Screen Time

Hosted by Harry Knowles, the uncut ButtNumbAThon 16 Q&A with Seth Rogen and Evan D Goldberg after the surprise screening of The Interview, just days before the movie was pulled from a planned wide release. Warning: This Q&A includes heavy spoilers for The Interview and This is the End. * This Q&A was excerpted in Electric Shadow 19: Ignite the Light * If you subscribe to the Electric Shadow Channel feed, it includes all Screen Time extended interviews as well as Electric Shadow-related extras and deleted bits. * Butt Numb A Thon is a 24-hour movie marathon programmed in secret  every year by Ain't It Cool News founder (and friend of the show) Harry Knowles.

Richard Dreyfuss talks about the way movies used to be made, The Dreyfuss Initiative, and "getting Political".SHOWNOTESThe Dreyfuss InitiativeRichard Dreyfuss on Real Time with Bill Maher in 2011

interior of Criterion's Trainspotting LaserDisc, a prized part of Moisés' collection Susan Arosteguy has produced all of The Criterion Collection's special editions of Wes Anderson films. Moisés asks her about her history with the company and working with Wes.Excerpted in Electric Shadow #2: Crazy Science Fair ExperimentSubscribe to the Electric Shadow Channel (iTunes/RSS)ubscribe to the ESN Master Feed (iTunes/RSS)This episode's Recommended Reading & Viewing, which includes a wallet-busting pile of outstanding Criterion DVDs and Blu-rays.

Cinematographer Barry Braverman talks about his work with Wes Anderson, his worldwide video workshops, and the new edition of his book Video Shooter.This interview serves as a nice primer for the next episode of Electric Shadow, which focuses on Anderson's career in general, but specifically, Fantastic Mr. Fox.Barry loves the work of Vittorio de Sica, espcially Bicycle Thieves, aka The Bicycle Thief aka Ladri di biciclette and Umberto DBarry has been with Wes Anderson since Bottle Rocket, and Braverman's short film Murieta Cycles appears on the Criterion Blu-ray.Barry's book Video Shooter is pretty great, and much better in myriad ways than other books that intend to get people into shooting video.One of "Wes' Gang", the great Kumar Pallana, recently passed. Anderson's dedication and loyalty to his co-conspirators in film deserves praise.

A short preview of things to come in this "uncut interview" companion to Electric Shadow.Originally posted 09 February 2014. Feed date modified to accommodate archival episode posting in numerical order.