Hello and welcome to the big city episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies, where we watch a movie with someone fabulous and i am felix

emily peck of axios hello and we do have one of the most fabulous guests of all time to talk about

what i'm just going to come out and say is one of the most fabulous movies that we are going to watch

in the entire season, if not all of the seasons. Shazna and Nessa, welcome to the show.

Hi.

Tell me about your amazing situation, Wall Street Journal.

Yeah. So I work at the Wall Street Journal and I'm the global head of visuals, so I oversee all

of our visual storytelling. I remember you talking to you a while, probably like a year ago now, and we were talking about

this season of episodes, and you said something about some obscure black and white movie

from the 1960s, and I was like, yeah, okay. And I should never not trust you because

this is an amazing movie. Yeah, it was during that point in the pandemic where I was, I just

wanted to see films that were not set in the place I lived. I wanted to be in other countries.

And Satya Jit Ray is an incredible filmmaker and this was all

set in Calcutta. In the 60s, I believe it came out, but it was depicting the 1950s. So it was just

such a great film. I had to tell you about it and it had all these angles to it that were about contemporary

or modern city life, modern capitalism, this dichotomy between people who grew up in villages,

who moved into the city, you know, the lives of women, female emancipation, et cetera, et cetera.

There's so many good themes. And Felix, something I know you love, which is a bank run.

And there were a bank run.

There were a few bank runs in this.

Bank runs were definitely a thing in Calcutta in the late 50s, which is a super fascinating time.

And I really want to talk to you about it.

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