SMALL TALK
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BILL HADER
Hi, Bill, how are you today?
I’m great, how are you?
Great! What are you watching at the moment?
I actually don’t watch a lot of television. Not that it’s bad, I’m just more interested in watching really odd movies that for most people would be like getting a root canal.
But I find them fascinating.
What are your favourite root-canal movies?
Oh my God, I love old Japanese ones; the famous ones, like Ugetsu and Sansho The Bailiff. Then I recently watched this British silent film made in the late ’20s called Shooting Star, which is like a satire of Hollywood.
I like Andrzej Wajda movies like Kanał. See, root canal!
Then I watch a lot of stuff on the Criterion Channel. Do you guys have that in the UK?
We wish we did!
Whatever Netflix is to most people, the Criterion Channel is to me. Last night I found this obscure Japanese crime film called Take Aim At The Police Van. And I’ll give you one guess what the first scene in that movie is.
We love that this is just a typical Monday night for Bill Hader.
Yes, Monday night is watching Take Aim At The Police Van. That first scene, there they are, just taking aim at that police van.
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