{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast","title":"Beginners (2010)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/0a232ae9\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1173,"description":"For a taste of summertime sadness, we look at a pick from curator Christos Nikou (Apples [2020] and Fingernails [2023]): Mike Mills’s semi-autobiographical bleak comedy Beginners (2010). We get into the film’s tonality of “melancholic smile,” non-human actors, is this Mills’s All Fours?, Christopher Plummer’s silent expressivity (and “ascot game”), aging out of the gay bar, and nightclub as metaphor for life.--The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast is co-hosted by⁠ Veronica Fitzpatrick⁠ and⁠ Chad Perman⁠, and produced by⁠ Eli Sands⁠. Our theme music is composed by Chad. This episode is sponsored by Galerie, a new kind of film club. Discover more at ⁠Galerie.com⁠.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/F3ADF-_dUFITESYa-d8-ew8ND7x-yTSh_Sw_FQyX2co/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NTZi/Yjg0YzlkYjFkZTYw/OTMwMDA3YzA2NGQx/NWQ3Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}