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Yahoo
3 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Wes Anderson Put a Great Deal of Time and Thought Into His Upcoming Criterion Career Box Set
Last week, Criterion Collection announced it would be releasing 'The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years' box set featuring 4K versions of the director's first 10 feature films, starting with 'Bottle Rocket' (1996) through 'The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun' (2021). While the celebrated director's films have previously been released on DVD and Blu-ray, including Criterion versions up through 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' (2014), when Anderson was on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to discuss his new film 'The Phoenician Scheme,' he made clear this wasn't simply a matter of doing UHD/HDR upgrades. More from IndieWire Luca Guadagnino Attached to Direct AI Business Comedy 'Artificial' for Amazon MGM Austrian Publication That Ran 'Phony' Clint Eastwood Interview Cuts Ties with HFPA Member Author 'We've been working on it for some time,' said Anderson of the upcoming box set. 'I like the idea of having this set. It's ten movies, it's an even number.' Anderson's relationship with Criterion dates back to 'Rushmore' (1998) and, based on his comments on the podcast, working with Criterion to bring his films together in a specially designed box set was something that was important to him. 'I always have thought of my films for whatever reason, as being a body of work, an ongoing thing, not just the films as one by one, but as a set of things,' said Anderson. 'I used to say, I feel like the characters from one of my films could walk into another of my films and fit into that world. Eventually, I started making period pictures, where that doesn't quite make as much sense anymore.' There are filmmakers who have gone back to restore their films for an updated home video release and have re-edited or utilized new digital tools to create new versions of their work. For example, Wong Kar Wai's recent career Criterion box set was notable for its different color grades of his beloved films. At the time, Wong Kar Wai wrote of the changes, 'As the saying goes: 'no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.' Since the beginning of this process, these words have reminded me to treat this as an opportunity to present these restorations as a new work from a different vantage point in my career.' The suglassed Hong Kong auteur's comments mirror those of Terrence Malick, who once commented, 'No one asked Bob Dylan to play a song the same way every night. Why should I have to make one film?' But Anderson made clear he doesn't have the same philosophy about his own work, and had taken a different approach working on the upcoming Criterion box set. 'I'm not big on, 'let's make a new version,'' said Anderson. 'For me, it's like the movie has gone out and it sort of belongs to the audience at that point.' That said, Anderson did take advantage of the process to spend time fixing things he hadn't been 100 percent pleased with in the previous releases, while also overseeing how his films translated to the new video and audio formats, which isn't always a straight one-to-one. 'In the process of this Criterion box set, for instance, there were things that we could refine,' said Anderson. 'There were things that didn't translate quite right in the original home video versions that we corrected.' Focus Features' 'The Phoenician Scheme' is in select theaters now and will be released nationwide Friday, June 6. Criterion will release 'The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years' on Tuesday, September 30. You can pre-order here. To hear Wes Anderson's full interview, subscribe to the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform. Best of IndieWire The Best Thrillers Streaming on Netflix in June, from 'Vertigo' and 'Rear Window' to 'Emily the Criminal' All 12 Wes Anderson Movies, Ranked, from 'Bottle Rocket' to 'The Phoenician Scheme' Nightmare Film Shoots: The 38 Most Grueling Films Ever Made, from 'Deliverance' to 'The Wages of Fear'
Yahoo
6 days ago
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- Yahoo
Criterion Announces New Box Set of Wes Anderson's First 10 Features
Wes Anderson is being feted by the Criterion Collection ahead of the release of his latest film, 'The Phoenician Scheme.' Known as an auteur whose name has become synonymous with a distinct aesthetic, Anderson has directed 12 films, plus the series of shorts 'The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Three More,' across his career. Now, his first 10 features (which encompass 25 years of cinematic history) are being released in 4K UHD and Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection. Anderson himself approved the 20-disc collection which also has special edition features ranging from essays by Martin Scorsese, Richard Brody, James L. Brooks, Bilge Ebiri, Moeko Fujii, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Geoffrey O'Brien, and Erica Wagner, as well as more than 25 hours of bonus content including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photography, discussions, analysis, and visual essays. More from IndieWire Jane Rosenthal Warns Political Documentaries Could Be Waning: 'I'm Worried' You May Never Get to See Cannes' Most Provocative and 'Dangerous' Movie The collection will have new 4K digital masters of 'Bottle Rocket,' 'Rushmore,' 'The Royal Tenenbaums,' 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,' 'The Darjeeling Limited,' 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'The Grand Budapest Hotel,' 'Isle of Dogs,' and 'The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun.' The 4K transfer was supervised by Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks. The 4K UHD discs of the films are presented in Dolby Vision HDR. The collection will be released September 30. 'Wes Anderson's first 10 films represent 25 years of irrepressible creativity, an ongoing ode to outsiders and quixotic dreamers, and a world unto themselves, graced with a mischievous wit and a current of existential melancholy that flows through every captivating frame,' a statement from Criterion reads. Anderson's 'The Phoenician Scheme' opens in theaters on Friday, May 30. ✨Announcing THE WES ANDERSON ARCHIVE IN 4K: TEN FILMS, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS✨ Coming to Criterion in September! — Criterion Collection (@Criterion) May 28, 2025 Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
The Verge
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Anker's fast, two-headed USB-C cable is 31 percent off
One of the most convenient USB-C cables around is back down to its lowest price ever, which we last saw in early March. Anker's 2-in-1, braided USB-C cable that can charge two devices from one power source is down to $17.99 for the four-foot version at Amazon (it normally sells between $23 and $25.99). The cable also comes in a six-foot option that's going for $19.99. Both sizes come in black or white. So long as you have a power brick or portable battery that supports 140W charging (such as this Ugreen model), Anker's cable supports that speed when a single cable head is plugged in. This makes it fast enough to quickly charge some laptops, including some 16-inch MacBook Pro models, not to mention other, less power-hungry gadgets. In terms of how the cable decides how much juice each device gets with different power bricks and batteries, Anker has a chart here that breaks it down. Other notable deals Criterion is offering 30 percent off all of its releases, including both new releases and preorders, through May 26. This gives you a chance to snag DVDs or 4K Blu-rays of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) films. Best Picture award-winning film Anora just released on April 29th. Alternatively, if you were captivated by the recent trailer for Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, featuring Denzel Washington, you should buy the 1963 Akira Kurosawa thriller High and Low, which the upcoming movie is based on. Some PC gamers may be deciding between a new OLED gaming monitor with a 480Hz refresh rate versus one with a 240Hz refresh rate. Either route you choose to take will yield good deals today, as two 27-inch options are selling with discounts. The 27-inch 1440p LG 27GX790A-B with a 480Hz refresh rate and DisplayPort 2.1 is down to $799.99 ($200 off) at Amazon, while opting for Alienware's 4K AW2725Q — which halves the refresh rate — will run you just $30 more. Prefer a 32-inch curved 4K QD-OLED monitor with many of the same specs? Alienware's 3225QF is down to $899.99 ($300 off) at Dell's site. You still have a week to grab a value-packed XCOM Steam PC game bundle at Humble. For $10, you can nab 17 items, comprising every major XCOM release as well as DLC. It's worth it alone for XCOM 2 and all of its stellar add-ons, but it's also great to get the older titles, just to see how far the series has come. Proceeds benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Lastly, it's not too common to find a great all-around 85-inch TV for $999.99. TCL's Q7 4K QLED television with Google TV software is selling for that price at Best Buy ($700 off), and its HDMI 2.1 ports enable fast refresh rates from consoles and PCs alike. TCL claims that this specific size features more than 1,500 local dimming zones for dimming or illuminating scenes with accuracy (the more dimming zones, the better). That doesn't compare favorably to Sony's Bravia 9 QLED, which features around that many in its 65-inch version, but at less than half the price, TCL's model isn't a bad deal.
Telegraph
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Building the perfect film collection – with help from Ben Affleck
From the look of the queue stretching down Eagle Rock Boulevard in Los Angeles on a recent Saturday, you might have guessed a Hollywood A-lister was hosting a meet-and-greet. Hundreds of film fans – some of whom had been in line since 5am – were huddled under umbrellas, the rain doing little to dampen their spirits. But the attraction wasn't Timothee Chalamet, Zendeya or Tom Holland. It was a small white van, 16-square-feet inside, packed wall-to-wall with, of all things, DVDs. The Criterion Closet might be small in size but holds a huge place in online movie fandom. Since 2010, it's been the backdrop to over 250 episodes of Closet Picks, a series of beloved YouTube videos in which actors, writers, directors and the occasional musician raid a utility cupboard containing the archive of art-house and world cinema home video distributors Criterion. Guests have a few minutes to pick out DVDs and Blu-Rays of often obscure movies they'd like to take home, waxing lyrical about their admiration for said films as they go. On paper, that might sound like Supermarket Sweep, with less Dale Winton and more Agnès Varda. In actuality, it's more like Desert Island Discs, with guests' film choices becoming jumping off points for short, wholesome insights into who they are and how film has helped shape them. In one episode, songwriter Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie finds himself on the brink of tears discussing 1984 homelessness documentary Streetwise, because of his sister's involvement in youth homelessness. In another episode, Before Sunrise star Ethan Hawke regales his daughter Maya (of songwriting and Stranger Things fame) with tales of taking her mother, Uma Thurman, to see the John Cassavetes film Husbands on one of their first dates. Whoever the guest is, there's a film in the company's archive – the prestigious Criterion Collection, as it's known – that speaks to their life, their loves, their inspirations as a film-maker and often their anxieties about the world. In a decade and a half, the series has attracted 3.3 billion views and the biggest names in Hollywood; in the last few weeks alone, Ben Affleck, Seth Rogen and Carrie Coon have been among its guests. Closet Picks is often memed and parodied in viral videos that poke affectionately at the reverence of its guests towards cinema. (My personal favourite? The guy who staged his own Closet Picks in the DVD section of a sex shop). And if you venture to one of the world's premier cinephile spaces, you're bound to see at least one person wearing Criterion merch (you know the urban myth about how on the London underground, you're never more than six feet from a rat? That may actually be true of London's Prince Charles Cinema and people clutching Criterion tote bags). Though the closet that hit Los Angeles last weekend wasn't the actual Criterion Closet – that's in the company's New York offices – the mobile version that fans queued for in Eagle Rock, created to celebrate their 40th anniversary, remains a huge draw. The lines in LA mirrored similar queues in Texas at SXSW festival last year, where fans also waited for hours for just a three-minute slot inside. 'How did it come to this,' you might be wondering? And understandably so. Calling Closet Picks' success 'unexpected' is like calling the films of Criterion fave David Lynch 'a little bit kooky.' Physical media is supposed to be dead, its obituary written a thousand times over since the advent of streaming (DVD and Blu-Ray sales slumped 23.4 per cent in 2024, generating under $1 billion in sales; a drastic fall compared to 20 years ago, when sales exceeded $16 billion). And YouTube, lest we forget, is a platform where loud, hyper-bright content is what tends to attract millions of views per video – not static shots of a grey utility cupboard. (Ironically, for a series in which cineastes discuss some of the most beautifully shot cinema of all time, Closet Picks is, for all its other strengths, unavoidably drab in aesthetic.) Unlike other hugely popular YouTube series frequently by Hollywood royalty, there's no grabby hook to the series, or entertaining challenge to watch a celebrity take on. No one is participating in a fake romantic date in a chicken shop in Closet Picks; legendary documentarian Ken Burns isn't forced to put his ability to handle extra spicy sriracha sauce to the test when he makes his appearance in Closet Picks. And yet, the series, as one top Hollywood publicist tells me, rivals those YouTube successes as an 'this genuine against-the-odds sensation. In an otherwise quite cynical time for online content, it's so earnest – literally just people dorking out about DVDs, talking about movies they love. It's that simple.' Part of its popularity is undoubtedly the guests that Closet Picks attracts. Everyone from Gen Z favourites like Ayo Edebiri to old guard icons of the industry like Francis Ford Coppola have recorded episodes, with the series now 'one of cornerstones of any campaign for a star on the awards trail or promoting a new movie,' the aforementioned Hollywood rep continues. 'It's incredibly legitimising to go into the Criterion Closet and talk about your love for Kurosawa or whoever. Even if you're promoting a big popcorny blockbuster with nothing Kurosawa about it, showing off your knowledge and appreciation of cinema can reframe you in the eyes of a particular type of movie fan.' This 'absolutely' would have been the case with Affleck's recent appearance on Closet Picks, they add. The Accountant 2 – the actor's new thriller – has little in common with the films the former Batman star picks out (Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game, Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle, David Lynch's The Elephant Man, Terrence Malik's Badlands and so on). Appearing on Closet Picks to promote that film, however, 'reminds people he's a serious film lover and generates a bit more warmth among dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs towards The Accountant 2 than might have otherwise been the case,' they explain, adding: 'it's probably no accident that he self-effacingly calls his [famously despairing] DVD commentary to Armageddon the best work of his career here. Ben – or a publicist who advised him, whichever – knows Closet Picks' audience.' The attraction for stars is obvious. The Criterion Closet is a vacuum where all that exists is film – 'I feel like I'm in one of those sensory deprivation pods where you're only surrounded by the greatest cinema ever made,' as Andrew Garfield put it during his appearance in 2024. There are no tricky questions to navigate about rumoured relationships, or whether or not they'd work again with their former co-star, recently arrested on domestic abuse charges. And as for Criterion, Closet Picks is a shop window for their library of over 1,000 titles that no doubt bumps their sales tenfold. The Criterion Collection today is regarded as a hall of fame-style exclusive club to which entry is one of the ultimate cineaste seals of approval. That's at the very least in part due to Closet Picks. But star power isn't what's made Closet Picks a phenomenon. The likelihood is its appeal runs deeper. Over the last few years, a new culture of film fandom has emerged online that Closet Picks' format seems to dovetail with, rooted in a simple idea: that the films you love are a paper trail for your personality, an expression of who you are. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Criterion Collection (@criterioncollection) Since the pandemic, Letterboxd – a social media app for cinephiles in which users log the films they've watched – has grown from two million active users to 17 million, all of whom are invited to share their four all-time favourite movies (a format since developed into a popular celebrity interview series akin to Closet Picks). The text accompanying these selections often reads more like diary entries – confessionals that link these movies to times in users' lives; sometimes sad, sometimes happy, always formative. Closet Picks sees film-makers light up in a wholesome way as they do the same. Is there a bit of pantomime to what films guests select? Probably. A frequent accusation against the series on Reddit and other social media platforms is that there's an element of performance to what some guests choose, opting for the obscure instead of what they actually like to mark themselves out as true cinephiles. But we're living in a time in which streaming services have harpooned access to cinema from more than a decade or two ago. The likes of Netflix have decimated the physical media market that historically made it possible for viewers to watch older films, while simultaneously declining to host classics on their service (as of March, 1973's The Sting was the oldest title on the American version of the platform). Between its physical media and their own streaming service, The Criterion Channel, offering hundreds of historical movies, Criterion as a company are vital to the current film ecosystem – one of the last bastions against that erasure of over 80 years of film history. Any grumbles or eye-rolling about selections, in that light, somewhat slide away. After the extensive crowds in LA, with many people reportedly turned away, Criterion haven't announced where their mobile closet will pop-up next. Wherever it is, expect queues to snake around the block once more. There's a lot of cinema history in those 16-square-feet. The stars who entered the closet – and the films they picked Andrew Garfield Terry Gilliam's Brazil Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin's Salesman Steve James's Hoop Dreams Mike Leigh's Naked Ken Loach's Kes David Fincher's The Game Todd Solondz's Happiness D. A. Pennebaker's Original Cast Album: Company Juzo Itami's Tampopo Barry Jenkins Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy Andrew Haigh's Weekend John Cassavetes: Five Films Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine Joel Coen's Blood Simple Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher David Gordon Green's George Washington Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon The Essential Jacques Demy The Complete Jacques Tati Minnie Driver Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue Jane Campion's An Angel At My Table Josh and Benny Safdie's Uncut Gems Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law Edouard Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles Josh and Benny Safdie Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet Kenji Mizoguchi's The Life of Ohuru Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2 Lino Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Light Harmony Korine's Gummo Gus Van Sant's To Die For John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday Edward Yang's Yi Yi John Lithgow Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life Martin Ritt's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold The Complete Jacques Tati Brian De Palma's Blow Out Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes John Waters
Los Angeles Times
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Need a laugh? ‘The Four Seasons' and ‘The Studio' are sure to do the trick
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who is married, was married or has thought about getting married. This week marks the arrival of 'The Four Seasons' — we're not talking equinoxes here. It's Netflix's new comedy that reimagines Alan Alda's '80s film, in which he co-starred with Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Sandy Dennis, Bess Armstrong, Len Cariou and Jack Weston — a veritable who's who of the stage and screen (Evidently, it will be available to stream on Netflix May 5). The latest iteration features an ensemble cast as well that includes Will Forte and Tina Fey, who co-created and co-wrote. TV critic Robert Lloyd calls it 'very watchable, breezy, bumpy,' making it the perfect weekend watch if your plans involve cuddling on the couch — perhaps with a significant other. Also in Screen Gab No. 179, our experts recommend a TV show about food that makes you wish you could reach into the screen to taste it, and a comedy series about the Hollywood industry that highlights its accolades and its (many) pratfalls. Must-read stories you might have missed Leighton Meester is more than the internet's boyfriend's wife: The actor's collaborators say she deserves the sort of renaissance currently enjoyed by husband Adam Brody. But Meester prefers to focus on her good fortune. Gabriel Luna on Tommy's goodbye to Joel in 'The Last of Us' and its double meaning: The actor discusses the aftermath of Joel's death in Episode 3 this season, how the opening scene evolved and why he avoids stereotypical roles. They shot their movie in 7 days for $7,000. They're bringing it to theaters themselves: Director Joe Burke and longtime collaborator Oliver Cooper make microbudget indies. Their new one, 'Burt,' doesn't have a distributor yet, just tons of heart. Criterion takes its viral closet on the road. When that van shows up, so does a scene: Videos shot in the legendary Criterion Closet have captivated cinephiles for years. Now the elite label has made its concept mobile and the response is massive. Recommendations from the film and TV experts at The Times 'Chef's Table: Legends' (Netflix) The latest iteration of television's prettiest and most contemplative food show profiles four celebrated but not mere celebrity chefs: Jamie Oliver, who grew up in a pub and whose 'The Naked Chef' injected Britpop energy into England's food scene (Tony Blair is one of his episode's talking heads); Thomas Keller, of French Laundry and Per Se fame, with his multiple Michelin stars; Alice Waters, who introduced American fine diners to the joys of a perfect simple salad, and at Berkeley's Chez Panisse, kicked off the farm to table movement; and José Andrés, feeding the people through his World Central Kitchen and a host of places where you have to make a reservation. Created by David Gelb ('Jiro Dreams of Sushi'), the series takes pains to be gorgeous — a feast for the eyes, as it were — but it's most inspiring tracing the food journeys of its subjects and describing how they move through and act upon the world. (Waters, Oliver and Andrés all have activism and education in their CVs.) You may never eat in their restaurants, but you will want to, and there's something delicious in that. — Robert Lloyd 'The Studio' (Apple TV+) The state of the movie business is bleak enough these days that you've got to laugh to keep from crying. Audiences are shrinking, original ideas get steamrolled by brand extensions and the line between big-screen spectacle and streaming 'content' gets blurrier by the week. Enter 'The Studio,' Seth Rogen's sly, self-aware comedy about a lifelong cinephile turned studio chief (played by Rogen) trying to steer a crumbling Hollywood institution through the chaos. Co-created with longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg, the series blends biting industry commentary with Rogen's signature mix of stoner absurdism, pratfalls and extreme cringe. This week's episode tackles the minefield of casting, as execs melt down over the racial politics of casting their absurd Kool-Aid tentpole. Next week, the target is the Golden Globes — a perennial industry punching bag. Real-life directors like Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde and Ron Howard deliver surprisingly self-effacing turns, but it's the core ensemble — including Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders — that gives the show its manic pulse. Rogen may be kicking the industry while it's down (for a streamer, no less), but underneath it all, he still believes in movies — and the flawed, messy people behind them. — Josh Rottenberg A weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they're working on — and what they're watching 'The Four Seasons,' Netflix's eight-episode adaptation of Alan Alda's 1981 film of the same name, revolves around the longtime friendship of three couples — portrayed by Tina Fey, Will Forte, Steve Carell, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani — and tracks how their relationships shift each time they reconnect on vacation. In addition to starring, Fey co-created the series with fellow '30 Rock' writer-producers Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. Fisher and Wigfield stopped by Screen Gab to discuss the key change they made to their adaptation, what they're watching and more. —Yvonne Villarreal You both have experience depicting teenagers and relationships — Lang with 'Never Have I Ever' and Tracey with the 'Saved by the Bell' reboot. What do you enjoy about depicting relationships in midlife? Fisher: I obviously loved doing YA rom-com stuff. But this felt very much deeper. There's something about celebrating these things that are not particularly glamorous. I don't want to say it's mundane, but lived-in relationships are sort of treated like it is when they're actually the most thrilling, most precious, most important and meaningful part of your life. The people that you are standing with when you're middle-aged, be it your spouse or your friends, that is the story of a life well-lived. There's something romantic about that. Wigfield: For me, it was more satisfying because it's more personal to my life right now. I've been married for nine years. There are so many stories about falling in love. I can't think of many couples — I'm sure there are ones — who have been married for 20 years on TV that I was like, 'Ooh, that's sexy! I love that relationship. I want that.' Maybe the coach and Connie Britton on 'Friday Night Lights.' The series departs from the source material in one major way — there's a death. That's the extent of the spoiler we'll give for those who haven't watched. But why did you make that change? Fisher: We made that decision pretty early on. We want to place this show on planet Earth with real people, with real stakes. There's no murders, there's no aliens. Real-life stakes are high enough and they're terrifying. We wanted to make sure to run the gamut of what you might experience in midlife, and losing a friend in your 50s is not that weird. We wanted to see how this group could come together in crisis and how much they really did love each other and how they lean on each other. Even though it doesn't happen in the film, it felt right for us in terms of showing a complete arc for the season and for our characters, emotionally. What have you watched recently that you're recommending to everyone you know? Fisher: I love 'The Studio' [Apple TV+]. The scripts are so tight and so is the direction. And if you're someone who actually works in Hollywood, it's a nice treat to see a funny version of your job on screen. Wigfield: 'Severance' [Apple TV+] — my husband [Adam Countee] wrote on it, so I'm biased, but it was the most impressive thing I've seen on TV this year. What's your go-to comfort watch, the film or TV show you return to again and again? Fisher: I'm pretty basic when it comes to comfort watch. I've seen 'Bridget Jones's Diary' [Max] 50 times. I think it's a perfect movie. Wigfield: Maybe it's because I'm a comedy writer, but putting on an episode of an old show, even if it's one I love like 'The Office' [Peacock], isn't relaxing to me. However there is a woman on YouTube who reviews food at Disneyland (@disneyfoodblog) and her videos make me feel like I am in a warm, safe embrace.
