We Need to Talk About Oscar
Áron Czapek
Show overview
We Need to Talk About Oscar has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 183 episodes. That works out to roughly 75 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 20 min and 27 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language TV & Film show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 42 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Áron Czapek.
From the publisher
We Need to Talk About Oscar offers in-depth interviews with filmmakers, actors, and industry professionals. Although inspired by titles you expect to be represented at the Oscars, our conversations extend to buzzy indie projects and TV shows, exploring both the technical aspects of filmmaking and the personal stories behind them.
Latest Episodes
View all 183 episodesWe Need to Talk About Emmy #32: Jesse McKeown on holding onto a way of life in 'Below'
Thomas Leisten Schneider on what family hands down in 'Love - Love'
Paula González-Nasser pauses the city one home at a time in 'The Scout'
Liz Sargent on family, care, and imagining better in 'Take Me Home'
Greg Vrotsos turns the camera on himself in 'Situations'
Joe Swanberg on scaling up and looking back in 'The Sun Never Sets'
Orlando von Einsiedel on destiny and documentary form in 'The Cycle of Love'
Jess Zeidman and Leo Gallagher find rhythm in fragments in 'Human Theories'
Shatara Michelle Ford and Ludovica Isidori craft a gentler collision for 'Dreams in Nightmares'
Andrew Patterson on scaling up without selling out in 'The Rivals of Amziah King'
Adam Meeks and Stefan Weinberger on second chances in 'Union County'
Stanley Kwan on the ghosts that outlive us in 'Center Stage'
Kent Jones on generational friction and late arrivals in 'Late Fame'
Lucía Aleñar Iglesias on distance, memory, and imitation in 'Forastera'
Elliot Tuttle, Kieron Moore and Reed Birney on vulnerability and vision in 'Blue Film'
Nicole Bazuin on claiming agency through form in 'Modern Whore'
We Need to Talk About Emmy #31: Alexandra Brodski shapes psychological grip in 'Half Man'
Madison Young faces her younger selves in 'By the Roots'
Chandler Levack on distance, exposure, and doubling down in 'Mile End Kicks' and 'Roommates'
Katarina Zhu and Daisy Zhou on seeing and being seen in ‘Bunnylovr’
‘Bunnylovr’ is out in theaters today. Premiering at Sundance in January 2025 as part of the US Dramatic Competition, writer-director-star Katarina Zhu’s debut feature follows Becca, a Chinese-American cam girl in New York navigating a toxic relationship with a mysterious client while quietly trying to reconnect with her estranged, dying father.This is our conversation with Katarina and her cinematographer Daisy Zhou, their first collaboration together. The admiration between them is palpable throughout, two people who clearly found something rare in each other on their first project. We open with how they connected and what drew each of them to the material, before getting into what it means to direct and perform simultaneously and how that shapes the set from both sides of the camera.From there the conversation moves into the heart of the film: how Katarina built Becca as a character who moves between very private digital spaces and the more grounded textures of everyday life without ever splitting into two different people, and how Daisy translated those shifts into a visual language where each space carries its own feeling while still belonging to the same film.(Photos: Courtesy of Katarina Zhu)