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From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business. With the papal conclave underway, we look back at the

movie Conclave with director Edward Berger. That was the second film he's had an Oscar

contention, his Netflix movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, won seven BAFTAs and four

Academy Awards, including Best International Feature.

That's a pretty good outcome for an NYU Film School grad who got his start years ago,

simply by approaching a production company that had made a lot of movies he liked.

I opened a phone book, and I looked 26th Street, Chelsea.

Great. I'm going to rollerblade over there, And I knocked on the door. And this guy called

Anthony Bregman, who I'm making a movie with now, 25 years later, opened the door. I said,

Who are you? And I said, I'm Eddie. I was wondering if you have a job. And he said,

oh, yeah, come on in. Edward Berger talks about his internship at the indie production company

Good Machine and foreshadowing

the latest episode of the Apple series The Studio, he sings the praises of Netflix. He says the

streamer was the only financier that would pay for a grim German language film like All Quiet

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