Richard Shepard • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #46

Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein

Brett Goldstein

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With! Join your host Brett Goldstein as he and his guest go deep into the subject of mortality via cinema, and this week he is joined by all star writer and director (of, most recently, Netflix’s ‘The Perfection’), RICHARD SHEPARD! What a treat! A rare one right here, as Richard isn’t running around doling out his precious time to just anyone making film podcasts… Prepare to be regaled with some wonderful anecdotes and true insider gossip, all from a veteran who has served MANY years on set and behind the scenes. It comes as no surprise then that he is steeped in film knowledge and love, which shall become evident as he and Brett get into it all including his new film ‘The Perfection’ which is out now on Netflix, his writing of many pilots along the way and the mechanics of the pilot world, his crucial parts played in the development of Criminal Minds and Ugly Betty (to name a mere two), his involvement in Girls and collaborating closely with Lena Dunham, how Netflix will often do the publicity run after a film’s release and not before, his formative film education through his father who was a film buff but also need distractions, having real life physical effects on screen over CGI and a wealth of fun and scams working in a New York cinema. A brilliant one here, entertaining and engaging throughout - go peep The Perfection now! And Tokyo Project! LIGHTS OUT!!! EPISODE LINKS: • RICHARD SHEPARD on IMDB! • THE PERFECTION! • TOKYO PROJECT! • BRETT GOLDSTEIN on TWITTER! • BRETT on INSTAGRAM! • BRETT on PATREON! • 'SUPERBOB' - Brett's 2015 feature film! • 'CORNERBOYS' with BRETT & SCROOBIUS PIP! • DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK • DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/filmstobeburiedwith. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.2	Look out. It's only films to be buried with.
0:19.2	Hello and welcome to films to to Be Buried with.
0:22.2	My name is Brett Goldstein.
0:23.4	I am a comedian, an actor, a writer, a director, a self-checkout attendant, and I love films.
0:28.9	As Werner Heisenberg once said, there are things that are so serious you can only joke about them,
0:34.7	such as the entire premise of the film The Happening.
1:11.1	Every week I invite a special guest over, I tell them they'd died, then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include Jamila Jamil, Ricky Javase, and Mark Kermode, but this week, my special guest is Girls and the Perfection director, Richard Shepard. I'm in LA at the moment. You can keep up to date with all of my live shows and stand-up gigs by following me on Twitter at Brett Goldstein and on Instagram at Mr. Brett Goldstein. If you do enjoy the podcast and you want to support it and get more content, come and join me over at patreon.com forward slash Brett Goldstein, where you'll get extra guest questions for most episodes. you get videos you'll get guest list tickets recommendations all sorts of stuff there's a right old community
1:15.9	forming over there come and join us this week there are 10 minutes of extra chat about all kinds of
1:20.6	things and there's a video and you'll love it and remember best of all if you do become a
1:25.0	patreon member not only do you get all this extra good stuff you don't have to hear me talking about becoming a Patreon member. You get the whole
1:31.6	episode unencumbered by ads and me banging on about you becoming a fucking Patreon member.
1:37.5	So give it a look over at patreon.com forward slash Brett Goldstein. So here we go. Richard
1:43.3	Shepard is a proper New York filmmaker and my first
1:48.8	proper New York filmmaker guest I've had on the show. I worked with him a couple of years ago on a
1:53.8	pilot for HBO and I think he is absolutely brilliant. And it became very clear when we met that he is a
2:00.4	full-on, proper, proper,
2:02.5	hardcore film buff, a man who has dedicated his life to watching films, celebrating films,
2:08.0	and making films. And for that, I salute him. He's responsible for some of my favourite
2:12.9	episodes of girls, the ones where you're like, oh my God, that's like a mini masterpiece,
2:16.6	like a mini movie and one. He directed all those ones. And he's also directed the film The Perfection,
2:21.7	which is currently available on Netflix, and is sending the internet insane. One other thing
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