Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Summer Festivals

July 18, 2017 — Electric Sheep Magazine

Posters for Beatriz at Dinner / Okja / Marjorie Prime

Summer Festivals: The monthly show about cult film and world cinema. Electric Sheep assistant editor Alex Fitch interviews a trio of independent film directors whose latest movies have premiered at recent festivals. At the London Sundance Film Festival, Alex talks to Miguel Arteta about his film Beatriz at Dinner, a drama about class conflict and environmentalism featuring John Lithgow and Salma Hayek, and to Michael Almereyda about his elegiac science-fiction movie Marjorie Prime adapted from the play of the same name and starring Lois Smith and Tim Robbins.

Plus: with translation by Jason Yu, Korean director Bong Joon-Ho discusses his latest film Okja, which proved controversial when screened at Cannes, and features Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal in an uproarious tale of GM food. Alex and Bong also discuss Jon Ronson’s involvement in the film, the theme of man vs. nature running through his filmography including The Host and Snowpiercer plus Netflix’s funding of the movie. Featuring classic tracks by The Mamas and the Papas, Regina Spektor, James Taylor and Jimmy Cliff. Originally broadcast 21st June 2017 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Links: Official Okja page at netflix.com
Interview with Jon Ronson about Okja in The Guardian
Official Marjorie Prime website
Listen to Alex’s 2010 interview with Michael Almereyda about Paradise, Nadja and Hamlet
Official Beatriz at Dinner website
Info about the London Sundance Film Festival