Fitzcarraldo
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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They say one man's dream is another man's nightmare, but what if your nightmare is the leading man of your dream? Join Chris and special guests Casey O'Brien and Mille De Chirico of "Dear Movies, I Love You" as they head down river with Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo", a Sisyphean endeavor to bring a Sisyphean endeavor to the silver screen.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
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| 0:35.3 | Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to what went wrong, your favorite podcast, |
| 0:37.9 | full stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a Sisyphian |
| 0:42.8 | journey into the heart of the Amazon captured by way of a Sisyphian journey into the heart of |
| 0:47.5 | the Amazon. As always, I am Chris Winterbauer. My partner in crime, Lizzie Bassett, is on vacation |
| 0:52.8 | this week, so we are joined by a |
| 0:54.5 | couple of wonderful guests. Millie DeCherico is a film programmer, writer and historian, her book, |
| 1:00.8 | TCM Underground, 50 must-see films from the world of classic cult and late-night cinema is out now |
| 1:06.1 | from running press, and Casey O'Brien is a filmmaker and producer. Millie and Casey together are co-hosts of the Dear Movies I Love You podcast, which you should |
| 1:14.9 | absolutely go listen to right now. |
| 1:16.8 | Stop this podcast if you have not listened to theirs yet. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome both of you to What Went Wrong. |
| 1:22.9 | Hi. |
| 1:23.5 | Hi. |
| 1:24.0 | Thank you for having us. |
| 1:25.5 | We are thrilled. |
| 1:26.5 | We had the opportunity to join you guys on your podcast, and we had to return the favor. |
| 1:31.6 | And you two actually selected today's movie. So what made you choose, Venet-Zoggs, Fitzcaraldo? |
| 1:41.0 | I mean, Casey, I don't know, thoughts? |
| 1:45.2 | Millie, I feel like we were just trying to come up with, like, I don't know, |
| 1:49.3 | we were kind of going more on like the art house end of movies that something potentially could have gone wrong. |
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