MUBI’s multiple-award-winning audio-documentary series MUBI Podcast returns for its seventh season on 14 November, with new episodes releasing Thursdays over six weeks. Season 7, titled Box Office Poison, tells the story of six films that were notorious financial disasters, but have come to be celebrated as visionary.
Inspired by the new book of the same name (Box Office Poison) by Tim Robey, film critic for The Telegraph, host Rico Gagliano uses Robey’s research and insights as a springboard to tell the wild stories of these films’ rise, fall, and rise. Guests include Roger Deakins (The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner 2049), James Cromwell (Babe, Succession), Rebecca Hall (The Prestige), Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag), and Tim Robey himself as a recurring featured guest.
EPISODE LIST:
- Episode 1: SORCERER — William Friedkin’s heart of darkness (from 14 November)
- In which one of the greatest directors of the “New Hollywood” era helicoptered into South America with tens of millions of dollars, and emerged with malaria and a bleak, slow-burn masterpiece called Sorcerer. The only problem: Star Wars.
- Episode: BABE: PIG IN THE CITY — George Miller casts a “murderous shadow” (from 21 November)
- The first Babe was a sunny, family-friendly megahit. So for the sequel, why did director George Miller thrust his sweet porcine hero into a Fellini-esque nightmare?
- Episode 3: SYLVIA SCARLETT — Katharine Hepburn pays for her transgressions (from 28 November)
- George Cukor’s dreamy, gender-fluid comedy was decades ahead of its time — but in 1935, its playful sexuality derailed the career of one of Hollywood’s greatest stars for years.
- Episode 4: THE HUDSUCKER PROXY — The Coen Brothers fall from a great height (from 5 December)
- Indie darlings the Coen Brothers went for the big time with a soaring, slapstick pastiche of classic Hollywood movies that left even some of their biggest boosters cold…and paved the way for the flatlands of Fargo.
- Episode 5: SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK — Charlie Kaufman’s film that lasts a lifetime (from 12 December)
- The story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s grand, heartbreaking directorial debut, and how it ran smack into a new kind of immovable object: Iron Man.
- Episode 6: SPEED RACER — The Wachowskis go full throttle (from 19 December)
- The makers of The Matrix took an old-school anime and turned it into a gravity-defying, live-action explosion of light and sound that critics said signified nothing. A growing army of acolytes beg to differ.
LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE FROM 14 NOVEMBER AND FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON YOUR PREFERRED APP HERE
