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Actor-Director Tony Goldwyn talks with host Ben Mankiewicz about breaking into Hollywood where his family roots run deep and the Goldwyn name looms large. Tony looks back on the ups and downs of his acting career from Ghost to One Battle After Another and explains that directing became a way to get some control in a largely unpredictable business. He also admits that he nearly passed on Scandal– a role that revitalized his career. In the Super 8, he shares his most memorable movie watching experience: being absolutely terrified by The Exorcist.
Films Mentioned:
Ghost
Ezra
One Battle After Another
Dodsworth
Saturday Night Fever
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Gaby: A True Story
Blood Simple
A Walk On The Moon
Someone Like You
Conviction
The Exorcist
The Godfather Part II
Howard’s End
The Maltese Falcon
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Madness of King George
When Harry Met Sally
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Director/Producer Hiro Murai whose new show is Apple TV’s “Widow’s Bay,” joins host Ben Mankiewicz. They discuss why he and Donald Glover collaborate so well and how their initial approach to making “Atlanta” was unsustainable. Murai and Ben debate the value of surrealism in art and Murai reveals that he once pitched himself to direct a Beyonce video but completely understands why he didn’t get the gig. His answers to the Super 8 span Japanese films like Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” and Takeshi Kitano’s “Sonatine” to the Albert Brooks comedy “Modern Romance” and Kubrick’s “The Shining.”
Films Mentioned:
Rosemary’s Baby
Eraserhead
Cool Runnings
The Shining
Terminator 2: Judgement Day AKA T2
Elevator To The Gallows
Boogie Nights
No Country For Old Men
Jurassic Park
Modern Romance
La Chimera
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ran
My Neighbor Totoro
Tampopo
The Sound of Music
Reds
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Oscar-winning actress Sally Field gets real with Ben Mankiewicz. Drawing on her memoir In Pieces, she discusses her fraught relationship with ex-boyfriend/Smokey and the Bandit co-star Burt Reynolds and his similarity to her abusive step-father. During The Flying Nun she was introduced to the Actors Studio where she transformed from a sitcom actress Hollywood had written off into someone who could fight for Norma Rae, fight Spielberg twice for Lincoln, and win both battles. In the Super 8 she praises the work of Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and reveals she rarely cries at movies.
Films Mentioned:
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Smokey and the Bandit
Sybil
Norma Rae
The Way West
Places in the Heart
Lincoln
Gone with the Wind
Them!
The Searchers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Charade
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Enchanted Cottage
A Letter to Three Wives
Hooper
Absence of Malice
Steel Magnolias
Forrest Gump
Hud
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Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon joins Ben Mankiewicz to share unvarnished stories of a life in films– from making Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bull Durham, Witches of Eastwick, and Pretty Baby to navigating the cynical world of showbiz. She argues that every film is political– either challenging the status quo or enforcing it– and reveals her input into the iconic ending of Thelma & Louise which turns 35 this year.
Films Mentioned:
The Nutty Professor
The Accompanist
Dead Man Walking
Joe
Atlantic City
Pretty Baby
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Witches of Eastwick
Bull Durham
Sirat
Afterlife
Grapes of Wrath
Lord of the Rings
Bambi
Waiting for Guffman
Best in Show
Thelma & Louise
Being There
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Front Page, 1974
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Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez sits down with host Ben Mankiewicz to discuss the films that shaped her career—Do the Right Thing and Fearless—as well as early favorites like Saturday Night Fever and Double Indemnity. She reflects on building a career in an industry that didn’t readily accept her for who she is, and speaks candidly about being raised in a strict Catholic home for girls. In the Super 8 segment, she tells Ben about an amazing boxing story she’d love to see on the big screen.
Films Mentioned
The Way We Were
Do The Right Thing
Fearless
Criminal Justice
The Bells of St. Mary's
The Little Princess (Shirley Temple version), 1939
Old Yeller
Rosemary's Baby
Saturday Night Fever
Double Indemnity
Cool Hand Luke
Some Like It Hot
Detour
Young Frankenstein
Stormy Weather
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Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt joins host Ben Mankiewicz for a live taping of Talking Pictures recorded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on the eve of the 2026 TCM Classic Film Festival. An obsessive movie fan, Patton sees hundreds of films a year; he hates talkers in theaters but loves when going to a movie turns into a bonding experience with strangers. From his acting career, he tells stories of being suspended in a tree on the set of “Magnolia” and doing a sex scene with Charlize Theron in “Young Adult.” In the Super 8, Oswalt shares films you’ll want to remember and see the first chance you get.
Films Mentioned:
Young Adult
Ratatouille
The D.I.
Halloween
Magnolia
Hard Eight
Young Adult
Stalag 17
The Great Escape
Yojimbo
Bad News Bears, 1976
Casablanca
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Return of the Living Dead
Three Kings
Gates of Heaven
Bachelor Party
Baby Driver
After Life
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Planet of The Apes
Wait Until Dark
Man With No Name
A Catered Affair
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
Sergeant York
The Taking of Pelham 123
Female Trouble
Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Twelve Chairs
Blazing Saddles
Ikiru
Kingpin
Quick Change
Pig
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Talking Pictures is back with ardent movie fan and beloved filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and The Running Man). He talks with host Ben Mankiewicz about living in Quentin Tarantino’s guesthouse, action movie montages, and being mesmerized by Sidney Poitier at the TCM Classic Film Festival. To Ben’s surprise, Wright christens Ben’s home studio with a perfect classic film moniker.
Films mentioned:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shaun of the Dead
Baby Driver
The Running Man
Hot Fuzz
The World’s End
Star Wars: Episode IV:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Watership Down
The Lord of The Rings (1978 animated film)
Popeye
Evil Dead and Evil Dead II
El Mariachi
Reservoir Dogs
Bad Taste
Rumble In The Bronx
Something About Mary
Silence of the Lambs
In the Heat of the Night
Raising Arizona
Goodfellas
Pink Panther films
Hellraiser
The Wages of Fear
Sorcerer
Lawrence of Arabia
E.T.
Umberto D.
This Is Spinal Tap
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Season three of Talking Pictures is back, with a brand new lineup of guests celebrating the movies they love, this time on video.
Host Ben Mankiewicz invites some of the most iconic figures in Hollywood for an intimate conversation at his home studio. Guests like Sally Field, Edgar Wright, and Susan Sarandon open up about the moments that made them, the movies that informed them, and share behind-the-scenes stories that haven’t been told. Of course, every episode ends with the Super 8, where they reveal the movies that make them laugh, cry, and that they can’t forget.
From TCM and HBO Max, this is Season 3 of Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast, hosted by Ben Mankiewicz.
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Oscar-nominated writer/director Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value) talks with Host Ben Mankiewicz about how being raised in a filmmaking family shaped his worldview and his career. Ben and Joachim bond over E.T., Hitchcock's villains, and the enduring humor of Step Brothers. At the end you get a rare peek at a couple of Ben’s prized movie posters.
Films Mentioned:
Sentimental Value
The Passion of Joan of Arc (aka La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc)
The Worst Person in the World
Oslo, August 31st
Tarzan the Ape Man
Mon Oncle
E.T.
The Hunt (aka The Chasers)
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
The Champ, 1979 and The Champ, 1931
F1
Annie Hall
Salò
Solaris
Notorious
Amarcord
Flashdance
Fame
Flight of the Eagle
The Emigrants
The New Land
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
Slap Shot
Step Brothers
One Battle After Another
Kes
Harry and Tonto
Where Eagles Dare
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Oscar-nominated writer/director Chloé Zhao (Hamnet) reveals why she has dance parties on set and what happened when a Los Angeles high school teacher took her under his wing. This two-time Academy Award winner, whose latest film is up for eight Oscars, also reveals where she stores her Oscars.
Films Mentioned:
Hamnet
Nomadland
Terminator 2
True Lies
Ghost
Sister Act
Basic Instinct
Happy Together
The Matrix
The Mummy
Ghost In The Shell
The Rider
Red River
Jeremiah Johnson
My Darling Clementine
Unforgiven
Avatar
Titanic
Aliens
Alien
Star Wars
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Land of Silence and Darkness
Into the Abyss
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
The Tree of Life
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Casablanca
Interstellar
The Searchers
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In this bonus episode of Talking Pictures recorded live at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, host Ben Mankiewicz chats with director and actor Eli Roth. They discuss Roth’s close relationship with David Lynch and his role as The Bear Jew in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds.” Known for his horror films, we discover that scary movies made a young Eli Roth projectile vomit! The Super 8 reveals Roth’s broad film knowledge and his family admiration for Mel Brooks movies.
Films Mentioned:
Cabin Fever
Hostel
Hostel 2
The Green Inferno
Thanksgiving
Inglourious Basterds
Death Proof
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
The Idol*
Ben-Hur
Eraserhead*
Superman: The Movie (1978)*
The French Connection
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Conversation
Knock Knock
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Night Moves
Scarecrow
Quiz Show
The Paper
The Music of Chance
Dr. Strangelove
Rabbits
The Scary of Sixty-First
Jimmy and Stiggs
It Follows*
The Ring
Clown
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Alien
Private Parts
House of 1000 Corpses
Saw
Nosferatu (2024)
All Hallows' Eve
Terrifier
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Scream VI
Sleepaway Camp
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Outland
Dracula (1979)
Kingdom of the Spiders
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Evil Dead
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Devil's Rejects
American Werewolf in London
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
The Wizard of Oz*
Wild at Heart
Joe (1070)
The Breakfast Club
Re-Animator
Porky's
Zapped
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
My Chauffeur
2001: A Space Odyssey*
Blue Velvet*
Pink Flamingos
Hamburger: The Motion Picture
One-Eyed Jacks
House of Wax (1953)
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
Young Frankenstein
The Producers (1967)
Blazing Saddles
High Anxiety
American Psycho
The Sixth Sense
Friends with Benefits
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
America's Sweethearts
The Exorcist
The Shining
Suspiria (1977)
*Available on Max as of 5/7 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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One of the godfathers of movie podcasts, Paul Scheer launched How Did This Get Made? fifteen years ago. His love of movies started as a kid on Long Island working at a Blockbuster Video. Through his talent for improv comedy, he ended up writing, directing and performing in some of the funniest shows ever put on TV. Paul details his rollercoaster career, his extremely awkward celebrity encounters, and how movies were often an escape from his difficult childhood. In the Super 8, Paul tells Ben how he once lined up at 6:00 AM... just to watch a trailer.
Films Mentioned :
Ordinary People
The Milagro Beanfield War
Dollars
Heaven Can Wait
Shampoo
The Elephant Man
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Meet Joe Black
The Cable Guy*
Galaxy Quest
Twilight
Psycho 4: A New Beginning
Ghost
Phantasm
Flowers in the Attic
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Happy Gilmore
Back to the Future
Groundhog Day
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Grosse Pointe Blank
Midnight Run
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.
*Available on Max as of 2/04 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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Pamela Adlon landed her first movie role when she was sixteen, and then twenty years later, she won an Emmy... for playing a teenage boy. Her thirteen seasons as Bobby Hill on King of the Hill made her a world-famous voice actor, but she's equally renowned for creating and starring in Better Things. Pam is also a director – her first feature, Babes, came out last year – and she sits down with Ben Mankiewicz to discuss her deep love of movies, which includes everything from musicals to the films of John Cassavetes.
Films Mentioned:
Grease 2
Babes
Biosphere
Creep
The Animatrix
Anora
Deadwood*
Porky's
Love Streams
Fame
Bugsy Malone
The Wiz
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Guns of Navarone
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Mamma Mia!*
My Old Ass
Schindler's List
The Notebook
Terms of Endearment
Coming Home
The Birdcage*
Merrie Melodies - Rabbit Hood
*Available on Max as of 1/28 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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NBA legend Charles Barkley became addicted to movies as a rookie, when he'd sneak into theaters to escape the limelight for a couple of hours. By the time he changed careers from baller to broadcaster, he was a bonafide film buff, with strong opinions on all kinds of movies. In this hilarious episode, Sir Charles talks to Ben Mankiewicz about the similarities between a film crew and a basketball team, the secret to hosting Saturday Night Live, and the courtroom classic that never fails to make him laugh.
Films Mentioned:
Space Jam
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
A Quiet Place
All the Way*
The Beekeeper
Jaws
Arsenic and Old Lace
It Happened One Night
Gladiator
Any Given Sunday
Die Hard
Live Free or Die Hard
My Cousin Vinny
A Bronx Tale
Pulp Fiction
Malcolm X
The Karate Kid
Stripes
Taps
Taxi Driver
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur
In the Heat of the Night
Brian's Song
Field of Dreams
The Sixth Sense
Dirty Harry
Rawhide
*Available on Max as of 01/21 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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From Bridesmaids to Spy to The Heat, Paul Feig has become Hollywood's go-to guy for raunchy, big-budget comedies about women. But his directing career only took off after his acting career crashed and burned. This week, Paul tells Ben Mankiewicz how getting fired from a beloved sitcom forced him out of his comfort zone and into a new role behind the camera. And during the Super 8, Paul reveals how his mother's taste in movies led to his love of double-breasted suits.
Films Mentioned:
Bridesmaids
The Heat
Spy
A Simple Favor
Animal House
Life Sold Separately
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
The Blues Brothers
Thelma & Louise
Animal Crackers
What's Up, Doc?
Jackpot!
Ghostbusters
The Purge
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Raiders of the Lost Ark
An American Werewolf in London
Polite Society
Napoleon Dynamite
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
His Girl Friday
Cabaret
It's a Wonderful Life
Poltergeist
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Host Ben Mankiewicz begins the new year by talking to the nicest man in Hollywood, actor Henry Winkler. Winkler admits it was almost impossible to find work after his 10-year run as the Fonz on Happy Days. He reminisces about his friendships with Sylvester Stallone and Ron Howard and shares his struggles with dyslexia. And we get the inspiring story of how he got the second role of a lifetime on HBO’s Barry. Winkler is an enthusiastic movie watcher, so his Super 8 is full of gems.
Films Mentioned:
The Waterboy
Little Nicky
Barry*
The Lords of Flatbush
Rocky
Heroes
The One and Only
Night Shift
Scream*
Rebel Without a Cause*
City of God
The Alamo
Nobody
Casablanca*
Love Actually
Notting Hill
Four Weddings and a Funeral*
Les Compères
The Out-of-Towners
*Available on Max as of 1/7 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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Emmy-winner Jane Lynch is known for bringing her razor-sharp comic edge to movies like Best in Show and TV shows like Glee. But her biggest break came in a famous commercial for… Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes! She talks to host Ben Mankiewicz about breaking down a scene with Harrison Ford, the difference between masculine and feminine improv, and the film that made her sob all the way home from the theater.
Films Mentioned:
Best in Show
The 40-Year Old Virgin
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Ninotchka
Camille
Anna Christie
The Wizard of Oz*
Gone with the Wind*
Sophie's Choice
The Devil Wears Prada*
Hang 'Em High
Three Days of the Condor
Husbands and Wives
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
The Fugitive
A Mighty Wind
For Your Consideration
Mascots
Legally Blonde
American Pie
The White Lotus*
Waiting for Guffman
This Is Spinal Tap
Private Benjamin
Funny Girl
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Big Sleep
White Christmas
Terms of Endearment
*Available on Max as of 12/17 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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This week, writer/director Jason Reitman (Saturday Night, Juno, Up in the Air) joins host Ben Mankiewicz to talk about growing up on a movie set, his brief stint writing for Saturday Night Live, and the joys of directing George Clooney. Reitman also reveals what his father, the late director Ivan Reitman, taught him about storytelling and making movies. During the Super 8, Jason surprises Ben with the movie props in his enviable collection.
Films Mentioned:
Meatballs
Stripes
Ghostbusters
Dave
Thank You For Smoking
Juno
Inglourious Basterds
Animal House
Up in the Air*
Saturday Night
The Front Runner
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The Fabelmans
Westworld
Jurassic Park*
Twins
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Back to the Future
Jaws
The Godfather
Election
Dr. Strangelove
Harold and Maude
Shampoo
Carnal Knowledge
The Graduate
Taxi Driver
The Conversation
Run Lola Run
The Blair Witch Project
Sexy Beast
American Psycho
Wet Hot American Summer
Pulp Fiction
Dazed and Confused
Slacker*
Bad News Bears
Boyhood
A Scanner Darkly
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Field of Dreams
Stand by Me
Breaking Away
Little Miss Sunshine
24 Hour Party People
Casablanca*
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Singin' in the Rain*
*Available on Max as of 12/10 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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Carol Burnett’s life has always spun around the movies. She tells Ben Mankiewicz about her childhood spent in Hollywood movie theaters, the famous actor who helped her break into showbiz, and the movie parodies in her groundbreaking television variety show. In fact, at 91, Carol Burnett remembers more about movies than Ben! We cap it all off with a delightful Super 8 complete with seasonal gems. Plus, Carol and Ben discuss their Wordle stats…listen to find out who’s winning.
Films Mentioned:
The Carol Burnett Show
New Faces
The Pajama Game
Babes in Arms
All About Eve
Gone with the Wind*
The Fighting Guardsman
Inferno (1953)
Strangers on a Train
On Moonlight Bay*
Citizen Kane
The Dolly Sisters
The Godfather
It's a Wonderful Life
Capricorn One
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Singin' in the Rain*
From Here to Eternity
Terms of Endearment
Some Like It Hot
Duel
*Available on Max as of 12/3 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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The fearless Margot Robbie goes in-depth with Ben Mankiewicz about how her early days as an Australian soap star prepared her to go toe-to-toe with Leonardo DiCaprio. Now, after producing the blockbuster Barbie and working with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, is her next move behind the camera as a director? Plus, our exclusive Super 8 questionnaire, which she was very excited to answer.
Films Mentioned
Barbie *
I, Tonya *
Bombshell
The Wolf of Wall Street
Asteroid City
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Titanic
The Legend of Tarzan*
Mary Queen of Scots
Terminal
Eye of the Devil
Babylon
Whiplash
La La Land
Wings
Singin' in the Rain*
Cabaret
True Romance
The Fifth Element
Bandits*
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
Pulp Fiction
Rambo
Bring It On
High Society
Babette's Feast*
The Blues Brothers
The Dirty Dozen
Withnail and I*
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Seven Samurai*
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
*Available on Max as of 11/26 (Availability of titles subject to change)
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