Episode 19 - Ira Sachs
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ira Sachs is the acclaimed director of films like 'Love is Strange' and 'Keep the Lights On'. Now he's back with the beautiful film, 'Little Men', inspired in part by his own youth. Ira sat down with Sam to talk about 'Little Men', his own upbringing in the South, coming out to his parents as a teenager, navigating a career on the indie film scene, and the difficulty of crossing different social streams. Music for the show by Vanilla @vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi http://krishnabalashenoi.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, this is Sam. |
| 0:10.0 | If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy, then I'd recommend checking |
| 0:14.8 | out the podcast Missing Pages. Hosted by acclaimed literary critic and author Beth Ann Patrick, |
| 0:21.5 | Missing Pages investigates the biggest hot button topics in the book world today |
| 0:26.4 | with the help of special guests like New York Times Best-Selling author Jody Pekle |
| 0:31.3 | and publisher weeklies Jim Miliet. |
| 0:33.8 | Produced by the people at the Podglamaret, |
| 0:36.1 | Missing Pages explores everything from the insta frame of Colleen Hoover |
| 0:40.3 | to the rise of book bands across America to the lucrative culture of non-fiction ghost writing. |
| 0:46.0 | As both the Washington Post and the Guardian praise, |
| 0:49.0 | missing pages is a must listen. |
| 0:52.0 | So if you'd like to check it out, you can follow missing pages on |
| 0:55.0 | Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. Oh, Hi, welcome to Talk Easy, a weekly podcast of intimate interviews with people shaping our culture today. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm San Fragoso. Thank you for tuning in. |
| 1:28.0 | This week on the show we have the talented director Iris Sachs. |
| 1:31.0 | Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Sax came to prominence upon the release of Love is Strange, a moving |
| 1:37.4 | drama about two men, played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow, who get hitched only to then be separated because of housing. |
| 1:45.1 | One character gets fired from their teaching job, forcing them to stay with friends as they |
| 1:49.2 | look for affordable housing in New York City. |
| 1:51.8 | This is exactly the type of narrative Sacks likes spin. |
| 1:55.3 | From the Delta, his first film, to keep the lights on, he helms humanist affairs that are at once |
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