Kajillionaire with Director Miranda July and Greta Gerwig (Ep. 284)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Director Miranda July discusses her new film, Kajillionaire, with fellow director Greta Gerwg in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film follows two con artists who have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining their next scam, only to have their entire world turned upside down.

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0:00.0	There's this phrase now we've had for years that I started, which is build the, build the brain.
0:05.5	Like the process of editing is that you don't start out with a brain that is smart enough, that knows the movie well enough.
0:14.3	And you will build the brain by trying and failing again and again, all these different variations.
0:18.9	Until at the very end, you're very smart
0:21.7	about your movie.
0:25.3	Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:30.8	Today's episode takes us behind the scenes of director Miranda July's new crime drama, Cagillionaire.
0:36.4	The film follows two con artists who have spent
0:38.8	26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During
0:45.1	a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining their next scam, only
0:50.4	to have their entire world turned upside down. In addition to Cagillionaire,
0:55.0	Ms. July's directorial credits include the future films, The Future,
0:59.0	and Me and You and Everyone We Know.
1:02.0	Ms. July spoke with director Greta Gerwig
1:05.0	about filming Cagillionaire in front of a virtual audience.
1:08.0	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation. I mean, I wish we could do this
1:14.1	live. I wish we could be doing this together because it is, I think it's always when I've done
1:21.4	stuff with the DGA. So it is so special to be able to talk to someone, talk to the director right after the audience
1:31.7	has seen the movie and then everybody's there together.
1:34.2	It's like a very, I don't know, I love it.
1:36.5	And I love the DGA theater in L.A.
1:38.3	And I love the DGA theater in New York.
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