Tune in for the true-true on the Wachowski siblings’ effort to film the staggering Cloud Atlas (also Tom Tykwer but he’s a small fry). Adapted in 2012 from the David Mitchell novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is a genre-bending, time-traveling epic that attempts to consider the totality of human history. Starring Tom Hanks, Hallie Berry, Hugh Grant, and a host of other great performers, Cloud Atlasis a film like no other, deserving a podcast episode like no other. Joined by returning guest Josh Marcus (The Independent) Caleb and Frank discuss David Mitchell’s era-hopping prose, the Wachowskis’ unique blend of spectacle and sap, and the contradicting strains of humanism and insensitivity that run throughout the film.

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