A PODCAST WHERE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MOVIES, JOURNALISM, POLITICS AND HISTORY MEET. EACH SHOW WE USE THE SEMINAL AND INCREASINGLY PRESCIENT 1976 FILM ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN AS A PORTAL, TO ENGAGE WITH THE THEMES AND THE WARNINGS OF THE FILM RESONATING SINCE ITS RELEASE.
The series includes:
All The President's Minutes - minute 123 with caroline goodall
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 123, I join actor and filmmaker best known for roles in film such including Schindler's List (1993), Hook (1991), Cliffhanger (1993), Disclosure (1994), White Squall (1996) and The Princess Diaries (2001), Caroline Goodall. Caroline and I discuss the scary similarities in rhetoric between Ziegler and everyone working for Trump, Caroline's impressions of what direction Pakula would have provided to the cast in this devastating moment and embarking on a new challenge as a writer and producer with the thriller The Bay of Silence.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 122 with Vashi Nedomansky
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 122, I join incredible editor and editorial consultant with credits that include Gone Girl and Deadpool, Vashi Nedomansky. Vashi and I discuss the murderer's row of actors in sixty seconds, playing this movie in his edit suite on a loop and Redford calling this movie a "howdunnit about a whodunnit."
All The President's Minutes - Minute 121 with Jedidiah Ayres
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 121, I join the author of Peckerwood, Fierce Bitches and cinephile curator of crime blog Hardboiled Wonderland, Jedidiah Ayres. Jed and I discuss that this minute is waiting for someone to blink that encapsulates the feeling of the post-election voter fraud propaganda and Jed's theory that Pakula made slasher movies with recording devices as the weapons.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 120 with Liam Billingham
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 120, I join Emmy nominated media maker and podcaster Liam Billingham. Liam and I discuss it being 155 years since he last appeared on the show, such tension in Bradlee walking across the newsroom and just how magnetic Dustin Hoffman is counting to ten.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 119 with Glen Falkenstein
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 119, I join producer, critic, podcaster and an essential ingredient in the Sydney film community, Glen Falkenstein. Glen and I discuss living in Washington and seeing the old sights in President's, the West Wing energy of the scene in question and many digressions about our shared love the 'beacon' of Sneakers.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 118 with Cory Everett
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 118, I join art director, writer and the creator of Cinephile: A Card Game, Cory Everett. Cory and I discuss the burden of curating cinema canon, the bold formal choices being made in President's, and being so taken with the unashamedly romantic casting of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as 'WOODSTEIN'.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 117 with Dario Llinares
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 117, I join academic, podcaster and friend of the show back for one last dance, Dario Llinares. Dario and I discuss that in 2020 "truth is a negotiation," that ratfucking has gone digital and finally his changing opinions of one 'slippery' Hugh Sloan.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 116 with Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 116, I join Australia's mystery podcast "Woodstein" behind Finding Drago and sequel series Finding Desperado - Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James. Alexei, Cam and I discuss pushing the envelope to get people on the record, inspirations and evolution in their latest Finding Desperado series and we get a vitally important update on the status of Cam's corduroy purchase.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 115 with Damon Houx
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 115, I join semi-retired writer on the internet (formerly of Chud.com, ScreenCrave) and formidable film mind, Damon Houx. Damon and I discuss Woodstein's bluff game, the assumption of the audiences knowledge and strategising an elaborate game of tiddlywinks for information.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 114 with Trav Akbar
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 114, I join freelance culture writer and screenwriter Trav Akbar. Trav and I discuss his first experience of Nixon is watching "Point Break" and the subtle genius of following WOODSTEIN through every setback and breakthrough and treating those two imposters the same.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 113 with Maria Lewis
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 113, I re-join author, screenwriter, journalist and podcaster, Maria Lewis. Maria and I talk about this scene's connection with Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Bradlee's shit-eating grin and Maria singing that she doesn't want to spill too much tea and "get defamed for things that are actually true."
All The President's Minutes - Minute 112 with Inkoo Kang
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 112, I join TV Critic at The Hollywood Reporter and host of the All About Almodóvar Podcast, Inkoo Kang. Inkoo and I discuss her not enjoying the movie, viewing these quaint events through the vantage of 2020 and struggling to follow Woodward and Bernstein finding constellations in the random dots of evidence.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 111 with Oscar Hillerstrom
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 111, I join former Popcorn Taxi host, co-founder of Empire Magazine Australia, a former presenter on the Sci-Fi Channel and one of the sharpest minds in the Australian film community, Oscar Hillerstrom. Oscar and I talk about the power and influence of Goldman's script, Robert Redford delivering "Redford" moments before Oscar regales me with tales of Werner Herzog calling Jason Robards a "physical coward".
All The President's Minutes - Minute 110 with Tom Clift
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 110, I join production editor at Crikey News, former editor and writer for Junkee and Concrete Playground and co-founder of Movie Mezzanine, Tom Clift. Tom and I discuss the series as a time capsule for 2020, the similarities between President's and Heat, Tom's new appreciation for the 'work' of journalism presented in the movie and finally the potential tone of the final episodes of the series depending on results of the U.S election.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 109 with Joshua Rothkopf
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 109, I welcome back President's super-fan, incredibly insightful film critic with bylines The New York Times, London's The Observer, Sight & Sound and former editor of Time Out New York, Joshua Rothkopf. In this joyful chat, Joshua and I discuss the heightened paranoia of the scene, the formal kinship to the work of Giallo and Argento, the fog in the plaza lifting revealing the vessels of our paranoia and so much more.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 108 with Nell Minow
All the President'sPresident's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 108, I welcome back friend of the show - a movie and corporate critic and editor at Ebert Voices, Nell Minow. Nell and I talk about the Mark Twain-ism that "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes, talking to Aaron Sorkin about being on a "collision course with history" and the definitional corruption of the Nixon administration.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 107 with Garth Franklin
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 107, I talk to internet movie news trailblazer, my legendary friend behind Dark Horizons, Garth Franklin. Garth and I talk about things one can get up to in an underground garage, Deep Throat in The X-Files or JFK or The Simpsons and how effectively a sharp inhalation of a cigarette emphasises a point.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 106 with Fran Hoepfner
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 106, I talk to writer, teacher, editor-at-large at Bright Wall/Dark Room, the wonderful Fran Hoepfner. Fran and I discuss journalists as conmen, her experience working for The Onion, taking Hal Holbrook's lead with inflammatory movie takes and having fun talking about the fall of Richard Nixon.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 105 with Matt Zoller Seitz
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 105, I talk to the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, Matt Zoller Seitz. Matt and I talk about Mark Felt, the reality of this movie becoming fantasy, The Simpsons movie references educating a generation of movie lovers and so much more.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 104 with Doug Jamieson
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 104, I talk to Australian freelance film critic and entertainment industry journalist, Doug Jamieson. Doug and I talk his obsession with American Presidents, reframing Nixon through the lens of 2020 and how Australia lost a Prime Minister that one time.