Show notes
River City Stories collaborator Vanessa Codorniu joins Wally to talk about the movies they watched as young people — everything from Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and the lasting impressions those films left at an early age.00:01:26 An update on River City Stories00:06:06 Billy Elliott and Bend It Like Beckham00:07:17 Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful00:13:17 Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate00:25:39 What we inherit from our ancestors00:31:27 Improv comedy and the power of performance00:41:51 Solange Knowles and Cranes in the Sky00:57:00 Roman Polanski's Chinatown00:59:00 Luis Puenzo's The Official Story01:03:27 Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo01:05:40 Emotional Processing and the Myth of the Minotaur01:06:08 John Duigan’s Wide Sargasso Sea01:10:44 The Biz BrujaConnect with Vanessa at The Biz Bruja:🔮 https://www.thebizbruja.com/Get tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ May 16 & 18: https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilmSubscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/