On this week’s episode of our podcast, Dennis Lim dissects the brilliance of David Lynch, and Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes discusses his debut film, Son of Saul, which opens in select theaters this weekend. Subscribe to The Close-Up on iTunes to hear more fascinating conversations like this one and, if you like what you hear, leave us a review!
Our Director of Programming Dennis Lim recently released a new book, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, which examines the life and work of the iconic director, asking the ultimate question, what really is “Lynchian?” To celebrate its publication, Lim recently joined Village Voice film critic Melissa Anderson to talk about the book, which filmmaker Guy Maddin calls “the last word on Lynch.” An excerpt of this fascinating conversation makes up the first part of today’s episode.
Our unique, all-35mm Lynch/Rivette series continues through December 22, pairing some of David Lynch’s best-known work with films by the celebrated French auteur Jacques Rivette.
After that you’ll hear László Nemes discussing his Cannes prize-winning film, Son of Saul, which follows a Hungarian-Jewish Sonderkommando in Auschwitz who takes extreme risks to give a young boy’s body a proper burial. After its premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival, Nemes and actor Géza Röhrig joined Nicolas Rapold of Film Comment magazine to talk about Son of Saul. Both conversations were part of our ongoing Free Talks series, which are sponsored by HBO.
