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Errol Morris (The Unknown Known) Talks with James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

The two Oscar-winning directors discuss Stephen Hawking, Frederick Wiseman, serial killers, early photography, attacking Donald Rumsfeld and more.

On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Film podcast, two Academy Award-winning filmmakers are in conversation as Errol Morris talks with James Marsh about his new Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything, plus Morris' own Hawking film, A Brief History of Time, Frederick Wiseman, cinematic misanthropy, Ed Gein, beating Donald Rumsfeld with a brick, and much more. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film.

The music featured in the podcast is as follows:
1. Intro / outro underscore: “Plastic Man vs. The Giant Red Phase Of The Sun” – Iced Ink
2. “A Brief History of Time” – Johann Johannsson (from The Theory of Everything)
3. “The Theory of Everything” – Johann Johannsson (from The Theory of Everything)
4. “Cambridge, 1963” – Johann Johannsson (from The Theory of Everything)

Episode engineered and edited by Elia Einhorn

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