by James Rocchi | Feb 6, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
This week on The Lunch Podcast, regular host James Rocchi is joined by Justin Simien, the writer-director of the Sundance 2014 breakout hit Dear White People, a campus comedy about race, class and representation in an America — and the rare satire that cares...
by James Rocchi | Jan 29, 2014 | Awards, Editor's Picks, Festivals, Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
William Goss (of Film.com, Empire Magazine’s U.S. iPad Edition and TheDissolve.com) joined The Lunch Podcast this week either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning to talk about the rest of the best of the fest, from Listen Up Philip to Cooties, Love is...
by James Rocchi | Jan 23, 2014 | Festivals, Interviews, Podcast, What's Hot
This week, The Lunch comes to you from Park City, Utah, and the Sundance Film Festival, where Esquire.com/Village Voice/Film Comment contributor David Fear (@davidlfear on twitter) joins regular host James Rocchi to discuss some of the standout films of the first half...
by James Rocchi | Jan 21, 2014 | Festivals, Interviews, Podcast, What's Hot
A year ago, Shane Carruth was debuting his mind-bending, heartbreaking Upstream Color at Sundance; in this episode of The Lunch, host James Rocchi and Carruth talk about filmmaking, self-doubt, subtlety vs. over-explanation, time-travel, mind-worms and silence …...
by James Rocchi | Jan 16, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast
Michael Rosenbaum joins The Lunch Podcast this week talking about the new film Back In The Day, which not only features him in the lead as part of a talented cast (including Morena Baccarin, Harland Williams, Isiah Mustafa and many more) but also marks his debut as a...
by James Rocchi | Jan 13, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast
James Ponsoldt, the director of The Spectacular Now, joins The Lunch Podcast this week, concurrent with the film’s release to DVD and Blu-Ray this Tuesday the 14th. After dining on Miracle Mile, Ponsoldt and I talked about everything — filming in his...
