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Feeling Seen

Jordan Crucchiola, Maximum Fun

On Feeling Seen, writer and general enthusiast Jordan Crucchiola invites filmmakers, writers, comedians, and artists to discuss the movie characters that made them "feel seen." It"s about that instant when a person connects to a piece of art so deeply that they see themselves reflected in it. Every week Jordan gabs it up with a guest about those magical moments when they were watching a film and realized, "That"s me!" It"s an informative, funny, and comforting show about our intimate relationship

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00:55:06

Akela Cooper on 'Demon Knight'

Feeling Seen ·

2023/01/12

If you needed proof that '90s movies were built different, look no further than TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT. It's a practical effect-driven spinoff of a horror comedy anthology from a Black director, sprinkled with bare-breasted ladies, centered around a mixed-race cast, set in the Southwest, and starring Billy Zane as an ooze-filled demon and Jada Pinkett as a quietly brooding Final Girl. It's a whole moment in horror history, and a young Akela Cooper -- the same Akela Cooper who would go

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00:53:51

Ariel Vida on 'RRR'

Feeling Seen ·

2023/01/05

Director/production designer Ariel Vida (VIDE NOIR, Rustic Films) has seen RRR many, many times. In this conversation with Jordan, she talks about the ways the movie makes her feel seen not only through the characters themselves, but through its unabashed celebration of abiding friendship -- and the enthusiastic reception that message has gotten around the world. #RRRforOscarsThen, Jordan has one quick thing about -- what else -- M3GAN.***With Jordan Crucchiola and Ariel Vida

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00:50:46

[Replay] Susan Orlean on 'Adaptation'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/12/29

Happy New Year! We're celebrating the end of 2022 by replaying a favorite early episode of the show. Enjoy, and here's to great things in 2023.This episode originally aired in November 2021.This week’s show could be titled “A Very Special Episode.” We actually have the wonderful Susan Orlean on to talk about watching Meryl Streep her in the movie ‘Adaptation.’ She takes Jordan through the process of discovering that she was going to be a character in the movie. But she also reveals the realizations

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00:56:00

Kevin Maher on 'Stuart Saves His Family'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/12/22

This one is for everybody working to strike that balance between caring for yourself and caring for your "family of origin." A forgotten and surprisingly dramatic SNL spinoff directed by Harold Ramis in 1995, Stuart Saves His Family spoke to a younger Kevin Maher as an adult from a family where alcoholism was an issue. It even factors thematically into Kevin's new humor book, Santa Doesn't Need Your Help, illustrated by Joe Dator. Then, Jordan has one quick thing about feeling uncomfortably seen by

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00:53:02

David Bruckner on 'Broadcast News'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/12/15

Today, director David Bruckner talks with Jordan about feeling seen by Holly Hunter's character, Jane Craig, in the 1987 classic, BROADCAST NEWS. Directed by James L. Brooks, it's a journalism....satire? rom-com? dramedy?... starring Hunter, Albert Brooks, and William Hurt. It's one of those movies that is so prescient about what news media would become. And for David Bruckner -- whose latest film is this year's HELLRAISER -- saw in it some parallels with what it feels like to be a creator in any

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00:54:01

Amy Nicholson on 'Click'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/12/08

Film critic Amy Nicholson (whose 'Unspooled' podcast with Paul Scheer is currently in its fourth season) first encountered 'Click' as a budding young critic and USC student. She didn't love it, but it did make her cry. This conversation with Jordan is an exploration of why that might be, alongside the ways things have improved and devolved in the years since the movie's 2006 release.Then, one quick thing about an unsung badass Christmas movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight.***With Jordan Crucchiola and

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00:52:24

Noah Segan on 'Raising Arizona'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/12/01

Actor Noah Segan -- or, should we say, writer/director/producer/actor Noah Segan -- is the star and creative force behind his directorial debut, BLOOD RELATIVES. In it, he plays a century-old, lone-wolf vampire who suddenly has a teenage daughter to think about. Segan, a dad himself, chose another suddenly-a-father character for today's epsiode: H.I. McDonnough (Nicolas Cage) from the 1987 Coen Brothers comedy Raising Arizona. Listen and learn how fatherhood, creative genesis, vampirism, and

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00:54:55

Raúl Castillo on 'The Outsiders'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/11/24

Sometimes our co-hosts really struggle to come up with a character to discuss for our show. But actor Raúl Castillo (The Inspection, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Looking, and much more) went with his gut, and what came to mind immediately was The Outsiders, and especially Matt Dillon's character of lead "greaser" Dallas "Dally" Winston. Jordan, Raúl, and you the listener will all learn at the same time just why this character stuck with him all these years. ***With Jordan Crucchiola and Raúl Castillo

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00:52:47

Rahul Kohli on 'The Karate Kid'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/11/17

Rahul Kohli is a working actor -- and thanks in part to the prolific Mike Flanagan, he's been working a lot lately. In this episode, Rahul (whose latest film is NEXT EXIT, directed by Mali Elfman) tells us the many ways that he feels seen by Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) in the KARATE KID films, and does so with a scrappy spirit that Daniel would approve of. Then, Jordan's one quick thing is an ode to Rebecca Hall and her latest, RESURRECTION.***With Jordan Crucchiola and Rahul Kohli

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00:55:53

Paul Feig on 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/11/10

We're celebrating our First Birthday with the one and only Paul Feig, writer/director/producer behind stuff like FREAKS AND GEEKS, BRIDESMAIDS, SPY, THE HEAT, A SIMPLE FAVOR, and lots more stuff. Starting off with his deep identification with the singularly obsessed Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Paul shares stories of his childhood as a sci-fi loving movie nerd, his adulthood as a newly minted horror fan, and a bunch of stuff in between. Paul's latest is The

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00:55:43

David Bizzaro on 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/11/03

David Bizzaro has had a long and varied career in front of and behind the camera, but his newest role is Mochi on Netflix's Waffles and Mochi's Restaurant. Mochi is...well, a mochi. He talks a lot, but doesn't say words. He's a tiny pink ball. He's friends with Michelle Obama. This week, David shares his journey into puppetry, his family background raised by an immigrant mother, seeing neurodiversity on screen, and more -- through his shows, as well as The Man Who Fell to Earth and Andor.The Jordan

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00:51:36

Nyla Innuksuk on 'The Green Knight'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/10/27

“Tell me a tale of yourself, so that I might know thee,” King Arthur asks Dev Patel’s Gawain inThe Green Knight (2021). At a time in her life when she was struggling with illness and her own creative ambitions, Nyla Innuksuk heard the question as if she were the one being asked. She’ll tell us all about it – and lots of great behind-the-scenes stories of her tale of Indigenous girls in the Canadian Arctic, SLASH/BACK.Then, Jordan takes a moment to remember director Jeff Barnaby.Additional

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00:52:32

Lucky McKee on 'Mean Streets'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/10/20

Lucky McKee's new film, Old Man, is the latest in a career of character-driven horror favorites like May, The Woman, and All Cheerleaders Die. And in this episode, he's sharing his personal resonance with Charlie, the main character in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). In a powder keg of rough men always threatening to go off in a burst of violence, Charlie (played by Harvey Keitel) is a mediator who can't quite explain why he feels compelled to vouch for certain friends.Then, Jordan has one quick

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00:52:22

Drea Clark on 'Muriel's Wedding'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/10/13

Indie producer, film festival programmer, and fellow Maximum Fun movie podcaster Drea Clark called dibs on Muriel Heslop before the first episode of Feeling Seen ever aired. The movie has been a favorite since its 1994 release, and while Drea doesn't relate to every aspect of Toni Collette's iconic "terrible" wannabe bride, Muriel's journey to self-acceptance and growth spoke to Drea, both then and now.Then, Jordan has one quick thing about another story of the power of friendship...M3GAN.***With

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00:51:41

Ti West on 'Bad Taste'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/10/06

From his early films like The Roost (2005) and Trigger Man (2007), to his work with other bootstrappy filmmakers on the original V/H/S anthology, to this year's double -- no, make that triple! -- feature of X, Pearl, and soon MaXXXine, director Ti West has been a distinctive voice in the genre cinema landscape. So how perfect that he felt seen -- and inspired -- by another unique cinema voice, Peter Jackson. Jackson's first film, Bad Taste (1987), saw him play multiple roles both behind and in

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00:56:28

Doug Jones on 'The Wizard of Oz'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/09/29

At 62, Doug Jones is as busy as ever, playing The Baron on FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Saru on Star Trek: Discovery, and returning to the role of Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus 2. But you might be most familiar with Doug for his singular roles in heavy prosthetics -- as Abe Sapien in Hellboy and Hellboy II, as The Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water; as Pan and the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth. Doug's physical presence -- once something he'd have wished away -- is a huge part of what has made

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00:53:21

Agnieszka Smoczyńska on 'Ponyo,' 'Kill Bill' and More

Feeling Seen ·

2022/09/22

Polish film director Agnieszka Smoczyńska has fascinated audiences with films like The Lure and Fugue. Now, her first English-language film is in theaters. Silent Twins tells the true story of the Gibbons twins, with a style that sets harsh reality and the beauty (and power) of imagination in contrast. So perhaps it’s no surprise that stories of fantastic heroines on fanstastic journeys has long enchanted Aga. In this episode, she talks with Jordan about her own work and life, and goes on a

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00:50:56

Ryan Kwanten on 'Gladiator'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/09/15

The days when Ryan Kwanten was best known for playing Jason Stackhouse on True Blood may be coming to an end. This year alone, he's toplined three films -- the upcoming action thriller Section Eight, last month's Glorious (a two-hander with J.K. Simmons), and Expired. Here, Ryan shares what drives his project choices and performances and tells us why he feels seen by Maximus Decimus Meridius (as well as a fun and surprising alternate pick!).Then, Jordan has one quick thing -- breaking A24 trilogy

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00:53:59

Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'

Feeling Seen ·

2022/09/08

Television writer and producer Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz really struggled to find a character that she saw herself in -- a Latinx, first-generation American, striving to do her best as a woman in a male-dominated world. But when she found Amy Santiago (played on BROOKLYN NINE-NINE by Melissa Fumero), Brig REALLY found her -- she got hired to write on BROOKLYN NINE-NINE not long after the show began, and it kickstarted her career writing for TV comedies (People of Earth, Love Life, One Day at a Time,

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00:50:19

Kwame Kwei-Armah on ‘Malcolm X,’ ‘Ragtime’ and...

Feeling Seen ·

2022/09/01

A writer for stage and screen, an artistic director, and an actor, Kwame Kwei-Armah chose a truly poetic trio of Black men pushed to a righteous breaking point for today’s conversation. Which is a perfect parallel to his latest project, Breaking (which premiered at Sundance ‘22 under the title 892), starring John Boyega and based on the true story of Brian Brown-Easley. Then, Jordan has one quick thing about forthcoming shorts anthology Give Me an A.Movies this week:Malcolm X (Spike Lee,

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