Director, actor, Saturday Night Live veteran, and cinephile Bill Hader joins host Ben Mankiewicz to talk about his heroes (Stanley Kubrick, Joel and Ethan Coen), about writing and directing his HBO show Barry, and if you’re hoping for a few of his expert impressions, you won’t be disappointed. Hader also ventures into his movie-watching past by answering our Super 8 questionnaire.

Films Mentioned:

Top Gun (1986)

Superbad

Trainwreck*

Inside Out

Barry*

The Shining

2001: A Space Odyssey*

Dr. Strangelove*

A Clockwork Orange* 

The Natural

Oliver! 

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Paths of Glory

Mars Attacks!

Evil Dead

Rashomon*

Seven Samurai*

Ikiru*

It’s A Wonderful Life

Bad News Bears

Shawshank Redemption

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Barton Fink

A Serious Man*

Inside Llewyn Davis

Intolerable Cruelty 

Hail, Caesar!

Burn After Reading

Trouble in Paradise

The Apartment

Five Graves to Cairo

Double Indemnity

One, Two, Three

Sunset Boulevard 

Kes

To Kill A Mockingbird

From Here to Eternity

Von Ryan’s Express

Dreams (1990)

The Last Detail

The Great Muppet Caper

Midnight Run

The Black Hole (1979)

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