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Podcast: 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest
Episode: Trouble In Paradise with Justin Simien
Description: Sam Clements is curating a fictional film festival. He'll accept almost anything, but the movie must not be longer than 90 minutes. This is the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest podcast.
In episode 104 Sam is joined by Justin Simien, filmmaker and director of Dear White People, Bad Hair, and the new Disney movie Haunted Mansion.
Justin has chosen Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (83 minutes) from 1932. The pre-Code rom-com stars Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall.
Sam and Justin discuss working with writer Katie Dippold on Haunted Mansion, his career-long fascination with Lubitsch and on...