Because We Love Making Movies
by W!ZARD Studios
Eren Celeboglu welcomes Directors, Actors, Production & Costume Designers, Cinematographers, Editors, Producers and many other members of the filmmaking community to sit down and have incredibly revealing conversations. Not only does Eren illuminate many of the invisible artists behind the scenes, but his passion for filmmaking and cinema inspires his guests to open up about their craft and lives in ways that will surprise and captivate listeners.
Episodes
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Zach Kuperstein
For the final episode of Season 2, I talk to ZACH KUPERSTEIN. He’s a brilliant cinematographer who helped create the instant horror classic, BARBARIAN (which I spoke to Zach and the writer/director of Barbarian in episode 1 of this season). But long before BARBARIAN, Zach had already created an...
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Monika Gossman
Today, I speak with Monika Gossman. An incredible actor who I first became of aware of after seeing her wonderful performance in David Fincher’s MANK. We discuss her collaboration with Fincher, as well as her incredible work alongside Gary Oldman. We talk about how actors are storytellers and...
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Lynda Armstrong
Today, I talk to LYNDA ARMTRONG. She’s a Hair & Makeup Artist & Designer. Her credits range from the original BATMAN & LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS — to the more modern classics like STRANGER THINGS & ATLANTA. Most recently, she worked with Actress Joey King and a very talented cast of actors and...
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Fred Fuchs
Today, I sit down with a film producer who has helped make some truly legendary films with a legendary filmmaker. Fred Fuchs worked with Francis Ford Coppola on films like THE GODFATHER 3, BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA…as well as Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. Somebody once said,...
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Adam McDaid & Joshua Petersen
Today, I’m talking with cinematographer Adam McDaid, and production designer Joshua Petersen. Together these two helped create the world of the new Freeform 1/2 hour comedy, EVERYTHING’S TRASH created by Phoebe Robinson. Most people don’t realize, these artists are the right and left hand of a...
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Ben Lovett & David Marks
Today we’ve got not one, but two guests: Composer Ben Lovett & Film Editor David Marks. They were part of the team that brought us the fantastic new horror film, THE NIGHT HOUSE. It stars Rebecca Hall in an unforgettable performance reminiscent of Julie Christie in DON’T LOOK NOW. Movies are…
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Meghan Kasperlik
Today I talk with Meghan Kasperlik. She’s a Costume Designer whose worked in film in TV but she is best known for her work on the Home Box Office Channel, better known as HBO. She designed the dystopian nightmare of FAHERNHEIT 451 (for which she received her first Emmy Nomination). Damon...
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Ellen Arden
Today I’m talking to Ellen Arden. She’s a makeup artist who helped create the completely original world of Marvel’s WEREWOLF BY NIGHT. Just when we think we’ve seen it all — a movie comes along that takes an old form and re-shapes it in such a different way that it’s suddenly thrilling/really...
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Benjamin Tucker
My guest today is a special one. He’s absolutely one of the most unsung heroes in the world of films and filmmaking, and particularly in this age when movies being shot and projected on film is a rarity. Benjamin Tucker is a film projectionist. But he also happens to be the Chief Projectionist at...
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Michael Sarnoski & Brett Bachman
Today we have two very special guests. Michael Sarnoski, a writer/Director whose debut film is none other than PIG — starring Nicolas Cage playing a culinary Buddha in a beautifully restrained performance alongside a frenetically ambitious Alex Wolff—it’s co-written by Vanessa Block and I think...
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Suzana Peric
Today I talk with legendary Music Editor, Suzana Peric. She’s worked on some of my favorite films with some of my favorite directors and composers! She talks about her amazing life, and how she found her way into the arts. We talk about her lifelong relationship with the incomparable Jonathan...
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Malgosia Turzanska
Very excited about today’s episode, because it’s with one of the most talented and inventive Costume Designers working today: Malgosia Turzanska She helped re-imagine the world of Arthurian legend with her incredible work on David Lowery’s THE GREEN KNIGHT (which is what we mostly discuss). She...
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Charlese Antoinette Jones
This episode is truly special, because I was lucky enough to speak to one of the industry’s up and coming stars, Charlese Antoinette Jones. If there is a new wave of talent helping to re-shape films and filmmaking, Charlese is at its peak. She designed one of my very favorite films…the...
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Wayne Pashley
Today, I’m sitting down with Wayne Pashley, the Oscar-Nominated Sound Editor & Sound Designer best known for Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS. We talk about the immense technical undertaking of re-creating Elvis’s iconic music and voice, and why this ELVIS wasn’t a biopic, but an opera. He’s had a legendary...
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Liz Toonkel
Today we’re talking to Liz Toonkel. She’s a production designer who helped create what I think is an truly profound film…it’s A24’s Marcell the Shell with Shoes On. When I saw this film, my heart exploded. We discuss this incredible handmade film, and all the artists behind it. So if you’re a fan...
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NOPE
New Podcast Episode! There are a few filmmakers for me, when they make a new movie, it’s an event. Spielberg…Scorsese…Tarantino…PTA...Guillermo Del Toro...And now Jordan Peele. He’s made three films and each one of them are beautiful personal mystery boxes. His latest film NOPE might be my…
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Barbarian
Today we’re talking to two very exciting filmmakers — the writer/director(Zach Cregger) & the cinematographer(Zach Kuperstein) of the wildly inventive horror film, BARBARIAN. I grew up on horror movies, it’s the reason I wanted to make movies…movies like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Evil Dead...
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Brett Bachman
Today we welcome back one of my favorite guests, Film Editor BRETT BACHMAN. Last time he was on we spoke about his entire career including MANDY & PIG! But today is a special Halloween episode, and I wanted to do a deep dive into a film he edited…called THE VIGIL. It’s a masterful folk-horror…
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Eric Roth
Today we welcome back the legendary ERIC ROTH. An Oscar-Winning Screenwriter & Producer. We talk about how he writes, and blends craft with pure inspiration. He talks about working with Robert Redford. We re-visit MUNICH & THE GOOD SHEPARD. He talks about being re-written, and his unique creative...
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Rich Friedlander & Glen Allen
Today on the program, we’re talking to RICH FRIEDLANDER & GLENN ALLEN—Award-winning Visual Effects Artists who seem to prefer their work to be invisible, which if you ask me, is how it should be. We talk about how they started out in New York City as film editors, made the jump from film to...
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Andrea Chlebak
Today I talk to ANDREA CHLEBAK…an amazing artist whose craft is one of the most unsung in all of movies… she’s a Film Colorist. She’s worked with some amazing cinematographers and directors on some really terrific movies. To name a few: Bad Hair, American Pickle, Elysium and Chappie, Prospect,...
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Olga Mill
Today I’m talking to OLGA MILL. An incredibly talented Costume Designer. She’s worked on modern classics like HEREDITARY & FIRST REFORMED… as well as some beautiful indie films with Writer/Director Eliza Hittman, and most recently, the highly anticipated Y: THE LAST MAN created by Eliza Clark for...
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Brett Bachman
Today is a very special episode in honor of the recent MANDYversary. We sit down with Brett Bachman…a Film Editor and a guy I like to call the Walter Murch of SpectreVision. His credits are many, but to name a few — RAZE, COOTIES, BITCH…the psychedelic Barbarian Opera MANDY, THE COLOUR OUT OF...
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John Behrens & Jonathan Pope - THE SOCIAL DILEMMA
Today I'm talking with the Emmy Nominated Cinematographers of Netflix's zeitgeist Documentary THE SOCIAL DILEMMA. It's a hybrid film that blends documentary footage with a narrative film seamlessly, and pulls back the curtain on the insidious business of social media. We talk about their very...
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Benjamin Loeb
Today I talk with BENJAMIN LOEB. A wonderful Cinematographer & Filmmaker who shot two of my very favorite films...the beautifully cathartic PIECES OF A WOMAN...and the insane fever dream otherwise known as MANDY. We get into how every project with a director is a custom job…from entering the...
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Eric Roth - Part 1
Today, I sit down with legendary screenwriter. We talk about his life and his craft and why we should all be more generous of spirit. Truth be told, Eric has been involved in creating so many iconic films that it would have been impossible to try...so I asked him about the films of his that meant...
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Gigi Williams
Today I talk with Gigi Williams, an Oscar Nominated Makeup Artist, and longtime collaborator with the brilliant David Fincher. Her credits are very long, but to name a few: Rock N’ Roll High School, The Howling, The Professional, as well as Single Man, Argo, The Master & Inherent Vice, not to...
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Newton Thomas Sigel - Part 2
Hey Everybody…sometimes when I have a guest on…there’s just too much to cover…which means we need a sequel…another chapter…a rematch…and that’s why today on the program, I’m talking once more to the fantastic Cinematographer, Thomas Newton Sigel…when I first had him on, the film he shot with the...
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Christine Romero
Today I sit down with my old friend Christine Romero. For many years she worked and lived alongside the iconic George A. Romero who created Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, among others. But what you don’t know is Chris made those movies alongside him. We get into Chris’s humble...
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Grace Yun
On this episode I speak with Production Designer Grace Yun. We get into her work on Hereditary with Ari Aster, collaborating with Master Filmmaker Paul Schrader, working in Television and being yourself. She has wonderful advice for anyone who wants to become a filmmaker, and talks about how we...
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Newton Thomas Sigel - Part 1
Today I sit down with a legendary cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel. We talk about how documentaries taught him to be in the moment, and the relationship between non-fiction and narrative filmmaking. It's a very interesting talk with a fascinating artist and man. Enjoy! RECOMMENDED VIEWING: The...
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Donald Graham Burt - Part 2
Today, we have a special treat…Production Designer Donald Graham Burt returns to talk about designing and making MANK…David Fincher’s love letter to old Hollywood & California, and the portrait of a man in conflict with everyone. It is a masterclass in filmmaking and the power of limitations from...
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Mollye Asher
Today I sit down with Producer Mollye Asher and she takes us on her journey from dancer to filmmaker, and reminds us that we love making movies because of the people we make them with. She talks about her very special relationship with Writer/Director Chloe Zhao, working with non-actors, and the...
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Donald Graham Burt - Part 1
In the very first episode of my podcast, I sit down with Production Designer Donald Graham Burt. We explore the role of the Production Designer, a life in the arts, working with David Fincher, and learn to talk less and listen more. RECOMMENDED VIEWING: The Joy Luck Club, The Curious Case of...
About this show
Eren Celeboglu welcomes Directors, Actors, Production & Costume Designers, Cinematographers, Editors, Producers and many other members of the filmmaking community to sit down and have incredibly revealing conversations.
Not only does Eren illuminate many of the invisible artists behind the scenes, but his passion for filmmaking and cinema inspires his guests to open up about their craft and lives in ways that will surprise and captivate listeners.
Hosted by
W!ZARD Studios