Men in Black Director Barry Sonnenfeld is Full of Wild Hollywood Stories – And He Told Us All About Them
/Film Weekly
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On the October 1, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to talk about Hollywood filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld’s new book and present an interview with Barry Sonnenfeld.
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- Barry Sonnenfeld interview about Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily. |
| 0:01.8 | Today is Tuesday, October 1st, 2024. |
| 0:04.6 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about |
| 0:06.8 | Hollywood filmmaker Barry Sonnfeld's new book |
| 0:09.3 | and present an interview with Barry Sonnfeld. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Ben Pearson, I'm an editor at slash film. |
| 0:14.3 | And I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor Brad Omen. |
| 0:17.3 | Hey that's me. All right Brad tell me about this book. What is the name of this book |
| 0:22.1 | first of all? The name of this book. What is the name of this book, first of all? The name of this book is |
| 0:25.0 | best possible place, worst possible time, true stories from a career in |
| 0:30.3 | Hollywood. Sounds like a pretty innocuous title for a collection of memoirs from a director like |
| 0:36.8 | Barry Sonfeld who has done everything from the two live-action Adams family movies to the |
| 0:43.0 | first three men and black movies and get shorty and working as a director of photography |
| 0:48.0 | for the Cohen brothers and their early works like Blood Simple and Raising Arizona. |
| 0:52.0 | But the origin of the title once you have works like Blood Simple and Raising Arizona. |
| 0:52.8 | But the origin of the title, once you actually find out what it is, |
| 0:56.2 | which you will in my interview with Barry Salihifield, |
| 0:58.6 | because I wanted him to tell this anecdote to our listeners, |
| 1:01.9 | is hilarious, and it involves Tommy |
| 1:03.9 | Lee Jones on the set of men in black so you'll find out about that |
| 1:07.1 | once you hear our full interview. |
| 1:08.7 | Amazing. |
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