggested it, but I'm excited to dive in.
0:40.0	I know that we're both devotees. can probably see it in our work feels appropriate yeah
0:45.4	we met a couple years ago I was doing like a it wasn't really a friends and family
0:51.9	screening of hereditary it was but it was like the because I well I think there are friends and family of A24, but I didn't know anybody there
0:59.1	Yeah, A24 asked me to go to a screening of something that I didn't know anything about,
1:02.6	except that it was a horror movie.
1:04.2	I think it was the first of those that we had done, and the room, you know, like did not
1:08.6	seem to love it.
1:10.8	And I remember going up in front of the going up in front of everyone who had just seen the film like very like stern faces that were like ready to cut me down to size and you and your wife, Ali, were sitting like near the front and you
1:27.0	gave me like two thumbs up and you had a very warm smile on your face and it's like I like held on to that as my lifeline as people in the room
1:38.8	proceeded to explain to me that you know, I was a bastard and I, you know, I made a worthless movie.
1:47.0	Yeah, well, you did not. I mean, I was totally blown away, especially because I had no expectations and it was fantastic.
1:56.1	And it was really, I mean, it was so smart and truly inspiring to me.
2:01.4	And I was really like the some of the craft of the
2:07.1	camera work I didn't even perceive because I was so impressed with the
2:11.8	breadcrumbs that you were laying with the with the screenplay and anyway it was a real joy and I had the great pleasure of seeing the or a finished version of Midsomar last night and it was great.
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