Hello and welcome to the Michael Clayton episode of Slate Money Goes to the movies.

I have to say I remembered not liking Michael Clayton when I first saw it but I'm getting ahead of

myself I'm Felix salmon of Axios I'm here with Anna Schimanski hello and we are

here with one of the world's biggest Michael Clayton stands Mr

Peter Kafka of Fox Media. Hello I will accept that title. Peter do you remember

the first time you saw Michael Clayton?

Was it in the theaters when it came out?

Yep, it was in the Cobble Hill theater off of Court Street,

and I was by myself and feeling a lot of anguish

about the world, that that movie just

tapped right into it. And you came out feeling even more anguish about the world.

More anguish and also remarking on what a very good New York movie is we can get into that later.

Oh yeah, it got me right away.

I love the idea of this is a New York movie.

So yeah, we're going to talk about Michael Clayton, the George Clooney vehicle from when did it come out?

2007.

2007 just before he became a completely silver fox.

And some sparkling dialogue, some great direction.

All of that coming up on slate money goes to the movies.

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