Truth, Fiction, and a Hollywood Heist Movie, With Bart Layton | The Big Picture (Ep. 68)

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.2 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey chats with writer-director Bart Layton about his path from unconventional documentaries to his ambitious new docufiction heist movie, ‘American Animals.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.9	We walk around with these devices and we're kind of broadcasting our thoughts and photos
0:48.3	and all that stuff constantly.
0:50.2	And your value in the world is linked to how many people like your stuff.
0:56.3	So there is this increasing pressure to be noteworthy.
1:01.0	And I think a lot of that was what was driving this crime.
1:10.2	I'm Sean Fantasy, Editor and Chief of the Ringer, and this is The Big Picture, a conversation
1:14.2	show with some of the most interesting filmmakers in the world.
1:17.2	It's a hell of a time to be parsing fact-infiction at the Ringer.
1:20.0	Today's guest is a master at it.
1:21.8	Bart Layden is the writer-director of American Animals, another installment in her ongoing
1:25.8	fascination with True Crime.
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