Interview: Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik (May December) and Wim Wenders (Perfect Days)
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Conde Nast & Vanity Fair
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
First, the writers of May December share their low key Oscar nominations day celebration and how growing up in a casting family gave Samy Burch unique insight on Hollywood. Then, the writer and director of international feature nominee Perfect Days looks back on the post-pandemic experiences that inspired the film, and why he feels optimistic about the future of moviegoing.
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| 0:00.0 | Vanity Fair. |
| 0:03.0 | Vanity Fair. |
| 0:16.6 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:21.6 | And the Oscar goes to. And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:24.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:26.0 | The winner... |
| 0:28.0 | It's a tie. |
| 0:30.0 | And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller you never know |
| 0:36.0 | Ma I hit this world in Oscar I am Katie Rich. I am by myself today because I have both interviews on today's episode, |
| 0:52.8 | which is a good problem to have, I would say. |
| 0:55.5 | I have two conversations. |
| 0:57.0 | First, with Sammy Birch, the screenwriter of May December |
| 1:00.5 | and Alex mechanic, who helped develop a story for May December and is also Sammy Birch's husband, |
| 1:05.0 | which is a fascinating trend at this year's Oscars, |
| 1:08.0 | actually. They are far from the only married couple |
| 1:10.0 | to both be nominated for Oscars this year. May December is a movie you've heard |
| 1:14.8 | us talk a lot about since it premiered at Can. It has exceptional performances at the middle. |
| 1:18.8 | It's really incredibly directed by Todd Haynes and yet it was Sammy and Alex's |
| 1:23.7 | screenplay that got the film's sole Oscar nomination. I asked them about it and |
| 1:28.0 | Sammy said it felt like being the last surviving members of an Oregon Trail |
| 1:31.5 | party but there's so much to celebrate about it is their first driving members of an Oregon Trail Party. |
| 1:32.8 | But there's so much to celebrate about it. |
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