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The Filmcast

Ep. 467 - The Rider (GUEST: Amy Nicholson from Unspooled)

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The Filmcast

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4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Amy Nicholson discuss Chloé Zhao's remarkable new film, "The Rider." In the After Dark, Devindra and David discuss HBO's "Barry" and reflect on 10 years of the /Filmcast. Be sure to check out Amy Nicholson's piece on The Rider, and listen to her new podcast with Paul Scheer.

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Featured Review
The Rider

After Dark
HBO's Barry
Surface Hub 2 (trailer)
4K Blu-Rays
10 years of the /Filmcast

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast, the official podcast of Slashfilm.com.

0:25.0

I'm David Chenin with me is DaVenter Hardware and joining us today you've seen her film writing at the Guardian, Variety and Vulture.

0:33.4

She's also the host of the Canon as well as a new podcast with Paul Sheer unspooled Amy Nicholson.

0:40.6

Welcome back to the Slash Filmcast. Amy how are you doing today?

0:43.8

Hi guys, it's awesome to be back on with you.

0:47.0

It's great to have you back.

0:48.4

Always a pleasure to have you on the show and you are launching a new podcast with another wildly successful

0:55.8

podcast or Paul Sheer.

0:57.3

So tell us about unspooled this new show you're doing.

1:00.2

Oh my God, I'm really looking forward to it.

1:02.4

The whole premise, you know, Paul Sheer does how to this get made where he specializes in the worst movies ever.

1:09.0

And I did a show called the Canon where I try to suggest like,

1:12.2

liminal films like, let's have a debate.

1:14.0

Does this film deserve to be in the Canada of all time classics?

1:16.6

But we're doing like, these are the ones that are just written down in stone.

1:19.7

We're doing the AFI top 100.

1:21.9

We started one in our first episodes as in Kane and then we jumped to 100.

1:25.5

We jumped to Benher and then I wound up buying us like a hundred-sided die,

1:29.9

which is going to start making all the decisions for us pretty soon.

1:33.5

Because fuck it.

1:34.4

Let's I like some randomness in this world.

1:37.0

Well, that is super cool.

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