The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast

Bright Wall/Dark Room

A podcast from Bright Wall/Dark Room, engaging with the business of being alive, one movie at a time. Hosted by Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman.

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The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast

Episodes (73)

Jan 1st Magnolia (1999)
Nov 6, 2025 The 63rd New York Film Festival (with Fran Hoepfner, Frank Falisi, and Eli Sands)
Oct 5, 2025 Seven (with Adam Nayman)

The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast

Jan 1, 2026
1½ hours
150 MB

Not only is this Veronica and Eli’s last episode, it’s our fourth annual Cruisemas. With the release of One Battle After Another, we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson’s blank check big swing Magnolia (1999), and get into: young PTA and the New New Hollywood, sincerity and good listening, Phil Parma made Chad become a therapist, Fiona Apple as PTA’s Polly Platt, we desperately want a Tom Cruise coconut cake, life imitating art with Cruise’s Oprah interview, Melora Walters’ enigmatic smile, Magnolia trying to understand the same things as the Bible, the bleak prescience of ‘Seduce and Destroy,’ how...

The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast

Magnolia (1999)

Bright Wall/Dark Room

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