This Odd Situation with Mike Mills & David Byrne

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include: the world of childhood, collaborators as playmates, blasting Remain in Light on loop, Mike’s innate desire to give everyone a hug, being allergic to bullshit, the Wim Wenders Easter eggs in C’mon C’mon, black and white movies as their own species, bingeing Hitchcock movies during the pandemic, David being a little dictator on the set of Stop Making Sense, putting ‘fringe’ into a different context, the pretentiousness of thinking that being a graphic designer would be radical, and finding new ways to enchant yourself, again and again.

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0:00.0	Hey, and welcome back to the A24 podcast.
0:05.7	Filmmaker Mike Mills has made no secret of his love for the talking heads, and a conversation
0:10.1	between Mike and David Byrne has been at the top of our podcast bucket list since 20th
0:14.3	century women.
0:15.3	We finally got them together last month, the morning after the New York Film Festival
0:19.3	premiere of Mike's newest film, Come On, Come On.
0:22.9	We hope you enjoyed the episode.
0:24.8	You can see Come On, Come On in theaters nationwide this weekend, and we can't recommend
0:28.5	it enough.
0:30.1	Hi, this is Mike Mills, and I'm super honored to be here with David Byrne, friend of Mike's,
0:38.4	and I'm thrilled to be here on a New York morning, and we're doing an A24 podcast.
0:46.4	I have lots of questions.
0:47.4	Can I ask you a question?
0:48.4	Oh, that'd be awesome.
0:49.4	Okay.
0:50.4	Has Hopper seen this film?
0:52.4	That's a question.
0:53.4	Yeah, that's a question.
0:54.5	Hopper has seen parts of the edit, so I edited it all through the pandemic, right?
1:00.6	Right.
1:01.6	And alone in my office are ever casting remotely, and in the morning I would do Zoom School
1:07.0	with Hopper.
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