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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Nicole Holofcener & Lodge 49

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're thrilled to welcome Nicole Holofcener back on the show - probably one of the most underrated filmmakers around. Her movies are quiet, sort of understated. The protagonists are complex, flawed people, usually women. She's worked with some great actors, too. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini in "Enough Said." Frances McDormand in "Friends with Money." Catherine Keener in just about everything she's made. Her latest film was just released on Netflix. It's called "The Land of Steady Habits." And for the first time, her movie centers on a man. We'll talk about that, plus her childhood growing up among Hollywood filmmaking royalty. Then, have you heard of this show, Lodge 49? It's kind of a comedy / drama set in Long Beach, California. It's kind of hard to say what it's about, but some of the themes include: secret orders (like the Masons), quarter life crises and the stagnating aerospace economy in Long Beach, California. It's funny, weird and disarmingly honest, which is why it's been a hit here at MaxFun HQ. Jesse talks with Jim Gavin, the creator, and Peter Ocko, the showrunner.

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0:00.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

0:12.5

I'm Jesse Thorn.

0:14.1

Nicole Holliff's center is a writer and a director.

0:17.0

She has made some truly brilliant films.

0:19.4

She also comes from a show business family.

0:22.6

Her mom was an Academy Award-winning set decorator.

0:25.9

Her stepfather was a producer for some of Woody Allen's biggest films.

0:30.5

She'd get to meet all these great movie stars and celebrities.

0:33.9

Sometimes even go on set too.

0:35.7

So it's an obvious question.

0:37.8

All that time around film makers, that's what inspired her, right?

0:41.5

Um, no.

0:42.5

On the film sets that I was on as a little kid and then later as a production assistant,

0:48.1

I was nowhere near the director or the action.

0:52.3

And I didn't know what was going on.

0:53.8

You know, I'd see some of the director whisper into an actor's ear and I couldn't imagine

0:58.6

what brilliant advice he was giving her.

1:02.3

Haha.

1:03.3

Now I know.

1:04.3

It's like sit to the left.

1:06.0

It's Bullseye.

1:08.0

Coming up, one of my favorite film makers, Nicole Holliff's center.

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