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We study a director’s entire career, one film at a time. In each episode, we discuss why a single film succeeded or failed and examine it in the context of the Hollywood landscape when it was released. We’re the academic, but fun, movie podcast!
In our second season, we’re turning the spotlight on Billy Wilder, one of the most influential directors of all-time.
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4 days ago
4 days ago
Billy Wilder needed a hit, so who could he turn to? A hit-making machine: the one and only Agatha Christie. But change is in the air for Wilder, and his career is about to experience a plot twist that the queen of mystery herself couldn't see coming.
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Keir Graff & Michael Moreci, hosts
Kevin Lau, producer
Gompson, theme music
Cosmo Graff, graphic design
Friday May 15, 2026
Friday May 15, 2026
It's a Filmographers first: Mike is flying solo! Keir is away on writer business, but Mike saw two new horror releases that he's dying to discuss: Damian McCarthy's Hokum and Curry Barker's Obsession. Mike breaks down what works about each of these movies and what's a bunch of, well...hokum.
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Kevin Lau, producer
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Monday May 11, 2026
Monday May 11, 2026
Billy Wilder’s last film was a flop. But he would get two do-overs in 1957—and the first was his Ernst Lubitsch homage, “Love in the Afternoon.” He also met his second great writing partner: I. A. L. Diamond.
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
After stringing together three hit movies based on Broadway plays, Billy Wilder pivoted to new territory: a biopic of Charles Lindbergh. On one hand, Lindbergh was an American myth whose life story was ripe for Hollywood treatment. On the other, he was a Nazi sympathizer, and Wilder was a Jew who'd lost family in the Holocaust. The project was fraught with difficulties from the start--and that was before Jimmy Stewart arrived on set...
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Kevin Lau, producer
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Cosmo Graff, graphic design
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
They're no Billy Wilder, and this isn't a director's commentary, but Keir and Mike provide plenty of insight into what makes "Ace in the Hole" one of the best movies of all-time. Also, forgive their math. They're just writers, after all.
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Thursday Apr 16, 2026
Thursday Apr 16, 2026
Steven Soderbergh is back! The Filmographers' OG director has returned to the scene with The Christophers, a movie about art and authenticity starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel. Is his latest effort a forgery, or is it the real deal?
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
We're nearly at the midway point of our second season, which means it's time to rank our favorite films from the first half of Billy Wilder's career. We also discuss Steven Soderbergh's embracing of AI, and Mike delivers his review of Exit 8.
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Billy Wilder’s last film was a classy, black-and-white romance that paid homage to his mentor, Ernst Lubitsch. In The Seven Year Itch, Wilder goes widescreen and Technicolor to squeeze out plenty of boob jokes.
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About the Hosts
Hosts Michael Moreci and Keir Graff are film obsessives and working writers. Moreci is a screenwriter, film director, and bestselling author of such comics as Star Wars, Stranger Things, Barbaric, and many more. Graff is a prolific author, editor, and ghostwriter whose collaborators include James Patterson and Linda Joffe Hull (writing as Linda Keir). Like Riggs and Murtaugh, or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, they are best when together, especially when hosting The Filmographers Podcast.