Culture Gabfest - Timothée Chalamet Rides the Worm
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, the panel returns to Arrakis! First up, the trio reviews Dune: Part Two, the (as the title suggests) second part of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction epic. In it, Timothée Chalamet plays Paul Atreides, the supposed “messiah” of Arrakis, a hostile desert planet rich in spice, in a fantastic feat of world building and worm-riding. Then, they examine God Save Texas, a three-part docu-series streaming on Max that follows three Texan filmmakers (Richard Linklakter, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa) as they return to their respective hometowns and chronicle the state’s complex history with the prison system, oil business, and border laws. Finally, the panel is joined by Paul Schnee, an acclaimed casting director whose credits include Spotlight, Winter’s Bone, and The Help, to discuss the Academy Awards’ most recent addition: an Oscar for Casting.
In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel answers a listener question from Eliot: What are some pieces of culture that your children have introduced to you?
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Outro music: “Last Sunday” by OTE
Endorsements:
Dana: Werner Herzog’s 2011 documentary, Into the Abyss. The film examines America’s capital punishment system.
Julia: The Lady and the Tramp, which is still great and bizarre, and somehow, makes the dogs… hot?
Steve: Australian novelist Helen Garner’s 2014 non-fiction book The House of Grief, which follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure.
Podcast production by Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong.
Hosts
Dana Stephens, Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm journalist Sam Sanders. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm poet Saeed Jones. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm producer Zach Stafford, and we are the host of a podcast called Vibe Check. |
| 0:11.3 | On Vibe Check, we talk about everything, news, culture and |
| 0:14.8 | entertainment and how it all feels. That's right we talk about any and everything |
| 0:19.3 | on our show from real life issues like grief to music and movie critiques and that barely |
| 0:24.2 | scratches the surface. Yes indeed and it doesn't stop there we have got a lot to say |
| 0:29.4 | so join our group chat come to life follow and to Vibe Check wherever you get your podcast. I'm Stephen McCaffin, this is the Slate Culture Gabfest, Timothy Shalame |
| 0:54.0 | rides the worm edition. It's Wednesday, March 6th, 2024. On today's show, |
| 1:00.0 | Dune 2 is the much delayed, much anticipated sequel to Dennis Villeneuve's adaptation of the |
| 1:05.8 | Sci-Fi Classic starring Timothy Shalame. |
| 1:09.4 | And then the filmmaker Richard Link later has given us so many movies Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Boyhead. |
| 1:15.0 | He's now produced a three-part documentary about his home state of Texas. |
| 1:19.0 | God Save Texas is on streaming, it's on Max max we avidly discuss with Dana our in-house |
| 1:26.5 | Texan I don't I wish I'd worn my Texas shaped belt buckle |
| 1:31.6 | You packing you pack in heat, in case something goes down here. |
| 1:35.9 | All right, anyway, and finally, there will be in 2025 an Oscar statue for casting here to discuss |
| 1:42.3 | what a strange and subtle art casting a |
| 1:45.4 | movie is is Paul Schnei he's the casting director for oh my gosh the movies I mean |
| 1:49.7 | really is an incredible list when you think of pitch perfect, spotlight, Winter's Bone, Dallas |
| 1:54.6 | buyers Club. I think what they have in common is they are beautifully cast movies anyway. |
| 1:58.9 | We're psyched to talk to him. But first, join me today is Julia Turner of the Annenberg Journalism School. |
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