Episode 45: Film Finds- June 2025 with Cole Echevarria

On the forty- fifth episode of All the Film Things, my friend Emmy- award winning photojournalist Cole Echevarria is back for the third “wide- released” edition of our segment, Film Finds! The “Film Finds” segment is ATFT in its most casual, spontaneous form as we talk about the films we’ve recently watched with nearly nothing prepared. The last time we did a “Film Finds” episode was exactly a year ago (give Episode 23 a listen) and the first “wide- released” Film Finds episode was Episode 3 (so check that one too while you’re at it)! Like previous Film Finds episodes, I mostly talked about older films I discovered and Cole, the frequent theater- goer, mostly focuses on newly released films he has seen so far this year.This is Cole’s record- breaking 19th appearance on ATFT! He is far and away the most frequent guest on the show and has proven to be a fan- favorite. Not only is Cole one of the biggest champions of ATFT, he makes this podcast fun and brings out a less- serious version of myself. He won an Emmy last year for his work on the news package “Waiting for Rebuild” for First Coast News. As always, we do banter a bit but it is a little more sporadic this time around. This episode was recorded on June 10, 2025. In this episode, Cole and I discuss the films we have recently discovered as well as films we’ve recently rewatched. Cole talks about important characters in Wes Anderson films as well as his new film The Phoenician Scheme (2025). This discussion leads us to debate whether or not Wes Anderson is an auteur and then to me once again raving about Pedro Almodóvar who was helmed as cinema’s “greatest auteur”. I talked about my recent viewing of Mr. Klein (1976) which left me rattled as well as recent rewatches of Tokyo Story (1953) and Revolutionary Road (2008). Cole later reveals his surprising new hobby and how that ties into the comfort film he dreams to remake one day. All this and more on the new episode of ATFT!Background music created and used with permission by the Copyright Free Music - Background Music for Videos channel on YouTube.