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Episode 12: Celeste Ng on The Muppet Movie Aug 05, 2021

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Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up.

In this episode, Mychal talks to Celeste Ng about the 1979 film The Muppet Movie, directed by James Frawley.

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Episode 11: Eula Biss on Purple Rain Jul 01, 2021

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In this episode, Mychal talks to Eula Biss about the 1984 film Purple Rain, starring Prince, Apollonia Kotero, and Morris Day, and directed by Albert Magnoli.

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Episode 10: Jason Diamond on Beetlejuice Jun 24, 2021

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On this episode, Mychal talks to Jason Diamond about the 1988 film Beetlejuice, starring Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder, and directed by Tim Burton.

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Episode 9: Jordan Kisner on The Rider Jun 17, 2021

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On this episode, Mychal talks to Jordan Kisner about the 2017 film The Rider, directed by Chloé Zhao.

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Episode 8: Kali Fajardo-Anstine on Sunshine Cleaning Jun 10, 2021

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On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Kali Fajardo-Anstine about the 2008 film Sunshine Cleaning , starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt and directed by Christine Jeffs.

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Episode 7: Kiese Laymon on Rocky III Jun 03, 2021

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On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Kiese Laymon about the 1982 film Rocky III, starring Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T and directed by Sylvester Stallone.

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Episode 6: Hermione Hoby on Daisies May 27, 2021

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On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Hermione Hoby about the 1966 film Daisies, starring Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová and directed by Vera Chytilová.

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Episode 5: R.O. Kwon on Minari May 20, 2021

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On this week's episode, Mychal talks to R.O. Kwon about the 2020 film Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and starring Steven Yeun, Yuh-Jung Youn, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim, and Noel Cho.

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Episode 4: Nate Marshall on The Five Heartbeats May 13, 2021

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Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up.

On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Nate Marshall about the 1991 film The Five Heartbeats, starring Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Herry Lennix, and Tico Wells, and directed by Robert Townsend.

Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper. His book, Wild Hundreds, was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer Award. He is also an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and he also co-curates The BreakBeat Poets series for Haymarket Books. Marshall co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks with Eve Ewing, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation. He also wrote the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq., which was produced by Make-Believe Association. His last rap album, Grown came out in 2015 with his group Daily Lyrical Product. His most recent book, FINNA, came out in 2020 from One World/Random House.

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Episode 3: Nadia Owusu on Hunt for the Wilderpeople May 06, 2021

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On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Nadia Owusu about the 2016 film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, starring Sam Neill and Julian Dennison, and directed by Taika Waititi.

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