Ep. 92 Italian Studies

Host Christopher Funderburg is joined by his old friend Adam Leon
to discuss Leon’s new film Italian Studies. Starring Vanesse Kirby
(The Queen, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Pieces of a Woman), the
film follows an author who suffers a psychotic break and wanders
Manhattan, joining up with a group of random teenagers in attempt
to take ahold of herself and her identity once again. The
discussion touches on Leon’s sudden success with the SxSW-winning,
Cannes-selected Gimme the Loot, the weird intersection of success
and failure that came with his follow-up film Tramps, and the risks
of making a film that you know will be divisive like Italian
Studies. Leon talks about the process of working with an actress
like Kirby on a somewhat experimental film, how he found the film’s
teenager actors, and why his film’s titles are always awful.
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twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two”
 Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"