It’s ‘Saturday Night’! Plus: The Top Five Backstage Movies and ‘Piece by Piece.’

The Big Picture

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Sean is joined by Chris Ryan to break down ‘Saturday Night,’ Jason Reitman’s quasi-historical exploration of the beginnings of 'Saturday Night Live' (10:00). They discuss the disbelief that needs to be suspended, as well as the more or less knockout cast, before launching into their top five “backstage” movies and discussion of why it’s so interesting to pull back the curtain in cinema (44:00). Then, Sean is joined by New York Times pop critic and ‘Popcast’ host Jon Caramanica to review ‘Piece by Piece,’ the Pharrell Williams biopic told through Lego animation (1:07:00). They discuss the format, the content, the interviews, and how effectively it does or doesn’t capture the totemic career of Williams and his lasting impact on pop music. Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Chris Ryan and Jon Caramanica Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Video Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, it's not that confusing. I'm Rob Harvilla, hosted the podcast 60 songs that explain the 90s,
0:06.7	except we did 120 songs. And now we're back with the 2000s. I refuse to say aughtughts 2000 to 2009. The strokes,
0:15.0	Riana, Jalo, cogniz, sure. And now the show is called 60 songs that
0:20.0	explain the 90s, colon the 2000s. Wow Wow that's too long a title for me to say anything else
0:25.8	right now just trust me that 60 songs that explain the 90s colon the 2000s
0:31.5	preferably on Spotify. Live from New York. I'm Sean Fennese and this is the big picture. Today on the show
0:46.5	we'll be breaking down two fascinating new releases about two of my favorite pop culture
0:52.4	fascinations and I'll be doing so with two of my oldest
0:56.2	friends in the world.
0:57.6	What a time to be alive.
0:58.7	Is Francisco Lindor one of them?
1:00.7	He won't be here but he's always in my heart.
1:02.8	First, Chris, an exciting announcement to share.
1:05.4	The big picture is teaming up with DreamWorks animation
1:08.4	for a special screening of their breathtaking new film,
1:11.2	The Wild Robot, followed by a conversation between me
1:14.2	and writer director Chris Sanders
1:15.6	is happening on Sunday, October 20th
1:18.5	at my beloved videos in Los Angeles.
1:20.5	It's a 1 PM screening followed by the conversation with Chris and a
1:24.1	reception afterwards. If you're in LA and you want to join us for the event a
1:28.2	very limited number of seats are available at bit dot Lee slash big pick 1020.
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