Ep. 239: Interview With ‘20th Century Women’ Director Mike Mills

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🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey sits down with the artist and director Mike Mills, who opens up about his latest film, ‘20th Century Women,’ and what it's like directing a movie largely inspired by his mother (1:37), his decision to set the movie in the ’70s (14:25), and choosing the best songs from his childhood to score the film (31:42). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hello and welcome to a channel 33 Podcasts about the movies.
0:37.2	My name is Sean Fennese.
0:38.2	I am the editor-in-chief of TheRinger.com and I'm quite lucky to be joined today by the
0:42.7	writer and director Mike Mills as a new movie out called 20th Century Women.
0:47.6	I'm the editor-in-theaters January 20th.
0:49.6	Mike, thanks for sitting with me.
0:50.6	How are you today?
0:51.6	Good, good.
0:52.6	Glad to be here.
0:54.6	So, this is a great film, an interesting film.
0:57.8	Slightly difficult to describe.
0:58.8	Do you have you figured out your log line perfectly?
1:01.6	No.
1:02.6	I mean, the easiest way to do it is, you know, there's a sudden 1979 and there's a middle-aged
1:09.3	mother of a 15-year-old kid and she recruits these two sort of unlikely women to help her
1:14.3	raise them and it's sort of the story of a boy being raised pretty much solely by a
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