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The A24 Podcast

Shooting Stars with Rian Johnson & Claire Denis

The A24 Podcast

A24

Tv & Film

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include: shooting a prison movie in space, the dark romance of L.A., good bread, why Claire went crazy working for Wim Wenders, films that must be viewed in the dark, shooting with yellow light, the romanticization of film stock, Tarkovsky’s Stalker, and the alchemy of cinema.

Transcript

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Hey and

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A24 podcast,

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today we bring you a conversation between Ryan Johnson

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and High Life filmmaker Claire Deney.

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You probably know Ryan as the writer and director

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behind Brick, Looper, the best episode of Breaking Bad, and Star Wars The Last Jedi.

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After we released the High Life trailer earlier this year, we noticed a tweet from Ryan.

0:19.0

Claire Deney in space? No trailer required.

0:22.0

We've since learned that Ryan, the guy entrusted with the fate of the biggest

0:25.4

movie franchise in history, has seen every single Claire Deney movie, though he never met her before this conversation.

0:30.8

Ryan recently took a break from editing his new movie Knives Out to come on the

0:34.2

podcast and talk to the legend herself. We hope you enjoy it.

0:41.0

Hello, I'm Ryan Johnson, and I'm here with...

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Claire D'Nis.

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What do you think about that?

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It's great. It's a great meeting.

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So Los Angeles, what is your relationship to this town? How do you how do you find it? I know you're here in a

0:57.4

whirlwind very quick trip and mostly in hotel rooms probably but of course this time it's two days you know yeah it means

1:06.1

nothing I wish I could stay more because yeah after a first surprise my first my first trip here, I was surprised and I had to learn how to drive in LA.

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You were surprised?

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Yeah, what's surprised you about the city?

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It was so big.

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